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Also as a non Brit who lives in the UK, I've always felt that the massive chip on the shoulder was regarding the Germans not the French but maybe it's just the

Also as a non Brit who lives in the UK, I've always felt that the massive chip on the shoulder was regarding the Germans not the French but maybe it's just the people I've met

cameronh90 6y ago
We like to make fun of the French, but it's mostly a joke.
- vixen99 6y ago
  Mostly the English love to hear jokes against themselves.
michaelt 6y ago
Brits only have chips on their shoulder about two things: Countries they've won battles against, and countries they've lost battles against.
- 082349872349872 6y ago
  No chips against Andorra, Belarus, Bolivia, Burundi, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Guatemala, Ivory Coast ,Kyrgyzstan, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Mali, Marshall Islands, Monaco, Mongolia, Paraguay, Sao Tome and Principe, Sweden, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Vatican City, then?
  - cheerlessbog 6y ago
    So there's a (small) list on Wikipedia of "countries the UK has not fought"? Do they have a shorter list than anyone else? (Am Brit)
    - noir_lord 6y ago
      I can't think of a country that would be even close. Previous world powers came to pre-eminence when less of the world was known and later world powers are nuclear and haven't really directly invaded, fought or attacked like the British did. This map brings it home more than most https://i.redd.it/75nqzhfp42r21.png https://i.redd.it/75nqzhfp42r21.png and it only covers a single instance for many of those countries, the British (English first, rest of UK later) and the French spent most of a millennia beating each other up when they had no one else to fight - I mean Churchill gave orders to shoot French military if necessary months before the end of WW2 (between VE and VJ day) during the Levant Crisis.
  - wastedhours 6y ago
    Usually anywhere with a favourable tax regime for non-doms we're pretty ok with from a government relations perspective.
Brakenshire 6y ago
The UK makes fun of basically all Western European countries, the problem is about half of the population think it’s a joke, and half think it’s insightful analysis.

Also as a non Brit who lives in the UK, I've always felt that the massive chip on the shoulder was regarding the Germans not the French but maybe it's just the people I've met

cameronh90 6y ago

We like to make fun of the French, but it's mostly a joke.

vixen99 6y ago
Mostly the English love to hear jokes against themselves.

michaelt 6y ago

Brits only have chips on their shoulder about two things: Countries they've won battles against, and countries they've lost battles against.

082349872349872 6y ago
No chips against Andorra, Belarus, Bolivia, Burundi, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Guatemala, Ivory Coast ,Kyrgyzstan, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Mali, Marshall Islands, Monaco, Mongolia, Paraguay, Sao Tome and Principe, Sweden, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Vatican City, then?
- cheerlessbog 6y ago
  So there's a (small) list on Wikipedia of "countries the UK has not fought"? Do they have a shorter list than anyone else? (Am Brit)
  - noir_lord 6y ago
    I can't think of a country that would be even close. Previous world powers came to pre-eminence when less of the world was known and later world powers are nuclear and haven't really directly invaded, fought or attacked like the British did. This map brings it home more than most https://i.redd.it/75nqzhfp42r21.png https://i.redd.it/75nqzhfp42r21.png and it only covers a single instance for many of those countries, the British (English first, rest of UK later) and the French spent most of a millennia beating each other up when they had no one else to fight - I mean Churchill gave orders to shoot French military if necessary months before the end of WW2 (between VE and VJ day) during the Levant Crisis.
- wastedhours 6y ago
  Usually anywhere with a favourable tax regime for non-doms we're pretty ok with from a government relations perspective.

Brakenshire 6y ago

The UK makes fun of basically all Western European countries, the problem is about half of the population think it’s a joke, and half think it’s insightful analysis.