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  • Re: Brexit 2: Happy Halloween

    Originally posted by FadeToBlack&Gold View Post
    Denmark: Easy
    Beg pardon?
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    • Re: Brexit 2: Happy Halloween

      Originally posted by Kepler View Post
      Beg pardon?
      There's apparently a stereotype in Denmark that the coffee date doesn't happen until you've had sex first. To be fair, the same is said about Iceland.

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      • Originally posted by FadeToBlack&Gold View Post
        Iceland: Poor
        Norway: Rich
        Sweden: Gay
        Denmark: Easy
        Finland: Drunk/Unintelligible (wrong language family)
        It’s crazy how different Finnish is. I mean I get why because of the history but they all speak Swedish anyway.

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        • Re: Brexit 2: Happy Halloween

          Originally posted by FadeToBlack&Gold View Post
          Iceland: Poor
          And yet every dinner costs $40.

          Cornell '04, Stanford '06


          KDR

          Rover Frenchy, Classic! Great post.
          iwh30 I wish I could be as smart as you. I really do you are the man
          gregg729 I just saw your sig, you do love having people revel in your "intelligence."
          Ritt18 you are the perfect representation of your alma mater.
          Miss Thundercat That's it, you win.
          TBA#2 I want to kill you and dance in your blood.
          DisplacedCornellian Hahaha. Thread over. Frenchy wins.

          Test to see if I can add this.

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          • Re: Brexit 2: Happy Halloween

            Originally posted by Deutsche Gopher Fan View Post
            It’s crazy how different Finnish is. I mean I get why because of the history but they all speak Swedish anyway.
            I guess it makes sense given this dispersion.

            That's how you wind up with Finnic being closer to Mongolian than to German, even though it seems bizarre.
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            • Re: Brexit 2: Happy Halloween

              Finns, Estonians, and Hungarians are all related, right? Descendants of the Golden Horde?
              the state of hockey is good

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              • Re: Brexit 2: Happy Halloween

                Originally posted by state of hockey View Post
                Finns, Estonians, and Hungarians are all related, right? Descendants of the Golden Horde?
                The Golden Horde (13th century) is way too late.

                The Hungarians spread west with Attila in the 5th century and eventually reach the area of modern Hungary in the 9th century.

                The Finns and Estonians are MUCH earlier, with Finnish being spoken in Finland as early as 4000 BC. Therefore Uralic has developed as a language group throughout north eastern Europe and northern Asia by the Bronze Age, and all those peoples who come after speaking varieties of it (Finnish, Estonian, Mongol, Hungarian) are all splinters of the original parent language.

                It's probably more accurate to think of Uralic as a root language which breaks into lots of regional dialects over the whole area now covered by Mongolia, Russia, and Scandinavia. In the course of history it bumps up against Indo-European along the western and southern edges (central Asia, northern Iran, Turkey, eastern Russia) while meanwhile there are westward waves of migrations within the region, constantly shuffling up the languages and ethnicity.

                So, for example, you wind up with "Turkic" people in say the Balkans, but which wave did they come from? You've got choices every 300 years or so in recorded history and nothing to prevent us from assuming those were still happening before there were Greeks to complain about it.

                There's a theory that those migratory waves were driven by climate -- the steppe populations were pastoral nomads and they had to go where their animals took them. As the climate changed the feeding areas changed and they came into contact with their neighbors whose land was suddenly a prized resource. Since the Mongols had large horses which they could ride, which people in the west hadn't even seen before, they won. Light cavalry > infantry.

                Centaurs are an Anatolian cultural memory of seeing these eastern interlopers for the first time and thing, "oh sh-t, that's a man-horse!" Just like the Aztecs thought when they saw Cortez.
                Last edited by Kepler; 02-11-2020, 11:41 AM.
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                • Re: Brexit 2: Happy Halloween

                  Sigh. Never could keep my hordes straight.
                  the state of hockey is good

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                  • Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                    I'm not aware of anyone who wants Northern Ireland to become an independent nation. The choice is UK vs United Ireland.
                    They're called the Alliance Party. I had never heard of them before election night but they got 12% of the vote nationwide and a seat in the House of Commons. They aren't necessarily an Independence party like the SNP, but rather oppose power sharing as described in the Good Friday Agreement and also staying in the UK. Weird mix.

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                    • Re: Brexit 2: Happy Halloween

                      Lol. I thought Brexit would bring all the bestest deals right away

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                      • Re: Brexit 2: Happy Halloween

                        These doofuses are starting to sound like the Palins.
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                          • Re: Brexit 2: Happy Halloween

                            Originally posted by Deutsche Gopher Fan View Post


                            I think I waited in line at passport control for 20-30 mins entering the EU on my way to Belgium. Brits better learn.

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                            • Re: Brexit 2: Happy Halloween

                              The extended Comments on that are good.
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                              • Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                                The extended Comments on that are good.
                                U-A-A!!!Go!Go!GreenandGold!
                                Applejack Tells You How UAA Is Doing...
                                I spell Failure with UAF

                                Originally posted by UAFIceAngel
                                But let's be real...There are 40 some other teams and only two alaskan teams...the day one of us wins something big will be the day I transfer to UAA
                                Originally posted by Doyle Woody
                                Best sign by a visting Seawolf fan Friday went to a young man who held up a piece of white poster board that read: "YOU CAN'T SPELL FAILURE WITHOUT UAF."

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