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ORIGINAL: freedomdwarf1

Oh yeah!!!

For a tiny island, we don't do so bad

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Sport, empire building, tea drinking, corporal punishment....you name it, these people who we have to share this planet with us need to go.

Put them on the fuckin' moon or somewhere equally unimportant because they're contaminating our excellence.

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ORIGINAL: jlf1961

Okay, the UK is not too shabby, but let me ask you a couple of questions, considering history.

1) How long would the UK (and by extension, its colonies) would have survived dependent on convoys from Canada across the Atlantic with Karl Dönitz's Uboats playing havoc with those life dependent convoys?

2) Considering that, during the Battle of Britain, while the RAF was shooting down more Germans than the Germans were shooting down RAF planes, (even if the Brits bred like rabbits) how long would it have been before the number of pilots lost or put out of action would have crippled air operations?

While it is not true that the Americans won the war single handed, it is true that the British Empire could not have lasted more than a couple of years before being forced to sue for peace due to attrition.

So, with that being said, do you really want to stand by:

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Sport, empire building, tea drinking, corporal punishment....you name it, these people who we have to share this planet with us need to go.

Put them on the fuckin' moon or somewhere equally unimportant because they're contaminating our excellence.

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ORIGINAL: jlf1961

Good points, and while England has remained unconquered since 1066 (gotta admire great great great great etc Grand dad for that,) I do seem to recall a certain British commander so embarrassed by losing to a bunch of colonial rabble he had a subordinate give his sword to the winning general.

Not to mention a bunch of colonials and uncivilized riff raff opened a can of whupass on some Brits near a town called New Orleans a few years later....

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ORIGINAL: NorthernGent1

Not only have we produced the greatest empire that ever stalked this planet.

Pound for pound we're streets ahead in sport.

Yanks have 26 golds; we have 16.

We're a fifth of the population of the Yanks at a conservative estimate, so with your population we'd have 80 gold medals at the very least.

Americans you're shit and you're wasting our fuckin' time with your mediocre competition.

The only sporting nation that can live with us is Oz - pound for pound.

The rest of you lot - pack it in and go for a walk or something because you're massively out of your depth with the English and our prized prisoner colony.

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ORIGINAL: jlf1961

Okay, the UK is not too shabby, but let me ask you a couple of questions, considering history.

1) How long would the UK (and by extension, its colonies) would have survived dependent on convoys from Canada across the Atlantic with Karl Dönitz's Uboats playing havoc with those life dependent convoys?

2) Considering that, during the Battle of Britain, while the RAF was shooting down more Germans than the Germans were shooting down RAF planes, (even if the Brits bred like rabbits) how long would it have been before the number of pilots lost or put out of action would have crippled air operations?

While it is not true that the Americans won the war single handed, it is true that the British Empire could not have lasted more than a couple of years before being forced to sue for peace due to attrition.

So, with that being said, do you really want to stand by:

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Sport, empire building, tea drinking, corporal punishment....you name it, these people who we have to share this planet with us need to go.

Put them on the fuckin' moon or somewhere equally unimportant because they're contaminating our excellence.

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ORIGINAL: needlesandpins

OMFG, seriously? We take a little credit that our athletes, for whom we have far less than you for our country size compared to yours, that compete purely on their own merits whilst working full time jobs most of the time because there is sod all funding here the way you lot get, and you say that WE are the ones whining when you post all that clap trap? Our athletes do 'step the fuck up' as opposed to the relative grease sliding that you lot get to do on scholarships, grants, and funding

Are you bloody kidding me? You can't let us have a little glory without bringing up WW2, which you stepped in at the end after pissing your pants for ages and refusing to enter, have taken credit for ever since, have twisted facts in god knows how many films to glorify America even when you weren't even fucking there!

Now you want to take credit for everything else we have too? Well please, at least get your facts straight. You see the USA does NOT pay out 78% of the NATO budget. My 7 year old Granddaughter can work this one out, man you should be ashamed of yourself! You lot may pay more than the 27 other countries, but then you are far larger than everyone else too, so on a percentage we all pay our relative share. The budget is split in to three sections, and in total you still a whopping 22%. Taking the 2014-15 budget, and making the really silly first grade mistake of adding three percentages together it still wouldn't have made 78%

Now for the UN, at one time the US paid 25%, but now it pays 22%, because again everything is worked out on a country value percentage. So I have no idea where the hell you plucked your figures from, but seriously, get a grip on that.

As for our police force, you pay fuck all towards it. The largest proportion of our budget comes from our council taxes, and we are about to be privatized. Now even if we worked of the figures from the UN, and from NATO, considering that your over all expenditure is 44%, you're still talking bollocks.

Policing and protecting our country ... Uuummmm we keep getting dragging in to illegal wars by the US for fuck all reason other than to line the pockets of the rich in both our countries. The US does naff all for the UK except charge us for Trident that we can't even fricking use, and that none of us except our leaching Government want. Most of us would be more than happy for the US to fuck right off with it's wars on other countries, and to leave us out of it, because actually we are well aware of the fact that when it comes right down to it the US is only concerned for itself.

However, what the hell ANY of this has to do with us claiming a little credit for our athletes I don't know, but the fact that it's got your panties in such a twist that you have to pull this crap, and then claim that any of us are the whiners is amazing.

Needles

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ORIGINAL: needlesandpins

OMFG, seriously? We take a little credit that our athletes, for whom we have far less than you for our country size compared to yours, that compete purely on their own merits whilst working full time jobs most of the time because there is sod all funding here the way you lot get, and you say that WE are the ones whining when you post all that clap trap? Our athletes do 'step the fuck up' as opposed to the relative grease sliding that you lot get to do on scholarships, grants, and funding

Are you bloody kidding me? You can't let us have a little glory without bringing up WW2, which you stepped in at the end after pissing your pants for ages and refusing to enter, have taken credit for ever since, have twisted facts in god knows how many films to glorify America even when you weren't even fucking there!

Now you want to take credit for everything else we have too? Well please, at least get your facts straight. You see the USA does NOT pay out 78% of the NATO budget. My 7 year old Granddaughter can work this one out, man you should be ashamed of yourself! You lot may pay more than the 27 other countries, but then you are far larger than everyone else too, so on a percentage we all pay our relative share. The budget is split in to three sections, and in total you still a whopping 22%. Taking the 2014-15 budget, and making the really silly first grade mistake of adding three percentages together it still wouldn't have made 78%

Now for the UN, at one time the US paid 25%, but now it pays 22%, because again everything is worked out on a country value percentage. So I have no idea where the hell you plucked your figures from, but seriously, get a grip on that.

As for our police force, you pay fuck all towards it. The largest proportion of our budget comes from our council taxes, and we are about to be privatized. Now even if we worked of the figures from the UN, and from NATO, considering that your over all expenditure is 44%, you're still talking bollocks.

Policing and protecting our country ... Uuummmm we keep getting dragging in to illegal wars by the US for fuck all reason other than to line the pockets of the rich in both our countries. The US does naff all for the UK except charge us for Trident that we can't even fricking use, and that none of us except our leaching Government want. Most of us would be more than happy for the US to fuck right off with it's wars on other countries, and to leave us out of it, because actually we are well aware of the fact that when it comes right down to it the US is only concerned for itself.

However, what the hell ANY of this has to do with us claiming a little credit for our athletes I don't know, but the fact that it's got your panties in such a twist that you have to pull this crap, and then claim that any of us are the whiners is amazing.

Needles

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ORIGINAL: jlf1961

Needles, I was commenting on the "Put them on the fuckin' moon or somewhere equally unimportant because they're contaminating our excellence." statement.

As for stepping in at the "end" of ww2, well considering it lasted another 4 years after we got involved, add to the fact that the US did have the biggest part of the burden of dealing with the Japanese in the Pacific (yes, the brits and anzacs did have a large part of the CBI theater) and consider that even before we declared war, we were already putting US lives on the line escorting convoys in the North Atlantic to suppliment the fact that the RN and RCN was getting their asses handed to them due to the overwhelming number of uboats the germans were sending out, trying to make it like the UK and its empire was winning the war is pretty much BULLSHIT.

At best, the UK could have lasted maybe another year, possibly two, and the simple reason is that the supply lines to the UK stretched across the Atlantic and that was a German controlled pond.

As for your athletes, by all means, celebrate their achievements, however, you are operating under the delusion that the athletes we have are state supported.

The US government contributes practically nothing to the Olympic effort, as for scholarships and grants, hate to bust your bubble, but with the exception of basketball, all sports colleges give scholarships for are not Olympic sports.

Grants are not awarded based on athletic ability, but on academic ability.

And it was not until recent years, that the US even allowed professional athletes to be eligible for the Olympic team, which was not the same in every other country on the planet.

Finally, thanks to numerous scandals at the bigger schools, students on athletic scholarships actually have to study a legitimate course and major.

As for the rest of the claims by one of our resident socks, leave it alone.