On: Landline phones will switch off across Britland in 100 days, no extensions

Where is Britland?

UK, but its the register, who's headline comes from a long tradition of taking the piss out of/mirroring the use of, puns from uk tabloids.

Quite the ringing endorsement. They’ve dialled-in the jargon whilst the Beeb insists on parroting the party line. It’s a real hang-up for some of us.

You deserve a Tip for that one! You're one smooth Operator!

I did like "no extensions"

Never seen that word ever in my life. Bizarre to use such a ridiculously unknown word for such an important story. I was thinking where the fuck is britland? Must be somewhere in Scandinavia or Germany.

I mean, boffin: fine. Everyone in the UK knows what that means. But britland isn't a term that anyone in the UK has heard of. (Testing...)

A word that has never been seen before isn't necessarily hard to understand. I'm pretty sure that any Brit would catch the meaning without thinking.

So pretty much anyone for whom the news is relevant would understand the headline immediately.

It was obvious to me. The article uses "Britain" and "UK"

But the point is that I'm not going to read the article unless I know it's interesting or relevant. I assume Britland was some island or area. It sounds like a real name of an area. The only reason I clicked was because I wanted to find out where it was. I googled it and nothing came up, so I thought "I bet it just some fucked up register headline", and I was correct.

Going through the possibilities:

1. British people will get it. Jokey references to the country are common here.

2. People who are interested in these changes globally will want to read anyway

3. Regular Register readers will probably get it

4. Social media shares often add comment or being seen mostly by one of the three categories above

5. Search engine results might or might not show a snippet that clarifies.

6. Sharing the link in places that do not allow clarifying the headline is evidently a problem.

> The only reason I clicked was because I wanted to find out where it was.

It sounds like it was a successful title. Click obtained.

I assume its because of the change in the official name from GB & UK to just UK only.

I figured it's anywhere they squack is theirs or was theirs ;-)

Squawk*

I've also heard it called Ukogbanistan. (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland -stan)

I bet that makes the BNP/UKIP/Blackshirts/Reform/Tories suitably angry.

Maybe not for the Tories, depending on what stripe of Tory. Formally the Tories are the "Conservative and Unionist Party" because notionally one of the key things they stand for is that very specific United Kingdom including Northern Ireland. They are, at least in principle, a proudly Unionist party, which is why so many of the Irish Unionists† were disappointed about Tory Brexit policies.

And I imagine the Blackshirts, or whatever we're calling this current version of Nazi morons would think you meant it to suggest, as they believe, that "their" country has been overrun by foreigners.

† In Ireland a Unionist wants Ireland, at least part of it and in many cases all of it, to be "united" with Great Britain. Contrariwise Nationalists want all of Ireland to be a single uh, independent nation. These groupings correlate to varying degrees with which flavour of Christianity (if any) you practice, and with whether you want a Republic or Royalty. The trivial stereotypes would be a Protestant who wants the King of England to also rule the entire island of Ireland, and a Catholic who believes the entire island should be an independent Republic. One thing almost everybody appears to have agreed on is that murdering each other wasn't solving anything. So that's good.