Ok now ..what up with the English? (page 2)

LittleToe

Robyn:Well said. You may have hit the nail on the head. This would highlight a major difference between our countries. The US just alleviates said stress by invading another country...

LT, of the "tongue in cheek" class.

LittleToe

I should highlight that when our Empire was in it's infancy, it used to behave that way, too.

~chuckles~

hillbilly

our Empire was in it's infancy

Empire?

arent you guys down to a couple of rocks in the North Atlantic and a bunch of late video return charges in Africa now days?

dont ya have to be "imperialistic' to have an "empire"?... we tried it for a year or two and all we got was Imelda Marcos' shoe collection and a wet old Canal Zone

Like when we invaded France, Italy, Poland and eventually Germany back in the mid-40s? Fact is, if we'd have waited any longer to enter WWII, we would have had to invade England to run the Germans outta there. Funny thing is, of all the countries that America has "invaded", how many have we kept and added to our "Empire"?

hillbilly

Do Midway and Guam count?

~Hill

Sith

Yes, I believe they do

LittleToe

See, now all this really proves is that your Generals learnt from our history (probably due to an absence of your own). You gave back these countries, leaving them with a "democratic government" so that you wouldn't have the financial burden of rebuilding them. Oh, sure, ya may have thrown them the occcasional nickel, to salve your conscience, but really!

Meanwhile, you've alleviated the stress of things turning to shyte at home - pretty simple, huh?

Oh, btw, Margaret Thatcher tried a similar trick in the early 80's with the Falklands. It seeems that some ideas can cross pollinate, albeit in that situation those islands were ours and continued to be so. It wasn't as much fun as bombing some AyRabs.

hillbilly

I heard them Argintines learned a thing or two from them Nazi's they took in.

It's a bitch when they shoot back.............

~Hill

Englishman

Re the war. My dad flew 43 missions over Germany. When the USA eventually decided to lend a hand (unlike us who jumped into Iraq straight away, we don't keep our friends waiting 2 years, but hell, we English are an extremely honourable bunch), we would bomb by night, the Americans by day. The forces of the UK and the USA who were fighting were about equal at the end of the war.

Englishman.

Qcmbr

No disrespect yankees but the Brits are pretty much your only friend over here so don't ruffle the feathers - all your other mates are only friends while youre paying them to be - just because you stayed out the war long enough to force the Brits to sell off our empire to pay you - twice and then turn up afterwards as though somehow you guys are the best - sheesh - the best real empire America ever had Cortes took with a couple of hundred spaniards...so there.

When you 'kicked' the german hanoverians out of America you forget that the Brits never really wanted to fight you anyway and if they had you would be flying a different flag. :P

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