At this point - I would be happy to go back to being a colony. Except no metric system - I refused to learn it in 5th grade and I won't learn it in my dotage.

When my person was doing her fulbright - we got kicked out of the british library because charles was going to be there for an opening of a magna carta exhibit. Extremely officious police flooded into the place and were kicking out the scholars (my person) and their flunkies (me)