DOWN WITH BRITISH TYRANNY!

[general disarray]

Yes, Euro pals, this is America's Big Phat Day:  July 4th, honoring that arbitrarily selected day in 1776 when Britain was told to buzz off!

Ah, we Over Here (as opposed to you Over There) remember it well: 

-- Margaret Thatcher in her first term as PM -- yes, she was in office THAT long.

-- Thal cast his first vote for her in 1776.   

-- Tony Blair was a mere baby, but was already longing to play with the Bush boys. 

-- Handel was dead by then, thereby clearing the way for Britain to shake off the German influence and  create its legendary "cowpat" music (only to be sabotaged by Michael Finnisy).

-- Maul cast his first vote for Sen. Jesse Helms of North Carolina, also around at that time.  Helms, who died (magnificently enough) JUST TODAY was that US senator who opposed civil rights, gay rights AND modern art.  An American icon, for sure!

-- John Milton was long gone, I'm afraid, but all Americans know that "Paradise Lost" was actually a prophecy hinting at Britain's future loss of Her colonies.

PLEASE, please share your memories of this wonderful day!  Let us Over Here know that you Over There still care for us!   

[shortyshort]

You'd best be quiet, or we will be back to take it again. 

Well, we would if it was worth having. 

[Essyne]

Disarray, your thread absolutely annihilates mine. . .   .

[general disarray]

You'd best be quiet, or we will be back to take it again. 

Well, we would if it was worth having. 

Frankly, I'd love to come back!

[thalbergmad]

Yes, us brits still love Americans & America. You can ignore the vast majority of my anti posts.

I would actually prefer England to be part of the USA as opposed to the unelected money grabbing fraudsters of the EU.

My once great Country is now a pissy little piece of overcrowded rock, simmering with discontent and with porous bolders that let in other countries unwanted scum.

Long live America.

Thal

[G.W.K]

General Disarray ~ Why not mention something exciting? Your posts bore me almost to death!

G.W.K

[Essyne]

General Disarray ~ Why not mention something exciting? Your posts bore me almost to death!

G.W.K

YEAH, general!! 262 years is n.o.t.h.i.n.g.! I mean, 300 is something to talk about, but other than that *yawnnn*. . .  .

[general disarray]

General Disarray ~ Why not mention something exciting? Your posts bore me almost to death!

G.W.K

Okay.  Just heard on CNN that G.W.K. was picked up on drug charges . . . after soliciting a prostitute . . . right after he was caught on camera shoplifting . . . from a thrift shop run by the Sisters of Charity.

Don't want you bored anymore, bud. 

[Essyne]

ha. . . ha. . . (?).

[tompilk]

the satire is all too much for me... i must go and eat ice-cream...

[G.W.K]

Okay.  Just heard on CNN that G.W.K. was picked up on drug charges . . . after soliciting a prostitute . . . right after he was caught on camera shoplifting . . . from a thrift shop run by the Sisters of Charity.

Don't want you bored anymore, bud. 

I doubt you would hear about me on an American news channel. And what is "Sisters of Charity"?

G.W.K

[healdie]

hey we would come and take america again but our government seems intent on reducing the armed forces to a couple of Children using eggs fired from sandles 

Rule Britania, Britania rules the waves (without a proper navy now) and devloped plans for new aircraft carriers hooray but they will be outdated by the time they are built so whats the point?

[thalbergmad]

our government seems intent on reducing the armed forces to a couple of Children using eggs fired from sandles 

Our piss pathetic out of touch government will spend millions on keeping terrorists in comfort, whilst letting our soldiers wallow in barracks that are not fit for habitation.

England as a Country is finished. 11 years of Labour government has hammered the last nails into the coffin.

Thal

[G.W.K]

England as a Country is finished. 11 years of Labour government has hammered the last nails into the coffin.

England, as a country, was finished YEARS ago. Before the Thatcher years. Mind you...with the SNP (Scottish Nazi Party) in control of Scotland, we might be heading the same way too.

G.W.K

[ahinton]

Our piss pathetic out of touch government will spend millions on keeping terrorists in comfort, whilst letting our soldiers wallow in barracks that are not fit for habitation.

I'm not sure of the statistical truth of the first of these (although I am easiloy persuaded at least that this kind of thing happens not infrequently by means of housing them in HM prisons and other places at the British taxpayers' expense rather than deporting them) but the treatment of our hard-working armed forces in certain foreign locations is so reprehensible that even senior officers in those forces have publicly complained about it; it's bad enough sending these people to those places but worse still that the support afforded to them is so woefully lacking.

England as a Country is finished. 11 years of Labour government has hammered the last nails into the coffin.

I am no fan of the present UK administration, but not only did at least some of the rot set in well before they were elected to office but you refer only to England in what you write; do you believe that the remainder of the currently united queendom has a kind of future that England itself no longer has, or do you mean something else?

Given your views on the current state of England, do you have plans to move elsewhere as a consequence and, if so, where and why and, if not, why not?

Best,

Alistair

[thalbergmad]

Given your views on the current state of England, do you have plans to move elsewhere as a consequence and, if so, where and why and, if not, why not?

Poland.

I hear they have a shortage of men.

[healdie]

Poland.

I hear they have a shortage of men.

it would be like a full nation swap and then America could film it and make a reality T.V show out of it and all other european nations could vote for wich other nations they would like to swap

[thalbergmad]

I fear the Poles might start to leave, since nobody can afford or wants to buy a house at the moment.

Thal

[ahinton]

Yes, us brits still love Americans & America.

Some do, some don't and some of those Brits actually are Americans in any case (albeit a small proportion compared to many of those other immigrants who seem to exercise you so much).

I would actually prefer England to be part of the USA as opposed to the unelected money grabbing fraudsters of the EU.

Again, you refer specifically only to England as distinct from the four current consituent parts of the united queendom, but in any case the accession of UK or part thereof to US state status is, quite obviously not about to happen, whatever you avowed desires for it might be.

My once great Country is now a pissy little piece of overcrowded rock,

Northern Rock especially, no doubt...

simmering with discontent and with porous bolders that let in other countries unwanted scum.

It's "boulders" not "bolders" in the language of our Country - but please do not forget that by no means all UK immigrants are "scum", UK citizens have been heavily dependent upon the services provided by many of them, a substantial proportion of them have exercised the legal right to come to UK as a direct consequence of UK having colonised their own countries in the past, etc., etc...

Long live America.

Given the current parlous economic state of that country and the increasing general discontent felt there, this long life prospect looks rather less than likely - and, in any case, why does the fact of the vast immigrant population in US not bother you as the immigrant population does in UK?

Best,

Alistair

[G.W.K]

Yes, us brits still love Americans & America.

Speak for yourself!

G.W.K

[thalbergmad]

to9

Since we appear to be in picky mode, i thought i would return the favour.

[G.W.K]

Again, you refer specifically only to England as distinct from the four current consituent parts of the united queendom...

Just to let you know...it's the United Kingdom, hence the name: UK

G.W.K

[ahinton]

Since we appear to be in picky mode, i thought i would return the favour.

Since you appear to be in insufficiently "picky mode", I thought that I'd re-return that dubious "favour" by drawing your attention to the fact of your having missed ny other typos in the same paragraph, namely "US" for "US" and "forit" for "for it", both of which have, along with that which you did notice, been duly corrected.

Some actual responses from you to the issues concerned might, however, have been even more welcome...

Best,

Alistair

[ahinton]

Just to let you know...it's the United Kingdom, hence the name: UK

Since I am a citizen and resident (so far) of the area concerned, you do not need to "let me know" what it is called or why: I should have thought it fairly obvious that my reference to "queendom" was merely due to the fact that no king has been its monarch for over 55 years...

Best,

Alistair

[G.W.K]

I am aware that the UK is run by Queen Elizabeth II, considering I am from Scotland. However it is still referred as the UK or United Kingdom.

G.W.K

[enderw20]

Given the current parlous economic state of that country and the increasing general discontent felt there, this long life prospect looks rather less than likely

Don't be so quick to count us out yet, we've been through depressions and recessions before and have come out of them stronger than we were before, and the general discontent felt here is nothing compared to what it was in the vietnam era.

[ahinton]

Don't be so quick to count us out yet, we've been through depressions and recessions before and have come out of them stronger than we were before, and the general discontent felt here is nothing compared to what it was in the vietnam era.

I'm not going so far as to "count on" the American population in this respect in the way that you refer to here, but the weakening dollar, the credit crunch, the depletion of the English-speaking sector of the population as a proportion of the whole, the increasing embarrassment about US's recent actual and threatened war-mongering and a number of other factors are not exactly helping towards a bright future for America right now. That is not necessarily to suggest that it's likely to be that much worse for America than for certain other countries, however - after all, the fact that US could not repay its international debt if called upon to do so is no different in many other countries and, let's face it, most of the world's countries are in severe debt to others and would be hard put to repay those debts if required to do so - the fact of America and its international debts being the size that they are serves only to make more noticeable that it is in a particularly parlous state.

Best,

Alistair