Yes, today is the day we should be walking the streets with big flags, waving them around and burning effigies of early US Presidents. As a nation, we should be celebrating palming off the US onto a handful of emigrants (I assume that’s a word) so they could just get on with killing off the indiginous population.
It was kind of expected that they’d end up getting bored once that little job was done and move onto each other. Of course, we should have forseen that they’d also grow tired of that and start targetting other nations (Korea, Vietnam, Iraq… the UK and Canada if we did something silly like fight alongside them… “friendly fire” – hmm).
Strange how a country founded by people just looking around for a nice new place to take over’s ended up such a political and social mess. Especially when compared to Australia – a country founded on convicts. They’ve managed not to reduce the native population to single figures, have lower crime and certainly nothing approaching the rather bad “bully boy” reputation the US has garnered over recent years.
So raise a glass, and join me in a toast as we celebrate being independant from the US for another year. Oh, and someone please tell Tony Blair – he seems to have missed that announcement.
Aussie blokes, in my experience, tend to be either thick as pigshits or very very aggressive. Not all of them obviously.
And my ideal bar would have few barstaff. Just taps on each table so you can serve yourself, and pony up at the end. Spent an evening in a London bar with taps at the end. Made getting drunk so much easier. And expensive.
But they come over here, take over our bars, block up tube stations with their huge rucksacks, take over our women … galah!
C’mon, the Australians haven’t exactly been the nicest people to Aborigines or refugee populations either. Remember the Australian navy forcibly sending a shipload of refugees to another equally-poor Asian country?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/3550241.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/3502551.stm
And given America was in the early days populated by British colonialists/religious refugees with the same empire-building mentality (which to be fair, all big nations have) then you can kinda forsee what happened 200+ years later…
Doesn’t “yo below” in Edinburgh, or the bar’s attached to “yo sushi” have beer pumps in the middle of the tables.
Having half a lager in London is expensive, never mind getting drunk.
Hey, you lived in London. If it weren’t for the Aussies, there’d be no bar staff and who’d serve your beer then?
i would have a nice huge Aussie bloke… blonde, tanned, fit and long hair…. Yummy
I would try Sushi actually…
OK, OK. BUt at least the Aussies know how to handle their beer. And rarely go postal. And don’t have a national obesity problem. And didn’t invent McDonalds. And have the honesty to call their sport “Australian Rules Football” rather than just “football”. And don’t come over here asking for directions to “Lie-sester Square” tube station. And etc etc etc.
*grin*
You’d have to get me ratted to eat sushi. Yuk.