Is Mise,

Here's another "opinion piece " for you to knock back:

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/oct/19/end-myths-britains-imperial-past

Too bad Issy, Wow!! don't cut it. The judging panel unanimously declared that a crappy defence. Therefore you are awarded a PORKY AWARD 2nd Class with a BS citation! Here it is and we haven't even thought of Xmas, and you have earned your 49th PORKY. Just think, one more PORKY and you will be eligible to receive a PORKY STATUE, fashioned by my very own hands from a discarded Freddo Frog wrapper (the closest thing I could find that locked like Porky Pig) and the inner tube of a spent toilet roll. I hope you are not chocking up at the thought of receiving such a coveted honour.I don't give them out to just anyone, only to the special people.

Foxy,

I think Is Mise has a bee in his bonnet and in terms of psychoanalytical explanation I think he is demonstrating denialism. I fear something terrible has happened in his life that causes him to reject knowledge and surround himself with guns as a way of protecting himself against some unimaginable evil that he believes pervades his life.

PS Maybe I should introduce him to my friends Jack Daniels, Johnny Walker and Jim Beam. Twenty shots before lunch will brighten up his day and make for a rosy world. Plus his aim with his guns will be diminished making the world a lot safer place for the rest of us.

Opinion,

I'm not surprised that you prefer the cruder whiskies.

Paul,

Double wow!!.

//'...also symbolic of natural grace and beauty [kangaroos], two things that the British Empire had vowed to wipe off the face of the earth." is just racist claptrap or a deeprooted hatred for things British.//

Bollocks. Disagreeing with things that Britain used to do and don't anymore - like having an empire - is neither racist nor indicative of a hatred for all things British. Britain used to practice slavery, execute criminals by hanging, torture people, execute people for being 'witches' of some very dodgy evidence, and engage in any number of other practices that are morally dubious.

British imperialism, like any human endeavour on such a grand scale, was neither all good nor all bad. I found a radio programme by a comedian I quite like the other day on this very subject, and I feel it makes the point extremely well:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00057qs

But disagreeing with questionable moral practices carried out under the banner of imperialism isn't anti-British unless you think it was fine when the French, Spanish, Dutch and Portugese did it. That would be racist. If you just disagree on general ethical grounds, I fail to see how it's racist. Or indicative of a dislike of contemporary Britain