05-12-2004 18:13									#61
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"How lucky you English are to find the toilet so amusing. For us, it is a mundane and functional item. For you it is the basis of an entire culture."

-- The Red Baron, "Blackadder Goes Forth"

	05-12-2004 19:17									#62
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quote: Originally posted by Urban Ranger Hong Kong or Shanghai had existed before the Brits came along.

I believe he means HSBC.

	05-12-2004 22:30									#63
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quote: Originally posted by germanos Revolution! Republic!

The West needs no stinkin' monarchs, the people are citizens not subjects!

	05-12-2004 23:04									#64
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quote: Originally posted by Urban Ranger Hong Kong or Shanghai had existed before the Brits came along.

As little do-nothing fishing villages. It was the role of the Brits and those who followed to turn them into world-class cities.

	05-12-2004 23:10									#65
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Easy woman and raging alcoholics!

	05-12-2004 23:45									#66
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You mean raging women and easy alcoholics, surely?

	06-12-2004 00:09									#67
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quote: Originally posted by Provost Harrison You mean raging women and easy alcoholics, surely?

That is certainly closer to my experience...

	06-12-2004 01:14									#68
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quote: Originally posted by Provost Harrison You mean raging women and easy alcoholics, surely?

lol!

Jack the Ripper
The Yorkshire Ripper
Jack the Stripper
Fred & Rosemary West
Dennis Nilsen
Colin Ireland
Burke & Hare
Sawney Bean & family
etc.

	06-12-2004 19:45									#69
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quote: Originally posted by ajbera lol! Jack the Ripper The Yorkshire Ripper Jack the Stripper Fred & Rosemary West Dennis Nilsen Colin Ireland Burke & Hare Sawney Bean & family etc.

Sawney Bean did not exist- put in the same category as Morgawr, selkies and Gog and Magog, and the Conservative Party's allegedly superior grasp of morality.

	06-12-2004 19:51									#70
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Pigeons poop on your head quite a lot here...

...hang on a minute, I don't think I read your question right.

	06-12-2004 19:56									#71
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... Right, something that hasn't been mentioned yet.

THE MOST COMMERCIALLY SUCCESSFUL SOFTWARE INDUSTRY BAR NONE.

Do check out where things like Tomb Raider and Grand Theft Auto come from.

Not saying other countries don't go great software - the world would be a colder place without Quake or Doom or a helluva lot of others.

But when it comes to creating saleable games (or overpriced tat, from another point of view) - we're sh1t hot.

	06-12-2004 20:03									#72
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quote: Originally posted by Zkribbler As little do-nothing fishing villages. It was the role of the Brits and those who followed to turn them into world-class cities.

Shanghai was a do-nothing fishing village? I expect better from you, Z.

As for Hong Kong, not much should be contributed to the actions of the colonial government. Did they plan it? Certainly not. Did they actively guided and assisted the local economy? Nope. So what was it?

	06-12-2004 20:11									#73
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quote: Originally posted by Cruddy THE MOST COMMERCIALLY SUCCESSFUL SOFTWARE INDUSTRY BAR NONE.

I would think that's Microsoft

quote: Originally posted by Cruddy Do check out where things like Tomb Raider and Grand Theft Auto come from.

Nothing beats Tetris.

quote: Originally posted by Cruddy But when it comes to creating saleable games (or overpriced tat, from another point of view) - we're sh1t hot.

No way. The only half way decent game coming from the UK is UFO: Enemy Unkown.. Bullfrog produced some okay stuff. Other than that...

	06-12-2004 20:19									#74
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quote: Originally posted by Urban Ranger As for Hong Kong, not much should be contributed to the actions of the colonial government. Did they plan it? Certainly not. Did they actively guided and assisted the local economy? Nope. So what was it?

Whether or not it was planned is irrelevant. We didn't plan the US either but they wouldn't be where they are without us.

	06-12-2004 20:42									#75
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quote: Originally posted by Albert Speer i think different things pop into peoples' heads depending on if you say England, Britain, or United Kingdom.

Yup. Maybe its an anglophone thing. I hear "england" i think fish and chips, pubs, Stratford on Avon. I hear "UK" I think Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair, etc. I hear "Britain" i think Big Ben, Houses of Parliament.

	06-12-2004 21:11									#76
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i thank God each and every day i was born in this country, it's nice to see a thread praising it.

	06-12-2004 21:13									#77
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I wish I wasn't born here...too expensive without the money to match, winter days are nigh on non existent at a few bleeding hours of sunlight and a realisation of there being no future...and I have an education...yeah, fantastic bleeding place...

	06-12-2004 21:14									#78
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quote: Originally posted by Urban Ranger As for Hong Kong, not much should be contributed to the actions of the colonial government. Did they plan it? Certainly not. Did they actively guided and assisted the local economy? Nope. So what was it?

An Immaculate Conurbation ?

	06-12-2004 21:42									#79
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quote: Originally posted by Provost Harrison I wish I wasn't born here...too expensive without the money to match, winter days are nigh on non existent at a few bleeding hours of sunlight and a realisation of there being no future...and I have an education...yeah, fantastic bleeding place...

look on the bright side, you could have been french ffs

	06-12-2004 21:47									#80
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"this sceptered isle..."


Writers, thats it, writers. From "wan april with his showers sogte(?) the drughte of march, has perced to the rote ..." (pardon my poor spelling of Middle English)
through "what a piece of work is man...." through "that which we are, we are ...." through "Or even worse, expelled!"

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This septic isle more like...

	06-12-2004 22:02									#82
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tbh ph, i don't think you'd be all that happy anywhere :/

	07-12-2004 00:12									#83
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Probably not because people suck wherever you go

	07-12-2004 00:14									#84
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quote: Originally posted by C0ckney tbh ph, i don't think you'd be all that happy anywhere :/

"When a man tires of London....."


But then Samuel Johnson wasn't familiar with Seasonal Affective Disorder, was he? He'd never been to California, had he?

	07-12-2004 00:15									#85
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London's not the problem just, well, other crap...

	07-12-2004 00:29									#86
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Perfide Albion of course. The true home of evil for the past 1,000 years

Bad teeth

Bad local food

Good Indian food

Fish and Chips

English rock

Ken Loach

Maggie Thatcher

Bunch of Eurosceptics who never support anything that goes as a reasonably fast rate

	07-12-2004 00:35									#87
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"Death closes all; but something ere the end,
Some work of noble note, may yet be done,
Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods.
The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks;
The long day wanes; the slow moon climbs; the deep
Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends.
'T is not too late to seek a newer world.
Push off, and sitting well in order smite
The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds
To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths
Of all the western stars, until I die.
It may be that the gulfs will wash us down;
It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles,
And see the great Achilles, whom we knew.
Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho'
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are,--
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."

	07-12-2004 00:45									#88
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quote: Originally posted by Spiffor Bad teeth Bad local food

I've never understood these stereotypes.

The traditionally Full English breakfast and Sunday Roast* lunch is darn good grub.

* be it beef, lamb, chicken or other

	07-12-2004 00:49									#89
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"When I warned them that Britain would fight on alone, whatever they did, their Generals told their Prime Minister and his divided cabinet that in three weeks, England would have her neck wrung like a chicken - Some chicken! Some neck!"

	07-12-2004 01:06									#90
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To be fair, listening to my family describe some of teh stuff they used to eat during the War or the post-War period, I can understand where the bad food stereotype comes from.

The sad, sad thing is that the British can do great food. Amazing food. In resturants or in the home, we can draw upon culinary traditions as old and refined as any the French have and use good, fresh ingredients to produce good, hearty food. Yet, what do we feed our children or what do we eat when in a rush? Crap. Microwaved curries or soggy chips. Spagetti hoops in metallic sauce.

We have excellent food but we don't respect the concept of food enough.