[Arkley]

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You see, all empires crumble; what the ancients didn't fully understand is that to ensure it continued, it pays off to give the next guy a helping hand.

The USA seems to understand this a little more than we may give them credit for - they're certainly snuggling up to China all nice and sweet lately. They really ought to just stop fellating the various Asians to whom they owe trillions and jump back under the wonderful umbrella of imperial rule. It'll be better for everyone in the long run; a political & military union of all Western, English-speaking nations would certainly prevent a Chinese hegemony.

[Damo1155]

Scrye, on 31 December 2009 - 12:41 PM, said:

This thread is now about New Super Mario Brothers Wii

http://www.escapistm...rs-Inside-Story

Closest thing I could find which insults Maro enough...

[Corrderio]

Oh than him saying Luigi kicks more ass than Mario (which is a fact) I have no clue WTF he said a majority of the time.

[Cruzandercerberus]

Arkley, on 02 January 2010 - 02:48 AM, said:

The USA seems to understand this a little more than we may give them credit for - they're certainly snuggling up to China all nice and sweet lately. They really ought to just stop fellating the various Asians to whom they owe trillions and jump back under the wonderful umbrella of imperial rule. It'll be better for everyone in the long run; a political & military union of all Western, English-speaking nations would certainly prevent a Chinese hegemony.

Don't know if it really would. The trade deficit we have with the third world will never, ever go away. But I like the way you're thinking. Tell you what, lads. You boys work on restoring the monarchy and running the EU types out of town on a rail, and we'll go ahead and get back to work on annexing Mexico (The Spanish ruling class there is horribly mismanaging the place) to reduce the utility of Chinese labor and for the oil and Canada for the national resources (More Frogs), and then we'll get back to that dry run on The Gambia. Moving in on the Chinese's colonial efforts in Africa ought to at least give them pause. Oh, and give a shout to the Kiwis and Aussies if it's not too much trouble.

I've got the Rifles, Rednecks, and Rubber Rafts, you bring the Hooch, Hooligans, and Pith Helmets. See you at Gibraltar, cousin.

treelo, on 01 January 2010 - 09:32 PM, said:

Please remember, those stars you're all so terribly fond of are only there to blind you to the Union Jack behind them. You really should just accept the truth after all these years.

It's an evolutionary thing really.











This one follows, logically, but is really too busy for me.

[Varizen]

China won't be in charge that long. They'll wipe themselves out by turning into a country of just frustrated men who can't find women cause they threw all their daughters in the trash/adopted them out to Americans/ all the smart Chinese chicks found American men.

[Levian]

treelo, on 01 January 2010 - 09:32 PM, said:

Oh the sweet, sweet irony.

Yes, it is delicious indeed. But had I actually been butchering it (accent aside) it would have been more so.

treelo, on 01 January 2010 - 09:32 PM, said:

Ah the joys of possibly the greatest scam ever.

You see, the Spanish and Portugese got there long before we did. The Vikings centuries before that. When we finally arrived, fashionably late (a trait passed on to all Americans), it was to set up trade routes. Far from cutting bloody paths through natives as was to follow once we were rather unjustly ousted, we did what we could to cheat and swindle feather-wearing savages out of their goods in the traditional British way. A hundred and fifty years later, the American Revolution takes place, not long after we'd done such a sterling job in removing the French. Eventually, some paper was written on and you "won."

As I recall, the spanish hit South America. I know there were a few gallivanting around the Florida region, but whatever they were doing couldn't have been of real importance compared to "enlightening" the savages of South America. Now that I think about it, they did a piss poor job. As for the vikings they came, they saw, they...left? And landed in Canada mind you. I did pay some small amount of attention during history and geography unlike most of us Yanks, I'm familiar with the time line and relevance.

Now for the fun part. Unjustly ousted? Well, that's a matter of perspective. I'm prone to agree but for one thing...Parliament sent money grubbing penny pinchers over to make the crown a fortune and thought it would be a good idea to tax them extra. NEVER fuck with a greedy man's wallet. I'm thinking it won't be long before our current regime learns this the hard way too. Besides, you can hardly blame such an opportunistic breed of people for taking full advantage of Britain's focus on putting France in it's place, or for that matter France's willingness to snub the crown by helping a band of rebels. For the record, we did try the traditional British methods of dealing with the Savages. After all, we learned from you. Unfortunately the clever bastards finally caught on. Probably the end result of some bleeding heart of French descent letting the cat out of the bag.

treelo, on 01 January 2010 - 09:32 PM, said:

Actually, what really happened was some terribly cunning sod said, "Hang on a jiffy chaps. Lets see where this goes and kick those bloody frogs out of India." Whoever it was, fucking genius. You see, all empires crumble; what the ancients didn't fully understand is that to ensure it continued, it pays off to give the next guy a helping hand. Jump forward another hundred or so years of smugness at having ruined some tea and we find America staunchy defending their "former" masters in two world wars. Not to mention the continued special relationship that stems from America hurling it's military power at a sandpit while a couple of brits stand on the sidelines making some tea.

Please remember, those stars you're all so terribly fond of are only there to blind you to the Union Jack behind them. You really should just accept the truth after all these years.

Hey, we ruined the HELL out of that tea. Ok, seriously now...on a daily basis we kill enough of our own that we don't need the help of Gerries, Japs, or dune coons. In all honesty, they probably couldn't even contend but the point is we don't need them trying. In that vein it only makes sense to jump in while potential threats are steamrolling France or trying to figure out how to assault Britain. Looks like we dropped the ball with the dune coons though...perhaps after a couple hundred years people on the national stage have figured out the bait and switch tactics we've been employing. I blame France.

[treelo]

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As I recall, the spanish hit South America. I know there were a few gallivanting around the Florida region, but whatever they were doing couldn't have been of real importance compared to "enlightening" the savages of South America. Now that I think about it, they did a piss poor job. As for the vikings they came, they saw, they...left? And landed in Canada mind you. I did pay some small amount of attention during history and geography unlike most of us Yanks, I'm familiar with the time line and relevance.

Avery small amount it seems. Some dude named Chris found America, which had been lost by John; while much of the expansion was indeed in South America, Florida was colonised also. About that time the Spanish, and their portugese chums, laid claim to anything "clearly non-european" including America. Slightly cheesed off by this, the rest of Europe followed shortly after.

There is evidence of Viking colonies in North America itself though they didn't hang around for too long, something about the locals drinking watered down mead I believe.

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In that vein it only makes sense to jump in while potential threats are steamrolling France or trying to figure out how to assault Britain.

Or a few years after both events due to the Japanese invention of Surprise Buttseckso. Needless to say, we did a bloody great job of demanding you come give those Germanic blighters a jolly good thrashing before you set about galavanting across the Pacific.

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I blame France.

Agreed.

[Cruzandercerberus]

There's no need to give the people taking over the former empire a hand. Left alone it's sort of a trickle up enrichment program, where a progressively smaller and smaller group climbs onto the dead backs of the group below. It's sort of like how Jews made neat conical piles in the death chambers of Auschwitz in an attempt to escape the rising gas. It's a real set it and forget it kind of genocide.

Sorry about the assistance in WW2 though. That was a real bonehead move on our part.

[treelo]

It's cool, we all make mistakes from time to time.

[Levian]

treelo, on 03 January 2010 - 04:35 PM, said:

Avery small amount it seems. Some dude named Chris found America, which had been lost by John; while much of the expansion was indeed in South America, Florida was colonised also. About that time the Spanish, and their portugese chums, laid claim to anything "clearly non-european" including America. Slightly cheesed off by this, the rest of Europe followed shortly after.

Didn't I cover the underlined part somewhere? I'm too drunk to go back and actually look, but I could've swore I did...Oh well, once again I blame France, though it's almost too easy to blame everything on those cheese eating surrender monkeys.