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Things are difficult when you can’t just steal from other nations
by teddyX 4y ago
Things are difficult when you can’t just steal from other nations
- moremetadata 4y ago[flagged]
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- jiveturkey42 4y agoThis country was simply better off when we were just in thatch huts herding sheep, before all that nasty history and such happened
- moremetadata 4y agoThats too extreme, there is an unspoken culture in the UK, for example the saying, stiff upper lip, its a reference to keep quiet and carry on, like those war time propaganda posters and tee shirts you now see adorning many things and people. I've been in a unique position to see some of that mentality, army cadets doing military baths on other teenagers that carries on into the military, beastings of sorts. A violent profession like the military or police have a lord of the flies fraternity culture. The officers get their own mess, ironically Royal Marine officers have to be physically fitter than a normal Royal Marine and operate on less sleep, ie first up, last to bed, but going to a private school will help enormously for officer selection across the military, this is one place where snobbery and not meritocracy is order of the day. Now considering the unhindered privilege the military commands I would say the upper classes do abuse their rank, but this is also a culture created by private school attendance, more so boarding than day school. Just look at the massacre of Amritsar [1] that mentality still exists in some circles today, I cant really speak highly of Eton of all places, but then I got to witness some military personnel when the first black person took place in the trooping of the colour, and the bile that was coming of the mouths would put any racist to shame! [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jallianwala_Bagh_massacre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jallianwala_Bagh_massacre
- lcedp 4y agoList of other massacres in India for comparison: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_India https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_India
- dang 4y agoYou can't post like this to HN—it just leads to flamewar hell. You've unfortunately been breaking the site guidelines in so many other places too that I think we have to ban this account, at least until we get some reason to believe that you'll use the site as intended in the future. To be honest, I'm not sure what to make of your comments or your profile page—I don't fully understand them (especially the latter) and I'm worried that you might be in distress. If that's true and there's anything we can do to help, you'd be welcome to email me at hn@ycombinator.com. If not, I'm sorry for posting something irrelevant; please ignore. Either way, we can't have accounts posting flamewar comments and political/national/ideological fulmination to HN, even if you're completely right on the issues (which I'm not saying you aren't). https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- shaftoe444 4y agoI miss the days where the British Empire was just stealing supercomputers from Africa. /s
- TheLoafOfBread 4y agoSame for USSR and then Russia. When they were deprived of their Eastern Block colonies, suddenly it is hard to compete with West.