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EasyPeasy said:
I am not British!

There is no such thing as a British Citizen or British Nationality, we are citizens of our birth country mine being England and Sovereign citizens of the UK (Great Britain and Northen Ireland) but not fucking British.

I know there are many things that say "British this or that" but its only for "naming precedence" sake that they say British instead of UK or United Kingdom and sometimes it's used by the Gov as a big Fuck You to Ireland to say British instead of UK.
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Arguably its similar to how American doesn't exclusively refer to someone from the United States, and our country isn't called America. "American" technically refers to the Western Hemisphere, which includes North, Central, and South America. Our country is officially called the United States of America, but since there's no real demonym for United States, we're just called Americans. Technically, this means Canadians and Mexicans are Americans too, since they're both nations located in the Americas.
 
EasyPeasy said:
No.

I have never even been to Wales.

Yorkshire born and bred!
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It's shit like this that makes me really consider whether the French had the right idea and told all their regional groups to stfu, learn Parisian French, and tell them that they're all French now.

Seriously, as soon as you idiots lose your empire now all of a sudden you need to emphasize how different you are from the wanker who speaks the same language and has the same culture as you but lives 20 miles down the road.
 
Bismuth, an element with an atomic weight of 83, used to be considered the heaviest stable element. Only in 2003 was it discovered actually to be very weakly radioactive, decaying via alpha decay. It has a half-life of 19,000,000,000,000,000,000, or 19 quintillion years, roughly a billion times longer than the current age of the universe.
 
Richard Attenborough won Best Picture and Best Director for Gandhi over Steven Spielberg’s ET in 1982.

Eleven years later in 1993, Attenborough portrayed John Hammond in Jurassic Park, which was directed by Spielberg.
 
EasyPeasy said:
Scottish invented Fried Chicken...

Good job we didn't off all the jocks in the 1500's or your Yank niggas would starve
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That just sounds like another thing we can add to the list of stuff you invented but others perfected, like football, rugby, cricket, whiskey, and the English language.

EDIT: By the way, didn't you mean to say "t'jocks in t'1500s?"
 
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Human sex determination is entirely dependent on a single gene on the Y chromosome, SRY. SRY's only function is the activation of the SOX9 gene on chromosome 17, which leads to the formation of Sertoli cells and the development of the male phenotype. Dysfunction of SRY, SOX9, or the SOX9 upregulator gene Fgf9 is the only known way to produce a biological female with an XY chromosome pair.
 
The KGB invented the myth of AIDS being invented by the CIA and South African (Apartheid era) government. In reality, it was just from a doctor trying to hurry up the cultivation of vaccines by using chimp blood instead of human to incubate antibodies
 
EasyPeasy said:
I am not British!

There is no such thing as a British Citizen or British Nationality, we are citizens of our birth country mine being England and Sovereign citizens of the UK (Great Britain and Northen Ireland) but not fucking British.

I know there are many things that say "British this or that" but its only for "naming precedence" sake that they say British instead of UK or United Kingdom and sometimes it's used by the Gov as a big Fuck You to Ireland to say British instead of UK.
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I've wondered about that, I've heard the rare occasional patriotic Englishman say he's not British, so I guess I don't really know what "British" means.

Anyway, move to the USA. The ladies will will love your accent and we have weed and you can say the N word and not get arrested.
Michael Jacks0n said:
Arguably its similar to how American doesn't exclusively refer to someone from the United States, and our country isn't called America. "American" technically refers to the Western Hemisphere, which includes North, Central, and South America. Our country is officially called the United States of America, but since there's no real demonym for United States, we're just called Americans. Technically, this means Canadians and Mexicans are Americans too, since they're both nations located in the Americas.
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Latin Americans adamantly refer to themselves as Americans and sperg out over how the USA is often called "America" for that reason.
 
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A decade old survey, surely those numbers must be higher by now.

The inventor of Vaseline, Sir Chesebrough, asked his nurses to completely cover his naked body in vaseline to cure pleurisy he contracted in his 50s. It worked and he lived 40 more years.
 
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Probably because the adult entertainment industry has a dominance in the American market, due to our sheer size as well as major studios. I mean, even the biggest porno studios in individual European countries are dwarfed by giants like Brazzers and Evil Angel.
 
Mountain Dew got its name from a slang term for moonshine and was originally meant to be a mixer used with vodka or any clear high proof spirits. People kept drinking it plain so the original makers decided to just water it down and sell it as a soda.


The film atuck is said to be a cursed movie, in a way that will never allow it to be properly filmed. Since the script was originally penned Evey actor who's signed on for the title role has died horribly shortly after doing so. Including John Belushi of a drug overdose in 1982, Sam Kinison in 1992 after being hit by a drunk driver his dying words were "I don't wanna die. " to friend who was with him followed by "but why? OK OK. " to seemingly someone who wasn't even there. Two years later John candy died of a heart attack while studying the script and was planning on signing up for the role, his close friend who he asked to be on the film with him Michael O’Donoghue died in November that same year of brain hemorrhaging. Finally in 1997 Chris Farley read the script and planned on taking the lead role, he died of a drug overdose just as John Belushi had just fifteen years prior and like O'donoghue Phil Hartman was planning on playing a supporting role but died shortly after the actor agreeing to play the lead did.
 
During world war 2, The Germans developed a gas can that was way more resilient and leak proof to the point that the Allies would reuse them when they would capture supplies, and eventually just copy them. Because of their German origins, they were called 'Jerry cans'. Metal Jerry cans even today are largely unchanged from the WW2 design.

The Germans earned the nickname 'Jerries' during World War 1 because British soldiers thought their helmets resembled a Chamber Pot (aka bedpan). Chamber pots were nicknamed Jerries, and its similarity to the word German stuck.
 
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Since Gladiator turned twenty this week. Here’s some an interesting fact.

Apparently this scene was Johnny Cash’s favorite film scene.
 
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