Americans outraged over British embassy celebrations for burning down the White House

I thought it was really amusing and the Americans have not one right to be offended by this since they celebrate every year their slaughter of Indians by stuffing their faces of food and watching NFL. Not caring one bit if it offends people. Every year they remember nuking Nagasaki & Hiroshima. I think it just shows that as long as they are not the punch line that it is okay to be on the offensive side of an offensive celebration.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...te-200th-anniversary-burning-White-House.html

 

Good, good. Americans really need to be reminded of this, preferably every year, to keep their chauvinism in check. Make a movie about it too.

 

Feel free to celebrate, Europe can no longer threaten the American Empire, and I'd advise Europeans against biting the hand that feeds them.
All it takes is a declaration of neutrality to make you Euros have to fund your militaries, since we're no longer protectionist.

 

Golly...I am so totally outraged, pissed off to no end, ready to shoot up a Pub, in fact I'm gonna....wait, is that a bunny outside....?

 

I'm so mad that I could almost care about soccer.

 

Sure. The Brits scored a minor victory in the war. They burned down a building, yay. Buildings can be rebuilt or the capitol can be moved elsewhere if need be.

We still kicked their arse the war.

But there's a lot of stupidity on this on both sides. Celebrating this small victory is just being an asshat and getting angry over this is just being an asshat.

But I have my own hypothesis for this.

You see, when Washington wore a red shirt, he lost pretty big. Then he switched over to a blue shirt so he started winning victories.

The Brits never caught on. They kept on losing. They wore red shirts.

So, let that be a lesson to you. Never wear a red shirt if you're going to go to war.

And definately never wear a red shirt on Kirk's Enterprise.

 

Some people have no sense of history, and I do mean the idiots who are outraged by an act that happened 200 years ago in a war that most americans never heard of.

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Under European War rules, capturing and burning down the capital would have been the end of the war. But America did not play by those rules and considered New York City and Philadelphia more important than Washington DC in the early 19th century.

 

It's ok, they took the White House from us for awhile,(Minus George Washington's picture) and we took America from them.

 

We didn't play by the rules of war then either. We didn't all line up in a row to get mowed down and we made the generals fair game in battle.

 

Well we screwed up. We had a larger force and still lost our butt trying to take Canada from the Britts.

 

Actually we did. For example, Battle of Cowpens and the Battle of Brandywine we did. In one battle we won and in one battle we lost.

I nthe war of 1812, Battle of New Orleans and

 

Yes, we tanned their hide in the Battle of New Orleans and got them on Lake Erie. But we didn't take Canada from the Canadians. That would have been quite a prize. Hell, the Canadians are so much like us anyway.

 

Anyone offended by being reminded of something that happened 200 years ago is a loon. Unless they were there. Only loons go around looking for something to be offended by. They need to get a hobby and enjoy the day. This whole thing sounds like an Obama diversion to cover for all his failed policies.

 

Hell I don't think 85% of the kids today know anything about the war of 1812 anyway. They don't teach history anymore in school.

 

What outrage? Where? I'm American and I'm not outraged.... who are these outraged Americans? Are there three of them or four? Or none?

 

A minor victory? You call setting fire to the white house a minor victory? If terrorists did the same today, would you still say that?

Kicked their arses? The US was the ones who declared war partly with the intent of annexing canada, but the war ended with status quo ante bellum. The brits set fire to the white house, and the USA didn't gain any territory, even while the brits were fighting France. That's hardly kicking ass.

As for your red shirt blue shirt idea, it's stupid and wrong. The brits didn't keep on losing, they went on the build and conquer the world biggest empire ever and one of the most influential ever.

These are facts, but I need to rub them into your face so that the chauvinism will go away.

 

Ok let's look at the score. Brits scored a minor victory and burned down a 20 year old building that was easily replaced a few years later, and improved. And that's it.

We won our independence taking the vast majority of the Americas from them. A bunch of farmers whopped the arse of the most powerful empire on the planet and made your whole empire look like *****s. And of course ultimately lead to the collapse of that empire. And of course now the UK is the US's lap dog *****. So Brits burned a building. We destroyed an empire. I say let them have this little bit of fun if it really makes them feel a little bit better about their pansy selves. By the way. We celebrate whopping their arses every year. Forth of July ring a bell? Independence Day?

 

No, not really. Burning the white house is a major victory, because it means the USA couldn't even defend it's own capital. The USA didn't burn down westminister, because they couldn't. It says quite a lot about the power of the two sides that there was no fighting going on in England. Yes, you can go ahead and try to diminish that, as your petty nationalism requires, but it doesn't make it any less so.

Your independence was won in the revolutionary war, in which you by the way got help from mainly france but also spain and the netherlands. Just thought I'd remind you of that. The war of 1812 -in which the white house was set fire to- was declared by the US partly with the goal of annexing canada, at which the US failed, even as Britain had to fight a much more serious war over the atlantic with France. And you didn't whop any ass because you failed to annex anything and the result was just status quo ante bellum, and let's remember whose capital was in flames.

And no, neither the revolutionary war nor the war of 1812 led to or even contributed to british declince. The british empire continued to grow after these wars and even had its golden age in the 19th century. Have you heard of pax britannica? It was the hundred years from 1815 and forward during which the British empire was the world hegemon and global policeman.

I rub these fact in your face, because you need to be cured of chauvinism.

 

It was Britons who gave you your Constitution, Bill of Rights and your law. I think Americans forget that fact.

 

Ya we went over board rioting over this. Burning down pubs, and flipping over mini-coopers in the streets.
Oh wait, nobody gave two farts. But thanks for your fake outrage over fake outrage.

 

How exactly did we kick their ass?

The War of 1812 ended with Status Quo Antebellum.

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...you do know that the War of 1812 is not the Revolutionary war, right?

 

It caused Britain to stop interfering with us.

And to stop putting troops on our soil for good.

 

Bull(*)(*)(*)(*) it caused them to stop interfering with us. Britain continued interfering with America and our sphere of influence all the way up to WW1.

BTW, those troops wouldn't have been on our soil if we hadn't tried invading Canada, in which they kicked our asses and we failed.

 

I'm so mad I think I will throw some tea into the the horbor

 

Huh?

Okay, exact;y how have they been interfering with our sphere of influence?

Are you saying people have no right to say no to us?