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UK embassy apologizes for a cake 'commemorating' torching of White House
The British embassy in Washington has apologized after tweeting a picture of a White House cake surrounded by sparklers, “commemorating” the burning of the building 200 years ago. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesHmmm, lack of support and no assistance during the Falkands war and some sparklers on a cake.
Aug 26th, 2014 - 07:37 am - Link - Report abuse 0I think we are about even now.
Love it!
Aug 26th, 2014 - 08:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0Everyone needs to chill out.
The Yanks should be reminded that the burnings were retaliation for what US forces burnt in York (Toronto) which included private dwellings.
Aug 26th, 2014 - 08:48 am - Link - Report abuse 0Call it retribution for repeatedly consorting with the french.
Aug 26th, 2014 - 09:10 am - Link - Report abuse 0We don't take kindly to francophiles round 'ere.
Our cousins seem a little bit thin-skinned.
Aug 26th, 2014 - 09:22 am - Link - Report abuse 0Why should they worry? They are big boys & girls now.
Still just a little bit of gentle payback for “we saved your ass”
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They really got upperty about a cake & sparklers? would candles have been acceptable?
Aug 26th, 2014 - 09:45 am - Link - Report abuse 0I suspect the only outraged people are the media. However, I think leaving party planning to the interns is probably not such a good idea.
Aug 26th, 2014 - 09:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0Britworker (1.)
Aug 26th, 2014 - 10:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0Research US assistance to UK during and before, Falklands War again, please.
I think its funny. Grown ups live in the present. It is too bad our Rg friends are still fighting hurt feelings from a couple centuries ago.
Aug 26th, 2014 - 10:35 am - Link - Report abuse 0Well, the yanks have that Statue of Lafayette around the back. Only a short time ago they were calling their allies Surrender Monkeys. Remember Freedom Fries and banning French cheese?
Aug 26th, 2014 - 11:00 am - Link - Report abuse 0All part of the repartee, the US is still the country us Brits are closest too, apart from the Canadians and Aussies that is.
I had to laugh. I think the relationship will survive.
Aug 26th, 2014 - 11:35 am - Link - Report abuse 0And this is news??
Aug 26th, 2014 - 11:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0Nothing to apologize for! Burning the White House after Yanks sacked our Canadian town of York (now city of Toronto)? Priceless! http://www.eighteentwelve.ca/?q=eng/Topic/47
Aug 26th, 2014 - 01:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@8. Why don't you research all the assistance argieland received during the Falklands War? France, Israel, Russia, Brazil, Peru, Libya to name just a few. And didn't the UK BUY everything it got from the US?
Aug 26th, 2014 - 01:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0This is a non issue and a non story with a feeble attempt to sever USA and UK alliances on the MP. If I were to interpret it I would as the Brits saying.......despite wars in our past.......we are still allies and the White House still stands.
Aug 26th, 2014 - 01:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0COme n MP, there is a lot better news than looks for PC shit.
10. We still call the French Surrender Monkeys I doubt that will change anytime in the near future.
Aug 26th, 2014 - 01:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The reason stereotypes endure is because there is an element of truth in them, otherwise it would not become a stereotype. I am sure we are all bright enough to know when to use them in good humour.
Aug 26th, 2014 - 02:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0MP is a news agency and I did see this reported in a number of places. I doubt any lasting damage has been done. It you heard some of the banter between my English and American friends you would consider this mild at best. That it happened at diplomatic level was a bit thoughtless. As I said before, D C is full of summer interns.
So we burned the White House in 1814 and on the 8th of January, 1815 in a place called New Orleans, the yanks spanked us for playing with matches.
Aug 26th, 2014 - 04:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It's history and whats more its the history of the White House, one of the worlds most famous buildings and it adds to the fame of the place.
For Guy Fawks sake!!
Aug 26th, 2014 - 05:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Recent authentic research by the Malvinas Institution have established beyond doubt that the descendents of Guido Faucus are alive and well in Argentina .
A formal protest by the Argentine ambassador to UK demanding that all annual celebrations on 5th November should cease immediately as they infringe the human rights of the Faucus familly.
Wow! This could become a burning issue diplomatically
A few comments...
Aug 26th, 2014 - 06:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The Americans seemed to have misbehaved first, so the retaliation was perhaps understandable...
At least, the French did finally give technical assistance regarding the Exocet missiles to the UK, which according to historians was critical.
The current American president seems about as friendly with the UK as he's with France, Germany and Brazil... Supposedly strong American allies.
I remember the Churchill statue being ejected by the White house when Obama first took office...
Why does everyone have to be so sensitive, to what I thought was humorous as well?
Come come chaps
Aug 26th, 2014 - 07:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0it was a dishevelled joke that was interpreted by some who have no sense of humour,
rather childish actually,
still look on the bright side, the new paint worked wonders, its pure white and cleaned/repainted every couple of years by dedicated men/women...lol
Most Yanks I know just laughed...
Aug 26th, 2014 - 08:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0...besides even Obama joked about the same thing a while ago....
...watch....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mow4SBYj5WE
You know yanks… liar!
Aug 26th, 2014 - 10:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 023
Aug 26th, 2014 - 11:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0How stupid are you...?
Do you not realise the Holy Loch was a US Polaris nuclear submarine base....at any one time there were 2,000 Yanks stationed here...they were here since the 60's
Lots of Yanks married local lassies and stayed when the base closed and lots had already retired here...
The place is full of Yanks....
What a plonker.....do some research before you make a fool of yourself....
I have only seen one other yank beside me post here and neither had a wedgie. As I said before it is a non story......and all in the way you want to interpret it.
Aug 27th, 2014 - 01:59 am - Link - Report abuse 013 JohnN
Aug 27th, 2014 - 04:22 am - Link - Report abuse 0Very interesting link but be aware! Burger King is moving to Canada.
I don't think they are trying to burn Toronto again but they will try to help Major Ford get more weight.
Chicureo.
Aug 27th, 2014 - 05:50 am - Link - Report abuse 0Let's not forget, Jenny, Winnies mum was a yank. Which was about the only thing Obuma has in common with him, cos he sucks as a leader.
(14) Conqueror...
Aug 27th, 2014 - 07:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0That was the point I was making; if you read that again.
Alicia Amelia Castro - monthly salary us$ 20,618
Aug 27th, 2014 - 03:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1721956-los-embajadores-argentinos-con-sueldos-en-dolares-que-duplican-al-de-cristina-kirchner
Report serious mismanagement in the country embassies, corruption is the big problem. What happens in embassies and consulates is a true copy of which occurs at the national level.
http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1721956-los-embajadores-argentinos-con-sueldos-en-dolares-que-duplican-al-de-cristina-kirchner
All finished now,,,,next..
Aug 27th, 2014 - 07:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0#27RC
Aug 27th, 2014 - 07:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Yes, and Sir WC was honored by congress granting full American citizenship.
I'm a big fan.
The US Navy has a ship names after Winston, and a regular royal navy officer on board , and it flies the white ensign..
Aug 27th, 2014 - 10:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@32
Aug 28th, 2014 - 07:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0A nice gesture in easy times, I agree.
After 9/11 we went to war with the US in Iraq, it was their time of need and we stood by them. During the Falklands war they did absolutely nothing to help us because they were worried about their latino vote. We could have easily said the same in middle east due to our muslim vote.
I like America and their people but politically the facts are clear, that this is a one way friendship and it always has been.
Caspar Weinberger who was the Defence Secretary at the time was the leader of the group called the ‘Atlanticists’ who believed that America should support her closest NATO ally and it would send a clear message that America did not support brutal and aggressive dictators. His staunch support later earned him a British Knighthood. He provided the United Kingdom with all the equipment she required during the war. Ranging from submarine detectors to the latest missiles. All this was done very discreetly. His actions led to divisions amongst Reagan’s staff. Whilst Weinberger claimed that he has received authorization from Ronald Reagan to provide covert support to the UK, others disagreed. Admiral Dennis Blair was asked by Snow if he was aware of the Reagan’s consent. He said ‘no’ and that there were too many secrets in the administration. Alexander Haig who was charged with mediating the dispute between Britain and Argentina also stated that he did not believe that Reagan authorized the covert supply of weapons. This, he said, was due to Reagan’s administration being a ‘loose ship’ with a ‘flawed system’ of conducting policy. When Snow asked Haig if he thought Reagan was responsible for the flawed system, he responded by stating that it was not Reagan’s fault but the fault of his staff.
Aug 28th, 2014 - 01:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/margaret-thatcher-blasted-ronald-reagan-1508068
Aug 28th, 2014 - 01:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It was not your finest hour, with the French we expect treachery.
Thank god we had Maggie in charge.
While Reagan was not the demi god republicans love to make him.....he certainly was no Chamberlain.
Aug 28th, 2014 - 01:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I am sure publicly our relationship is all one sided as well.
Greed and corruption, incompetence turncoats and stab in the backs,
Aug 28th, 2014 - 07:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0bleeding hearts and the do-gooders
the yellows-whites and the cowards
the murderers extremism and brain washed,
will be the destruction of this human race...................
the point is then ? who will replace us-after we have destroyed ourselves and the planet,
we nominate the nice little birds...???
Sooner or later, the nature of the Anglo, and the English in particular just bubbles out. Freudian slip at best, deliberate act of aggression at worst.
Aug 29th, 2014 - 03:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What a forgettable culture.
@2
You are truly a pathetic worthless person.
The UK needs to spend more time thinking about how it may be more useful to the US rather than wasting its time celebrating past attacks against us. For instance, what is the UK going to do to oppose the aggression of the Russian Federation? Its present policy of doing nothing is not acceptable.
Sep 01st, 2014 - 04:07 am - Link - Report abuse 0Who cares what you think is acceptable?
Sep 01st, 2014 - 10:02 am - Link - Report abuse 0If you want to run the world, you take the responsibilities.
Do you need us to hold your hand?
The UK needs to spend more time thinking about how it may be more useful to the US rather than wasting its time celebrating past attacks against us
Sep 01st, 2014 - 06:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0///////////////////
but is it not YOU that is celebrating war against us,
While it may seem like semantics to you, the US celebrates the birth of a nation as opposed to the war with England. Otherwise we would be celebrating other wars and we do not.
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