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PimpJuice

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Adele would be Americas, but we don't want her fat ass so we LET you keep her. Remember we can take whatever we want from your pansy asses.
 
HAL9000

HAL9000

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PimpJuice said:
Adele would be Americas, but we don't want her fat ass so we LET you keep her. Remember we can take whatever we want from your pansy asses.
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Nope, you can't otherwise you'd have had the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Jaguar etc etc etc
 
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PimpJuice

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HAL9000 said:
Nope, you can't otherwise you'd have had the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Jaguar etc etc etc
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Those are all ours....we just let you think they're yours. You guys probably still think America is yours too, we all saw how that turned out.

You never answered why Adele would choose to have her surgery here instead of the UK??? Explain please.
 
zinfamous

zinfamous

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HAL9000 said:
Nope, you can't otherwise you'd have had the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Jaguar etc etc etc
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Yes, so British, in fact, that they allowed themselves to be occupied by a US company for a decade+

:colbert:

Ford Motor Company era


Jaguar S-Type based on the Ford DEW98 platform


Ford made offers to Jaguar's US and UK shareholders to buy their shares in November 1989; Jaguar's listing on the London Stock Exchange was removed on 28 February 1990.[13] In 1999 it became part of Ford's new Premier Automotive Group along with Aston Martin, Volvo Cars and, from 2000, Land Rover. Aston Martin was subsequently sold off in 2007. Between Ford purchasing Jaguar in 1989 and selling it in 2008 it did not earn any profit for the Dearborn-based auto manufacturer.
Under Ford's ownership Jaguar expanded its range of products with the launch of the S-Type in 1999 and X-type in 2001. Since Land Rover's May 2000 purchase by Ford, it has been closely associated with Jaguar. In many countries they share a common sales and distribution network (including shared dealerships), and some models now share components, although the only shared production facility was Halewood, for the X-Type and the Freelander 2. However operationally the two companies were effectively integrated under a common management structure within Ford's PAG.
On 11 June 2007, Ford announced that it planned to sell Jaguar, along with Land Rover and retained the services of Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and HSBC to advise it on the deal. The sale was initially expected to be announced by September 2007, but was delayed until March 2008. Private equity firms such as Alchemy Partners of the UK, TPG Capital, Ripplewood Holdings (which hired former Ford Europe executive Sir Nick Scheele to head its bid), Cerberus Capital Management and One Equity Partners (owned by JP Morgan Chase and managed by former Ford executive Jacques Nasser) of the US, Tata Motors of India and a consortium comprising Mahindra and Mahindra (an auto manufacturer from India) and Apollo Management all initially expressed interest in purchasing the marques from the Ford Motor Company.[14][15]
Before the sale was announced, Anthony Bamford, chairman of British excavator manufacturer JCB had expressed interest in purchasing the company in August 2006,[16] but backed out upon learning that the sale would also involve Land Rover, which he did not wish to buy. On Christmas Eve of 2007, Mahindra and Mahindra backed out of the race for both brands, citing complexities in the deal.[17]
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How would the Beatles have fared had they not flown across the pond for that first tour?
 
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