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Britain v Germany: Once again?
Someone sent me this email: Your view please.
Firstly, why mention a retired tennis player? Have you heard of Andy Murray? Currently world number 4, the top german tennis player is not even in the top 20! So how exactly are you good at it? And fyi - Tennis = British/French invention. Formula 1, you are kidding right? Apart from Michael Schumacher you have not even had one single champion, the champions from the last two years have BOTH been British - Hamilton and Button. England were 2003 Rugby World Cup Champions, and 2007 Rugby World Cup finalists, we were Ashes Winners in 2005 and currently holding it from our 2009 success. We were Cricket World cup runners up three times, compared to Germany's big fat ZERO!
We invented pubs, we have the right to get drunk in them, your women are all dogs. When travelling in America, everyone loved how i was English/Welsh, the world only laughs at Germany - apart from your Eastern Euro friends of which, most of them are flooding Britain and embracing OUR culture and our way of life.
England is far superior to Germany - we have better television, better music, better inventions, better sport, better food we have the world's strongest language. We are the master British RACE!
lol true. apparently the response to this email, according to my friend who sent it, was: oh just shut up. loool
having travelled through america for 6 months during my gap year, going to six states (montana, nebraska, washington, oregon, wyoming and south dakota i saw no german foods on menus or anything, but regualrly saw apple pie, chips, shepherds pie and 'england breakfast' i assumed it meant english breakfast. no german crap though... YANK! lool oj.
Data : 2009-11-04 14:49:17I think you forgot World Wars I and II, where USA and Britain twice beat Germany at its national sport! ;)
Date : 2009-11-04 14:58:52
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Date : 2011-02-15 11:17:23Euro round-up: Chance of SPAIN FAILING in 2010 WORLD CUP?
Is there a Euro winners jinx?
Just a recap on how 5 previous European winners fared in the World Cup
NETHERLANDS
Euro 1988 winners; semifinal 2-1 v Germany
World Cup 1990; second round 1-2 v Germany
DENMARK
Euro 1992 winners
World Cup 1994 qualifying failure
GERMANY
Euro 1996 winners, quarter final 2-1 v Croatia
World Cup 1998 quarter final 0-3 v Croatia
FRANCE
Euro 2000 winners
World Cup 2002 first-round flops with no goal scored
GREECE
Euro 2004 winners
World Cup 2006 qualifying failure
How will Spain 2008 fare in 2010 World Cup?
(hint: consistency problem n 'major tournament winners' syndrome)
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Date : 2008-06-30 03:33:43Would Brits agree I love Great Britain for all the right reasons?
Reason #10: Manchester Football....ENERGY
That was INCREDIBLE! how Manchester United Played that football game in Munich! Whenever you feel down, think about that victory for England and hence a victory for UK! Michael Owen's hat trick :) England 5 Germany 1!
Reason #9: British Pop and Music:
The British Invasion and the Beatles and Blur and Radiohead........and some of the most creative and energetic metal and music ever to reach the human ear.... not to mention the Moody Blues and their Days of Future Passed.....
Reason #8: BBC Radio and BBC Television:
For longer than I have been alive, The BBC has entertained even the most intellectual human minds with twists and spins on worldly events from so many angles..........and even some random little things we all don't see or seem so obvious.... like love...are brought to life on daily BBC programs. Even the most depressed individuals can escape their life's miseries with just 30 minutes of a BBC Radio 2 listening.
Reason #7: The British Education System
And I don't mean just Cambridge and Oxford, but I mean in general the British system is more creative, I'm afraid, than most of the educational institutions in the US for the average American, and it shows. The age 5 thru age 18 system in the UK is more thought-provoking and results in a level of consciousness not many obtain in the US.....and I think the Brits are happier because of it. Science, Medicine, Literature...romance...history...in volumes and volumes and volumes
Reason #6: British Beer:
No offense to my American beer, but I agree 100% with those of you who are not lying when you say my beer tastes like phizzz. When in the UK I tried the British pub beer and it was INCREDIBLE!!!! I LOVE the BEER! I love the Beer plus the whole Pub Experience, and the board games like when you bowl to the Jack and push it to the bottom, and I like cricket.
Reason #5: Because the UK is not mainland Europe, it has independent character....
yet it is the gateway to Europe's millions of ethnic cultures, creating the best of both worlds. And to me the UK is more fun....
I love the gentle rolling hills and the greenery and the sheep and the stone brick shacks.... I love how this world plays into a story book only it's living history. I like the concept of driving from the Southern tip of the UK, up from England into the Scottish highlands, to the Outer Hebrides, into Shetland and Orkney.....and the backroads and how wide valleys turn into narrow hilltops, and the cliffs by the sea.....
Reason #4: The UK has always had the highest tolerance for Free Speech (for a very very very long time)...and it was this gift of Freedom that emerged the United States... it was Britain's Magna Carta, Britain's Reformation....The rights of women as well...... this was a very British concept............Britain has not been a country to suppress human rights and freedom.... not in a very long time.... they fought major wars over this......
most British wars in their darker years were land grabs, but human dignity of the British was far fairer than many other conquerers. I give the British a lot of credit for this.
Reason #3: British shopping: I don't just mean the giant shopping mall in London, but the delicacies, the cheeses, the corner store, the style upon which things have/had been made are hard to parallel. This is becoming less true in the west though as globalisation and outsourcing has changed some things.... but British fashion is STILL really
Reason #2: British Theatre:
Some of this is still relevant, but the influence of Shakespeare and comedy and drama and tragedy and how day to day life in Britain is a continuing script of a play of a people and how they intertwine reality and legend....in the form of ....well..... having Royal Figures in Buckingham Palace performing a figurative power role as did King Henery almost 1000 years ago......
Reason #1: You can look at countries that have been conquered, overthrown, rose to the size of massive empires and then were forced to retreat.... but then there is one country that has been anything and everything a character can be.... and through its own aging...its own mellowing.... its own past lessons...... has from within..... without defeat..... without being forced to retire......
has taken everything that it is and mellowed gently into a peaceful, loving, international leader that promotes human rights and the wellbeing of others in ....
and that unitary state is the United Kingdom..... you either love it or hate it.... but looking at the countries with the power comparable to this nation, and the worst things they did in their historic years.... and then you look at Britain and you realize......Britain wasn't all that bad.... the beauty of this land outweighs the negative....
And I'm very happy there is a United Kingdom, and how it gave birth the Commonwealth nations...and yes..
and yes...the U.S.
Date : 2011-02-28 20:50:26What are we going to do now? Is it Britain’s future to become part of a country called Europe?
Or to get out and go our own way.
The world is changing….
Great change is often brought about by some kind of crisis. And we are right now experiencing an economic crisis which is far more serious than most people think. The best case scenario is that we in the uk end up experiencing a lost decade of growth, that leads to our living standards not getting back to the 2005 level till 2015. However the worst case scenario as was recently suggested by the American government- is a global economic depression.
Whether or not this happens depends greatly on whether or not the Euro collapses. A consequence of the efforts to save the Euro, is a rapid acceleration of the move towards European integration. The ultimate goal of the European Union has always been the creation of a European federal state, and the measures that are being taken to save the Euro will if successful leave Europe in a situation where the EU (minus Britain) will of changed from being a confederation, to being most of the way towards becoming a federation- as the Eurozone will share a common fiscal and economic policy. Political Union in Europe is no longer something that is a possibility in the distant future, it’s happening now, and pretty soon most of our continent is going to be a Del facto single state; and where does this leave Britain?
Well we have been side-lined on account of refusing to sign up to this-and for a perfectly good reason in that the bitter French who blamed the city of London for the credit crunch, were pushing for a Europe wide financial transactions tax which- was a crazy idea. However though the French are always stabbing us in the back, other that we have greatly benefited from the European Union especially economically, in ways that would take a very long time to explain, and we would certainly suffer greatly if we were to leave a lot more than overly proud euro skeptics let on. And in a world that is seeing the rise of countries such as China, Brazil, and India, the European Union provides us with a means of furthering our interests to an enormously greater degree than would be the case otherwise. A Federal Europe would be a behemoth with the world’s largest economy that is bigger than the USA and china combined, and a very powerful military.
If we stay out of this and leave the EU then we will suffer politically and economically a great deal. However if we become part of it then we may be making a big mistake, as they may have not learned their lesson and may continue to be too socialist and left wing etc. We may not have as much influence as we think, and it could go all wrong- what if it turns into a dictatorship or something? And there is a principle involved, we British are an island people, who are proud and independent, and the loss of sovereignty and maybe perhaps our identity too-bothers me even the union were to bring benefits.
I have seriously mixed feelings about all of these developments. Winston Churchill once said that if Britain has to choose between Europe and the open see then it will be the open sea. Well which is it going to be, Europe or the open sea- me I haven’t made up my mind yet?
Date : 2011-12-27 11:14:44
