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Recent content by mostly_harmless

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    Any Irish people?

    Belfast here.
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    How do you British folks view the American Revolution?

    There is no Northern Ireland flag unfortunately so I'm stuck using the Union flag, there are however Scottish, English, Welsh, Isle of Man and even a Shetland Islands flag, it just ain't fair :(
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    Manifest Destiny

    Are you kidding? The USA annexed almost an entire continent. Beyond that the USA is basically exercising a modern version of imperialism, they get into a country, remake it in their own image and pull out again. This has its good points and its bad points...
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    UK's "A Level" Review Proposals grab you??

    I got AAB when I sat them 4 years ago, as they get dumbed down I'm starting to worry that AAB is gona start looking less and less impressive :) In Northern Ireland there was a 30% rate of A achievement, highest in the UK, woohoo!
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    How do you British folks view the American Revolution?

    I view it as a rather sad and unfortunate civil war. The whole mess could have been avoided had Britain given the colonies more control over their own affairs, a mistake they would not make with Canada, Australia and New Zealand, but would repeat with Ireland, thereby losing it as well. Still...
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    Bruce Almighty

    I liked it, made some important points in an accessible media and was funny at the same time. Jim Carrey has come a long way since those horrific ace ventura films :D
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    Hello all!

    Hi all, I'm new here, anyone want to give me a quick run down of what blessings are and what all those icons on the far right of everyone's profile are? :)