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silvergoose
Mar 18, 2006

IT IS SAID THE TEARS OF THE BWEENIX CAN HEAL ALL WOUNDS




at least only connect kept airing

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gonadic io
Feb 16, 2011

>>=
https://twitter.com/amankayamhai_/status/1572050291612323840

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

Die Satan!
Nature is healing, and Britain's da's are making huge strides on tiktok.

https://twitter.com/jules_su/status/1572052999551488000?t=COePatdELrGtMYl3otqmbQ

genericnick
Dec 26, 2012


Nation of sixty million traitors.

Gripweed
Nov 8, 2018
Women are wonderful animals, they should be making music and writing novels about having a complex relationship with your mother.
If the Queen had died just a few weeks earlier, you could've had the queue during a record-breaking heat wave

Microplastics
Jul 6, 2007

:discourse:
It's what's for dinner.

Gripweed posted:

If the Queen had died just a few weeks earlier, you could've had the queue during a record-breaking heat wave

The country would be majority republican after day 2 of the lying in state

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008


taking the focus and getting the “recolonization” CB isn’t going to help if you don’t have a navy

Biplane
Jul 18, 2005

Lolling at the demented old pedophiles wanting their empire back. The whole world hates you and wants you dead! You have no influence outside your swamp island! How???

John Charity Spring
Nov 4, 2009

SCREEEEE

Biplane posted:

Lolling at the demented old pedophiles wanting their empire back. The whole world hates you and wants you dead! You have no influence outside your swamp island! How???

these seem to be Australians or something saying it, even

Gripweed
Nov 8, 2018
Women are wonderful animals, they should be making music and writing novels about having a complex relationship with your mother.

Biplane posted:

Lolling at the demented old pedophiles wanting their empire back. The whole world hates you and wants you dead! You have no influence outside your swamp island! How???

Have they even asked America for permission?

Oglethorpe
Aug 8, 2005
Avatar blanked by Admin request.
e:nvm

nawilo_420
Nov 24, 2021
Probation
Can't post for 5 days!

what the actual gently caress?

the white hand
Nov 12, 2016

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
desperate to place myself under the authority of king fatfingers and his plaintive squeals

gonadic io
Feb 16, 2011

>>=
The EDF energy page has updated now btw
https://www.edfenergy.com/energy/power-station/daily-statuses

projecthalaxy
Dec 27, 2008

Yes hello it is I Kurt's Secret Son


Charles III, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of His other Realms and Territories King, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith, Haver of Weird Fingers, Fearer of Cling Film

Mr Hootington
Jul 24, 2008

I'M HAVING A HOOT EATING CORNETTE THE LONG WAY
Congratulations to the uk bankers. Truss is your girl

A Buttery Pastry
Sep 4, 2011

Delicious and Informative!
:3:

Gripweed posted:

If the Queen had died just a few weeks earlier, you could've had the queue during a record-breaking heat wave
too late to die of hyperthermia, to early to die of hypothermia

bawk
Mar 31, 2013

A Buttery Pastry posted:

too late to die of hyperthermia, to early to die of hypothermia

just in time to poo poo in a bag

Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!


its funny you always see them going "but we teach that the empire is bad!" but i was never taught a single thing about the british empire and just sorta absorbed ambiently that it was a good thing.

the whole thing of "the countries that we colonised were left in a terrible state by the time we left, therefore it was good" is just plain stupid though. its like "look at the state of this person AFTER i kicked the poo poo out of them, it wasn't like this when I began kicking the poo poo out of them I can tell you!"

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

Communist Thoughts posted:

its funny you always see them going "but we teach that the empire is bad!" but i was never taught a single thing about the british empire and just sorta absorbed ambiently that it was a good thing.

the whole thing of "the countries that we colonised were left in a terrible state by the time we left, therefore it was good" is just plain stupid though. its like "look at the state of this person AFTER i kicked the poo poo out of them, it wasn't like this when I began kicking the poo poo out of them I can tell you!"

Part of it was that they created countries in the first place. Eg India/Pakistan

Jaeluni Asjil
Apr 18, 2018

Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!
At school in the 60s/70s* I don't recall specifically being taught about the British Empire, I do remember colouring in maps in junior school with lots of pink.
I guess most of us left school with a vague impression that the British Empire was A Good Thing bringing peace and harmony, bureaucracy and some darn good railways to the uncivilized.

I do recall a debate at school (but not what it was about) where one of the 6th form boys started talking about Parnell / Irish nationalism which was news to me!

It's not until you find out things such as the Union Flag was known as The Butcher's Apron (which I found out when I attended a Socialist Workers meeting at uni) and want to know why our benign occupation was viewed in that way, and when you meet people from other lands who were under the Empirical Boot etc that you start to get a different view.

I can't understand why the Right are so reluctant to have details of our history of occupation displayed in, for example, National Trust properties. I would have thought they would have been proud of the murder and mayhem committed in the name of Empire.


*just 2/3 terrestrial TV channels depending where you lived, no satellite tv, no internet, no blogs, a handful of establishment-promoting newspapers (except for Morning Star) so little to get an alternative viewpoint.

the white hand
Nov 12, 2016

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
so wait were the queue memes actually covering up that more people went to the british grand prix weekend than to see the dead queen

Lostconfused
Oct 1, 2008


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kt3G4jp2wis

samcarsten
Sep 13, 2022

by vyelkin
https://arethebritsatitagain.org/

genericnick
Dec 26, 2012


Lmao

Wraith of J.O.I.
Jan 25, 2012


[guy who hasn't been paying attention to the news at all] what???? all the brits are into Q now??

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005


[chhhk] yeaahh that's the stuff

Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!


Jaeluni Asjil posted:

At school in the 60s/70s* I don't recall specifically being taught about the British Empire, I do remember colouring in maps in junior school with lots of pink.
I guess most of us left school with a vague impression that the British Empire was A Good Thing bringing peace and harmony, bureaucracy and some darn good railways to the uncivilized.

I do recall a debate at school (but not what it was about) where one of the 6th form boys started talking about Parnell / Irish nationalism which was news to me!


My similar experience to this was growing up hearing about the IRA and irish terrorism but never understanding why it was happening, then happening to flip forward in our history textbook and see a photo of british tanks rolling through irish towns and going "oh right, that explains a lot then".
There had never been any hint we'd done that in any media or schoolwork i'd been exposed to

90s Cringe Rock
Nov 29, 2006
:gay:

Communist Thoughts posted:

My similar experience to this was growing up hearing about the IRA and irish terrorism but never understanding why it was happening, then happening to flip forward in our history textbook and see a photo of british tanks rolling through irish towns and going "oh right, that explains a lot then".
There had never been any hint we'd done that in any media or schoolwork i'd been exposed to
a lot of stuff's in the textbook, but you never actually do that part of it.

gonadic io
Feb 16, 2011

>>=
this is one of the (unintentionally) funniest news articles I've ever read
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/20/ivana-trump-grave-classified-documents-conspiracy-theories

Maya Fey
Jan 22, 2017



#digherup

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

i wish uk media wouldn't use us liberal/left terminology

Tarnop
Nov 25, 2013

Pull me out

i say swears online posted:

i wish uk media wouldn't

Palladium
May 8, 2012

Very Good
✔️✔️✔️✔️

Tarnop posted:

i wish uk wouldn't

Jose Mengelez
Sep 11, 2001

by Azathoth

i say swears online posted:

i wish uk media wouldn't use us liberal/left terminology

to grauniad readers liberalism is the left. hth

Gato
Feb 1, 2012

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

At school in the 60s/70s* I don't recall specifically being taught about the British Empire, I do remember colouring in maps in junior school with lots of pink.
I guess most of us left school with a vague impression that the British Empire was A Good Thing bringing peace and harmony, bureaucracy and some darn good railways to the uncivilized.

I do recall a debate at school (but not what it was about) where one of the 6th form boys started talking about Parnell / Irish nationalism which was news to me!

It's not until you find out things such as the Union Flag was known as The Butcher's Apron (which I found out when I attended a Socialist Workers meeting at uni) and want to know why our benign occupation was viewed in that way, and when you meet people from other lands who were under the Empirical Boot etc that you start to get a different view.

I can't understand why the Right are so reluctant to have details of our history of occupation displayed in, for example, National Trust properties. I would have thought they would have been proud of the murder and mayhem committed in the name of Empire.


*just 2/3 terrestrial TV channels depending where you lived, no satellite tv, no internet, no blogs, a handful of establishment-promoting newspapers (except for Morning Star) so little to get an alternative viewpoint.

it's not got much better. my only official exposure to the idea the Empire might not be bad was from doing Irish history (1798-1921) at A-level just over 10 years ago, which 99% of schoolchildren won't have touched. the previous year I'd done a module specifically on British politics 1901-1951 (which was otherwise really good) and the Empire almost never came up. for most people my age the entire period from 1700-1918 is basically a black box apart from some of the names of the kings (lots of Georges!), the Suffragettes and maybe the Great Reform Act.

Jose Mengelez
Sep 11, 2001

by Azathoth

0 days since the last act of perfidy.

kecske
Feb 28, 2011

it's round, like always

Palladium posted:

i wouldn't

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold
lmao skynews has a tracker of how well the pound is doing against the dollar under truss


you island morons actually think sterling is coming back as global currency dont you ahahaha

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i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

Raskolnikov38 posted:

lmao skynews has a tracker of how well the pound is doing against the dollar under truss


you island morons actually think sterling is coming back as global currency dont you ahahaha

a new multipolar world surely means the uk will have a seat at the ta- hahaha

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