What would offend a Celt?

[DaCrAzYmOfO]

I say shave off his mustache :D

[satalexton]

call him a roman? (read too much astrix >_>)

[cmacq]

As there are no Celts today, I assume you're question is about pre-Roman Gaul or southern Germany. In that case, one Gaul to another may tell their enemy, that after he took his head, above the door he'd nail it to the shed, so his ugly face might scare away the crows. And for his body, if he could only hide the smell, he will chop it up and feed it to the dogs, if they'd deem it fit enough to eat?

[Olaf The Great]

Insult his plaid pants/kilt.

[Shigawire]

Certainly by insulting his more famous ancestors.

[Power2the1]

Certainly by insulting his more famous ancestors.

Definitely that!

Another thing is if you and another warrior both lay claim to the Heroes portion of meat at dinner time...that'll end in death for one or both of y'all probably.

Raiding his land/cattle is another sure way to guarantee a reprisal raid of your own land and cattle in the future.

[artavazd]

Calling him a ManWhore?

[Tellos Athenaios]

IIRC the Celts were (compared to Romans and others) exceedingly well aware of the need to keep themselves clean & keep up shape. Something along the lines of comparing him to a fat, smelly Roman barbarian might've offended him -- I guess. <_<

[Havok.]

Insult his plaid pants/kilt.

ohh dear.....
hahahahahah!

[Swordmaster]

Tell them their bagpipes and tartans are all fake 19th century stuff.

[Havok.]

Tell them their bagpipes and tartans are all fake 19th century stuff.

i aint scottish but i was deeply offended by that >_>

[Cyclops]

What would offend a Celt?

Hide his menhir?

Kidnap his druid?

Tell him he is a mythical creation of Hellenic/Roman xenophobia compounded with 19th century sectarian/nationalist sentiment?

As there are no Celts today....

Cheeky fellow, there's lots of people who call themselves Celts.

They live in their ancient homelands of Brooklyn and possibly Queens, and worship at the shrine of the Gallo-Lenape deity Tammany

[roman]

Tell him that he is a part of "Fantasy" 2 hander sword unit, and is desperately trying to substitute lack of manhood with the size of the sword.

Plus i would guess a show of disrespect towards ones chosen deity might get things started nicely as well.

[ibleedgrenchese]

Just cut off his head stock it in his ass and throw him back to the gaul imsure someone might find that provoking

[russia almighty]

If he has a hot red head sister, banging her?

[Aodhan]

As there are no Celts today, I assume you're question is about pre-Roman Gaul or southern Germany. In that case, one Gaul to another may tell their enemy, that after he took his head, above the door he'd nail it to the shed, so his ugly face might scare away the crows. And for his body, if he could only hide the smell, he will chop it up and feed it to the dogs, if they'd deem it fit enough to eat?

What do you mean, there are still Celts in Scotland and Ireland, and most "English" people are in fact at least parts Celt, there are very few Roman bloodlines left in Britain. Did you perhaps mean Gauls?

And in answer to what would offend a Celt, the best thing you could possibly do is kill him, behead him, and then throw his head into a ditch and take the Torque, as a Roman "hero" did in some famous battle in CisAlpine Gaul, although I don't remember the exact battle.

[Celtic_Punk]

tell one of us, we ain't a Celt. someone did that to me back in the last month of school this year. busted his nose in a rage. Wasn't the OOONLY thing he said tho, but thats what really set me off haha.

Thats really only because we are a dying breed these days. Celts were very numerous. The "celt empire" spread from central Europe (around Austria) to all across northern Europe. not united, even so thats quite the achievement for one culture to spread so vastly.

Insulting a Celts honour, forcing him to his knees, defiling his wife, insulting his gods, Hell spit in his face, just simple things like that. Or you could always just dress him up like a prostitute and drag him through Rome?

[cmacq]

Actually, the term Celt means a person that lived in Gaul. It has been misused in recent times to make nationalistic common cause, which is also strange enough another modern myth. Referring in an analytical sense to a Celtic Culture, Language Group, or Archaeological Construct is one thing, however claiming one is a qualitative abstract is quite another, indeed.

edited: sorry it actually means a Gaul.

[||Lz3||]

Actually, the term Celt means a person that lived in Gaul. It has been misused in recent times to make nationalistic common cause, which is also strange enough another modern myth.

watch out you said he wasn't celt... he might bust your nose too JK

[cmacq]

Another myth, as maybe we'll get a little cheese with that?

[Celtic_Punk]

lol good one LZ3

and what the other guy said, that IS not true. Celts ORIGINALLY from central europe. some tribes in northern gaul sailed to Britain (most likely swam considering our shitty boats we had then haha) in search of tin.

When Caesar wanted to pass a law that would allow "Celtus" to serve as senators(the bill being proposed just before he was murdered I believe) INCLUDED ALL clans under Roman rule.

Celtus was a blanket term for all people of the Celtic ethnicity, which was based on a native term Celts gave themselves.

All the peoples considered as Celts (Gauls, Britons, Gaels, Galatians, ect.) share similarities in language, religion, warfare, society, and other certain areas of daily life.

one exception to this is the Gaelic languages, the three surviving languages(Irish, Welsh, and Scottish Gaelic) developed quite differently (and im sure they were still different to continental celts) due to the isolation of the isles. Till the Romans came there was little contact with mainland Europe.

[Cyclops]

Actually, the term Celt means a person that lived in Gaul. It has been misused in recent times to make nationalistic common cause, which is also strange enough another modern myth. Referring in an analytical sense to a Celtic Culture, Language Group, or Archaeological Construct is one thing, however claiming one is qualitative abstract is quite another, indeed.

...yep, that'll do it.

Were the Keltoi the folks up the Danube from the Thrakoi? I suspect the Hellenikoi first struck the occasionally-blue-painted metalworkers of La Tene thereabouts. Or was it around Massilia?

Caesar says there were 3 groups in "All Gaul", Belgae, Aquitani and Gauls. Are they all Celts? Its so confusing. And are Celtiberians really Basques, or Irish?

I suppose its a bit like "what is a Turk?" There's a political, linguistic, cultural and mythical answer and all rather different.

Personally I think if you're angry and drink beer you're a Celt. I consider myself a Celt, more so on a Saturday night after my football team loses.

Hety one answer to the OP would be to denigrate the Celt's footy team, that works for me.

[Celtic_Punk]

...yep, that'll do it.

Were the Keltoi the folks up the Danube from the Thrakoi? I suspect the Hellenikoi first struck the occasionally-blue-painted metalworkers of La Tene thereabouts. Or was it around Massilia?

Caesar says there were 3 groups in "All Gaul", Belgae, Aquitani and Gauls. Are they all Celts? Its so confusing. And are Celtiberians really Basques, or Irish?

I suppose its a bit like "what is a Turk?" There's a political, linguistic, cultural and mythical answer and all rather different.

Personally I think if you're angry and drink beer you're a Celt. I consider myself a Celt, more so on a Saturday night after my football team loses.

Hety one answer to the OP would be to denigrate the Celt's footy team, that works for me.

i doubt the celtiberians were irish, people who came to my island went to britian first, and stopped in ireland (there really isnt another place to go, cept davy jones locker) im sure they are a mix of Basques and celts migrating from southwest Gaul. Celts from Britain and Eire came from the northern coast of France and from belgium, (probably more north aswell) the Isolation of ireland resulted in a strange change of syntax with the Gaelic language aswell. (thats why its so friggin hard to learn the language, i was one of the unfortunate kids who's mum was afraid of the "troubles" so we moved to canada and I never learned it )


You are probably a Gael by blood Cyclops, being from aussyland. Hell theres an entire part of my family that lives in NZ cause their dad's dad's dad's dad's (so on n so on) got shafted stealing corn cause his family had no food (i wonder why? 800 years of theft, rape, murder, oppression come to mind anyone?)