Originally posted by DodgyAgent
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Originally posted by SueEllen View PostDoesn't work like that I'm afraid. Britain's fault for having colonies in the past.
How far back can we go? Ancient Egyptian slavery? Islamic imperialism? The countless empires that predate "Britain"?Comment
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Originally posted by TheGreenBastard View PostInteresting. So people now must be punished for acts by our ancestors.
How far back can we go? Ancient Egyptian slavery? Islamic imperialism? The countless empires that predate "Britain"?
Must we all pay for MF's previous actions too?Comment
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Originally posted by TheGreenBastard View PostInteresting. So people now must be punished for acts by our ancestors.
How far back can we go? Ancient Egyptian slavery? Islamic imperialism? The countless empires that predate "Britain"?"why ride a vespa when you can push a lambretta?"
As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding; like the Roman, I seem to see "the River Tiber foaming with much blood."Comment
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Originally posted by Major Hassle View PostAs far as it takes to fit the story, RoryComment
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Originally posted by SpontaneousOrder View PostCareful - you're verging on 'bigotry' there. Wouldn't want you to get banned for expressing an idea that the mod doesn't like, or triggering a mod's tendency for projection (That's what bigotry means, FYI).
"why ride a vespa when you can push a lambretta?"
As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding; like the Roman, I seem to see "the River Tiber foaming with much blood."Comment
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Originally posted by m0n1k3r View PostIt is the British EU commissioner who is in charge of security and anti-terrorism.) the rest of Europe will blame Britain. Or am I being a tiny bit too cynical...?
His heart is in the right place - shame we can't say the same about his brain...Comment
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Originally posted by SpontaneousOrder View PostCareful - you're verging on 'bigotry' there. Wouldn't want you to get banned for expressing an idea that the mod doesn't like, or triggering a mod's tendency for projection (That's what bigotry means, FYI).
The word bigot is a contraction of the phrase "By God, I'm right". Nothing to do with projection and everything to do with hating anyone who has a different view to you. It's a very isolationist standpoint, previously used in religious arguments, but seen in other areas too.…Maybe we ain’t that young anymoreComment
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Originally posted by WTFH View PostAh the man without a dictionary is back.
The word bigot is a contraction of the phrase "By God, I'm right". Nothing to do with projection and everything to do with hating anyone who has a different view to you. It's a very isolationist standpoint, previously used in religious arguments, but seen in other areas too.
1590s, "sanctimonious person, religious hypocrite," from French bigot (12c.), which is of unknown origin. Earliest French use of the word is as the name of a people apparently in southern Gaul, which led to the now-doubtful, on phonetic grounds, theory that the word comes from Visigothus. The typical use in Old French seems to have been as a derogatory nickname for Normans, the old theory (not universally accepted) being that it springs from their frequent use of the Germanic oath bi God. But OED dismisses in a three-exclamation-mark fury one fanciful version of the "by god" theory as "absurdly incongruous with facts." At the end, not much is left standing except Spanish bigote "mustache," which also has been proposed but not explained, and the chief virtue of which as a source seems to be there is no evidence for or against it."why ride a vespa when you can push a lambretta?"
As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding; like the Roman, I seem to see "the River Tiber foaming with much blood."Comment
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Originally posted by Mordac View PostA sneaky little ploy by Juncker so that if anything goes wrong (as if it would) the rest of Europe will blame Britain. Or am I being a tiny bit too cynical...?
Also the last one in head of something like finance resigned due to Brexit, so they put a British one in Security as even if we leave we are extremely likely to co-operate on that."You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JRComment
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