xjohnx

when's it gettin a b20/btec? you know they make bolt in kits for those now, right?

nsxtcjr

What was the topic supposed to be, "yeah another one"? That's so UNconstraining, it could cover anything and everything, all the way to eighteenth-century politics.

Umm... we weren't invited to have representation. As you'll recall from the newspaper reporting at that time.

Of course, the British crown (a different George) was not exactly good at the political game in those days. Heck, look at the Treaty of Versailles (which formally ended the Revolutionary War) - the British acceded to all of the (substantial) American demands just because they didn't want us to continue to be too closely allied with France! (That didn't prevent them from getting in another war with us a couple decades later, though.)

Also, I'm sure you'll agree that the Crown received more than ample return on its earlier investment in its former thirteen colonies during the twentieth century, particularly the thirties and forties. That return continues to this day as each other's closest ally (perhaps even closer than with our next door neighbor to the north, whose friendship should not be slighted by this statement).