If Britain really wanted revenge against America

[Max]

Then we wouldn't send redcoats, we'd send the SAS Or SBS.:unibrow:

http://www.southparkzone.com/episode.php?vid=1104

[drone_pilot]

If Britain really wanted revenge against America

We've got it why do you think Beckhams there.:snf (41):

[Max]

Good point.

We should give them the whole sport of football, there buying our clubs anyway so we might as well.

[shytalk]

We've got it why do you think Beckhams there.:snf (41):

OK we give in.:PDT_Aliboronz_24:

[drone_pilot]

Revenge for the Boston Tea Party:PDT_Aliboronz_24:

[Tex]

Revenge for the Boston Tea Party:PDT_Aliboronz_24:

Hey man, that was the Indians who dumped your tea in the harbor, seriously.;)

[billo]

I've found that you can really annoy Americans by suggesting that their war of independence was in fact The Second English Civil War :D

[Sloyne]

I've found that you can really annoy Americans by suggesting that their war of independence was in fact The Second English Civil War :DIn fact it was not the revolution Americans think it was. The revolution/rebellion was a group of land owners, merchants and slave owners who baulked at paying taxes for their own protection. They, the rebels, had no problem with British soldiers and sailors giving their lives for their protection and that of Britain and it's other possesions or for UK businesmen paying taxes to the same end. However, when asked to contribute to their own defence through taxation they entered into a traitorous agreement with the enemy King of France to the detriment of their fellow Britains.

Likewise with their, much heralded, constitution that declared "All men are created equal", with the following exceptions; women, the landless, tradesmen, farmhands, peasants, indentured servants, immigrants, natives and slaves, among others.

[billo]

I heard a piece of trivia the other month. After their independence the new congress had a vote on whether to adopt German as the official language, it was defeated by only two votes, imagine what could have happened during the two wars if they had felt any kinsmanship with Germany? or formed a 'special relationship' on the basis of a shared language like they have with us.

[Sloyne]

Imagine what could have happened during the two wars if they had felt any kinsmanship with Germany? or formed a 'special relationship' on the basis of a shared language like they have with us.Well, as for WWII they would have had to enter that conflict a lot earlier than they did to make any kind of a significant difference to the outcome. Remember, Germany had been halted on all but one front. The one front where they still held sway was on the sea with their U-Boat war against allied merchant shipping. They, the Nazis, had been fought to a standstill by the Red Army led by Molotov, Zukov and Timoshenko at Stalingrad, Leningrad and Moscow, Bernard Montgomery had deafeated Irwin Rommel in North Africa, the RAF had chased the Luftwaffe from the skies of Britain, Josip Broz Tito, a Croat and his rag-tag army of Serb partisans were holding four German divisions in the Balkans and the communist Marquis, or French Resistance, was, as well as keeping Britain supplied with vital information, inflicting major damage on the occupying Germans. All this before the USA entered the war proper.

[Ged]

Though they did have servicemen fighting in the battle of Britain.

[Sloyne]

Though they did have servicemen fighting in the battle of Britain.Yes, volunteers, as was many other "neutrals". The USA didn't enter the war against Germany until after their naval base at Pearl Harbour in their Hawaiian colony was attacked by the Japanese on December 7, 1941. The 'Battle of Britain' was, according to historians, fought from June 1940 and ended in May of 1941, a full six month before the attack on Pearl Harbour which precipitated the US entry into the European conflict.

PS: A thing to note is that most, but certainly not all, "American" volunteers to the Allied cause before the US entry into the conflict were either naturalised US citizens or first generation Americans whose ancestral origin was from the nations attacked and/or occupied by the Germans.

[Ged]

And the rest were all copping off at the nightclubs near Burtonwood.

[ChrisGeorge]

There's a great cartoon in today's Washington Post:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/183/484104832_c319de2e7e_o.gif

[ChrisGeorge]

I heard a piece of trivia the other month. After their independence the new congress had a vote on whether to adopt German as the official language, it was defeated by only two votes, imagine what could have happened during the two wars if they had felt any kinsmanship with Germany? or formed a 'special relationship' on the basis of a shared language like they have with us.

Hi Billo

Here in Baltimore there were German language newspapers and a "Schutzen Park", Oktoberfest is very big still, and the German Society is thriving. There was a mansion called the Deutscheshaus where the German Bund met in the 1930s. On the other hand, the St. George's Society and the St. Andrew's Societies were also very strong and a number of members joined up with Commonwealth countries, often Canada, before the US joined the war.

Chris

[Sloyne]

Here in Baltimore there were German language newspapers and a "Schutzen Park", Oktoberfest is very big still, and the German Society is thriving. There was a mansion called the Deutscheshaus where the German Bund met in the 1930s. On the other hand, the St. George's Society and the St. Andrew's Societies were also very strong and a number of members joined up with Commonwealth countries, often Canada, before the US joined the war.Not to mention the large German community in Pensylvania which gave rise to the term, Pensylvania Dutch (Deutsch). Here in Canada we have a town steeped in the Bavarian traditions which underwent a name change from Berlin to Kitchener due to the First World War. Oktoberfest is still celebrated in a big way in the town.

[MariaC]

Just thinking about all the countries who have been at war with America and how well they have done afterwards, when they lost. Owing to American Aid, Germany and japan have done really well.

My first thought was that the UK should declare war on America and then get American aid?

But No! knowing our luck we would probably win and inherit all of their problems. > Back to the thinking board :PDT_Aliboronz_24:

[naked lilac]

Just thinking about all the countries who have been at war with America and how well they have done afterwards, when they lost. Owing to American Aid, Germany and japan have done really well.

My first thought was that the UK should declare war on America and then get American aid?

But No! knowing our luck we would probably win and inherit all of their problems. > Back to the thinking board :PDT_Aliboronz_24:

Yeah steven.. think you need to clean your thinker:PDT_Aliboronz_24: