[Travis McGee]

Another obtuse reader. Sheesh. Does one have to explain EVERY use of English to the irony-disabled?

[sinsofsolarempirefan]

An American having to explain the concept of irony to Brits, now how about that for irony?

[Vanders9]

Heh...yeah ok sorry, but at the same time this particular use of irony is getting well past its sell by date. It seems just about every thread concerning some outlandish activity in the UK will trot out the euphemisms "Britain is no longer great", "Great Britain should be renamed mediocre Britain", "there's no Great left in Britain" etc etc. If we are going to use irony, at least let's have fresh irony.

And there are an awful lot of people (even Brits) who really do think that the Great in "Great Britain" is some kind of prideful and increasingly obsolete assertion of quality. That causes a lot of trouble.