Do you support Israel ??

Bill said:
& prob won't again...lol

They all go down, the good, the bad & the ugly.....

Look @ a map of Europe & how often it changed & the reasons.......

Same pretty much the same all over the world........

You are welcome to believe whatever you like........

That is what I believe. That does not mean I agree, but me agreeing~or not changes nothing........
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I assure you Europe is hugely better to live in now the old empires are gone. Roll on the destruction of the remaining pretend-nation states like the UK, France and Spain!
 
Penderyn said:
I assure you Europe is hugely better to live in now the old empires are gone. Roll on the destruction of the remaining pretend-nation states like the UK, France and Spain!
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I would certainly agree, although I have never lived there, I most certainly wouldn't mind living in many of those countries...

Why France?? France seems less bastardized than the other two, unless you refer to the Normans??
 
Bill said:
I would certainly agree, although I have never lived there, I most certainly wouldn't mind living in many of those countries...

Why France?? France seems less bastardized than the other two, unless you refer to the Normans??
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Britanny, Provence and the Basque Country, without getting into complicated stuff about Alsace.
 
Penderyn said:
Britanny, Provence and the Basque Country, without getting into complicated stuff about Alsace.
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I dunno much about Britanny, but the Basque are quite a beautiful & unique ppl.........

I have a Basque neighbor for years whose last name I still struggle to pronounce.....
 
Penderyn said:
I assure you Europe is hugely better to live in now the old empires are gone. Roll on the destruction of the remaining pretend-nation states like the UK, France and Spain!
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a unified europe...Hitler's dream! good job, flying monkey.
 
Bill said:
I dunno much about Britanny, but the Basque are quite a beautiful & unique ppl.........

I have a Basque neighbor for years whose last name I still struggle to pronounce.....
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but there shouldn't be separate cultures. that's racism. you're a racist.
 
Bill said:
I dunno much about Britanny, but the Basque are quite a beautiful & unique ppl.........

I have a Basque neighbor for years whose last name I still struggle to pronounce.....
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The Bretons moved over from South-West Britain at the end of Roman times, and are our cousins. Their language, other than Cornish/Cernyweg, is the closest of all to ours, though not all that like nowadays.
 
Penderyn said:
The Bretons moved over from South-West Britain at the end of Roman times, and are our cousins. Their language, other than Cornish/Cernyweg, is the closest of all to ours, though not all that like nowadays.
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Cool.... What really surprised me last year, had a couple friends that hiked the Camino de Santiago, posting tons of pics along the way then suddenly I see one of this guy playing bagpipe....LMAO... I knew of that area, but not that they were still holding on to the traditions in Galicia & the adjacent parts of Portugal..

What made it even more interesting was one of them is Portuguese but from the island Madeira...

Her last name is Carins- yea, pile of rocks in Scottish-her husband is Scott->
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Ppl use them around the world as trail markers..

The twist is the ppl that settled her island are from the Gaelic area of Portugal-they went in mass there a couple hundred years ago....

I thought that was pretty interesting..
 
Bill said:
Cool.... What really surprised me last year, had a couple friends that hiked the Camino de Santiago, posting tons of pics along the way then suddenly I see one of this guy playing bagpipe....LMAO... I knew of that area, but not that they were still holding on to the traditions in Galicia & the adjacent parts of Portugal..

What made it even more interesting was one of them is Portuguese but from the island Madeira...

Her last name is Carins- yea, pile of rocks in Scottish-her husband is Scott->
flat_top_mountain_cairn_rmnp_2005_thumb.jpg
Ppl use them around the world as trail markers..

The twist is the ppl that settled her island are from the Gaelic area of Portugal-they went in mass there a couple hundred years ago....

I thought that was pretty interesting..
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Yes, fascinating. A few years ago I made contact with a cousin from the Patagonian province of Argentina. She didn't speak a word of English or 'Welsh', but she had a friend with her who spoke the Patagonian version of our language, who appeared to understand me, though I found her a bit difficult. By the time she'd translated into Spanish and I'd translated into English for my wife, I reckon it got a bit unclear. In a very similar way, I had a corporal on our Chinese course who lived quite near where my parents were at the time. He married a girl who spoke Cantonese and a little of the National Language, while he was the opposite, and took her home to live with his Grandmother, who spoke only our language, and his Mother, who spoke that and English. I often wonder how they made out when he was away. Another cousin of mine came visiting from Seskatchewan, where a whole mass of Patagonian Cymry settled when the Argentines got awkward. They speak, I gather, fluent Spanish, 'Welsh' and English, but all very oddly. Amazing how things survive!
 
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