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Related: About this forumThis perfectly sums up why we are where we are on Brexit...
This is why we can't have nice things.. .
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This England fan in Prague this afternoon 😳 #EnglandAway
So they went all the way to Prague to hang an English flag on an Irish pub and fucked it up. Embarrassing in the extreme - our reputation abroad is shit enough as it is... reinforcing Brexit and not in a good way.
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This perfectly sums up why we are where we are on Brexit... (Original Post)
Soph0571
Oct 2019
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TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)1. How the fuck did Britain run an empire?
Soph0571
(9,685 posts)2. Gun powder....
Heh - and those advocating for Brexit think we can somehow restore Empire... morons
DonCoquixote
(13,716 posts)3. the answer
Badly, which is why everyone from The Indians to the Irish to the Zimbabweans us Yanks eventually kicked them out!
Denzil_DC
(8,001 posts)4. I gotta admit,
I could see the twit on the left reaching up for that overflow pipe or whatever it was, and what followed fulfilled my expectations.
mitch96
(14,716 posts)5. I wonder if these guys are fired up by Putin's troll farm..
Putin hates the UK and rumor has it that his facebook trolls helped with the brexit vote...yes?
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eppur_se_muova
(37,573 posts)6. Why are they hanging it backwards ? Or is that just to be expected ?
Soph0571
(9,685 posts)7. Cause they are idiots!
LOL