[HChampagne]

The Brits have always been a pain in the ass. The Romans could not handle them. The Normands were absorbed (they speak English, not French), and look what they did to Hitler. It is only fitting that they are continuing their legacy now.

[Cronos]

That's actually inaccurate

1. "The Romans could not handle them" -- well actually
   1. the Romans fought the Britons - ancestors of today's Welsh and Strathclyde. These were later pushed west by the invading Germans (ooops, Saxons)
      
   2. The Romans crushed the Britons and under Claudius conquered England and Wales and remained in that part until abandoning the islands in 430 AD
   staying there nearly 400 years is hardly "not handling them"
   
   
2. "The Normands were absorbed (they speak English, not French" - actually no, the Normans pushed out nearly ALL the Ruling Saxon lords, and they spoke Gallo, not French. AND the English language spoken by the Anglo-Saxons was not "english" any more than Latin is the same as French. Here's the Lord's prayer in Anglo-Saxon

   Fæder ure þu þe eart on heofonum;
   Si þin nama gehalgod
   to becume þin rice
   gewurþe ðin willa
   on eorðan swa swa on heofonum.
   urne gedæghwamlican hlaf syle us todæg
   and forgyf us ure gyltas
   swa swa we forgyfað urum gyltendum
   and ne gelæd þu us on costnunge
   ac alys us of yfele soþlice

   - it was similar to Friesian and other Germanic dialects. The mongrel language English was a mix of some Germanic words with Gallo. Right now only about 20% of English words are of Germanic origin while 60% are Latin, French, other Romance origin
   
   
3. "Look what they did to Hitler" -- that's true, they did concede to him and then in 1939 do the phony war -- they could have, with the French, invaded Germany and prevented hte Holocaust and the bloodlands and ended the war in 1940 with millions of lives saved, but they didn't
   
   However one does need to give credit - they stood up to the Nazis until the Nazis collapsed under Soviet manpower and American military equipment