Most Powerful Nation in the World - Great Britain
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WildA wrote: ↑Thu Feb 13, 2020 9:12 amI must say, two of the goofiest looking motherf**kers to ever rule the world. Look at the haircuts! The fake tan. Veneers! Look at Boris's tie for gods sake! Trump looks like a racoon scratching his nuts, and Boris looks like he is drooling! I love it!franzjaeger wrote: ↑Thu Feb 13, 2020 7:56 am You'll be fine, just play nice with your so called 'colonial subjects', and still the most powerful nation on earth.
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For sure, in the end, we are a competitive species looking to improve from natural competition. My limbic system constantly tells me that this/that person with a strange accent should be eliminated, but thanks to my neo-cortex, my experiences tells me that he might help us get to the moon.
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This thread's title desperately needs a past tense, somewhere. Even the Scots and the Irish are feeling rebellious once again. What's next, a Welsh uprising to British rule?
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Ireland isn't part of Great Britain.
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But controversially it's part of British Isles.
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Nothing controversial about that, it's just a geographical name.
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I think it was posted before, but worth a recap for non-Limeys/redcoats.
Meum est propositum in taberna mori,
ut sint Guinness proxima morientis ori.
tunc cantabunt letius angelorum chori:
"Sit Deus propitius huic potatori."
ut sint Guinness proxima morientis ori.
tunc cantabunt letius angelorum chori:
"Sit Deus propitius huic potatori."
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Yes, obviously. I thought this thread is about having power over conquered countries. They seem to lose their grip even very close to home! Let's see if Scotland and Northern Ireland will still be part of the UK in a decade.
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Re: Most Powerful Nation in the World - Great Britain
Power over previously conquered countries?
Not a lot of power, but generally fairly close and good relationships, and the English language.
That translates into influence.
Another associated issue for this pot stirring topic,
"The British were reasonably good colonisers, compared with other europeans" ??
(relatively - they were all pretty foul)
Not a lot of power, but generally fairly close and good relationships, and the English language.
That translates into influence.
Another associated issue for this pot stirring topic,
"The British were reasonably good colonisers, compared with other europeans" ??
(relatively - they were all pretty foul)
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