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Junior Jr. posted:My country once ruled the world, we conquered everyone. Then we got shittier and shittier until we're now just a small island again and we're getting mopey with the EU and want to split up 'cause money problems. *Looks at a graph labeled "British Empire", notices huge downturn at "1776" mark* *Strokes chin and purses lips*
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# ? Jun 21, 2016 02:46 |
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# ? May 9, 2024 23:09 |
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britain is the pits pit-ain
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# ? Jun 21, 2016 02:55 |
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Junior Jr. posted:My country once ruled the world, we conquered everyone. Then we got shittier and shittier until we're now just a small island again, we're barely still in the Euro league, we're getting mopey with the EU and want to split up 'cause money problems. You were too high-handed with the Americans, you were too soft on Gandhi and you've never managed to bridge the social divide between the chav and the posh.
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# ? Jun 21, 2016 02:56 |
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british people talk weird and have bad morals, the things they like are bad and the values they hold are corrupt and with no merit except for the scarlet pimpernel he was the "one true scotsman", when it comes to british dudes
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# ? Jun 21, 2016 03:02 |
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Also, how did you manage to lose control of like 1/3 of your island to the IRISH of all people, lol
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# ? Jun 21, 2016 03:06 |
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fuckin chavs
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# ? Jun 21, 2016 04:00 |
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I've been to London it was nice
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# ? Jun 21, 2016 04:41 |
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I've been watching a lot of QI on youtube and it's pretty clear that Stephen Fry is the old guard british while Alan Davis is the cuddly guy I'd like to take to bed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzyFyxlp2jY
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# ? Jun 21, 2016 04:44 |
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QI is cool and good
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# ? Jun 21, 2016 04:48 |
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Hector Beerlioz posted:QI is cool and good
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# ? Jun 21, 2016 05:40 |
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momerath posted:what's the closest i can get to england without leaving america? you can come up to canada and enjoy the pictures of the queen if you'd like
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# ? Jun 21, 2016 06:24 |
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Junior Jr. posted:My country once ruled the world, we conquered everyone. Then we got shittier and shittier until we're now just a small island again, we're barely still in the Euro league, we're getting mopey with the EU and want to split up 'cause money problems. don't worry mate you still have the Falkland Islands, the empires totally not done yet!
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# ? Jun 21, 2016 06:26 |
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Rutibex posted:you can come up to canada and enjoy the pictures of the queen if you'd like god dammit, how can I as a Texan ever have a chance against that I mean those loving brits love the queen more than any bbq we can give
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# ? Jun 21, 2016 06:27 |
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*swims up from ice hole* s'cuse me, white cliffs of dover?
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# ? Jun 21, 2016 06:30 |
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Applewhite posted:*Looks at a graph labeled "British Empire", notices huge downturn at "1776" mark* the british empire actually became much larger after 1776. they kind of had a world wide good cop/bad cop thing going on. america tries to gather aftican slaves to colonize the interior, well england conquers Africa to try and stop the slave trade
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# ? Jun 21, 2016 06:36 |
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Rutibex posted:
The British Empire was the true protagonist of the American civil war
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Junior Jr. posted:My country once ruled the world, we conquered everyone. Then we got shittier and shittier until we're now just a small island again, we're barely still in the Euro league, we're getting mopey with the EU and want to split up 'cause money problems. Well, hope that helps.
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# ? Jun 21, 2016 08:07 |
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Applewhite posted:England was once the mightiest empire in the world and there are a great many former savages who owe them a debt of gratitude for introducing civilization to their benighted lands. p sure thats rome
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# ? Jun 21, 2016 08:19 |
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Mange Mite posted:the combination of free health care and no guns means lots of low-level street crime and bored idiots start fights with strangers constantly, and every so often of cousre someone ends up stabbed or beaten to death GREAT Britain m8. Fuckin' GR8
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# ? Jun 21, 2016 09:18 |
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Britain and America both have asians in their territories, but they're completely different races. In America, the asians are chinese or japanese-americans. In Britain, the 'asians' are indians and pakistanis. though americans don't think fondly of pakistanis because they think they work for isis
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# ? Jun 21, 2016 09:50 |
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Revenants Return posted:and eats gross food and gets paddled by schoolmarms in boarding schools and an entire wealthy family will live in like a 20 by 20 foot apartment with a barely functional toilet and have a single compact car which has the steering wheel on the wrong side and a manual transmission . Unbelievable. Open public yards or "national parks" are unheard of, as is any private yard larger than a postage stamp. Can britgoons confirm? oh heaven's no not a manual transmission! if i have to work a clutch and shifter i'll get the vapors and faint!
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# ? Jun 21, 2016 11:26 |
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Britain is an overcrowded shithole with tiny, massively expensive houses.
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# ? Jun 21, 2016 11:29 |
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spud posted:Britain is an overcrowded shithole with tiny, massively expensive houses. thanks for reminding me how dire my situation is jerk
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# ? Jun 21, 2016 12:11 |
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# ? Jun 21, 2016 12:13 |
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man you'd think 53 million would be a diverse enough genepool to prevent this kind of congenital horror show, but here we are
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# ? Jun 21, 2016 12:16 |
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*puts on england war paint* THEY MAY TAKE OUR EUROSTAR, BUT THEY'LL NEVER TAKE OUR FOOTBALL!!!!
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# ? Jun 21, 2016 12:26 |
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Junior Jr. posted:My country once ruled the world, we conquered everyone. Then we got shittier and shittier until we're now just a small island again, we're barely still in the Euro league, we're getting mopey with the EU and want to split up 'cause money problems. The very end was when you intentionally deindustrialized and got rid of all your jobs except for finance and its related industry of begging rich people for money. Now instead of bossing lovely countries around, you must suck the dicks of china and russia.
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# ? Jun 21, 2016 12:30 |
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Lol britain sent an assassin to try and take out trump, and failed. Luckily we know better than to let foreigners buy guns. Owned, britain
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# ? Jun 21, 2016 12:32 |
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Mange Mite posted:The very end was when you intentionally deindustrialized and got rid of all your jobs except for finance and its related industry of begging rich people for money. Now instead of bossing lovely countries around, you must suck the dicks of china and russia. you don't understand, service economies are more advanced than simple manufacturing. making things that people want will never be as profitable as shuffling paper around and collecting a percentage. the Uk economy is much stronger now that it every was under boring old "industrialization"
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# ? Jun 21, 2016 14:53 |
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you have been visited by the chairman mao ghost of chairman mao
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# ? Jun 21, 2016 14:55 |
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Otisburg posted:oh heaven's no not a manual transmission! if i have to work a clutch and shifter i'll get the vapors and faint! I know how to drive a manual OP. My first car was a manual which I got when I was 16 (quite common. cars in the US can be had for less than 10 thousand "British pounds" and a "lad" will often get the family's old car). The issue is, obviously, that it's funny when an entire family has one compact car between them with the stupid kind of transmission, and dear old mum has to clutch through traffic on the tiny streets to get to the store to buy a curry for the lads. It's not as though Brits are driving American muscle cars with stick shifts they're driving like a VW golfs. Nothing impressive or masculine about it. It just speaks to the incredibly low quality of life in Britain.
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# ? Jun 21, 2016 14:56 |
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Applewhite posted:*Looks at a graph labeled "British Empire", notices huge downturn at "1776" mark* Why would we give a gently caress about a few flyblown farmers (with an expensive habit of starting poo poo with their neighbours and then asking for protection) when we could have India instead?
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# ? Jun 21, 2016 14:57 |
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apparently under the impression that we don't have the option of buying automatic transmission cars if we wanted to
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# ? Jun 21, 2016 15:29 |
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England is the world's largest exporter of YouTube videos about snarky video game reviews.
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# ? Jun 21, 2016 15:30 |
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muscle cars aren't something to aspire to, they're the booby prize if you're a sad deprived gently caress living in some American swamp or desert or other wasteland and don't even know what the gently caress "taking a corner" means
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# ? Jun 21, 2016 15:32 |
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vug posted:muscle cars aren't something to aspire to, they're the booby prize if you're a sad deprived gently caress living in some American swamp or desert or other wasteland and don't even know what the gently caress "taking a corner" means Yes. Now a BRITISH car, that's the zenith of automotive technology
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# ? Jun 21, 2016 15:50 |
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BIG-DICK-BUTT-gently caress posted:Yes. Now a BRITISH car, that's the zenith of automotive technology You bet your rear end it is!
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# ? Jun 21, 2016 15:54 |
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lol at people who brag about their manual transmissions as if they have a "skill".
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# ? Jun 21, 2016 15:55 |
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BIG-DICK-BUTT-gently caress posted:Yes. Now a BRITISH car, that's the zenith of automotive technology This is how the British "take a corner" fake edit: dammit ^^^
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# ? Jun 21, 2016 15:56 |
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lol just lol at countries that can't fathom how to operate 3 pedals at once
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