I don’t think we talk enough about the fact that we’ve gone almost a whole millennium without being invaded. How does that feel, continentals?

by jpepsred

42 comments

  2. What’s there to get? Romans already discovered there is nothing of value in your silly islands.

  4. how does it feel century later having lost your great empire and sinking in jihadists

  6. maybe, but at least i can be proud of my country’s capital, can you say the same Barry? or should I say Barjeet al-Barhmoudi?

  8. England, not interesting enough to invade, nothing to see there.

  10. Does the French attempt at invading Portugal count? Because if not, we were last successfully invaded in the 8th century.

  11. At most, technically. You just rolled over to turn your capital into Londongrad.

  12. Well to be honest we did kind of take everything you had, so really no point in returning now is there?

    But on the other hand we did give you civilisation, and taught you how to sail, and quite frankly I think you need to thank us for that.

  14. Glorious revolution was an uncontested invasion. 

    Fishguard was an invasion was unsucessfull but they did land. 

    Plenty of other examples 

  18. Are you taking the piss? We’re invaded on a daily basis

  24. ![gif](giphy|5p6MZDXhxILFowgSbu|downsized)

    This you?

  26. The weather is shit, the woman look funny, and we already found Tikka Masala in 15th century in another part of the world. Really no reason to invade that island

  27. Oh for fuck sake, fucking hate seeing that Granny sniffing grifter plastered all over the place.

  29. I mean, you’re gonna like this but what is there to invade exactly?

    We came, we saw, stayed roughly 100 years, we got immensely disappointed, we learnt our lesson.

    Now, if we wanted to go full Trump for the sake of this argument, we could go with saying that we wouldn’t mind Belgium as our 51th state… but even that…

  31. You are us. Saxon, Angles, Normans.
    Why would we be mad about our achievements?

  32. No other country causes this much seethe, because we are ACTUALLY the greatest European people of all time, and they know it.

    If any other European country made a similar post, it would simply be laughed off and humoured, because it would be untrue and therefore less threatening to the ego.

  33. Are you drunk, or rather how drunk are you? Are you saying we haven’t been invaded in a thousand years or not since the year 2000?

  34. Barry Slow the fuck down…this is an invasion>>>> During the 1990s there were approximately 100 US bases in the UK. 13 remain today: RAF Lakenheath, RAF Croughton, RAF Welford, RAF Fairford, RAF Feltwell, RAF Upwood, RAF Barford St John, RAF Blenheim Crescent, RAF Fylingdales, RAF Menwith Hill, RAF Mildenhall, RAF Alconbury and RAF Molesworth.

    ![gif](giphy|jor6yHWUMLpLQfKGFg|downsized)

  35. Wait so does the Channel Islands count as Britain or doesn’t count? Cuz I think Hans managed to invade them last time.

  36. That’s the thing about Britain, you don’t need to invade it to take over. That’s why they’ve been almost continuously ruled by foreigners without being conquered.

  38. I wonder why such a big part of the words in your language come from French…

  39. I have seen images but always from the same misinforming media as always, Barry, honestly, is this thing so fucked up? I plan to visit the island next year

  40. That’s not a good thing. If you don’t at least occasionally get into a generative, or at least, neutral conflict, you become decadent.

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