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[Korhend]

a government that's trying to imitate Churchill's Wartime Government

why would you want to imitate churchill? Thats another thing Joeb, you should be thanking the Muslims and Indians that your not speaking German now. They were the ones that did the real fighting for the British in WWII.

[Khuffie]

To those who haven't visited the UK or don't live here, believe it or not, we aren't a Banana republic. We're just a run-down nation filled with incompetent politicians, a less than efficient health care system, a strange problem with binge drinking, a government that's trying to imitate Churchill's Wartime Government in the way it tells us to do things for our own benefit, and trains that fail to run properly in rain, sleet, snow, with leaves on the track or in perfectly sunny weather.

You just described the US too .

[Alakhriveion]

We're just a run-down nation filled with incompetent politicians, a less than efficient health care system, a strange problem with binge drinking, a government that's trying to imitate Churchill's Wartime Government in the way it tells us to do things for our own benefit, and trains that fail to run properly in rain, sleet, snow, with leaves on the track or in perfectly sunny weather.

Hey, hey now, we suck too.

[Chukchi Husky]

Somebody around here hasn't watched Eddie Izzard's "Mongrel Nation", which showed how much of England's very culture isn't very English at all, what with it being constantly invaded, first by the Saxons, then the Romans, then the Vikings...

You forgot the Normans, but they could also be called Vikings... (Saxons come after Romans)

[Wolf O'Donnell]

You forgot the Normans, but they could also be called Vikings...

No, I didn't. My list wasn't comprehensive, you see. By stating that the Tower of London was built by the French, I was inferring that the Normans invaded our little island, you see.

(For a rainy, cold, isolated little island, there was a surprising number of people who wanted it, possibly because of the riches that it held).

Hey, hey now, we suck too.

Yeah, apparently much of our country got worse when we tried to imitate American policies like the privatisation of our railways. Sure, when the railway was run by the government,# the trains still didn't run on time and the tickets were expensive, but at least we didn't have horrible train accidents.

I forgot... What exactly was the original argument about? (Not the Christmas debate, I'm talking about the argument we somehow got side-tracked onto...)