the Thatchers: Wannabe Overlords?

Dartzap · Post by **Dartzap** » 2004-08-25 08:46am

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/3596948.stm

Now we really know what Maggie Thatcher and Co were to !

Dartzap · Post by **Dartzap** » 2004-08-25 08:47am

Insert the word up in there......

Anhaga · Post by **Anhaga** » 2004-08-25 12:06pm

Thats brilliant- it sounds like something out of 19th Century Central America.

"Now what we'll do is overthrow the government of Equatorial Guinea and then we'll be RICH! Rich I tells ya!"

CaptainChewbacca · Post by **CaptainChewbacca** » 2004-08-25 12:36pm

Anhaga wrote:Thats brilliant- it sounds like something out of 19th Century Central America.

"Now what we'll do is overthrow the government of Equatorial Guinea and then we'll be RICH! Rich I tells ya!"

And the Ottomans will fall at our feet! BWAHAHAHAHA!

Jade Falcon · Post by **Jade Falcon** » 2004-08-25 05:39pm

Hell, I think there's more people in my town than there is there, why Thatcher didn't just get some football hooligans I don't know.

Gil Hamilton · Post by **Gil Hamilton** » 2004-08-25 08:14pm

Jade Falcon wrote:Hell, I think there's more people in my town than there is there, why Thatcher didn't just get some football hooligans I don't know.

Ah yes.

Step one: Provide free booze at pubs set up strategically around Equatorial Guinea.
Step two: Fly in several thousand angry football hooligans looking to get rowdy.
Step three: Turn them loose at said pubs.
Step four: Host big football match between Scotland and E. Guinea. Have the refers make several dozen horrible calls that blow the game for the Scots.
Step five: Get to helicopter pad.
Step six: After the fires die down and the football hooligans have passed out under tables and in corners, send in mercenaries dressed like hooligans. Accept terrified populuses surrender.

TheDarkling · Post by **TheDarkling** » 2004-08-25 08:22pm

I doubt Scotland could beat E. Guinea, bad ref or not.

Gil Hamilton · Post by **Gil Hamilton** » 2004-08-25 08:31pm

TheDarkling wrote:I doubt Scotland could beat E. Guinea, bad ref or not.

How many football hooligans would care, especially with a bad ref?

Jade Falcon · Post by **Jade Falcon** » 2004-08-26 10:27am

Oi you twats, it's the England supporters that get the bad rep abroad.

England wins-Fans riot in celebration
England loses-Fans riot in disappointment.

TheDarkling · Post by **TheDarkling** » 2004-08-26 10:33am

Jade Falcon wrote:Oi you twats, it's the England supporters that get the bad rep abroad.

England wins-Fans riot in celebration
England loses-Fans riot in disappointment.

Yeah the Jocks are the opposite.

In that they riot when England win out of disappointment and if we lose they riot in celebration.
They try to forget they have their own team.

Jade Falcon · Post by **Jade Falcon** » 2004-08-26 10:35am

TheDarkling wrote:In that they riot when England win out of disappointment and if we lose they riot in celebration.
They try to forget they have their own team.

Well we don't go in harping about 1966, in fact we don't really have any expectations of winning, then you can't get disappointed can you?

TheDarkling · Post by **TheDarkling** » 2004-08-26 10:49am

Jade Falcon wrote: Well we don't go in harping about 1966, in fact we don't really have any expectations of winning, then you can't get disappointed can you?

I wish you did have a hope of winning at least then you would concentrate on that and not on hoping we lose.

I have never seen a more sickening sight than Jocks cheering the Frogs or Krauts on just because they are against us.

In truth being a bunch of losers isn't really an excuse the Welsh don't root for our enemies and they have almost as little chance as you guys... or if they do they cheer on our foes they do it in that crazy language of theirs so we can't tell.

No that I have alienated every nation in Europe I will be on my way.

Jade Falcon · Post by **Jade Falcon** » 2004-08-26 05:12pm

TheDarkling wrote:
Jade Falcon wrote: I wish you did have a hope of winning at least then you would concentrate on that and not on hoping we lose.

I have never seen a more sickening sight than Jocks cheering the Frogs or Krauts on just because they are against us.

In truth being a bunch of losers isn't really an excuse the Welsh don't root for our enemies and they have almost as little chance as you guys... or if they do they cheer on our foes they do it in that crazy language of theirs so we can't tell.

Well I certainly don't hope the English lose. One thing that does sicken some people though is the constant harping from some football commentators like Jimmy Hill about 66. Some take it to the extremes, I mean you can imagine the under 16's 4th division Ovaltine league and some guy saying "Here we have shades of 1966"

Besides, how the hell we meant to get a national team. Our two top teams are Glasgow Celtic and Rangers, and have you seen their team rosters? It's like a Skoda parts list.

Lord Woodlouse · Post by **Lord Woodlouse** » 2004-08-26 07:13pm

This is the same Thatcher that made a buck or two our of illegal arms sales to Saudi Arabia way back, IIRC.

LordShaithis · Post by **LordShaithis** » 2004-08-27 02:24am

What happened in 1966?

Super-Gagme · Post by **Super-Gagme** » 2004-08-27 02:43am

GrandAdmiralPrawn wrote:What happened in 1966?

Post by **Gandalf** » 2004-08-27 02:47am

Super-Gagme wrote:
GrandAdmiralPrawn wrote:What happened in 1966?

That's not helping. Some of us do live on the opposite side of the world you know.

Tatterdemalion · Post by **Tatterdemalion** » 2004-08-27 08:57am

Gandalf wrote: That's not helping. Some of us do live on the opposite side of the world you know.

Psst England won the world cup.

It's kind of a sensitive spot for us, and we constantly labour under the false assumption the rest of the world gives a shit.

Dartzap · Post by **Dartzap** » 2004-08-27 03:57pm

/Patronism on\ They do give a shit! we rule them all! they will come will all come back together in the 2nd Empire of Britain!!! /Patriosm off\

Skelron · Post by **Skelron** » 2004-08-27 09:11pm

Shh Dartzap you don't mention the 2nd Empire it's a secret remember... /Police mode on/ Nothing to see here move along people nothing to see. You did not here referance to a 2nd empire. Move along/Police mode off/

Lord Rog · Post by **Lord Rog** » 2004-08-29 11:19pm

TheDarkling wrote:
Jade Falcon wrote: Well we don't go in harping about 1966, in fact we don't really have any expectations of winning, then you can't get disappointed can you?
I wish you did have a hope of winning at least then you would concentrate on that and not on hoping we lose.

I have never seen a more sickening sight than Jocks cheering the Frogs or Krauts on just because they are against us.

In truth being a bunch of losers isn't really an excuse the Welsh don't root for our enemies and they have almost as little chance as you guys... or if they do they cheer on our foes they do it in that crazy language of theirs so we can't tell.

No that I have alienated every nation in Europe I will be on my way.

I'm afraid as a Welshman i'm going to have to offer a correction to the above statement. In my experience (not being a particular sports fan myself but my Dad is & my sisters boyfriend plays rugby professionally so it's often on tv at my parents house) the Welsh sports fan wants England to lose at rugby and football just as much as the rest of the British isles (except the English bit).

The reason for this isn't because we hate the English but EVERY FUCKING TIME England even qualifies from something let alone gets past the first round, the media goes mad form about a month and it is nigh on impossible to turn on the TV with out hearing about it and every national newspaper is fully of it (as of course the 1966 nostalga that goes with it).

As for the crazy language most of us don't understand more than a few words of it and only know that because the some fucking fascist decided e had to learn it in school (note that the method of teaching you languages in British schools generally leaves you qualified to ask how to gwt to the nearest hotel and nothing else).

As for Th*cher I sincerly hope that Mrs Psycho Bitch has a slow and painful death for some of the shit she did when in office. But i'll save that particular rant for another time.