America

[bloodtaster]

Evil empire book 101 ways britain ruined the world. Has anyone read this book which is very inacurate and so inconceivable you want to punch the author in the balls and tell him to get his facts right.

[Keerin]

Wasn't that written by a Daily Mail journalist?

[Johnny5]

Britain is one of the most atrocious countries to be a part of in the last 1000 years.

[bloodtaster]

Britain may have dne some shit things but america are just as guilty you need to read the book to see what i mean about how stupid it really is.

[Johnny5]

An example?

I find Britain's past fairly disturbing and the present doesn't fill me with too much joy really. Just as well i'm generally apathetic and only think about things every so often!

[LesMts]

98% of British people admit to being paedophiles.
87% have killed a puppy at one time or another.

[Keerin]

Is that a quote from the book Les? lol

[AlanG]

having saw the humorous reviews on amazon, none of the ones I saw detail the inaccuracies in the book.

Can you give an example of one?

*I haven't read it*

[humndislocation]

Originally Posted by bloodtaster

Britain may have dne some shit things but america are just as guilty you need to read the book to see what i mean about how stupid it really is.

Originally Posted by Johnny5

An example?

I find Britain's past fairly disturbing and the present doesn't fill me with too much joy really. Just as well i'm generally apathetic and only think about things every so often!

I can't remember a concrete example off the top of my head, but I'm pretty sure that America has toppled democracies, in favour of dictatorships that supported the US more, in the past.

They also supported both sides in the Iran-Iraq war in the 80s, if I recall correctly. Not sure if we also did that though.

[GaryM]

Originally Posted by humndislocation

I can't remember a concrete example off the top of my head, but I'm pretty sure that America has toppled democracies, in favour of dictatorships that supported the US more, in the past.

Well there's the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état where the democratically-elected President was overthrown because he'd pissed off United Fruit by buying land they were keeping unused in order to keep fruit prices high, and giving the land to poor farmers. From Wikipedia: "In the 11 days after Arbenz's resignation five successive juntas occupied the presidential palace, each more amenable to American demands than the last, with Armas himself finally taking office at the end. He proved to be embarrassingly inept and his corrupt and repressive policies renewed civil conflict unseen in the country since before the revolution of 1944."

There's been other attempts, like the 1981-1990 CIA-directed revolution against Nicaragua's democratically-elected government. It's also claimed the US was behind 2002's failed Venezuelan coup d'état.

Covert U.S. regime change actions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Johnny5]

I'm pretty sure America didn't rape and pillage a land mass comparable to a quarter of the Earth though :P

[bloodtaster]

Originally Posted by AlanG

having saw the humorous reviews on amazon, none of the ones I saw detail the inaccuracies in the book.

Can you give an example of one?

*I haven't read it*

I will give you some of my best quotes.

This is the author speaking. " i find hard to talk sense to a briton after he has taken that second sip of gin. Maybe thats why so many brits are alcholics".

"At the premier of my movie the bikini bandits save christmas at the raindance festival in 2004, no one wanted to talk about my movie".

"There behind global warming" are we now.

"They can't deal with hip hop culture" Haha

"They can't dance"

"They got osama bin laden all riled up"

"There way to polite"

"Dday did they do there share" because more americans died.

"They invented concentration camps" The spanish invented these

These are just a few of the quotes i found amusing.

[bloodtaster]

Originally Posted by Johnny5

An example?

I find Britain's past fairly disturbing and the present doesn't fill me with too much joy really. Just as well i'm generally apathetic and only think about things every so often!

Yes i am not saying britain has a clean past i mean just look back to 1956 to the suez canal crisis. America slaughtered the native americans they start wars they can't finish and alot of the world dislike them.

Britain follows america now because they blackmail us.

[LesMts]

Originally Posted by bloodtaster

I will give you some of my best quotes.

This is the author speaking. " i find hard to talk sense to a briton after he has taken that second sip of gin. Maybe thats why so many brits are alcholics".

"At the premier of my movie the bikini bandits save christmas at the raindance festival in 2004, no one wanted to talk about my movie".

"There behind global warming" are we now.

"They can't deal with hip hop culture" Haha

"They can't dance"

"They got osama bin laden all riled up"

"There way to polite"

"Dday did they do there share" because more americans died.

"They invented concentration camps" The spanish invented these

These are just a few of the quotes i found amusing.

I might be way wide of the mark here, not being aware of this no-doubt heinously racist text, but it sounds to me, from these quotes, that the author is being somewhat tongue in cheek. Perhaps even just a bit of healthy, consciously harmless, piss-taking.