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AIBU?

To think the USA and UK should become 1 country

349 replies

FortyDoorsToNowhere · 31/12/2013 00:08

As the title says.

I think it should happen, not sure why exactly other than to pool out resources.

OP posts:
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IneedAsockamnesty · 31/12/2013 00:15

You would need a fucking big bridge

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sugarcoatediceberg · 31/12/2013 00:16

I think YABU

I wouldn't want the UK to be part of the USA for many reasons; their healthcare system and their lax gun rules to name two of them

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MummyBeerestCupOfCheerest · 31/12/2013 00:18

Are you high?

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LaurieFairyCake · 31/12/2013 00:19

It's quite far away

And they're quite different (generalising madly here) in the main to us

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LaurieFairyCake · 31/12/2013 00:20

Though the tv would be good

And the hot dogs

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FrankAndFurt · 31/12/2013 00:20

I have lived in the states, I don't think the US and the UK are compatible. Confused

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bunnymother · 31/12/2013 00:21

If it means that J Crew would sell products in the UK for US prices, then I am all for your idea.

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MardyBra · 31/12/2013 00:22

WTF. I'm not American. I have respect for some Americans, but certainly not the gun-toting, anti healthcare, homosexual-hating, anti-feminist, evolution-denying evangelical bit.

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Lemongrab · 31/12/2013 00:22

YABVU. That is all.

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MardyBra · 31/12/2013 00:22

and they have shit chocolate.

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bunnymother · 31/12/2013 00:22

I think my post indicates the complexity of thought most appropriate for the OP's suggestion.

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PedlarsSpanner · 31/12/2013 00:23

GUFFAW at big bridge

no ta love, 'twould be a nation divided by a common language as well as by morals and mores (think about it)

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wobblyweebles · 31/12/2013 00:24

No thanks. I left the UK a few years ago and every time I dream I moved back I wake up crying.

The idea of going back to an NHS scares me too.

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CustardoPaidforIDSsYFronts · 31/12/2013 00:25

yeah i could do with a gun or three

i wanna be in a gang

and i wanna call a bobby a cop - in a brooklyn type accent

I also want to try some of the amazing pastries - and the pizza pie

I bet they couldn't do a great curry though

How ever the most important culinary question remains.....do they have chips and gravy? it's important

also Samual L jackson is awesome

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VonHerrBurton · 31/12/2013 00:25

I agree with sugarcoated.

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80sMum · 31/12/2013 00:25

Perish the thought!!!
The UK and USA have nothing in common!! Their culture is very 'foreign'. Just because they speak a form of English, doesn’t mean that what they say is always comprehensible!
Terrible idea. YABU!

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LaurieFairyCake · 31/12/2013 00:27

weebly

Why would 'going back to an Nhs' scare you? Confused

It's not like Halloween, the nurses don't dress like zombies

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MardyBra · 31/12/2013 00:27

Fuck. Not impressed by the thought of custardo with a gun.

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MinnesotaNice · 31/12/2013 00:27

Oooh yes, the chocolate! Will you all share the secret recipe? Before I moved to the UK, I thought I didn't care for milk chocolate. Turns out I just don't like the shit they call milk chocolate in the US! Grin

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wobblyweebles · 31/12/2013 00:28

How ever the most important culinary question remains.....do they have chips and gravy? it's important

They do here but it's called poutine. Definitely can do a great curry too.

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caramelwaffle · 31/12/2013 00:28

The idea of going back to an NHS scares you wobbly?

Really?

My youngest child alone has had - conservatively calculating -
+GDP £210 000 worth of NHS treatment: I am very happy.

Just to balance the argument.

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wobblyweebles · 31/12/2013 00:30

Why would 'going back to an Nhs' scare you? confused

It's not like Halloween, the nurses don't dress like zombies


Gosh really? I thought they did.

Because of the underfunding and bureaucracy.

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Sleepyhead33 · 31/12/2013 00:31

NO way. The bully of the world and us-don't think it would work.

No idea why going back to an NHS would scare any American. what on earth do they have that's comparable?

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goinggreyagain · 31/12/2013 00:31

Custard after many years I have managed to find chips and gravy but its still not the proper stuff Sad

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goinggreyagain · 31/12/2013 00:32

Wobbly is that any more scary than not having health insurance in the US ?

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