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KIO

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Happy St George's Day to all fellow English Men and Women

This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle,
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
This other Eden, demi-paradise,
This fortress built by Nature for herself
Against infection and the hand of war,
This happy breed of men, this little world,
This precious stone set in the silver sea,
Which serves it in the office of a wall
Or as a moat defensive to a house,
Against the envy of less happier lands,--
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.

- William Shakespeare

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Happy St George's Day to all fellow English Men and Women

This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle,
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
This other Eden, demi-paradise,
This fortress built by Nature for herself
Against infection and the hand of war,
This happy breed of men, this little world,
This precious stone set in the silver sea,
Which serves it in the office of a wall
Or as a moat defensive to a house,
Against the envy of less happier lands,--
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.

- William Shakespeare
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You have to be joking, there´s nothing much ´great´ about Britain anymore. :( I stopped being proud of being English years ago. ;) I´m 9½ tenths Viking, now that is something to be proud of. <laugh>
 
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You have to be joking, there´s nothing much ´great´ about Britain anymore. :( I stopped being proud of being English years ago. ;) I´m 9½ tenths Viking, now that is something to be proud of. <laugh>
Shame on you, well I'm a proud Englishman and always will be.
What have the vikings ever given to the world? Civilisation? World order? No, **** all apart from rape and pillage although I must admit us Brits have done a fair bit of that in our long and distant past ;)
 
Shame on you, well I'm a proud Englishman and always will be.
;)

Yes , I´m sure you are KIO, but if you had left the country by choice in your 20´s, spent the whole of your working life, and the last 42-odd years in a country other than England, you might also have built up an affiliation with that country, too. Naturally I can´t deny my roots, but that doesn´t necessarily mean that I should be proud of them, I´ve been fortunate enough to have seen how one of the other halves lives, and England just doesn´t begin to compare.

Each to his own. :)
 
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What have the vikings ever given to the world? Civilisation? World order? No, **** all apart from rape and pillage although I must admit us Brits have done a fair bit of that in our long and distant past ;)

Not that distant actually! :emoticon-0105-wink:
 
RBF in "I hate England " shocker.
Surely it would be better to just not post on this thread .
Hopes Norwich fail and doesn't like England.

You can shove your twee poetry up your traitorous bum hole .<laugh>
 
That's absolutely scandalous, how anyone with a heart and a brain can justify voting Tory beggars belief.

Well, apart from the billionaire Tory donators of course! <grr>

Two sides to every story as pro Labour supporters and Remainers continue to peddle [HASHTAG]#projectfear[/HASHTAG]

If the Tories were to Privatise the NHS they would become completely and utterly unelectable overnight, unlike the Labour party they will not be shooting themselves in the foot <doh>

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4451366/Fury-BBC-News-interview-Corbyn-supporting-nurse.html

I shall be voting Tory as I always have done with a clear conscience thank you very much because as a working class man I cannot afford to vote Labour and anyway it beggars belief that anyone could vote for that traitorous lout Corbyn <doh>

P.S. Does every thread on this board have to turn into a political one? We've lost so many good posters because of these threads and yes I'm as guilty as the next for posting I know, but I think we should keep the politics all on one thread so people can avoid the bickering.

Oh and thanks for ruining this thread Cromer, what the hell your post has got to do with the celebration of our national day I have no idea !
 
Either Cromer was too young or has simply forgotten what dire state the public services were in back in the 1970s under Sunny Jim's Labour Government! Perhaps he doesn't remember the winter of discontent when even the grave diggers went out on strike and refused to bury the dead! And they have the temerity to call the Tories heartless bastards! <doh>
 
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Oh and thanks for ruining this thread Cromer, what the hell your post has got to do with the celebration of our national day I have no idea !
I put it here as it's a non-football related topic and as DH said elsewhere, best to keep anything beginning with the 'P' word all in one place - having not read through this before posting, I assumed it had vaguely political leanings <ok>
 
Perhaps we should send an image of this to that North Korean Despot, perhaps he might think twice before hitting that red button. Yeah I know it's cost a fortune and will be a damn site more when it's sister ships are completed but I for one feel a lot safer knowing our boys have these incredible vessels at their disposal in order to protect us <ok>

http://metro.co.uk/2017/04/28/brita...ew-nuclear-submarine-and-its-massive-6602900/
 
Nuclear protection <laugh>


We better throw billions more pounds at something that we will never use and if we do use them we will guarantee our own extinction.
KIO may do good football threads but his grasp on reality is peculiar.
I suggest you watch Dr Strangelove for obserdity.
 
Yeah what a great idea!

Lets scrap our nuclear weapons just at the time when rogue states like North Korea and Iran are about to get them! <doh>
We are part of NATO which basically means USA .
Obama just gave Iran the plutonium by the way.
I would put my trust in NATO to nuke Korea or anyone else for us if necessary.