Author Topic: HAPPY BIRTHDAY (Read 8476 times)

AerialAssault · « **Reply #20 on:** July 05, 2006, 02:24:18 am »

AMERICA! (Fuck Yeah!)

VijchtiDoodah · « **Reply #21 on:** July 05, 2006, 03:03:42 am »

SLAVERY! (**** Yeah!)

Zero72 · « **Reply #22 on:** July 05, 2006, 03:34:10 am »

Quote from: Field Marshal on July 04, 2006, 10:59:52 pm

Go live in canada

What I just said was actually extremely patriotic of me.

MofoNofo · « **Reply #23 on:** July 05, 2006, 05:01:18 am »

Fireworks are illegal in sydney. (But not in chinatown for some reason

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frogboy · « **Reply #24 on:** July 05, 2006, 05:15:04 am »

Quote from: Unlucky XIII on July 05, 2006, 12:19:58 am

Wow, I really have to catch up on my history, America was "owned" by Britan once?

Why can't Australia get loose, though! Why! Why! Why!

You do know that Australia has been completely independant from Britain since 1986, right? Almost all of the Queen's remaining powers are symbolic.

SDFilm · « **Reply #25 on:** July 05, 2006, 05:26:00 am »

Yea, people are still given Member/Officer/Commander of the British Empire awards even though the Empire is now just a few random islands instead of a quarter* of the Earth that it used to be. Its more tradition and symbolism than substance now.

*Some scourses say it was a third, but I can't be botherd to look over a map and work it out.

And why are there 'Member of the British Empire' honours given? Surely every citizen is a member $:-\$ Either that or we are 'the Queens subjects'.

Well I suppose Britian has the right to show off about owning a quarter of the Earth, even if its peak was 100 years ago.

*sips tea*

Stalky · « **Reply #26 on:** July 05, 2006, 06:07:07 am »

SDFilm: It's not actually Member of the British Empire, as the letters spell out. It stands for Member of the Order of the British Empire, an order set up by King George the something in the early twentieth century. Go read the wikipedia article.

And random tidbit - Past MBE, OBE and CBE, there are Knight of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) and Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE), the two awards under which you gain knighthood.

EDIT: Just realised you're from England, so I probably sound a bit patronising. Don't mean to.

SDFilm · « **Reply #27 on:** July 05, 2006, 06:20:42 am »

Hehe, yes, but no probÂ

'of the Order of' Ah how could I forget!Â Â

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Stalky · « **Reply #28 on:** July 05, 2006, 06:49:49 am »

Oh yeah, also, the Commonwealth is pretty much the British Empire. I'm pretty sure the Queen is monarch of more countries than people realise.

Go Britain!

Le MeSsiE {neo} · « **Reply #29 on:** July 05, 2006, 07:13:46 am »

I don't understand :s
Is it National american party?

SDFilm · « **Reply #30 on:** July 05, 2006, 07:18:23 am »

^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4th_of_july

peemonkey · « **Reply #31 on:** July 05, 2006, 11:22:36 am »

Why did everyone make it about the british? On the 4th of July, the british don't fuckin' matter over here.

That One Guy · « **Reply #32 on:** July 05, 2006, 11:28:15 am »

Harpy 4th of July.

Harpy lol.

SDFilm · « **Reply #33 on:** July 05, 2006, 12:30:00 pm »

Quote from: peemonkey on July 05, 2006, 11:22:36 am

Why did everyone make it about the british? On the 4th of July, the british don't ****in' matter over here.

Aye, it did swivel away from the topic...

Vltava · « **Reply #34 on:** July 05, 2006, 01:18:57 pm »

Quote from: adder on July 04, 2006, 11:44:17 pm

Quote from: Vltava on July 04, 2006, 11:36:22 pm
Plymouth Rock is legendary. Plymouth isn't, though.
actually...http://www.plymrock.org/ and http://nanosft.com/plymouth/rock.html

I highly doubt that.

Le MeSsiE {neo} · « **Reply #35 on:** July 06, 2006, 02:33:14 am »

Ahhhhhhhhhh all right my bad :X
I just can honor you by the way of Liberty Statue.

Unlucky XIII · « **Reply #36 on:** July 06, 2006, 03:19:18 am »

Quote from: frogboy on July 05, 2006, 05:15:04 am

Quote from: Unlucky XIII on July 05, 2006, 12:19:58 am
Wow, I really have to catch up on my history, America was "owned" by Britan once?

Why can't Australia get loose, though! Why! Why! Why!
You do know that Australia has been completely independant from Britain since 1986, right? Almost all of the Queen's remaining powers are symbolic.

I thought the Govenor-General represented the queen, and seriously, I thought he had about as much say as the Prime Minister.
Eh, I knew that Australia was kind of free from British 'rule', if you must, but I never knew that was of full extent...
I blame that stupid half-assed history teacher at our school. Concentrating on the international history and the goldrush, yet not mentioning anything on Federation or anything important!

Stalky · « **Reply #37 on:** July 06, 2006, 03:49:27 am »

The Queen does have powers over her overseas realms, but she delegates those powers to her representatives. Technically the Royal family could re-establish an empire of sorts, but they don't because they're nice and believe in allowing people the right to rule themselves.

Pah to that, I say!

frogboy · « **Reply #38 on:** July 06, 2006, 04:40:58 am »

Quote from: Unlucky XIII on July 06, 2006, 03:19:18 am

I thought the Govenor-General represented the queen, and seriously, I thought he had about as much say as the Prime Minister.
Eh, I knew that Australia was kind of free from British 'rule', if you must, but I never knew that was of full extent...

Yeah, but he's Australian, isn't he? He usually only acts on the Prime Minister's advice anyway, and the Queen usually doesn't interfere either.

peemonkey · « **Reply #39 on:** July 06, 2006, 12:04:13 pm »

SHUT THE FUCK UP ABOUT THE FUCKING QUEEN, BRITS, AUSSIES AND ALL THEM OTHER BASTARDS.
RAWR

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Author Topic: HAPPY BIRTHDAY (Read 8476 times)