Norwegian Of The Year 2010

[Greyblades]

...You realy dont know what you are talking about do you?

[gaelic cowboy]

...You realy dont know what you are talking about do you?

Actually I bet I know more about the dangers of flag waving than you ever will

[Strike For The South]

Actually I bet I know more about the dangers of flag waving than you ever will

Yes the constant Hellmans and Heinz battle has torn the relam of mayo apart for decades now

[gaelic cowboy]

Yes the constant Hellmans and Heinz battle has torn the relam of mayo apart for decades now

sep 2003 to jan 2011 I was wondering how long it would take to see that joke on the org

[Greyblades]

Uh huh, you really do know nothing about the british empire.
Ahem.

[Strike For The South]

Uh huh, you really do know nothing about the british empire.

Racist and exploitative come to mind

To harken back to the days where you kept 1 billion people under your jackboot is an odd thing, your time in the sun is only that way becuase you're being held up by the billions of African and Asains who humanity you stripped

[gaelic cowboy]

Uh huh, you really do know nothing about the british empire.

My country and it's politics is still shaped by our relationship to your country, just like the moon causes the tide.

My family is still shaped by our early part in the independence struggle, which many members suffered greatly for.

have you guessed where I'm from yet

[Greyblades]

have you guessed where I'm from yet

No and I dont much care.

but I am afraid you cant separate the racist element from much of Britains achievements as an empire

We were the first country to end the slave trade we even went to the trouble of invading france's and other colonies to preven them from shipping slaves to america. In fact our golden age was well after the fact. The only reason we didn't help the confederates secceed from the US was because they had slaves.
To be frank, when the world was racist we started the whole acceptance thing off. Now we dont even get a blasted T-shirt.

By the way I laugh at your assertion that english people are not patriotic and don't wave there flag they do.

I live here I look out of my window and I see no flags, I go to london the only flags are on government buildings. The only time we do get flags out is for football and even then its the george cross not the Union Jack.

Racist and exploitative come to mind

see above

To harken back to the days where you kept 1 billion people under your jackboot is an odd thing, your time in the sun is only that way becuase you're being held up by the billions of African and Asains who humanity you stripped

As were the french and the spanish and the dutch and even the poxy belgians. You say jackboot but I realy have to point out that in comparison to all the other empires of the world we may not have been the best but we sure as heck wornt anywhere near the worst.

[Strike For The South]

No and I dont much care.


We were the first country to end the slave trade we even went to the trouble of invading france's and other colonies to preven them from shipping slaves to america. In fact our golden age was well after the fact. The only reason we didn't help the confederates secceed from the US was because they had slaves.
To be frank, when the world was racist we started the whole acceptance thing off.

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I lol'd hard

[Greyblades]

Its true I got it from wikipedia (!)

I see lack of flags means hatred of the nation.

But that's my entire point, I didnt even know we had an empire until I was 13 for goodness sake.

[gaelic cowboy]

We were the first country to end the slave trade we even went to the trouble of invading france's and other colonies to preven them from shipping slaves to america. In fact our golden age was well after the fact. The only reason we didn't help the confederates secceed from the US was because they had slaves.

You only ended it in certain places in the colonies your merchants still made money from it for ages after it was supposedly illegal

To be frank, when the world was racist we started the whole acceptance thing off.

And Britain was still racist after she decided to stop profiteering from slavery

I live here I look out of my window and I see no flags, I go to london the only flags are on government buildings. The only time we do get flags out is for football and even then its the george cross not the Union Jack.

I see lack of flags means hatred of the nation, I suggest you go to Belfast and see what flag waving does then.

[HoreTore]

Update:

The courts released her today. The government-instructed prosecutor appealed the decision, however, and Maria remains in Trandum concentration camp.

The former minister of Justice, Anne Holt, and the leader of the lawyer assocation has today said that:
1. There are legal grounds for Maria to stay. There is no reason to change any laws to allow her to stay.
2. The law does not exiest to treat us all equally. The law is designed to treat us unequally, or in other words, to take into account the different sitiuations we find ourselves in.

[Louis VI the Fat]

Where have I made any serious suggestions that I live in a dictatorship, Louis...?

Down below, my good man:

Update:

The courts released her today. The government-instructed prosecutor appealed the decision, however, and Maria remains in Trandum concentration camp.

That's what I mean. You may try to see an actual concentration camp, that you may tell the difference with a Norwegian intitute of incarceration.

And I'm not sure public prosecutors are directly instructed by the Norwegian government either.

[HoreTore]

Down below, my good man:
That's what I mean. You may try to see an actual concentration camp, that you may tell the difference with a Norwegian intitute of incarceration.

And I'm not sure public prosecutors are directly instructed by the Norwegian government either.

The prosecutor appealed because he was instructed to do so. There is nothing extra-ordinary about that. You're confusing instructing prosecutors, which is OK and kinda mandatory in cases like this, with instructing judges or defense attorneys, which is what they do in dictatorships.

As for Trandum: it is a camp where immigrants are put so we can have them all at one place, ie. to concentrate them. What else can you then call the place? Is it Auswitzch? No, but auswitzch was an extermination camp. Norwegian Prisons are like heaven compared to prisons in the Congo, for example, but does that mean I can't call Norwegian prisons "prisons"?