The Mess

[Smitty-48]

Still perfectly legal to shoot a Scotsman in York with a crossbow on seeing one unless it's a Sunday.

Yeah, exactly, the King cannot boil you in oil before checking with the Archbishop of Canterbury first, let freedom ring.

[Montegriffo]

I believe it is still illegal to play football as it detracts from longbow practise unless Edward I's reasonable decree has been repealed recently.

[Okeefenokee]

You should keep that law.

[Okeefenokee]

just doing my part.

Grumps get in here quick and make one of your dumb arguments that no one can resist pouring scorn on. I've been a fool and spent half the night in the Mess and they are a couple of pages ahead.

America was never 'great'. We just had the advantage of being in a defensible location, and having destroyed the rest of Western Manufacturing in a banker's war.

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[SuburbanFarmer]

Grumps get in here quick and make one of your dumb arguments that no one can resist pouring scorn on. I've been a fool and spent half the night in the Mess and they are a couple of pages ahead.

America was never 'great'. We just had the advantage of being in a defensible location, and having destroyed the rest of Western Manufacturing in a banker's war.

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Oh that is dirty pool, my friend. I am now aligned with the Internment Camp thread. UBER ALLES!!!!

[Smitty-48]

What are doing posting over here then?

[Okeefenokee]

You got nuke, I got you. The score is even.

[katarn]

One Northern Irish, One Gibraltan and two English grandparents makes me 100% British. So long as you don't call me Welsh we are ok.

Big whoop, you could be all four grandparents from Papua New Guinea, or Kingston Jamaica, and still be 100% British.

Canada is a place not a race, British is a system of governance, not an ethnicity.

British might not be an ethnicity now, but when Boudicca fought Rome... the original British did have a celtic makeup rather distinct.

[Smitty-48]

One Northern Irish, One Gibraltan and two English grandparents makes me 100% British. So long as you don't call me Welsh we are ok.

Big whoop, you could be all four grandparents from Papua New Guinea, or Kingston Jamaica, and still be 100% British.

Canada is a place not a race, British is a system of governance, not an ethnicity.

British might not be an ethnicity now, but when Boudicca fought Rome... the original British did have a celtic makeup rather distinct.

Britannia was Rome, Rome had no ethnicity neither, it's never been an ethnicity, even when it was a Roman province.

Before it was a Roman province, there was no such thing as "Britannia", the Roma Britannia, are the original Britons.

[Okeefenokee]

Oh that is dirty pool, my friend. I am now aligned with the Internment Camp thread. UBER ALLES!!!!

In Iraq, when we got wind that the cooks were feeding us MREs and keeping lunch for themselves, we started conducting nighttime raids into their stores. They had to put a guard out at night with a flashlight to watch out for us. Think of all the ways we figured out to play cat and mouse to get them to chase the decoy away while we loaded up on food.