List of völkisch platitudes invoked by David Cameron to pretend it's still 1907

We are very proud of everything we do as a small island

ninth largest island in the world

helped to abolish slavery is some breathtaking chutzpah

did he say THE proudest history? dear fuck

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An enlarged heart isn't something to be proud of iirc

http://www.anglonautes.com/history/hist_uk_slave/uk_slave_ill_ship_brookes.jpg

An enlarged heart isn't something to be proud of iirc

We are the fatsos of Europe after all

http://eil.com/images/main/Morrissey+-+Irish+Blood,+English+Heart+-+7%22+RECORD-280158.jpg

that has helped to clear the European continent of fascism

so many ifs and buts but i feel sure that had the British government not been so hostile to the Soviet Union and its beastly politics in the 1930s a treaty cd probably have been arrived at that would have squished the Hitler state at its first territorial aggression

so david cameron is the prime minister of the uk? sounds like a tough job.

feel like he can probably stick his music that delights the world right up his arse

http://www.sikhdharma.org/files/images/Bhupinder%20/Lt.Gen.Bhupinder-Singh-Belgium-april-1915..jpg

I like to mix it up, I like to do stuff

that still today is responsible for art, literature

Sounds like an indictment

and so modest and unassuming with it

if by "prouder history" he means "fucked up more countries/indigenous peoples" he cd be on to something

Is this Cameron attempting to head Boris off at the (khyber) pass?

helped to abolish slavery is some breathtaking chutzpah

― ... Jenkinson ... ... ... ... ... ... Özil ... ... (imago), Friday, 6 September 2013 15:39 (13 minutes ago)

these things are unfortunate, but what the revisionist won't tell you is the the united kingdom was the most prolific slave trading nation of the 18th century with consistently high year on year growth and a light regulatory framework that was the envy of the world

The Zong massacre was the killing of approximately 142 enslaved Africans by the crew of the slave ship Zong in the days following 29 November 1781.[note 1] The Zong was owned by a Liverpool slave-trading syndicate that had taken out insurance on the lives of the slaves. When the ship ran low on water following navigational mistakes, the crew threw some of the slaves into the sea to drown. The owners of the Zong made a claim to their insurers for the loss of the slaves. When the insurers refused to pay, the resulting court cases held that in some circumstances the deliberate killing of slaves was legal, and that insurers could be required to pay for the slaves' deaths.

I maintain that the impact on thousands of jobs in the whip-making industry was not adequately considered.

Slaves and drug dealing - two of Britain's greatest money spinners

And as soon as they abolished slavery they replaced it with indentured labour.

or "Welfare to Work" as it was known at the time

sort of tired of reiterating the ills of the national past but when officers of state are reheating this rose tinted shit for global consumption then it needs to be done

not to invoke some sort of ilm style proudest history trading card dogshit but to invalidate the notion of any national history being proud

Thing is this sort of Scrappy Doo bullshit gives a lot of voters a massive boner, especially when attempting to smack down a country as obviously shitty as Putin's Russia.

dmac's line about it either being all blood-money, or none (clue: it's all)

possibly the history of all nations is partly the history of the peoples that got stomped in order for the nation to form itself

iceland probably has quite a proud & egalitarian history if you're not a whale. those vikings were awful rowdy tho

yeah maybe, i guess in cases where there was nobody to exclude/eradicate things cd be more chill

You can quibble about many of these but the fourth best-funded military is kind of hilarious yet utterly contemptible

that has invented most of the things worth inventing ??!!

Most countries' histories are annals of misdeeds dressed in self-pity and self-regard

i want to avoid the "we're all as bad as one another" thing tho because clearly some nations have been considerably more impressive forces for misery and destruction than others

bring back lbzc for this banner day

incredible stuff from cameron

Jews in the flesh materialized as Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany in the 1930s. Most of the refugees moved on to other countries, and some were even expelled or deported. In the postwar period, Jews living in Iceland remained an isolated group. They quickly realized that most Icelanders showed no concern about the sufferings some of them had undergone during WW II. Members of the prewar Icelandic Nazi Party became high-ranking officials, war criminals found safe haven in Iceland, and an odd, social-democratic politician even engaged in publishing an anti-Semitic journal along with the Protocols of the Elders of Zion in Icelandic. Possibly because of anti-Semitic sentiments, some Jews in Iceland tried to conceal their Jewish background altogether. At present, the small Icelandic Jewish community keeps a low profile amid rising anti-Semitism centered on the Middle East.

i want to avoid the "we're all as bad as one another" thing tho because clearly some nations have been considerably more impressive forces for misery and destruction than others

― iMacaroon dragoons (Noodle Vague)

efficiency is all

dmac's line about it either being all blood-money, or none (clue: it's all)

― ... Jenkinson ... ... ... ... ... ... Özil ... ... (imago),

wasn't this........about football

football is as close to a perfect microcosm of international relations as has been invented (by the british)

i can't decide which you're worse at tbph but agreed

Maybe Cam should just have gone "say hi to that pussy Arshavin" and left it at that.

the fourth best-funded military is kind of hilarious yet utterly contemptible yeah cuz by prefacing it with 'sixth largest economy' he seems to be happy with spending a disproportionately high amount of gdp on fighter planes

Aw "small island" that's so cute. Sort of reminds me of the "sleeping giant" rhetoric you get in the US from time to time. (moar like sleepwalking giant with violent night terrors, amirite?)

i thought the Mongols invented football?

the 'fourth best-funded military' one is hitting me really hard, in a 'doesn't it matter if we all die' kinda way

"and we need that big army cos we've got a lot of enemies around the world from all those nations that we've done so much to help"

Noodle, I think different generations may claim to be part of a national narrative but they're really just winging it and some of them really are worse than others but there's a very good chance that at some point, past, present or future, your 'nation' will be conspicuously nasty.

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"the 'fourth best-funded military' one is hitting me really hard, in a 'doesn't it matter if we all die' kinda way"

note how carefully he avoids any claim as to the actual effectiveness of this crack force that we chased all the way back to dublin with a few pitchforks and two unloaded revolvers as far back as 1921

I suppose Putin could retaliate by pointing out Russia's sterling work in ending gulags as well.

also, what makes a diplomat effective? lugubriousness?

fourth best-funded military cracks me up because it's like saying you can't win the league but only three other clubs have a bigger payroll. Back during the Gulf War, they'd at least mouth off about the value of British discipline despite not having all the American gadgets or whatever...

Holding out for a Cassette Boy treatment of this speech by the way.

tbf the US army outscores us on crazed massacres of local civilians out there too

yeah not really

ya but the yanks never inflicted cricket on anyone

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"Britain may be a small island, but I would challenge anyone to find a country with a prouder history, a bigger heart"

i was thinking of the current oil-control operations in central Asia

i'm gonna call a score draw on illegal use of torture tho

all this on the day england fuck up some slavs 7-0. fear us, russia

Has anybody seen the Romanian tourism ad campaign?

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In the heart of Britain
The big heart of England
Lee Coopers [en effuse/on a fuse]
The Birmingham School of Business School

all this on the day england fuck up some slavs 7-0. fear us, russia

― ... Jenkinson ... ... ... ... ... ... Özil ... ... (imago), Friday, 6 September 2013 16:23 (3 minutes ago)

moldova is less than a quarter slavic by population

nilmar you must give me the minutest credit due for slipping into 'a certain' register

moldova is largely romanian/greek iirc, but CLOSE ENOUGH to commieland amirite

trenchant social fuckwittedness

the empire always took good inventories of those it was about to annihilate so i shan't have the aspersion of ignorance cast upon the national project

that's a good point, in fact. pedantry being one of the endearing facets of colonialism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martial_Race#In_British_colonial_times

"According to a 2011 WHO report, Moldova consumed the highest amount of alcohol per capita in the world in 2005"

673 Hottentots were summarily Shot to Death under the command of Cllr. James Efferidge of the 9th Battalion, after it was Alleged that One had Offended a Lady

that massacre got a respectable 8.7/10 on www.hottentot.com

hottentotornot.com shurely?

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hottentotatoes.com

That's the thing, though. Cameron doesn't have the steely pedantry of a real baby-killing colonialist, but the pathetic vague fecklessness of the bystanding Richard Hammond

...hence, when Walcott slides the fourth goal past Vlad Kutyakokov, he'll probably chew an After Eight with that little bit of extra vindictive contentment

this isn't the greatest thread in the world honestly

it's the best a scrappy little island can do

http://www.familyholiday.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Caribbean-Islands-Holidays-Anguilla_22.jpg

I used to have this map on my wall as a kid. I suppose many others did? Just kind of depressing that it didn't even seem strange.

Oh, and fourth best-funded navy ftw.

Military, sorry.

how old are you? i don't imagine it was too common

I'm about 33. I think it came out of a newspaper - most of those kind of things stuck to my wall did.

telegraph or mail?

My Dad was (is?) a Telegraph reader. And the Sunday Post, lol. But it was one of those things relatives would do, save up a 4 part poster with pictures of birds on it and give them to you.

that has invented most of the things worth inventing ??!!

Well I suppose Scotland is British... for now

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I love the idea of trying to rouse popular passions by citing the effectiveness of your diplomats.

voted for 'britain is an island'

voted for diplomats because it's the closest option to shopkeepers

Easy when you're number one
Everybody say you're having fun
Smiling for the public eye
When your body say you want to die
Living on an island
Looking at another line
Waiting for my friend to come
And we'll get high

Hugh he got a real nice place
Cruxie gonna be there soon
And I just want to see his face
I'm getting lonely in my empty room
Living on an island
Working at another line
Waiting for my friend to come
And we'll get high

Passing time away in blue skies
Thinking of the smile in her eyes
Easy, it's easy

Living on an island
Oh boy, we're having fun
Living on an island
Thinking 'bout the things I've done
Living on an island
Searching for an other line
Waiting for my friend to come
And we'll get high
Waiting for my friend to come
And we'll get high
I said we're gonna get high
Yeah, we're gonna get high
We're gonna touch the sky
Sky...sky...sky...sky...sky...sky...

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