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Normans. The yoke continues!

My allegiances are first and foremost to the Kingdom of East Anglia so I understand what you are saying. Seriously though I understand why you've chosen Carlisle as it's an obvious example of a place in Britain that has traditionally been seen as kind of belonging wholly to neither England nor Scotland and the whole borders area feels 'British' to me above anything else. But England as a country and a well defined culture has existed for centuries and it's natural that people will feel ties to that. It's not just a level of governance. I've never been to Stoke but for better or worse I am essentially more connected to it culturally than I am to say Palermo where I lived for a few years.

I think it's absolutely natural and desirable to have a close emotional connection to the place where you and your ancestors were born, went to school, worked, married and had children. Successive generations built this country and I hope future generations will want to maintain it. The idea that countries are just arbitrary pieces of land where you fell out of a womb is a pretty unhealthy attitude in my opinion.

What has the heritage of French footballers got to do with Argentina and the Copa America anyway? Are Argentinians just incapable of celebrating something in groups without being racist?

#WhenTaken #141 (17.07.2024) I scored 857/1000 🎉 1️⃣ 📍 298 km - 🗓️ 15 yrs - ⚡ 160 / 200 2️⃣ 📍 9 km - 🗓️ 6 yrs - ⚡ 193 / 200 3️⃣ 📍 22 km - 🗓️ 4 yrs - ⚡ 195 / 200 4️⃣ 📍 5 km - 🗓️ 6 yrs - ⚡ 193 / 200 5️⃣ 📍 4935 km - 🗓️ 5 yrs - ⚡ 116 / 200 https://whentaken.com

Is there anything more tragically humiliating than failed Brit politicians at the republican convention

In general I agree a Biden administration is better for the UK. But it's like being thankful your jailer is not a violent psychopath.

Not much. Biden seemed a lot keener to stop us "screwing around" than Israel. The idea that the relationship with the UK is particularly important to the US whoever is in charge seems pretty far fetched to me. Until they are keen for some British cannon fodder for one of their wars.

In Vance's case - Ulster Scots. Absolutely charming people...

Contemptuous. Much of the US elite hold the UK and Europe in contempt and the sooner people wake up to this the better.

Can just imagine the meltdown from the likes of Truss and Farage if Biden had said he was "beating up on the UK".

The sooner people in this country get over this 'special relationship' guff the better.

Robbie Savage is looking well. Moisturised.

In many ways he was the quintessential England manager. Lots of sentimentality and nostalgia, coming close to winning but just missing out. No wonder the English public love him.

Yeah it would be more enjoyable to play Chesterfield in Palermo.

I found all the Dear England / redemption for 96 / emotional BBC montage stuff quite annoying after a while and I don't think it helped the team.

I was worse by 1000km and 2 years. Very difficult to judge the years of the old photos.

I didn't realise it was possible to get 0! #WhenTaken #140 (16.07.2024) I scored 631/1000 🎉 1️⃣ 📍 1 km - 🗓️ 8 yrs - ⚡ 189 / 200 2️⃣ 📍 11073 km - 🗓️ 37 yrs - ⚡ 0 / 200 3️⃣ 📍 13077 km - 🗓️ 3 yrs - ⚡ 97 / 200 4️⃣ 📍 1034 km - 🗓️ 13 yrs - ⚡ 145 / 200 5️⃣ 📍 1 km - 🗓️ 0 yrs - ⚡ 200 / 200 https://whentaken.com

They won every game which they didn't do in 2008 or 2012 if you exclude penalties. As stated above they beat pretty much every major contender for the title. In reality they could've won 3-0 yesterday. I don't think you can deny they are a 'great' team.

Source?

Warnock.

he says he is

Used to travel through it a lot on long distance train and bus rides. Seemed very neat and tidy for sure. Nice bakeries.

I don't like Germany.