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Iceman 06-30-08 08:28 PM
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Originally Posted by seafarer
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Originally Posted by Schroeder
I just found this on the stumovik.de site:

** Important, please read thoroughly! **

To the citizens of the United States of America from Her Sovereign Majesty
Queen Elizabeth II :

In light of your failure in recent years to nominate competent candidates
for President of the USA and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give
notice of the revocation of your independence, effective immediately. Her
Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will resume monarchical duties over
all states, commonwealths, and territories (except Kansas, which she does not fancy).
:hmm: err, except that there is nothing for you to actually, well, revoke?! You did not grant the USofA independence, they beat your imperialistic army to a squishy pulp and sent it back across the pond in utter, shameful defeat. With the French at their side taunting you like a certain King in a certain Movie. :rotfl:
Boo ya!:up:

Iceman 06-30-08 08:30 PM
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Originally Posted by XabbaRus
Yea but ironically it was with French support you beat us.
BTW sonce and biscuit are two different things.
Yea Yea and it was with American support you are even here, not speaking German with no Scones or Biscuits..so stfu... lol.

SUBMAN1 06-30-08 08:36 PM
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Originally Posted by Iceman
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Originally Posted by XabbaRus
Yea but ironically it was with French support you beat us.
BTW sonce and biscuit are two different things.
Yea Yea and it was with American support you are even here, not speaking German with no Scones or Biscuits..so stfu... lol.
Hahaha! Yep! Right on the money!

-S

Sailor Steve 06-30-08 10:16 PM
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Originally Posted by August
16 reasons why ditching Parliament and crazy King George was a good thing IMO.
Good point.

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Being constantly corrected on the proper pronunciation of words like "scone" (which BTW was stolen from the Dutch word "schoonbrood") when "biscuit" does the job just fine.
And then there's the insidious French encroachment. When I was a kid we had these things called crescent rolls, because they were shaped like crescents. Now all I can ever find is something called 'croissants'.:lol:

baggygreen 06-30-08 10:32 PM
Steve, don't worry about it too much, put a complaint in a letter to the editor of your local paper, and the french will run from all claims of "croissants" within a week!:lol:

Edit, when the hell did i hit a thousand posts?? I don't remember that

August 07-01-08 12:13 AM
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Originally Posted by baggygreen
Steve, don't worry about it too much, put a complaint in a letter to the editor of your local paper, and the french will run from all claims of "croissants" within a week!:lol:
"'Taint likely" (i'm practicing my Mainer accent). These are pastries, FRENCH pastries, we're talking about. not stupid rifles. It's well known (meaning some guys i know said it) that the French are mighty serious about their food, and their baked goods especially. Bet you didn't know that a bakery insult was the real reason Napoleon invaded Spain... :yep:

We reject French culinary terms at our peril...

Schroeder 07-01-08 04:04 AM
Sarkozy?
:rotfl:

mrbeast 07-01-08 07:09 AM
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Originally Posted by seafarer
:hmm: err, except that there is nothing for you to actually, well, revoke?! You did not grant the USofA independence, they beat your imperialistic army to a squishy pulp and sent it back across the pond in utter, shameful defeat. With the French at their side taunting you like a certain King in a certain Movie. :rotfl:
Hmmm slight bending of the facts there me thinks :hmm:

DavyJonesFootlocker 07-01-08 07:29 AM
I agree wholeheartedly with Queenie Liz. As a former British colony we inherited a lot from them- tea, driving on the RIGHT ( what I mean is the correct side- the left side of the road), cricket, football, Benny Hill (lol). But since the Americans came along we inherited a whole lot from them too- cussing, killing one another gangster-style, spelling organisation with a z instead of an s, hating the Fox News Channel (which, by the way I like). Terrible I tell you.

Dear Lizzie, can I be in your invasion flagship?:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::arrgh!:

August 07-01-08 08:47 AM
The British drive on the left side of the road, not the right. The rest of the world drives on the right side...

Tchocky 07-01-08 08:51 AM
Hey! We drive on the left as well.

But it's their fault :p

DavyJonesFootlocker 07-01-08 08:56 AM
I explained what I meant in my post. Oh, I love the UK- especially Rhona Mitra, see her in the movie- "Doomsday'.:yep:

mrbeast 07-01-08 09:33 AM
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Originally Posted by August
The British drive on the left side of the road, not the right. The rest of the world drives on the right side...
IIRC correctly, UK, Ireland, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, India and South Africa drive on the lefthand side of the road (driver sits on the righthand side of the car)

Incidently, does anyone know the relative merits of driving on either the left or the right? AFAIK the Romans drove their chariots and carts on the left like we do in the UK, think it had something to do with most people being right handed and it being better to pass on the side that most people were 'handed' on. :hmm:

DavyJonesFootlocker 07-01-08 09:36 AM
To me driving on the left makes sense since the driver seated on the right have a better positioning of the road's middle line.

August 07-01-08 09:59 AM
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Originally Posted by DavyJonesFootlocker
To me driving on the left makes sense since the driver seated on the right have a better positioning of the road's middle line.
Depends on which side your cars steering wheel is located. Oh and nice edit! ;)

Seriously, it's too bad that a consensus wasn't found between GB and the US early on when cars were first starting to hit the road. It sure would have eliminated a lot of confusion and i'm sure more than a fair share of traffic accidents as well.

Having driven in England myself i can at least attest to the former.


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