You shouldn’t be allowed to pick an animal outside your hemisphere for a national symbol.
Look man the Scottish have a unicorn and the Welsh have a dragon. Clearly the UK doesn’t agree with that rule
Imaginary creatures are fine and actually cooler. Just don’t pick a lion if there’s no lions on your island
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and a premptive ‘fuck you’ to anyone who points at a zoo
Does the Tower of London count as a zoo? It technically wasn’t.
They kept Barbary Lions (and a bunch of other exotic animals) in the Tower of London and it’s how it ended up as the symbol of England, practice started in the 1200s.
oh fuck the ankh-morpork hippos were real
lmao yes
Counterpoint: lions are cool
Not accurate. The Brit has to have his lips pressed against the shoe with a little tongue added in.
maybe they made the comic before the Suez crisis
nothing has changed