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RE: Lefties are mad at British Empire tweet
August 23, 2016 at 11:29 pm
I mean... People in the USA sometimes casually refer to "the British empire" when they're talking about The Commonwealth of Nations. It's not factually correct but everyone understands they're talking about "the places the UK used to own/currently owns/doesn't own per se but still has the queen as the head of state"
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RE: Lefties are mad at British Empire tweet
August 23, 2016 at 11:31 pm
Hmmm... I didn't realize Olympics were a competition between political entities no longer in existence. Did anyone tally up all the medals won by the Mongol Empire, by chance?
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RE: Lefties are mad at British Empire tweet
August 23, 2016 at 11:52 pm
(August 23, 2016 at 11:29 pm)TheRealJoeFish Wrote: I mean... People in the USA sometimes casually refer to "the British empire" when they're talking about The Commonwealth of Nations. It's not factually correct but everyone understands they're talking about "the places the UK used to own/currently owns/doesn't own per se but still has the queen as the head of state"
I just tend to think of them as "ex-British Empire colonies" personally. That has some contextual importance in some conversations, such as if you're talking about immigration into The UK. The majority of British immigrants are from "ex-British Empire colonies", so it has historical and contextual meaning.
And I say that being born here to a family who come from one such place, so that's how I'd describe it.
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RE: Lefties are mad at British Empire tweet
August 24, 2016 at 2:32 am
Why does the sun never set on the British Empire?
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RE: Lefties are mad at British Empire tweet
August 24, 2016 at 2:32 am
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(August 24, 2016 at 2:32 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Why does the sun never set on the British Empire?
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RE: Lefties are mad at British Empire tweet
August 24, 2016 at 5:10 am
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RE: Lefties are mad at British Empire tweet
August 24, 2016 at 6:51 am
Haha 
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RE: Lefties are mad at British Empire tweet
August 24, 2016 at 10:36 am
(August 23, 2016 at 6:57 pm)Bella Morte Wrote: Here's the tweet that everyone is getting butthurt over.
Oh, I get it. It's funny 'cause you stole their land, killed their people and raped their culture.
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RE: Lefties are mad at British Empire tweet
August 24, 2016 at 11:13 am
No need to bring the American Indians into it, we're talking about Britain. :-)
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RE: Lefties are mad at British Empire tweet
August 24, 2016 at 11:14 am
(This post was last modified: August 24, 2016 at 11:15 am by The Grand Nudger.)
We were just trying to live up to the example of the fatherland. Cmon, cut us some slack.
(we did the pacific even worse than the continent, btw)
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