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"Independent British Politics",from an old USSR paper (topwar.ru)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 years ago (2 children)

You shouldn't be allowed to pick an animal outside your hemisphere for a national symbol.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Look man the Scottish have a unicorn and the Welsh have a dragon. Clearly the UK doesn't agree with that rule

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Imaginary creatures are fine and actually cooler. Just don't pick a lion if there's no lions on your island

and a premptive 'fuck you' to anyone who points at a zoo

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Does the Tower of London count as a zoo? It technically wasn't.

They kept Barbary Lions (and a bunch of other exotic animals) in the Tower of London and it's how it ended up as the symbol of England, practice started in the 1200s.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

oh fuck the ankh-morpork hippos were real

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

lmao yes

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Counterpoint: lions are cool

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Not accurate. The Brit has to have his lips pressed against the shoe with a little tongue added in.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

maybe they made the comic before the Suez crisis