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"The British embassy in Washington has apologised after tweeting a picture of a White House cake surrounded by sparklers, "commemorating" the burning of the building 200 years ago. The US presidential residence was set on fire by British forces in 1814 during the "War of 1812" with the United States. A number of Twitter users said the embassy's tweet was "in poor taste". The embassy later said: "Apologies for earlier Tweet." It added: "We meant to mark an event in history & celebrate our strong friendship today." 'Only sparklers!' British troops led by Maj Gen Robert Ross attacked and burned public buildings including the Capitol, Washington Navy Yard and the president's mansion during the conflict. It was the only time that a foreign power has captured and occupied Washington. The offending tweet on Sunday read: "Commemorating the 200th anniversary of burning the White House. Only sparklers this time!" The British embassy message, published on its official Twitter account, has been retweeted more than 4,000 times. One user questioned: "Is this suppose [sic] to be funny"? Another wrote: "I think this is in extremely POOR TASTE." An apology was issued on the account two hours after the original message."
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# ? Jul 22, 2015 12:56 |
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Tautologicus posted:When did they do that.. The british literally sailed into washington dc's unprotected harbor in 1812, burned down the white house and left. Our navy didn't exist to do anything in 1776-1779 and it didn't do anything 30 years later either. The british empire reigned supreme until the cusp of the 20th century, america is just a single mouse that got away. Do you really think that America just "got away" with it? They sent an entire armada to protect New York. It's not like they just said, "Oh well, gently caress it, let's just give the yanks this entire country."
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# ? Jul 22, 2015 12:57 |
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Whorelord posted:
im not sure why americans get their knickers in a twist over actual genuine historical poo poo that happened end of the day its important to acknowledge things that happened so that you can learn from them
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# ? Jul 22, 2015 12:58 |
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Shirley Crabtree posted:since apparently you really are a bit thick i'll explain it a bit simpler... again: that would matter if the question was about the population and not the country I'm not asking "in which country is any random person likely to be rich", I'm asking "which country, as a collective entity, is richest"
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# ? Jul 22, 2015 13:01 |
We mainly don't, just the important and/or mouthy ones (same as the people we hate in our own continent), hth.
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# ? Jul 22, 2015 13:01 |
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The funny thing is that while Boston was under seige many officers were watching a play and when the Americans attacked and while everyone was screaming for their lives the officers in attendance thought it was just a part of the play. It wasn't until they heard gunshots and and cannon fire that they realized that they were under attack.
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# ? Jul 22, 2015 13:03 |
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Whorelord posted:wasn't your country defeated by a bunch of rice farming asian dwarfs? vietnam "defeated" us in the same sense that we "defeated" the british in the revolutionary war
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# ? Jul 22, 2015 13:03 |
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TacticalUrbanHomo posted:again: that would matter if the question was about the population and not the country no you said 'which country is richest' per capita is how you work out which country is safest and the same applies to richest. if you got a billion people sharing a hundred dollars that doesnt make them live in a richer country than one with a single guy with 99 dollars. use your brain come on.
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# ? Jul 22, 2015 13:04 |
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Shirley Crabtree posted:no you said 'which country is richest' lmbo at you literally changing the meanings of words in your brain to avoid having to say america is the richest country in the world
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# ? Jul 22, 2015 13:06 |
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Shirley Crabtree posted:no you said 'which country is richest' Seriously though, you sound kinda dumb.
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# ? Jul 22, 2015 13:12 |
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TacticalUrbanHomo posted:lmbo at you literally changing the meanings of words in your brain to avoid having to say america is the richest country in the world didnt i just post up jessie j price tag up ITT? i am sad for you that your definition of greatness is measured by dollars and not by cultural and moral richness p.s. your gonna be so gutted when china overtakes you there in ten years time
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# ? Jul 22, 2015 13:12 |
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americans like to say they are best at war when they are in fact the worst lol
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# ? Jul 22, 2015 13:14 |
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TacticalUrbanHomo posted:again: that would matter if the question was about the population and not the country
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# ? Jul 22, 2015 13:14 |
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Shirley Crabtree posted:
so first it's "qatar is the richest country in the world, suck it america" and when it's pointed out that you're twisting statistics to say something inaccurate it's "why are you so worried about money man" lmfbo
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# ? Jul 22, 2015 13:15 |
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quakster posted:does gdp include multinational corporations because if it does, it's a worthless metric. the population is what makes up a country, not geography or market forces in which case you would still compare the collective purchasing power of countries' populations, not their average unless, again, the question was "which country has the richest people on average" as opposed to "which country is collectively the richest"
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# ? Jul 22, 2015 13:16 |
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Shirley Crabtree posted:didnt i just post up jessie j price tag up ITT? America is the most culturally and morally diverse country in the world. Try again.
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# ? Jul 22, 2015 13:17 |
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the truth is most of the hate is just due to actions of aggression like the iraq war but at the end of the day people went home and wore their american jeans and drank a coke while watching imported (garbage) american sitcoms true story ' america ur al right
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# ? Jul 22, 2015 13:20 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTjMqda19wk
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# ? Jul 22, 2015 13:21 |
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TacticalUrbanHomo posted:so first it's "qatar is the richest country in the world, suck it america" and when it's pointed out that you're twisting statistics to say something inaccurate it's "why are you so worried about money man" lmfbo since jessie j didnt convince you heres a couple more vids that might make you rethink your obsession with capitalism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kGvlESGvbs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUhRKVIjJtw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=venzPNvge18 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dly6p4Fu5TE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX7MbG6MiQs Shirley Crabtree fucked around with this message at 13:25 on Jul 22, 2015 |
# ? Jul 22, 2015 13:21 |
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America is number 1 at football; sorry, guy who said Brazil. Brazil might be good at soccer, though! Also lol at Canadians who think they burned down the White House. You were winning in the East, but losing in the West. Duke of Wellington didn't even think it was worth it to help you out.
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# ? Jul 22, 2015 13:24 |
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SweetKarma posted:California is what? The 9th largest economy in the world or some poo poo.That's just one state out of 50. You can't compete with that. lol, nice job pushing the straight-As star football player kid to the front and acting like he's just an average student. Yep, that's just one of our fifty, picked him at random, the others are just as good. No, Maryland did NOT just set himself on fire, you're imagining things. Florida, please take your hand out of your pants we're trying to look good for this European. And - oh, dear, someone dial 911, Kansas just shoved a pencil up his nose and fainted again. (I'm from California)
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# ? Jul 22, 2015 13:26 |
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I feel like the america hate was strongest when this man ruled your country Mostly because cmon man you let that guy be your president and then you bombed the gently caress out of two countries and somehow, SOMEHOW hosed up the middle east even worse while pointing fingers at anyone who didn't support your wars
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# ? Jul 22, 2015 13:32 |
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^^^ Pretty much. Up until then I looked on the US as a nation everyone strifed to be like. But I didn't know alot about all the realpolitics back then, and now I hate my new home country and my old one AND the US and pretty much most of the first world. So there's that.
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# ? Jul 22, 2015 13:35 |
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Shirley Crabtree posted:since jessie j didnt convince you heres a couple more vids that might make you rethink your obsession with capitalism try a different red herring, my only obsession with capitalism is with destroying it
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# ? Jul 22, 2015 13:36 |
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TacticalUrbanHomo posted:try a different red herring, my only obsession with capitalism is with destroying it then why are you celebrating being good at capitalism when instead you should be weeping like a teased vagina?
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# ? Jul 22, 2015 13:38 |
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Americans have bad teeth.
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# ? Jul 22, 2015 13:43 |
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Shirley Crabtree posted:Serious Answer . 7-1. football is also dominated by good ol DEUTSCHLAND!
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# ? Jul 22, 2015 14:02 |
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I love America. I hope to visit your country someday. If it wasn't for your grandfathers I'd be speaking German. God bless them.
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# ? Jul 22, 2015 14:27 |
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Maybe we should all come together as one country. The country of Earth. Peace & Love
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# ? Jul 22, 2015 14:29 |
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here's a cool, classy internet video one of my countrymen put together https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP55K0Kz31o
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# ? Jul 22, 2015 14:32 |
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SweetKarma posted:Maybe we should all come together as one country. The country of Earth. I'd love it if the UK became the 51st state. I'd buy a massive house with loads of land for $5 in one of the so called "flyover states", and maybe get some goats and llamas and poo poo, and sit on my porch with my dog and have a beer.
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# ? Jul 22, 2015 14:34 |
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spud posted:I'd love it if the UK became the 51st state. I'd buy a massive house with loads of land for $5 in one of the so called "flyover states", and maybe get some goats and llamas and poo poo, and sit on my porch with my dog and have a beer. In SweetKarmas world you can live wherever you want whenever you want. SweetKarma 2016.
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# ? Jul 22, 2015 14:37 |
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Did you know several european countries have the common phrase "american conditions/situations" ? It means that which must be avoided at all costs. Example: If we cut welfare further we shall have American conditions.
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# ? Jul 22, 2015 14:39 |
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SweetKarma posted:Do you really think that America just "got away" with it? They sent an entire armada to protect New York. It's not like they just said, "Oh well, gently caress it, let's just give the yanks this entire country." No, but its kind of like getting robbed for 10 dollars when you have 100,000 dollars on you..the british kept a majority of their trading interests in the country. 50 years later they controlled more than half the world via proxy (the forerunner to the american way of running an empire).
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# ? Jul 22, 2015 15:03 |
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SweetKarma posted:It is embarrassing, but that's why most american history books just kind of gloss over that point. im dating a girl from cali and she said nothing bad or embarrassing about the US is ever mentioned in school anyway and coupled with the education system being total poo poo in general it makes for a lotta dumb nationalistic babies ive liked most americans ive met though, nice people if you can deal with the whole aggressive hyper confidence thing
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# ? Jul 22, 2015 15:10 |
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goatse.cx haver posted:im dating a girl from cali and she said nothing bad or embarrassing about the US is ever mentioned in school anyway and coupled with the education system being total poo poo in general it makes for a lotta dumb nationalistic babies TBH the ultra-patriotism you see in American media isn't actually how most Americans feel. I made this thread as a joke, but no American actually gives any thought to how "great" America is. In fact, a lot of Americans are really critical of our government.
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# ? Jul 22, 2015 15:20 |
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Those British embassy workers deserver a raise. Thats magnificent. Edit: Hahah, Just noticed the the US and British flags on either side.
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# ? Jul 22, 2015 15:22 |
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Whorelord posted:
My favorite thing about the White House burning is when Canadians try to take credit for it and get all smug "That's right, the largest empire on the planet burned down the seat of your government... on our behalf " "Didn't both Toronto and the Canadian houses of Parliament get burned by the Americans in the same war, and didn't the war end in a stalemate?" "I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of THE WHITE HOUSE BEING BURNED" (obligatory hark a vagrant link)
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# ? Jul 22, 2015 15:23 |
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jealous
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# ? Jul 22, 2015 15:42 |
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Shirley Crabtree posted:Realpost: man you post a lot about how much you don't care
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