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    Quote Originally Posted by Greyblades View Post
    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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    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.
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    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.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Greyblades View Post
    Its true I got it from wikipedia (!)
    English support for the confederates fizziled because of a good cotton crop and the correct English assumption that the CSA wasn't viable

    Don't get in my wheelhouse
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    Where have I made any serious suggestions that I live in a dictatorship, Louis...?
    Down below, my good man:
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    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.
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    English support for the confederates fizziled because of a good cotton crop and the correct English assumption that the CSA wasn't viable

    Don't get in my wheelhouse
    As with all things there was other factors but according to wikipedia (which is true. wikipedia says it is so. all hail the wiki!) The emancipation proclemation ended all chances of sending aid.
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    Quote Originally Posted by gaelic cowboy View Post
    I got news for you my good man your country sucked in the good old days too or the rest of the world would not have been so happy to kick ye out.
    THATS RIGHT WE TEXANS KICKED THE ENGLISH OUT OF TEXAS IN 1776
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    Uh forgive me if I'm wrong but wasnt texas a part of mexico at the time?
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    But that's my entire point, I didnt even know we had an empire until I was 13 for goodness sake.
    Your point on lack of flags showing lack of love for the nation is silly, if I was born in soviet russia and lived to see Putin should I be glad he has brought back the soviet anthem cos "We were strong then".

    You can be proud of individual achievement during the soviet era but you cant separate the suffering of ordinary people during the time so it's rightly reviled.

    It is exactly the same with the British Empire the difference is that Britain has the time to evolve and revalue certain national myths and has grown up.
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    Uh forgive me if I'm wrong but wasnt texas a part of mexico at the time?
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    My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.

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    A Spanish territory.

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    seriously dude smoking is bad for you does the org have any rules on secondhand smoke in the workplace for the moderators??
    They slew him with poison afaid to meet him with the steel
    a gallant son of eireann was Owen Roe o'Neill.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat View Post
    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"?
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    Quote Originally Posted by gaelic cowboy View Post
    Your point is silly
    Most likely but this is the internet... 'nuff said
    if I was born in soviet russia and lived to see putin should I be glad he has brought back the soviet anthem cos "We were strong then".
    No because russia still is strong.
    You can be proud of individual achievement during the soviet era but you can separate the suffering of ordinary people during the time so it's rightly reviled.
    Except in russia most of the suffering was caused intentionally by the government, in the UK it was down to the various companies and individuals, and to widen the gap even further the government actually tried to prevent alot of it.
    It is exactly the same with the British Empire the difference is that Britain has the time to evolve and revalue certain national myths and has grown up.
    We didn't grow up we just went into denial.

    But I've taken up way too much space and too much of horetore's patience so I'm going to give up on this argument and apologise for the aformentioned stupidity
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    Hahahaha!

    No need to apologize, my friend! The backroom rules clearly state that after page 2 is reached the originsl topic can no longer be discussed, by page three gunbortion must be brought up, goodwin at page four before it all ends with a discussion of hot babes on page five.
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    Hurrahs for teh interwebz!
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    How can a Chechen be Norwegian of the year?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Skullheadhq View Post
    How can a Chechen be Norwegian of the year?
    What did you drink, HoreTore?
    Chechen? She's ethnic Russian, from North Ossetia.

    And she is the norwegian of the year because Ny Tid awarded her the prize...
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    Bit of a similar case here, 14 year old Afghan girl, lived here for 10 years, completely westernized, studies at the gymnasium. Doubt she will be kicked out but it's an ugly dilemma, she should have been gone years ago but the immigration-industry pays the procedures to slow things down, that can take years it's simply sabotage. Now she simply can't go back anymore it would be inhuman. Two gestures can be made, sending her back as a message to the immigration-industry to stop that crap, or bending the rules because she's the perfect immigrant. I would opt for the latter, but that would also be unfair
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    Single minors automatically get to stay here.
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    Quote Originally Posted by HoreTore View Post
    Single minors automatically get to stay here.
    She's here with her parents, should have mentioned that. She's more Dutch than windmills and her parents are worried her western lifestyle will get her into trouble, pretty valid a concern.

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    Madina Salamova (Marie Amelie) left the country on the 13:35 plane to Moscow today.
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    I have an urge to rebel.

    Edit: Sigurd, did you notice the writing on the wall on that picture of her sitting on a bench at Gardemoen? "Hitler is good"?

    What was that about?

    Edit2: found the photo: http://www.vg.no/uploaded/image/bild...760439_848.jpg
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    Now that she's gone you can legally get her back as an expat, all it takes is a Norwegian company offering her a job, she won't aquire Norwegian nationality very soon though, if ever.

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    Quote Originally Posted by HoreTore View Post
    I have an urge to rebel.

    Edit: Sigurd, did you notice the writing on the wall on that picture of her sitting on a bench at Gardemoen? "Hitler is good"?

    What was that about?
    Reductio ad Hitlerum
    Most likely a holding cell for expelled people and someone's disgust carved into the concrete wall and a photographer's eye for drama.

    edit: Link to the picture in question
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