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You're British. Hey you brought up the part of Britain thing . Last I saw Lime, er English still has Scotland "voluntarily" as part of GB.
Yaaa Cann Tek Ouwereerll Livess But Yu'll nevourer Take Our FrreeDUM!

Aye, well, it was their frigid Queen that didn't sprog you know! (Queen Elizabeth)

Did you know, that in the UK, our Post Boxes have the name of the Monarch at the time of their installation on them? The Scots objected so much to ERII on them, that several were blown up. Why?

Queen Elizabeth is NOT the second Queen Elizabeth of Great Britain, only of England and Wales. When King James VI of Scotland took the English throne, he was called James I. Odd that!

Thats why we left, we couldn't figure out the "King Bob of this" and "Queen Strudel of that" and just said that we're outta here.

That and we didn't want your Puritan nonsense any longer. Should have seen the Parties we had when you all sailed away....

The rest of you were common criminals sent on the Hulks! Dirty, dirty criminals.

Exactly-Soccer Hooligans of the 1770s. Then all the good people ended up being Transported to Australia. Oh well.

Hardly Football (for that is it's name) Hooligans matey.

More petty thieves and mentalists. We didn't want them.

Like I said. The best people kicked out to Amurika then Austaraliaah.

The Irish invented Scotland.
HA!

On topic: Those pirates are getting a bit more publicity these days. Wonder how long it will be until there's a major tragedy involving them?

No, no they didn't.

There was an indigenous population here before the Irish arrived.

And please, don't call us Celts. That term first appeared in a New Age manual back in the 1700's.....Never cropped up before. The Romans always referred to the native population as Britanni.

Did I call you celts?
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Huh, don't think I did.
The celts were real, a unified celtic culture with swirly patterns and enlightened bards is a fiction. The celts were in france, it's dubious as to whether they were in the isles as much as is popularised.
Who cares what the romans called anyone?

Of course there was an indigenous population, but a lot of the population are descended from people who trekked over from ireland.

Frazzled wrote:Exactly-Soccer Hooligans of the 1770s. Then all the good people ended up being Transported to Australia. Oh well.

With hindsight it would have made more sense to keep the criminals here and for everyone else to move.

And we can't take all the credit for America, many mainland European communists, anarchists and other "undesirables" fled there too. Whole country is built on a fine tradition of draft dodging and similar !

Da Boss wrote:Did I call you celts?
I'm looking...
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Huh, don't think I did.
The celts were real, a unified celtic culture with swirly patterns and enlightened bards is a fiction. The celts were in france, it's dubious as to whether they were in the isles as much as is popularised.
Who cares what the romans called anyone?

Of course there was an indigenous population, but a lot of the population are descended from people who trekked over from ireland.

Didn't say you did, though I see where my post was misleading. It was in case anyone else labelled us with the misnomer.

Like yourself, I'm touchy about it. We get at least as much of that bollocks as ye do.

Damn 18th century aristocrats and their romanticising the past.
Celts didn't even call themselves celts, same way the irish never called ireland a country until it was conquered. It was 5 different countries all at war with each other up until then.

Canaan wrote:The French won something?

It did take 100 years.

True that.

This thread is awesome

One would think that the increasing pirate activity should trigger some sort of Ninja invasion.

Also: how does a Zombiepocalypse work on the ocean?

Well the zombies just pile up on the bottom of the ocean until the top of the pile reaches nearby shipping. Fortunately we have the new AR-15 chainsaw launchers in case of that contingency/chainsaw Bear. Plus Jaws has proven impervious to Zombie attack.

you sure about that...

Pirate ninja zombies.

1st dibs on Yamato and Musashi when they rise from the oceans to prey on the cruiser lines.

M.

Remember when the Iranian blow-up rafts captured all those British sailors? The Royal Navy better stay the hell away from Somalia.