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What have the British ever done for us?
Feb 12th, 2018 at 10:35am
 
Apart from the abolition of slavery, the common law, Westminster democracy, the steam engine, Protestantism, mechanized agriculture, the English language, the exposure of foreign cultures, the public health system, the welfare state, and the constitutional monarchy....

What have the British ever done for us?
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Reply #1 - Feb 12th, 2018 at 10:51am
 
Auggie wrote on Feb 12th, 2018 at 10:35am:
Apart from the abolition of slavery, the common law, Westminster democracy, the steam engine, Protestantism, mechanized agriculture, the English language, the exposure of foreign cultures, the public health system, the welfare state, and the constitutional monarchy....

What have the British ever done for us?

And the sanitation. Oh yes... sanitation, Reg, you remember what the city used to be like.
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Reply #2 - Feb 12th, 2018 at 10:51am
 
The aquaduct?
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Reply #3 - Feb 12th, 2018 at 10:56am
 
.. apart from the roads, and law and order, and sheep on the table, and sewerage, and tin roofs that aren't humpies made of bark, and international trade, and money, and liquor and beer and wine, and fancy cars, and land rights... what.. WHAT.. I ask you.. WHAT have the British ever done for us?

Women can vote!

But we beat them to that, Reg.... what else?

I know - the idea that women could vote.... they gave us that, all right!

Always one to stick to the negative outcomes, Reg... get over it!  Worst thing they ever came up with!
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Reply #4 - Feb 12th, 2018 at 11:02am
 
And it's safe to walk in the streets at night now.

Undecidedum, I'll skip that one.
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Reply #5 - Feb 12th, 2018 at 11:08am
 
I wonder what Phil has to say about all this.
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Auggie wrote on Feb 12th, 2018 at 11:08am:
I wonder what Phil has to say about all this.


They put the Blacks in their place?
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Reply #7 - Feb 12th, 2018 at 11:42am
 
Auggie wrote on Feb 12th, 2018 at 11:08am:
I wonder what Phil has to say about all this.




Who cares?  Wink
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Reply #8 - Feb 12th, 2018 at 11:44am
 
Well they did take this fine country away from the boongs and had a good go at wiping them out, I'd call that a great accomplishment.
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Dr Mengele wrote on Feb 12th, 2018 at 11:44am:
Well they did take this fine country away from the boongs and had a good go at wiping them out, I'd call that a great accomplishment.


A Cuban man told me that in Cuba there is a statue of the last aboriginal to survive. The Spanish were quite thorough compared to the British.
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Reply #10 - Feb 12th, 2018 at 3:06pm
 
Auggie wrote on Feb 12th, 2018 at 10:35am:
Apart from the abolition of slavery, the common law, Westminster democracy, the steam engine, Protestantism, mechanized agriculture, the English language, the exposure of foreign cultures, the public health system, the welfare state, and the constitutional monarchy....

What have the British ever done for us?


Colonialism, slavery, stealing the wealth of third world countries, Genocide, perverting historical records to hide their crimes.
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Grappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Feb 12th, 2018 at 10:56am:
.. apart from the roads, and law and order, and sheep on the table, and sewerage, and tin roofs that aren't humpies made of bark, and international trade, and money, and liquor and beer and wine, and fancy cars, and land rights... what.. WHAT.. I ask you.. WHAT have the British ever done for us?

Women can vote!

But we beat them to that, Reg.... what else?

I know - the idea that women could vote.... they gave us that, all right!

Always one to stick to the negative outcomes, Reg... get over it!  Worst thing they ever came up with!


Reg?
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Reply #12 - Feb 12th, 2018 at 3:13pm
 
Aussie wrote on Feb 12th, 2018 at 3:11pm:
Grappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Feb 12th, 2018 at 10:56am:
.. apart from the roads, and law and order, and sheep on the table, and sewerage, and tin roofs that aren't humpies made of bark, and international trade, and money, and liquor and beer and wine, and fancy cars, and land rights... what.. WHAT.. I ask you.. WHAT have the British ever done for us?

Women can vote!

But we beat them to that, Reg.... what else?

I know - the idea that women could vote.... they gave us that, all right!

Always one to stick to the negative outcomes, Reg... get over it!  Worst thing they ever came up with!


Reg?


Reginald ... Reg... out of Monty Python Life of Brian.... the People's Liberation Front meeting...


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Reply #13 - Feb 12th, 2018 at 3:14pm
 
Grappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Feb 12th, 2018 at 3:13pm:
Aussie wrote on Feb 12th, 2018 at 3:11pm:
Grappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Feb 12th, 2018 at 10:56am:
.. apart from the roads, and law and order, and sheep on the table, and sewerage, and tin roofs that aren't humpies made of bark, and international trade, and money, and liquor and beer and wine, and fancy cars, and land rights... what.. WHAT.. I ask you.. WHAT have the British ever done for us?

Women can vote!

But we beat them to that, Reg.... what else?

I know - the idea that women could vote.... they gave us that, all right!

Always one to stick to the negative outcomes, Reg... get over it!  Worst thing they ever came up with!


Reg?


Reginald ... Reg... out of Monty Python Life of Brian.... the People's Liberation Front meeting...


Sooooooo....what's the connection to the Thread?

Huh
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Reply #14 - Feb 12th, 2018 at 3:20pm
 
Unforgiven wrote on Feb 12th, 2018 at 3:06pm:
Auggie wrote on Feb 12th, 2018 at 10:35am:
Apart from the abolition of slavery, the common law, Westminster democracy, the steam engine, Protestantism, mechanized agriculture, the English language, the exposure of foreign cultures, the public health system, the welfare state, and the constitutional monarchy....

What have the British ever done for us?


Colonialism, slavery, stealing the wealth of third world countries, Genocide, perverting historical records to hide their crimes.


They brought peace.... most of their law they turned against the Whiteys to keep them in line... look at what they done to Ned Kelly...  you didn't see that done to them Kaffirs out there who weren't even considered citizens, do you?

Face it - the Blacks were irrelevant and the British at least brought some peace to their little warring bands fighting over kangaroo rights at the billabong like savages ...... pounding on their womenfolk in more ways than one .... everywhere the White Man went the Blacks were enlightened.. sometimes physically by mixing genetic material...... you know... coupla years out there in the donga and every Gin looks white as snow.... same colour inside and Whitey didn't beat 'em up as much.

Not a girl over fifteen in Moree has her front teeth... they're whupped out of 'em .... and an Aboriginal I respected told me that..... died of a heart attack at 42.. poor buggar...
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