• NickwithaC
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    305 months ago

    We’re not even recontextualising now? This is literally the bit.

    • @Broken_Monitor
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      395 months ago

      I’m gonna hazard a guess there’s a bunch of people on here who aren’t familiar with Eddie Izzard’s Dressed to Kill. So let’s give credit and to those who this applies go watch it!

      • DefiantBidet
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        235 months ago

        Yes, but do you have a flag?

        • @eltrain123
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          55 months ago

          Hoocha, hoocha, hoocha…. Lobstah.

        • @Zorque
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          55 months ago

          We’ve got two bits of cake…

        • NickwithaC
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          45 months ago

          That used to be my reddit flair on subs that had flag flair. Lemmy needs flair, it was fun!

      • @ummthatguyOP
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        65 months ago

        It’s still my favorite routine. This segment was specifically about the expedition that founded the colonies on the east coast of North America. However, I generalized it to encompass the 6 or so other groups that “found” the continent or discovered an “empty” region.

        • @[email protected]
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          55 months ago

          Except I think it’s interesting this was not generalizable. The Spanish were looking for people, just different people at first. Cortez for example landed and immediately “employed” hundreds of native people to come up with some wealth to pay off the exploration debt. The friars were specifically there to convert people to Catholicism.

          The British puritans were looking to build their personal Utopia, but the Spanish and others, it seems to me, were looking for a populated colony from the start.

        • @Broken_Monitor
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          45 months ago

          Its been a looooong time since I’ve seen it, but as I recall, what I really want to know is… cake? Or Death??

          • @ummthatguyOP
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            55 months ago

            Well we’re outta cake! We only had 3 bits and we didn’t expect such a rush.

            • @Cringedrif
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              65 months ago

              So my choice is or death? I’ll have the chicken then.