It's a random question but me being British and loving the British empire I was curious on people's thoughts
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It is awfully hard to keep track of what you people call yourselves. I am not aware of any political unit called "British Empire." As far as I know it is called "Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland", but that does not even hint at the number of names involved, and the biggest nation in the group doesn't even have a name.
Your judges are famous for their bonkers pronouncements. Your history is flooded with governmental collapses, but no conquests for a thousand years or so. Your people are incredible warmongers. There are less than two dozen nations that have not been invaded by British forces.
You persist in adding extra letters after "o", such as "colour" and "flavour", and that is especially odd because in Wales they are famous for a pathological aversion to vowels.
And you drive on the wrong side of the road.
groups.google.com/group/alt.history.british/browse_thread/thread/9d0a33cf1fbcbc1a/ec69d4e4d44f9daf#ec69d4e4d44f9daf (Scroll down to "Don Aitken".)
Lets just say as things go none of these places are going to cause a country to go to war over in order to get it or free it from British rule. Although I belive the Falklands attempted something silly once.
As far as liking Britain I would not mind being one and living there and no matter what time of the morning I have to get up, I watch a royal wedding or funeral.
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