21 minutes ago, daisycutter said:

seems they do, doc. see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Croats

You've got too much time on your hands, daisy, but well picked up. Also seems they well and truly trump New Zealand (following the Croats in NZ link), being responsible for anyone who's anyone in that country as well, including several All Blacks.

Most of those associations are at best nominal, or probably more accurately fanciful. Interesting what can be done with this sort of exercise.

30 minutes ago, Dr John Dee said:

You've got too much time on your hands, daisy, but well picked up. Also seems they well and truly trump New Zealand (following the Croats in NZ link), being responsible for anyone who's anyone in that country as well, including several All Blacks.

Most of those associations are at best nominal, or probably more accurately fanciful. Interesting what can be done with this sort of exercise.

you should see the arguments on history fora regarding ethnic connections/ownership to alexander the great. at least 6 balkanic countries claim a slice of the pie. the arguments make demonland look like a haven of calm and reason. lol

1 hour ago, dieter said:

You mean the Sassenachs?

But they are not Europeans any more

2 hours ago, daisycutter said:

originally celtic, then romanised, then germanised..........hmmmm....reminds me of another european country

You left out Vikingised and Normanised (and Pommified for that matter)

1 hour ago, beelzebub said:

learn something here everyday...lol

Ich bin ein sassenach

Didn't know you identified as a sausage, BB

23 minutes ago, Red and Bluebeard said:

Didn't know you identified as a sausage, BB

Took it to be 'outlander' ...English. ( wherefore lil ol me heralds from )

Lest im not a Frankfurter lol

38 minutes ago, beelzebub said:

Took it to be 'outlander' ...English. ( wherefore lil ol me heralds from )

Lest im not a Frankfurter lol

Mine ancestors hail from Pommieland as well, although far enough back that I try to forget this as often as possible ... Slagging off Poms with terms like 'Sassenach' is a habit that comes surprisingly easily after living in Scotland during the reign of one Ms. Thatcher.

It is also good that you are not a Hamburger

3 hours ago, Biffen said:

I've been to Vienna many times.

Mostly on my way to Budapest.

I thought Franz Kafka was From Prague.

There is the minuscule chance I could be wrong.

He wrote in German:the Hapsburgs/Austria/Hungary ruled what becamse Czechoslovakia.

On 1/13/2017 at 11:39 AM, special robert said:

I'm back from Tassie. In my opinion Uncle Bitter would make an excellent teacher. On that subject I noticed in Launceston there was a Steiner school.

My question is .........How is it we fought two world wars to have a German education system?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dear Uncle Bitter as you have been lauded as a fine teacher I wonder if you could instruct me as to a problem which is vexing me each and every time I go on the Land.... That picture advertisement on the right home page with two buxom blondes has me befuddled! The inscripted message "Play Now" has me further intruigued. As a well travelled Gent does anything like this exist in the quiet hamlet of Romsy! I hope you can assist as I am feeling more than a little concerned about this type of add appearing on Demonland! Yours PF!

Edited January 15, 20178 yr by picket fence

2 hours ago, Red and Bluebeard said:

But they are not Europeans any more

Good riddance.

 

2 hours ago, Red and Bluebeard said:

You left out Vikingised and Normanised (and Pommified for that matter)

True: in fact most of the east coast of Scotland and England has more Viking gene that any other.

The salutary aspect of this is the relevance that boat people have to civilization and the evolution of the human species. Dutton, Turnbull, Abbott, Shorten, please take note.

Edited January 15, 20178 yr by dieter

1 hour ago, Red and Bluebeard said:

Mine ancestors hail from Pommieland as well, although far enough back that I try to forget this as often as possible ... Slagging off Poms with terms like 'Sassenach' is a habit that comes surprisingly easily after living in Scotland during the reign of one Ms. Thatcher.

It is also good that you are not a Hamburger

Especially one with the lot.

3 hours ago, Dr John Dee said:

You've got too much time on your hands, daisy, but well picked up. Also seems they well and truly trump New Zealand (following the Croats in NZ link), being responsible for anyone who's anyone in that country as well, including several All Blacks.

Most of those associations are at best nominal, or probably more accurately fanciful. Interesting what can be done with this sort of exercise.

Just had a geek at so-called Croats: they even claim Marta Agerich and Joseph Haydn.

Agerich has Catalonian background on her father's side, Russian Jewish on her mother's.

Whatever, let's claim her!

3 hours ago, Red and Bluebeard said:

But they are not Europeans any more

they never really were r&b......it was always "abroad"

1 hour ago, daisycutter said:

they never really were r&b......it was always "abroad"

But which broad? And the wogs start at Calais, Carlisle and Cardiff (not to mention Croydon)

Banana Fact #231

Did you know japanese people literally wear bananas as clothing? Anyone for a banana kimono?

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    A third wave of banana diffusion occurred in both Asia and in Europe.  By the 1200s, Japanese cultivators harvested specific banana varieties for their fibers, to forge into textiles for clothes and other fabrics.  Through selective use of banana fibers and processing techniques involving lye soaks, Japanese textile production from bananas could be either soft enough for use in the creation of prized kimonos and other traditional wear, or coarse enough for use as table cloth. 

 

On 14 January 2017 at 7:38 PM, daisycutter said:

heard our own earl hood was spotted at portsea for the big polo gig, gallantly standing in for julie bishop who mysteriously couldn't make it. i always wondered whether earl might be a closet hooray henry. i do hope he had a good chat to gillon while he was there and can fill us in on the latest afl shenanigans

Alas the answer is no DC. No polo for me I have been in Canberra for past few days visiting galleries and two exhibitions, the treasures of Versailles and the 2 million years of history in one room with 100 objects from the British Museum of History. In the latter I thought I would find an answer to the last 60 odd posts on this thread but no, while I saw the first evidence of human endeavour with cutting stones from Tanzania more than a million years ago through to tools and art from ancient Egypt, Babylon, Persia through to Alexander and Ptolemy, Augustus, Roman dominance, Tamarlane, aboriginal artifacts and on and on but oddly no mention of the Habsburgs, the Nazis or Steiner schools for that matter. Perhaps the aforementioned discussions are no more than a blip in history of mankind. 

25 minutes ago, Earl Hood said:

Alas the answer is no DC. No polo for me I have been in Canberra for past few days visiting galleries and two exhibitions, the treasures of Versailles and the 2 million years of history in one room with 100 objects from the British Museum of History. In the latter I thought I would find an answer to the last 60 odd posts on this thread but no, while I saw the first evidence of human endeavour with cutting stones from Tanzania more than a million years ago through to tools and art from ancient Egypt, Babylon, Persia through to Alexander and Ptolemy, Augustus, Roman dominance, Tamarlane, aboriginal artifacts and on and on but oddly no mention of the Habsburgs, the Nazis or Steiner schools for that matter. Perhaps the aforementioned discussions are no more than a blip in history of mankind. 

We are all blips, my friend.Some of us blip more honestly and benignly. I take my hats off to those who do. As they say in the classics, my buckin hats cover my buccaneers.

Also, the terrors Alexander wrought on the world as he knew it ought to be compared to the terrors Napoleon, Churchill, Stalin and Hitler wrought on the world.

I simply hate those clowns who thought it was their destiny and privilege to wreak terror. Bush, Blair, Howard, Obama, Clinton, Netanyahu, and their ilk should be put away.

Edited January 15, 20178 yr by dieter

55 minutes ago, Earl Hood said:

Alas the answer is no DC. No polo for me I have been in Canberra for past few days visiting galleries and two exhibitions, the treasures of Versailles and the 2 million years of history in one room with 100 objects from the British Museum of History. In the latter I thought I would find an answer to the last 60 odd posts on this thread but no, while I saw the first evidence of human endeavour with cutting stones from Tanzania more than a million years ago through to tools and art from ancient Egypt, Babylon, Persia through to Alexander and Ptolemy, Augustus, Roman dominance, Tamarlane, aboriginal artifacts and on and on but oddly no mention of the Habsburgs, the Nazis or Steiner schools for that matter. Perhaps the aforementioned discussions are no more than a blip in history of mankind. 

A pity, earl. I'd really hoped you might have been there to pump gillon for some juicy news as there would be no chance you'd bump into him at a canberra gallery or exhibition (unless it was one on the national game of course). julie would have been disappointed you couldn't stand in for her. look forward to your trip report.

29 minutes ago, dieter said:

We are all blips, my friend.Some of us blip more honestly and benignly. I take my hats off to those who do. As they say in the classics, my buckin hats cover my buccaneers.

Also, the terrors Alexander wrought on the world as he knew it ought to be compared to the terrors Napoleon, Churchill, Stalin and Hitler wrought on the world.

I simply hate those clowns who thought it was their destiny and privilege to wreak terror. Bush, Blair, Howard, Obama, Clinton, Netanyahu, and their ilk should be put away.

Howard is a Northern Sydney solicitor who fell into the leadership of Australia due to the fact that Labor had done its job of solidifying our economic potential into a reality.

He was a coat tugger and a [censored] who got lucky.

How you can lump in Obama with him is beyond reason.

Blair was a toad,Bush was a moron,Clinton was a genius and. Netanyahu was a human tick, still is.

Barack will be ranked along side Lincoln and Franklin as a giant in years to come.

 

Just checked on Kafka-born in Prague.

I await your apologies.

Just now, Biffen said:

Howard is a Northern Sydney solicitor who fell into the leadership of Australia due to the fact that Labor had done its job of solidifying our economic potential into a reality.

He was a coat tugger and a [censored] who got lucky.

How you can lump in Obama with him is beyond reason.

Blair was a toad,Bush was a moron,Clinton was a genius and. Netanyahu was a human tick, still is.

Barack will be ranked along side Lincoln and Franklin as a giant in years to come.

 

Obama did nothing but toady to Israel and drop bombs and talk sweetly. Clinton was just as bad. The damage he and Albright did to Iraq, just for starters, was way beyond the pale.

Obama will be compared to the great fairy flosses of the world, full of sweet sound and broken promises ( Quantanimo, exiting Iraq and Afghanistan) while piling on the murders by Drones, not to mention his complicity in the rape of Libya and Syria.

3 minutes ago, Biffen said:

Just checked on Kafka-born in Prague.

I await your apologies.

If he'd been born in Osaka though he wrote in German probably, by your reckoning, may not make him Japanese though.

Edited January 15, 20178 yr by dieter

Just caught up on this thread, what the heck has happened to it?! 

Have the Germans and Japanese taken over the banana industry? 

3 minutes ago, dieter said:

Obama did nothing but toady to Israel and drop bombs and talk sweetly. Clinton was just as bad. The damage he and Albright did to Iraq, just for starters, was way beyond the pale.

Obama will be compared to the great fairy flosses of the world, full of sweet sound and broken promises ( Quantanimo, exiting Iraq and Afghanistan) while piling on the murders by Drones, not to mention his complicity in the rape of Libya and Syria.

You are right about Obama now but history will change all that.

Clinton waged one of the most efficient wars in History-resulting in minimal death.

Im impressed by Drone warfare- it saves lives.

I look forward to viewing idiots set up RPGs on US targets until the silent drone intervenes.

Its clean.

YouTube at its best.