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I bloody well wasn’t….she had me straight on the dishes!!! Still paying for it now…

I flew to Wembley for the playoff final from Melbourne and was expected to be on the piss immediately! And what did I do I sucked it up and got on with it cause I’m a professional

Spot the vaper lol

Now now, don’t need to be unhinged to be in a therapist chair do you

Exactly what I learnt up to GCSE and A level. I think we did a lot of the old monarchs aswell for some reason

i didn't. So at the very least some consistency wouldn't hurt

I honestly have no idea why it’s such a big deal..there’s way more opposition and/or sensitivity to something that I really don’t see the argument against. Our whole position on the world stage is a result of the British empire. I find it really fascinating and whatever your views on it (and...

I didn’t do history at GCSE (not sure if this is mandatory now) and I’ve said a few times it might have changed…although a conversation with my younger siblings would indicate not, but I did not learn anything about the America’s, Australia, South Africa, India. I learnt a lot about European...

I just don’t get this. “Particularly terrible”. What are you so defensive about? Don’t need to teach kids that we were the worst, we don’t have to compare anything. Just have to educate them about it…good bad and ugly. Why is that so bad and why do you automatically resort to whatabouttery?

I think you’ve mistaken me for someone else

I actually agree with you that we need to do a better job of teaching our history objectively. I would say the US is the same. By objectively too I think we also need to include the positives (which doesn’t make it right). I think the issue is with your comparison of the British empire to the...

You asked for some sources to back up that biological warfare was deliberately used. Those to me are pretty compelling evidence that it was, by British military officers. Now you’re asking for proof that it was state sanctioned lol. I’m not really sure what that would even look like but let’s...

• Correspondence between British General Jeffrey Amherst and Colonel Henry Bouquet during the Pontiac's Rebellion in 1763: Straight up said “"Could it not be contrived to send the Small Pox among those disaffected tribes of Indians?" also said: "I will try to inoculate the [Native American...

It’s neocolonialism for sure

It’s absolutely batshit to compare the holocaust with the British empire. Not only is that inaccurate for the actions of the empire but it’s reductive to the atrocities of nazi Germany regime which is worse. It’s chalk and cheese. One aimed for global domination by a racially pure state and...

One thing that is interesting though is that the willingness to acknowledge colonial past is very different in the US and Australia. Every meeting with more than about 10/15 people in that we have here in Australia starts with an acknowledgment of country, and paying respects to traditional...

Which to be fair, there is an argument and evidence that there was deliberate introduction of diseases like smallpox to speed this up I agree with most of what @shmmeee has said though. While it is important to recognise the negative impacts of colonisation and empire it does annoy me that...

Christ let it go

Is it?

Yeh I meant that specific passage of play where he dropped his shoulder and sent both of their midfielders to the shops. Overall though caused more problems for us than then