Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-33154547-20150126113820/@comment-5949826-20150322150309

Okay cool I get it now.

Here in the Original English-speaking country we have a huge metropolis called London which I believe is the largest city in Europe. (Seriously just try getting from one side of the city to the other, whether by underground, bus car or walking. It is gonna take a while. (It takes just under 2 hours to get from where I live to middle-central London. From there to the other end takes another hour. And I don't live in London btw.) We have multiple palaces, a big (by our standards, small by others' xD) river going through the middle, large amounts of bridges half of which are centuries old and half of which are modern cool looking, and a quaint mixing of architectural styles ranging from 14th century to 21st. London's pretty cool. You drive past a medieval Castle on one side and a towering glittering skyscraper on the other. Actually my Facebook profile picture was taken at the very place I described, for those of you who have me on FB)

And unlike in the US, the city is relatively close to most of the country since it is a small island, not half a f*cking continent. :P So most Britishers have been to London. Not sure if most Americans have been to Washington DC.

Oh, and I almost forgot, we don't have states but we do have counties. London City is in London County, a county made just for the capital city, much like District Columbia is a separate non-state entity. Except we don't have county-only laws in the UK. That seems like a really stupid idea, no offence.