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    Quote Originally Posted by Gilrandir View Post
    Byzantine was no more for half a century before Columbus ever came to the New World with its tomatoes and potatoes.
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    Default Re: Macedonia and Greece vow to solve decades-old name dispute

    Quote Originally Posted by Crandar View Post
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    It took a minute for me, at least.


    Here's a direct link to the official video for people who don't want to deal with Vimeo: Macedonian Cafe


    If Macedonians want to use that name for the same reasons Greeks don't want them to use it...
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    They really ought to resolve it by having Serbia annex the country and province of Macedonia as well as Epirus while Turkey occupies the rest of Greece until they come to a sensible solution. Or Turkey and Serbia could just decide to annex the rest of the Balkans and form a neo-Byzantine Empire except with Serbs and Turks in charge instead of the Greeks that mucked it up last time.

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    But I don't want to annex Macedonia. Please no. Have you seen Macedonia?

    Parts of Greece, ok. There are some nice beaches and islands.

    I'd really like Serbia's annexation in the future to be limited to nice places like Seychelles, Maldives, Malta, Copacabana...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Noncommunist View Post
    They really ought to resolve it by having Serbia annex the country and province of Macedonia as well as Epirus while Turkey occupies the rest of Greece until they come to a sensible solution. Or Turkey and Serbia could just decide to annex the rest of the Balkans and form a neo-Byzantine Empire except with Serbs and Turks in charge instead of the Greeks that mucked it up last time.
    Good luck with this. I can see only a few potential problem issues with this.

    Of course, by a few, I mean requiring scientific notation to keep it short enough to read.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Montmorency View Post
    ...If Macedonians want to use that name for the same reasons Greeks don't want them to use it...
    That is often a factor in "identity" centered conflicts. As with same sex marriage here in the USA, no other label was acceptable. A civil union with the exact same rights and privileges or government referring to all marriages as civil unions would not have been and was not acceptable because the use of the SAME label had been conflated with the identity expressions of the aggrieved.

    Identity is, I have believed for some time, the most powerful of needs-level motivation.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Montmorency View Post
    It took a minute for me, at least.


    Here's a direct link to the official video for people who don't want to deal with Vimeo: Macedonian Cafe


    If Macedonians want to use that name for the same reasons Greeks don't want them to use it...
    Ok, I laughed.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Montmorency View Post
    Here's a direct link to the official video for people who don't want to deal with Vimeo: Macedonian Cafe
    "Sorry 'bout that. This video is not available from your location."

    You're obviously trolling me now.


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