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| gently caress you op, your soccer sucks and your tea tastes like poo poo! |
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The Real Foogla posted:who shakes hands with the left? the literal devil 
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Jun 28, 2016 10:51
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lamo at the poles asking for a second referendum
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Jun 28, 2016 10:57
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Why do people keep talking about the EU like it isn't doomed?
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Jun 28, 2016 11:22
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Ork of Fiction posted:Why do people keep talking about the EU like it isn't doomed? b/c it's not altho it might change form in some way. EU is the best thing that has happened to post war europe. it's mostly right wing populists who dislike it enough not to think it's done loads more good than bad.
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Jun 28, 2016 11:25
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Dyna Soar posted:b/c it's not altho it might change form in some way. EU is the best thing that has happened to post war europe. it's mostly right wing populists who dislike it enough not to think it's done loads more good than bad. But is it financially solvent?
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Jun 28, 2016 11:26
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tying a bunch of disparate economies to a single currency is dumb eu is good idea but needs to dump the euro also dont let turkey in
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Jun 28, 2016 11:28
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DOMDOM posted:tying a bunch of disparate economies to a single currency is dumb or go all the way with financial integration so crises like greece can be prevented. i don't think that's gonna happen though.
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Jun 28, 2016 11:30
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europes current faults can be traced back to charles de gaulle rejecting the idea of a franco-british union during the second world war. The world couldve been a very different place if that had occured
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Jun 28, 2016 11:33
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source is the guardian:quote:In the four days since the referendum, 175,175 Londoners have signed a petition calling for London to become an independent city state.
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Jun 28, 2016 11:45
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well i just declared myself independent too
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Jun 28, 2016 11:48
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Dyna Soar posted:source is the guardian: how would that even work, when so many people commute to work in London? This isn't a rhetorical question, I know there are city-states around the world that work like that. How would it work for London? I live in the midlands and my parents live south of London. Going home already involves enough hassle going through London, without it being a separate country.
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Jun 28, 2016 11:49
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Hammerite posted:how would that even work, when so many people commute to work in London? this is completely hypothetical of course but there'd naturally be no border control. for example you can travel through the nordic states without going through a single border control or customs.
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Jun 28, 2016 11:52
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I wish everyone had been this angry and animated when the Tories were elected. They really do suck.
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Jun 28, 2016 12:02
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All you fuckers have got my country completely wrong. Let me explain: Britain has a long and proud tradition of ruining things for the continentals when it looks like they're cooperating a little too well for our liking. There is nothing we like better than interfering with those uppity mainlanders, and we've done it countless times in history. We had to approach the EU a bit differently though since it was peacetime, so the entire nation agreed to play the long game. We became part of this EU, and at the precise opportune moment, when discontent was sufficiently high in the population, we struck. The beauty is that this is no quick and easy death. Oh no. We are going to draw this out as long and painfully as possible, even feigning close referendum results so we can bumble about like the old man nation we are. Meanwhile right-wing groups are snowballing, threatening to fracture their precious Union, until they are nothing more than a bunch of squabbling children once more. Then we will resume our position of smug superiority across the channel. Patting ourselves on the back because of how enlightened we are, and flagellating over the 'special relationship' we have with our nation's progeny. 
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Jun 28, 2016 12:09
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Ocrassus posted:All you fuckers have got my country completely wrong. Let me explain: Britain has a long and proud tradition of ruining things for the continentals when it looks like they're cooperating a little too well for our liking. all this smugness based on past glory. you're like a washed up rock star forced to perform for beer at the local pub yet still thinks he's the greatest thing in the world.
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Jun 28, 2016 12:11
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I like the general idea of the UK
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Jun 28, 2016 12:12
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Dyna Soar posted:all this smugness based on past glory. you're like a washed up rock star forced to perform for beer at the local pub yet still thinks he's the greatest thing in the world. 
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Jun 28, 2016 12:15
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your joke was very much based on reality. the english are pretty much the smuggest people in the world.
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Jun 28, 2016 12:23
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maybe you guys could sell some land to the russian oligarchs? like say, london?
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Jun 28, 2016 12:25
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Jokes often have a grain (or an entire beaches worth) of truth to them. And you're right. Question for the Americans in the thread. What is your guys' opinions on the whole 'special relationship' schtick. Brits, particularly the media and politicians, love to gush at the thought that America treats us with a special reverence and respect it reserves only for us. Looking at it from your side though must be a bit different because in school you're taught about how you told us to gently caress off back across the Atlantic (conspicuously absent in our curriculum). You must think it's so adorable that we are perpetually in a state of 'Senpai loves me the most'.
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Jun 28, 2016 12:27
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Britain is americas bottom bitch
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Jun 28, 2016 12:30
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Ocrassus posted:Jokes often have a grain (or an entire beaches worth) of truth to them. I mean you're all a lot cooler than you were a week ago.
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Jun 28, 2016 12:40
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Ocrassus posted:Jokes often have a grain (or an entire beaches worth) of truth to them. Uh mate we hate America.
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Jun 28, 2016 13:00
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A Magical Lamp posted:Uh mate we hate America. nah you hate everyone, you smug fuckers. yet you grovel at the americans feet
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Jun 28, 2016 13:00
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Dyna Soar posted:nah you hate everyone, you smug fuckers. yet you grovel at the americans feet Look if you give us money and stabilise our economy we'll tell the EU we're your BFF.
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Jun 28, 2016 13:01
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A Magical Lamp posted:Uh mate we hate America. No. We hate 'Americanisms', cultural artifacts a that we feel taint our 'right way' of doing things. But you are delusional if you can't see that Britain gushes over America far more than the likes of Germany or France. We want and believe we get special diplomatic treatment over and above other nations of comparable scale. a neurotic ai fucked around with this message at 13:10 on Jun 28, 2016 |
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Jun 28, 2016 13:08
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Ocrassus posted:Jokes often have a grain (or an entire beaches worth) of truth to them. We might be smug about the whole American Revolution thing perpetually but in all actuality everyone I know and myself in general feel like when the chips are down the US and the UK are "like that" *does finger twisting motion*
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Jun 28, 2016 13:09
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Ocrassus posted:No. We hate 'Americanisms', cultural artifacts a that we feel taint our 'right way' of doing things. But you are delusional if you can't see that Britain gushes over America far more than the likes of Germany or France. Fair enough.
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Jun 28, 2016 13:09
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insert picture of uncle sam holding a little ventriloquist prince charles doll
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Jun 28, 2016 13:11
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Ocrassus posted:Jokes often have a grain (or an entire beaches worth) of truth to them. Most of us realize that our history books and classes are indoctrination at best when it comes to poo poo like that.
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Jun 28, 2016 13:13
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Ocrassus posted:Jokes often have a grain (or an entire beaches worth) of truth to them. I think at this point most Americans do feel somewhat close to the British as fellow English speakers but the same applies to Canadians, Aussies, and Kiwis. There's probably more of a "special relationship" with Ireland these days in that there is a tendency for any white American with a few drops of Irish ancestry to refer to themselves as "Irish". There are more Americans of English ancestry than Irish but that same kind of pride doesn't seem to manifest at all.
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Jun 28, 2016 13:24
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I want to hear more from Davey Swimmer. That was my favourite part of all of this.
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Jun 28, 2016 13:33
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He played Ross on Friends.
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Jun 28, 2016 13:39
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Earwicker posted:There's probably more of a "special relationship" with Ireland these days in that there is a tendency for any white American with a few drops of Irish ancestry to refer to themselves as "Irish". There are more Americans of English ancestry than Irish but that same kind of pride doesn't seem to manifest at all. From what I read many colonists in the 18th c were culturally british, which is why the rally cry was no taxation without representation and not death to the foreign overlord. This identity became the default 'american' one, even though I think most americans are actually german descended. Celtic pride will never die though, its remained in spite of being pushed to the most westerly parts of europe.
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Jun 28, 2016 13:45
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New EU-standard USB sticks now come with an extra 1GB free space.
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Jun 28, 2016 13:50
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why are people acting like the petition for a re-referendum carries some great weight millions of people did vote for Remain so it's not saying much if those same people sign a petition in favor of Remain
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Jun 28, 2016 13:55
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Bitter Mushroom posted:From what I read many colonists in the 18th c were culturally british, which is why the rally cry was no taxation without representation and not death to the foreign overlord. This identity became the default 'american' one, even though I think most americans are actually german descended. Celtic pride will never die though, its remained in spite of being pushed to the most westerly parts of europe. German descended? What no. No.
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Jun 28, 2016 13:55
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Literally have never seen a German flag waving in America, Irish flags are everywhere though.
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Jun 28, 2016 13:56
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Prorat posted:Literally have never seen a German flag waving in America, Irish flags are everywhere though. There are a poo poo load of Americans of German descent but they stopped publicly expressing pride in their ancestry during WW1 and even more so during WW2. there was a huge propaganda push against "German-Americans" in those days and so those communities largely changed their identities to be just "Americans", though you can still find little pockets here and there what is now the East Village in NYC used to be an entirely German neighborhood for example and if you look at some of the buildings you can see the influence also a lot of the Germans came here even earlier before there was a modern country called "Germany" and thus didn't really have the same identity exactly Earwicker fucked around with this message at 14:05 on Jun 28, 2016 |
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Jun 28, 2016 14:01
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There's loads of racism erupting all over the place now, like racist attacks. It makes me so sad and angry. Its such a loving shitshow.
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