| How anyone can be proud to be British is beyond me. 19:39 - Aug 14 with 14647 views | yescomeon |
This map shows countries that Britain has invaded.
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| How anyone can be proud to be British is beyond me. on 19:41 - Aug 14 with 7846 views | Darran |
This the kind of thread we need.  |  |
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| How anyone can be proud to be British is beyond me. on 19:43 - Aug 14 with 7844 views | exiledclaseboy |
If it's the ones in white I'm pretty sure there's many more countries than that we've f*cked up down the centuries. |  |
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| How anyone can be proud to be British is beyond me. on 19:46 - Aug 14 with 7836 views | yescomeon |
F.uck me I ballsed it up. The ones in red are the ones that Britain has invaded. | |
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| How anyone can be proud to be British is beyond me. on 19:48 - Aug 14 with 7834 views | exiledclaseboy |
| How anyone can be proud to be British is beyond me. on 19:46 - Aug 14 by yescomeon |
F.uck me I ballsed it up. The ones in red are the ones that Britain has invaded. |
I'm not convinced that's right either. I know we've put ourselves about a bit over the years but that's about 90% of the world mun.  | |
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| How anyone can be proud to be British is beyond me. on 19:50 - Aug 14 with 7827 views | yescomeon |
I think the way borders have changed over the years may make it look worse that it is but still... | |
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| How anyone can be proud to be British is beyond me. on 19:57 - Aug 14 with 7817 views | swanjackal |
I personally don't believe in the nature of "sins of our fathers" but if it makes people feel better about themselves, then let them knock themselves out. |  |
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| How anyone can be proud to be British is beyond me. on 20:16 - Aug 14 with 7804 views | KeyserSoze |
Although the good doesn't outweigh the bad, a lot of commonwealth countries benefited from our presence. I.E India being a world force now. |  |
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| How anyone can be proud to be British is beyond me. on 20:19 - Aug 14 with 7795 views | cheeryjack |
| How anyone can be proud to be British is beyond me. on 19:41 - Aug 14 by Darran |
This the kind of thread we need. |
I don't feel any guilt for the deeds of parliament, passed or present. |  |
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| How anyone can be proud to be British is beyond me. on 20:42 - Aug 14 with 7782 views | yescomeon |
| How anyone can be proud to be British is beyond me. on 20:19 - Aug 14 by cheeryjack |
I don't feel any guilt for the deeds of parliament, passed or present. |
Parliament acts on behalf of the people. | |
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| How anyone can be proud to be British is beyond me. on 20:44 - Aug 14 with 7778 views | Darran |
Oh FFS most of this was centuries ago mun. | |
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| How anyone can be proud to be British is beyond me. on 20:50 - Aug 14 with 7761 views | exiledclaseboy |
| How anyone can be proud to be British is beyond me. on 20:42 - Aug 14 by yescomeon |
Parliament acts on behalf of the people. |
Does it balls. | |
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| How anyone can be proud to be British is beyond me. on 20:52 - Aug 14 with 7753 views | yescomeon |
| How anyone can be proud to be British is beyond me. on 20:50 - Aug 14 by exiledclaseboy |
Does it balls. |
It should [Post edited 14 Aug 2013 20:52]
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| How anyone can be proud to be British is beyond me. on 20:54 - Aug 14 with 7733 views | exiledclaseboy |
| How anyone can be proud to be British is beyond me. on 20:52 - Aug 14 by yescomeon |
It should [Post edited 14 Aug 2013 20:52]
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I'm not convinced of that either. If it did we'd probably have the death penalty, flogging and all that other ugly, populist nonsense that people regularly hanker for. Yuck. | |
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| How anyone can be proud to be British is beyond me. on 20:54 - Aug 14 with 7733 views | yescomeon |
| How anyone can be proud to be British is beyond me. on 20:44 - Aug 14 by Darran |
Oh FFS most of this was centuries ago mun. |
Oh right, I didn't realize. That ok then. | |
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| How anyone can be proud to be British is beyond me. on 20:57 - Aug 14 with 7727 views | cheeryjack |
| How anyone can be proud to be British is beyond me. on 20:54 - Aug 14 by exiledclaseboy |
I'm not convinced of that either. If it did we'd probably have the death penalty, flogging and all that other ugly, populist nonsense that people regularly hanker for. Yuck. |
If we applied these punishment's to dodgy MP'S ? | |
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| How anyone can be proud to be British is beyond me. on 21:00 - Aug 14 with 7717 views | Darran |
| How anyone can be proud to be British is beyond me. on 20:54 - Aug 14 by yescomeon |
Oh right, I didn't realize. That ok then. |
Ah right so you can't be proud to be British because of something that happened centuries ago? | |
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| How anyone can be proud to be British is beyond me. on 21:00 - Aug 14 with 7718 views | exiledclaseboy |
| How anyone can be proud to be British is beyond me. on 20:57 - Aug 14 by cheeryjack |
If we applied these punishment's to dodgy MP'S ? |
No. Civilised countries don't do that sort of thing. | |
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| How anyone can be proud to be British is beyond me. on 21:13 - Aug 14 with 7707 views | Darran |
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| How anyone can be proud to be British is beyond me. on 21:14 - Aug 14 with 7701 views | yescomeon |
| How anyone can be proud to be British is beyond me. on 21:00 - Aug 14 by Darran |
Ah right so you can't be proud to be British because of something that happened centuries ago? |
The header is fishing. People should not be proud of the British Empire butI get the feeling people are. | |
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| How anyone can be proud to be British is beyond me. on 21:20 - Aug 14 with 7695 views | swanjackal |
| How anyone can be proud to be British is beyond me. on 21:14 - Aug 14 by yescomeon |
The header is fishing. People should not be proud of the British Empire butI get the feeling people are. |
Think you are confusing "proud" with "could not give a shit because it is in the past" in the context of your question. Now some people will probably be proud to be British because of the current state, or just for the single reason, that is where they were born/class as their home, but most people of the current generation do not look back to bygone eras with either pride or shame, but with only possibly a sense of historical interest. | |
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| How anyone can be proud to be British is beyond me. on 21:27 - Aug 14 with 7684 views | Catullus |
If lots of other countries hadn't behaved in exactly the same way as us I think you'd have a point.
But how many countries have never invaded another nation state?
The shame of war mongering is for all human kind, not just us Brits. Look at the atrocities Asian and African countries have inflicted on each other, and still do!!
You have to put our history into context. When you do that, we have much to be proud of. |  |
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| How anyone can be proud to be British is beyond me. on 21:38 - Aug 14 with 7674 views | swanjackal |
| How anyone can be proud to be British is beyond me. on 21:27 - Aug 14 by Catullus |
If lots of other countries hadn't behaved in exactly the same way as us I think you'd have a point.
But how many countries have never invaded another nation state?
The shame of war mongering is for all human kind, not just us Brits. Look at the atrocities Asian and African countries have inflicted on each other, and still do!!
You have to put our history into context. When you do that, we have much to be proud of. |
In a way you could reconstruct the title and OP to the format:
"How can anyone not be proud to be British is beyond me":
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Countries in red are places we invaded. Don't it make you proud of how many countries asses we have kicked. | |
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| How anyone can be proud to be British is beyond me. on 21:44 - Aug 14 with 7655 views | RevolutionaryJack |
Im quite proud of this we nearly got them all |  |
| I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves. |
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| How anyone can be proud to be British is beyond me. on 21:48 - Aug 14 with 7653 views | swanjackal |
| How anyone can be proud to be British is beyond me. on 21:44 - Aug 14 by RevolutionaryJack |
Im quite proud of this we nearly got them all |
Exactly, would have whipped anybody if it was a game of Risk. | |
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| How anyone can be proud to be British is beyond me. on 21:58 - Aug 14 with 7631 views | SwansNZ |
| How anyone can be proud to be British is beyond me. on 21:44 - Aug 14 by RevolutionaryJack |
Im quite proud of this we nearly got them all |
FFS, look at those small countries/states — Monaco, Vatican, Luxembourg — how did we not take them? Someone wants shooting |  |
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