Re: What a badass.
 

I don't have a source on this but I believe that at the time when Cromwell formed the first formal English Army the cheapest available dye was red, and so that's what they used on the uniforms. Before then England had never really had a formal uniform for it's army.

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And don't get me started on hooligans. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

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Well, actually, this is a bit of tarring all the English with the same brush.

Me? I'm not a fighter.

I'm a lover.
Then a poet.
Then a lover again. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]
Then a lover again. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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I thought it was so when they were spitting out blood from gum disease, they wouldn't stain.