HaRRo:
You stay out of this, OK?
Ah, yes, the bloody "United Kingdom"; that place which deforested itself to build a navy with which to conquer the world; a navy composed of involuntary conscripts and little boys; "ensigns", "cabin boys', "waterboys", they were; massacred by the thousands in battle.
Ah, yes, the "UK" that wind blasted forlorn group of islands in the North Sea populated by misguided Teutons who got lost in the fog and shipwrecked with no way home!
The "UK"; that "Empire" once ruled by a mad German-speaking king who lost the best thing that he ever had; a distant continent which became the United States of America when an ex-British officer who hitherto had never won a battle, threw the best that Empire had to offer in mad retreat and defeat, such that the King finally and irretrievably lost what he had left for a mind!
Ah, yes, the "UK"; came back it did, in 1812 and got its ass kicked yet again, only this time by a hillbilly and a French pirate!
Ah, yes, the "UK"; whose military commanders threw the finest that Empire had to offer in infantry charges against machine guns, thus killing off around 80% of the Officer Corps on The Plains of Flanders and a dozen other burial grounds on which the students of Kitchener believed that doing it for "King And Country!" could overwhelm 600 rounds per minute fired by 500 Maxims each!
Well........God save the Queen, because if He doesn't, certainly no one else will!
Oh...not to mention that whole "Lusitania" thing with Winnie as First Lord of What Was Left Of The Admiralty!
An entire World War between the grandsons of Queen Vickie; whose last name was Hanover; Wilhelm, Kaiser of Germany, King George V of England and The Tsar of All The Russias; Nicholas.
Dangerously inbred, the lot, at that!
Pissed off everyone in sight until the USA; that lost colony, entered and settled the matter for them but in hindsight, the USA should have best stayed out and merely picked up the pieces after those Oh!; so civilised nations were finished slaughtering their finest on the battle field!
Yeah, "Battenberg" became "Mountbatten" and "Hanover" became "Windsor" so as to divert attention from the fact that the entire war was merely the last squabble between members of a family which had for centuries abused and controlled most of Europe for their own self-centered reasons!
Yeah...the "UK"....
And damned if only a few years later the "UK" found itself in a SECOND spot from which it was extricated AGAIN by its former colony and AGAIN with Winnie at the helm!
And again, as at Jutland, the old "Rule Britannia" navy got its hulls shot out from under it in regular fashion due to the same sort of idiotic traditionalism as wot got all them boys shot up by the machine guns in the Big War!
Right down the apples and pears went the virtually the entire iron navy, it did!
Yes, we should take special note of what is done in the UK and pay very special attention to some of those hailing from that beleaguered isle....especially when they post while admitting at the same time that they haven't the foggiest notion what they are talking about.
Kinda like Neville Chamberlain, don't you know?
The sun will never set on the Empire but I think some semi-naked Western Oriental Gentleman who went by the name of Gandhi changed some of that without firing a shot for it, he did.
Guy named Louis took down the flag and set the bloody sun!
So much for "empire" and certain posters hailing from that now ruined land!
Oh...it never "RAINs" but it sure as Hell pours!