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Post Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2022 5:40 am 
 

Wishing you's all best wishes and good times from my little corner of the world. Happy 4th of July.  :-D


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Post Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2022 8:12 am 
 

Thanks!  Already firing up the grill :)!

  

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Post Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2022 10:11 am 
 

Happy 4th!  Here's to hoping we can all find some common ground in these troubled times.  Looks to be gorgeous day in NY. Be safe people.
A serious question.  At one time England ruled or controlled a large part of the world.  I have never seen an English history book so I'm curious how much time/space is given to losing control over the colonies. Obviously important day in American history but I could see it being just a chapter or two in an English text.  

Edit: obviously historians have looked at both sides of the events in great detail, my question was more along the lines of teachings in grade/secondary schools.

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Post Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2022 11:09 am 
 

Skullhammer wrote in Happy 4th of July Folks!:Thanks!  Already firing up the grill :)!


At 7am?  oh my...  :D

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Post Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2022 12:02 pm 
 

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At 7am?  oh my...  :D

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Post Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2022 3:21 pm 
 

Sir Kill Alot wrote in Happy 4th of July Folks!:Edit: obviously historians have looked at both sides of the events in great detail, my question was more along the lines of teachings in grade/secondary schools.

Kids in the UK are taught that the UK’s view of the world is superior to all others because we are morally better people, kinder and more generous, and that’s why everyone considers the UK a utopia and move heaven and earth to get here.

It’s the UK exceptionalism doctrine. I believe others have copied and adapted it to their own countries, which only goes to show (so the story goes) just how exceptional our education system really is.

Our kids generally as as ignorant as most people you’re likely to meet. They are as gullible as any, as susceptible to buy into any political doctrine that absolves them of the need to use their brain and provides them with an excuse for not excelling at anything.

I suspect there’s nothing here that surprises anyone.

Of course, there’s no way we will ever teach our children about what we really do to people, what we have done to people in the past, or how the world around them operates. To be fair though, most parents in the UK are just as ignorant and haven’t a clue about British history. Something like 1 in 10 reads 1 or more books a year. With the average IQ in the UK only in double figures, and 9 in 10 unable to read a single book in a whole year, our kids educations are being destroyed by their mums and dads.

One throwback to our colonial days is that those immigrants who come into the UK from our former colonies (and other outlying nations) generally have a higher IQ than their native borne British counterpart. The come here with qualifications and motivation to learn and prosper. The push the average IQ in our society up. Imagine how dumb the UK population average would be without immigration to keep up in the high double digits!


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Post Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2022 3:52 pm 
 

Sir Kill Alot wrote in Happy 4th of July Folks!: At one time England ruled or controlled a large part of the world.  I have never seen an English history book so I'm curious how much time/space is given to losing control over the colonies. Obviously important day in American history but I could see it being just a chapter or two in an English text.


That's called the James Bond/007 franchise. If they no longer rule the world, they can still imagine that they control everything secretly.

  

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Post Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2022 6:30 pm 
 

sauromatian wrote in Happy 4th of July Folks!:That's called the James Bond/007 franchise. If they no longer rule the world, they can still imagine that they control everything secretly.


Isn’t that one of the big conspiracy theories Alex Jones and the horses on his ranch bang on about all the time, and that nutter Chris Duane who thinks the UK Royal Family rule the world. I think they are all puppets. They only do what the aliens in Antarctica tell them to do.


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Post Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2022 7:08 pm 
 

mbassoc2003 wrote in Happy 4th of July Folks!:Isn’t that one of the big conspiracy theories Alex Jones and the horses on his ranch bang on about all the time, and that nutter Chris Duane who thinks the UK Royal Family rule the world. I think they are all puppets. They only do what the aliens in Antarctica tell them to do.


Alex jones has been getting his orders from G.W.A.R.?!

  

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Post Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2022 7:33 pm 
 

sauromatian wrote in Happy 4th of July Folks!:
Alex jones has been getting his orders from G.W.A.R.?!


I have no idea what the hell you guys are talking about...ranch banging aliens from Antarctica sounds like a bad porn movie from the 80's.   :D

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Post Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2022 11:18 pm 
 

Happy 4th! :)

  

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Post Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2022 3:27 am 
 

What is GWAR? AJ just went mental. Taking too much of his own homeopathic products maybe?


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Post Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2022 10:29 am 
 

mbassoc2003 wrote in Happy 4th of July Folks!:What is GWAR? AJ just went mental. Taking too much of his own homeopathic products maybe?


GWAR is a heavy metal band.  I love my metal music but I can't take their stuff for more than 2 minutes.  They are definitely an acquired taste.  Their videos are something out of a larper's  nightmare.  8)

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Post Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2022 12:45 pm 
 

Ah. An acquired taste. Like 12 oz. Mouse.


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Post Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2022 9:19 pm 
 

mbassoc2003 wrote in Happy 4th of July Folks!:Ah. An acquired taste. Like 12 oz. Mouse.


I would drink a pint of camel piss before I watched another episode of that show.   PDT_Armataz_01_27

  
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