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  • Pondlife
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    Originally posted by gingerjedi View Post
    Yeah but what about now? Living a fecking ridiculously expensive country which no longer 'owns' any sunny annexes to escape to isn't much fun when brassic Shirley?

    Even worse when the indigenous populations of the former colonies want to compete on your own miserable rain sodden soil.
    Still, we've got the Falklands eh. And unless Sheep get ICTs then the job market is ok. Obviously there will still be a few who come over here to marry welshmen I suppose.

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  • suityou01
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    Italy in crisis talks now. It won't be long

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  • Doggy Styles
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    Originally posted by gingerjedi View Post
    Even worse when the indigenous populations of the former colonies want to compete on your own miserable rain sodden soil.
    It only got out of balance because of Mr Blair and his army of clueless feckwits.

    They have gone away now so hopefully things will gradually get back in kilter. Perhaps.

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  • gingerjedi
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    Originally posted by Doggy Styles View Post
    That's what made Britain great - out of necessity we created one of the biggest empires in history out of lots of nice warm places.
    Yeah but what about now? Living a fecking ridiculously expensive country which no longer 'owns' any sunny annexes to escape to isn't much fun when brassic Shirley?

    Even worse when the indigenous populations of the former colonies want to compete on your own miserable rain sodden soil.

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  • oracleslave
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    Originally posted by AtW View Post
    Didn't Australia, New Zealand and Canada also help create the Empire?
    Did the crown jewels come from Canada?

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  • darmstadt
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    Well they're ****ed to start with. Don't they know that (eurozone) Europe has the Euro? And there are plenty of Euro shops here already...

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  • sasguru
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    Originally posted by scooterscot View Post
    To add the to that it is mostly Scots that are to be found living abroad rather than the stay at home southerners. The way it was during the height of the empire, the Scots were the adventures of the crowd.
    Well they had too because Scotland was and is poor and tulipe.

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  • scooterscot
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    Originally posted by Doggy Styles View Post
    Scotland is part of the Britain that created the empire.
    To add the to that it is mostly Scots that are to be found living abroad rather than the stay at home southerners. The way it was during the height of the empire, the Scots were the adventures of the crowd.

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  • shaunbhoy
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    Originally posted by AtW View Post
    Didn't Australia, New Zealand and Canada also help create the Empire?
    Only by being part of the spoils, so to speak.

    HTH

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  • AtW
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    Originally posted by Doggy Styles View Post
    Scotland is part of the Britain that created the empire.
    Didn't Australia, New Zealand and Canada also help create the Empire?

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  • Doggy Styles
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    Originally posted by AtW View Post
    What about Scotland?
    Scotland is part of the Britain that created the empire.

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  • Spacecadet
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    Originally posted by AtW View Post
    What about Scotland?
    Scotland joined England in a union (when they realised we were buying up all the nice warm sunny places )

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  • scooterscot
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    Originally posted by AtW View Post
    What about Scotland?
    The thermometer hit the late 20's last week and without any ozone layer over the country you're guaranteed a good fry.

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  • AtW
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    Originally posted by Doggy Styles View Post
    That's what made Britain great - out of necessity we created one of the biggest empires in history out of lots of nice warm places.
    What about Scotland?

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  • Doggy Styles
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    Originally posted by gingerjedi View Post
    As it's been said on here before, if you're going to be poor you might as well do it somewhere nice.

    Can you image being poor in the UK.
    That's what made Britain great - out of necessity we created one of the biggest empires in history out of lots of nice warm places.

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