Right-Wing Discussion Thread XVII: The Snark Enlightenment

[Nea Byzantia]

In the Netherlands, it common to refer to someone doing something half-assed or shoddily as doing it "the French way".

I always thought doing it the French way meant taking pieces of Germany and then claiming that they were yours the entire time.

More like the "Turkish Way"...They did that with us in Greece.

[Duvniask]

Which part?

Rainforest destruction in Brazil.

You seem quite knowledgeable on the matter and have deeply researched it.

I don't feel like I have, though. I learned about the rainforest ecosystem (its nutrient-cycle, water-cycle, biodiversity, etc.) back in high school along with the factors driving deforestation, such as soybean and beef production (in the case of South America) and why deforestation leads to drought, soil hardening and so on. I had a basic understanding of it before that. Don't really feel it's unique among any of the things I happen to know something about.

I suck at taking compliments, I know.

[The Supreme Magnificent High Swaglord]

Wait, I vaguely remember a user with a similar screen-name to Napkizemlja back in the day, and for a brief while in 2016 (maybe?) they had a spooky-looking inverted pentagram for a flag. However, I could be mis-remembering things. I dunno.

I never had a pentagram for a flag. When I was an edgy atheist, I considered joining the Church of Satan but never used a pentagram as my flag as even then I thought that was too edgy.

Huh, I must be misremembering then... was your previous nation Napkiraly, btw?

[Napkizemlja]

Yep.

England used to have some pretty sweet monasteries, back before it fell to Papism under William the Bastard.

Monasteries were still around after the Norman Conquest and the Anglo-Saxons were Latin Christians.

[Nea Byzantia]

England used to have some pretty sweet monasteries, back before it fell to Papism under William the Bastard.

Monasteries were still around after the Norman Conquest and the Anglo-Saxons were Latin Christians.

And then came Henry VIII...

[Salus Maior]

In the Netherlands, it common to refer to someone doing something half-assed or shoddily as doing it "the French way".

And in Russia if you leave too fast and impolitely, you're "saying goodbye the English way".

And leaving quietly without saying goodbye is an "Irish goodbye".

[Napkizemlja]

I never had a pentagram for a flag. When I was an edgy atheist, I considered joining the Church of Satan but never used a pentagram as my flag as even then I thought that was too edgy.

Huh, I must be misremembering then... was your previous nation Napkiraly, btw?

That Napkiraly guy sounds like a real jerk.

[Napkizemlja]

And in Russia if you leave too fast and impolitely, you're "saying goodbye the English way".

And leaving quietly without saying goodbye is an "Irish goodbye".

I thought that was saying goodbye on an empty stomach.

[The Supreme Magnificent High Swaglord]

Huh, I must be misremembering then... was your previous nation Napkiraly, btw?

That Napkiraly guy sounds like a real jerk.

I can't tell if you're being sarcastic; I'm leaning towards "likely sarcastic", but I'm still rather uncertain.

[Nova Cyberia]

I always thought doing it the French way meant taking pieces of Germany and then claiming that they were yours the entire time.

More like the "Turkish Way"...They did that with us in Greece.

*cries in Constantinople*

[Bear Stearns]

England used to have some pretty sweet monasteries, back before it fell to Papism under William the Bastard.

Monasteries were still around after the Norman Conquest and the Anglo-Saxons were Latin Christians.

Christianity in the Anglo-Saxon period was pretty different to what they were doing in Rome. It would be pretty unrecognizable to modern Christians.

[Nea Byzantia]

And leaving quietly without saying goodbye is an "Irish goodbye".

I thought that was saying goodbye on an empty stomach.

Same difference. The Irish were both quiet and starved for much of their time under Anglo rule.

[Nova Cyberia]

And in Russia if you leave too fast and impolitely, you're "saying goodbye the English way".

And leaving quietly without saying goodbye is an "Irish goodbye".

I remember reading the Russians called syphilis or some other STD the "Polish disease". In Germany it was the "French disease".

[Nea Byzantia]

Monasteries were still around after the Norman Conquest and the Anglo-Saxons were Latin Christians.

Christianity in the Anglo-Saxon period was pretty different to what they were doing in Rome. It would be pretty unrecognizable to modern Christians.

So is Eastern Orthodoxy...

[Bear Stearns]

And in Russia if you leave too fast and impolitely, you're "saying goodbye the English way".

And leaving quietly without saying goodbye is an "Irish goodbye".

You know what Irish sunglasses are?

[Nea Byzantia]

And leaving quietly without saying goodbye is an "Irish goodbye".

You know what Irish sunglasses are?

Nope. What are those?

[Bear Stearns]

You know what Irish sunglasses are?

Nope. What are those?

I'll let you google it.

[Napkizemlja]

I thought that was saying goodbye on an empty stomach.

Same difference. The Irish were both quiet and starved for much of their time under Anglo rule.

Not really, famines occurred roughly at the same rate as elsewhere.

[Nova Cyberia]

Nope. What are those?

I'll let you google it.

oh God wtf

[Bear Stearns]

I thought that was saying goodbye on an empty stomach.

Same difference. The Irish were both quiet and starved for much of their time under Anglo rule.

They were at war with each other more than against the English.

[Nea Byzantia]

Same difference. The Irish were both quiet and starved for much of their time under Anglo rule.

They were at war with each other more than against the English.

I love how both the Anglos on this Thread immediately shit on the Irish and deny any involvement with the Potato Famine...

[Bear Stearns]

They were at war with each other more than against the English.

I love how both the Anglos on this Thread immediately shit on the Irish and deny any involvement with the Potato Famine...

It would be inaccurate to say I'm involved in the famine. I'm an American.

Also, I do not deny the British governments culpability.

[Nea Byzantia]

I love how both the Anglos on this Thread immediately shit on the Irish and deny any involvement with the Potato Famine...

It would be inaccurate to say I'm involved in the famine. I'm an American.

Also, I do not deny the British governments culpability.

Fair point. I'm just messing around.

[Napkizemlja]

They were at war with each other more than against the English.

I love how both the Anglos on this Thread immediately shit on the Irish and deny any involvement with the Potato Famine...

I said that they didn't occur more famines than most other places. They weren't even the only place to be hit by the potato blight, just the hardest hit. And I'm pretty critical of how the British government handled the Great Famine, at least in the beginning. I just disagree when people treat it like it was a genocide.

[Nea Byzantia]

I love how both the Anglos on this Thread immediately shit on the Irish and deny any involvement with the Potato Famine...

I said that they didn't occur more famines than most other places. They weren't even the only place to be hit by the potato blight, just the hardest hit. And I'm pretty critical of how the British government handled the Great Famine, at least in the beginning. I just disagree when people treat it like it was a genocide.

I'd say the Anglos definitely used it as an opportunity to take the Irish population down a peg or two - at best, they just let people die. Arguably, on purpose.