Don't, under any circumstances, let cookinlover back in.
 
I guess that's more a suggestion for not letting America hit rock bottom...

 Manbird wrote: 
Oh yeah, like he hasn't bogarted all of it already.

 phineas wrote: 
cheeky monkey. send me all your mannheim steamroller. 

 dionysius wrote: 
 
Err, except for all that horrible partition business in '47, the creation of an Iraq made up of at least three seperate ethnic nations and goodness what else besides. But then again, given how we acquired our empire unravelling it was never going to be easy.
 
The Commonwealth is largely a good thing though, and actually standing up to a couple of members at the moment - Sri Lanka over the treatment of Tamils, and Canada over the exploitation of tar sands and its climate commitments.

Brush and floss daily. Yes, daily, manbiRd, not annually.

 MrsHobieJoe wrote: 

 We can learn from our elder brothers in the superpower game, and (let's hope) let go of empire as easily and gracefully and as relatively peacefully as y'all did.

 helenofjoy wrote: 
 

It would be good if we could clean up after ourselves.

 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote: 
Especially this part...
            
                        Free nut assortments to the first 100 callers 
                       

                                                               

 MrsHobieJoe wrote: 
Sleep well. Mrs.

 MrsHobieJoe wrote: 

i like it.  night you

More cuddles and fewer guns.  More thinking and less acting.  More vegetables and fewer fries.

that's all I've got
night all.

btw : we aren't a superpower anymore unless you are comparing us to New Zealand.

 katearhar wrote: 

...and organic small farms or even large organic corporate farms (if we have too).  They could raise the duck & geese for their feathers for the pillow fights. (only the feathers that fall off naturally)....

 katearhar wrote: 
after inhaling helium.. that way the winner will never win the hop scotch.

 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote: 
And maybe some "who can blow the biggest bubble" contests to solve disputes.
And Hop-Scotch.... 
(or maybe I just need a Scotch..... )

 katearhar wrote: 
precisely

Pillow Fights. 
This country needs more Pillow Fights.

Can I add a little reality check here to you two superpowers?

Both of you incorporate some of the best state institutions ever invented. Both have on balance done an amazing lot to further general human happiness, freedom and human rights.  You can pat yourselves on the back for that. The rest of the world sees that and believe it or not acknowledges it. What the rest of the world also sees (more quickly than you yourselves unfortunately) is that international politics follows two agendas: one is the promotion of ideals and the other is the promotion of business. Where they come into conflict, business generally wins or gets made over as some kind of ideal. This is the grubby side of international politics and I am afraid no nation is free of it. It doesn't mean your ideals are shabby. But it also doesn't mean that all you do is virtuous. It's ok. It's realpolitik. We can deal with it.

 MrsHobieJoe wrote: 
Yeah, I can see where you're coming from. There are countless examples of U.S. intervention with, shall we say, unintended consequences. For many years we had an irrational fear of 'Communism', which led to some pretty boneheaded foreign policies. Some remain to this day.

 MrsHobieJoe wrote: 
oh no!