Milestone Happy "this country exists" day!

[A Vaguely Ambiguous Username]

Canada Day was yesterday and the 4th of July is in two days.

Isn't it great to be free from the Brits?

 

[Jon]

But because we're free of them we have to say "Watch you step" instead of "Mind the gap" so.... 50/50?

 

[Ben]

Canada Day was yesterday and the 4th of July is in two days.

Isn't it great to be free from the Brits?

 

[shortkut]

 

[Mark]

Nearly half the world celebrates freedom from you fuckers.

 

[Ben]

Nearly half the world celebrates freedom from you fuckers.

To quote a Professor Elemental song; "See we used to have an empire, but we got a little cocky. Like haha, Johnny foreigner, I'd like to see you stop me!"

Not embedding the video out of respect for your holidays.

 

[A Vaguely Ambiguous Username]

To quote a Professor Elemental song; "See we used to have an empire, but we got a little cocky. Like haha, Johnny foreigner, I'd like to see you stop me!"

Not embedding the video out of respect for your holidays.

 

[Ben]

I'm not up on my history, but I believe this is how you crossed the Delaware.

 

[A Vaguely Ambiguous Username]

I'm not up on my history, but I believe this is how you crossed the Delaware.

Yes, the grill provided enough smoke to cover the forces. The scent of delicious BBQ distracted all the hungry soldiers as well.

 

[Smacktard]

I got to celebrate Canada Day TWICE this year. Take that, you damned Brits!

 

[Ben]

Spoiler: Polite war.

 

[Mark]

I'm not up on my history, but I believe this is how you crossed the Delaware.

Correct, with Francis Scott Key bumping the Star Spangled Banner on a boom box.

 

[Ben]

Oh so that's what a 'key bump' is.

 

[Ben]

Take that, you damned Brits!

 

[Mark]

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Oh so that's what a 'key bump' is.

Just be careful indulging where the song was written. No Colombian bam-bam, just fentanyl.

 

[Quagmire]

Canada Day was yesterday and the 4th of July is in two days.

Isn't it great to be free from the Brits?

As bad as things are over there, it is better than what is going on here. There they at least have health insurance, no tipping culture, women have control over their bodies, and have good public transportation

 

[A Vaguely Ambiguous Username]

As bad as things are over there, it is better than what is going on here. There they at least have health insurance, no tipping culture, women have control over their bodies, and have good public transportation

Hey don't bring reality into the fireworks party

 

[Fool's Requiem]

 

[Fool's Requiem]

 

[Crystal]

Happy "I release you from my service" day, Canadia and 'Murica!

 

[dimmerwit]

For balance I note that today is Vietnamese reunification day, when they kicked the Yankee menace out.

Or at least the top half did. Not so great for those subsequently imprisoned/tortured/fleeing in boats.

 

[Nae'blis]

Congrats on 'Murica Day!

Nearly half the world celebrates freedom from you fuckers.

Read somewhere that independence from the British is the most celebrated non-religious holiday in the world.

 

[Crystal]

Read somewhere that independence from the British is the most celebrated non-religious holiday in the world.

You're welcome, world!

 

[Ben]

Look, can we not stop this senseless slander of Britain and place blame on the true monsters?

Ancient Romans.

 

[Crystal]

Look, can we not stop this senseless slander of Britain and place blame on the true monsters?

Ancient Romans.

...did...did you just Simpsons Did It the British Empire?!? Where's your patriotism?! We have a long and brutal history to be...vaguely aware of! Romans be damned.

 

[Ben]

...did...did you just Simpsons Did It the British Empire?!? Where's your patriotism?! We have a long and brutal history to be...vaguely aware of! Romans be damned.

A) Either I had a stroke just now and forgot how to read, or that make not sentence much does sense. (the first part)
B) I mean, I acknowledge it, but if you go far enough back England was all just happy little druids until Big Rome showed up and built straight roads everywhere.

 

[Crystal]

A) Either I had a stroke just now and forgot how to read, or that make not sentence much does sense. (the first part)
B) I mean, I acknowledge it, but if you go far enough back England was all just happy little druids until Big Rome showed up and built straight roads everywhere.

a.) Simpsons Did It means when you say someone did something before that was the same. Ie:


b.) True, true, but we did totalitarian cruelty best.

 

[Ben]

a.) Simpsons Did It means when you say someone did something before that was the same. Ie:


b.) True, true, but we did totalitarian cruelty best.

I stopped watching South Park when I was 12, so no wonder it was lost on me.

Chef Aid was a banger of an album, though.

 

[Crystal]

I stopped watching South Park when I was 12, so no wonder it was lost on me.

Chef Aid was a banger of an album, though.

It certainly was!

 

[Jon]

Look, can we not stop this senseless slander of Britain and place blame on the true monsters?

Ancient Romans.

LEAVE ITALIANS ALONE

 

[Ben]

LEAVE ITALIANS ALONE

Not all Italians. Just the really old ones.

 

[Fool's Requiem]

Look, can we not stop this senseless slander of Britain and place blame on the true monsters?

Ancient Romans.

The Romans walked so that the British Empire could suck the world of its resources for its own enrichment.

 

[Fool's Requiem]

Not all Italians. Just the really old ones.

Someone posted a thread in r/movies a week or so ago wondering why Italian Americans like Sylvester Stallone and Robert De Niro are never cast to play Ancient Romans while British actors are, and they refused to accept that the Italians of today (and especially Italian Americans from New York City) are nothing like Ancient Romans. If anything, modern day Italians are descendants of old Germanic tribes as the Germanic people took over the Western Roman empire after numerous conquests. Which would kinda make British actors pretty well suited to portray Ancient Romans as they're much closer in language than Americans... and especially Italian Americans from NYC.

 

[Ben]

Someone posted a thread in r/movies a week or so ago wondering why Italian Americans like Sylvester Stallone and Robert De Niro are never cast to play Ancient Romans while British actors are, and they refused to accept that the Italians of today (and especially Italian Americans from New York City) are nothing like Ancient Romans. If anything, modern day Italians are descendants of old Germanic tribes as the Germanic people took over the Western Roman empire after numerous conquests. Which would kinda make British actors pretty well suited to portray Ancient Romans as they're much closer in language than Americans... and especially Italian Americans from NYC.

Makes sense. I believe I heard the same general premise around William Shakespeare probably sounding more like a hick from the Appalachians than your current eloquent British accent.

 

[Nae'blis]

Look, can we not stop this senseless slander of Britain and place blame on the true monsters?

Ancient Romans.

What has the Romans ever done for us?!

Besides, we should be united against a common enemy! The Judean People's Front!

 

[Jon]

Not all Italians. Just the really old ones.

Define "old?"

I'm an old Italian is why I ask.

 

[Fool's Requiem]

Makes sense. I believe I heard the same general premise around William Shakespeare probably sounding more like a hick from the Appalachians than your current eloquent British accent.

Now, I kinda wanna hear Shakespeare talk like a hick from West Virginia. Imagine Romeo and Juliet but it's all hicks.

 

[Ben]

Define "old?"

I'm an old Italian is why I ask.

Like, 2040 year's old, not 40 year old. Kinda why I specified Romans and not Italians.

Now, I kinda wanna hear Shakespeare talk like a hick from West Virginia. Imagine Romeo and Juliet but it's all hicks.

I kinda do too.

"Wherefore art thou mudflaps?"

 

[dimmerwit]

It's not really hick, more pirate.

 

[Fool's Requiem]

It's not really hick, more pirate.

Captain Barbossa

that is what I heard. Even before he mentions how other people have stated "Pirates of the Caribbean". It sounds exactly how Geoffrey Rush portrayed Captain Barbossa.

 

[Ben]

It's not really hick, more pirate.

Fair. I started to hear "English Farmer" before PotC, but it's definitely there.

 

[Fool's Requiem]

English farmer, you say?

 

[Fool's Requiem]

"Naaaah, sjusaloadofjunk."

 

[dimmerwit]

Appropriate since David Bradley lives in Stratford, where Shakespeare is from. And where my darling mother lives. And where I am now, actually.

I am channeling the spirit of Shakespeare!

(it's also right near Teletubbyland)

 

[Jon]

Like, 2040 year's old, not 40 year old. Kinda why I specified Romans and not Italians.

Yes, but those from Rome are still Romans.

 

[Smacktard]

It's not really hick, more pirate.

Oh so... just Scottish.

 

[Smacktard]

English farmer, you say?

Legitimately sounds like rural Newfoundland ers to me. Me and my friend were driving thru and stopped to ask some old fella for directions. We ended up thanking him and driving away, neither of us having any idea what he was saying apart from the odd word here or there.

 

[Ben]

Legitimately sounds like rural Newfoundland ers to me. Me and my friend were driving thru and stopped to ask some old fella for directions. We ended up thanking him and driving away, neither of us having any idea what he was saying apart from the odd word here or there.

Tangentially reminded me of the Mainer saying "You can't get there from here."

There are literally some places you've got to go like 60 miles out of your way just to cross a river, 'cause there's no other place to do it.

 

[Quagmire]

Look, can we not stop this senseless slander of Britain and place blame on the true monsters?

Ancient Romans.

My abstract algebra professor in college absolutely hated Rome and he went on about how he got a C on a paper when he was in college and his Latin class that went on about how he hated the Romans and they were savages, because they murdered Archimedes while he was working on a problem.

Also learned that Archimedes had started to develop calculus basically and I can only imagine where Math Science and Technology would be if calculus came along much earlier than it did

 

[Ben]

Also learned that Archimedes had started to develop calculus basically and I can only imagine where Math Science and Technology would be if calculus came along much earlier than it did

There's got to be soooooo much of that in history. Incredible people poised to revolutionize the world before anyone dreamed possible, then snuffed out because of ignorant dickholes.

...Just like today.

'murica survey - How many "I'm not sure that's legal" firework tents have you seen around your area? I've only seen 1, but it was basically a circus tent packed with explosives.