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When Henry II married Eleanor of Aquitaine France was British.
His sons cocked it up though.
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: We have invaded
You can't call that an Invasion, more of we just 'turned up' and threatened to slap someone.
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You can't have a go at the French when they aren't here to defend themselves... And we all know how good they are at defending themselves... 1914, 1940...
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That's a decent todo list: I think we should go for Kyrgyzstan first. If only to rename it something more pronounceable like Anitdistinctlymintymonatarismonia.
[Edit]
And Sweden too, they're a bit too smug for my liking and need taking down a peg or two.
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I saw 'Highlander'.
Connor McLeod of the Clan McLeod fought the Kyrgan.
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
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You haven't even tried yet.
There's a reason.
Start with France instead, you need to train on something easy first.
People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
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We've done France so many times, it's too easy.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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And you are not limiting yourself to countries. You guys seem to be marching all over The Lounge 
Soren Madsen
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With 9 1/2 million members it has a population bigger than a lot of Countries.
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And yet smaller than some cities. Such terrible distribution of people 
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It may be that England has conquered Germany in the past (I don't know), but with our abysmal English, we will never stop destroying your language. 
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I thought that's what the Americans were doing (according to them anyways)? 
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Next question:
How many times throughout history have foreign military forces directed an attack on any territory which is (in the sense: was at the time of the attack) a recognized part of the territory of the United States of America?
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Don't you just hate it when you are trawling the [preliminary] documentation and find suitable useful classes/methods/properties that would be of some use, only to find that they don't actually exist yet.
Poking around my code wondering my I can't find these damn things, scrutinizing Object Browser, and finding they don't exist there either.
e.g. Geocordinate.PositionSource[^] and Geocoordinate.SatelliteData[^] are shown in the docs as properties of the Geocoordinate Class, but are actually nowhere to be found in the Geocoordinate[^] class.
And I was beginning to wonder if I was looking at the wrong damn things and going mad!
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That's because they are Windows Phone 8 properties.
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Yeh, I can see that, but they shouldn't be limited to that!
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You were expecting consistency from Microsoft? Put the whisky bottle down and step away from the keyboard.
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You lost me at 'documentation' ...
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Who on earth would document code _before_ implementing it ?
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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How does he get to the top of this table[^], and this table[^], and (we presume) still work full time? Are the sheep helping, or has he been cloned?
One of these days I'm going to think of a really clever signature.
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If it wasn't for the distracting siren call of his woolly friends, they'd be no stopping him AT ALL!
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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OK, ok, perhaps it's time to come clean. My avatar is a lie. I am actually this person.[^]
If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.
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Is that you with the bumper sticker on your car thaat says "My other brain is in the jar”? 
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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OriginalGriff wrote: OK, ok, perhaps it's time to come clean. My avatar is a lie. I am actually this person.[^]
Reminds me of this[^].
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~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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We'll start calling him SOG = Super OG!
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Working full time.
From home.
Yeah sure.
People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
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I did say, "we presume". 
One of these days I'm going to think of a really clever signature.
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From a given value of full time.
People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
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I've got the painters in today so I won't be going out, I'll just sit here comfort eating. I might also be a bit bad tempered.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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have you noticed how painters are always a bit chilly?
Well, they always seem to be putting another coat on!
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: I might also be a bit bad tempered.
Ah. Run out of Gin?
If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.
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I would suggest 'Comfort Drinking'.
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
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Don't tell anyone, but I am actually doing some work today as well. 
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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sampling the in house Gin isn't work!
Lobster Thermidor aux crevettes with a Mornay sauce, served in a Provençale manner with shallots and aubergines, garnished with truffle pate, brandy and a fried egg on top and Spam - Monty Python Spam Sketch
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: I might also be a bit bad tempered.
Is that a different "bad tempered" while you are the President of "Belligerent Bad Tempered Old Fools Club"
Lobster Thermidor aux crevettes with a Mornay sauce, served in a Provençale manner with shallots and aubergines, garnished with truffle pate, brandy and a fried egg on top and Spam - Monty Python Spam Sketch
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Admittedly, my base level of being is bad tempered but I am oft inspired to be only mildly miffed. If there weren't so many numpties in the world, I would be much happier.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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So here we are, finally, on US election day.
All to be decided not by a majority (far too democratic), but by a complex college system where the votes of the individual are meaningless.
And to top it the party symbols are an Ass and an Elephant.
Sums it all up really.
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
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Another day, yet another thread that goes against Chris' wishes that politics and religion shouldn't be discussed in the Lounge. I'm pretty sure that this should go into the Soapbox.
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I don't know how far the news have spread outside the Nordic countries:
A Danish publishing house was marketing an E-book through the Apple store, a historical walkthrough of the hippie movement of the 1960-70s, illustrated with lot of photos. This is Denmark, which means that pictures showing certain body parts were not necessarily (if at all) censored by the publishing house.
Once Apple discovered this, they censored if, of course. Distribution of the book was stopped immediately.
So the publishing house submitted a revised edition to the Apple store: Every t*t, every a*s, every c**k and c**t, was hidden behind bright red apples...
After four days, the Apple store finally understood that their censorship was being ridiculed, and they stopped distribution even of the book with the apple censorship applied...
The pictures are shown in both censored and uncensored versions on hippienu.dk/node/345 - maybeis not available to readers everywhere due to censorship. Warning: Some readers may not want to see these pictures, even if they are available from a technical viewpoint. The collection does contain the uncensore versions, too! Be careful, if you are of the sensitive kind!
(All this banning and censoring and new banning took place last week.)
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... as opposed to the British system where we do not actually endorse the PM at all.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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If he is the leader of the party with most seats then, yes we have endorsed him.
One of these days I'm going to think of a really clever signature.
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When it's quite possible, if not usual, for the party with well over half the seats to have well under half of the votes, no we haven't endorsed them.
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depends on how well you draw the boundaries when you are in power
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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But that's the way our voting system works, so I still say we have endorsed them.
One of these days I'm going to think of a really clever signature.
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the idea is that the community votes for a person to represent that community, the fact that not every comunity has equal number of voters is always going to be an issue as populations move about.
parties are not voted for in UK elections, individuals are, those indiviuals group together to form a govenment and apoint a prime minister (that they tend to be members of parties is just they way of things but it is not a requirement)
we could have a Prime minister who is an indpendant, not belonging to any party or we could have a govenment that consists of a group of mp's from all paries (both very unlikely but possible)
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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The way our voting system works is unfair, so it doesn't necessarily count as an endorsement.
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Interesting then, that when we were given an opportunity to select a "fairer" system, the majority were not in favour.
One of these days I'm going to think of a really clever signature.
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