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2 UK ships collided with eachother in Bahrain (nitter.net)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net
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The ship names are absurd lmao. HMS Chiddingfold and HMS Bangor.

It's not a real country. They don't deserve to issue their own currency, the EU needs to invade immediately and force the Euro on them.

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[-] edge@hexbear.net 58 points 2 years ago

[HMS Chiddingfold] was named after the after the fox hunt at Petworth, Sussex

Because of course it was.

[-] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 39 points 2 years ago

wtf every stereotype of the british is true

[-] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 27 points 2 years ago

sink the entire island

[-] sooper_dooper_roofer@hexbear.net 35 points 2 years ago

sus sex

are they chidding's me?

[-] panopticon@hexbear.net 26 points 2 years ago

They're chidding and farthing.

[-] WittyProfileName2@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago

sus sex

It's from, like, the old English for the southern part of Saxon territory. See also Essex, Middlesex, etc.

[-] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 31 points 2 years ago

HMS Shiddingfard

[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 24 points 2 years ago

Dicknob upon Buttingshire

[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 28 points 2 years ago

Sadism is engrained in the Anglo culture and their biological makeup. It is a primal instinct.

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