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A Buttery Pastry posted:I would contend that Italy isn't a super ancient civilization. Even Greek arguably isn't, but it gets to claim Minoan culture, which pushes its origins into the same category as Egypt, a proper ancient civilization. Aside from that, I'd argue it's easier to imagine Greece still being a continuation of Ancient Greece when what it's known for is thinking, while "Italy" was known for kicking rear end, but then spent like a thousand years getting pushed around by outsiders. i'm not even gonna say you're wrong, but i laughed, no kidding, hard and out loud at this post.
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Pope Hilarius II posted:Same with Belgium. I can imagine some Belgians even going "Belgian culture? That's a thing?!" (it is, but it's complicated) "Beer and Hergé" isn't really complicated.
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When I hear “Belgian culture” I reach for my brown ale
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Tree Goat posted:When I hear “Belgian culture” I reach for my brown ale I dubbel and tripel check mine constantly.
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I just reach for my FN, the Walloon export of which caused a political crisis in the early nineties
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:The only true italians left live in the Mushroom Kingdom.
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I reach for my fries and mayo personally.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I reach for my fries and mayo personally. mussels and mayo
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Tei posted:Theres a famous photo of some rich homes in paris where the windows did not had windowblinds. It's weird ... I've been living in Spain as an expat almost three years and always self-conscious as the only apartment in sight with the blinds open... What must the neighbors think? But I don't think privacy is the full story, we have light curtains that let in light but don't let you see what we're doing... and we get glimpses that our neighbors have the same. But still, most of the time if you were just to step out into our balcony and look around, you would think we live in a deserted city if it weren't for activity on the street. For that matter, no one else uses their balconies either. It seems only foreigners use their balconies for anything besides storage. Which is weird because to me it's a huge draw for an apartment.
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Are they counting some train going through a mountain for Switzerland? They have a lot of trams but I don't recall a subway in any of their major cities.
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There's a bit of underground (or tunnel at least) in Lausanne. I guess that sort of counts?
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I wonder if decades of fascism had any influence on window blinds in Spain.
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People here also love to use speakerphone in public, or is that a thing everywhere now? It boggles the mind.
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AKA Pseudonym posted:Are they counting some train going through a mountain for Switzerland? They have a lot of trams but I don't recall a subway in any of their major cities. My guess it’s the „S-Bahn“ which at least in Zurich has some underground stretches. I wouldn’t call it an underground/ U-Bahn, but it’s pretty similar.
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Spaniards loving being inside pitch black houses explains a lot of their famous painters. Goya, Velazquez, etc. Like you expect sunny bright stuff and no. But instead they're like weird Mediterranean goths or something. Molly Ringwald: France Judd Nelson: Greece Emilio Estevez: Italy Anthony Michael Hall: Portugal Ally Sheedy: Spain Grape fucked around with this message at 17:20 on Nov 20, 2021 |
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Regnum Gothorum, checks out.
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See Also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srtnPqP9fn8
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SurgicalOntologist posted:People here also love to use speakerphone in public, or is that a thing everywhere now? It boggles the mind. That's just assholes everywhere.
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Armacham posted:That's just assholes everywhere. Eh, in my anecdotal experience, Southern and Eastern Europeans do really do this more often - or, at least, holding their phone in front of them when calling instead of pressed to their ear. What will never not amuse me though is when moslimas stick their phone in their hijab and make hands-free calls like that. Really practical.
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Grape posted:Spaniards loving being inside pitch black houses explains a lot of their famous painters. Goya, Velazquez, etc. The conventions of Baroque art entirely explain the “darkness” in Velásquez. Regarding Goya, there is a huge contrast between his early and later styles due to mental and physical illness and the political and social situation in Spain after 1800.
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King Hong Kong posted:The conventions of Baroque art entirely explain the “darkness” in Velásquez. Regarding Goya, there is a huge contrast between his early and later styles due to mental and physical illness and the political and social situation in Spain after 1800. Sounds plausible.
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Peaceful Anarchy posted:So what you're saying is shutters are the reason for Baroque art's darkness, cause mental and physical illness, and are the cause of Spanish political turmoil in the last 200 years? No doubt Goya (and Spain with him) adopted shutters as a response to the horrific sight of French people outside, from which no recovery was possible.
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I never thought of Spaniards as having a particularly sunny disposition, given their history. Wow! Religious persecution and conquering entire continents! Those wacky, fun-loving Mediterraneans! That said, my best friend's Spanish girlfriend (from Valladolid), who is over here for the time being, does say she misses the sun.
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She needs the sun to observe the destruction wrought by her compatriots and later on derive grim pleasure from it as she broods in a pitch black sitting room.
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This thread has gone full Edward Gibbon, in particular the passage where he compares Alaric and the Goths to Charles V and the Spaniards, who were characterized by their “gloomy pride.”
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The darkest darkness can only truly exist in the sun kissed lands of the Med, for only with high contrast can darkness truly uh dark. Other data points on Med people being the truest goths and crazy metalheads stuff: -Greeks being really into extreme Metal -NATURAL black hair for lots of people? lol at North Euros ever beating that (nice hair dye Siouxie and Robert Smith) -big bushy mustaches are way more Metal than lanky long hair, much more dark ages guy with axe about to kill a farmer looking -all the old widow ladies dress in black 24/7 -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6LKszIrDzo
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Paintings from Spain's early modern golden age always have everyone in black.
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Grape posted:But instead they're like weird Mediterranean goths or something. Literally.    
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The omnious Tchuds of Estonia
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PYF Chud maps  one for ants: 
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"Atlantis" Transverse Oblique Homolographic Equal-Area arrangement Designed to show the North Temparate Zone, chief development area of mankind, in compact equal area relationship to the rest of the world. John Bartholomew, 1953  (Click for big) Jaguars! fucked around with this message at 02:22 on Nov 22, 2021 |
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This was posted in the C-SPAM pictures thread but you all need to see it.
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In case you're wondering, the ACT is considered a joke in Australia as well.
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Platystemon posted:This was posted in the C-SPAM pictures thread but you all need to see it. This owns
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I'm not an expert of swedish history or geography but shouldn't Västergötland actually cover any of the area called Västergötland? Slapping Götaland all over Svealand is a bold move but at least it also covers the eastern parts of Östergötland. (väst = west, öst = east)
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King Hong Kong posted:No doubt Goya (and Spain with him) adopted shutters as a response to the horrific sight of French people outside, from which no recovery was possible. lol But the notion that Spaniards are gloomy and severe is an old one though, it's a stereotype that dates back at least to the 17th century. I've never met a Spanish person who fits that bill. The closest I can think of is the former queen of Belgium, Fabiola, who was a very devout and conservative Catholic lady that looked like a walking corpse during the last 25 years of her life. And even she would often still smile.
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The change prolly has something to do with the fact that while more than half of Spain is catholic, only 18% of modern spaniards self-identify as practicing.
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