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Old 04-05-2018, 04:54 PM   #41 (permalink)
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I don't know if parts of Florida have different ideas, but as far as my area of the country it's a foreign nation, and the idea that it's legally connected to the US is kind of an odd afterthought we don't think about any more than we think about Mexico or Cuba or Haiti. Seriously we should just cut them loose cause what are we even doing having any say in their government when we just do not ****ing care?
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Old 04-05-2018, 05:00 PM   #42 (permalink)
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I have not the slightest clue what Hawaiians think about the mainland, but we continentals just see it as America. Maybe people who live in Hawaii think differently, or maybe just native Hawaiians do, or maybe everyone just sees it as another American state the same as Minnesota. TBH it's just about literally half the world away so who the **** knows what they think? At least France can see England.
If anyone wasn't aware, you literally can see the white cliffs of Dover from Calais.

I only found this out within the past year or so.

Pretty cool imo.

& There'll be Bluebirds Over the White Cliffs of Dover is such a good song. I just remembered it.
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Old 04-05-2018, 05:08 PM   #43 (permalink)
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If anyone wasn't aware, you literally can see the white cliffs of Dover from Calais.

I only found this out within the past year or so.

Pretty cool imo.

& There'll be Bluebirds Over the White Cliffs of Dover is such a good song. I just remembered it.
I knew about this for years so you're an ignorant cunt.
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I knew about this for years so you're an ignorant cunt.
True but it''s just one of those things. Had never heard it before. It sounds like one of them 'facts' that could be repeated often but not actually true though.
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I bet MLM would feel threatened if he could see the cliffs and they weren't white.
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I just want Britain to be back British.
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Old 04-05-2018, 05:58 PM   #47 (permalink)
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"Would you like to see Britannia rule again, my friend?
All you have to do is follow the worms.
Would you like to send our coloured cousins home again, my friend?
All you need to do is follow the worms."

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^ Yeah, patriotism is a sentiment that you have to monitor so that it doesn't fester into xenophobia. With that in mind, MLM is absolutely right:-

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& There'll be Bluebirds Over the White Cliffs of Dover is such a good song. I just remembered it.
Released in 1942, this song must've ripped the hearts out of the thousands of homesick British troops fighting overseas. If you are of an emotional disposition, even today you may want to get the tissues out before you click on this:-



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I knew about this for years so you're an ignorant cunt.
^ Good to see someone so openly acknowledge that regardless of how sophisiticated and fair-minded we try to sound, the rivalry of the school playground is never far behind !

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I bet MLM would feel threatened if he could see the cliffs and they weren't white.
^ Oh, they pretty much stay white, as they have for thousands of years. They are regulary washed by rain, as if Mother Nature were blessing them with tears of innocent joy every time she contemplates the blissful vista of the British Isles, etc, etc...
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Thanks for posting Lisna, really is a fantastic song.
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Old 04-06-2018, 10:43 AM   #50 (permalink)
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^ Oh, they pretty much stay white, as they have for thousands of years. They are regulary washed by rain, as if Mother Nature were blessing them with tears of innocent joy every time she contemplates the blissful vista of the British Isles, etc, etc...
Aren't they made of chalk or something like that?
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