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Dear UK,

today I want to talk to you about friendship. For me, friendship means to be there for each other, in good and in bad times. To take care of each other, to help each other. To celebrate together, to cry together. I understand that parts of you are unhappy at the moment. The economy is tough and our world is so full of  war and suffering, that it seem’s like the best way to deal with it, is to crawl under the covers and try forget about the rest of the world. But, we cannot forget, that the rest of the world are our friends, too. We are all in this together, as High School Musical put it so nicely. Like I said, the world is pretty fucked up these days, but in Europe we are lucky. We are lucky, because for most of us, war is something we only encounter through or TV or PC screens. It has not always been this way. 71 years ago the 2nd World War ended, living most of our continent and the world in general shattered. Millions and Millions of people lost their lives, because of an ideology that put a nation before human lives. After centuries of war, that put a stop to it. That countries like France, Germany and the UK for example fight each other in war sounds pretty absurd to me, for which I’m quite thankful. How did the constant fighting end, you ask? By becoming friends. By listening to each other. By making amends. 80 years ago, no one would have thought that we once would form a unity. That we would become friends, even family, I dare say. Like I said before, we are all in this together, even when times are tough. I know the EU is far from perfect, but we are much better off together than alone. Our world has gotten closer of the last few years. Not only our economies are intertwined our whole history and future is. And our history has been a lot peacefuller since we became friends. When we made it and became friends in the last 70 years, who says that other countries, who are at war now, can not make it, too? If you leave us now, it would devastate us. Not only would we miss you dearly, but it would send the signal, that when times are tough, it’s better to be alone. It isn’t. Like I said before, friends are there for each other. We can only help each other and the rest of the world, if we stick together. We are much stronger together than alone. I know you are angry at how things are run and sometimes you feel left out. We are sorry we made you feel this way. But friendship means talking, finding common ground, even when things get tough. We need you, and we think you need us too, more than you may realize. Your friendship means too much to us, and I hope it means something to you, too. What I’m trying to say here is, please don’t leave us. 

Please Stay.

Lots of Love

Communism: You have 2 cows; the Government takes both and gives you some milk.

Fascism: You have 2 cows; the Government takes both and sells you some milk.

Nazism: You have 2 cows; the Government takes both and shoots you.

Bureaucratism: You have 2 cows; the Government takes both, shoots one, milks the other and throws the milk away..

Traditional Capitalism: You have 2 cows. You sell one and buy a bull. You herd multiplies, and the economy grows. You sell them and retire on the income.

An American Corporation: You have 2 cows. You sell one, and force the other to produce the milk of four cows. Later, you hire a consultant to analyze why the cow dropped dead.

A French Corporation: You have 2 cows. You go on strike because you want three cows.

Japanese Corporation: You have 2 cows. You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk. You then create a clever cow cartoon image called Cowkimon and market them Worldwide.

An Italian Corporation: You have 2 cows, but you don't know where they are. You break for lunch.

A Swiss Corporation: You have 5000 cows. None of which belong to you. You charge others for storing them.

Chinese Corporation: You have 2 cows. You have 300 people milking them. You claim full employment, high bovine productivity, and arrest the newsman who reported the numbers.

An Iraqi Corporation: Everyone thinks you have lots of cows. You tell them that you have none. No one believes you and they bomb your arse. You still have no cows, but at least now you are part of a Democracy.......

Counter Culture: 'Wow, dig it, like there's these 2 cows, man, grazing in the hemp field. You gotta have some of this milk!'

Surrealism: You have two giraffes. The government requires you to take harmonica lessons.

Apathyologism: You have 2 cows. You do not care.

Fatalist: You have 2 doomed cows...

Atheism: You have 2 cows. There is no God.

A West-Country Corporation: You have 2 cows. That one on the left is kinda cute.

A Brazilian Corporation: You have 2 cows. You pay taxes for 6 cows. You have to sell one cow in order to pay the taxes. Your remaining cow gets sick and dies while waiting for availability in the public vet hospital.

Russia: You have two cows. Since they are both female, if you happen to keep them in the same stable you will pay a 5,000 rouble fine for homosexual propaganda.

PETA: You have two cows. You kill them both. You then use naked women to convince other people that killing cows is wrong.

Moffat: You have two cows. Both of them are your daughters time traveling from the past where they had a brief love affair with Da Vinci making you the rightful Queen of England. As you assume the throne, you throw them off a building.

Hussie: You have 2 cows. You ask for another one. Instead of getting just 1 cow, you get 2,485,506 cows.

Romney: You have 2 cows. You are not the president of the united states.

Once-ler: You have 1 cow. Everyone decides to make 5 different versions of that cow.

Old Spice: You have 2 cows. The cows are now diamonds. I'm on a horse.

An Irish Corporation: You have a million cows because they're everywhere

Tumblr: You have 2 cows. You ship them together and make GIF posts screaming about how much you love your cows, but they should stop existing because they are so perfect.

Also Tumblr: I give you a hamburger.

Night Vale: You do NOT have two cows. Cows do not exist. What's a cow? Show me a cow! That's not a cow! Who let you in here?

Tom Hiddleston: You have two cows. You are very sorry for them.

Thranduil: You do not have two cows, you have an elk. Riding on two cows is not majestic. Also the dwarves are on fire.

Dwarves: You had two cows but now they're on fire.

Bilbo Baggins: You did not invite those two cows for dinner.

Cows: The shit you go through.