• Skullgrid@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Britons are very proud of having done “better” than the Mongols, through far less honorable means

    Ruleee Britainia, Britania rules the waves, beating people with superior technology and beur-o-craa-cyyy

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      Ruleee Britainia, Britania rules the waves, beating people with superior technology and beur-o-craa-cyyy

      Come tell us how you slew,

      Them old Arabs two by two,

      Like the Zulu they had spears and bow and arrows!

      How bravely you faced one,

      With your sixteen-pounder gun!

      And you frightened them damn natives to the marrow!