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  • #62
    buried
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,980 ✭✭✭buried


    farmchoice wrote: »
    so far this is the only reference you have provided and it is one of the ones referred to in the wiki atricle.
    you are claiming that the wiki article is incomplete in its description of the sources to support blood eagle.
    you claimed that you had many books that outline the practice, you named 3 books."

    As I've said, I could be here all night with you but I've other plans. Believe what you like. I'll do likewise.

    Bullet The Blue Shirts



  • #63
    Stars and Stripes
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 272 ✭✭Stars and Stripes


    Cianmcliam wrote: »
    It wouldn't be unlike them to portray the islanders as savages, the problem with this explanation is that there are fortifications found on the islands, weapons used for war are found in excavations and the people's own folklore recounts various wars and the overthrow of tyrannical chiefs etc.
    On New Zealand for example, there are estimates of between 4,000 to 6,000 heavily fortified hilltop sites with multiple banks, ditches and palisades. They were not built because the neighbouring tribes called them mean names.
    Tell me of a society thousands of years old that didn't have fortifications, weapons used for war, various wars etc ?


  • #64
    Dr Crayfish
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,960 ✭✭✭Dr Crayfish


    Stars and Stripes wrote: »
    Tell me of a society thousands of years old that didn't have fortifications, weapons used for war, various wars etc ?

    The Bajorans in Star Trek TNG?


  • #65
    indioblack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,961 ✭✭✭indioblack


    whisky_galore wrote: »
    If the British weren't in the game, it would be someone else...Germans/Dutch/French/whoever *insert name of coloniser here*
    Nah, it's not the same with the others. Can't summon up the unwarranted, morally superior sense of outrage that can be engendered from British history.


  • #66
    Stars and Stripes
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 272 ✭✭Stars and Stripes


    indioblack wrote: »
    Nah, it's not the same with the others. Can't summon up the unwarranted, morally superior sense of outrage that can be engendered from British history.
    Ah come on don't ruin the fun, it's always good to have a go at the auld enemy !!


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  • #67
    indioblack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,961 ✭✭✭indioblack


    Stars and Stripes wrote: »
    Ah come on don't ruin the fun, it's always good to have a go at the auld enemy !!
    OK - just for fun, then - hope you don't mind if some of the banter is returned in kind. It's been my experience that some of the recipients have suffered from a loss of humour.


  • #68
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,639 ✭✭✭feargale


    Fratton Fred wrote: »
    could you name any country that is today, more culturally integrated, diverse and tolerant than the UK?

    The most recent ratings of Democracy Index place Ireland at 6th in the world, UK at 16th and Stars and Stripes' beloved USA as a flawed democracy at 21st..


  • #69
    tomwaterford
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,768 ✭✭✭✭tomwaterford


    Cianmcliam wrote: »
    It wouldn't be unlike them to portray the islanders as savages, the problem with this explanation is that there are fortifications found on the islands, weapons used for war are found in excavations and the people's own folklore recounts various wars and the overthrow of tyrannical chiefs etc.
    On New Zealand for example, there are estimates of between 4,000 to 6,000 heavily fortified hilltop sites with multiple banks, ditches and palisades. They were not built because the neighbouring tribes called them mean names.

    It's pretty certain the mauoris invented trenchs as a means of defense/war fare.....well before the American civil war....remember hearing that somewhere before

    And also some other stuff about them that is somewhere between a legend/sounds made up


  • #70
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Maybe the brits, frogs, belgians should have left sub saharan Africa alone.

    Leave them in their primitive state. So what??

    The Belgians always love to expose the fact that the Congolese had no concept of the passing of time or the written word.

    Who gives a fcuk, Britain and France gave much more to the world than these creeps.

    Belgium is sh1t.


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