(08-18-2025, 04:36 PM)gortex Wrote: ...
All we need is our German and Scandinavian friends to join the festivities and we got a Party.
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I wouldn't count on that, really. I think Britain probably has more Viking blood left in it than the entirety of Scandinavia. Look at what the Swedes are willing to put up with, I once saw a Swede bragging about how he was a "Swedish Wiking", and then got his ass beat by a tiny girl, so I dunno if they'd be much fun at the party anyhow. Maybe just for the entertainment factor.
I can't figure out why the Germans haven't revolted already. If they haven't by now, I don't know what it would take to get them riled up enough to do it.
And France... the last time they threw a revolution, that turned out pretty poorly for several years afterward, didn't it? Isn't that when they invelted the guillotine as a more "humane" means of execution? Lots of heads rolled off their bodies back then...
As smart as they think they are, you'd think the aristocracy would have learned by now, yet they haven't... and I don't think they ever will. Just having butt-loads of money that your ancestors worked their asses off to get doesn't mean that YOU have the smarts to get it yourself, now. yet still they try with their dumbassed ponzi schemes, and after a while the "underlings" decide they've had about e-damned-nough of that BS, and shit kicks off.
Happens every time, over and over again through history, yet those at the top of the heap are incapable of learning it appears.
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“Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books. For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger.”
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake