asperity Posted February 13, 2011 Report Share Posted February 13, 2011 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
algy Posted February 13, 2011 Report Share Posted February 13, 2011 Asperity, no wonder the rest of the world have little or no time for us! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfie Posted February 13, 2011 Report Share Posted February 13, 2011 algy, After viewing the video I'm confused by your statement. Could you elaborate? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazj Posted February 13, 2011 Report Share Posted February 13, 2011 Good video..... sums everything up nicely!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
algy Posted February 13, 2011 Report Share Posted February 13, 2011 algy, After viewing the video I'm confused by your statement. Could you elaborate? What is to be confused about? the video starts by explaining what countries make up the United Kingdom, we are supposedly one nation but as the narator explains non of us can stand the other, another distasteful aspect of our history - the British Empire, I can't see other nations respecting or admiring us as a nation for the occupation, thieving of labour and recources of those countries we have forcibly entered and occupied over the centuries. I could go on but I shall refrain from doing so as it may become an emotive subject and I do not enjoy conflict, I have had enough of that in my life. NO EMOTICON. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfie Posted February 13, 2011 Report Share Posted February 13, 2011 Thanks for the explanation, but regarding the for the occupation, thieving of labour and recources of those countries we have forcibly entered and occupied over the centuries. Â Don't you think that most countries in the world have at sometime done this to a greater or lesser extent? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted February 13, 2011 Report Share Posted February 13, 2011 Perhaps Algy you could cite a Western European Nation that didn't engage in "Empire" building? Large swathes of "our" Empire were taken from other European Nations in the many wars of history. We took New York from the Dutch; Quebec and India from the French, Gibraltar from the Spanish, we even took Heligoland from the Germans for a period - to the victor go the spoils - that's the nature of man's history. We can thank the Normans for securing Britain and Ireland originally - which - in the case of Wales became part of the UK after the defeat of Owen Glendower; Scotland after the Act of Union etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asperity Posted February 13, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 13, 2011 And there was me thinking it was a bit of humour Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
algy Posted February 13, 2011 Report Share Posted February 13, 2011 Asperity, humour is not always appreciated here. Â Well done! Wolfie & obs for the lesson in secondary school history Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfie Posted February 13, 2011 Report Share Posted February 13, 2011 I failed History Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazj Posted February 13, 2011 Report Share Posted February 13, 2011 - to the victor go the spoils - Â so how on earth did Britain end up being shafted the way we are now!!?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victor Posted February 13, 2011 Report Share Posted February 13, 2011 I like the bit about victor getting the spoils !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter T Posted February 13, 2011 Report Share Posted February 13, 2011 - to the victor go the spoils - Â so how on earth did Britain end up being shafted the way we are now!!?? Â Because of the toga brigade and ex-university politicians who have never done a days work in their lives. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter T Posted February 13, 2011 Report Share Posted February 13, 2011 And there was me thinking it was a bit of humour Steady Asperity, it is Sunday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzy Posted February 13, 2011 Report Share Posted February 13, 2011 I like the bit about victor getting the spoils !! Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lt Kije Posted February 13, 2011 Report Share Posted February 13, 2011 Because of the toga brigade and ex-university politicians who have never done a days work in their lives. Â Complete crap Peter , you could look at America who shafted us with lend lease after the War, While they re build Germany and Japan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter T Posted February 13, 2011 Report Share Posted February 13, 2011 So Kije, if I had left out about the toga wearers, would you have agreed? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lt Kije Posted February 13, 2011 Report Share Posted February 13, 2011 No Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted February 13, 2011 Report Share Posted February 13, 2011 You mean that Lend Lease, which took us 60 years to pay back, and which kick started the US economy after the depression, placing them firmly on the road to global economic dominance - wasn't the act of a generous friend, with whom we have a "special" relationship?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lt Kije Posted February 13, 2011 Report Share Posted February 13, 2011 My point exactly Obs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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