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Slartibartfast ![]() Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator / In Memoriam Joined: April 29 2006 Location: Atlantais Status: Offline Points: 29630 |
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The empire was going to crumble one way or another. I suspect we still would have become independent and wound up about where we are now.
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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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ExittheLemming ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: October 19 2007 Location: Penal Colony Status: Offline Points: 11420 |
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Gawd, it chills me to the very erm...marrow. Lower case punishment for the stroppy assimilated proles I say. (I blame the ex facto parents) |
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Jim Garten ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Retired Admin & Razor Guru Joined: February 02 2004 Location: South England Status: Offline Points: 14693 |
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I have had roasted marrow actually - stuffed with haggis; tastes better than it sounds (seasoning is the key)
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ExittheLemming ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: October 19 2007 Location: Penal Colony Status: Offline Points: 11420 |
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deep fried marrow? |
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Blacksword ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() ![]() Joined: June 22 2004 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 16130 |
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^^^ He's not Scottish..
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Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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Toaster Mantis ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: April 12 2008 Location: Denmark Status: Offline Points: 5898 |
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I imagine the US would be more like Canada or Australia, then, at least in terms of legal and political system.
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"The past is not some static being, it is not a previous present, nor a present that has passed away; the past has its own dynamic being which is constantly renewed and renewing." - Claire Colebrook
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The T ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: October 16 2006 Location: FL, USA Status: Offline Points: 17493 |
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We who live in the US would all be better off, except a few.
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Dean ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Retired Admin and Amateur Layabout Joined: May 13 2007 Location: Europe Status: Offline Points: 37575 |
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Oh right - marrow as in the overblown courgette, not marrow as the innards of a bone.
You eat that roasted and stuffed with haggis? That's taking being a glutton for punishment to a whole new level. |
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The Doctor ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: June 23 2005 Location: The Tardis Status: Offline Points: 8543 |
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Rugby? Isn't that that game where you throw a ball in the middle of the field and release packs of wild dogs to chew on each other for possession of the ball? I'll give you Brits this, you don't do anything by half measures. It's either so slow it could be used as a sedative (soccer) or it's downright brutal and anarchy on the field. Some pretty ladies on the field jumping up and down might make soccer a tad more interesting. ![]() Edited by The Doctor - June 26 2014 at 09:31 |
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I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you?
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Dean ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Retired Admin and Amateur Layabout Joined: May 13 2007 Location: Europe Status: Offline Points: 37575 |
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The Rugby is hampered by the same problem that 'Mercan Football has - the ball itself. The original Murderball (now the name for wheelchair rugby) used a medicine ball (size of a basket ball, weights something like 20 lbs and does not bounce) instead of an inflated pig's bladder and disposed of the rule-book completely. The aim was to get the ball into the opponents goal "by any means". There is a version of the game that dispenses with the notion of the "ball" completely called British Bulldog, or just Bulldog, as seen here featuring players from the British Lions and the NZ All Blacks: |
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akamaisondufromage ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() VIP Member Joined: May 16 2009 Location: Blighty Status: Offline Points: 6797 |
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Marrow *yuk* Marrow stuffed with Haggis *now you're talking* Probly wouldn't eat the marrow bit though. |
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Help me I'm falling!
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ExittheLemming ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: October 19 2007 Location: Penal Colony Status: Offline Points: 11420 |
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Yes, (I know) but I am |
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akamaisondufromage ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() VIP Member Joined: May 16 2009 Location: Blighty Status: Offline Points: 6797 |
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Marrow, last thing I saw, is a vegetable. So even if it was deep fried, the Scots wouldn't eat it.
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Help me I'm falling!
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King of Loss ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() ![]() Joined: April 21 2005 Location: Boston, MA Status: Offline Points: 16889 |
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Probably very similar to it is now, except for few minor changes of course (Queen as Official head of State)...
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Atavachron ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: September 30 2006 Location: Pearland Status: Online Points: 65607 |
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You had it right the first time-- I should've said kidney pie or something ![]() |
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"Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy
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Atavachron ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: September 30 2006 Location: Pearland Status: Online Points: 65607 |
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and I guess we'd have this, whatever this is
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"Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy
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Polymorphia ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: November 06 2012 Location: here Status: Offline Points: 8856 |
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If Britain had won the War, we'd probably have to be more specific about which war we were talking about.
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Dean ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Retired Admin and Amateur Layabout Joined: May 13 2007 Location: Europe Status: Offline Points: 37575 |
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![]() Of course the Untied States of America would not exist at all, Canada would run the entire Atlantic coast from Baffin Island down to Florida and its western border would follow the Appalachian Mountains, the next bit heading west would be Native America, then Spanish of some form, and finally the South and West Coast would be Mexican. Alaska would still be Russian and Hawaii an independent state (though they'd still have the Union flag as part of the design of their national flag). Having won the 7 Years' War, (which included the French and Indian wars) and suppressed the American Uprising (sorry, history would not have recorded it as a "war"or a "revolution"), which would have further humiliated the French, who were directly to blame for both conflicts. This would have dramatically increased France's national debt and sparked the French Revolution sooner, but this time Britain (and possibly Spain) would have stepped in to aid Louis XVI instead of just sending Lesie Howard to rescue a few nobs and so France would still be a monarchy, albeit just a titular one. Therefore the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars would not have happened thus halting the spread of Republicanism that ultimately led to the Russian Revolution. Which would also have removed the major impetus of the Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions - that is "total warfare". Industrialisation would still have happened, but at a much slower pace and probably not with Britain at its centre - thus Europe and the American colonies would have remained predominately rural and agricultural, and without that, so would the rest of the world. Without concept of "total warfare" WW1 would not have escalated as quickly or as globally as it did. France, Russia and Britain would still have supported Serbia, and Germany would have supported Austria-Hungary, but on a much smaller scale and confined to the Balkans - the war would have been the short war everyone had predicted it to be. The result of which would not have been an armistice so the Treaty of Versailles would not have put reparation debt on Germany - net result being - no Hitler and no WW2. Also a shorter, lower scale war would not have destabilised Russia so no Revolution of 1917 and the Romanov dynasty would still be in power. The technical innovations resulting from WW2 would not have happened when they did, computers, radar, jets, rockets and atom bombs would still have been invented, but not as quickly, similarly without the Russian Revolution and nuclear weapons there would have been no Cold War, no Space Race and no Moon landing so the spin-off innovations resulting from that would have been a lot slower coming. It also means that the State of Israel would not exist and neither would the Vatican City State. *sorry, I'm rambling ... suffering from insomnia tonight for some reason.
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stonebeard ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: May 27 2005 Location: NE Indiana Status: Offline Points: 28057 |
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It's so long ago it's hard to say, but I'd suppose Dean has the right of it in a large way.
In the end though, America was probably inevitably going to fall out of British hands. If not by that "uprising" then another. I bet a few great American thinkers, notably Jefferson, would have been executed for treason. It would possibly send ripples through time affecting the French revolution, assuming of course there wasn't another more successful American revolution 20 years down the line. |
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ProgMetaller2112 ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: December 08 2012 Location: Pacoima,CA,USA Status: Offline Points: 3150 |
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Real football?? No, it's not real football 'tis a load of s
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Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” ― George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four "Ignorance and Prejudice and Fear walk Hand in Hand"- Neil Peart |
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