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There was a guy in my class at school who wanted to join the army at 16, but his mum refused to sign the papers. By the time he was 18 and able to sign himself he wasn’t interested any more. Think he’s a psychiatric nurse now.
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marktheando posted:There was a guy in my class at school who wanted to join the army at 16, but his mum refused to sign the papers. By the time he was 18 and able to sign himself he wasn’t interested any more. Think he’s a psychiatric nurse now. the system works
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nopantsjack posted:I assume only kids join? I remember army fellows trying to draft us when we were little and there'd always be the stupid kids who liked the idea and the odd just too-patriotic kid whose grown up reading RAF magasines or whatever. the concept of "natural enemies" is a fix perpetuated by the international arms producing bourgeoisie and braggarts who want power over people's lives.
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Dec 1, 2017 15:06
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jBrereton posted:*sighing* I actually still haven't forgiven the Danes They know what they did.
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nopantsjack posted:I actually still haven't forgiven the Danes Um I think you mean Belgians
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the brexit negotiater has decided to threaten to quit if the deputy PM is forced out of office for looking at dodgy porn on the job lol
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marktheando posted:There was a guy in my class at school who wanted to join the army at 16, but his mum refused to sign the papers. By the time he was 18 and able to sign himself he wasn’t interested any more. Think he’s a psychiatric nurse now. happy ending? sad ending? who knows
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marktheando posted:There was a guy in my class at school who wanted to join the army at 16, but his mum refused to sign the papers. By the time he was 18 and able to sign himself he wasn’t interested any more. Think he’s a psychiatric nurse now. the one guy i know who joined the army at 16 spent 4 years getting drunk around the world and now that he's left he does the exact same thing
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nopantsjack posted:I actually still haven't forgiven the Danes
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not forgiving the danes is similar to how i still haven't forgiven the uk for aiding the confederacy during the american civil war. "private individuals" my rear end. you built them loving ships.
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Mycroft Holmes posted:not forgiving the danes is similar to how i still haven't forgiven the uk for aiding the confederacy during the american civil war. "private individuals" my rear end. you built them loving ships. the French helped the Confederacy so they could prop up their ~Mexican Empire~, but the British state was basically pro US and kept trading with em and refused to recognise the independence of the CSA with a treaty (partly for domestic politics partly for the sake of Canada not getting invaded).
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jBrereton posted:one of the biggest god drat lies of fake history Yeah but British shipbuilders didn't see any reason not to get paid building blockade runners and commerce raiders for the traitor states, and even laid down a couple ironclads if memory serves (which I think later got sold to the Ottomans), all while the government bought the flimsiest goddamn excuses imaginable about what the ships were being built to do, and for whom. Captain_Maclaine has issued a correction as of 19:17 on Dec 1, 2017 |
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Whorelord posted:the one guy i know who joined the army at 16 spent 4 years getting drunk around the world and now that he's left he does the exact same thing Yeah the guy I know who did join up after uni seemed to spend all his time in her majesty’s army in a haze of drunken racism and homoeroticism. He’s an air traffic controller now.
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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/dec/01/ireland-will-have-final-say-on-progress-of-brexit-talks-says-eu Ireland gets the final say on the border. loving Hilarious.
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nopantsjack posted:Jermakin' me phwoaaaarbyn
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Captain_Maclaine posted:Yeah but British shipbuilders didn't see any reason not to get paid building blockade runners and commerce raiders for the traitor states, and even laid down a couple ironclads if memory serves (which I think later got sold to the Ottomans), all while the government bought the flimsiest goddamn excuses imaginable about what the ships were being built to do, and for whom. if i'm not wrong one or two had mostly british crews as well. edit: the CSS Alabama is the one i can find most reference to.
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Mycroft Holmes posted:if i'm not wrong one or two had mostly british crews as well. According to McPherson, many Confederate raiders from early-ish in the war had British crewmen, and at time officers, particularly when they were still acting as quasi-privateers and taking prizes (usually to be sold in British ports in the Caribbean), as that was a way to potentially make bank without too much risk as even if caught, the legal grey area meant they usually just got shipped back to British territory. Later, when the raiders switch to straight-up destruction on the high sea (for which the Alabama was famous) this becomes less common but British personnel never fully vanish from Confederate crew manifests.
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Merry Christmas!
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Mycroft Holmes posted:not forgiving the danes is similar to how i still haven't forgiven the uk for aiding the confederacy during the american civil war. "private individuals" my rear end. you built them loving ships. It was a bit of a mixed bag. Workers in Manchester refused to use confederate cotton despite it driving them out of work. Lincoln even wrote them a thank you letter.
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lol https://twitter.com/afp/status/936643934582984704
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Oh no guys, we might actually have to do some work as opposed to just getting the cameras down and writing some soundbites for the news.
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UrbicaMortis posted:Workers in Manchester refused to use confederate cotton despite it driving them out of work. Where, if I remember right, Friedrich Engels was working at his family's industrial firm at the time.
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I find it funny how everyone in the Brexit elite forgot the republic of Ireland is its own country and has a veto in the eu.
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Pound_Coin posted:https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/dec/01/ireland-will-have-final-say-on-progress-of-brexit-talks-says-eu Trillions of dollars and millions of livelihoods on the line and it all comes down to Ireland. lol lmao
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UrbicaMortis posted:I find it funny how everyone in the Brexit elite forgot the republic of Ireland is its own country and has a veto in the eu.
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Captain_Maclaine posted:Where, if I remember right, Friedrich Engels was working at his family's industrial firm at the time.
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Aw yeah go ireland! Twist the knife!
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jBrereton posted:one of the biggest god drat lies of fake history The whole thing was kind of convoluted. Britain (being something of a democracy) had pro-Confederate and pro-Union voices. The pro-Confederates wanted to take the US down a peg or three, and keep access to cheap cotton, while the pro-Unionists varied between anti-slavery and "oh poo poo, we're all going to starve to death if the US cuts off grain exports". Also Prussia and Russia basically said that if France and Britain war-decced the USA, it was open season on all the European minors while they weren't looking. At any rate, the British were able to introduce cotton to Egypt and India, at the minor price of destroying those country's ability to be self-sufficient in food, so they didn't end up needing Confederate cotton anyway.
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Jose posted:the press are really terrified of corbyn because he'll probably bring in some proper press regulation which we desperately need nationalize the daily fail and burn it
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british shipbuilders sold ships to the russian empire for fucks sakes, who were almost always adversarial with the british government
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Bulgogi Hoagie posted:british shipbuilders sold ships to the russian empire for fucks sakes, who were almost always adversarial with the british government 
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sullat posted:At any rate, the British were able to introduce cotton to Egypt and India, at the minor price of destroying those country's ability to be self-sufficient in food, so they didn't end up needing Confederate cotton anyway. Helped that there was a major glut on the world market in 1861 and British manufacturers had tons of unprocessed cotton in their warehouses that helped them through the initial period of Confederate boycott.
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Zeroisanumber posted:Trillions of dollars and millions of livelihoods on the line and it all comes down to Ireland. ireland will honestly probably do the sanest negotiating we're gonna see from the UK side
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nopantsjack posted:ireland will honestly probably do the sanest negotiating we're gonna see from the UK side
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jBrereton posted:(Ireland isn't in the UK) gently caress u
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nopantsjack posted:i agree trump will win anyway, i just think theres a good chance he spooks and does a war. yes wwii is a bad precedent
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