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Old 07-18-08, 04:03 PM   #16
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Actually UnderseaLcpl I'd say it was too much 'f**K you buddy' capitalism that was ruining western societies.

Considering that the UK is considerably less socialist than it used to be I think you've got the wrong end of the stick there.
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Old 07-18-08, 05:26 PM   #17
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Actually UnderseaLcpl I'd say it was too much 'f**K you buddy' capitalism that was ruining western societies.

Considering that the UK is considerably less socialist than it used to be I think you've got the wrong end of the stick there.
You may be right. England, always a bastion of capitalism unfettered by things like monarchy and a feudalistic societal stratification, could only have lost its' empire because of money-grubbing corporations that wanted to sell off parts of the Empire for free to indiginous peoples. It is abundantly clear that unsustainable goevernment expenditures had nothing to do with that. It was the result of good, old-fashioned British altruism.

Forunately, the U.S has abandoned it's century-long campaign for "progress" to emulate Britain. There is nothing we would enjoy more at the moment than paying for "figurehead" royalty, which we try to do at the box office, paying way too much for gas because of taxes, lack of competition in the petroleum industry, and government-sanctioned lack of competition in the petroleum industry, and enormous debt, which we are currently trying to produce via governement spending, after private spending failed to produce much debt.

As always, we look to England as a country to avoid being anything like, but then later changed our minds becuase we forgot that we used to be part of it, and it sucked.


Praying this is somehow not taken as an insult, rather than sarcasm, or is it?

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Old 07-20-08, 07:58 PM   #18
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Steed, when England goes down, you can come live with me!

That sounds like makings of a great TV sitcom!:hmm:
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Old 07-20-08, 08:02 PM   #19
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Steed, when England goes down, you can come live with me!

That sounds like makings of a great TV sitcom!:hmm:
...of coarse, you'll have to convert. Driving on the correct side of the road, no more spelling "colour" with the "u", it's called soccer now, and you can bitch about gas prices instead of petrol prices.:rotfl:
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