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Turns out you are all British!
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| WarhawkMcCray | Date: Thursday, 20 Oct 2011, 4:54 AM | Message # 1 |
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| Apparently.
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| Jace_Varitek | Date: Thursday, 20 Oct 2011, 10:26 AM | Message # 2 |
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| Those British lawyers are a bunch of Edmund Burkes. American independence? Common sense, I say.
But don't get any ideas, Texas.
Jace Varitek
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Furthermore, a dancing Wookiee:
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| WarhawkMcCray | Date: Thursday, 20 Oct 2011, 11:55 AM | Message # 3 |
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| What about California? I hear y'all are a bunch of sesseshers.
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| Robeir_XXII | Date: Thursday, 20 Oct 2011, 1:07 PM | Message # 4 |
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| Good luck trying to get the American Population believing that.
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| WarhawkMcCray | Date: Thursday, 20 Oct 2011, 1:39 PM | Message # 5 |
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| I'm not an expert at unpicking brainwashing!
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| Ilanah_Thanatos | Date: Thursday, 20 Oct 2011, 2:29 PM | Message # 6 |
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| Hmmm....no.
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| WarhawkMcCray | Date: Thursday, 20 Oct 2011, 3:15 PM | Message # 7 |
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| Its much nicer being British.
We are able to laugh at ourselves a lot more and are less reverent about almost everything. Have 25 days a year paid holiday.. We have free healthcare and dental. We have a welfare system which doesn't let you die or become homeless. We never had segregation/jim crow laws etc, we never banned interracial marriage (Olaudah Equiano married a British girl in 1792!). The Beatles, Queen, David Bowie, etc. We invented Viagra! Matches, the Toaster, Flush Toilets, Soda, Sunglasses and the Vacuum Cleaner! (All British Inventions). We have amazing tea (many varieties of).
We are amusing and cheerful while having a self aware sense of dread at the futility of existence. From rolling hills to rolling cheeses to folk music and morris dancing, we aren't afraid to be eccentric. We don't fly flags all the time, or say a pledge of allegiance or weep for our national anthem (what a dirge!) - we are instead quietly confident in our own virtues (such as they are) as an arbitrary unit of people. We have a sense of empathy with those at the bottom of society and are not herded like sheep by the rich at the top (*cough*Poor people supporting Tea Party? More like turkeys voting for christmas!*cough*). Our politicians are (on the whole) generally pretty pragmatic and are willing to set party differences aside for the good of the nation.
We do not respect or defer to government, nation or flag, we are proud of our past while being aware of the present.
And we can drink any 3 other nations under the table.
Alexander "Warhawk" McCray
Earl of Embaril
Thane of Brightdeen
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| Havoc | Date: Thursday, 20 Oct 2011, 3:15 PM | Message # 8 |
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| If I'm British, then Baird is white.
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| Robeir_XXII | Date: Thursday, 20 Oct 2011, 4:51 PM | Message # 9 |
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| You do realize though, that had the first revolution failed in the 1700s, there would be another revolution, and another, and another until the colonies were free.
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| Rath-Deschain | Date: Thursday, 20 Oct 2011, 5:43 PM | Message # 10 |
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| America doesn't riot when their soccer team loses.
'nuff said.
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| WarhawkMcCray | Date: Thursday, 20 Oct 2011, 8:39 PM | Message # 11 |
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| Lol, that wasn't quite the reason.
Alexander "Warhawk" McCray
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| Tycus_Kilran | Date: Thursday, 20 Oct 2011, 11:40 PM | Message # 12 |
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| I hear Brits were bastards.
Killing those who didn't believe in what they believed in.
Helping a bunch of dumb ass hicks so that the confederacy could win the war and slavery would be legal.
Sho' nuff
His excellency.
Tycus Gavin Kilran Moff of the Bright Jewel Sector.
Viscount of Raithal.
Flagship The Honour Guard.
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| Archa_Sabis | Date: Friday, 21 Oct 2011, 0:36 AM | Message # 13 |
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| Quote (WarhawkMcCray) We are able to laugh at ourselves a lot more and are less reverent about almost everything.
Well sure, itself having conked out of the whole "empire" phase Britain has good reason not to take itself seriously anymore.
Quote (WarhawkMcCray) We don't fly flags all the time, or say a pledge of allegiance or weep for our national anthem
Quote (WarhawkMcCray) We do not respect or defer to government, nation or flag
(crowd of jubilant Britons cheering the troops as they embark for the Falklands)
Quote (WarhawkMcCray) Its much nicer being British.
What kind of Scot are you?
And finally, because it must be said...
Archa Sabis
Founder and CEO, Sabis Technologies, Ltd. (Retired)
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| Jace_Varitek | Date: Friday, 21 Oct 2011, 0:46 AM | Message # 14 |
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| ... clearly, you need to visit California. Your criticism of Americans as reverent and bellicose can only be based on that "other" half of the country you've limited yourself to heretofore, and of which your description is indeed quite apt. However, needless to say, I recommend Northern California, where we ride mopeds, where any climate you'd like on a given day is a reasonable distance away, and where marijuana is an accepted fact of life for all races and classes of people.
Jace Varitek
Manager/Administrator from January 2003 to Present
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"When my information changes, I change my opinion. What do you do, sir?"
—John Maynard Keynes
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| WarhawkMcCray | Date: Friday, 21 Oct 2011, 1:13 AM | Message # 15 |
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| In all fairness you have a concert hall there filled with very nostalgic people. Come here - you won't see one British flag on the average drive through of any given british city. Wheras in the US you will see dozens on every car dealership etc.
As for the waving the people off for the falklands - we love one thing above all of them - A good scrap. Thus the urge to fight kinda comes above them.
And more than 50% of Scots want to stay in the Union!
As for California, I was thinking of visiting this lovely place called Redding..
Alexander "Warhawk" McCray
Earl of Embaril
Thane of Brightdeen
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