I'm being mean to Americans
Today seems appropriate
( Kroney, Wed 4 Jul 2012, 9:19, 2 replies, latest was 13 years ago)

My father tells me that where he lives in the South
a number of people have told him that they believe US independence was not that good an idea.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 4 Jul 2012, 9:21, Reply)

would it be possibly for us to keep the East and West coasts?
Leave the Deep south and centre to the mormoms, racists and sodomisers?
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 4 Jul 2012, 9:22, Reply)

The South is fucking brilliant.
But then I suppose I would think that, seeing as I am a...Mormon

LOL!!!!!
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 4 Jul 2012, 9:27, Reply)

Mormon racist
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 4 Jul 2012, 9:28, Reply)

Oh FFS

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 4 Jul 2012, 9:36, Reply)

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(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Wed 4 Jul 2012, 9:37, Reply)

Ormon?

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 4 Jul 2012, 9:41, Reply)

ORMON BREEPO WAS HIS NAME-OH

(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Wed 4 Jul 2012, 9:46, Reply)

The South is fucking brilliant.
But then I suppose I would think that, seeing as I am a...Mormon

LOL!!!!!
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 4 Jul 2012, 9:27, Reply)

Mormon racist
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 4 Jul 2012, 9:29, Reply)

Oh eff eff ess

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 4 Jul 2012, 9:36, Reply)

Tee tee jay

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 4 Jul 2012, 9:42, Reply)

To nick a quote from the internets
they're celebrating the fact that a bunch of aristocratic, slave-owning, middle-aged white guys didn't want to pay their taxes.

Now today their economy is buggered - even Mexican mining companies choose to list on the London Stock Exchange in Pounds Sterling, instead of the US exchange in Dollars.

The 4th of July:
Where the great American people celebrate their independence from an oppressive global regime, that was the cause for many wars, tortures and unfair taxes that crippled many hard-working, ordinary people.
( Peej, Wed 4 Jul 2012, 9:32, Reply)

You can see how they'd think that
given how good a job they've done with the place. Funnily enough, it's not the first time I've heard an American say that. This bunch are Republicans, though. They were quoting revolutionary leaders to each other. One quote finished with "we're a new nationality, we require a new nation". So I jumped in with "and then the French got you one".

Pretty edgy internetting, I'm sure you'll agree.
( Kroney, Wed 4 Jul 2012, 9:34, Reply)

Interestingly, a secondary cause for the war of independence and also the war of 1812
was the British attempt to keep the thirteen colonies and later the US confined to the east coast. Britain was attempting to set up a semi-autonomous Native American state that would have stretched from the Great Lakes to the Gulf and from the borders of the thirteen to the Spanish border at Texas.
( Kroney, Wed 4 Jul 2012, 9:38, Reply)

Interestingly

take that nerd
( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Wed 4 Jul 2012, 9:42, Reply)

I won't lie, I was kind of expecting somebody to do that.

( Kroney, Wed 4 Jul 2012, 9:43, Reply)

We all know you love history Rory, it's ok, you can admit it

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 4 Jul 2012, 9:43, Reply)

History was all about a different battle for independence at Rory's school.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 4 Jul 2012, 9:45, Reply)

JULY THE FOURTH BE WITH YOU!!!!11!!

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 4 Jul 2012, 9:25, Reply)