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Ocrassus posted:Jokes often have a grain (or an entire beaches worth) of truth to them. As long as you can keep providing American's with entertainment like Downton Abbey, Dr. Who, Graham Norton, Adele, and the Royal Family you'll be held with some regard. Most American's get a sense that England is a faded empire but have no understanding of chavs, council housing, etc. They know there's more to England than London and a bunch of old castles but you don't hear about it. To be honest, English press doesn't give a better impression either unless there's some human The world was watching this EU referendum and asking "what the gently caress are you doing?" Now you've woken up from your tantrum and are asking yourselves, 'what the gently caress have we done?' Unless you're a red state right winger, it really, really looks dumb and that's coming from a country that knows how crazy the gun/transgender bathroom laws/8 years of George Bush are. The best thing to do now is own it hard. Stick to the idea that the EU is an unfixable mess and that you're tired of bailing out irresponsible economies. As for the Special Relationship, it won't change but it might not have the same importance. England is our gateway to Europe. It's that place in the old world where you can understand the language people are speaking (somewhat). The bedrock of our culture comes from the English. Most importantly, Americans see themselves as the saviors of Europe in two world wars and there's a lot of smug satisfaction in that. The US and England (and those other people) beat back the Nazis and the Commies. If Scotland and N. Ireland leave then England's power wanes even further and the special relationship will turn to quaint relationship.
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Lichy posted:chavs are the best IMO True. At least they don't do that perpetual squatting thing.
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DreamShipWrecked posted:Did we even have a "special relationship" with Britain before this mess? It seems our view of Brits as Americans were just quaint, old, uppity dudes except with fancy attractive accents and lots of tea. The special relationship stopped as soon as that KENYAN Pres. Obama put Churchill's bust in storage.
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This is timely. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2016/07/01/naked-don-a-cambridge-academics-protest-against-brexit/
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Roylicious posted:Goddamn British Lollipop Lady sounded exciting and dirty but it seems like it's just a school crossing guard.
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It's the elephant in the room and I can't stand it any longer. What the gently caress is up with Boris Johnson's hair? Is he so austerity that he can't afford a comb? Has no one ever pulled him aside and told him about pomade? It's like Trump overly preened his hair and Boris took the exact opposite approach.
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As a non-UK citizen, is this plausible? "I've done my job, time to move on". Or is it true that the situation is so hosed up that principal parties involved do feel like they must step down or lose leadership votes? It's telling that the people who wanted to the Brexit don't want to influence the method of how it's done. Automatic Slim fucked around with this message at 10:40 on Jul 4, 2016 |
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SpaceGoatFarts posted:Populist leaders are incapable of governing. They can only exist to criticize and destroy. Good point. Lichy posted:would you have personally sacrificed your career on the altar of popular will if given the choice or would you have retired quietly and worked as a consultant with a much less tarnished reputation This move would indicate there's not much of a career left anyway so it's more of a face saving measure. I don't know. in spite of what SGF said, you'd think those starting the revolution would want to participate in its implementation. Automatic Slim fucked around with this message at 11:03 on Jul 4, 2016 |
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Jul 4, 2016 10:57
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You should email them and tell them about it.
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TheIllestVillain posted:
Are all British politicians as compliant when told to pose. Unless another close up angle was used, that looks ridiculous.
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Texit: good luck with that. The bloodiest war the US ever fought was against itself. Once you're in you're in and there's no getting out.
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ElGroucho posted:
Why does the queen carry a handbag? I thought royalty never carried around money or anything else. They have people that do it for them. Seriously, this woman has everything she needs at her beck and call and someone get to for her, what the hell?
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Zahgaegun posted:Yeah, you go tell a literal Queen she's doing it wrong. It isn't a question if right or wrong just why? Is there even anything in it? I bet it's empty. Unless I've been misinformed that royalty don't actually carry money.
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It was. It was about state's rights to deny others of their rights. It's still going on, but in state legislatures and federal appeals courts instead of battlefields.
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Frosted Flake posted:Haha well considering half the poo poo Diana got away with, is anyone surprised? Didn't some tabloid try to surreptitiously get some of Harry's dna and get a paternity test? Whatever happened with that?
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Solice Kirsk posted:Stairs? 
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