Author Topic: Is there anything in england that is better than in the states? (Read 3815 times)

Monk · « **Reply #105 on:** November 13, 2002, 06:09:15 AM »

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Originally posted by devious
Brits have better beer.

...........stop, bitte;)

bounder · « **Reply #106 on:** November 13, 2002, 06:09:37 AM »

JSF? nope. Uk hasn't bought it yet

In fact, I don't know that it is in servce anywhere. I will be happy to be corrected on that of course

oh and Monk...it's not bitte, its bitter

batdog · « **Reply #107 on:** November 13, 2002, 06:37:53 AM »

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Originally posted by Swoop
ok, look....it all boils down to this:

USA and GB are allies, ever since that little spat we had (btw, the line "bombs bursting in air" was inspired by the Royal Navy shelling some fortress somewhere, so ya do have something to thank us for) we've always been and always will be allies. Now ask yourself this, if you really had to choose an allie.....who would you rather be fighting next to?

Exactly, now stfu .

Hell yea... put a GD brit just off the piss w/me anyday in a foxhole. I served along side the British Coldstream Guards for a couple of months. Awesome soldiers, great people... I'd goto war w/them anyday.

We might squabble abit now and then but what family doesnt eh?But guess what..when the chips are down the Brits are ALWAYS w/us and vice versa. They are our most staunch friend. Other nations give us all sorts of lip service but you cant REALLY depend on them... the Brits you can.

Those GD limies.

xBAT

Dowding (Work) · « **Reply #108 on:** November 13, 2002, 06:45:43 AM »

Oh come on funked. Racing cars only pay lip service to their street-legal equivalents. I'm talking about cars either of us could go out and buy.

Aston Martin Vanquish is limpwristed? lol what's limpwristed about a supercharged V12? lol!

beet1e · « **Reply #109 on:** November 13, 2002, 06:52:47 AM »

Some interesting posts, but it's getting silly - Unsubscribing.

SC-Sp00k · « **Reply #110 on:** November 13, 2002, 07:25:50 AM »

Britain has the most page 3 girls

gofaster · « **Reply #111 on:** November 13, 2002, 07:54:45 AM »

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Originally posted by SC-Sp00k
Britain has the most page 3 girls

Did someone say Page3 Girls?

Thrawn · « **Reply #112 on:** November 13, 2002, 08:13:22 AM »

Page3 girls.

NUKE · « **Reply #113 on:** November 13, 2002, 08:22:01 AM »

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Britain was virtually bankrupted by 3 years of unsupported conflict with Nazi Germany. I say unsupported - every ounce of help received from the US was paid, in full, in cash or in exchange for the shares British companies had in American business. I'm grateful that help was delivered, but it came at a cost.

Britain only paid for US equipment through Nov. 1940, when Britain could no longer.

After that, America's "Lend-Lease", an act Churhill described to Parliment as " The most unsordid act in the history of any nation"
took affect.

Churchill's words: "There was no provision for repayment. There was not even a formal account kept in dollars or sterling"

America essenially gave Britain equipment with the idea that it would be returned after the war.

So I'd say we did quite a lot to help Britain survive until we enetered the war.

lazs2 · « **Reply #114 on:** November 13, 2002, 08:22:39 AM »

dowding... I never said that the 40% figure was wrong... It just seems very difficult to quantify. I wouldn't mind seeing the study... the japs have been wrong about the U.S. plenty of times... no... every time.. in modern history. besides... what good is 40% if you can't even get into space?

As for the U.S. being 5 times larger in population... it was not when england ruled most of the world but... we are not talking about the england that ruled the world... we are talking about the england that is in a slow steady decline..

beetle keeps coming on here with his U.S vs england threads.. he claims that the english way is superior every time be it tv or food or whatever.. point is... england was a huge empire that became a pissant. It continues to shrink and become less relevant. The U.S. is stronger every year if anything. So why should we imitate any of the things like bad tv... a disdain for for personal choice and freedom... and certainly not dental or even medical care.

you claim that we don't need the right to own firearms yet your history (the one you are so proud of) has taught you nothing... you have disarmed people all over the world so that you could tyranize them. You are fighting an armed population in ireland and having problems right now. Imagine if they were all behind the same cause and all armed? they would simply boot you out and have their own government. Isn't Scotland about to get shed of your oppression? That would probly cut your "inventions" down to 10% or so.

oh... and you can't get more bang for the buck than a corvette or viper. These are cars that are within the grasp of every average income American if he really wants one.... You guys got a faster truck than the Ford lightning? Another thing.... It is possible to allmost double the horsepower of a viper or a corvette in without a factory team.... you can do it in your garage with hand tools and with mail order parts.

I do wish some of your unem... "on the dole" folks would get get into and apprenticship program on the "english wheel" and start hand forming a bunch more 1954 Healey 100 bodies. You can keep the rest of the car. Heck... AC is still pounding out that antique.

lazs

funked said in response to the terror squirrle attack in england that was only stopped by a grandfather with an illeagal air rifle... "Wow if they had a rabid racoon I bet they'd have to call in NATO to bring over a .22 or something."

Masherbrum · « **Reply #115 on:** November 13, 2002, 08:39:51 AM »

Two words.

PINK FLOYD

Karaya2

Swoop · « **Reply #116 on:** November 13, 2002, 08:46:32 AM »

Laz,

1) How many more shreckin times do I have to tell ya that Beetle's views do not represent my views......or, I suspect, many other Brits views.

2) We're NOT fighting an armed population in Ireland. We're fighting the IRA which is a little different.

"Imagine if they were all behind the same cause and all armed? they would simply boot you out and have their own government."

Well they aint all behind the same cause. And they aint all armed. AND they've ALREADY GOT THEIR OWN GOVERNMENT. Eire has been self ruling for years now, it's only Northern Ireland that is still under British rule.

Finally, READ ABOUT IT and you may realise that the majority of Northern Irish DONT WANT US TO LEAVE cos they know what'd happen to em if we did. Look for some of the news stories of what happend not so long ago........kids as young as 6 being stoned cos they go to a different church and having to be escorted to school by the British Army to stop it happening again. Hmmmmm.....you think those kids want the soldiers to leave em to it?

Now I'm not coming back into this thread cos it's getting silly and insulting and I refuse to let my impression of Americans be sullied by the actions of a few.

lazs2 · « **Reply #117 on:** November 13, 2002, 09:31:52 AM »

swoop... I do understand that and agree with everything you are saying. My point was not about the politics but about firearms being effective in the hands of citizens.. The IRA are not an "army" any more than the vietcong were and "army" . I maintain that if the entire population of Ireland were armed and wanted you out... it would not be worthwhile for you to stay there... In retrospect... I should have used vietnam or afgahnastan for an example.

point is... those who think and armed populace is no deterent to tyranny are not paying atention. Those who think Americans are too fat and lazy to resist tyranny are not paying attention to history. When the human animal changes then maybe I will change my mind.
lazs

H. Godwineson · « **Reply #118 on:** November 13, 2002, 10:47:15 AM »

A few of my thoughts on the topic:

1. As much as I like to promote American products, I think the Corvette is over-engineered, over-priced, over-styled, too heavy, and butt-ugly. I want simplicity, agility, and tasteful styling in a sports car...if I ever get one.

2. Swoop...after the debacle at Dunkirk where the British Army lost most of its arms and heavy equipment, Churchill's government had to scour the country to find weapons to rearm it's military units. A request was sent to private citizens in the U.S. (this was before Lend-Lease) to donate their private weapons to the British so that they could arm the Home Guard with something besides broomsticks.

3. If an armed civil populace is no deterrent to tyranny, then why do all tyrants insist on disarming them? Hitler did...Stalin did.

4. British medieval history is fascinating. Viking invasions, Alfred the Great, Battle of Stamford Bridge, Battle of Hastings. Later periods are full of imperialist expansion and the subjugation of the populations of African territories and the Indian subcontinent, whose populations they disarmed by the way.

5. The British have cool summer weather. That means a lot to a south-Arkansan.

Regards, Shuckins

gofaster · « **Reply #119 on:** November 13, 2002, 11:20:29 AM »

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Originally posted by Thrawn
Page3 girls.

There! I knew I heard someone say "Page3 Girls".