What is the most embarrassing moment in British history?
What is the most embarrassing moment in British history?
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>chased out of DC by a fucking storm
creating america
they created us, they must take responsibility.
Don't blame the monster, blame Dr. Frankenstein
Dunkirk
Let's be frank. The colonial independences were ALL embarrassing for the European crowns in general.
Suez
Legit non-meme answer
>1/14/2018
Each day it just gets worse. What on earth will happen tomorrow?!
Tommorow, and the day after that and the day after that until it finally comes to an end.
2-1
Losing the last 15 seconds of a 112 year war to a teenage French girl
What happened?
Losing Hong Kong to China with a whimper and trying to come back 20 years later all butthurt.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Some Empire, they are.
Yanks sided with the soviets and muslims over the French and British effectively killing the British and French empires
Israel, Britain, and France tried taking over the Suez Canal and the US told them to knock it off or else we'll destroy the British economy.
Didn't the Brits build the Suez canal though?
Charge of the Light Brigade
Dunkirk
Battle of New Orleans
No, the French did.
Also the British tried sending tribesmen to go and kill the workers to try and stop the canal from being built.
I was under the impression that it was """privately""" built while Egypt was a dominion
Why did we do that?
t. unimportant country (everyone else except we, the british)
>"Empires are bad", says the American Empire
The French built it and the British did everything they could short of directly attacking the workers to stop it from being built. They armed Bedouin tribesmen and sent them to attack workers. It was built several decades before the British controlled Egypt.
>What is the most embarrassing moment in British history?
The Saxon invasion.
What? I was just asking a question
You're retarded
Sorry, I didn't learn about this in school. I don't know why we would side with the Soviets, who are ostensibly our rivals, against our allies?
First day of the Somme - Pride and arrogance was their downfall
Hong Kong handover - Just embarrassing.
Dunkirk - The Germans had them running like a load of bitches.
The Boers - Got their asses handed to them by farmers
Why are you so fucking stupid? He said ""Empires are bad", says the American Empire" as the reason behind the US siding against the British and French, and I called you a fucking retard for not understanding that. Please, for the love of God, stop being so fucking stupid.
oh ok
...
Decolonisation was a cornerstone of American post war policy, so basically they wanted to humiliate and weaken the Euros on the global stage to facilitate decolonisation and pull the third world on their side.
Most of what we know about Britain from that time period is myth. It's likely conflict was minimal during the Anglo-Saxon migrations. English people are only 35% Anglo-Saxon. 10% is Nordic and the rest is basically Celtic. This shows large scale intermarrying. Too big to be rape and plunder. It was a largely peaceful thing, the Romans left so Britons submitted to Anglo-Saxon rule. They invited them in for protection, to act the same way the legions did. The Saxons assumed control instead. Some resisted, but most didn't seem to mind. In the end the Anglo-Saxons assimilated and became Christian. The only thing Germanic about them was their language, which would soon get murdered by the Normans.
Storms of the strait
This was followed 65 years later by the greatest moment in British history.
Brexit.
Such an embarrassing failure that they might not end up leaving the EU anyway lmao.
The monster eventually gained sentience and free will, so Frankenstein shouldn't bear ALL of the responsibility, imo. Fuck Britain, though.
I knew they'd find a way to fuck that up. Just imagine to bantz if they have a 2nd ref and it reverses Brexit.
>mfw Brits try to resist the BNC
They still haven't recovered from this.
smug little shithead bastard, no wonder he grew a beard.
Ignore the Yank parroting propaganda
Parting the Desert is a good book on the building of Suez
>Hong Kong handover - Just embarrassing.
It was the deal. 99 years lease. Nothing embarrassing about that
When certain controlled substances were banned...
their continued existence is an embarrasment considering they got frenched and hate the french forever and ever
3-6 is pretty funny too
All of it
Dunkirk was way more humiliating for the Germans, they could have easily wiped the Brits out but didn't do it because they were retarded.
They let supply catch up to the tanks, hows that being retarded?
en.wikipedia.org
>The episode humiliated Great Britain and France and strengthened Nasser.[20][21][22]
Winning the war, but loosing the colonies.
Yeah, the last time a German officer went too far ahead of the supply lines, this happened.
This
Probably the state of their country today. Infested with foriengers who get to have citizenship. Empire gone for good, and the native youth that's left is self-hating and feels guilt over the colonization which is what made them powerful in the first place.
Legit hate Americans just for this
The Suez Crisis proved once and for all that the British and the French are a miserably cowardly pair.
The raid on the medway
Cartagena de Indias for us
>Be britbong
>arrive at cartagena
>one of Spain's most important harbours in south america
>The city only had 6 ships of the line and a fort with 3k soldiers
>your fleet has 200 ships and 30k soldiers, largest amphibious fleet until the D-day
>the bong admiral believes that they have already won
>he believed it so much that he sent a letter to the king writing about his victory
>back in the uk people cheer at the news
>they start celebrating it
>they made a conmmemorative coin for the conquest of the city, with the cities leader bowing under the british admiral
>the coins literally said "The spanish pride humillated by Admiral Vernom" under those images
>somehow manage to lose and throw a 27k people lead
>the british king was so humillated that he ordered finding and destroying every single coin the made before and writing about this event was completely forbidden in the uk.
Fun times
That's pretty bad, but by far the answer is Suez
Good post
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>dentist
The day when Britons become a minority in their own country and the day the UK disbands forever. When the union jack is flown for the last time. When the Royal Navy sails it's last ship. When Britain becomes another page in a history book, joining the likes of Rome and Carthage. The worst days have yet to come. I pray they never do.
How is that no one said Singapore yet
Placing a bunch of criminals, prostitutes, rapists & drug addicts on an island
And then having that island become more successful with a higher quality of living
Exactly. Island with brownstained teeth alcoholics and chavs vs sunny island with brotier Chads and toptier banter
Explain yourself
When they got conquered twice by Denmark
>steals your flagship
nothing personnel kiddo
what about withdrawing from every engagement with your tail between your legs for the past 70 years
Peace in our time
brexit
Dumping a bunch of cockney criminals and other dregs of society on a barren hellhole of an island full of flora and fauna designed to kill humans only to have those same people living a higher standard of living just a couple hundred years later.
Don't worry brits. Not your fault your empire collapsed. Jews destroyed russian empire too. America and China are next.
Fucking great shitstain I fucking swear.
When will they stop being so cancerous.