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The interview thread is just the best topic for me because it was started this year and has gathered over a thousand responses and more than 60 pages in only a few months. It's the longest thread we have afaik.

micchan's post in the adorable creatures thread is for me the best because it's heartwarming and heartbreaking and funny at the same time.

And the problem-solution chart is the most creative meme imo.

I think @TheCreepyLurker probably needs a thread on his own to publish his photos.

7 hours ago, Chief Savage Man said:

Saarbrücken is an awful place anyway. Nobody likes Saarbrücken.

3 hours ago, Infinite Citadel said:

I can't believe there isn't a thread about this yet. Best book I've ever read hands down.

 

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I have added reading the book to the TKR objectives last week.

2 minutes ago, Milord said:

So now your judging the same situation with the morals of the past, I sense HIPOCRACCY.

I don't know here you reads

 I  up voting death

I simply said that is how humans have done for years and still do now. you are still generalising .

settlers were looking for a better life not all were psychos .

you know who considered others savges , the Romans, why does not nobody say anything about that. my ancestors died at their hands

if it weren't for colonisation I would probably not exist today.

and od d Nizam only spoke of the scastilians

You're generalizing yourself quite a lot as you seem to assume that I like the romans for any particular reasons or approve of what they've done to a lot of people. I'm still judging the past by the morals of today. You failing to see that is not my problem. And I'm kind of getting tired of discussing this especially because I'm hungry and my done is almost done. Since we're not going to agree on anything here I'll just end the discussion here.

1 minute ago, Milord said:

were is your multiculturalism, there is room for everybody. they might have not know about the kidnapping of the native. although this situation is hipothetical

I don't know if you've suddenly landed in the 21st century but I'm still talking about the 15th/16th/17th century when people were well aware what they were doing and who they were taking the land from away. I'll refer to Adrienne who said quite correctly that Spaniards and Portuguese (and all other colonialists in every point of the world) considered the natives "savages" and thought they were entitled to every land. And to call that "multiculturialism" is an insult to all the victims. An estimated 90% of the indigeneous population of South America was killed by diseases brought in by the Europeans and you're asking me where my multiculturalism is? You should be ashamed of yourself.

Just now, Milord said:

just one last thing not all sailors are evil, and not all settlers were authoritarian.

don't generalise , it's a fallasy

Obviously not but if you settle in an area that has been taken away from the natives then you're guilty by de fault.

1 minute ago, Milord said:

the world hasn't changed it is still the rule of the fittests

You're entitled to your opinion.

34 minutes ago, Milord said:

 

you must be jooking since when did the world become moral and benevolent it has allways been the law of the fittest. the Roman empire is just a type of small colonisation, but everyone views it as some grand thing, which it was somewhat since it connected Europe in an superpow

If everybody still thought like that and if we hadn't made any progress, then Europe would still be war ridden all the time.

8 minutes ago, Micchan said:

They probably realized that when it was too late to do something

The natives were still looted, enslaved and murdered. Just not the majority. ^^

Just now, Micchan said:

More like because no one realized that the colonizers would bring diseases against which the native immune system was unprepared

I know that and I did not say they were shot, hung or whatever. But the Spaniards didn't care about the natives dropping like flies.

4 minutes ago, Milord said:

it's easy to judge passed actions with morals and ideals of today, if you grew up backed then you would probably be has immoral as some of them,and if they grew up in the society of today they would probably have the same ideals as you do.

It's easy to judge passed actions and I'll definitely do it no matter what my ideals would've been back then. That's not a reason at all not to criticize what Europeans have done to natives in all parts of the world. Our sense of entitlement has led to the doom of millions of innocent people. I will not stop criticizing how an estimated 36 million people have died during the first century of Spaniards colonizing Latin America just because moral values have differed between then and now. Besides, there were also people back then already who opposed the atrocities committed towards natives like for example Bartolomé de las Casas.

2 minutes ago, Milord said:

discovers ( sailors) are different from colonialists

The people who "discovered" places often ended up being colonialists themselves. Columbus also "discovered" Latin America and ended up returning there when they were already being colonized.

34 minutes ago, Bangas said:

I picked 1585-1660 like milord but mainly cuz I have wondered quite a bit about what would be the best job on that time, my life would consist of me either being a Baker or a blacksmith, possible sail with great portuguese colonialists once I have gotten old and stay in brasil with a sugar cane farm till the end of my days. 

With the incredible life expetancy of ~60 years if you were lucky and didn't die from an unknown illness in the Portuguese colonies which the people from Europe knew nothing about. Btw.. I fixed your original statement because "great discoverers" sounds as if these people weren't murderers.

I do not want to live in any era that doesn't have the medical advancements we have today. I do not want to live in an era of war which is basically every era before the end of World War II (for my country). And I do not want to live in an era where I don't have the rights that I have today. Therefore I'll remain in the present despite all of its flaws.

48 minutes ago, Angevin said:

5 votes for yes there are 6 votes for favoured method of execution

You can vote on more than one option there. The poll is public so you can see who voted what by clicking on the numbers at the end.

I wish some of the people who voted yes would explain why. Not because I want to put them on the spot or anything but I'm just curious. Especially as to the execution methods they think are preferrable.

No. Just no.

On 6.12.2017 at 12:32 AM, Micchan said:

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I'm not necessarily talking about general traditions in your country but just your personal traditions. How do you spend christmas? Do you have traditions within your family?

Unlike the United States, christmas presents are handed out on December 24th already. When I was a child we would always go to my grandmother's house (she was living right next to us). We had dinner with the entire family which was always the same every year: Potato salad, schnitzel and sausages. What a stereotype! But that's actually what many many Germans eat on December 24th. Afterwards, we'd sit in her living room and talk, sing and at the end she would hand out her presents.

Then we would all go to our house where my sister and I were sent upstairs because "Santa had to place the presents under the tree". Then we were called down and could open our presents. And then everybody would just sit together until we went to bed and the others left.

6 hours ago, Lordship said:

Either Holmes or Poirot, voting Holmes just because I've seen/read more of him, only watched Murder on the Orient Express.

If you want to see a young Olenna Tyrrell getting murdered, then maybe you should watch the 1982 movie adaption of Evil Under The Sun starring Peter Ustinov as Hercule Poirot.

4 hours ago, Deus said:

You should get the set of Poirot TV series/TV movies that have all of the Poirot stories. They started making these in 1988 and finished in 2013, the main cast remained the same with the wonderful David Suchet in the role of Poirot. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094525/

That show is great!

30 minutes ago, Bangas said:

Mr. Poirot was a killer himself so to the people voting for him what guarantees you that he didn't kill you? 

Poirot killed only because his victim was a murderer himself whose crimes he wasn't able to proof. He only killed Stephen Norton to protect other people.

I have to add that even though I enjoyed many of Agatha Christie's books (and I still have many of them here), I actually hate the way she portrays women of different ages, how she tends to generalize a lot, how she uses stereotypes and how much of that entitlement towards colonialism is still reflected in her books.

6 minutes ago, Micchan said:

A black chinese

 

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I've taken a christmas-y avatar from the internet. :3