Unneccesary race card playing is unneccessary, and also uncool.

[the_gabih]

Yes, this is a snarky article (well, kind of), and as a English girl and a Hetalia!England fan, I must confess it smarts somewhat to be snubbed over something that we actually didn't do (Scotland has its own government, after all), or at least, for something that there's no evidence whatsoever our government was involved in.

But these responses

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[tierfal]

...that article. Like. What? XD

There's our debt in two world wars, and especially the last one. If Franklin Roosevelt hadn't prepared for years to come in on our side we would probably have lost. If we had, Europe would have been a different place.
I think this is my favorite part. Uhhhh, the way our history books tell it, we were total lazy douchebags about both of the wars until we felt like getting involved. Like, "You're what, Britain? You're getting the shit strafed out of you? You need help? Damn it, I can't hear a thing you're saying over the explosions! .... .... ...WHAT THE FUCK JAPAN. DUDE WE'RE KICKING THE AXIS'S ASS STARTING NOW."

America is the one country that makes us feel rather inferior, where the jokes about Brits hurt. Britain is the uncharismatic older brother who rather painfully insists on going around with his younger, dynamic sibling.
Are you shitting me? XD Apparently the author of this article has never seen a vast group of American girls squeal at the very concept of a British accent. XD

[the_gabih]

"You're what, Britain? You're getting the shit strafed out of you? You need help? Damn it, I can't hear a thing you're saying over the explosions! .... .... ...WHAT THE FUCK JAPAN. DUDE WE'RE KICKING THE AXIS'S ASS STARTING NOW."

Nice summarising there- and it's so true. We were fighting Germany and most of the rest of Europe on our own for a whole year before the politicians on your side got up off their rear ends (well, you did sort of help beforehand, but we only got round to paying off the debt for that four years ago, so make of that what you will). On my road there's two separate sets of flats that were built when the original houses were flattened by bombs, and it's hardly an isolated case.

/rant (no need to apologise for yours, dearie- I'm just as bad on the subject. Why I took it for A-Level I still don't understand, but it's infinitely preferable when it's laid out on paper as the 'march of democracy').