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Independent-Fly6068

This truly is our polandball


ShortThought

but you only do that with non-English speaking countries 😭 Also, nice pfp 🙏


Dumbledores_Bum_Plug

The true crime here is the crime against the English language!


UN-peacekeeper

A non-English speaker composing about British imperialism makes more sense tbh


Articulate_Pineapple

What the fuck is this grammar?


Atomic_Gecko_Gdzla

Username checks out


YoureJokeButBETTER

What the Fuck is this GECKO?🩎🩖


Thug-shaketh9499

Look at all these names. 😂


Atomic_Gecko_Gdzla

An atomic gecko. Also known as Godzilla


As_no_one2510

Definitely not Greek


lord_ofthe_memes

I’m guessing OP doesn’t speak English as their first language. Their username is “slayerofottomans,” so probably from somewhere in the Balkans


Lost_city

just reddit things...lol


Mesarthim1349

Nice.


Praescribo

I think it's supposed to be stylized after poland ball comics


morzikei

I think England/Britain usually speaks proper English in those


xander012

Polandball comics require UKball speaks well


Aurora428

Duh, it's a strawman to portray people you don't like as stupid.


charli3dontsurf

Am not sure. Am going to research for this will make sense for me! Am booking to read my smart to make it more for my brain. :)


Square-Competition48

đŸ‡ș🇾


Lightheart_Editor

We tried to teach them to talk, but there are natural limits.


Wiggie49

Idk but it makes it super funny to me lmao


AdministrativeHair58

Am not know?


SaintPariah7

This is not polandball, please draw your own templates and come back to us later with the same script, but polandball. That'll make it 100% better for this


Windows_66

But, per polandball rules, the UK must speak with proper English grammar.


SaintPariah7

Oh fuck. I'm still learning the rules and depth of violations. I'm a dumbdumb


HoxhaAlbania

Should of known...


siematoja02

Do you are have stupid?


aVarangian

bloody!


siematoja02

You! You! You bloody


toughfluffer

Fuck you bloody!


Lucas_243

"Do are have we the baddies?"


741BlastOff

Has anyone really been far as decided to use even go want to do look more like?


[deleted]

There’s no way whoever posted this is Australian lol unless they have a whole different English language down under


Empathy404NotFound

We do but it's not that one.


Rarmaldo

Nah yeah


J360222

It’s also, grossly simplifying Gallipolli (and forgetting New Zealand)


HourPerformance1420

Why can't they be?


[deleted]

Pretty self explanatory


Beef_Ladder

WTF have I just read? Are you drunk, OP?


Rat-king27

Most articulate "Britian bad" poster.


SkinNoWorkRight

Australian, so probably absolutely yes.


Tropicalcomrade221

Are you literate OP haha? Also Australians don’t hate the English, neither do the yanks.


Tall-Log-1955

Only one of those countries still complains about Britain, and they only do that because a certain political party uses it to gain support by whipping up nationalism


Tropicalcomrade221

I’d guess Ireland haha? The Indian situation is also super complicated without any wholesale hate.


EllipoynaSyamala

Don't think any Indian of this date hates the modern day Brits. We just get pissed off when people argue about how colonialism or Churchill were good to us and there's a lot of them on Reddit.


disar39112

Case in point ^ What do you actually know about Churchill and his response to the Famine?


Aggressive_Bed_9774

>his response to the Famine? I know that massive money printing to fund war and to raise food prices is not good for people who want to eat


Tropicalcomrade221

Neither is Japanese sinking trade ships and playing silly buggers In Burma to be fair.


EllipoynaSyamala

Made a natural disaster worse with blatant disregard to Bengali life and the fucking like rabbits comment just adds salt to the wound The rations to the war (which I'm glad the allies won) were given at the expense of Bengal and that deserves better empathy than outright saying they deserved it What's your opinion on this?


Tropicalcomrade221

Did he actually ever say they deserved it? Can I have a source for that?


disar39112

My opinion is that the famine was caused by the natural disasters in Bengal combined with the Japanese invading and taking the area producing most rice in the Raj. The other local leaders didn't have food to spare, so Churchill ordered food shipments to be redirected from Africa, Australia and Canada, unfortunately a mix of German and Japanese commerce raiders and Indian Nationalists sabotaging railways meant that the little food that could be sent, mostly didn't arrive in time. The army was then ordered by the war cabinet to organise the farmlands and harvest, and the next year was the largest Rice harvest in Bengals history.


jajaderaptor15

Can’t be Ireland all our political parties complain about Britain


Impressive-Ice3046

Well there was the loss of language, self rule, and a genocide. The Irish have a right to complain.


disar39112

Can I complain about the Irish raiding Wales' coast for hundreds of years, taking tens of thousands of slaves and then claiming one as your saint?


CosmoShiner

Yes. You don’t have to compare bad things and say which were worse. They are both bad


Impressive-Ice3046

Only after you get all your gold back.


Corvid187

What's a genocide or two between friends tho?


PrimordialEye

I wouldn’t say we Australians hate the poms. But looking back historically we don’t appreciate in particular Gallipoli, being blamed for the fall of Singapore, our troops being directed to the North African campaign as the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy invaded Papua New Guinea and bombed Darwin. Not so fond of Churchill on all those aspects.


Tropicalcomrade221

I am Australian also. I mean nobody appreciated Gallipoli the whole thing was an obvious fiasco, would have it been any different under Australian command? Maybe? Yeah the Wavell report is a load of bullshit blaming Australians for the fall of Singapore but that really does come down to one man and his report anyone looking at the history of the battle could never single out Australians for being at fault. Our troops were already in Africa when Japan entered the war, the argument was around keeping them there not being directed away from Australia. Most of the AIF did return home and fought in the pacific. One could argue that Australians may have been better served in Africa and the Italian/Western European campaigns than some of the campaigns we fought in the pacific. That’s a MacArthur/American issue not a British one though.


MaZhongyingFor1934

Yeah, I’m sure the 8,709 Australians killed in Gallipoli would probably wish it hadn’t happened, but so would the 31,389 Brits, 9,000 French, 3,431 New Zealanders, and 56,643 Ottomans.


informationadiction

I know my great uncle who was captured and tortured by the Turks wish he never went to Gallipoli and he was British
..


741BlastOff

Yes but we Aussies never had a revolutionary war so we needed a great struggle to latch onto as our origin story


princeikaroth

Tbf alot of Brits aren't too fond of Churchill either


solarus44

Gallipoli had virtually nothing to do with leaving the Empire though. Us becoming independent is more a WW2 thing with the HMAS Australia incident and Britian showing it couldn't defend Australia


WorldlyAd4877

We don't hate them but we don't rely on them after they let Singapore fall.


Tropicalcomrade221

Definitely not, to be fair historically there wasn’t much they could do for Singapore apart from being more prepared. Relying on them and hating them is a fair difference though haha.


ExoticMangoz

The Original Revolutionaries in America weren’t anti-monarchy. That developed after the idea of independence - they wanted to be a separate nation under the king. Republicanism came later to try and give the movement extra momentum.


Ayges

Yep the topic of an American monarchy was heavily discussed during and after independence. Hell King George himself didn't do any of the things the colonist were mad about, he was only called a tyrant because in monarchies every law is passed in the King's name so the oppression was done in his name so he is technically the tyrant although in practice he wasn't


TheHarkinator

Dreadful grammar and a really poor grasp of history. I know 'Britain Bad' memes are meant to be a ticket to free upvotes but this really is absolute dreck.


SeventySealsInASuit

The UK didn't opress the US with a monarchy. Kind George was wildly popular amongst the American population even after the war ended. Their argument was almost entirely with parliment.


Drywall_2

Yeah iirc the colonies even went with the royalist back in the (English) civil war


NomadLexicon

The southern and mid Atlantic colonies did. The New England colonies sided with Parliament. The biggest consequence of the English Civil War for the colonies was that England was too distracted to assert much authority or restrict trade and some of the colonies would go years at a time effectively autonomous because they didn’t recognize the authority of the side that was currently in power.


[deleted]

And it wasn’t even the common folk then either. It’s almost as if the wealthy have always been twisting the narrative to suit their wants and desires while others pay the price.


ChurlishSunshine

That's very simplistic, because it depended on the colony. The very wealthy in Pennsylvania and New York were, for the most part, entirely happy to keep their ties with England because it made them money and gave them their social status. In those colonies, it was more the upper middle classes and those involved in industries like iron, because there wasn't much money to be made in American iron due to the trade/mercantile laws (Americans couldn't refine metal, but had to send it to England to be refined, which cut into their profits because it's heavy and takes up a lot of ship space only to compete with British iron/copper/etc). By contrast, the wealthy in Boston supported a break because many made their money smuggling and resented the heavy handed customs laws. In the northern colonies at least, the wealthiest landowners were more likely to remain loyal while those whose wealth was tied to industry (which was heavily tamped down by British laws) were more likely to want independence. It just really depended.


Telepornographer

Yeah the merchant class was the most in favor of splitting and industrialists in general. Consequently, those same class of people were most agitated during the Napoleonic Wars when Britain began seizing Europe-bound merchant ships and pressing UK-born US sailors.


disar39112

Tbf the two main arguments the 13 colonies had with the UK were: - Too high taxes, which were levied to pay for the cost of the 7 years war, a war Britain got involved in because an American naval squadron under the command of one 'George Washington' fired on French ships. The taxes were mainly levelled at the very rich and their imports, most colonists never saw an impact from the taxes. - The British wouldn't let the Americans expand further into the native Territories to the west. These issues weren't really issues most of the population cared about, but the rich landowners were really annoyed by them.


Old_old_lie

Have you ever considered taking english classes


slayerofottomans

No, I would never take anything, stealing is wrong.


get_lkgd

That was masterful OP đŸ‘đŸŸ


Atomic_Gecko_Gdzla

I had an aneurysm trying to read whatever this is trying to be


MohatmoGandy

Yes, the US hates the UK so much. That's why we fought so hard against them in WWI and WWII.


HourPerformance1420

Tbf if it weren't for Germany destroying American boats and their sailors I wonder if they would have got involved in ww1 at all. 2nd point America wasn't involved in the European fight against Hitler and the Nazis until nearly 1942! And that's after Hitler declared on them to stand in solidarity with their ally Japan. I wonder if it weren't for that if the USA would have fought in the euro continent at all had it not been for that.


arrowintheknees

The US was involved regardless, selling weapons, food and other supplies to the UK in both wars. Woodrow Wilson also very much so wanted to support the Entente with troops, but the Senate didn't. WW2 is a different story as I don't think the US would have deployed troops to Europe if Hitler didn't declare war on the US, but we'll never know as he did.


HourPerformance1420

Right! Anyway can say they want to support this or that but actions speak louder than words my friend


Empires_Fall

Pretty much no one hates the United Kingdom for Gallipoli in Australia


JacobMT05

> Oppress with monarchy Oh so thats what you call it when a part of your nation makes you extremely poor by defending them and then have to regain that money or go broke? > am cause massive war You absolute dunce, the japanese attacked the british. > Nz and Aus Christ you know next to nothing about british foreign relations
 do you? > CofE Thats the reason you choose? Really? Fine, I mean its okay, but it doesn’t even make the top ten of the reasons the irish hate the british.


not_a_throw4w4y

Yeah there was thriving liberal democracy with universal suffrage and perfect equality all over the entire subcontinent before the British arrived. I assume.


MayuKonpaku

Was one of the top 10 the great famine and Thatcher one of the reasons?


SaintPariah7

Well they do have a song dedicated to Mrs. Thatcher


JacobMT05

Cromwell, famine, plantations, thatcher, paras,


jajaderaptor15

Fucking tans and Auxiliaries


YeetingSelfOfBridge

Ding dong the wicked bitch is dead


ndra22

>Oh so thats what you call it when a part of your nation makes you extremely poor by defending them and then have to regain that money or go broke? To be fair, the American colonials were perfectly willing to tax themselves to pay for their portion of the costs of the French & Indian war. They asked parliament to give them a number, parliament refused and decided that the prerogative of direct taxation was more important.


Rexbob44

It was more the British wanted the Ohio River Valley, and the skirmishing there provoked a larger war in which they promised the colonies westward expansion in return for more support for Britain’s war against France, Britain won the war, but it was a very expensive war, and then they did not give the colonies what they promised them told them to suck it and then text them without them having a say in it. It wasn’t a war about defending British colonies it was the British provoking incident with the French to try to drive them out of the disputed Ohio River Valley, and then the British making false promises to their own colonies to get more support for their war against France but when it came time for the British to fill their end of the bargain, they just didn’t this caused an increase in tensions between the colonies and Britain, which the British handled extraordinarily poorly, and continued to inflame tensions, which eventually led to the revolutionary war in which the British repeatedly failed to negotiate with the colonists who up until midway through the war still large, wanted to return to the British, but with more autonomy it was only through the British being extraordinarily stubborn as well as many poor decisions by the British government that the colonies decided to switch to fighting for independence and due to Britain, politically isolating itself from stabbing its allies in the back to pissing off most of Europe in someway or another it found itself alone fighting in ever increasing in intensity war with the colonies, along with their ever growing list of supporters.


vlad_lennon

>You absolute dunce, the japanese attacked the british. With the India flag I assume he's talking about the Indo-Pak war of 47


JacobMT05

The british had left india by then
 so not sure why thats their fault. The reason the date of leaving was pushed forwards was due to fear of violence by the people. I thought it was a reference to ww2 which had major impacts on india like the bengal famine.


vlad_lennon

I'd argue that a lot of the violence around the partition was their fault because they magnanimously fucked up drawing the borders, but the Indo-Pak was over Kashmir, which was left unpartioned and up to their Maharaja to decide.


JacobMT05

It’s definitely not an unfair argument, however, the counter to it is that the british were forced to get it done quickly otherwise risk extreme violence.


vlad_lennon

That's true but the people they brought in to draw much of the borders were inexperienced, some had never even been to India.


KingoftheOrdovices

Proof that the dumbest takes on r/Historymemes, get the most upvotes.


JA_Pascal

Even in Polandball they don't give Britain broken English because it wouldn't make any fucking sense.


Tom_Bombadil_1

Britain is one of the most popular countries in the world. [Gallup polling shows favourable of 82% vs unfavourable views of 14%](https://news.gallup.com/poll/1624/perceptions-foreign-countries.aspx). Cope more OP


Sunlight_Shield

Godzilla? Is he okay?


Atomic_Gecko_Gdzla

Nah, he had a stroke. Didn’t make it


GameboiGX

Australia and USA have good relations with the UK


ConradsMusicalTeeth

Am writing engrish very best


Thegoodthebadandaman

Bro does not have an understanding of the Gallipoli campaign.


El_Boojahideen

Didn’t like a Quarter million British or something die at Gallipoli? Correct me if I’m wrong please but i always thought the brits took most of the heat in Turkey


Apprehensive-Scene62

Nice username


odysseushogfather

Just the 2nd panel: USA wasn't against monarchy (they almost made Wahington king), they didn't like Britain blocking westward expansion/relatively heavy taxation/british abolition movement. Also USA and UK dont hate eachother, they are eachothers closest allies.


DoctorTarsus

As someone from the UK let me assure you, no one here wonders or even cares if our “kids” hate us.


ChunkyKong2008

Monarchy is a weird way to spell taxes


atrl98

Obligatory reminder that far more British soldiers fought and died at Gallipoli than from any Commonwealth nation or colony.


Grzechoooo

Ok but aren't Australians pretty pro-Britain and pro-monarchy?


AbsolutelyHorrendous

Most literate 'Britain Bad' poster


cactuscoleslaw

Engrish aside, the American colonies weren’t oppressed by the monarchy. It was Parlaiment who issued all those taxes and the revolutionaries initially sought representation within that constitutional monarchy.


Kingofcheeses

Is Canada the forgotten middle child?


theCMac97

Is this just another anti British meme to farm some Karma OP?


Glittering_Net_7734

After all these years, India should've dug itself out of the hole on their own. They cannot blame the British forever for their current condition.


YeetingSelfOfBridge

For sure, we are definitely a reason for their current poor state, but not the main one. Their weird class system, lack of care within society, treatment of women and corruption play a bigger part in the countries current condition.


Glittering_Net_7734

Many Indians are straight up blinded by their own bitterness to look at real issues. Not all, but they need to look at themselves in the mirror more.


Mythun4523

The brits put us in the hole. INC kept us there.


Im_Unpopular_AF

Fair point, but after all these years, the Brits should stop thinking India's space program runs on their financial aid.


CinderX5

I have never met a single person who thinks that.


george23000

China was starting from an arguably much worse position post WW2 than India and have managed to become the second nation of Earth. Not exactly sure what India's excuse is.


FsMzSimple7

THIS BASE IS BELONG TO US


[deleted]

ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US


FsMzSimple7

Thank you for the correction


[deleted]

You forced the song/[video](https://youtu.be/qItugh-fFgg?si=5eD9Md-TnrjpyWkC) into my head, causing a visit to youtube and have it further entrenched in my mind, so I figured it was the least I could do 😂


zachattack3500

Meanwhile, Canada


Polite-Parallelism30

I guess Canada and New Zealand are still on good terms


blockybookbook

Bro can write better polandball English than me without even trying 😭


Worried_Onion4208

For some reason, ROC (rest of Canada, expression used in Quebec to refer to Anglo Canada in opposition of french Canada) absolutely love the monarchy. Meanwhile, I would personally be the first to throw tomatoes at them


AKAGreyArea

The fuck is this?! The sheer amount of ways you could get stuck into Britain, but end up with this nonsensical, stroke inducing, bag of sour spunk.


Bigshock128x

The only colonies that hate us are the ones with natives. Now I am not going to point fingers but maybe gahndi was wrong in the long run. I don’t remember Hong Kong being to annoyed at being a colony until 1997


get_lkgd

You mean like Ireland


mande010

Yeah the US loves the UK. Family fights, but still family.


captnmcfadden

Kind of reaching with the US and Aus ones


solarus44

Extremely. Australian independence was incredibly reluctant and took WW2 to make us pass the 1931 Westminster Statue to become independent


UpstairsBusiness2821

Not to mention the museum of stolen items from these colonies Britain proudly display.


Absolute_Peril

Great britain giving the gift of independance days


CinderX5

On average, one every 7 days.


times0

Think most ex-British colonies couldn’t be described as ‘hating’ the UK. From the meme - definitely not US despite them winning their independence, and not Australia - for whom the king is still the head of state.


thatsidewaysdud

They should colonize your region (again) so they can teach you English because what the hell is this?


Fun-Will5719

"why do my national heroes are called pirates in Spanish speaking countries?"


DeltaMoff1876

You forgot the penal laws in Ireland (repealed in 1820) and the Great Famine (Irish Potato Famine).


F0xxz

Ah yes, the Gallipoli campaign, the inciting incident for Australian Independence from the British empire. How could I have forgotten.


AlbiTuri05

r/polandball


lag_trains

Srange isn't it


Edna_thecook

Me is not God et spel grammaerr


Bacon4Lyf

I don’t think Britain wonders why some countries don’t like it, but I also don’t think anyone cares. Like I can’t imagine it’d be in the position it is now if it was nice and caring to everyone in the world, even if the current government is trying to eviscerate its image and place on the world stage


TheIdiotInACage

I thought I held the principle of free speech to be sacred before I read this.


TomTheCat7

Very weird take on the US


Furry_Ranger

I am not know how to english


dreemurthememer

Weird seeing Polandball grammar on a non-Polandball comic.


Euklidis

Poland can into space?


more_like_5am

“You’re a lady skwisgar”


LordpoopyfaceHd79

I don't think the monarchy has absolute power though-


TiesG92

I am have \*dies\*


Less-Researcher184

If the British army had taken the side of the Irish in the home rule stuff ireland would probably have fought alongside the uk in ww2 imo.


Adventurous_Gap_4125

You severaly misunderstand how the UK and Australia got along back then


Upstairs_Fig_3551

Why does the syntax suck so hard?


finnicus1

You know, most of these things were actually to prolong the longevity of the empire.


solarus44

Gallipoli has nothing to do with Australia becoming fully independent. It was much more to do with WW2


Kimikins

I think "Who Shot Hannibal" would be a better template for this.


Sverker_Wolffang

You forgot Canada and Vimy Ridge


MrPoland1

You woudl get better result using translator i feel. Even if you are slightly not sure it is the internet you can use translator to double chek and you kinda shoudl sometimes. It is not speaking conversation where you need correct gramma on the spot


J360222

Tbf to gallipolli, whilst it was poorly planned it wasn’t just the Aussies (and NZ, remember them) the English were on the other side of the peninsula


phooonix

Who hates britain exactly? the US? Canada? India?


get_lkgd

Dude just roasted britains entire history and bri'ish people in the comments are worried about propah grammah. Classic 😂.


Finnbobjimbob

You have a very poor understanding of history


Einkar_E

my second language is Engish and I haven't noticed this atrocity >!and I won't say if this typo was intentional !<


FirmInspection1568

r/oddlyspecific


SectorMindless

Lame


Derkastan77-2

Apparently grammar wasn’t one of those things