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Arsenic Lupin posted:The gently caress they did. The king of Scotland inherited the English throne on account of the English having run out of Tudors. For awhile there the two countries were in a "personal union" meaning that the same guy was King of both. They didn't officially become the same country until after a war of succession in Scotland. At no point did Scotland say "yay let's be English now". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Union#Background says: quote:Beginning in 1698, the Company of Scotland sponsored the Darien scheme, an ill-fated attempt to establish a Scottish trading colony in the Isthmus of Panama, collecting from Scots investments equal to one-quarter of all the money circulating in Scotland at the time. In the face of opposition by English commercial interests, the Company of Scotland also raised subscriptions in Amsterdam, Hamburg, and London for its scheme. For his part, King William III of England and II of Scotland had given only lukewarm support to the Scottish colonial endeavour. England was at war with France, and hence did not want to offend Spain, which claimed the territory as part of New Granada. So yes, Scotland needed money and agreed to unite its kingdom with England's to form the UK. I never said it was popular, or that they became English!
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Pretty sure William Wallace died and England took over because of it. I've seen the movie about it and everything. Also some guys named Robert and Bruce may have been involved. Glad this American could clear that up for y'all brits.
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Yngwie Mangosteen posted:Pretty sure William Wallace died and England took over because of it. I've seen the movie about it and everything. Also some guys named Robert and Bruce may have been involved. Get a brain, moran. Everyone knows William Wallace was Australian.
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If you like some serious violence and a vague association with Scottish history, I highly recommend The Outlaw King, which I think is on Netflix.
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Yngwie Mangosteen posted:Pretty sure William Wallace died and England took over because of it. I've seen the movie about it and everything. Also some guys named Robert and Bruce may have been involved. They really don't know anything about english history
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Air Skwirl posted:They're literally different countries. It's kinda like saying Canadians are just another version of Americans. I legit cannot tell Canadians and USAnians apart.
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OwlFancier posted:I legit cannot tell Canadians and USAnians apart. Air Skwirl has a new favorite as of 08:37 on May 16, 2024 |
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USAnian ma ballz lmao
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OwlFancier posted:USAnian ma ballz lmao If you want my comeback you can scrape it off your mother's teeth.
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OwlFancier posted:USAnian ma ballz lmao freedom deez nuts
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Tree Bucket posted:Get a brain, moran. Everyone knows William Wallace was Australian. He's a kiwi actually but we claimed him OwlFancier posted:I legit cannot tell Canadians and USAnians apart. I can do ok with the accents I recognize but anyone from the midwest or New York state (outside the city) definitely is indistinguishable to me. It doesn't help that Canadians are slightly ruder than the stereotype and Americans are slightly nicer but I think that's just a tourist thing Jezza of OZPOS has a new favorite as of 09:22 on May 16, 2024 |
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Air Skwirl posted:What the gently caress is a USAnian?
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grittyreboot posted:https://twitter.com/romaniangothic/status/1790817256030527566?t=aKO1WnShidjxJIWoKfbMXQ&s=19 I just glanced at the picture and thought it was Jared Leto, and the text still made perfect sense.
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evobatman posted:I just glanced at the picture and thought it was Jared Leto, and the text still made perfect sense. That's who I thought it was until you posted this.
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He gets that a lot. That's why he constantly says "My name is Alan Wake, I'm a writer."
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Arsenic Lupin posted:The gently caress they did. The king of Scotland inherited the English throne on account of the English having run out of Tudors. For awhile there the two countries were in a "personal union" meaning that the same guy was King of both. They didn't officially become the same country until after a war of succession in Scotland. At no point did Scotland say "yay let's be English now". Actually we did. We tried to do colonialism but did it so badly we almost bankrupted the entire country. That coupled with trade pressure from England about access to the English Channel meant we signed up to join with England and make the UK.
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Yngwie Mangosteen posted:Pretty sure William Wallace died and England took over because of it. I've seen the movie about it and everything. Also some guys named Robert and Bruce may have been involved. I think something people miss, even people in Scotland, it's how much time passed between these time periods. The articles of union were 1707, William Wallace died in 1305, Robert the Bruce 1329. Union of the Crowns was 1603 but we were still 2 different countries. We were heavily influenced by England and thier cultural imperialism, but our failings are our failings.
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Benagain posted:Wait I thought scots was just another version of English are they different? absolutely masterful work here, bravo 
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Tree Bucket posted:Get a brain, moran. Everyone knows William Wallace was Australian. Mel Gibson's family moved to Australia when he was 12. He was born in America.
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muscles like this! posted:Mel Gibson's family moved to Australia when he was 12. He was born in America. Gross.
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Air Skwirl posted:If you like some serious violence and a vague association with Scottish history, I highly recommend The Outlaw King, which I think is on Netflix. That the one with Captain Kirk or the one with the original Braveheart Bruce in a cave watching spiders? Cause I liked the Captain Kirk one
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zoux posted:OK what's the deal here very short version is it's a livestock showing competition and part of the expectation is that the kids also give some eye contact to the judges as part of the show. last year some kid got dinged for not enough eye contact and everyone thought it was bullshit, so this year the kids made absolutely sure there was enough eye contact
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`Nemesis posted:very short version is it's a livestock showing competition and part of the expectation is that the kids also give some eye contact to the judges as part of the show. last year some kid got dinged for not enough eye contact and everyone thought it was bullshit, so this year the kids made absolutely sure there was enough eye contact lmao. Is it the same judge this year or is some different guy getting mad dogged for no reason
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Hyperlynx posted:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Union#Background says: The circumstances leading up to Scotland joining with England in the 1706-1707 Acts of Union are such a fascinating mess. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darien_scheme The settlers were completely unprepared for the difficulties of tropical habitation, or the political realities of trying to claim territory deep in the Spanish Empire's turf. Due to a staggeringly high mortality rate due to illness, food spoilage, and their own ship crews stealing supplies meant for the settlers, the colony of New Edinburgh was abandoned. However, the entire time, the settlers had agreed to keep mum about their difficulties and in their letters home, the colony seemingly collectively decided to pretend everything was going fine. Thanks to the settlers falsely optimistic reports home, Scotland sent two resupply expeditions to the abandoned colony. The first was nearly as doomed as the colony itself, the second was sent because word from the survivors of the first hadn't arrived in time for them to realize sending a second trip would've been a waste of time, money, and lives. And when they got there, found the ruins of both the colony and one of the wrecks from the first expedition, they wrangled the survivors of the first expedition and attempted to rebuild the entire drat colony. They were almost immediately beset by the same issues with illness, coupled with plummeting morale among the new settlers who had quickly realized the entire colony scheme was already a failure and feared that they would die miserably like the first colony. This would have ended with as many deaths as the original settlement of New Edinburgh had the Spanish Empire not sailed in, besieged them, and offered them terms of surrender and safe conduct home in exchange for never attempting to contest Spanish claims in the Americas again. The Spanish kicking their asses out of Panama was pretty much the only reason as many Scots survived the attempt as they did. Nobody in Scotland was happy about joining with England but, frankly, their whole drat country was broke as hell after all of that. There were other factors too but a number of historians agree that this was the big one.
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So wait Alan wake is Scottish, which is actually English because the Scottish needed money and sold him to England. And then they gave the US Nixon.
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The Remedy shared universe is getting too complicated!
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Hard to believe a gaggle of finns travelled back in time to bankrupt Scotland in the past in order to pave the way for hit videogame Alan Wake, but this is the reality we live in.
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`Nemesis posted:very short version is it's a livestock showing competition and part of the expectation is that the kids also give some eye contact to the judges as part of the show. last year some kid got dinged for not enough eye contact and everyone thought it was bullshit, so this year the kids made absolutely sure there was enough eye contact Ha ha ha ha this fuckin owns, I like those kids. I just got diagnosed with autism and one of the assessors comments about me was "Henry doesn't maintain eye contact or maintains eye contact for an uncomfortable amount of time" so this resonates with me.
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https://x.com/Hbomberguy/status/1790877796350435627 https://twitter.com/moraffreports/status/1790512389688815890 https://x.com/SparrowLucero/status/1790957762803060770 https://x.com/vinn_ayy/status/1790788049888334253 LASER BEAM DREAM has a new favorite as of 16:35 on May 16, 2024 |
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Biplane posted:Hard to believe a gaggle of finns travelled back in time to bankrupt Scotland in the past in order to pave the way for hit videogame Alan Wake, but this is the reality we live in. The full fallout of the finno-korean hyper war is impossible to fathom
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Can you imagine sitting at an intersection and you accidentally make eye contact with the driver next to you as they slowly raise and sip from a can of cream of mushroom?
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