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  1. 1. would you like America back in british hands?

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The only thing the Americans can claim to have invented of that list is the plane, by orville and wilbur wright, but the Jet engine was invented by a Brit, Frank Whittle, the first freely programable computer was built by a German, (Konrad Zuse) in 1936

In fact if you go here: http://inventors.about.com/library/bl/bl12.htm

You can look up who invented what.

But would I want the US to be under UK control? Hell no!

You got yourself into your own financial mess, what with the twin deficits, the need for foriegn currency just to stay afloat, the lack of a free public healthcare system, or a pension system. The fact that you have to put armed guards into schools, etc.

If the UK were to take it back it'd bankrupt us just to even think about providing the same stand of living to all the inhabitants. Not to mention disarming all the gun nuts. We may well have a poor underclass in the UK and many things don't work, but it's still far better to be poor in the UK than to be poor in the US.

EDIT: Oh yeah, the Web was invented by a Brit too. Though Kudos to the Americans for building UNIX, though that was based on Minix, invented by Andrew Tannenbaum, and he's Dutch ;)

Put me down in the "no" camp :blink:

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So imagine this...

NO TV

NO Computers

NO radio

NO automobiles

NO airplanes

NO telephone

NO democracy

Oh my god that the first time for ages ive actualy lol'd at something on the internet.

Pretty much ALL, of those were actually invented by Britain/Brits, so you've actually backed up the point that you're trying to discredit!

Maybe this makes more sense?:

NO 15 year olds weighing 1000Kg

NO(t as much ;) ) Global warming

NO Iraq problems ( or Eye-rack if you prefer GWB )

As for "following the rules of some dictator "King" (or Queen) and follows his/her rules and laws the he/she can change as he/she sees fit" as someone already mentioned this is what the Magna Carta attempted to prevent, in 1215 Thats CENTURIES before you had a constitution!!!!!

Anyway, thanks for really making me laugh, I really really hope that you were joking, or else the US education system leaves something to be desired ;)

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y0sh: I toally agree abut your "suburbs" point. I adore the countryside and rural areas, I particularly like urban metropolises, but cannot stand the suburbs. These areas just always feel like everyone is just "ticking by", content with just not really having any identity of their own.

And as much as any country with urban and rural areas will inneviatbly have suburbs - I do see that a LOT of the US seems to be a sprawling suburbia. This is my admittedly small view of America.

Also, if we took America back, then we would have a real problem. Th US spends far too much on their arms budget, trying to force their idea of Democracy onto countries where the idea just doesn't really fit. Maybe it would be worth looking at their own problems - such as the VERY worrying litteracy rate!

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I like going to America but I wouldn't want to live there. What is it with Americans and thinking the English have bad teeth? We have the same dental technologies as them lol and we eat a lot less bad foods. We have a lot of similarities but we could never become one, the whole American dream concept is terribly flawed but then who are we to judge?

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Of course, those people who have said that America couldn't go back to British rule are wrong.

Here are two possible senarios:

1) Britain invaded Iraq due to the Iraqis possibly having 'weapons of mass destruction' (which in the end they didn't really have, and the evidence wasn't too great either...) However, the British are very sure that the United States of America have 'weapons of mass destuction' and therefore Britain invades the USA. Since the British Army is the best fighting force in the world, they would quickly overwhelm the US military - who would probably be too busy killing each other due to friendly fire.

2) Some extremely brilliant British lawyers point out that in fact the Declaration of Independence was a non-legally binding document, and therefore the United States still belongs to Britain.

:laugh:

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y0sh: I toally agree abut your "suburbs" point.  I adore the countryside and rural areas, I particularly like urban metropolises, but cannot stand the suburbs.  These areas just always feel like everyone is just "ticking by", content with just not really having any identity of their own.

And as much as any country with urban and rural areas will inneviatbly have suburbs - I do see that a LOT of the US seems to be a sprawling suburbia.  This is my admittedly small view of America.

Also, if we took America back, then we would have a real problem.  Th US spends far too much on their arms budget, trying to force their idea of Democracy onto countries where the idea just doesn't really fit.  Maybe it would be worth looking at their own problems - such as the VERY worrying litteracy rate!

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Haha Oh ****! Someone who actually understands my point of view?

I agree with what you said about rural/country side and urban. I'm an urbanist personally.

Suburbians; I just don't see how they're content in the environment. Seems like they just exist because they can. There's no flare/class to it, it's all uniform. They wake up, they eat, they go to work, they come back, they talk and smile and laugh with petty jokes to their "peers", they have a BBQ, they get their car fixed, they go shopping, they come home, they sleep. It's such a boring life. They don't know anything about the world.

There's something you cant explain about metropolises. It's such a higher standard of living. I find suburbian's lifes too meaningless/low. Btw, your view is not a small view of USA. USA is 99% suburbia. The cities here aren't cities; they're overgrown towns. The only city-city in this country is New York.. and why is that? It's the one with the most worldy interaction.

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OK, in my rant I may have made some uneducated statements and I apologize for that, but stupidity must be contagious today :whistle:

belittles the sacrifice made by every Englishman that died in that war.

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UK lost ~ 305,000

US lost ~ 405,000

So we send out troops across the Atlantic into a war that was "none of our business" and we didn't make a sacrifice. If we don't help you might as well chalk up our losses as your own. Do the math, that's about 710,000 soldiers (1% of your population, and that's not counting civilian deaths)

Firstly considered us to be Anglo-Saxon and hence of the same blood as himself.

Secondly we had so, so, so many chemicals on our shores you would not believe, we also had the plans to set fire to the sea if they tried to cross and invade. They could never do it by plane 'cos they wouldn't be able to drop the numbers they needed.

Thirdly, you joined late 'cos you were pally with the 'ole Nazis.

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1. I doubt he cared much about that

2. Weren't they bombing the hell out your cities? Why would they bother crossing the Channel?

3. That's asinine

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Also, I do believe the printing press was invented in germany before America existed.

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Actually, I believe the printing press was invented in England by William Caxton.

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I hope this isn't one of those threads where people just slag each other off because of where they live.

Bush and Blair get along (note below that that's a picture of Blair back there behind Bush), so why can't we all?

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Actually, I believe the printing press was invented in England by William Caxton.

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There's a pub in Tenterden called the William Caxton. I wonder if that's a coincidence...? :rofl:

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I have a book somewhere that says it was actually invented in China, then stolen by someone in Germany, then stolen by William Caxton, who made it popular in Britain. Or something like that...

I don't think many of the people here would be slagging off America if Iraq / vietnam / Michael Jackson had really happened, it's sort of made America look a bit like a country of gun nuts.

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NO TV

NO Computers

NO radio

NO automobiles

NO airplanes

NO telephone

NO democracy

Americans didn't invent any of them you fool, quite the reverse.

TV: British

Computers: British

Radio: Italian?

Automobile: German?

Airplanes(jet): British

Telephone: British

Democracy: Greek.

All off the top of my head. In fact, i don't think Americans have really given the world much in terms of inventions.

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Indeed, and that's all because of the American influence of R 'n B.

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your blaming your problems on Rhythm and Blues ?

and back to the british, never was theirs [America] to begin with.

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OK, in my rant I may have made some uneducated statements and I apologize for that, but stupidity must be contagious today  :whistle:

UK lost ~ 305,000

US lost ~ 405,000

So we send out troops across the Atlantic into a war that was "none of our business" and we didn't make a sacrifice. If we don't help you might as well chalk up our losses as your own. Do the math, that's about 710,000 soldiers (1% of your population, and that's not counting civilian deaths)

1. I doubt he cared much about that

2. Weren't they bombing the hell out your cities? Why would they bother crossing the Channel?

3. That's asinine

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1) I'm paraphrasing here, but nevermind. One of the cheif of the Luftwaffe came to Hitler and told him that they were losing the battle in the sky, Hitler asked him what he needed to win, he told him Spitfires. Hitler was calm and relaxed and said, I expected this, for they are Anglo-Saxons.

2) You know little, as he was bombing us we were taking down his industry! We fecking invented the dam busting bomb too, we also bombed Germany just as hard as they bombed us.

3) It's not silly, it's completely true. You American's act all liberal, but you are the most racist out of any other nation in the world. Why do you think you didn't attack until Japan got you? Well, pwned you really, sure you dropped a A-Bomb on the poor bastards but they destroyed your crappy navy.

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Nah, Britain has enough trouble with us spicy Canadians as it is ;)

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Don't get me started on the Canadians! What did we ever do to deserve William Shatner selling high-octane bran cereal every fifth ad on the telly? Why doesn't he stick to something he's good at, like pop music! :rofl:

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No, it was the native Indians, i wonder who killed them all...

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not all of them were killed and it was a mix of native Indians and Mexicans (part of California)

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