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Bongo Bill posted:What's a country?
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I have actually gotten flack from English people when I described them as being similar to Egyptians in that they have a large population but always foreign rulers. Who's the last actual English queen or king?
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Jan 30, 2017 11:26
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Othon the Lame
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Jan 30, 2017 11:28
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I have actually gotten flack from English people when I described them as being similar to Egyptians in that they have a large population but always foreign rulers Who's the last actual English queen or king? If you were born in England then you're English.
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Jan 30, 2017 11:30
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my dad posted:A North wind is a wind coming from the North, what's so complicated about that? Were the Vikings Southerners because they kept raiding South? So the flow direction of every river is "uphill", since that's where it's coming from. Got it. 
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Jan 30, 2017 11:32
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Bongo Bill posted:What's a country? We just don't know.
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Jan 30, 2017 11:33
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Powered Descent posted:So the flow direction of every river is "uphill", since that's where it's coming from. Got it. Space aliens.
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Jan 30, 2017 11:34
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Rumda posted:If you were born in England then you're English. Bull poo poo
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Jan 30, 2017 11:36
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Keke Rosberg was born in Sweden but he's German.
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Jan 30, 2017 11:37
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English people should be allowed to choose their own government, decide their own laws, live under their own rulers, but they should not dictate things to other countries or peoples. Which is how it stands today, the greatest evidence being the Brexit vote. Kenya and Malaysia and Guyana got free of the English but Scotland couldn't because of rigged referenda. Sad!
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Jan 30, 2017 11:49
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Powered Descent posted:So the flow direction of every river is "uphill", since that's where it's coming from. Got it. It's North wind, not northward wind.
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Jan 30, 2017 11:54
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Jan 30, 2017 13:53
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These Mercator apologists have really gotten out of hand
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Jan 30, 2017 13:55
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Sad!
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Jan 30, 2017 13:57
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What's the wu-tang continent on the left anyway?
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Jan 30, 2017 14:00
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America is the greatest country in the world!
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Jan 30, 2017 14:00
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Jerry Cotton posted:What's the wu-tang continent on the left anyway? Antarctica.
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Jan 30, 2017 14:02
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Sereri posted:America is the greatest* country in the world! *Second largest country in the America continent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_dependencies_by_area I use to play eRepublic. A game where you play a map. And had to flee from my original country to UK. And the people on UK received me, and treated me well. I only have good things to say about UK guys. Tei fucked around with this message at 15:26 on Jan 30, 2017 |
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Jan 30, 2017 15:23
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I have actually gotten flack from English people when I described them as being similar to Egyptians in that they have a large population but always foreign rulers. Who's the last actual English queen or king? What does it mean to be 'actually' English for a nobleman? The idea that the king should be the embodiment of the nation didn't arise until the nation-state itself did. Up until that point, for the nobility, their pan-European class consciousness was much more important than the place they happened to be born in. Until at least the 19th century they used French as a lingua franca or even as a native tongue, and in some cases prided themselves on not speaking the local vernacular. In such a society, there is 'foreign rule' almost by definition.
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Jan 30, 2017 17:25
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Powered Descent posted:Speaking of which, why is it that wind is the only thing in the universe* whose direction is given as the opposite of the way it's actually going? Like a "north wind" is actually blowing southward? No one cares where the wind is going. It’s where the wind is coming from that matters, because that determines its temperature.
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Jan 30, 2017 17:49
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Platystemon posted:No one cares where the wind is going. And its smell 
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Jan 30, 2017 18:03
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I have actually gotten flack from English people when I described them as being similar to Egyptians in that they have a large population but always foreign rulers. Who's the last actual English queen or king? Queen Elizabeth II. She was born in London and lived her whole life in the UK. Her dad was born in Norfolk and her mom was born in London. She's more English than I am Canadian you stupid moron. And just in case you still think having both your parents and yourself born in the same country as you've spent your whole life still doesn't make you "English" enough, all four of her grandparents were also born in England.
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Jan 30, 2017 18:28
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Anyone that insists on referring to Ireland as Eire in English has either been transported through time from the 1930s or permanently wears an Aran jumper
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Jan 30, 2017 19:01
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She celebrates Christmas on the 24th. It's unnatural.
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Jan 30, 2017 19:05
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No matter how big on justice and tolerance and equality and future-forward Canadians are, they're still technically ruled by an old German lady who inherited her position and lives on another continent and that's pretty silly.
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Jan 30, 2017 19:09
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I'm not sure if this is more or less strange than your insistence that the Americans shouldn't have gotten involved in WW2, Teriyaki Hairpiece.
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Jan 30, 2017 19:30
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I'm not sure how you can consider Elizabeth II German. You have to go back to her great-grandparents to find anyone who could reasonably be considered German.
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Jan 30, 2017 19:34
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Pakled posted:I'm not sure how you can consider Elizabeth II German. You have to go back to her great-grandparents to find anyone who could reasonably be considered German. Wannabe German maybe? 
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Jan 30, 2017 19:37
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Pakled posted:I'm not sure how you can consider Elizabeth II German. You have to go back to her great-grandparents to find anyone who could reasonably be considered German. ONE DROP
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Jan 30, 2017 19:38
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Changing the subject, in my bookmarks I have a bunch of unlabeled imgur links and I came across this while looking for something yesterday. Probably from this thread. French Polynesia is not a small country.
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Jan 30, 2017 19:38
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I just came across this digital collection of historical persuasive maps, I bet there's some good ones in there. https://digital.library.cornell.edu/?f%5Bcollection_tesim%5D%5B%5D=Persuasive+Maps%3A+PJ+Mode+Collection
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Jan 30, 2017 19:41
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Nationality is about belonging to an imagined community, and the community of 1917 England did not consider the suspiciously German royal family to be part of itself. Lizzie herself might have been born English, but her parents were rootless cosmopolitans at best.
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Jan 30, 2017 19:42
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Normally the only people who sincerely believe that there's something special to being 'English' that can't be gained merely by being born there to parents who live there are outright fascists who started loudly declaring 'I'm not British, I'm English!' purely coincidentally around the same time that significant numbers of people started identifying themselves as Black British or British Asian. They can gently caress off and form their own country called Real England where Doggerland used to be. They can become like inverse Deep Ones, forever coming to the shores to complain about race mixing or the new Polish shop.  If you're eligible to play for England then you're probably English, unless you don't want to be.
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Jan 30, 2017 19:42
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A Buttery Pastry posted:Nationality is about belonging to an imagined community, and the community of 1917 England did not consider the suspiciously German royal family to be part of itself. Lizzie herself might have been born English, but her parents were rootless cosmopolitans at best. Are those like today’s (((globalists)))?
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Jan 30, 2017 19:48
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No true Englishman.
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Jan 30, 2017 19:50
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ABP you should probably know that rootless cosmopolitans is code for drat Jews and you probably shouldn't say it even as a joke.
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Jan 30, 2017 19:53
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Jan 30, 2017 19:54
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:ABP you should probably know that rootless cosmopolitans is code for drat Jews and you probably shouldn't say it even as a joke.
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Jan 30, 2017 20:03
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I just came across this digital collection of historical persuasive maps, I bet there's some good ones in there. very cool
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I just came across this digital collection of historical persuasive maps, I bet there's some good ones in there. Guys you should click this link, there is a lot of good stuff here.   
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