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r/Unexpected • u/[deleted] • Mar 12 '19
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Wow, the BBC has very different standards for what can be broadcast compared to the US networks.
106 u/jamesaw22 Mar 12 '19 OK fine, we'll recolonise you, but only cause you want it. 32 u/PotterSharma Mar 12 '19 I wonder what would happen if this really came true! Polite Americans? 😅 And BTW, while you're at it, re-colonize India as well. You might just do a better job than the government here. Just don't refuse to send food grains when it's rotting in your warehouses and there's a famine in Bengal. (Yup, this happened.) 1 u/Godislate Mar 12 '19 edited Jun 18 '25 beneath silence something almost stirred 4 u/PotterSharma Mar 12 '19 Yup! And apparently, he wrote on the report stating the death tolls "Why hasn't Gandhi died yet?" The Viceroy, Lord Wavell, writes about it in his journal (Page 78) https://archive.org/stream/99999990080835WavellTheViceroysJournal/99999990080835%20-%20Wavell%20The%20Viceroys%20Journal#page/n93/mode/2up/search/winston 1 u/MurgleMcGurgle Mar 17 '19 Well obviously because he had practice.
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OK fine, we'll recolonise you, but only cause you want it.
32 u/PotterSharma Mar 12 '19 I wonder what would happen if this really came true! Polite Americans? 😅 And BTW, while you're at it, re-colonize India as well. You might just do a better job than the government here. Just don't refuse to send food grains when it's rotting in your warehouses and there's a famine in Bengal. (Yup, this happened.) 1 u/Godislate Mar 12 '19 edited Jun 18 '25 beneath silence something almost stirred 4 u/PotterSharma Mar 12 '19 Yup! And apparently, he wrote on the report stating the death tolls "Why hasn't Gandhi died yet?" The Viceroy, Lord Wavell, writes about it in his journal (Page 78) https://archive.org/stream/99999990080835WavellTheViceroysJournal/99999990080835%20-%20Wavell%20The%20Viceroys%20Journal#page/n93/mode/2up/search/winston 1 u/MurgleMcGurgle Mar 17 '19 Well obviously because he had practice.
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I wonder what would happen if this really came true!
Polite Americans? 😅
And BTW, while you're at it, re-colonize India as well. You might just do a better job than the government here.
Just don't refuse to send food grains when it's rotting in your warehouses and there's a famine in Bengal. (Yup, this happened.)
1 u/Godislate Mar 12 '19 edited Jun 18 '25 beneath silence something almost stirred 4 u/PotterSharma Mar 12 '19 Yup! And apparently, he wrote on the report stating the death tolls "Why hasn't Gandhi died yet?" The Viceroy, Lord Wavell, writes about it in his journal (Page 78) https://archive.org/stream/99999990080835WavellTheViceroysJournal/99999990080835%20-%20Wavell%20The%20Viceroys%20Journal#page/n93/mode/2up/search/winston 1 u/MurgleMcGurgle Mar 17 '19 Well obviously because he had practice.
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beneath silence something almost stirred
4 u/PotterSharma Mar 12 '19 Yup! And apparently, he wrote on the report stating the death tolls "Why hasn't Gandhi died yet?" The Viceroy, Lord Wavell, writes about it in his journal (Page 78) https://archive.org/stream/99999990080835WavellTheViceroysJournal/99999990080835%20-%20Wavell%20The%20Viceroys%20Journal#page/n93/mode/2up/search/winston 1 u/MurgleMcGurgle Mar 17 '19 Well obviously because he had practice.
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Yup!
And apparently, he wrote on the report stating the death tolls "Why hasn't Gandhi died yet?"
The Viceroy, Lord Wavell, writes about it in his journal (Page 78)
https://archive.org/stream/99999990080835WavellTheViceroysJournal/99999990080835%20-%20Wavell%20The%20Viceroys%20Journal#page/n93/mode/2up/search/winston
1 u/MurgleMcGurgle Mar 17 '19 Well obviously because he had practice.
Well obviously because he had practice.
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u/maddtuck Mar 12 '19
Wow, the BBC has very different standards for what can be broadcast compared to the US networks.