The European Union. Everyone keep calm. Be civil.

[Almalexia]

To be clear, I don't particularly have a problem with people being proud of their country. I just have a problem with people thinking they were innately exceptional above all others.

 

[MyNameIsBlank]

If you wanna talk about invasions... There was this great thing called 'The British Empire', maybe you've heard of it.

Fook off m8. Yer' making the rest of us look bad.

Nah, I like it here. Considering I've stood before a panel to discuss about the British Empire, I'll put my penny worth in. Thanks.

 

[Flin Flon]

Feckin Brits. How do they work.

 

[Swissky]

You put tea in their gobbers and they do stuff.

 

[Almalexia]

Something involving cheeky nandos, or so I hear.

 

[AreJohn]

You put tea in their gobbers and they do stuff.

Like Scandinavians, you put rotten fish in their "gobblers" and they shift further from a raiding pagan people to a bunch of camp people living in the northernmost parts of Europe. 

 

[Austupaio]

If you wanna talk about invasions... There was this great thing called 'The British Empire', maybe you've heard of it.

Yeah, it's called NATO now.

 

[Swissky]

You put tea in their gobbers and they do stuff.

Like Scandinavians, you put rotten fish in their "gobblers" and they shift further from a raiding pagan people to a bunch of camp people living in the northernmost parts of Europe. 

I'll have you know I find time to pillage other camps during camping trips which is fueled by a hefty amount of coffee and various fish on crackerbread.

 

[Kentucky 『 ＨＥＩＧＵＩ 』 James]

If you wanna talk about invasions... There was this great thing called 'The British Empire', maybe you've heard of it.

Sending millions of literal drunks and convicts to beat up and annex sparsely populated hunter-gatherer communities over a period of 300 years: Huzzah!!1

Snark aside, most of England is pretty boring, and I live here. The countryside is all mechanised and full of posh people who moved out from the city, there are about two hills, and all the forests are gone. There's a reason why internal tourism is dying out. You could drive from Portsmouth to Newcastle and everything would be the exact same, besides that coal power plant up nor' that counts as a major landmark.
S'all about Wales and Cornwall and Scotland if'ye ask me. And the major cities.

 

[Vraelomon]

I like personally China's history better.
I was going to post that earlier but it slipped my mind.

 

[Jagiello]

If you wanna talk about invasions... There was this great thing called 'The British Empire', maybe you've heard of it.

Yeah, it's called NATO now.

*America and Friends*

 

[K-64]

You know, if anyone asked me a good reason not to vote UKIP, I'd just point them at this thread.

 

[FrisianDude]

We seem to be the only ones who can control our police force...

uhh

also don't ****n list countryside when any country, by definition, has countryside. Sealand doesn't count.  And our queen is hotter than yours.

 

[pentagathus]

stuff

True dat.
Blank have you ever actually been outside of england?

 

[AWdeV]

Like absolutely none of those things are unique, except being invasion-free, for what that's worth.

Which is also pretty much not true and relies on some creative interpretations on the parts of those islanders. The "glorious revolution" was as much of an invasion as a revolution and a thoroughly succesful one at that.

And in a certain way, the raid on the medway/the battle of chatham also counts. And even if it doesn't, it's still hilarious. 

And furthermore, the only reason Britain had "no" invasion is because they're a bloody island and have a huge defensive advantage and not thanks to any kind of particular british trait or skill.


Not @ austupaio;


And a royal family really is not a distinctive trait at all. Compared to France or the USA or Germany, maybe, but there's still a few dozen royal families across the globe with ten of those in Europe alone. Just because the British old bagage counts as a billion different royal families at once doesn't make a damn difference, silly Inselaffen. And that the americans like to play disneyland doesn't matter much either.

 

[Adorno]

And furthermore, the only reason Britain had "no" invasion is because they're a bloody island and have a huge defensive advantage and not thanks to any kind of particular british trait or skill.

Naval superiority is a trait 

 

[K-64]

And furthermore, the only reason Britain had "no" invasion is because they're a bloody island and have a huge defensive advantage and not thanks to any kind of particular british trait or skill.

That, and who would want to invade a tiny island where the ruling class is so inbred it makes pedigree dogs look like they have a diverse genepool?

 

[Kentucky 『 ＨＥＩＧＵＩ 』 James]

And furthermore, the only reason Britain had "no" invasion is because they're a bloody island and have a huge defensive advantage and not thanks to any kind of particular british trait or skill.

Naval superiority is a trait 

So is a chronic lack of unique natural resources. 

 

[BenKenobi]

And let's be honest. You can't beat British History, there's so much.

To piss you off, I think any Italian would happily contest that claim.

And furthermore, the only reason Britain had "no" invasion is because they're a bloody island and have a huge defensive advantage and not thanks to any kind of particular british trait or skill.

Naval superiority is a trait 

Strait (of Dover) is a trait. 

 

[Austupaio]

Naval superiority is a trait 

Which, much like their empire, is a position they quickly lost to their own colonies.

Rule 'Merica, 'Merica rules the waves.