Fair point. The French would remake them full of people that shouldn't be attractive yet somehow are. The Scandinavians would be all gritty, washed out colours, and a unfeasibly attractive cast. Best guess is the Germans, I have lived in Germany and the least said about their comedy shows the better.Frezzato said:Heeeey that's not fair. If it weren't for us, who would remake your best TV shows into unfunny abominations other than The Office?albino boo said:Personally, I always celebrate the 4th of July as thank god we got rid of those awful people day.Hazy992 said:We're salty over the 4th of July? That's the first I've heard of it, I don't think anyone really cares.
Wow thats going back about I haven't thought about James Burke in 20 years.Frezzato said:And I suppose most important of all for me, thank you for James Burke and his show Connections.
In that same vein I shall always be thankful for the existence of the incomparable Nicola Bryant (who is ironically best known for playing an American).Frezzato said:Thank you for opening the door for me.davidmc1158 said:I would like to thank Great Britain from the very bottom of my heart. You have provided the world with Neil Gaimen, Tom Baker (the best Doctor), and most importantly Monty Pythons Flying Circus.
Thank you.
I'd like to expand on Tom Baker by thanking the Brits for, uh...
Lalla Ward, Louise Jameson, and Mary Tamm.
That's probably for the best. I mean, I don't even touch alcohol and I know that compared to most British drinks, American beer is pretty much pisswater.Elementary - Dear Watson said:Even though it's an American event, run by Americans, the drinking will definitely be British!
Yes and Brittan would have had another set of under represented, over taxed, under preforming colonies. The westward expansion would have pretty much never been possible, because France would never have allowed the Louisiana purchase, so a great deal of NA's resources would have remained untapped at best, or in German hands at worse. Also it was England and France that caused WWII by how they stomped on the German economy post WWI. No this would have boded very poorly hat the US not been independent.thaluikhain said:The British are great, they are almost as good as Australian or New Zealanders.
But...why should the UK be upset? The 4th celebrates them not being responsible for what people in the US do.
What? If the US had been part of Britain, Britain would have done worse in WW2?KyuubiNoKitsune-Hime said:Well from the Brits: You don't give a crap about America's independence day? Well think of this, had we not split off, everything that went right with the last World War wouldn't have gone that way and you'd all be speaking German, assuming you exist by not having your parents eliminated. While you contributed a massive amount to the allied victory, remember that without lend/lease you would have been overrun. So don't shrug off the 4th of July, because us Yanks are still here for you, and we know you'll still be there for us.
(As an aside, the UK would not have been conquered regardless of the US, the English Channel was too much of an obstacle. Now, whether or not the French would be speaking German or Russian, that's another matter).
The Vikings and the Romans didn't have to contend with the RAF or Royal Navy, they make crossing an army to land on uk shores a lot trickier.KyuubiNoKitsune-Hime said:Also the English channel too much of an obstacle? Some one should have told the Vikings and Romans that before they set up in the British isles.
Lend/lease is the only thing that allowed Britain to hang on, with out it, Germany would have had all of Western Europe. People seem to for get not so tiny details like that.Frankster said:The Vikings and the Romans didn't have to contend with the RAF or Royal Navy, they make crossing an army to land on uk shores a lot trickier.KyuubiNoKitsune-Hime said:Also the English channel too much of an obstacle? Some one should have told the Vikings and Romans that before they set up in the British isles.
Also I'm confused as to your previous post saying that we brits should care about your independance day because of ww2...
Why? xD Should we start keeping track of the russian holidays too? Cos let's face it, if any one country deserves the title of winning ww2 it's the russians for beating the german army at their strongest.
Heck by the time D-day happened, it was already GG for germany, at that point it was just a race to Berlin to see if we could get there before the russians did (we didn't).
Without Russia, the allies would not have won, pure and simple, so therefore let's celebrate russian holidays from now on!
Similarly if this is your logic.. Do you expect every single country that participated in ww2 to celebrate the 4th of july too?
Honestly I'm confused, what do you want from us? For us to note down july 4th and get angry about it so OP can be right in saying we are "salty"? Or maybe for us to mark it down and celebrate it even though it's not one of our holiday and celebrates one of our historical defeats? Should we celebrate losing the 100 years war too whilst we are at it?
On the flipside, if the Uk surrendered after the fall of France and joined nazi germany....
Then allies wouldn't have won at all :O
Therefore everyone else should start celebrating our holidays as thank you for staying in the fight.
As a northerner (brit) thank you. I read somewhere that the UK has the most accent/dialects in such a small area, so hearing people say the "british accent" is sexy pisses me off. You mean middle class London accent, not Yam-yam, scouse, cockney or geordie I presume.Phasmal said:But I certainly do enjoy being British, though I don't get what the deal is with people liking British accents so much.
I didn't say anything about the lend ease or deny its existence, much less forget about it (I even mentioned it in my original version of the post before removing it as I was writing a TLDR and assumed you'd be familiar with USA's aid policies. Didn't consider you'd take me not mentioning it as ignorance on my part though). I simply suggested what if UK said "fuck it" and joined germany (existence of lend ease in this hypothetical scenario is completely irrelevant)? Why don't you thank us for staying in the fight?KyuubiNoKitsune-Hime said:snip
Ah, ok, not sure about that, but it seems reasonable.KyuubiNoKitsune-Hime said:Yes and Brittan would have had another set of under represented, over taxed, under preforming colonies. The westward expansion would have pretty much never been possible, because France would never have allowed the Louisiana purchase, so a great deal of NA's resources would have remained untapped at best, or in German hands at worse. Also it was England and France that caused WWII by how they stomped on the German economy post WWI. No this would have boded very poorly hat the US not been independent.
The Germans did not have the logistical capability to invade Britain. Operation Sealion would have had to have been Operation Overlord in reverse, and that took years of planning, massive amounts of resources, air and naval supremacy, and close co-operation between the branches. The German forces had none of that. Each branch was given an impossible task to fulfill, and without it, the entire operation failed. And that's assuming that the river barges they were going to use to cross the open sea didn't sink by themselves anyway. There are lots of very good reasons they looked at the issues involved and decided not to try.KyuubiNoKitsune-Hime said:Also the English channel too much of an obstacle? Some one should have told the Vikings and Romans that before they set up in the British isles.