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Mr. Bung posted:Cornwall has beaches. As good as any. Though many would argue that Cornwall isn't 'England' Many is about 15 weird Cornish people who everyone ignores. The perception of British beaches being all pebbles probably comes from Brighton, the largest seaside destination in the UK, and also closest to London. Brighton is a fantastic city, but you go for the pier, the gay scene and nightlife and the weird independent shops, not sunbathing on the beach. Mega Comrade has a new favorite as of 12:19 on Feb 21, 2024 |
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Having slept on Brighton beach multiple times I can confirm it's weirdly soothing for a bunch of egg sized rocks.
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I will admit, Gibraltar has some nice enough beaches and weather. So does the Falklands. 
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Two very unproblematically British territories.
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At least the Falklands didn't have native inhabitants* when the British plopped down and decided to call them part of Britain. It might be the least problematic part of the British empire. *there were some French people there at the time but neither group was aware of the other and later The French abandoned it
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Bald Stalin posted:The EPA and researchers literally call it an inland sea and the US coastguard operates there Herman Melville in Moby Dick posted:those grand freshwater seas of ours,--Erie, and Ontario, and Huron, and Superior, and Michigan,--possess an ocean-like expansiveness, with many of the ocean's noblest traits...they know what shipwrecks are, for out of sight of land, however inland, they have drowned full many a midnight ship with all its shrieking crew.
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Gibraltar has been under British control for longer than America has been free of it. (Excepting the airport grounds, which are slightly younger.) British colonial history is awful, but Gibraltar and the Falklands are the worst examples to make that point.
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I'm not sure we hold any actually questionable land anymore, it's all either been given autonomy or given back. Maybe Northern Ireland? Now questionable items? We've got museums stacked full of the stuff. We've even still got stuff we stolen from close allies we refuse to give back like the Greek Parthenon statues.
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How Scotland joined with England to form Britain wasn't under duress so it's not really the same as Northern Ireland. And it's been given a vote to leave it didn't take (although I hope next time it does so I can move there). Wales was taken by force so you could include that I guess, but little support to leave. Mega Comrade has a new favorite as of 14:38 on Feb 21, 2024 |
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deoju posted:Some rear end in a top hat did similar poo poo in my town a few years ago and just got probation. Lol was gonna say. I remember reading either Madison or Milwaukee are the most segregated cities in America.
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Shageletic posted:Lol was gonna say. I remember reading either Madison or Milwaukee are the most segregated cities in America. chicago was definitely one for a long time too, thanks to redlining and the neighborhood system / chicago politics.
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Mega Comrade posted:I'm not sure we hold any actually questionable land anymore, it's all either been given autonomy or given back. Maybe Northern Ireland? Wellllllll... Then there's the Pitcairn Islands, but I think it's the locals (or at least a significant portion of the men) that are problematic.
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I want Scotland to leave just so we can see what happens with the Stone of Scone
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Mega Comrade posted:How Scotland joined with England to form Britain wasn't under duress so it's not really the same as Northern Ireland. And it's been given a vote to leave it didn't take (although I hope next time it does so I can move there). Yes, Scotland had the vote to get out. But evidence suggests that UK citizens as a whole are really terrible about voting when it comes to leaving organizations
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"The United Kingdom, at the request of the United States, began expelling the inhabitants of the Chagos Archipelago in 1968, concluding its forced deportations on 27 April 1973 with the expulsion of the remaining Chagossians on the Peros Banhos atoll." Ha ha ok then  Edit It was so the USA could slap down a military base. You guys sure do love your bases. Mega Comrade has a new favorite as of 16:35 on Feb 21, 2024 |
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please, you don't have to hand it to the british empire.
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LifeSunDeath posted:please, you don't have to hand it to the british empire. Right, that's the Belgians.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:https://i.imgur.com/O7WuDBY.mp4 Hyperlynx posted:Man, I really want to know what that guy's deal was https://www.mystateline.com/news/weird/wanted-illinois-man-seen-terrorizing-town-arrested-after-being-ran-over-by-golf-cart/ https://97x.com/golf-cart-guy-stops-moline-man-throwing-rocks-in-windows/
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“Maybe Northern Ireland…?” might be the funniest loving thing posted itt so far
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Baron von Eevl posted:At least the Falklands didn't have native inhabitants* when the British plopped down and decided to call them part of Britain. It might be the least problematic part of the British empire. As with everything the colonizers say, I'll take that with a grain of salt
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From what extremely limited knowledge I have of Moline that sounds about right.
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LifeSunDeath posted:please, you don't have to hand it to the british empire. Tewodros II of Ethiopia decided the best way to unify the ethiopian empire and protect them from foreign aggression and colonialism was to take a bunch of British people hostage and torture them, to get support from the British Empire. And indeed, as a direct consequence of his actions the empire was united under a strong king who stopped the civil wars, and fought off multiple foreign invasions, including from Italy, making them one of the only cases of an African nation decisively winning a war and throwing out the European colonizers. It worked perfectly*. *Except that the leaders doing all that stuff** weren't him, it was the people who inherited all the surplus military equipment and infrastructure the British brought and built to kick his rear end, then gave away rather than carting it back home through 400 miles of mountains. **Also they briefly got conquered by the Italians just before WWII fully kicked off, despite getting donations of military equipment from a different European nation***. ***Nazi Germany. Tunicate has a new favorite as of 17:46 on Feb 21, 2024 |
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LookieLoo posted:As with everything the colonizers say, I'll take that with a grain of salt The Argentinian claim is grandfathered in from the days of the Spanish empire, with Argentina itself being a colonising state. They only started complaining about the Falklands when their military dictatorship was running the country into the ground and wanted a good old war to distract from domestic issues. The islands never had any indigenous population and the islanders have repeatedly and overwhelmingly voted to remain British numerous times so I struggle to have any sympathy for the Argentinian claim. Obviously gently caress the British Empire for a million different things but this specific one ain't it.
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Butterfly Valley posted:The Argentinian claim is grandfathered in from the days of the Spanish empire, with Argentina itself being a colonising state. They only started complaining about the Falklands when their military dictatorship was running the country into the ground and wanted a good old war to distract from domestic issues. The islands never had any indigenous population and the islanders have repeatedly and overwhelmingly voted to remain British numerous times so I struggle to have any sympathy for the Argentinian claim. As I said, grain of salt. Hawaii has people people on it and that's in the rear end end of nowhere.
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LookieLoo posted:As I said, grain of salt. You might have missed that Hawaii is nice and the Falklands are a complete shithole*. Theres no evidence of indigenous people living the islands before the British then French then Spanish then British again settled on them. *a shithole that might have oil so it awaits liberation by the USA. Aramoro has a new favorite as of 19:19 on Feb 21, 2024 |
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LookieLoo posted:As I said, grain of salt. I wonder why people settled on tropical islands with abundant natural resources instead of treeless desolate windswept rocks near the Antarctic? Even when competing empires were laying claim to the Falklands and had vested military interests in controlling islands near Cape Horn they struggled to eke out any kind of existence, that's why it was abandoned a few times. Argentina's claim owes just as much to European colonialism as the UKs, neither has any moral high ground here except for the thousands of people who live there who unequivocally wish to remain British.
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Mega Comrade posted:Many is about 15 weird Cornish people who everyone ignores. The nightlife can also include drinking on the beach and fires though
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LookieLoo posted:As I said, grain of salt. If there is one thing historically you can count on the colonising nations for, it's bragging about subjecting the locals of places they invaded. The French, Spanish, Portuguese and British all came across it, shrugged, and left. The British only came back out of spite when Argentina officially tried to lay claim.
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Mega Comrade posted:The French, Spanish, Portuguese and British all came across it, shrugged, and left. What would you suggest instead, staying for breakfast? 
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Mr. Bung posted:Cornwall has beaches. As good as any. Though many would argue that Cornwall isn't 'England' 
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goddamn people in cornwall must have hooves the way that boot is shaped
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LifeSunDeath posted:goddamn people in cornwall must have hooves the way that boot is shaped It's all the lead and Arsenic poisoning.
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madmatt112 posted:“Maybe Northern Ireland…?” might be the funniest loving thing posted itt so far
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Baron von Eevl posted:Everyone's done that at some point, they do it down on Camber Sands, they do it at Waikiki. 
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Is Cornwall in any way “Mediterranean?”
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Scratch Monkey posted:Is Cornwall in any way “Mediterranean?” Basically yeah -Domestic terrorists -Vacation homes -Beaches
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