I think you're some sort of UK white natty
Jaguar and Land Rover are owned by the Tata company of India. Not even British anymore. Ha!
Using that logic Guinness is no longer Irish. It's British.
Glen Fiddich
Glenmorangie
Glenlevit
Talisker
Balvenie
Aberlour
Cardhu
Cragganmore
Laphroaig
Macallan
Bowmore
and Pusser's Rum
Looks like the UK's become the bootlegger of the world. It used to sell opium too back in the day.
Just a shame the Chinese government at the time bought most of their opium from the Indians.
I find it funny that so many people believe the myth that the Chinese government didn't want opium flooding their country.
Right that's why they fought a war to suppress it.
The sheer debauchery of the British Empire's advocacy of it, in the interests of trade exhibited the moral bankruptcy to which it had devolve.
Teacher's Highland Cream is damned close to a single malt, too.Talisker, Glenmorangie, Laphroaig are the pick of those mentioned. Add Highland Park (a great Orkney), Lagavulin, Ardbeg, Oban. Single Malts are all a matter of personal taste though. You can't really miss with Johnny Walker Black Label, though, if you're willing to lower yourself to a blended malt. Bring your debit card, though.. they are all expensive.
So what were the Opium Wars all about?Just a shame the Chinese government at the time bought most of their opium from the Indians.
I find it funny that so many people believe the myth that the Chinese government didn't want opium flooding their country.
More Fuzzy-wuzzies that didn't know what's good for them.So what were the Opium Wars all about?
bummer, eh?Are they? How do you work that out?
Considering the British work more hours in Europe than anyone else, I'd say the British are the hardest-working of all Europeans.
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Have you got the evidence for this bizarre claim?
Aston Martin, Bentley, Rolls-Royce, Jaguar, Land Rover, Lotus, Mini, McLaren.
It is simply not possible. The only time that that happened, Germany was split into two parts and their cities were rubble. It didn't last long, either ... no more than two decades out of the last century and a half.BTW the UK is not going to be overtaking Germany in terms of GDP.
That simply is not going to happen
Which, of course, was a British colony and the source of the opium. The British tried to force the Chinese Emperor to take their opium and that is why the war started, the Chinese pulled a Boston Tea Party stunt and dumped the opium into the ocean. After their corrupt empire fell apart after WW11, they handed the banner over to the Yanks.The Chinese bought loads of the stuff from India.
So what were the Opium Wars all about?
BTW the UK is not going to be overtaking Germany in terms of GDP.
That simply is not going to happen
It is simply not possible. The only time that that happened, Germany was split into two parts and their cities were rubble. It didn't last long, either ... no more than two decades out of the last century and a half.
Which, of course, was a British colony and the source of the opium.