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    Have a look at the enclaves and exclaves on the India-Bangladesh border... there are something like 150.

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    It's Kaliningrad - the Russians took it for military purposes after the Allies booted the Germans back over the Oder as part of the post-WWII settlement. There was a view that Prussia ceasing to exist was the only way of finally breaking German militarism. That and the Russians undertook land grabs in eastern Poland and thus the decision was taken to provide compensatory territory to the Poles on their western borders.

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    Quote Originally Posted by phonics View Post
    So if you're born there, you're Russian? So weird.
    They kicked all of the remaining Germans out (two million bailed before they got there) and filled it with commie stooges, if that is what you're thinking.

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    Quite right too. Fuck the Germans.

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    Jodie Foster started acting 1yr after England won the World Cup.

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    I was thinking of Jodie Marsh.

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    Urgh. I haven't thought of her for a long time.

    Also, just read that James Brady, who was shot during the attempted assignation of Reagan died, and his death was ruled a homocide.
    The interesting fact is that Brady died 33 years after being shot. He suffered partial paralysis and memory loss, but lived a further 33 years.

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    America didn't have a history of slavery museum until 2015.

    2015.

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    Why are you so surprised?

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    Yeah, I really shouldn't be.

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    We got one in 2007. When did Vietnam get its museum of forced labour and mass murder?

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    They should be celebrating the glory years.

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    I didn't realise that being an Australian (rather than being a 'Briton' who happened to be born in Australia, possibly from a couple of hundred years of people who were also born there) wasn't technically a thing until the 40s.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lewis View Post
    We got one in 2007. When did Vietnam get its museum of forced labour and mass murder?
    1975.

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    The main thing I took away from visiting a lot of American museums etc in 2011/12 was that they do not give a single solitary fuck about either slavery or the massacre of native Americans. In fact, they're pretty proud of both and quite openly so.

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    It is somewhat hypocritical for a nation which deliberately set about dispossessing and killing its native population to lecture the rest of us on how to run things. American exceptionalism indeed.

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    I mean if we're being technical, wasn't slavery in America and the slaughtering of the Native American people primarily done by people whose cultural and educational upbringing were almost entirely and exclusively British/European?
    Slaves exported to the thirteen colonies/United States by time period:

    1619-1700 - 21,000
    1701-1760 - 189,000
    1761-1770 - 63,000
    1771-1790 - 56,000
    1791-1800 - 79,000
    1801-1810 - 124,000
    1810-1865 - 51,000
    The total slave trade to islands in the Caribbean, Brazil, Mexico and to the United States is estimated to have involved 12 million Africans.[23][24] The vast majority of these slaves went to sugar colonies in the Caribbean and to Brazil, where life expectancy was short and the numbers had to be continually replenished. At most about 600,000 African slaves were imported into the U.S., or 5% of the 12 million slaves brought across from Africa.[25] Life expectancy was much higher in the U.S. (because of better food, less disease, lighter work loads, and better medical care) so the numbers grew rapidly by excesses of births over deaths, reaching 4 million by the 1860 Census.
    I'd also surmise that no one really knew what being an "American" even actually meant until after the Civil War and on through to World War I and the Great Depression. There was no real "American identity" to speak of. Just a bunch of immigrants who wanted to escape various persecutions or try to make a better life for themselves in "the New World".

    I'm not saying "America" of itself is somehow absolved of any wrongdoing or that we don't have a race problem in this country but I always found it interesting "slavery" seems to be skewed as a dark spot in only American culture when, in all actuality, it was rampant throughout the western world.

    I could also be well off in this but I find discussion the best way to learn

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    It's not a question of what happened then, everyone in the world was butchering people then. It's a question of attitudes towards it now.

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    Omelettes, eggs. The United States (as a thing) is brilliant.

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    Monticello (Jefferson's Home) has an exhibit asking questions about his legacy:
    https://www.monticello.org/slavery-at-monticello

    The Smithsonian has exhibits on slavery:
    http://americanhistory.si.edu/changi...lavery-america

    So perhaps you were not looking because all Americans are automatically racist? It is not like we are the only ones. Or did you not say that Levy was too busy running down a flight of stairs to chase 2p?

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    Doubt it, there's no way he'd be complacent enough to drop it.

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    Well I'm certainly sorry you encountered people who were "openly proud" of slaughtering Native Americans and enslaving Africans. I really hate that you did. I don't necessarily believe that's representative of the majority of my countrymen, but I certainly believe it entirely possible you did encounter some of our less savory folks.

    Unfortunately for us, the ignorant do tend to be the loudest and easiest of targets for others.

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    Levy is famously tight in his own right, so even if that was said it would be offense seeking nonsense to assume it was a dig at his Jewishness. He wasn't chasing anything anyway, he dropped fifty pence and went to pick it up but was knocked unconscious when it bounced off the back of his head.

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    You all seem to have taken these revelations well. All the things I'm speaking of were in New York (Ellis Island being the worst offender) so you can fact check it there.

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    Diary of a somebody: could I solve the mystery of 148 lost notebooks?

    http://gu.com/p/4tjka?CMP=Share_Andr...y_to_clipboard

    This is a good read.

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    30 Untranslatable Words From Other Languages Illustrated By Anjana Iyer

    Some of the translations are great.

    Komorebi (Japanese):
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    Tingo (Pascuense):
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    Bakku-shan (Japanese) :
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    Rire dans sa barbe (French) :
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    etc.

    I enjoyed them.

    #15 is clearly "1 bell" though.
    I'm a twit

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    Bakku-shan translates as BOBFOC.

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    My bum probably stinks and I had a shower this morning.

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    What is that? I just get errors when I click the link.

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    Girls talking about anal hygiene.

    Also the AMA with the eFukt editor is great.

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    Not one mention of scat. Timewasters.

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    I've recently fallen down a wiki rabbit hole for oldest surviving veterans of wars. Mainly because I thought centenarians were a relatively new achievement for mankind. Turns out people have been managing that quite well. And fought (allegedly) in wars. Seeing photographs of Revolutionary War vets is something I'm surprised by.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiram_Cronk

    Military pension at 14. Made for life.

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    I'd have thought that too Shinners. How odd.

    Is there any record as to when the first (recorded) person to live to 100 lived?

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    They're still paying a pension to someone from the American Civil War. Not a veteran, obviously, but still mental that a pension that started a hundred and fifty years ago is ongoing.

    Having thought about it it might actually have been in this thread on the old board I read that, along with that mental fact about the tenth President having living grandchildren.

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    I'm not sure. Census records can only really go back so far and then you're in the realm of best guesses. A handful of Greek philosophers got past 90 with one claiming to have been beyond hundred. And the oldest person who may have lived has had some doubt over his 126 year lifespan.

    And apparently there's a 200 year old tortoise rolling around somewhere.

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    Wasn't there that one that died recently that was Clive of India's and was 250 or something when it died?

    Quote Originally Posted by John View Post
    They're still paying a pension to someone from the American Civil War. Not a veteran, obviously, but still mental that a pension that started a hundred and fifty years ago is ongoing.

    Having thought about it it might actually have been in this thread on the old board I read that, along with that mental fact about the tenth President having living grandchildren.
    Yep, John Tyler died in the 1860s and still has at least one living grandchild. He knocked out his last sprog at 70 or something and then that child did the same thing.

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    A tortoise was the last surviving 'veteran' of the Crimean War.

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    Oh, another thing during that wiki dig was that the Japanese pilots that attacked Pearl Harbour weren't kamikaze pilots. They were allowed to refuel for further runs. That woman still claiming a Civil War pension is 78, by the way. Her dad fought in the war so she was entitled to it.

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    Didn't the Japanese only resort to that shit when they knew they were fucked?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shindig View Post
    Oh, another thing during that wiki dig was that the Japanese pilots that attacked Pearl Harbour weren't kamikaze pilots. They were allowed to refuel for further runs. That woman still claiming a Civil War pension is 78, by the way. Her dad fought in the war so she was entitled to it.
    http://time.com/95195/civil-war-pensioner/

    http://blog.theveteranssite.com/cs-i...tt-pension-nc/

    86 now.

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    Aye, their naval fleet was getting battered so they loaded them up with fuel and explosives. I'm onto pilot suicides now which is a fun read til you get to September 11th onwards.

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    http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=45b_1468899362

    Images from plastic surgery performed on some WW1 soldiers, the horrors of war. I'm amazed at how well some of the blokes look to be honest. Fair play. Must have been fucking horrific and gives a glimpse in to such horrors.

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    I watched a guy set himself on fire earlier, doused himself in petrol and lit up. He just sat down and burned for 1m 54s occasionally moving slowly until he slowly rolled back. It fucked me up. So I decided to see what the most painful ways to die are. On a TOP TEN thing and one said eaten by animals. This is probably true. Specifically it listed The Hyena. So I Googled eaten by hyena and some of the shit is truly morbid. They just tuck in no matter how alive whatever it is they are eating is. Strangely, the animal just seems to sit there and chill whilst it's disemboweled or ripped to shreds.

    So why? Humans don't do that? But wrong, we've seen a couple of videos of humans being donned by lions and they just sit there too like a bitch and get eaten, or suffocated. I remember the brown bear and the farmer how it started off by eating his face, he just lay there and took it. Though the bear was pressing down. Just pretty fucked up I guess.

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    You need to see a doctor. Soon.

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    Yeah fuck off with that shit you headcase.

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    Oh look! Nature! Fucking disgusting right! We shouldn't have to witness stuff like this, oh woe is me! Keep that shit to an abattoir! Fucking lunatic cunts, you're the ones that need to see doctors. Especially you Giggles, but more for your physical well being.

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    You'll see that stuff on any nature documentary, that's not the mad part.

    You're seeking out footage of people burning themselves alive. There's a morbid curiosity for that stuff that everyone experiences at some point, but for most people it's when you're about fourteen and first find out such things happen via rotten.com. You're looking for it in your mid to late twenties with your kid in the next room and a job to go to tomorrow. It's bizarre, and I think it's something you should tell someone professional about before you have a break from reality and wind up drinking bleach to see what it tastes like or taking a cat apart to see how the bits work.

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    There's nothing a doctor can do for me. But seriously, talk to someone.

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