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System Metternich posted:Those fuckers burned down my hometown twice during the Thirty Years' War and killed every man, woman and child they could lay their hands on, they better be guilt-ridden as hell! Thirty years war? LMAO I still can't get over Venetians and Crusaders sacking my hometown in 1202.
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^^^Our neighbouring town used to do a number on us back in the 13th century and again in the 14th, I know how you feel   ) ^^^icantfindaname posted:"Bet, Kindlein, bet! "Maikäfer flieg! Der Vater ist im Krieg. Die Mutter ist im Pommernland, Pommerland ist abgebrannt. Maikäfter flieg!" (My parents used to sing the latter one to me as a lullaby  )
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Fox Cunning posted:The most fondly remembered historical eras in Sweden are basically when we plundered as much as we could over Europe. So when Abba won eurovision then?
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Aug 8, 2016 19:49
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Fox Cunning posted:The most fondly remembered historical eras in Sweden are basically when we plundered as much as we could over Europe. Isn't that true of every country, though? Just look at all the British people who fondly reminiscse about the time when the sun never set on the British Empire.
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mcustic posted:Thirty years war? LMAO We Celts had a good thing going until the Romans came and destroyed our entire way of life!
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Samuel Clemens posted:Isn't that true of every country, though? Just look at all the British people who fondly reminiscse about the time when the sun never set on the British Empire. Finns don't reminisce about anything, except maybe the racists, who reminisce any time before 20 years ago, when you were still allowed to say neekeri.
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Aug 8, 2016 20:16
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Well, yeah, but that's because the Finns have nothing to reminisce about. 
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Aug 8, 2016 20:23
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I dunno, the Winter War, Mannerheim and Kekkonen come up every once in a while. Lalli (apocryphal dude who is famous for killing a Swedish bishop with an axe in 1156) maybe? Granted it's pretty weak stuff compared to the rest of Europe.
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doverhog posted:I dunno, the Winter War, Mannerheim and Kekkonen come up every once in a while. Lalli (apocryphal dude who is famous for killing a Swedish bishop with an axe in 1156) maybe? Granted it's pretty weak stuff compared to the rest of Europe.
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Aug 8, 2016 20:25
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Possibly Paavo Nurmi as well. Tove Jansson might count, though she was an ethnic Swede rather than a Finn.
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Samuel Clemens posted:Well, yeah, but that's because the Finns have nothing to reminisce about. Well yes, but neither do a lot of countries kalstrams posted:Simo Häyhä too, I guess. [groans so hard my balls emerge from my mouth] Kopijeger posted:Possibly Paavo Nurmi as well. Tove Jansson might count, though she was an ethnic Swede rather than a Finn. That's not really how it works. Finland Swedes are Finns.
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Aug 8, 2016 21:02
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Samuel Clemens posted:Isn't that true of every country, though? Just look at all the British people who fondly reminiscse about the time when the sun never set on the British Empire. Fondly reminiscing about the time we laid waste to Europe is considered to be kinda gauche in Germany 
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Ras Het posted:That's not really how it works. Finland Swedes are Finns. Sweden claims all her children. Literature written in Swedish is Swedish literature.
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Ras Het posted:Finns don't reminisce about anything, except maybe the racists, who reminisce any time before 20 years ago, when you were still allowed to say neekeri. There's no way they don't glorify the Winter War.
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Ras Het posted:That's not really how it works. Finland Swedes are Finns. Perhaps, but there are stories about the stupider kind of nationalist harassing Swedish-speakers for speaking their own language amongst themselves in public. Clearly not everybody consider them to be proper Finns.
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Phlegmish posted:There's no way they don't glorify the Winter War. Well we do, but in the end we lost that war, so there's a limit to that. The British for example have infinitely more hubris about their ancestral glories. Kopijeger posted:Perhaps, but there are stories about the stupider kind of nationalist harassing Swedish-speakers for speaking their own language amongst themselves in public. Clearly not everybody consider them to be proper Finns. Yeah but only complete idiots consider them, notice the phrasing, Swedes rather than Finns. I know the type of idiot, I'm from Kouvola
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Samuel Clemens posted:Isn't that true of every country, though? Just look at all the British people who fondly reminiscse about the time when the sun never set on the British Empire. We still own enough rocks full of pedophilic mutineers that it still hasn't
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Ras Het posted:Well yes, but neither do a lot of countries If the Canadians can gloat because they* burned down Washington then anyone can gloat about anything. *loyalist american colonists who fled to canada
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Finland's get to reminisce about the time everyone carried a small lump of unbreakable Finish plastic around with them.
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Rumda posted:Finland's get to reminisce about the time everyone carried a small lump of unbreakable Finish plastic around with them.
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George Washington had his army eat apples off the trees in my backyard when it was an orchard and I'll be damned if I ever forgive that priss
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Peanut President posted:If the Canadians can gloat because they* burned down Washington then anyone can gloat about anything.
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A Buttery Pastry posted:Didn't they stay in Canada? That'd make them just as much "they" as the people who lived in Canada prior to the whole rebellion. I'm an American, so I don't know much about this but I'm going to plunge ahead anyway. AFAIK "Canadian" didn't exist as a national identity until Confederation in the 1870s. Before that there were just British subjects in North America of varying languages, ethnicities, and religions, who identified themselves in those terms rather than as "Canadians." The idea that the War of 1812 was an expression of Canadian national identity is a modern invention (like most national narratives). So you're right - the "they" who burned down the White House was just as Canadian as the "they" who lived there before the Revolution. Which is to say, not at all. http://ncph.org/history-at-work/remanufacturing-1812/
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And also the army that attacked DC was a bunch of Royal Marines shipped over from Europe, not guys from British North America.
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Rumda posted:We still own enough rocks full of pedophilic mutineers that it still hasn't
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Guavanaut posted:Well year but the idea of a British Empire would be kinda conjectural if it lost the British Isles. Though technically it would still be a British Empire just like Prussia and Bavaria were German kingdoms.
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Kopijeger posted:Perhaps, but there are stories about the stupider kind of nationalist harassing Swedish-speakers for speaking their own language amongst themselves in public. Clearly not everybody consider them to be proper Finns. Yeah, there was a major change in the early 1990s. Once the first wave of Somali arrived, the bigots had a much easier targets. I haven't been randomly harassed in the street since then.
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Guavanaut posted:Well year but the idea of a British Empire would be kinda conjectural if it lost the British Isles. Hahaha
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System Metternich posted:Fondly reminiscing about the time we laid waste to Europe is considered to be kinda gauche in Germany Times
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Guavanaut posted:Well year but the idea of a British Empire would be kinda conjectural if it lost the British Isles. I don't know, the Roman empire managed to take the loss of Rome fairly well. 
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Baka-nin posted:I don't know, the Roman empire managed to take the loss of Rome fairly well. Empire shown moments before Constantinople was sacked by Catholic crusaders. (well ok 150 years before)
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"Useless" 
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Count Roland posted:Empire shown moments before Constantinople was sacked by Catholic crusaders. Empire shown moments before Anatolia was gobbled up by the Turks. (well ok 20 years before)
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Guavanaut posted:
This looks really, really familiar. Is this from a Röyksopp video? I don't even remember the name but it's an animation that shows a lot of How Stuff Works diagrams that involve the daily commute and stuff like that.
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It is! It's from Remind Me. Maybe it's short for Remind Me Where Manchester Goes.
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Guavanaut posted:
Knowing almost nothing about the UK even I would have spotted that. I'm assuming 'BTV' is not known for its professionalism
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Guavanaut posted:It is! It's from Remind Me. Yes! Thank you. I didn't really expect to see it ITT of all places.
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Phlegmish posted:Knowing almost nothing about the UK even I would have spotted that. I'm assuming 'BTV' is not known for its professionalism Hmm.
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I hadn't read the posts about how it's from a clip or something so don't you hmm me
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