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I really wouldn't press the matter. Despite all the crap Britain has given America since slaughtering the natives and enslaving all the people they could, they've also given us a lot of good stuff. Like Mini Coopers, Lee-Enfield rifles, Parliament smokes, BP gas stations and James Bond. xD