Probably, it's from a terrible source. But it's still likely millions upon millions.
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British have invaded all but 22 countries in the world
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Probably, it's from a terrible source. But it's still likely millions upon millions.
There's even a reason to go to war with Sweden in the subtitle.
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i know where im moving to next
Yep, people died.
More Fun To Compute
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Yes, the Swiss tried to lead the charge against the evil global Liechtensteinian menace but were turned back by forces unknown.
This word 'invade', I'm not sure you know what it means in terms of conflict.
not_so_special
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well if you learn some history about what uk did on the colonies leaves the nazis like emo school girls
it was surreal,they even use chemical weapons on his day
the thing is britain learned to have GOOD PR,others dont
http://exiledonline.com/when-pigs-fly-and-scold-brits-lecturing-sri-lanka/all/1/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/apr/18/britain-destroyed-records-colonial-crimes?CMP=twt_gu
imagine a german who post a nazi flag and his proud of their war crimes?
it was surreal,they even use chemical weapons on his day
the thing is britain learned to have GOOD PR,others dont
http://exiledonline.com/when-pigs-fly-and-scold-brits-lecturing-sri-lanka/all/1/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/apr/18/britain-destroyed-records-colonial-crimes?CMP=twt_gu
imagine a german who post a nazi flag and his proud of their war crimes?
We were taught about the British camps during the Boer War in the Transvaal/Orange Free State.
IdreamofHIME
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I'm not sure when Britain is supposed to have invaded Thailand. I'd hate to think these guys count Britain colonising Malaysia...and then some Malaysian states later joining Thailand.
Thereby technically a part of Thailand was once controlled by Britain....hmmmm.
Thereby technically a part of Thailand was once controlled by Britain....hmmmm.
Define "British food."
gutter_trash
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thank god that English became the language of business and not French
We should go back to Latin as the academic language imo.
This is simply not true, the U.K destroyed their chemical weapons in 1956. Where are you getting this from?
shadyspace
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Every country has their munters son...
Latin is for dorks and witches.
But the more impenetrable academia is, the more secure our jobs are.
GillianSeed79
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Colin Quinn had a funny bit on this. It wasn't really so much invading as it was you guys showing up with your dress uniforms and shiny swords just walking around going "Really? This is where you live?". Countries just screaming hurry up and clean up the British are coming.
Honestly, though, you guys could have done a better job at drawing maps. Iraq? Really? Who was drunk when they drew those boundaries?
Honestly, though, you guys could have done a better job at drawing maps. Iraq? Really? Who was drunk when they drew those boundaries?
GTP_Daverytimes
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No surprises
Lol, the mongols are always the exception.
More Fun To Compute
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US invented PR and mastered it way better than Britain. At least give the credit where it is due.
SquiddyCracker
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Someone please add tears and shephard's pie to this picture.
Fuckin aye.
There's even a reason to go to war with Sweden in the subtitle.
.. And those girls ain't even the allstar-babes of this country. I get a sore neck of just walking outside.
Americans get their sterotypes from the 1940's.
Oh and Emilia Clarke > all other women from anywhere. All depends on your type, I like brunettes and reheads so Swedish girls can jog on.
Patrick Bateman
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That would be so cool. And I'm not even joking.
That's typically what British history has made of it, but it wasn't really; that invitation was just an engineered pretext.
To put it in more modern terms, the Dutch enacted a regime change on the British, put their man on the throne, realigned the focus of British military power away from them and onto France and, en passant, gave Britain the liberal democracy they still cherish today.
phisheep
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Alternatively, to put it in, well less Dutch terms it was our existing liberal democracy that invited the Dutch monarch over to replace the illiberal one we had already.
Getting to sound more like Stumpy's Dad every minute.
Napoleonthechimp
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What event are we talking about here?
phisheep
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Glorious Revolution, 1688. Or apparently in Dutch terms, Glorious Invasion 1688.
teruterubozu
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They've "invaded" way more than 22 countries, if you count all the diseases they've spread during "discovery" missions.
By the time Britain entered the colony game most of the world was discovered already.
DeFiBkIlLeR
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Could say the same about America..I mean, there's always shit weather somewhere in America at any one time, and the food, well..lol...what would you guys do without the deep fat fryer and processed cheese.
Difference is we are secretely still at it. First we force everyone to buy stuff from us till they go bankrupt. Then we'll force everyone to shut down nuclear power plants. That will show them. Then we sell more stuff and BAM the world is our's. War doesn't even gets mentioned, we hate that word!
More Fun To Compute
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With discussions like this you find out that Britain has both scraped through history without taking blame for anything and at the same time is responsible for every bad that a European looking person did in the world even by neglect.
teruterubozu
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Captain Cook says LOL
Who has said that?
More Fun To Compute
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I was thinking of this and the guy who said that Britain doesn't get any shit because it has good PR.
The is the same guy who said Britain was responsible for 1.6 billion deaths in India, so I wouldn't take it seriously.
SpartanForce
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I don't know man. Maybe England had to cross some citys of Portugal to get to another Spanish partisans citys in the Peninsular War? And there's still the gold market time, Brazil -> Portugal -> England, maybe at some point there was some disagreement between Portugal and England? And there's still the times when the United Kingdom was a land of brits, picts, goidels, them scots. Maybe at some point they invaded Hispania Lusitania?
Geats, Gutes, Norwegians, Danes.
Romans did not depopulated a continent, you are right, but they did that to so many citys that is way more brutal that the British. See this: Roman genocide.
Obviously they don't get condemnation. Same for the U.S. History is made by the winners and for the winners, after all.
I think is on the time of the Boshin War, they bombed japan harbor and got together with the Imperialists, as well as the US, France, etc.
About Poland... maybe in the Jagiellon dynasty, with they foe the Teutonic Knights, the British interfere it? Hell, i don't know.
As said, the invitation of the Immortal Seven was just a part of the overall conspiracy the Dutch were already running in Britain to try and move Britain into their sphere. James II (VII) was undoubtedly unpopular and it makes an invasion a whole lot easier if you can get a large portion of the enemy to defect to your side. Hence the "invitation" by what were in fact traitors to the lawful monarch. Lucky for them, they were on the winning (Dutch) side.
The Dutch had to take Britain out of the equation at the time, invitation or not, and they succeeded. Though it never had the profound political and cultural impact the Norman invasion had, I've always found it curious that the effects of the Dutch invasion are largely ignored. Fittingly, in the Netherlands, it seems to have been completely forgotten.
You better not be American. Because they pretty much wrote the book on one-sided history.
DeFiBkIlLeR
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Anyway, the Swedes have been put on notice...
If colonialism ever comes back into fashion, the new British Empire starts with you.
I'd start stockpiling those meatballs now.
If colonialism ever comes back into fashion, the new British Empire starts with you.
I'd start stockpiling those meatballs now.
Some of the places he went were already known by certain Europeans. But yeah, he discovered a bunch of pacific islands that no one really cared about since they contained few resources or man power.
No never happen. The closes thing to this was during the Napoleonic Wars when the Portuguese royal family went to Brazil and the British joined forces with the Portuguese army during the Peninsular Wars. You could say that Portugal was a British protectorate during that period but after the royal family came back they gtfo (especially after some higher ups in Portugal felt they were staying a bit too long in Portugal) . But you can't really call something an invasion if there was an agreement between both parties. 99% of the wars in Portuguese lands (after it was a country) were with Spain/Castile and the Moors.
teruterubozu
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Yeah he was a shitty discoverer, and those Polynesians, Aborigines, Aleutians, Eskimos and Micronesians? fucking useless.
Good thing there is plenty of room on the Moon.
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