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We kind of can. England turned India into an impoverished country, backstabbed Poland at the start of WWII, raped half of Africa, broke the Middle East, killed most of the Native Americans, not to mention the whole slavery bit. It still has artifacts from all over the world. Oh, and China+Opium. Irish potato famine.

I have nothing against England, mind you, but I do have a problem with the English whining about tariffs, tourism, or whatnot after Brexit. Seriously.

If EVGA were addicting your country to drugs, shipping you off for slavery, and stealing your artifacts, you'd have a case. Complaining about someone not filling out your tariff form the way you'd like is sheer entitlement and hypocrisy. Boohoo.

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>> but I do have a problem with the English whining about tariffs, tourism, or whatnot after Brexit

Good thing I'm not British then.

>>. Complaining about someone not filling out your tariff form the way you'd like is sheer entitlement and hypocrisy.

Really? Not filling out customs documents correctly is now anything other than lazy and incompetent? Wow.

> Good thing I'm not British then.

I'm not quite sure what you are. Can you clarify?

Brexit only affects the British. Do you mean you're not English?

For the general public: England is a country. Britain is an island, which includes England, Scotland, and Wales. The British Isles are a set of islands, which adds principally Ireland and the Isle of Man. The UK is a union of several countries, including Scotland, England, and Northern Ireland. Most of the English have nearly as poor a grasp of the differences here as they do of the random former imperial belongings they screwed up. Most assume Britain=England and call the English "Brits."

> Really? Not filling out customs documents correctly is now anything other than lazy and incompetent? Wow.

You mean like randomly drawing maps on a line to divide up the Middle East, without getting anyone local involved? Yes! It is.

Fortunately, it only costs you a couple hundred bucks, and not decades of war.

I have nothing against the "Brits," but each time they do this, I have this image of a rich, spoiled brat yelling at a minimum wage barista for 15 minutes about screwing up an order. Yes, she should have made a DOUBLE soy latte, but get over yourself. Sheesh.

As a footnote, I've met people who make "mistakes" like this precisely because they're annoyed at the "Brits" for any of a variety of reasons. I find it funny.

I'm an immigrant living in the UK. So British laws and decisions like Brexit affect me despite the fact I have no say in them in any way shape or form. But that's beyond the point.

I take the issue with you calling my approach entitled. There's a correct way to do paperwork and incorrect way. EVGA does their paperwork in an incorrect way - demanding it to be correct is not entitlement, because....how can it be? It's like saying that asking someone to follow the speed limit is entitlement.

Or to give another example - it's as if I opened a company sending products to American customers, but never bothered to read up on American customs forms, so my customers would end up getting charged extra duties unnecessarily.

If they complained about it, would you call them entitled?

>>You mean like randomly drawing maps on a line to divide up the Middle East, without getting anyone local involved? Yes! It is.

So British imperial past means that EVGA can simply not bother to fill out their paperwork correctly? That's a leap of logic if I have ever seen one.

>>Most assume Britain=England and call the English "Brits."

I think you actually have a really poor understanding of how it works. English, Welsh and Scottish people are all British, so calling English people Brits is 100% correct. The only citizens of the United Kingdom who are not British are the people of Northern Ireland who are simply Northern Irish, but I'm just not sure how that's relevant to this discussion or why am I explaining this to you.

This is an inappropriate response for HN. Please stick to the topic and contribute in an interesting and constructive way.

"not to mention the whole slavery bit"

Stopping/banning the trans Atlantic slave trade started by other European nations?

Still has artifacts from around the world? Many musuems do and previous owner often took item in battle from another nation.

Wouldn't Americans be more responsible for killing most Native Americans?

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