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Re: Let's make Britain great again

Post by Scot Dutchy » Thu Dec 08, 2016 4:30 pm

mistermack wrote:Hadrian's wall was actually pretty effective. It's main job was to prevent cattle raiding, and back in those days, it was hard to get cattle to jump a wall.
I'm not sure that the same problems and solutions apply to the US-Mexican border.
Anyway, with all these new jobs, the US will have a dire need of more unskilled labour.
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Americans wont take them on that's for sure.
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Re: Let's make Britain great again

Post by Forty Two » Thu Dec 08, 2016 4:33 pm

Śiva wrote:Hadrian's wall was literally the high water mark for the Roman empire. While apt, I'm not sure that's the connotation you were aiming for.
Hadrian's Wall was built in 122 AD, which was 350 years before the commonly accepted date for the fall of the Western Roman Empire (the Eastern half persisted technically for another 1000 years after that). If the US has another 350 years, that would be quite reassuring.
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Re: Let's make Britain great again

Post by Forty Two » Thu Dec 08, 2016 4:35 pm

Scot Dutchy wrote:
mistermack wrote:Hadrian's wall was actually pretty effective. It's main job was to prevent cattle raiding, and back in those days, it was hard to get cattle to jump a wall.
I'm not sure that the same problems and solutions apply to the US-Mexican border.
Anyway, with all these new jobs, the US will have a dire need of more unskilled labour.
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Americans wont take them on that's for sure.
Not sure why you would think that, given your low opinion of Americans. Aren't Americans just not really good at much, and therefore perfect for unskilled labor? And, since we have no welfare state, they either have to take the unskilled jobs, or starve in the street, right?
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Re: Let's make Britain great again

Post by Jason » Thu Dec 08, 2016 4:41 pm

Forty Two wrote:
Śiva wrote:Hadrian's wall was literally the high water mark for the Roman empire. While apt, I'm not sure that's the connotation you were aiming for.
Hadrian's Wall was built in 122 AD, which was 350 years before the commonly accepted date for the fall of the Western Roman Empire (the Eastern half persisted technically for another 1000 years after that). If the US has another 350 years, that would be quite reassuring.
If you find 350 years of financial decline, social collapse and upheaval, loss of security, civil war, divisions of state, and general chaos quite reassuring I'll say you're quite odd, but whatever floats your boat.

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Re: Let's make Britain great again

Post by Scot Dutchy » Thu Dec 08, 2016 5:47 pm

That what Trumpets are; odd.
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Re: Let's make Britain great again

Post by Feck » Thu Dec 08, 2016 7:31 pm

Hadrians wall wasn't built to keep people out it also didn't mark any sort of national boundary .
If y'all must make comparisons then the Antonine wall would be a better one especially as it mostly wasn't actually a wall, just as Trump's wall is never going to be a wall .
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Re: Let's make Britain great again

Post by pErvinalia » Thu Dec 08, 2016 11:06 pm

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pErvin wrote:Wouldn't a pit full of crocodiles the length of the Mexican border be cheaper than a wall?
nope, think of the cost to import all them crocs and to maintain them helathy when they don't have peon to eat.
Ok, use caymans and alligators.
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Re: Let's make Britain great again

Post by DaveDodo007 » Fri Dec 09, 2016 12:55 am

mistermack wrote:You've got to give Farage credit.

He got us out of Europe, he was right all along that the people wanted out.
And he was right about Trump.

Maybe it's not luck. Maybe he knows what he's fucking talking about.

If you had asked David Cameron before the vote if Britain would vote for Brexit, and Trump would win the white house, he'd have laughed in your face. So what the fuck did HE know?

Imagine the odds you would have got at the bookies, for a double on those two results.
From now on, when Farage says something, I'm taking notice.
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Re: Let's make Britain great again

Post by DaveDodo007 » Fri Dec 09, 2016 1:15 am

Scot Dutchy wrote:That what Trumpets are; odd.
FFS, you don't like Trump we get it. What constructive ideas do to propose to counter what you think a Trump administration would promote? What strategy do you propose to counter what you see as Trumpism? Or are we just going to have to put up with Trump is worse than Hitler herpy derp type retardedness for the next four or eight years?
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Re: Let's make Britain great again

Post by Hermit » Fri Dec 09, 2016 1:59 am

Forty Two wrote:
Śiva wrote:Hadrian's wall was literally the high water mark for the Roman empire. While apt, I'm not sure that's the connotation you were aiming for.
Hadrian's Wall was built in 122 AD, which was 350 years before the commonly accepted date for the fall of the Western Roman Empire
Well, yes, but Śiva was talking about the high water mark for the Roman empire, not the year Odoacer finally put an end to it.
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Re: Let's make Britain great again

Post by Hermit » Fri Dec 09, 2016 2:21 am

Feck wrote:Hadrians wall wasn't built to keep people out it also didn't mark any sort of national boundary .
If y'all must make comparisons then the Antonine wall would be a better one
Both of them are defensive constructions, and they are part of several projects that became collectively known as the Limes. Originally they were called Munimentum Traiani, which translates as Trajan's Bulwark. It did not consist only of actual walls. Long stretches of the Danube were part of it. The word "limes" has many meanings, but they all have this in common: A limes is a line demarcating something from something else. In this case it is fair to say that "limes" means border, and the original appellation, Trajan's Bulwark, makes it clear enough that all the limes we are talking about here originally served as a defence of the Roman empire.
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Re: Let's make Britain great again

Post by pErvinalia » Fri Dec 09, 2016 2:33 am

DaveDodo007 wrote:
Scot Dutchy wrote:That what Trumpets are; odd.
FFS, you don't like Trump we get it. What constructive ideas do to propose to counter what you think a Trump administration would promote? What strategy do you propose to counter what you see as Trumpism?
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Re: Let's make Britain great again

Post by Brian Peacock » Fri Dec 09, 2016 4:00 am

'Trumpism' is such a lefty/libtard thing to say. Trump isn't an -ism - he's a sanctified Saviour.
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Re: Let's make Britain great again

Post by DaveDodo007 » Fri Dec 09, 2016 4:32 am

pErvin wrote:
DaveDodo007 wrote:
Scot Dutchy wrote:That what Trumpets are; odd.
FFS, you don't like Trump we get it. What constructive ideas do to propose to counter what you think a Trump administration would promote? What strategy do you propose to counter what you see as Trumpism?
Shoot the cunt? :ask:
Do you really think Trump didn't think of this. Imagine President Mike Pence, Trump as been playing 4D galactic chess with you losers and now you have nothing.
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Re: Let's make Britain great again

Post by Scot Dutchy » Fri Dec 09, 2016 10:21 am

In English please. On the other hand why bother it will still be garbage. Just put Trump out of his misery and do the world a favour.
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