The British

[magicjuan]

No such thing. Scots, Celts, Saxons und das Ingerlish

 

[chicoazul]

No such thing. Scots, Celts, Saxons und das Ingerlish

Tell them Juan. TELL THEM.

 

[trueblue84]

Imagine having a great nation like England dominating the world, yet the best you can come up with in all that time is tom Jones.

 

[tonyhorne]

You can't airbrush history. What we did in the pre- and colonial eras was nothing that everyone else wasn't trying to do. We were just better at it.

Maybe that leaves an often uncomfortable legacy, but it still came in handy now and again like on the beaches of Normandy ...

 

[bluenorsky]

Imagine having a great nation like England dominating the world, yet the best you can come up with in all that time is tom Jones.

Roy Vernon

 

[kev]

Also lots positive.

I put down the creativity and civilisation, the organisation, industry and bloody mindedness to the angles and saxons Evertonians and the greed, repression, brutality, feudalism, nobility, empire grabbing etc. down to the normans. Kopites.

 

[chicoazul]

You can't airbrush history. What we did in the pre- and colonial eras was nothing that everyone else wasn't trying to do. We were just better at it.

Maybe that leaves an often uncomfortable legacy, but it still came in handy now and again like on the beaches of Normandy ...

I find it interesting that the very same people the British were fighting on those beaches they’ve turned into themselves now.

 

[Kurt.]

I love threads like this where all the yanks think Britain = england

 

[larbert toffee]

 

[mightymoyes]

You can't airbrush history. What we did in the pre- and colonial eras was nothing that everyone else wasn't trying to do. We were just better at it.

Maybe that leaves an often uncomfortable legacy, but it still came in handy now and again like on the beaches of Normandy ...

debateable, the spanish, french etc were really good and stealing and raping too

 

[tonyhorne]

debateable, the spanish, french etc were really good and stealing and raping too

As were the Germans, Dutch, Aztecs, Incas, Africans, Arabs, etc.

Kind of my point really ....

 

[WA Toffee]

I love threads like this where all the yanks think Britain = england

And the poms trying to get bites by suggesting the same

 

[LostLegend]

 

[mightymoyes]

As were the Germans, Dutch, Aztecs, Incas, Africans, Arabs, etc.

Kind of my point really ....

you said the british were better at it, i said that was debatable which you have now confirmed.

 

[SerenityNigh]

I love threads like this where all the yanks think Britain = england

we are smart enough to know the other 2 British nations don't matter