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3 strange or funny facts about your Home Country!; Made out of pure randomness.
Topic Started: Dec 1 2010, 05:56 PM (4,717 Views)
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Green Cay?

I dunno.
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We do have Rockall, and have fought for it in the past.
It really stands as a testament to the power of our country that we have ROCKALL
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Rockall is very important, it extends our claim to the sea. Do you want dirty foreigners stealing our fish?

And there and plenty of uninhabited islands in the United Kingdom, both in Britain and the overseas territories. A lot of Scottish islands were depopulated after crofters were forced out to make room for sheep, and then the Laird left.
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So... all the water between Wales and Rockall, excepting that of the seperatist irish, ( :P ) are belong to us?
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

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What? How can you live in the UK and not know you guys have uninhabited islands? I live in America and even I know there are plenty in the Orkneys. After all, that is where Victor Frankenstein made the Creation's wife.
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Really? We had to read a Frankenstein script in English over and over, but I don't remember that. Could have sworn he did it at home or in the Arctic.

And this is a map of the United Kingdom's Exclusive Economic Zone
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What? How can you live in the UK and not know you guys have uninhabited islands?

Well, I 'spose it's like how people in Africa aren't always in awe of the native wildlife over there, like we are - we find other places much more interesting than where we actually live ourselves.
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And how i find Yorkshire more interesting than where i live.
What? yes.

Ol' Victor made a female Monster then ripped it up on some Scottish island, but i thought there were other people there too.

Oh, and the Uk's a big and varied place!

Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

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Dec 27 2010, 11:55 AM
And how i find Yorkshire more interesting than where i live.
What? yes.

Ol' Victor made a female Monster then ripped it up on some Scottish island, but i thought there were other people there too.

Oh, and the Uk's a big and varied place!

There were fishermen out in the seas around the island, but I'm pretty sure the island itself was uninhabited.
We should all aspire to die surrounded by our dearest friends. Just like Julius Caesar.

"The Lord Universe said: 'The same fate I have given to all things from stones to stars, that one day they shall become naught but memories aloft upon the winds of time. From dust all was born, and to dust all shall return.' He then looked upon His greatest creation, life, and pitied them, for unlike stars and stones they would soon learn of this fate and despair in the futility of their own existence. And so the Lord Universe decided to give life two gifts to save them from this despair. The first of these gifts was the soul, that life might more readily accept their fate, and the second was fear, that they might in time learn to avoid it altogether." - Excerpt from a Chanagwan creation myth, Legends and Folklore of the Planet Ghar, collected and published by Yieju Bai'an, explorer from the Celestial Commonwealth of Qonming

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Watching History International I found another funny fact: the Luger, the quintessential handgun of the Nazis, was in fact invented by an American.
We should all aspire to die surrounded by our dearest friends. Just like Julius Caesar.

"The Lord Universe said: 'The same fate I have given to all things from stones to stars, that one day they shall become naught but memories aloft upon the winds of time. From dust all was born, and to dust all shall return.' He then looked upon His greatest creation, life, and pitied them, for unlike stars and stones they would soon learn of this fate and despair in the futility of their own existence. And so the Lord Universe decided to give life two gifts to save them from this despair. The first of these gifts was the soul, that life might more readily accept their fate, and the second was fear, that they might in time learn to avoid it altogether." - Excerpt from a Chanagwan creation myth, Legends and Folklore of the Planet Ghar, collected and published by Yieju Bai'an, explorer from the Celestial Commonwealth of Qonming

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Carlson had one in Of Mice and Men.
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

"It is the old wound my king. It has never healed."
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That book was terrible, in every sense of the word. What kind of savage executes a retard "for their own good?"
We should all aspire to die surrounded by our dearest friends. Just like Julius Caesar.

"The Lord Universe said: 'The same fate I have given to all things from stones to stars, that one day they shall become naught but memories aloft upon the winds of time. From dust all was born, and to dust all shall return.' He then looked upon His greatest creation, life, and pitied them, for unlike stars and stones they would soon learn of this fate and despair in the futility of their own existence. And so the Lord Universe decided to give life two gifts to save them from this despair. The first of these gifts was the soul, that life might more readily accept their fate, and the second was fear, that they might in time learn to avoid it altogether." - Excerpt from a Chanagwan creation myth, Legends and Folklore of the Planet Ghar, collected and published by Yieju Bai'an, explorer from the Celestial Commonwealth of Qonming

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The Medic in TF2, despite having come from WWII Germany has had no past affiliation with the Nazi Party.
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i swear you like that game waay too much.
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i swear you like that game waay too much.
A fact about Australia- despite our reputation as being incredibly anti-videogame, all action of repealing our game laws has been stopped by the same guy. yep, one guy gave Australia the reputation of being videogame illiterate. one.fucking.guy.
Michael Atkinson - former attorney-general of the Labor government of South Australia...

He's also always had a bee in his bonnet (along with his English born NZ raised premeir Mike Rann) about bikers...
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