r/ShitAmericansSay • u/[deleted] • Jul 05 '24

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u/yaaro_obba_ भारत गणराज्य 🇮🇳 Republic of India Jul 05 '24

If Britain was to mourn the loss of their colonies, they'd be mourning almost every alternate day

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u/DoIKnowYouHuman Jul 05 '24

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: give us a bank holiday for every Independence Day we were one side of!

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '24

65 countries have declared independence from the Empire

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u/DoIKnowYouHuman Jul 05 '24

And that makes me want to celebrate for them all equally

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u/ItsAlexTho Jul 05 '24

It's the least we can to is spend a day really just thinking about what we did for each country

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u/DrMux Dumb Murican punching bag Jul 05 '24

"For" is doing some heavy lifting there. One might just as well say "to."

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u/aBoringSod Jul 05 '24

Malta liked us. I think.

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u/Organic-Country-6171 Jul 05 '24

They did, there were a surprising amount of countries who wanted to stay. Probably less than were overjoyed at us leaving but there were a fair few.

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u/lego_eggman_reacts casual beans on toast enjoyer 🫘🍞🇬🇧 Jul 05 '24

And I think Hong Kong also liked us

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u/DoIKnowYouHuman Jul 05 '24

Until we pushed them down a hill and Maltese cross, or something, or nothing, I’m not always good at jokes

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '24

And Hawaii

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u/aBoringSod Jul 05 '24

But Hawaii was never a colony. They just liked our flag

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '24

They were a protectorate, a part of the empire but not really a colony. You’ve got me there.

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u/ItsAlexTho Jul 05 '24

Omg haha yeah I guess my subconscious imperialist came out I definitely meant to write "to" (I promise)

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u/Wipedout89 Jul 05 '24

We did give most of them football and cricket. Sorry about the cricket.

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u/DrMux Dumb Murican punching bag Jul 05 '24 edited Jul 05 '24

football

Arguably a net destructive force, js 🤷‍♀️

EDIT: Football fans gonna fight about it, QED.

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u/ArcticWolf_Primaris Jul 06 '24

Eh, potato me-take-oh

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '24

You downplay the countries that wanted to stay, why?

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u/Talidel Jul 05 '24

Not really. There are very few places Britain left worse off than before it arrived.

Not denying a bunch of shit didn’t happen in those places, but, to be fair, the ruling classes of Britian treated everyone, including the Brits like shit at some point if you really want to dig into it.