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Franz Kafka's avatar

No matter how one tries to dress up Piracy, it always ends up with an eye-patch and a wooden leg.

I always saw the term Maritime Power as a grandiose eupehmism for the corporate Pirate trade.

Most British Pirates sailed under Royal Charter. They still do... when their ships can be floated,

JennyStokes's avatar

I left 'little britain' years ago............land of very misguided people.

I studied History in school in britain......the British always won!

Eventually they lost their Empire......why? Ignorance.

I have watched the british all over the world (yes I have travelled a lot). Ugly people and also quite pathetic when out of their sphere of influence.

I would think the british people would welcome immigrants and thus upsetting the inbred gene pool.

Take a look at Owen Jones interviewing people in Clacton......it's like Monty Pythons Flying Circus.

Discount Plague Doctor's avatar

I've found that large cities like London or Birmingham tend to be much more open minded and welcoming than the countryside. Worst place I've seen, not coincidentally, was the isle of Wight - or as a councilwoman remarked on the local newspaper, which upset the locals quite a bit, "an open air retirement home full of inbreds", which is not too much different than the average English countryside. Besides, I may be unfair, but pretty much every single Brit I've met who's not a walking caricature coming straight out of a Judge Dredd comic invariably has Irish, eastern European or Welsh ancestry, wonder why.

Gnuneo's avatar
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Because... after 1700 years of intermixing, there's barely a native in Britain that DOESN'T have Irish, Scot or Welsh ancestry?

I call myself North European. Every British nationality, Irish, plus at least Norge and Dansk, probably Swedish, plus the obvious German Saxon.

Thinking that modern Nation state borders were somehow barriers to people shagging throughout history is so 19th century.

Btw, even the locals who escape the Isle of Blight say it's heavily inbred. It was also the last Pagan stronghold in Britain. But those people are not the inbreeders. The 'turn the other cheek' Christians massacred the entire community, including the children and babies.

Just a bit of history.

Tony Leibbrandt's avatar

The intermixing has been going on a lot longer and more widely than that, e.g. the Beaker people c. 2400 BC, Celts c. 500 BC, and in the first millennium of the current era you had the Romans, the Angles, the Saxons, the Vikings and the Normans. More recently, many other European influences have entered the blood-line and most recently, IIRC, "mixed-race" marriages are becoming the norm.

As a London born "ugly" Brit, nominally English though I never consider myself such, I can tell you that I have very little of what might be considered "English" genealogy at all but plenty of Celt, Norse, Dutch, German, French, Welsh and so on.

Perhaps, Jenny's perceived ugliness is not from too much interbreeding but from too much external breeding?

Gnuneo's avatar

Well, TBF "English" genes are Danish-German genes, people who proudly proclaim to melanin-richer folk that "This is England innit, so fuck off back to where you came from!" should themselves be on the next boat back to Saxony and Southern DK.

But I don't think it has much to do with genes, except for the unfortunate few. It is the lifelong abuse and exploitation, struggling to survive while surrounded by conspicuous wealth, overwork, poor diet, little exercise, stress, which builds up in the body, and the facial muscles.

I mean, we both know, or of, people who on the surface are pretty damn physically fugly, but their inner core is so lovely, they still look beautiful anyway.

Genes are only part of the story.

Although a very useful one for the ruling classes and eugenicists.

dacoelec's avatar

You just described a majority of Boomers in Murica.

Discount Plague Doctor's avatar

Most of them of English or German descent, I'd bet.

Gnuneo's avatar

I was in Poland just a few months after the wall came down, on a student exchange.

While strolling through Krakow with my 2 female hosts and the Polish girl I'd lost my heart to, we passed an old Polish man in street, smiling as he listened to us chat in English, and as we passed, he caught my eye, and said "The women are beautiful this year!", and I understood instantly.

The Polish police were plainly terrified of the citizens, who had just risked their lives to overthrow the Govt the police were defending, a few months before.

He meant that freedom - genuine freedom, not politician's platitudes while they rob you blind and send you to wars - helps make people beautiful. They had fought The Man, and they had won!

Danes, Norgies and Swedes are the same 'stock' as most British, especially northern. Few would claim that average Brits generally look healthier and more attractive than the average Skandi.

Same genes, quite a different outcome.

What's the difference? Skandis don't experience poverty, Skandis are not ruled by a despotic Class system that takes every penny from their slim pockets. Skandis do not spend most of their lives being abused by parents, teachers, and then bosses, because such behaviour is heavily frowned on, certainly in DK.

In short, why do many Brits look worn down, strange, warped? Because they've been abused their entire lives.

And then when they feel they have a chance to strike back, to hurt the 'beautiful people', they will take it. Leave the EU; vote for the Reform Nazis and worse.

It's fucked up. On every level.

But it's still by far more fun than any of the Skandi countries. Better music, better food (try finding a quality curry in Skandi), and just WAY more edgy the whole time.

Every place is different.

But I sure wish British women looked as beautiful as the Polish did in the 90s, and for the same reasons.

Crush Limbraw's avatar

There never was a British empire - or American for that matter - they’re both manifestations or proxies of DaSynagogue of Satan - currently headquartered in DaCity of London.

The Alarmist's avatar

The original idiom, “What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander” gives a little more flavour to the concept.

Franz Kafka's avatar

Then "The well laid designs of mice and men gang oft aglay." - with apologies to Robbie Burns.

JennyStokes's avatar

Scotland has been trying to rid themselves of the ugly british for years!

Wales will follow.

Gnuneo's avatar

British STATE - the Norman imposition. As these are the British Isles, everyone is "British" whether they like the word or not.

And tbf, nobody likes the state, except the offshored banksters who soak it and the workers.

Unfortunately, Wales will not follow for too long a time, as the British state made sure it couldn't unite. To travel between north Wales and south Wales, you pretty much have to drop into England.

Scotland's freedom will lie in the EU - is Brussels any better than London anyway now? Both are just CIA front-ends, dedicated to war and the American empire.

Charles has already lost most of the goodwill his mother earned with the public, with her full support of the NHS, and welfare state.

Her eldest sons have really turned out to be entitled cunts.

No wonder Edward ran off to the other side of the World as soon as he could.

Tony Leibbrandt's avatar

IMHO, anybody who looks to the EU for salvation needs their head examined.

Gnuneo's avatar

Now, most certainly. And that seems to be getting through, one can only observe K Callous and Van dur Liar for so long without feeling queasy, unless one is already a Russophobic racist war-lover.

Even just a decade ago, that didn't APPEAR to be the case, except for those rare genuine sof-lefties who saw all this being built, and wanted out. Such as Corbyn in the UK.

Franz Kafka's avatar

Elizabeth had some saving graces. Her relatives, not so much.

Gnuneo's avatar

She was a truly lovely woman who wanted to end her reign with Corbyn as PM - and yes, I do know that personally.

Instead, to her horror, the Establishment destroyed Corbyn, and there was Liz Truss instead. She left this plane that same night she met her.

Tbf, if I ever had to meet Truss as well, I'd probably consider suicide as well.

Franz Kafka's avatar

I have to thank Truss for outing Carney as the monster that he is. That took some courage and a bit of personal vendetta. But on the whole her characterization of his Banking Tyranny in City of London could and should have prevented his selection in Canada.

His course to power was assured by the utterly corrupted and despicable Canadian Masked (Mass) Media who not only remained silent but metaphorically licked the mad, hunchbacked dwarf's boots.

Gnuneo's avatar

"Thank" and "Truss" are two words that rarely, and should probably be never, be in the same sentence. Unless its along the lines of "I want to thank the UK's Luigi Mangione for assassinating..."

Course Carney's a shit head too, it's not a 2D manichaenist equation.

Stalin and Hitler hated each other too, I wouldn't want to be friends with EITHER, lol.

Franz Kafka's avatar

I too hope that Perfidious Albion’s days are numbered. Unfortunately the cancerous “THING OF ENGLAND” - Chuck - has also metastasized British political power. Viceroys like Carney have been spread across the Empire to have one last stab at the Corpse of Victory called The Dominion.

JennyStokes's avatar

I won't use capital letters for perfidious albion: Thank you Mr. Blake for your age old insight.

The hideous history of this tiny little island still goes on.

Please Russia bomb the hell out of this white interbred anglo saxons! People in england all still look like diana......same haircut. She was a spoiled brat.

Leave Scotland and Wales alone.

Carney (Mr Canadian) speaks words because they are part of the empire. Milksops all. Take a look at Canadians!

Franz Kafka's avatar

Interesting. Where does Blake use that term?

Franz Kafka's avatar

A discussion about the origins of the useful term 'Perfdious Albion' has opened the proverbial can of worms. The usual suspects, Wiki and Grok (and Britannica), tried to limit the damage to the nineteenth century. The term actually goes back to Elizabethan England and the beginnings of MI6.

Read all about it! You will never see 'modern history' (the Bowdlerized version) the same way again:

https://www.newdawnmagazine.com/articles/secret-history/perfidious-albion-an-introduction-to-the-secret-history-of-the-british-empire