Some cool vids

[King]

The first lift-off of a Space shuttle:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFmvq7QOS_U

The "Miracle On Ice":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fztlLwgSFCg

The Zaprudur film shown for the first time on TV:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DwKK4rkeEM

[SavageParrot]

Right so that's one small step backwards in space exploration from going to the moon to barely breaking the atmosphere, a lucky win at some sport maybe a 50th of the world's population play but probably fewer and the original source of the crazy basement dwelling conspiracy freaks.

Yeah I'm sooo impressed

[King]

Sorry, I couldn't find any film on how Britain lost her empire otherwise that would have made it too.

[SavageParrot]

We didn't lose it, we gave it away cos you were crying too much about the way we were running it and we couldn't be arsed to explain to you that in some places democracy is just a shit idea...

[King]

Then let Canada and Australia use other images other than the Queen's head for use on their currency.

[SavageParrot]

They are independent they can do what they like. It's not like we have an army big enough to keep the picture there. If they keep it I can only assume it's because they either want to or can't be bothered to redo their constitutions to remove the queen as head of state. Not everyone is as whiny about their past history as colonials as you lot are...

[Chacal]

We rather like the queen's head on our quarters. It makes the moose on the other side look prettier.

[cavalierlwt]

We didn't lose it, we gave it away cos you were crying too much about the way we were running it and we couldn't be arsed to explain to you that in some places democracy is just a shit idea...

In all fairness, you didn't give it away because we complained. Let's face it, over time all those countries founds ways to make it far too costly to maintain control over them--it happened to every empire and it's happening to us now.