In 2017 Idiocracy is a Documentary

#12421

feathers wrote:
Matt Cavanaugh wrote:David McAfee, easily the most mentally-challenged of Hemant's guest bloggers, goes full retard on the 'moslem viking' story:

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyat ... s-hate-it/

NotAgainAggravatedVagPossessor • 10 hours ago

I wonder how they feel about the fact that a lot of the Viking warriors were proven to be women. The archaeologists used to assume the dead buried with their weapons were all males, being warriors and all, so they didn't look further into the dead's gender. But once they started actually examining the bones, they found plenty of female warriors.
*bonk*bonk*bonk*

I asked the VagPossessor to quantify "plenty". I think what ze meant to say was, 'the one I read about recently online.'

#12422

So there is this #MeToo thing going around where "women who have been harassed or sexually assaulted speak up to show the size of the problem".

I feel like if I wade in then it's social suicide, however I can't help but observe that men also get those things a lot. I've been harassed before (god knows why) and groped by drunk women on public transport when I was younger and prettier.

I suppose we ought to just man up eh.

#12423

Shatterface wrote:
feathers wrote:
NotAgainAggravatedVagPossessor • 10 hours ago

I wonder how they feel about the fact that a lot of the Viking warriors were proven to be women. The archaeologists used to assume the dead buried with their weapons were all males, being warriors and all, so they didn't look further into the dead's gender. But once they started actually examining the bones, they found plenty of female warriors.
*bonk*bonk*bonk*
There's no such thing as biological sex so it would be impossible to determine it even from a perfectly preserved corpse, complete with winged Valkyrie helmet and a metal bra.

But, but ... there was a documentary about them!

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#12424

Sad to hear of Irish actor and comedian Sean Hughes death. Funny guy, probably remembered best as Mog from The Last Detective TV series.

#12425

Kirbmarc wrote:Switzerland has had seven referendums in 2017 alone and nobody claimed that the results should be thrown away, even though one of them was incredibly close (rejected by a margin of 643 votes). Maybe we're simply more used to having people vote on issues and have set a better system?

Was that close referendum, incidentally, about the disbanding of the confederation?

#12426

Kirbmarc wrote:In general binding referendums should have a limited and precise scope with well-defined policies to evaluate, and possibly multiple options for complex questions. For example the Brexit referendum could have had four choices, "Let's keep everything as it is" "We'll stay in the EU, but here's a list of demands we'll make to them, and if they don't accept them after Date X we'll vote again" "We'll leave but here's a plan to get a deal similar to Norway or Switzerland" and "We'll just leave and be treated by the EU like Brazil or Japan".

This would have ended some of the ambiguities and provided more context. But again it's too late for this.

That's four questions. If you split the vote four ways there's no way any one would get a majority. You'd just get 'The referendum doesn't count - 26% isn't a majority! 74% voted for something else!'

#12427

[quote="Matt Cavanaugh"In the insane world of SJWism, you either: a) accept that there were moslem vikings, or; b) are a 'fake news' bemoaning white supremacist.[/quote]

And there were no black Nazis in the SJW world, even though there are pictures of them.

#12428

shoutinghorse wrote:Sad to hear of Irish actor and comedian Sean Hughes death. Funny guy, probably remembered best as Mog from The Last Detective TV series.

Mod .. ffs not Mog :oops:

#12429

feathers wrote:
Kirbmarc wrote:Switzerland has had seven referendums in 2017 alone and nobody claimed that the results should be thrown away, even though one of them was incredibly close (rejected by a margin of 643 votes). Maybe we're simply more used to having people vote on issues and have set a better system?
Was that close referendum, incidentally, about the disbanding of the confederation?

No, but there were several referendums on whether Switzerland should join the EU, and in every case the result was negative.

#12430

shoutinghorse wrote:The Norwegians have had two referendums on joining the EU to my knowledge over the years and voted no both times but I never hear people calling them xenophobes, racists, bigots or 'little Norwegians'

Perhaps because the immigration/refugee problem wasn't the main issue in 1994, before Schengen became effective and well before the former East Bloc states became a member?

#12431

shoutinghorse wrote:Sad to hear of Irish actor and comedian Sean Hughes death. Funny guy, probably remembered best as Mog from The Last Detective TV series.

Sad. He's been in everything from The Commitments to Coronation Street. He was in some Agatha Christie thing I saw bits of at the weekend.

#12432

shoutinghorse wrote:
shoutinghorse wrote:Sad to hear of Irish actor and comedian Sean Hughes death. Funny guy, probably remembered best as Mog from The Last Detective TV series.
Mod .. ffs not Mog :oops:

Are you sure?

https://d1w7fb2mkkr3kw.cloudfront.net/a ... 341566.jpg

#12433

shoutinghorse wrote:The Norwegians have had two referendums on joining the EU to my knowledge over the years and voted no both times but I never hear people calling them xenophobes, racists, bigots or 'little Norwegians'

That's because Scandinavian countries have been multicultural hubs ever since Eric bin Bloodaxe built the first mosque.

#12434

DrokkIt wrote:
Barbie's Boyfriend wrote:As long as we're posting pix of our precious pets:

Cart 2.jpg

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Black Lab 6.jpg
Hey, assuming those are actually your photos it's pretty dox-able. Safety first!

1) Yes, those are my photos. They are eight and nine years old.

2) Not too worried about being doxxed. But thanx for worrying about me

3) That being said, the Boxer's name was Precious

#12435

Barbie's Boyfriend wrote: 1) Yes, those are my photos. They are eight and nine years old.

2) Not too worried about being doxxed. But thanx for worrying about me

3) That being said, the Boxer's name was Precious

Fair enough, to each his own.

Just thought I'd warn you because this forum is publicly searchable, and should any crazy be interested those photos lead to a facebook account and a place of work. Gotta be careful in today's world!

#12436

mordacious1 wrote:I just heard on the news that Ophelia is heading for Ireland and has destructive potential. Does Nugent know?

They said Ophelia is very wet. What? Since when?

It's very windy in Ireland.....enough to blow all the cobwebs away.

:)

#12437

Barbie's Boyfriend wrote:
DrokkIt wrote:
Barbie's Boyfriend wrote:As long as we're posting pix of our precious pets:

Cart 2.jpg

1.jpg

Black Lab 6.jpg
Hey, assuming those are actually your photos it's pretty dox-able. Safety first!
1) Yes, those are my photos. They are eight and nine years old.

2) Not too worried about being doxxed. But thanx for worrying about me

3) That being said, the Boxer's name was Precious

But why is that picture of a boxer marked "black lab"? Kinda like Bruce Jenners cat if you ask me.

#12438

Snapfingers wrote: But why is that picture of a boxer marked "black lab"? Kinda like Bruce Jenners cat if you ask me.

Did you just assume my dog's breed?

:naughty: :naughty: :naughty:

#12439

SM1957 wrote:And there were no black Nazis in the SJW world, even though there are pictures of them.

http://www.11points.com/images/tshirts/swast.jpg

If I snot this cunt, do I win SJW points for rattling a nazi or do I lose them for assaulting a POC?

Totes confused...

#12440

DrokkIt wrote:Did you just assume my dog's breed?

:naughty: :naughty: :naughty:

Did you just assume the species of your companion?

Tsk...

#12441

Bhurzum wrote:
SM1957 wrote:And there were no black Nazis in the SJW world, even though there are pictures of them.
http://www.11points.com/images/tshirts/swast.jpg

If I snot this cunt, do I win SJW points for rattling a nazi or do I lose them for assaulting a POC?

Totes confused...

I think that is the new superhero, The Reverse Fasch.

#12442

DrokkIt wrote:
Snapfingers wrote: But why is that picture of a boxer marked "black lab"? Kinda like Bruce Jenners cat if you ask me.
Did you just assume my dog's breed?

:naughty: :naughty: :naughty:

At further risk of doxxing, that pic was taken at a restaurant named Black Lab. It is a British restaurant in Houston, Texas. It is owned by a Mexican lol

#12443

Let them contact my employer. He is the greatest guy in the world. He would be completely understanding.

#12444

https://trekmovie.com/2007/09/14/a-good ... -funerals/

You don't suppose that somebody will dig up one of these graves in the future, and some future SJW will say this was proof that Humans worshiped the Klingon God Kayless ?

#12445

On the subject of Norway and the EU we have to remember that Norway is perhaps one of the to 5 countries measured by compliance with EU-regulation. Being quicker to adopt any and all EU-regulation coming out of Bruxelles, to the point of being comical to neighboring Sweden and Denmark.

Even being closer tied to the Euro and the European Currency Unit (ECU) than the other non-Euro countries who are full EU members: Britain, Denmark and Sweden.
Since 1992, a controlled float of the Norwegian krone has been practiced against the ECU. A controlled float will mean that it has not committed itself to an official central rate and fluctuation band within which currency is to be held, but the government and Norges Bank have undertaken to avoid large fluctuations in the exchange rate. Despite this looser defined exchange rate target, the krone has remained relatively stable to the ECU and is today back at the level prevailing before the currency turmoil in 1992.

The Norwegian opposition to the EU is purely based on their chauvinistic small-state, flag-waving, folk-costume-wearing, lutefisk munching, inbred provincialism than anything thought out or meaningful. They are the country bumpkins of Europe.

In reality Norway is a EU-member in anything but a little marker on the licenseplates. Much more of an EU-country than Britain ever was.

#12446

MarcusAu wrote:
AndrewV69 wrote: I read the headline which was:

Some Vikings Were Likely Muslims and White Supremacists Hate It
Who cares?
The question falls into two parts.

1) Do you care what White Supremacists think? My answer being - In most cases no, depending on how fringe their views are and what degree of influence they have.

2) Does history matter? In this case I find the history interesting in itself. And prefer figuring out what we know, rather than simply what can be spun to give a punch on the nose to whatever group is deemed as the 'other'.

To ad hom it for you - as you are of Scottish descent you might have a personal interest (in whatever sense) in what the Vikings got up to in the past.

Let me clarify.

I do not care what some yob with an agenda thinks his imaginary friend is telling him what "White Supremacists" think. For all we know his definition of "White Supremacists" include Rayshul because she posts here.

You know that Bernie Sanders was accused of defending white male supremacy?

There are other examples. I can not be arsed to look them up but it is pretty clear that "White Male" and "White Supremacists" is simply a signifier that the person using it is not worth my time ... except possibly as a source of entertainment?

As to the Viking grave? As I recall they travelled far and wide. Does not mean he was a "Muslim". And if he was so what? The culture turned mostly "Christian" in the end anyway.

So we have some politically correct knob gushing because he is imagining "White Supremacists" (who must be because they are not on the same "side" as our pwecious personage) because he imagines these "White Supremacists" have their knickers in a twist.

I have read too many of these pathetic plods to bother with them any more. It is like reading a paper that contains the phrase "from a Feminist perspective". At that point, based on previous experience, it is time to bail.

#12447

Thanks to Mr. Vacula on twatter for this. Well worth a watch/read.

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyat ... auschwitz/

Now I feel like a proper cunt for joking about swastika t-shirts etc...

#12448

Sunder wrote:
ConcentratedH2O, OM wrote:https://i.imgur.com/uayaNM6.png
I'm not saying I'm starting to like Carrier or anything, but I might buy the guy a drink for this.

It is unduly conclusory to call it a SLAPP suit at this stage. Arguably this suit is a straightforward attempt to recover damages for being defamed as a serial harasser and subsequently deplatformed as such.

#12449

It's happening.
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/har ... 01521.html

#12450

Sulman wrote:It's happening.
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/har ... 01521.html

You've been :nin: 'ed.

#12451

Kirbmarc wrote:
Sulman wrote:It's happening.
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/har ... 01521.html
You've been :nin: 'ed.

Dammit! [emoji33]

#12452

Kirbmarc wrote:
Keating wrote:There's Viking graffiti in the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople. I've seen it.
Correct.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CVoMC30WwAA7hTP.jpg

Although it's very likely that the graffiti were made by bored Viking ("Varangian") mercenaries back when Istanbul was a christian city and Hagia Sophia was a christian church. Those Viking mercs were far more likely to have killed muslims rather than being muslims.

I seem to remember there is a tomb somewhere in the Scottish Islands that has graffiti which says something like "This was opened by Jeruselemen". That would suggest that Viking were joining in with the crusades, considered themselves crusaders. And yet were still robbing graves in Scotland.

There is a romantic view of Christian missionaries wandering Europe converting people to Christianity. However a major part of pre-Christian religions was a kind of ancestor worship (more like a reverence) which would have been deeply woven into their culture which was honour based. This probably would have made them rather impervious to prothelsising. It's far more likely that conversion was entirely political. Therefore it would be kings converting because of political advantage and ordering their people to start worshiping the new god... in fact there is plenty of evidence that christian people knew fuck all about christianity even though they were obliged to attend church once a week. The reason for this was mainly that the bible was written in Latin, much like the Koran is written in Arabic.

I find it highly unlikely that very many Vikings would be doing a Cat Stevens.

And Bhurzum is close. I seem to remember that an ancient chinese trinket turned up in the UK a while back. It caused quite a stir, not because anyone assumed that the ancient Britons had been visiting China or the Chinese visiting Britain, but because it was evidence that trade between ancient people was much wider that originally thought.

#12453

Sulman wrote:It's happening.
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/har ... 01521.html

If those women had been dressed modestly, they would not have been assaulted.

#12454

AndrewV69 wrote:
Let me clarify.

I do not care what some yob with an agenda thinks his imaginary friend is telling him what "White Supremacists" think. For all we know his definition of "White Supremacists" include Rayshul because she posts here.

You know that Bernie Sanders was accused of defending white male supremacy?

There are other examples. I can not be arsed to look them up but it is pretty clear that "White Male" and "White Supremacists" is simply a signifier that the person using it is not worth my time ... except possibly as a source of entertainment?

As to the Viking grave? As I recall they travelled far and wide. Does not mean he was a "Muslim". And if he was so what? The culture turned mostly "Christian" in the end anyway.

So we have some politically correct knob gushing because he is imagining "White Supremacists" (who must be because they are not on the same "side" as our pwecious personage) because he imagines these "White Supremacists" have their knickers in a twist.

I have read too many of these pathetic plods to bother with them any more. It is like reading a paper that contains the phrase "from a Feminist perspective". At that point, based on previous experience, it is time to bail.

Can't see much of a difference of opinion really - it's silliness all the way down once you start looking at it.

I find the actual history interesting - rather than an von Danekin revision (hopefully no one here is too put out by that analogy).

Can certainly see why you would feel the need to triage your attention when choosing whether such things need a response though.

#12455

Kirbmarc wrote:
Although it's very likely that the graffiti were made by bored Viking ("Varangian") mercenaries back when Istanbul was a christian city and Hagia Sophia was a christian church. Those Viking mercs were far more likely to have killed muslims rather than being muslims.

I didn't want to overstep my bounds with so many history buffs around, but yes. Why would anyone finding a Muslim artifact in a viking grave immediately jump to the conclusion there were Muslim vikings rather than that the artifact once belonged to a Muslim and the viking picked it up as a trophy whilst raping and pillaging?

#12456

VickyCaramel wrote:There is a romantic view of Christian missionaries wandering Europe converting people to Christianity. However a major part of pre-Christian religions was a kind of ancestor worship (more like a reverence) which would have been deeply woven into their culture which was honour based. This probably would have made them rather impervious to prothelsising. It's far more likely that conversion was entirely political.

https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1348 ... 767358.jpg

An entertaining fictional yarn (steeped in historical fact) about the subject in question, well worth a read.

#12457

VickyCaramel wrote:There is a romantic view of Christian missionaries wandering Europe converting people to Christianity. However a major part of pre-Christian religions was a kind of ancestor worship (more like a reverence) which would have been deeply woven into their culture which was honour based. This probably would have made them rather impervious to prothelsising. It's far more likely that conversion was entirely political. Therefore it would be kings converting because of political advantage and ordering their people to start worshiping the new god... in fact there is plenty of evidence that christian people knew fuck all about christianity even though they were obliged to attend church once a week. The reason for this was mainly that the bible was written in Latin, much like the Koran is written in Arabic.

Exactly. The same things happened in the Muslim Caliphates. Conversion of leaders was political (and due to fiscal policies) and a lot of people either stayed Christian or Jewish or Zoroastrian (and paid heavy taxes for it) or converted for convenience. Most "ordinary" Muslim know fuck all of the Qu'ran, even today, and mostly follow what their religious leaders tell them to do. That's why the fact that the Saudi/GCC countries have pretty much a monopoly on Sunni muslim religious education pretty much everywhere (either directly through the Salafis or indirectly by setting up conservative propaganda centers among other Sunni muslims) is such a problem.

If you control the clerics you control the population, and if you have pressure groups, lobbies and identity politics on your side you can control some of the policies even of a liberal democracy. Saudi/Salafi influence benefits a lot from identity politics and concessions to "community leaders".

Pursuing Muslim identity politics has paid off for the GCC countries: people in the "west" worry about Russian influence without any accusation of racism, but worrying about Saudi/GCC influence is "islamophobic" and "racist". Putin has nowhere near the pull on "western" media, think tanks and political pressure groups that Arab sheiks have, and it's all thanks to muslim identity politics in immigrant communities. The SocJus fans are playing the role of the useful idiots to perfection.

#12458

jet_lagg wrote:I didn't want to overstep my bounds with so many history buffs around, but yes. Why would anyone finding a Muslim artifact in a viking grave immediately jump to the conclusion there were Muslim vikings rather than that the artifact once belonged to a Muslim and the viking picked it up as a trophy whilst raping and pillaging?

Because of Muslim identity politics. The idea is to legitimize Islam as "part of the nature of Europe", and so to "shame racists" who claim that islam doesn't belong in Europe. Muslim vikings are a way to say "Islam has Always Been Among Us", so you're ignorant if you claim that there's an issue of different values.

I've seen countless liberals collecting histories about small Muslim communities in Europe, no matter how small those "communities" were or how tenuous is the evidence that they even existed.

Muslim apologists are of course using Muslim identity politics to justify violations of separation of church and state in favor of Islam to contrast "white supremacist oppression".

#12459

Looks like the BBC have finally gone too far and upset the Gods. :?

#12460

Barbie's Boyfriend wrote:
DrokkIt wrote:
Barbie's Boyfriend wrote:As long as we're posting pix of our precious pets:

Cart 2.jpg

1.jpg

Black Lab 6.jpg
Hey, assuming those are actually your photos it's pretty dox-able. Safety first!
1) Yes, those are my photos. They are eight and nine years old.

2) Not too worried about being doxxed. But thanx for worrying about me

3) That being said, the Boxer's name was Precious

#12461

shoutinghorse wrote:Looks like the BBC have finally gone too far and upset the Gods. :?

It has been like this since midday. It has been really freaking weird since about 3pm... The sky is pretty much brown. with gusts of wind up to 20mph, it looks like a Rad-Storm in Fallout4.

It is strange, I know what it is, I even have a pretty good idea of the science and physics behind it. But having never seen anything like this before, it makes me feel really uneasy.

Anyway, it is on it's way to Scotland so batten down the hatches Bhurzum. I am about 700 miles away from the hurricane, I really wouldn't want to be any closer.

#12462

Snapfingers wrote:The Norwegian opposition to the EU is purely based on their chauvinistic small-state, flag-waving, folk-costume-wearing, lutefisk munching, inbred provincialism than anything thought out or meaningful. They are the country bumpkins of Europe.

Plus they have a gigantic oil reserve, so who needs to be in an import/export union?

#12463

feathers wrote:
Snapfingers wrote:The Norwegian opposition to the EU is purely based on their chauvinistic small-state, flag-waving, folk-costume-wearing, lutefisk munching, inbred provincialism than anything thought out or meaningful. They are the country bumpkins of Europe.
Plus they have a gigantic oil reserve, so who needs to be in an import/export union?

I thought that the Norwegian opposition to the EU was about fishing rights and oil.

#12464

SM1957 wrote:
Sulman wrote:It's happening.
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/har ... 01521.html
If those women had been dressed modestly, they would not have been assaulted.

Holy Fuck.... My God-damned brain explodes almost every day.

1) There is an almost unlimited supply of beautiful young woman who want to be famous actresses.

2) There is a vanishingly small number of very powerful men who can turn a beautiful young woman into a famous actress.

3) Given enough power and enough time, most powerful people begin to enjoy manipulating and torturing people with less power.

1 + 2 + 3 = Hollywood

The fact that these assholes and perverts profess to being morally superior to us deplorables is the funniest part. They tell us how to vote, and how to protest, and how to buy things, and even how to speak. Too bad the fires in California really hurt hard working farmers... I wish god would have burned down fucking Hollywood.

#12465

Shatterface wrote:
There's no such thing as biological sex so it would be impossible to determine it even from a perfectly preserved corpse, complete with winged Valkyrie helmet and a metal bra.

Dave Muscato says, "Thanks for the fashion tips."

#12466

Warriors and wars are the result of pariarchal masculine toxicity and was a bad bad thing, mkay? So why are the SJW in a masturabatory frenzy over the thought of there having been women who had patriarchal toxic masculinity, the worst disease the world has ever known?

Muh feelz cannot grok.

#12467

RE: Muslim Vikings. I believe they dismissed the pillaging hypothesis because what they found were those "Allah" inscribed ribbons sewn into Viking clothes. While I can imagine the occasional Muslim convert while raiding Muslim lands, I think the more likely explanation is that superstitious people saw these things as talismans, without understanding their religious significance.
And even if there were some converts, the religion didn't really take off in Scandinavia did it.

#12468

katamari Damassi wrote:RE: Muslim Vikings. I believe they dismissed the pillaging hypothesis because what they found were those "Allah" inscribed ribbons sewn into Viking clothes. While I can imagine the occasional Muslim convert while raiding Muslim lands, I think the more likely explanation is that superstitious people saw these things as talismans, without understanding their religious significance.
And even if there were some converts, the religion didn't really take off in Scandinavia did it.

Give it time.

#12469

MarcusAu wrote:
katamari Damassi wrote:RE: Muslim Vikings. I believe they dismissed the pillaging hypothesis because what they found were those "Allah" inscribed ribbons sewn into Viking clothes. While I can imagine the occasional Muslim convert while raiding Muslim lands, I think the more likely explanation is that superstitious people saw these things as talismans, without understanding their religious significance.
And even if there were some converts, the religion didn't really take off in Scandinavia did it.
Give it time.

My nephew told me some Somalian pirates ended up with boxes of 'tupac shakur' t-shirts. So they wore them and became known as the tupac shakur gang. Have no idea what future SJW's will make of it.

#12470

I think this thread from a Professor of Islamic art and history ought to put the lid on this 'muslim Vikings' nonsense once and for all:

But I suspect it won't, cos 'Nyyeeer take that, racists!'

#12471

katamari Damassi wrote:I think the more likely explanation is that superstitious people saw these things as talismans, without understanding their religious significance.

Is there a difference? :rimshot:

#12472

I've mentioned before that I have constant ear worm going on which often makes it difficult to go to sleep. When I do sleep, I can sleep for 10-12 hours and still not feel rested, even need a nap the next day. Part of that is that I have 4-5 dreams per night, and I can usually remember at least 2 of them whole, and fragments of the others. Most dreams don't make any sense, but I've noticed a few themes of the few that do.

The old "I thought I dropped this class(usually French, or calculus) but I didn't, and now the final exam is in five minutes and I have to find the classroom" dream.

I wake up as my ten year-old self, but I have my memories of the adult life that I've lived. At first I think it's great because I can avoid the major mistakes in my life, and invest in Apple before it really takes off. But then I realize that those memories are fading and that I'll have forgotten it all by noon recess. So I start desperately trying to remember things, making notes and writing down dates.

I'm in Dakar, Senegal and I can't catch a cab or find my way to the airport, embassy, Peace Corps office.

Something(never someone)comes to earth from space, and I somehow end up as an intermediary. These things have included:
The therapy ships I described in a previous post.
Puzzleboxes that punish you(sometimes with death)if you make a wrong move.

Inscribed metal spheres about 3 meters in diameter land all over the planet. The inscription is decoded and it says that in each sphere is a device that delivers free energy, but the device is submerged in destructive nanobots that can only be contained by the metal of the container. The US wisely chooses to leave it alone(this was pre-Trump)but who knows where else these things have landed?

The most reason one had a guest appearance by David Tennant's Dr. Who. A giant gold rectangle descends on a major city and just hovers over a city street. The military cordons off the area, but the thing just sits there for months doing nothing. Finally a part of it descends to street level and opens up. Inside are just halls and rooms. There are no occupants. Somehow it is revealed that it is a hotel, and I become it's concierge and sole employee. Before it can open, I take inspectors on a tour to show how rooms are cleaned(with heat and radiation)how food is prepared, etc. The rooms are pro-rated so anyone can stay there for a limited period of time. Business thrives. At one point David Tennant's Doctor shows up. He tells me this is a popular hotel chain in the galaxy, but he doesn't much care for it. He finds the place "Too sterile." I ask if the place is any kind of danger and he tells me it doesn't, though it could attract some aliens "that could make themselves a nuissance." And he tells me the hotels collect and sell data on the civilizations where the hotels are situated and the people who stay there, "but then Google does that."

Sorry to bore you guys with dream talk, but I can't keep doing that to my husband, that's abuse. So, I'm psychotic, right?

#12473

Tigzy wrote:I think this thread from a Professor of Islamic art and history ought to put the lid on this 'muslim Vikings' nonsense once and for all:

But I suspect it won't, cos 'Nyyeeer take that, racists!'

I've read the thread, and the case she makes is very strong. This looks like over-hype and shoddy scholarship.

#12474

MarcusAu wrote:
katamari Damassi wrote:RE: Muslim Vikings. I believe they dismissed the pillaging hypothesis because what they found were those "Allah" inscribed ribbons sewn into Viking clothes. While I can imagine the occasional Muslim convert while raiding Muslim lands, I think the more likely explanation is that superstitious people saw these things as talismans, without understanding their religious significance.
And even if there were some converts, the religion didn't really take off in Scandinavia did it.
Give it time.

I have no doubt it will become the center of the new Caliphate.

#12475

'Tis a bit windy in Belfast. We all got sent home from work at midday, mainly because the buses and trains were all being stood down at 2 and they wanted to give us a fair chance at getting home.

Got home, nothing seemed be happening, and I dozed off. Woken up by my neighbours' fences blowing down.

https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/ ... e=5A77771E

The bins were emptied this morning, so all the empty bins, with nothing to weigh them down, are blowing all over the street.

Hardly Matt's forest fires, but the news says some people have been killed by trees falling on their cars. One man in Tipperary was killed by his own chainsaw trying to clear a fallen tree. The south west seems to be getting the worst of it.

#12476

Ramadan must have been a bitch for Norse Muslims with daylight hours lasting weeks.

#12477

Thanx for the laff. I completely forgot about that cartoon dog.

When I think of cartoon dogs named Precious, I think of this:

#12478

I saw this guy going into a bookshop in Charing Cross a couple of weeks ago - and was going to ask about it.

But a quick google seems to have answered my question - and / or raised new ones.

What does everyone here think of this type of headwear?

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news ... id-6796961

#12479

I'm a bit baffled that people make the leap from "there were many contacts between different cultures, especially in the case of people which practiced piracy or trade" to "those cultures were ethnically diverse, more tolerant and not very racist ", though, which is present, at least in part, in the twitter thread of the professor who debunks the "definitive proof of muslim Vikings".

I understand the aim to dismantle white supremacist fantasies of the White Viking Master-Race, but the Vikings were likely as diverse and tolerant as many cultures of their age, which means that they were tribal, but they liked pretty or useful things made by others, appreciated some useful merchants and occasional allies from far away lands and had slaves, and especially sex slaves, from other ethnicities (in their case mostly Celtic women).

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jet_lagg wrote:
Kirbmarc wrote:
Although it's very likely that the graffiti were made by bored Viking ("Varangian") mercenaries back when Istanbul was a christian city and Hagia Sophia was a christian church. Those Viking mercs were far more likely to have killed muslims rather than being muslims.
I didn't want to overstep my bounds with so many history buffs around, but yes. Why would anyone finding a Muslim artifact in a viking grave immediately jump to the conclusion there were Muslim vikings rather than that the artifact once belonged to a Muslim and the viking picked it up as a trophy whilst raping and pillaging?

Wishful thinking. That, and SJWs are all deranged.