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prefect posted:Hey, at least it's better than "I like beating up fascists so much!" I'm glad someone is thinking of the poor fascists.
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XMNN posted:
As an Englishman living in England in 2013 I can only say it's a pity they didn't wipe us all the gently caress out back then.
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Jul 12, 2013 21:38
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Protestantism possibly causes a lifestyle outlook that leads to diabetes. It's not impossible when you frame it logically. Considering the type of people who got kicked out of Europe and forced to flee to the Americas, religion probably is important when considering some of the ills of American history. Puritans, for example, were unforgivable scum and their legacy is still felt today.
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Jul 31, 2013 17:57
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HookShot posted:Well for one thing the countries of the Commonwealth Realm should be red, because Queen Elizabeth II is the head of state, and not just a figurehead (her representative in Australia, the Governor General, fired the Prime Minister back in the 70s). The "Commonwealth" generally refers to the "Commonwealth of Nations". Yeah but as stated whoever made this map was an idiot and red is actually "head of government". Which Queen Elizabeth II isn't. Of any country. Even the UK.
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Aug 14, 2013 18:51
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Fojar38 posted:Fair enough, but I think it's also grossly incorrect to say that the Soviets won WWII as if they soloed the Axis powers. Not only is that ignoring allied aid to the Soviet Union but it's also ignoring that it was only half the war; the other major Axis combatant (Japan) was subdued almost entirely by the US. It's cool seeing someone discovering that western history is mostly lies and bullshit that differs very little from propaganda. Soon the denial phase will pass.
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Oct 28, 2013 18:34
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3peat posted:Internet speeds! (from speedtest, so probably not completely accurate) If the UK is anything to go by this thing is kinda too simple to really illustrate the state of telecom infrastructure. In the UK you have the choice of either ADSL over old copper wiring, fiber in selected areas or Cable again in selected areas. Our cable companies have changed a few times and the current survivor gave up expansion and has basically said it will never ever expand coverage. Yes it failed to cover a tiny country like the UK. Broadband of any type has been horrifically slow expanding outside of cities and despite the small size of the country it seems companies just arbitrarily won't expand into areas labeled "rural". Rural in the UK is 10 feet outside a city limits or whenever you see the first sheep. If you do live in a fiber area then you have to hope that the last mile line is up to scratch. BT, the countries one line operator, hasn't upgraded the copper wiring........ ever. The fiber goes to the local green box but if the wire to your house, which will still be copper wiring from 1805, is hosed then you're screwed. The cable operator provides the best speeds but is known for their heavy handed traffic shaping. tl;dr The UK is bad at everything including the internet.
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Nov 24, 2013 18:38
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Shouldn't the UK be a lighter shade than that (har har)? At 1.9 is should be the second shade from the left. Also haha at Switzerland, new capital of rich white scum. Who would have thought it. Regarde Aduck fucked around with this message at 15:48 on Mar 4, 2014 |
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Mar 4, 2014 15:43
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Nyarlothotep posted:Right, and the head of state of Germany is the President, Joachim Gauck, not Merkel. It's also a pointless map nevermind politically loaded. If you're not going to point out the differences in power that "heads of state" have depending on the country then it's just misleading. The queen is the head of state of the UK but has no real power. This is obviously not the same as America where the head of state is the president. It's loving dumb and people love bringing it up because they can crow about how the queen still rules the UK oh how archaic.
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Apr 13, 2014 11:10
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Baloogan posted:Cluster bombs are awesome. I know you're a retarded GiP shitlord but can you at least agree they could maybe tighten up the reliability of them so they don't keep blowing up children 10 years after the conflict? Is that acceptable or is it something a socialist would say?
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Jun 5, 2014 13:24
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Ghetto Prince posted:Wow, the UK must really hate trees. Small Island, lots of people.
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Jul 8, 2014 22:46
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It's terrible being able to speak a language understood and accepted all over the world. The Celtic cultures just can't catch a break.
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Peanut President posted:I don't know about europe but the us south is definitely poverty. To give an idea about US healthcare, a dude from Cincinnati (not in the south but whatever) died from a toothache. That's not really due to poverty. That's just America's insistence that Healthcare isn't a basic right of civilization. An odd decision that haunts it to this day.
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Oct 26, 2014 22:49
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Nintendo Kid posted:a map of the plurality christian sect in each county: I wonder if there really are that many people of German ancestry or if it just seemed cooler than saying "British"?
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Feb 22, 2015 23:28
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The UK was hella more socialist and upbeat in 1990. Currently our glorious leaders are trying to privatise healthcare against the wishes of 99% of the population. See if you change the label 'communism' to 'authoritarianism' it's actually pretty accurate.
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Feb 26, 2015 04:30
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a pipe smoking dog posted:The comparison between Norway and the UK is a great example of how to succeed/fail at being a major oil producer. We use imported coal generally, not oil. I mean oil based plants exist but they're the exception. It's not like we're wasting all our oil revenue. We're just idiots who were slow on the renewable bandwagon. Scotland is actually doing a good job. The rest of the UK is relying on Wind Turbines that keep falling out of favor politically. Hydro is defiantly superior to Wind but we don't have the option to build hydro plants everywhere and Solar is obviously not really efficient. Besides all that the North Sea reserves are running out. Time to exploit those Falklands deposits and get Falkland war 2 going. Hope our ship point defense systems have improved.
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Mar 13, 2015 22:43
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Carbon dioxide posted:Well, for the Netherlands (where I'm from), it seems that some of the bad bits have been cut off and we got a piece from England in return. Is that part of England any good? In that case I wouldn't mind that trade. Sounds like an interesting country, with a bit of sea in the middle. No part of England is "good" outside of London. I don't mean this is a pro-London way. People that are lucky enough to live in a nice part of London think the situation is hilarious. We are a healthy prosperous nation.
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Mar 31, 2015 15:20
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computer parts posted:Point out that American football has much more scores per hour of game (either in game clock or actual) and you get a lot of crying about how that doesn't count. I think you'll find that's a cultural factor unique to America. No other country has the whole super competitive school sports stuff growing up and you being the HQ of capitalism and all that makes you reaaaallllly like winners. And the more you're scoring the MORE winning. Everyone else just cares about the final verdict. Which is why no one outside America really gets the whole obsession with soccer's low scores. Either the teams draw or someone wins. Who gives a gently caress about how much the win by?
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Apr 5, 2015 20:11
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Phlegmish posted:Was anyone denying the English access to the Germanic clubhouse? I thought that was fairly unambiguous. People that don't like "the English" tend to think Germans are "cool" because reasons. So to avoid cognitive dissonance "the English" cannot be Germanic. "THE ENGLISH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" are instead an evil race made up of bad anti-cool genes separate from both Germanic and Celtic cultures which are both cool. Please observe these simple rules while debating European ethnicity.
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Apr 18, 2015 23:25
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kalstrams posted:Looks like at least 2/3s to me, but what I take away from this map is that ISIL thinks they will convert Hindu to Islam? I think the plan is to just kill lots of people until only Islam remains.
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Aug 11, 2015 18:15
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Ras Het posted:This is such a stupid argument, particularly when what everyone is basically saying is that it's the idea of inherited power that is evil. Which it is. And Britain is a country of happy slaves who apparently do not really care that their royalty have been, among other things, nazis. So is this in bad faith or are you actually the last person in the world to still believe the British monarchy is anything but a dumb figurehead? Oh no I hope she doesn't use her power to dissolve government which would result in her having that one last theatrical tradition removed! And this is the UK. We may be slaves but we're certainly not happy.
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Sep 8, 2015 17:09
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DarkCrawler posted:Jesus gently caress. Are you one of those tedious people who likes warmth? I get tetchy when it goes over 21 C.
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Sep 22, 2015 15:36
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Think of it as trust rather than touching each others genitals for fun.
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Oct 29, 2015 22:58
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HookShot posted:Your capital probably also doesn't have 1000 years of on and off being at war with England. Boo loving Hoo.
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Nov 10, 2015 13:56
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Count Roland posted:Maps people, christ. Westerners not actually the biggest racist shock!? Turns out the entire world is poo poo plot twist no one saw coming!
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Nov 11, 2015 15:56
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freebooter posted:I know violating other countries' air spaces is a big no-no, but seventeen seconds? Jesus Christ, cool your jets Turkey. Just international waters I think. But the planes in question may have had nukes on board. We'd never actually shoot anyone down anyway because we're not actually able to fight a proper war. No planes on our one carrier, no maritime patrol aircraft, no money. We're hosed if someone actually started something.
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Nov 25, 2015 10:58
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sbaldrick posted:He's got to do something to stop the army from coup him. He already did. That system turned out to be piss poor. He just replaced/bribed the Generals. It's how he's got this far.
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the jizz taxi posted:Unrelated: Sweden sometimes reminds me of that butthurt kid who was never really one of the cool kids with an actual, indisputable empire and then became an overachieving adult with a beautiful house who keeps tut-tutting the neighbours when they don't do something the right way. Good for them?
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Aug 7, 2016 19:46
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A Buttery Pastry posted:The real linguistic crime is English-speakers pronouncing Copenhagen with a German accent, in the belief that this is the native pronunciation. By English speakers you mean Americans. Because only Americans would be cute and use German pronunciation apropos of nothing.
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Sep 13, 2016 11:53
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vintagepurple posted:"Americans are dumb" only really holds true when you make europeans and americans compete at euro geography/history. "But we euros sort of know where Florida is!" Yeah sorry our continent is more relavant these days 8) You know you could just admit that Americans ARE bad at geography and still be smug about your status as the only remaining superpower. You don't need to somehow spin this in the US's favour. Sorry we DO know where Florida is. Not sort of.
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So because Hollande was a fake socialist they're now going to vote a right winger in? That's very British of them. We also vote against our best interest if the party in power doesn't do what we expected.
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Nov 25, 2016 03:31
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fishmech posted:This one. Anyone doing the cot = caught thing near me is going to get mad shade.
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Jan 9, 2017 18:15
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There's that whole genocide thing going on, as in 'the forced movement of a people' and the erosion of basic living conditions. Most leftists don't like that.
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Mar 6, 2017 12:56
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Grand Fromage posted:Every British person I've ever met used Fahrenheit instead of Celsius in non-scientific contexts. Did you only talk to olds? No one under 40 uses Fahrenheit.
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Apr 24, 2017 19:53
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forkboy84 posted:There are no monolingual Welsh speakers. Stop this nonsense. I can also personally say "anti-English" sentiment is either made up nonsense or overblown. Everyone can speak English and no one under 70 is going to give a gently caress where you came from. The over 70's who speak primarily in welsh ARE weird as gently caress but that's because all over 70's are weird as gently caress.
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Oct 5, 2017 11:55
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fishmech posted:So, regular modern household insulation as used in America? Ah, we've done it. We've found the true American exceptionalism.
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Jul 28, 2018 17:58
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Darkest Auer posted:Ill-advised farming policies Dumbass tried to farm steel. You can't eat steel. The loving idiot! Can't believe that guy.
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Aug 21, 2018 20:43
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Guavanaut posted:Looking it up, English rabbit was bread soaked in wine and topped with melted cheese, Scotch rabbit was toast with butter and melted cheese, and Welsh rabbit was bread browned with a flatiron and topped with melted cheese and some mustard and sauce. Weatherspoons used to do a rarebit Burger here. Was right good it was. Then they got rid of all regional menu items. gently caress you weatherspoons you brexit shits.
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Nov 23, 2018 20:31
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Really? I have my doubts that people in most of the anglosphere have no deficiencies. Of course which specific deficiencies is the hard part. There's a mess of diets and I'd wager that a minority of them are balanced.
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Jedi Knight Luigi posted:I don’t understand why Germans are so against nuclear power when their country isn’t even located on a fault line? Because Russia and Germany got very close in the early 2000's. Figure it out. Didn't work out well but hey, Germans being dumb fucks is why the EU is constantly going off the rails.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:I parsed it as bath baahth barth
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