[Pastor Al E Pistle]

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Okay, okay, I grant you that pictures can be doctored. However, you can actually travel to Belgium, actually go there and experience it. I believe Marriott even has hotels there, I can book you a reservation at the discounted Friends and Family Rate if you'd like, then you'd see it's a real country.

Yes. It's a real country. It's made of dirt. But it's name is FRANCE.

[WickedWitch]

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Yes. It's a real country. It's made of dirt. But it's name is FRANCE.

Lol, whatever gave you that idea? Haven't you ever had Belgian chocolate? From Belgium?

[DarknessFallsX]

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I haven't. . .

[Pastor Al E Pistle]

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Lol, whatever gave you that idea? Haven't you ever had Belgian chocolate? From Belgium?

Don't start with me! The country is a polyglot of rocks and bogs, populated by the dregs of Europe who were expatriats from somewhere after WWII, ebbing and flowing like a huge human tidal wave of detritus across the landscape, eating crickets and frogs, pillaging haystacks, living in caves! Finally they were herded into the ditch that is temporarily called Belgium (which is celtic for tumbledown rocks) until they could be identified. Sadly, most of their relatives declined to claim them and now they have lost any sense of self or country. They variously self-identify as French/Dutch/German/Swiss/British/Roma/Icelandic or the occasional Irish. They have no language and speak whatever the people in the next country speak. Thus they are all seriously conflicted....much as Canadians are....no sense of purpose....no real religion....no heraldic artwork to paint on the door.

What a horrible thought to know that every morning Russian tanks could be invading Germany across your yard or German tanks could be invading Poland or the Japanese could be harpooning whales and France has surrendered and you don't know what color to wear or even what language to speak to the conqueror!

[Kenneth (aka "Mr. K")]

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Don't start with me! The country is a polyglot of rocks and bogs, populated by the dregs of Europe who were expatriats from somewhere after WWII, ebbing and flowing like a huge human tidal wave of detritus across the landscape, eating crickets and frogs, pillaging haystacks, living in caves! Finally they were herded into the ditch that is temporarily called Belgium (which is celtic for tumbledown rocks) until they could be identified. Sadly, most of their relatives declined to claim them and now they have lost any sense of self or country. They variously self-identify as French/Dutch/German/Swiss/British/Roma/Icelandic or the occasional Irish. They have no language and speak whatever the people in the next country speak. Thus they are all seriously conflicted....much as Canadians are....no sense of purpose....no real religion....no heraldic artwork to paint on the door.

What a horrible thought to know that every morning Russian tanks could be invading Germany across your yard or German tanks could be invading Poland or the Japanese could be harpooning whales and France has surrendered and you don't know what color to wear or even what language to speak to the conqueror!

Well, it's clear to everyone that you do know a LOT about the King James Bible. But it's also clear that you know NOTHING about Europe... You know what people here in Europe do when they don't know something properly? They shut up and listen to someone who does have the knowledge about that subject...

[Nobar King]

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Well, it's clear to everyone that you do know a LOT about the King James Bible. But it's also clear that you know NOTHING about Europe... You know what people here in Europe do when they don't know something properly? They shut up and listen to someone who does have the knowledge about that subject...

If that isn't the biggest load of cr@p that I've read today, I don't know what is. I can't count how many stupid Euros have logged on here to try to push pretend explanations for everything from what is a goth to the glory of Jesus Christ.

Take your own advice, Kenny, and stuff it.

[Pastor Al E Pistle]

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Well, it's clear to everyone that you do know a LOT about the King James Bible. But it's also clear that you know NOTHING about Europe... You know what people here in Europe do when they don't know something properly? They shut up and listen to someone who does have the knowledge about that subject...

I think it should be obvious that I know EVERYTHING about Europe! I studied European history in college and I can tell you everything you want to know and many things you are obviously in denial about. I can tell you when the French lost their nerve and became surrender monkeys, beginning with Thermopylae, Metaurus, Chalons, Tolouse, Tours and, finally, Agincourt with a post-script at Verneuil.

Then the silly Frenchies turned to a woman for leadership, but that ended at Compiègne. Since all the French pooter knights were trampled in the mud at Agincourt, France has been a country of cheese-packers and drunk, smelly cross-dressers.

If you are in here trying to defend the imaginary country of Belgium, I am afraid that I am too well educated for you to even attempt it! The first and last time anyone from around there did anything important was in June, 1401 when a few dozen Welch peasants with sharp sticks routed a combined army of English and Flemish soldiers at Mynydd Hyddgen.

Since then, whenever Europe needed to fill a human pothole, they sent the filler to what is now laughingly referred to as Belgium, but which, as we all know, exists like the tent cities outside Mexico City. They have names, but they aren't really there.

[Clint W. Wood (aka "Mr. K")]

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I think it should be obvious that I know EVERYTHING about Europe! I studied European history in college and I can tell you everything you want to know and many things you are obviously in denial about. I can tell you when the French lost their nerve and became surrender monkeys, beginning with Thermopylae, Metaurus, Chalons, Tolouse, Tours and, finally, Agincourt with a post-script at Verneuil.

Excuse me Sir, but, as High School History Teacher I have some remarks, with all do respect...
Wasn't that a Spartan (Greek) expedition against the Persians? And did they not fight until the last man died? (except for 2 messagers, who were later on abandoned by the Spartans, because they came back alive)

[Enigmatic Harpo Marx]

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Excuse me Sir, but, as High School History Teacher

Let me guess, you work at a public school?

[Clint W. Wood (aka "Mr. K")]

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Excuse me Sir, but, as High School History Teacher I have some remarks, with all do respect...
Wasn't that a Spartan (Greek) expedition against the Persians? And did they not fight until the last man died? (except for 2 messagers, who were later on abandoned by the Spartans, because they came back alive)

I was talking about Thermopylae ofcourse.

[Clint W. Wood (aka "Mr. K")]

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Let me guess, you work at a public school?

Well, almost every school is a public school over here, but it's a christian school.

[Bobby-Joe]

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Excuse me Sir, but, as High School History Teacher I have some remarks, with all do respect...
Wasn't that a Spartan (Greek) expedition against the Persians? And did they not fight until the last man died? (except for 2 messagers, who were later on abandoned by the Spartans, because they came back alive)

Name me one Frenchman who died with Spartans defending Western freedom at Thermopylae please.

[Pastor Al E Pistle]

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Excuse me Sir, but, as High School History Teacher I have some remarks, with all do respect...
Wasn't that a Spartan (Greek) expedition against the Persians? And did they not fight until the last man died? (except for 2 messagers, who were later on abandoned by the Spartans, because they came back alive)

You had better learn your subject. The battle itself, while heroic, is not the point.

Historian Steven Pressfield says in Gates of Fire: "This is a story of heroism. But it is also a story of discipline, of loyalty between fighting men and to a state. For a book as violent as this, it is also a story of profound caring, among the characters of a timeless story." Because a great part of European civilisation is based on the heritage of Ancient Greece, a successful invasion of Greece by the Persians and their subsequent domination would have surely changed the history of Europe.

[Clint W. Wood (aka "Mr. K")]

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Name me one Frenchman who died with Spartans defending Western freedom at Thermopylae please.

It was a war between the Greeks and the Persians, the Frenchies had nothing to do with it.

[Clint W. Wood (aka "Mr. K")]

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You had better learn your subject. The battle itself, while heroic, is not the point.

Historian Steven Pressfield says in Gates of Fire: "This is a story of heroism. But it is also a story of discipline, of loyalty between fighting men and to a state. For a book as violent as this, it is also a story of profound caring, among the characters of a timeless story." Because a great part of European civilisation is based on the heritage of Ancient Greece, a successful invasion of Greece by the Persians and their subsequent domination would have surely changed the history of Europe.

Yes, ofcourse Europe would have changed tremendously. If the Persians had won, we would be Muslims now... I'm quite glad that didn't happen actually...