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Post by peachy on Jan 10, 2024 22:40:24 GMT
I voted "yes" for the same reason I voted "yes" on the poll about Native Americans - pretty much every single human culture of the past was evil, going by present-day standards. That's different than singling out only one group from all the others like Gameboy does.
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Post by mrellaguru on Jan 10, 2024 22:40:25 GMT
I voted "yes" for the same reason I voted "yes" on the poll about Native Americans - pretty much every single human culture of the past was evil, going by present-day standards.
I was about to say... Almost every culture has blood on its hands.
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Post by uncreative on Jan 11, 2024 1:35:12 GMT
Not at all. They selflessly held on to the treasure for safe keeping when monks kept mysteriously dying all at once in the monasteries. The Saxons should have been thanking them for their service. Ungrateful pricks.
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Post by NoRevisionism on Jan 11, 2024 1:51:10 GMT
whatever, boil it down, you just hate crackers I love crackers and rednecks since I am one and Vikings are rednecks. some had red hair, but unless the Norsemen used astro-turf to line the inside of their longboats they weren't rednecks
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Post by PaulsLaugh on Jan 11, 2024 2:27:34 GMT
I love crackers and rednecks since I am one and Vikings are rednecks. some had red hair, but unless the Norsemen used astro-turf to line the inside of their longboats they weren't rednecks They had necks and they were red.
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Post by PaulsLaugh on Jan 11, 2024 2:29:14 GMT
I don't know about all of them but Erik the Red (the guy who came up, in a 1000-year-old real estate scam, with the name Greenland) was pretty evil. They attempted a North American settlement, but the Native Americans ran them off. Bunch of losers.
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Post by Harry Skywalker on Jan 11, 2024 2:29:46 GMT
Everyone loves Vikings in movies, videogames and books. And everyone loves the Norse Mythology.
Therefore Vikings where awesome and reasonable kind people.
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Post by NoRevisionism on Jan 11, 2024 2:37:15 GMT
some had red hair, but unless the Norsemen used astro-turf to line the inside of their longboats they weren't rednecks They had necks and they were red. sorry, no old, broken down, Lay-Z-Boy on the front porch, no rednecks
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Post by PaulsLaugh on Jan 11, 2024 2:57:01 GMT
They had necks and they were red. sorry, no old, broken down, Lay-Z-Boy on the front porch, no rednecks
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Post by OfUnknownOrigins on Jan 11, 2024 2:58:46 GMT
whatever, boil it down, you just hate crackers I love crackers and rednecks since I am one and Vikings are rednecks. You should read up on the Northern Crusades.
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Post by abbey1227 on Jan 11, 2024 2:58:46 GMT
I love crackers and rednecks since I am one and Vikings are rednecks. some had red hair, but unless the Norsemen used astro-turf to line the inside of their longboats they weren't rednecks
Since I am one? Have you ever seen such self-loathing?
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Post by PaulsLaugh on Jan 11, 2024 3:02:43 GMT
I love crackers and rednecks since I am one and Vikings are rednecks. You should read up on the Northern Crusades. I have read up on it. They ain’t called Dark Ages for nothing.
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Post by PaulsLaugh on Jan 11, 2024 3:14:12 GMT
some had red hair, but unless the Norsemen used astro-turf to line the inside of their longboats they weren't rednecks
Since I am one? Have you ever seen such self-loathing?
It’s pride, son. A cracker is of Anglo-Saxon heritage, while a redneck is Scots-Irish. What do you have against them? I’m also of Swiss heritage, so that smooths me out a bit. You folks take yourselves far too seriously and you keep missing the parts of simple living by trying to live up to someone else’s high expectations. You have feet of clay just like everybody else, but you need to be special. The Vikings are special to me not because they were “evil doers,” though they did a lot the people of their own era considered evil, but because of their spirit of adventure. It is that “the next horizon” spirit that got us into outer space.
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Post by abbey1227 on Jan 11, 2024 3:19:31 GMT
Pride? uh-oh
and 'son'?
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Post by NoRevisionism on Jan 11, 2024 3:41:38 GMT
Since I am one? Have you ever seen such self-loathing?
It’s pride, son. A cracker is of Anglo-Saxon heritage, while a redneck is Scots-Irish. What do you have against them? I’m also of Swiss heritage, so that smooths me out a bit. You folks take yourselves far too seriously and you keep missing the parts of simple living by trying to live up to someone else’s high expectations. You have feet of clay just like everybody else, but you need to be special. The Vikings are special to me not because they were “evil doers,” though they did a lot the people of their own era considered evil, but because of their spirit of adventure. It is that “the next horizon” spirit that got us into outer space. as a proud Krout/Mick/Norwegian/Dane......I'm no cracker or redneck, and I'm certainly not a self-loathing Caucasian, and that's why I enjoy whiskey, and a cold beer, and a good relish tray at a nice Supper Club with a nice prime rib
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