19 Comments on You Think India Still Has a Little Animosity Towards Britain?
The fecal matter burned off the outer layer.
Maybe one of them shakes hands like a man and the other not so much. I know when a man offers me the limp hand I feel like crushing it. Usually I resist. Maybe he couldn’t resist.
@Patronis – Like father, like son?
Maybe the Prince should have slapped the shit out of Gunga Dass.
Nah. the prince probably just pissed the guy off when he asked him for a chocolate and a tutti-frutti ice cream.
“Gimme a green squishy, and a pack of Winstons, you little brown funny talking motherfucker…”
If someone offers me a limp hand I assume he is frail.
If it is damp, I crush it.
I always give a soft arthritic touch when shaking hands, only a sadist or a moron would give an old lady a firm handshake. Not that I’m royalty or anything but I am descended from the Hapsburgs…
Zonga, I may be wrong, after all it is Britain, but I think that is a guy.
Enjoy the roads, railroads and the rest of the infrastructure. You’re welcome, shit-asses.
I would have probably given him the toe of my boot in his nuts too. I am descended form a long line of Irish Republicans. My family published the Tipperary People and my great grandfather was thrown in the gaol by the bastards and his health was ruined for the offense of defending the Irish peasantry against the British.
He was in turn descended from James McCormack, known as James the Guerrilla, who was also thrown in the Gaol back in the mid 16th century and was subsequently freed by a British General Officer he had befriended. His birthright was restored, but the rest of the family set sail for … somewhere, anyway they were never heard from again.
India fought Britain for the same reasons we did.
Britain controlled ALL the salt and taxed it heavily. Anyone caught making salt at the beach was beaten and/or imprisoned.
That is just one of the many things done to them.
Britain did a lot of good for the country, but the cost of enslavement was a price the people did not want to pay.
No Poofters!
screw what the damned Punjabs think. Imagine how much MORE of a Third World Shithole India would be if Britain hadn’t ruled it as long as it did. Same goes for all the former British colonies in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and South America.
I think it was Rudyard Kipling who used the phrase, “the White Man’s Burden” to describe the task of trying to civilize the savages in these countries. Truer words were never said.
Take up the White Man’s burden—
Send forth the best ye breed—
Go send your sons to exile
To serve your captives’ need
To wait in heavy harness
On fluttered folk and wild—
Your new-caught, sullen peoples,
Half devil and half child
Take up the White Man’s burden
In patience to abide
To veil the threat of terror
And check the show of pride;
By open speech and simple
An hundred times made plain
To seek another’s profit
And work another’s gain
Take up the White Man’s burden—
And reap his old reward:
The blame of those ye better
The hate of those ye guard—
The cry of hosts ye humour
(Ah slowly) to the light:
“Why brought ye us from bondage,
“Our loved Egyptian night?”
Take up the White Man’s burden-
Have done with childish days-
The lightly proffered laurel,
The easy, ungrudged praise.
Comes now, to search your manhood
Through all the thankless years,
Cold-edged with dear-bought wisdom,
The judgment of your peers!
The fuckin Indians got what they wanted – No Brits – and it’s been a disaster (relatively speaking).
India is a continent of stark contrasts – probably never to be reconciled.
izlamo delenda est …
Those squeeze marks are a little too high up on the hand for a normal handshake. Either the Indian guy grabbed him in such a manner that he couldn’t be squeezed back, or maybe the photo could be just a teensy bit ‘shopped.
Ya think…?
🙂
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be “cured” against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.”
The fecal matter burned off the outer layer.
Maybe one of them shakes hands like a man and the other not so much. I know when a man offers me the limp hand I feel like crushing it. Usually I resist. Maybe he couldn’t resist.
@Patronis – Like father, like son?
Maybe the Prince should have slapped the shit out of Gunga Dass.
Nah. the prince probably just pissed the guy off when he asked him for a chocolate and a tutti-frutti ice cream.
“Gimme a green squishy, and a pack of Winstons, you little brown funny talking motherfucker…”
If someone offers me a limp hand I assume he is frail.
If it is damp, I crush it.
I always give a soft arthritic touch when shaking hands, only a sadist or a moron would give an old lady a firm handshake. Not that I’m royalty or anything but I am descended from the Hapsburgs…
Zonga, I may be wrong, after all it is Britain, but I think that is a guy.
Enjoy the roads, railroads and the rest of the infrastructure. You’re welcome, shit-asses.
I would have probably given him the toe of my boot in his nuts too. I am descended form a long line of Irish Republicans. My family published the Tipperary People and my great grandfather was thrown in the gaol by the bastards and his health was ruined for the offense of defending the Irish peasantry against the British.
He was in turn descended from James McCormack, known as James the Guerrilla, who was also thrown in the Gaol back in the mid 16th century and was subsequently freed by a British General Officer he had befriended. His birthright was restored, but the rest of the family set sail for … somewhere, anyway they were never heard from again.
India fought Britain for the same reasons we did.
Britain controlled ALL the salt and taxed it heavily. Anyone caught making salt at the beach was beaten and/or imprisoned.
That is just one of the many things done to them.
Britain did a lot of good for the country, but the cost of enslavement was a price the people did not want to pay.
No Poofters!
screw what the damned Punjabs think. Imagine how much MORE of a Third World Shithole India would be if Britain hadn’t ruled it as long as it did. Same goes for all the former British colonies in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and South America.
I think it was Rudyard Kipling who used the phrase, “the White Man’s Burden” to describe the task of trying to civilize the savages in these countries. Truer words were never said.
Take up the White Man’s burden—
Send forth the best ye breed—
Go send your sons to exile
To serve your captives’ need
To wait in heavy harness
On fluttered folk and wild—
Your new-caught, sullen peoples,
Half devil and half child
Take up the White Man’s burden
In patience to abide
To veil the threat of terror
And check the show of pride;
By open speech and simple
An hundred times made plain
To seek another’s profit
And work another’s gain
Take up the White Man’s burden—
And reap his old reward:
The blame of those ye better
The hate of those ye guard—
The cry of hosts ye humour
(Ah slowly) to the light:
“Why brought ye us from bondage,
“Our loved Egyptian night?”
Take up the White Man’s burden-
Have done with childish days-
The lightly proffered laurel,
The easy, ungrudged praise.
Comes now, to search your manhood
Through all the thankless years,
Cold-edged with dear-bought wisdom,
The judgment of your peers!
The fuckin Indians got what they wanted – No Brits – and it’s been a disaster (relatively speaking).
India is a continent of stark contrasts – probably never to be reconciled.
izlamo delenda est …
Those squeeze marks are a little too high up on the hand for a normal handshake. Either the Indian guy grabbed him in such a manner that he couldn’t be squeezed back, or maybe the photo could be just a teensy bit ‘shopped.
Ya think…?
🙂
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be “cured” against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.”
— C.S. Lewis