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My word, those are some gorgeous girls.

Do you have their numbers?

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Meh we had to cut the chaff to keep the empire,

It worked out pretty well.

We screwed up badly in some places like Iraq, the Gulf, Palestine and Kashmir, but we managed to establish a lot of fairly stable nations around the world which we are still friends with.

Zimbabwe is giving cause for concern, of course, and Burma is a tip.

India's going well, a large number have popped over for tea

I rather like the Brits! The only real pity is their proximity to the European continent. As soon as America figures out a way to move islands, you're second on the list after Hawaii.

We'll put California over there to balance it out.

I love Jenson Button, I love Jeremy Clarkson, I love Faulty Towers, I love Brands Hatch (been there twice) I love Iron Maiden.....and yes I am American. We celebrate the 4th by eating hot dogs and watching fireworks.....guess we could do that almost any day though.

You greater world powers just enjoy your days of celebration, for they shall come to a gruesome end when the Great Australian Death Korps conquers your pitiful countries.

You know, technically, we could reinstate the British Empire any time. All we have to do is get Parliament to dissolve the Commonwealth, and put the Empire back in place, and that gives us Canada and Australia again. Remember, their Parliaments and law courts are all technically subservient to ours.

Ketara wrote:You know, technically, we could reinstate the British Empire any time. All we have to do is get Parliament to dissolve the Commonwealth, and put the Empire back in place, and that gives us Canada and Australia again. Remember, their Parliaments and law courts are all technically subservient to ours.

Result after this happens = World () "Oh NO! Not Canada and the Outback steak house."

"Note"

We'll see who's laughing once THIS appears! (the red is the British Empire)



Y'know I'm all for making something of the Commonwealth. I'd rather be having good relations with Canada and Australia than the EU. We have far more in common. I've always rather liked the Canadians and Australians. I've got on well with all the ones I've met. We have a certain common heritage that means we're a lot alike.

Cheese Elemental wrote:You greater world powers just enjoy your days of celebration, for they shall come to a gruesome end when the Great Australian Death Korps conquers your pitiful countries.

Sponsored by England of course. And people over here wondered where their taxes were going.

Wrexasaur wrote:

Ketara wrote:You know, technically, we could reinstate the British Empire any time. All we have to do is get Parliament to dissolve the Commonwealth, and put the Empire back in place, and that gives us Canada and Australia again. Remember, their Parliaments and law courts are all technically subservient to ours.

Result after this happens = World () "Oh NO! Not Canada and the Outback steak house."

"Note"

Leave us out of this, please, Canada just celebrated our birthday, and we're still a bit too hungover to get involved in any fights at the moment.

Carry on.

Ketara wrote:

All your oil are belong to us!

You are on the way to destruction. You have no chance to survive, make your time.

Ketara wrote:We'll see who's laughing once THIS appears! (the red is the British Empire)



Y'know I'm all for making something of the Commonwealth. I'd rather be having good relations with Canada and Australia than the EU. We have far more in common. I've always rather liked the Canadians and Australians. I've got on well with all the ones I've met. We have a certain common heritage that means we're a lot alike.

Cheese Elemental wrote:You greater world powers just enjoy your days of celebration, for they shall come to a gruesome end when the Great Australian Death Korps conquers your pitiful countries.

Sponsored by England of course. And people over here wondered where their taxes were going.

Ah, but think about those areas. We control about 50% of the world's minable uranium, and many other resources.
Like oil.

Also, take note of where the little tiny islands are. Major trade routes, aren't they? Can't use the suez canal without passing gibraltar, or access europe without going past britain. Or take your damn huge carriers around the horn without passing the falklands. Australia also blocks japan, with india blocking off the indian ocean.

That map also doesen't include the parts of africa that are still commonwealth, or india and pakistan.

All for a English Speaking Hegemony, say Aye?


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Marshal2Crusaders wrote:All for an English Speaking Hegemony, say Aye?

I kind of get embarresed when us British try and argue we are still a great power, i mean granted economically we do rather well for ourselves but that is only cause we keep borrowing money from everyone who has some spare change. Pretty sure we are going to see civil servents all over london soon begging for pennies...

I mean we are talking about our little islands blocking shipping, and what are we going to do that with? the two aircraft carriers we have now decided we cannot afford to build? i mean i dont see America quaking in there boots because nigel is off the coast of the falklands in a rowing boat.

I mean with our completely over strecthed army about all we could muster is making sure we had a soldier about to iron the white flag before we pulled it up the pole.

I love my country though, but i think our days of empire have faded, well unless like i said we forgive america and let her back in.

Besides after going down under to Oz not entirely sure i would want them back. Its better we just keep it as a place we send posh teenagers on years out and as a stop of point for sex tourists.

Though whenever an American does talk about kicking our ass back them i feel the need to mention... 1812

Salad_Fingers wrote:

Though whenever an American does talk about kicking our ass back them i feel the need to mention... 1812

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5gtLF3IWhU&feature=related

That was a funny song.

As a War Studies student, I know all too well what a pathetic condition our armed forces are in. But that's mainly due to approximately 4/5ths of the country BEING civil servant these days(an exaggeration, to be sure, but not as much of one as you'd think).

British soldiers are still some of the best in the world, mainly because we're complete and utter bastards. But there just aren't enough, and what ones there are are dreadfully underfunded. Then again, that's typical of any Labour government, when the Tories get back in, they'll set the military to straights again.

there is less than one royal marine for every world in the imperiam, but it is enough....

Well, I will say this; I had the opportunity to train with many different European soldiers (and even Canadian soldiers) and out of all of them, The British were bastards. Sure, they were professional and hard but they would also fight (fist fight) at the drop of a hat for almost no reason. Of course this is only in my experience but it was over the course of four years with different units. They had a reputation of fighting and they never disappointed. Of course this was the late 80s early 90s. I don't know if that's changed.

GoFenris wrote:Well, I will say this; I had the opportunity to train with many different European soldiers (and even Canadian soldiers) and out of all of them, The British were bastards. Sure, they were professional and hard but they would also fight (fist fight) at the drop of a hat for almost no reason. Of course this is only in my experience but it was over the course of four years with different units. They had a reputation of fighting and they never disappointed. Of course this was the late 80s early 90s. I don't know if that's changed.

I think you will find that Wellington's opinion on the British squaddie still stands, and that's backed up by guys I know who are ex squaddies themselves. The thing with our boys is they do stuff up close and personel. Storming fortresses in Spain & Portugal, over the top in WWI, storming mountains in the Falklands and now Helmond.

Our guys use the bayonet for what it was invented for . Was talking about this my mate the other day who was Commando trained artillery spotter and served with in the 1st Iraq war. He says that the US troops couldn't believe it, when him and his mates charged into a hamlet to clear it out, they just wanted to sit back and call in air support, didn't want anything to do with getting in close.

British lads will fight you or take the p** out of you in the descending order:

You're not British,
You're from one of the Union countries,
You're from a different county,
You're from a different town,
You're from a different village,
You're from a different pub,
... and finally, "you looking at my bird?"

If you're in the forces you have the bonus of being able to lump foreign troops and have the top brass turn a blind eye to it

Skorpion wrote:Ah, but think about those areas. We control about 50% of the world's minable uranium, and many other resources.
Like oil.

We have the middle east! No one wants your tar sands. Plus, we have coal.

Also, take note of where the little tiny islands are. Major trade routes, aren't they? Can't use the suez canal without passing gibraltar, or access europe without going past britain. Or take your damn huge carriers around the horn without passing the falklands. Australia also blocks japan, with india blocking off the indian ocean.

Can't use the Suez canal without going through the middle east either. Or the Panama canal without going through central America. And your little islands are going to stop our ships? We'll just blow them up, they're like a square mile each.

How does Australia block Japan? Are trying to reach it from the south or something? And you don't own India! China does.

That map also doesen't include the parts of africa that are still commonwealth, or india and pakistan.

That's because we and China took them over. And Africa is a sovereign continent now, apparently.

TL;DR: Our imaginary empire can beat up your imaginary empire. I don't know about this new Chinindussia thing though, I'd be scared of them. They have, what, half the world's population? A quarter of it's nuclear arsenal? A third? We might have to ally up again.

Platuan4th wrote:

warpcrafter wrote:What about pizza? The pizza that Americans eat is about as Italian as tacos. But where would college students be without it?

And the Chinese Americans eat is about as Chinese as noodles.

Oh, wait...

yeah the chinese is about as close to china as the moon is to being close to Pluto.

Salad_Fingers wrote:I think the important thing to remember is that one day we might just feel like we can forgive America, and when that days comes we might just let you all back into the empire.

What empire? Spain can have Texas back, when pry this plate of fajitas from my cold dead hands!

Libertie! Enchiladie! Margaritie!

Britain was just the first empire we had have a discussion with....Spain, France, Russia, and of course the Mongol like Empire that was Liechtenstein.


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Orkeosaurus wrote:We'll put California over there to balance it out.

Agreed but third on the list. Tahiti is second. A man has to have priorities.


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Ketara wrote:You know, technically, we could reinstate the British Empire any time. All we have to do is get Parliament to dissolve the Commonwealth, and put the Empire back in place, and that gives us Canada and Australia again. Remember, their Parliaments and law courts are all technically subservient to ours.

I think they might disagree. Canada is one hockey riot away from world domination, and Australia is the only place Texans think are crazier then we are.

Always considered moving to the UK and becoming a citizen should anything with the misses go south.

I did always find it funny how Americans got offended when a foreigner didn't know the significance of the 4th of July, but ask that same American about the said foreigners holiday, and they wont know a dang thing. But to be fair, stupidity is a global epidemic.

Orkeosaurus wrote:

Skorpion wrote:Ah, but think about those areas. We control about 50% of the world's minable uranium, and many other resources.
Like oil.

We have the middle east! No one wants your tar sands. Plus, we have coal.

Also, take note of where the little tiny islands are. Major trade routes, aren't they? Can't use the suez canal without passing gibraltar, or access europe without going past britain. Or take your damn huge carriers around the horn without passing the falklands. Australia also blocks japan, with india blocking off the indian ocean.

Can't use the Suez canal without going through the middle east either. Or the Panama canal without going through central America. And your little islands are going to stop our ships? We'll just blow them up, they're like a square mile each.

How does Australia block Japan? Are trying to reach it from the south or something? And you don't own India! China does.

That map also doesen't include the parts of africa that are still commonwealth, or india and pakistan.

That's because we and China took them over. And Africa is a sovereign continent now, apparently.

TL;DR: Our imaginary empire can beat up your imaginary empire. I don't know about this new Chinindussia thing though, I'd be scared of them. They have, what, half the world's population? A quarter of it's nuclear arsenal? A third? We might have to ally up again.

We have coal too. We just aren't mining it because we're waiting for the original union members to die.
Australia blocks japan because we can stage aircraft there.

'sides, America's practically a british colony anyway. You speak NEARLY the same language, you've got indian taxis, foreign food everywhere, and you come do our dirty work when we smack Germany around the head for talking crap.

combatmedic wrote:Always considered moving to the UK and becoming a citizen should anything with the misses go south.

I did always find it funny how Americans got offended when a foreigner didn't know the significance of the 4th of July, but ask that same American about the said foreigners holiday, and they wont know a dang thing. But to be fair, stupidity is a global epidemic.

Do it! Just pack a warm coat; british weather is markedly different from the americal climate. You can be wandering along in a T-shirt complaining about the heat, then it rains half a ton of water on you with thunder and lightning, then it stops just as soon as you've taken shelter.
Then hits you again when you step out.

Skorpion wrote:Australia blocks japan because we can stage aircraft there.

Psh, by that logic you can't get to Canada. That's 4,000 miles of distance.

Also, Japinaindiaussia will just shoot all your planes down. And then destroy Australia. Before going on a killer rampage the rest of the world will be unable to stop.

'sides, Brittan's practically an American vassal state anyway. We speak NEARLY the same language, we've got indian taxis, foreign food everywhere, and we go side with you in Iraq even though it's a really bad idea.

Fixed it for ya.

combatmedic wrote:Always considered moving to the UK and becoming a citizen should anything with the misses go south.

I thought about doing the same thing, but it is hard to get in. You have to pay a lot of $$$ and jump through a lot of bureaucratic hoops and then you have to wait a while.

The funny thing is that if you are in 3rd world eastern European Country you can walk right in.

Salad_Fingers wrote:Though whenever an American does talk about kicking our ass back them i feel the need to mention... 1812

America lost the War of 1812? I'll have to readjust all history books I've read on the subject, definitely.

We pretty much tied. No one gained land. No one really accomplished their objectives. America and Canada were both happy that they repelled their invaders. Britain didn't care so much, as they were busy fighting Napoleon.