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If it's anything like here, the populist line is that EU REGULATIONS are making UK goods uncompetitive z And obce anarchy reigns, the sheer will of the entrepreneur shall be released.
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Jokes on Britain, our local Euro import store is right next to our British import store and I can get salmiakki, German chocolate and French cheese for pretty cheap, and then go next door and get uh hrm
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Nov 24, 2018 15:51
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Peanut Butler posted:Jokes on Britain, our local Euro import store is right next to our British import store and I can get salmiakki, German chocolate and French cheese for pretty cheap, and then go next door and get Soon you'll be able to get all that and more from the Brit store, cheaper and more innovative! Britain is going to be a four-stripe Adidas country, but for food, lol
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Nov 24, 2018 15:54
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The only thing I ever see actually purchased from british import stores is flags and tea. And it’s always north american anglophiles and doctor who fans.
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Nov 24, 2018 16:16
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I mean, what else does Britain export? Judgement?
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Nov 24, 2018 16:18
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they did more steady business before internet streaming, selling imported VHS and DVDs also I remembered the cookies, that's a thing I'll buy at Brits sometimes but Au Marche just has better stuff, and they're both owned by the same insane wealthy person
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Nov 24, 2018 16:33
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ELO Musk posted:I mean, what else does Britain export? Judgement? Jaffa cakes and brown sauce
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Nov 24, 2018 16:34
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Toplowtech posted:Those are generally poo poo local products that can't compete with cheaper better quality foreign products. The only way to sell them is outside the European market. Yeah but if you're the owner of Wetherspoon's you can just choose to serve them. The literature they scatter around every pub talks about Brexit like it's finally untying their hands and letting them serve wholesome British products, not that British products will finally be able to compete. (At least this is what I was confused by the last time some friends elected to go there and I went along.) BTW, for everyone who hasn't been to one recently, pretty much every Wetherspoon's has, in addition to pamphlets all over the place loudly proclaiming that Brexit will save Britain, actual poster boards set up in conspicuous places with (what seems to be) constantly updated pro-Brexit propaganda. I think the last one I saw featured a big photo of Theresa May with something to the effect of "WHY WON'T YOU GIVE THE BRITISH PEOPLE WHAT THEY WANT, THERESA?" above it and a 10-point-font essay on why Europeans are smelly beside it. quote:Jaffa cakes and brown sauce And Marmite.
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Nov 24, 2018 16:39
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Britain exports mark and spencers
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Nov 24, 2018 17:19
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Crumpets and tunnocks.
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Nov 24, 2018 18:34
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Death and Despair.
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Nov 24, 2018 19:07
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Britain's main export will always be Independence Days for other countries.
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Nov 24, 2018 20:09
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I thought it was posh accents for movie villains?
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Nov 24, 2018 20:32
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Bovril edit: looking up Bovril on wiki no one actually drinks it mixed with hot milk right? That's a joke right britain? right...r-r-right????
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Nov 24, 2018 22:39
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It's a famous British cocktail called The Horrified Rabbi.
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Nov 24, 2018 22:42
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Peanut President posted:Bovril 
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Nov 24, 2018 22:58
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haha good one britain real good haha
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Nov 24, 2018 23:01
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One good thing I'll say about Britain is that they know how to properly fry a crisp. Seasoning on the other hand is not their strong suit, though.
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Nov 24, 2018 23:29
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Things like Marmite and Bovril make me confident that long after the resto of humanity had been killed by the climate change, the British will still be floating around, surviving on yeast and petroleum byproducts.
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Nov 24, 2018 23:41
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I like to get the Fentimans soft drinks sometimes, they are nice if a bit sweet. Good christmas pudding is nice too, and, uhhhm, tunnock cakes. Well okay there's not much.
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Nov 24, 2018 23:57
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steinrokkan posted:Things like Marmite and Bovril make me confident that long after the resto of humanity had been killed by the climate change, the British will still be floating around, surviving on yeast and petroleum byproducts. Pretty sure this was the plan if the Cold War went hot.
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You have to give the Britons a small amount of modified coal byproduct every month too, otherwise they'll seize up even with copious yeast and petroleum byproduct.
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A Buttery Pastry posted:It's served exactly the same in Denmark, though being paragons of efficiency we just call it risengrød. Well, you spell it risengrød. As true paragons of efficiency you pronounce it the same way you pronounce every other word.
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Nion posted:Well, you spell it risengrød. As true paragons of efficiency you pronounce it the same way you pronounce every other word. "murgblabåårdgrppooopdpp"?
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RagnarokZ posted:"murgblabåårdgrppooopdpp"? That's not quite right. Any word in Danish has one pronounced syllable and then some mumbling. Your example has way too many syllables.
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Nov 25, 2018 11:36
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The only thing worse than warm milk & bovril is the letter spacing on this ad
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RagnarokZ posted:"murgblabåårdgrppooopdpp"? "Røghh"
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In its February 1916 issue, LIFE magazine (a humor publication that went out of print in 1936, not the more famous one) warns about what will happen should the Central Powers win the Great War. im the great lakes named after german beers
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Nov 28, 2018 01:21
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I’m irritated that there’s no city named for the greatest figure of the Great War, Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf.
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Nov 28, 2018 02:08
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Tree Bucket posted:The only thing worse than warm milk & bovril is the letter spacing on this ad glass of m i l k
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Nov 28, 2018 02:12
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Wasn't Japan allied with the Entente in ww1, why do they get part of the US?
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Elyv posted:Wasn't Japan allied with the Entente in ww1, why do they get part of the US? It isn't a serious alt-history map. It's just playing on American xenophobic fears.
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Nov 28, 2018 02:19
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Elyv posted:Wasn't Japan allied with the Entente in ww1, why do they get part of the US? Racism
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Nov 28, 2018 02:19
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Why doesn't Mexico get their poo poo back Zimmerman, you liar
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Elyv posted:Wasn't Japan allied with the Entente in ww1, why do they get part of the US? Since you missed the last time the map got posted, when this map was drawn and published Japan was very much not allied with the US, not really active against any of the Central Powers beyond opportunistic seizing of German assets in China, and Japan and the US were quite angry with each other as a result of Japanese actions in China. It wasn't until November 1917 that Japan and the US formally reconciled with the Lansing–Ishii Agreement (although this didn't really solve things on its own, it toned down the animosity significantly and they were friendly nations towards each other for the rest of the war). I'll also point out that with this being an early 1916 map, the US wasn't part of the war yet. That wouldn't happen until April 1917. Part of the conceit here is "well maybe Germany and Austria will knock out France after all and steamroll over". And well, that happening was frankly far less likely than Japan starting a war with the US at all, you know?
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Didn't realize the map was posted before. My bad.Elyv posted:Wasn't Japan allied with the Entente in ww1, why do they get part of the US? Xenophobia. Also note Romania getting Jamaica. Senor Dog posted:Why doesn't Mexico get their poo poo back Zimmerman, you liar only in an Absolut world QuoProQuid fucked around with this message at 02:41 on Nov 28, 2018 |
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Nov 28, 2018 02:38
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Constantinople Junction are a really overlooked 90s rock band, people should check them out. Problem was they changed their name.
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Nov 28, 2018 12:43
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Whorelord posted:Constantinople Junction are a really overlooked 90s rock band, people should check them out. Problem was they changed their name. Why did Constantinople get the works? 
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TinTower posted:Why did Constantinople get the works? ...because the Ottomans had the "City of the World's Desire" mission?
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TinTower posted:Why did Constantinople get the works? "That's nobody's business but the Turks!"
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