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From: The Winchester
Dee Mac
Many Moons ago we did a coach tour out of Auckland, NZ. ( Nice place BTW) After a couple of hours of "The British executed XX here" and/or "the English committed an atrocity here at XX" my temper finally gave way and I pointed out to the tour guide that, actually, the Brits had got rid of said Criminal Sir Fred Bloggs's grandfather 200 years ago by shipping him to New Zealand because he was a bad f**** and in fact the atrocity/crime being mentioned had been committed by one of the Fred Blogg's offsprings who by that stage a genuine Kiwi born and bred on........the coach ride got quiet after that..
We still get the blame for the fact that the Kiwis can't win the Rugby World Cup..but it's a small price to pay
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From: Australia
Dee Mac
How is what I wrote a distortion of the facts?
I wrote very little but you have read quite a lot between the lines.
I never claimed Australia's post-Federation record on equality & enfranchisement was ultra opprobrium.
How is what I wrote a distortion of the facts?
I wrote very little but you have read quite a lot between the lines.
I never claimed Australia's post-Federation record on equality & enfranchisement was ultra opprobrium.
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From: UK
Brian: Brothers, brothers! We should be struggling together!
Rogers: We are! Oh!
Brian: We mustn't fight each other! Surely, we should be
united against the common enemy!
All terrorists and revolutionaries except Brian: The Judean
People's Front?!
Rogers: We are! Oh!
Brian: We mustn't fight each other! Surely, we should be
united against the common enemy!
All terrorists and revolutionaries except Brian: The Judean
People's Front?!
Brits (and don't lets get into English, Welsh & Scottish) fighting Aussies, Yanks and maybe even throw in the Kiwis.
Oh wait, I forgot. This is ATC, where even NATS ATCOS fight each other if they are in different centres/bands/kindergarten groups
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From: Bournemouth, UK
Dee Mac, us Brits are living in a house made of very thin glass, so it's a tad risky to be throwing stones at the Aussies.
Our bad record extends/continues to the present day. Just depends on your definition of a bad record, I suppose. We might not be screwing our own (although that's open to debate) but we're sure as hell screwing plenty others overseas.
Our bad record extends/continues to the present day. Just depends on your definition of a bad record, I suppose. We might not be screwing our own (although that's open to debate) but we're sure as hell screwing plenty others overseas.
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the Brits had got rid of said Criminal Sir Fred Bloggs's grandfather 200 years ago by shipping him to New Zealand
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From: 1 german sky for europe
what was the aim of this thread? Someone's loss of sense of humour no? 
And oi REYNOLDSNO1 what's wrong with an Essex pronounciation??! There's nuffink rong about it... nah'wot i mean son....
beats Oxford and the others round the UK!
Sorry couldn't resist....
And oi REYNOLDSNO1 what's wrong with an Essex pronounciation??! There's nuffink rong about it... nah'wot i mean son....
beats Oxford and the others round the UK!
Sorry couldn't resist....
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From: Bahrain
We still get the blame for the fact that the Kiwis can't win the Rugby World Cup..but it's a small price to pay
(not forgetting that the AB's did win the first one.... all those years ago)
