Have you seen how far Mongolia is inland? How can we sail a ship there?
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Across the lake from Russia, that’s how. (Mongolia has a large enough body of water that it gets to be a signatory to international treaties on maritime affairs and has an international ship registry).
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Alternatively: build a canal!
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I mean at this point you’d complete the set wouldn’t you.
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I’d be cautious about Sweden. They understand us a bit too well.
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“I heard the plinky plinky and guessed that the systems must be down…”
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That’s a lame excuse, at some point Mongolia reached Crimea and Hong Kong, and you had a go there.
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I think some of them were given to us.
Because we invaded elsewhere and made them give them to us in order to stop invading!
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It isn’t ‘we’ who did this. Assuming you, like me, aren’t part of a family that was ‘given’ Shropshire or Northumberland in 1066 and now also owns several banks, ‘we’ (well, our ancestors) were just some of the earliest victims of all this.
The English aristocracy who built the empire were really just rebranded Normans. Who were really just rebranded Vikings.
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Having been to a recreation of the battle of Hastings I was conflicted about what side I should have been on.
Indeed, none of this was us. I don’t think I’ve ever stuck a flag in anywhere
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Hmm, in that case, I have recently laid claim to a Lego castle…
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Wine or ale?
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As a Welsh person, it goes back a lot further than 1066!!! 
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Very different before then though, wasn’t it? The various Welsh kingdoms worked in much the same way as the various English kingdoms, fighting against and alongside other kingdoms (both Welsh ones and English ones) from time to time as circumstances changed. There was no ‘English’ domination of ‘Wales’ - just (for example) Gwynedd/Mercia/Powys/Wessex, etc, all pursuing their own ends.
At least that’s my broad understanding of it.
Various Danes and Norsemen turned up in various places at various times with varying degrees of success…
Then the Normans (who had been Vikings) arrived, and brutally subjugated all of England before doing the same to Wales.
But before the Normans it was never ‘England’ v ‘Wales.’
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Well the ‘Britons’ (basically what became Welsh and Cornish) were pushed out (obviously not entirely and many would have ‘assimulated’) out the Saxons/Angles etc. That is more what I was referring to.
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Ah. Understood.
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Pokemonarchy?
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‘What can we do with this dreadfully lacerated male member?’
‘We can graft it!’
‘Where from?’
‘Skin over the olecranon.’
You mean…?’
‘Yes! We’ll fix this henous penis with skin from the wenis!’
‘Blood supply?’
‘Venous.’
‘Genius.’
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(a game of weirdness in the early 1950s)
(We call the US embassy in the small hours, from a town near the border after things have gone a bit sideways. Codewords are exchanged.)
“Have you got any Chilean money?”
“…we can get some.”
“We’ll wire you some.”
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