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Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

Velisarius posted:

Ah, so we've now come down to historical revisionism and the like.

Mm, Greek intellectuals never dominated in Rome, either.

Goons.

Greece is a country that is currently perceived as inferior to loving poland, and also people think greek pensions should be lower than Polands. Which they are higher.

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Mans
Sep 14, 2011

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

etalian posted:

I like how greeks looked down on Macedonians but then claimed Alexander the Great was greek after he built his empire.

Alexander was Albanian hth

Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

Emergency confection port.

Mans posted:

Alexander was Albanian hth

He was Srbijan, why do you think it has the claim on being the Fourth Rome?

Der Kyhe
Jun 25, 2008

Luigi Thirty posted:

He was Srbijan, why do you think it has the claim on being the Fourth Rome?

Because Serbians have a complex towards nationalism and heroic history in size, which makes Finland look like Belgium?

awesome-express
Dec 30, 2008

Der Kyhe posted:

Because Serbians have a complex towards nationalism and heroic history in size, which makes Finland look like Belgium?

What has belgium ever done for anyone. Just a pointless tiny country being smug.

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


Fun Shoe

awesome-express posted:

What has belgium ever done for anyone. Just a pointless tiny country being smug.

Good beer?

FizFashizzle
Mar 30, 2005







awesome-express posted:

What has belgium ever done for anyone. Just a pointless tiny country being smug.

european buffer state?

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

by Fluffdaddy

Congo.

blugu64
Jul 17, 2006

Do you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face?

awesome-express posted:

What has belgium ever done for anyone.

Freedom Fries :911:

Baudolino
Apr 1, 2010

THUNDERDOME LOSER

awesome-express posted:

What has belgium ever done for anyone. Just a pointless tiny country being smug.

Proved that yes, you can use Human hands as currency. Plus they make excellent chocolate.

LGD
Sep 25, 2004

awesome-express posted:

What has belgium ever done for anyone. Just a pointless tiny country being smug.

They're responsible for giving lots of people a hand during the late 19th and early 20th centuries

NihilismNow
Aug 31, 2003
Congo free state was not a Belgian possesion but private property of king Leopold so you can't really blame Belgium for the worst of it. Only for the still quite terrible things that happened after they took over the Congo from the king.

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

by Fluffdaddy

NihilismNow posted:

Congo free state was not a Belgian possesion but private property of king Leopold so you can't really blame Belgium for the worst of it. Only for the still quite terrible things that happened after they took over the Congo from the king.

On the other had, they did give us Jean-Claude Van Damme, so that more than makes up for any mistakes in Africa anyway.

Inspector Gesicht
Oct 26, 2012

500 Zeus a body.


mobby_6kl posted:

On the other had, they did give us Jean-Claude Van Damme, so that more than makes up for any mistakes in Africa anyway.

And Tintin. Just forget about that time he went to the Congo.

MeLKoR
Dec 23, 2004

by FactsAreUseless

Inspector Gesicht posted:

And Tintin. Just forget about that time he went to the Congo.

Was that one "The Mistery of the Missing Hands"?

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drilldo squirt
Aug 18, 2006

a beautiful, soft meat sack
Clapping Larry

LGD posted:

They're responsible for giving lots of people a hand during the late 19th and early 20th centuries

Hah.

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