What's the rule on 'the UK' but just 'GB'?

er,no,Richard I chose the 3 lions as Englands symbol,probably adapted from his father,Henri II 's single lion.
and,erm,Scotlands is the Lion rammpant ....

I am still puzzled why we in the UK have a lion as a national symbol...

We could have had an Eagle , like Poland , Germany , and the USA

At least they have eagles... (OK, after Czernobyl, I imagine Russia also has 2 headed ones), but there aren't too many lions prowling around the British Isles.

What symbol would you have preferred?


Why would we have had an eagle?

The British Bull Dog is also a UK symbol.

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What kind of wildlife did GB have in the old days? Squirrels, pretty much like today probably. Well maybe some skinny wolves running around.. a codfish? Yeah, the ugly Bulldog was made by old limey so be it. Lol.

Jk.. Bulldogs are the coolest. Too bad they cost a mint to buy one or I would keep one in my apartment.

UK has the Robin. But i'm sure that the national bird was the Wren.

Anyway, myth has it that the Robin was a Wren. Also, both birds are sacred and woe betide anyone who harms them.

Yeah...a British bulldog would have been a better national symbol...slightly more British than an African lion anyways...

wild boar

margaret thatcher


Funny, there's a tradition of hunting the wren on boxing day. there's a song, the cutty wren, about hunting it and cutting it up.

Yes..we had wild boars....and the odd dragon , noo not Margerat Thatcher , that one that St George poked with a pointed stick...

Didn't he do that in palestine, or somewhere. We had worms, like The Lambton Worm in Durham.

Don't you have a lot of skylarks? That's an interesting bird.

Ha... i am sure it would amuse the rest of the world greatly ..if we had a worm as our national symbol....

a little bit more than the average worm:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambton_Worm

Nick Clegg?

Why do they call it a worm then.... its clearly a Scouser...

Why is this so hard for people to grasp? The english symbol is the 3 lions because richard the 1st chose it as his sheild badge, lions look harder than birds when your off slaughtering saracans....

Yusss but it would be easier to paint a worm on your shield....

From a distance it could look like a scarey snake...!!

lol,I do like that idea, Richard,Heart of Worm.....Richard WormHeart....

pictures of the worm.

google.pl/images?hl=pl&rlz=1T4SKPT_plPL397PL398&q=lambton%20worm

Imagine trying to put that thing on your hook to go fishing....!

It's to distinguish it from 'Lesser Britain' or in other words, Brittany.

Surely everyone knows we are better than the French...??

Grendel
very suitable for a coat of arms, and for scaring off foreigners, too

wildrover
Surely everyone knows we are better than the French...??

of course. the French had no Grendel

Yep..definatly a scarey guy....

I think he'sa bouncer in Staines....

That's how it came about in the first place!


Grendel's mother... and she looked like Angelina Jolie (I wouldn't mind having that on a shield... or a breast plate)


More like Hard Candy club in Krakow.

eh no....the lion rampant is the queens emblem not scotlands

So the big yellow flag with a huge Red lion Rampant is not a symbol of Scotland then? Thats a lot of flags to put in the bin then...:)

correct, officially it's the standard for the monarch who rules over Scotland, it used to be forbidden for anyone else to fly the lion rampant but the law was changed to allow us mortals to show it as a symbol of our allegiance to the monarch, which we regularly do at Hampden ;-)

But when I think of Scottish Monarchs Im thinking more,The Bruce et al,not the german lot ;)