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simosimo posted:An interesting thought , we don't have threatening wildlife such as bears, nor do we have mad weather like tornados. Free healthcare and pickled onion monster munch,I'd say we've got it pretty good. If Midsomer Murders has taught me anything, it's that even the idyllic English countryside is rife with weirdos and murderers. And that sexy Detective Sergeant Troy.
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OP will you post me some pickled onion monster munch please? I would like to try it.
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Rutibex posted:anglo-saxon is a germanic language, English is a mixture of that and a bunch of Latin and Greek from Roman settlers english is fundamentally germanic, you can remove the non-germanic words and you end up with "anglish" which sounds weird and archaic but is fully functional
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In answer to the question, yes, it is.
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furthermore, the uk is extreme mode if you are male and like to gently caress attractive women
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Dave Concepcion posted:furthermore, the uk is extreme mode if you are male and like to gently caress attractive women this explains a lot of the attitudes toward women in Midsomer Murders there are guys who are attractive who are pining after average looking women and hot women who are pining after loving old and ugly men it's a sexual minefield
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it's amazing that the UK still has non-immigrant people left in it considering what native brits look like You think they'd have just died out from repulsiveness
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if you ever play TOTAL WAR the uk is always the easiest place to start
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hemale in pain posted:if you ever play TOTAL WAR the uk is always the easiest place to start pretty good in Diplomacy as well
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Gibberish posted:it's amazing that the UK still has non-immigrant people left in it considering what native brits look like We're well on the way in fairness.
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Yep Life is easy here. All the stupid people who work pay for people like me who dont work (I could work but gently caress that I just make easy money on the side and dont tell the gov). Because I have disabilities affecting my mobility I get money and mostly everything for free like my house, rent, car etc of the government. Thank you to the people with real jobs!
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Tramadol Junkie posted:Yep
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jBrereton posted:You're welcome! Thank you taxpayer
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AEMINAL posted:Because welfare and taxes but.. taxes take your money?
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Microwaves Mom posted:but.. taxes take your money? Not if your on benefits.
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i'm british, ask me about smashing rats with a cudgel for a living.
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Tramadol Junkie posted:Not if your on benefits. aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa What is this? I still have to pay taxes in the US and I'm poor.
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Jose Mengelez posted:i'm british, ask me about smashing rats with a cudgel for a living. go away jose come back hasta manana
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Microwaves Mom posted:aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa welfare as you yanks say. I have not paid any tax since 2001. I get everything for free because I am "disabled". I dont even have to pay council tax as I get full benefit.
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i'm going to report you to dwp with these posts as evidence
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Jose posted:i'm going to report you to dwp with these posts as evidence rear end in a top hat. everybody fiddles it.
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Rutibex posted:at least we don't have a bunch of slavers and genocidal maniacs on our money Yeah, and look where your softness has got you. You can't even wrest control of your little handful of islands from Ginger Catholic terrorists.
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Up the RA
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Microwaves Mom posted:aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
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Yudo posted:this is wrong though. Anglo-Saxon is germanic, but the grammar got simplified and lots of vocabulary re-purposed or added due to being invaded and owned by the Danes. Then tons of new word were added from french when the Normans invaded and owned. This later was a vector for greek and latin words to sneak in, though in force well after the plantagenets were dust. There are a relatively few import words from Arabic and Hindi, but the bulk of vocabulary is French or Saxon and the grammar is largely retained from where most cases were dropped post viking invasion. ah, cool! yeah I guess I forgot about the Norman yolk and Vikings. English is pretty hosed up.
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Shadow posted:Not a hell of a lot considering the queens not only on their money but according to written law, she has the power to dissolve their entire government. I really, really wish she would.
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lol at the brutality of our class system. i once gave lip to a baronet... you do get used to losing an eye, eventually... enjoy your three jobs and lifelong career bagging groceries though 
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well in scotland you can go to university for free and you have free healthcare so it's p good and i guess 'easy mode' except that there's a real chance you might wind up an alcoholic but it sure as poo poo beats paying 9 grand per academic year to study in england lmfao
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razamataza posted:well in scotland you can go to university for free and you have free healthcare so it's p good and i guess 'easy mode' except that there's a real chance you might wind up an alcoholic but it sure as poo poo beats paying 9 grand per academic year to study in england lmfao I dont know why you ginger cunts get free prescriptions. Before I became disabled I had to pay like £100 a year for pre-payment certificate. Why didnt you ginger cunts all vote leave? We dont want you as part of our kingdom.
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Tramadol Junkie posted:I dont know why you ginger cunts get free prescriptions. Its actually their kingdom, England and Scotland were united by the king of Scotland being given the crown of England too
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Is the IRA or Real IRA or True IRA or whatever the gently caress they are now called still a thing?
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Avalanche posted:Is the IRA or Real IRA or True IRA or whatever the gently caress they are now called still a thing? Yes Up the RA
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Rutibex posted:Its actually their kingdom, England and Scotland were united by the king of Scotland being given the crown of England too But we stole their scone or stone scone or whatever is was called so they couldnt coronate another monarch in Scotland
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Avalanche posted:Is the IRA or Real IRA or True IRA or whatever the gently caress they are now called still a thing?
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Yudo posted:this is wrong though. Anglo-Saxon is germanic, but the grammar got simplified and lots of vocabulary re-purposed or added due to being invaded and owned by the Danes. Then tons of new word were added from french when the Normans invaded and owned. This later was a vector for greek and latin words to sneak in, though in force well after the plantagenets were dust. There are a relatively few import words from Arabic and Hindi, but the bulk of vocabulary is French or Saxon and the grammar is largely retained from where most cases were dropped post viking invasion. I love this poo poo. 
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Yudo posted:this is wrong though. Anglo-Saxon is germanic, but the grammar got simplified and lots of vocabulary re-purposed or added due to being invaded and owned by the Danes. Then tons of new word were added from french when the Normans invaded and owned. This later was a vector for greek and latin words to sneak in, though in force well after the plantagenets were dust. There are a relatively few import words from Arabic and Hindi, but the bulk of vocabulary is French or Saxon and the grammar is largely retained from where most cases were dropped post viking invasion. Some holdover words like children and oxen are examples of the types of inflection endings we used to have in Old English. When the Danes arrived in England, they basically spoke a cousin language to English but the endings were different. To ease the confusion, a lot of the endings were dropped. Word order didn't used to be so important in Old English because the individual word was modified depending on the context. Like if you look at the word steal, it would be conjugated to stele, stilst, stǣlon, stǣlen, etc. to fit the meaning you wanted to get across. With the simplified grammar sentences began to rely on the "Subject, verb, object" structure that we have today in modern English. So yeah, English is at heart a Germanic language that lost most of its inflections due to the influence of another Germanic language which used different inflections, but then had a huge Latin vocabulary injection from French and Norman French (which retained some Scandinavian and idiosyncratic differences from other varieties of French).
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id love to collect me giro evry month and head on down to the pub for a pint and a couple of Es. plus how could u ever take british cops seriously...aside from the food and the weather sounds like paradise to me oi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9kesDdSND4
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Mariana Horchata posted:id love to collect me giro evry month and head on down to the pub for a pint and a couple of Es. plus how could u ever take british cops seriously...aside from the food and the weather sounds like paradise to me oi Pro tip - if you declare yourself as an alcoholic here its classed as a disease and you will get full disability benefits so you can drink all day on the governments tab.
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Avalanche posted:Is the IRA or Real IRA or True IRA or whatever the gently caress they are now called still a thing? Yep. They made a very weird and surprising comeback a year or two ago which shortly fizzled out into nothing after a week. 'Suspicious packages' which did actually turn out to be bombs were sent to army recruitment offices, and a post office depot which is 50 paces away from where I live. Not sure how the royal mail depot came into things but it was an interesting morning. All bombs diffused and found to have a wiring signature known to be used by the IRA. The IRA later took credit for the bombs and shortly after went quiet again.
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