>this tiny rainy shitty island nation populated by inbreds

one of the least inbread countries in the world
There just ugly

>>75155129
People you see as chavs today would've made decent sailors back then. We also had a pretty ruthless justice system as hard as that is to imagine

>>75155479
>There

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Wasn't England one of the most multicultural countries in europe during the 12-15th centuries?
All the people in my town are ugly as shit though, the eastern europeans look much better especially the women

>>75155129
Its the opposite of inbreeding that made the english so ugly and retarded. They racemixed too much with romans, turks, slavs and other shit after the danish invasion.

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>>75155955
ree etc

>>75155129
>tiny rainy shitty island nation

When you're small, don't have much and constantly picked on, you try a lot harder to get ahead. It's not that ridiculous when you think about it.

Stable political system + the Common Law + innovation

It wasn't tiny, Europe was super overpopulated and London was I think the biggest city in the world for a while

>>75157388
Compared to our rivals we were.

Today, UK and France have approx. same population.

During the Napoleonic Wars, the UK had half the population of France (and not much of an empire either)

>>75157388
Also, around the time England was at war with the Spanish Empire and attacked by the Spanish Armada, the entire population of England was 4 million.

In the same period, the population of Spain was 8 million.

And the population of the entire Iberian Union (the Spanish Empire) was around 30 million. Against the 4 million of England.

>>75157304
>>75157504
>>75157678
nice reddit spacing

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>>75155579
>chavs today would've been pirates few centuries ago
really activates my almonds

>>75158146
End your life newfag.

>>75158146
Apologise.

>>75155129
>conquer native americans fighting with arrows
>conquer africans fighting with rocks
>conquer indians fighting with swords
>conquer aboriginals not fighting at all
>get btfo by european power

Only superior africans can learn french apparently, lombards are too dumb

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>>75158562
The colonies were almost all won by fighting other European powers for them

If it was easy pickings, France or some other country would have conquered those places. Oh wait, France tried but it was too weak.

>>75155129
>never made any significant gains in Europe

dropped

>>75158160
It's true, chavs are basically what you see in a post-industrial society where the underclass serves no purpose. It isn't as though the stock magically changed in a few hundred years

>>75159214
Your island isn't a significant gain in your mind?

>Be British
>Get blowed up

>>75158160
>irony
small_brain.jpg
>facetious unirony
slightly_larger_brain.png
>unfunny meta forced joke
glowing_cranium.tiff

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>>75159394
>Laughing Chechens.jpg

>>75159380
Ireland was never central to European affairs so Britain occupying it wasn't really of significance to continental Europe

>>75159514
Britain fought a lot of wars in Europe, we just had the common sense to cut our losses if necessary and not autistically throw a shitfit over holding some irrelevant clay which is clearly an alien mindset to c*ntinentals

>>75155579
>People you see as chavs today would've made decent sailors back then

This, also pretty tough soldiers.

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>>75159214
>what is the 100 Years War

Kicking their ass out of here wasn't easy, you know?

>>75155129
there's a theory that we are so ugly because all the attractive english women were stolen by vikings and taken back to scandinavia

>>75159604
Sharpes Regiment > the entirety of hornblower
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aMhKVNR_8U

>>75159740
i only see french affairs here