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Started by bayonetbrant, January 23, 2014, 11:24:06 AM

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BanzaiCat

The correct spelling is Scheisseporno.

It's either 'scheisse' or 'scheiße.'


Centurion40

either way it is crappy, and by that I mean unappealing, porn.
Any time is a good time for pie.

BanzaiCat

LOL I know, Cent...I was being a (gasp) smartass.  O:-)

bayonetbrant

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bayonetbrant

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Staggerwing

Quote from: mirth on October 26, 2015, 03:15:04 PM
^that's cool!

+1

Now, if only there was another HH book out that was not a prequel.
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bayonetbrant

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"their citizens (all of them counted as such) glorified their mythology of 'rights'...and lost track of their duties. No nation, so constituted, can endure." Robert Heinlein, Starship Troopers

LongBlade

Quote from: bayonetbrant on November 04, 2015, 10:13:57 AM
I'm so buying the atlas of countries that don't exist

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20151103-the-countries-that-dont-exist

Yet another trend toward the devolution of the nation-state.

Interesting, though.
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Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

panzerde

Having lived for some time in the territory of the so-called "Republic of Lakotah" I can tell you no such state exists. It's a fiction courtesy of some Lakota activists. The Sioux tribal bands themselves certainly don't act like it exists. A "nation" that depends almost entirely on the US Bureau of Indian Affairs for food, housing, and nearly everything else necessary for life isn't a nation by any measure.


What the author seems to have missed is that the Lakota essentially are exactly that, however: sovereign nations. The tribal bands are technically autonomous (dependent) governments and the reservations sovereign tribal territory. This has legal standing with the US Government, where the Republic of Lakotah doesn't.


I suspect a number of these other places are similar.
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steve58

What Happens When The Grid Meets The Curvature of The Earth?  I think we've all seen dis-connected roads like this and wondered WTF?
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Martok

Quote from: steve58 on December 22, 2015, 05:34:14 PM
What Happens When The Grid Meets The Curvature of The Earth?  I think we've all seen dis-connected roads like this and wondered WTF?
Fascinating.  I of course see these all the time here in Minnesota, but I never really thought to wonder what the reason (if any) for them was, and/or why there was so many of them.  Thanks for the link steve

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panzerde

One of my employees totally unexpectedly made me a Christmas present of an old book he found that contains fold out maps of about 300 years of cartographic history of Northumberland!  O0

Amazingly, there are maps from the 16th Century clearly labeled "Bob's House."
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Martok

Quote from: panzerde on December 23, 2015, 05:02:17 PM
Amazingly, there are maps from the 16th Century clearly labeled "Bob's House."
Well there's no reason he couldn't have lived on this side of the pond for a while before moving back again.  :D 

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