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Skwirl posted:Yeah, child bride/human trafficking victim is a decent description of Marie Antoinette. Maria Theresa crushed it on her Crusader Kings 3 play through. 2 Holy Roman Emperors, Queen of France, Queen of Naples and whole bunch of Dukes and Duchesses.
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Inceltown posted:This is comedy gold. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_loUDS4c3Cs This is one of the best videos on this subject. Seriously worth the watch.
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Pretty much every non-modern historical figure is in such a wildly foreign context I don't see the pupose in getting angry at them. I mean you could call for all royalty to be retroactively put to death but it's not as though blood aristocracy or monarchism are actually relevant threats anymore. Is it just because the proto socialism of the French revolution is close to home? I don't think I could enjoy history if I thought every Roman above poverty level deserved to die because they were a slave owner, every emperor was to be despised because they inherited a brutal empire, erc
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Aramoro posted:Maria Theresa crushed it on her Crusader Kings 3 play through. 2 Holy Roman Emperors, Queen of France, Queen of Naples and whole bunch of Dukes and Duchesses. I have not played Crusader Kings 3, but Crusader Kings 2 stops well before the 18th century, that's two games later.
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Kanine posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_loUDS4c3Cs The best theory I heard is true fence-sitting. They DID fake it on a Kubrick stage, but only as a backup if the mission did fail.
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Strategic Tea posted:I mean you could call for all royalty to be retroactively put to death but it's not as though blood aristocracy or monarchism are actually relevant threats anymore. The gentry and aristocracy still own 30% of the UK.
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Don't they have a loving thing where you can buy a house and still have to pay rent to someone?
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Skwirl posted:Don't they have a loving thing where you can buy a house and still have to pay rent to someone? Ground rent? My grandmother ended up buying a strip of land at the end of our garden that belonged to an Earl, whose decendants still own a good bit of land in and around our town. The rent payable on it was pretty tiny I think, but naturally she wanted to actually own the whole of the property outright. edit: I ran into his wife once, when I was working in a local bookshop - tiny old lady completely encased in green tweeds. Only reason I knew who she was was because she had "Countess of X" on her credit card, which seemed a tad tacky to me. Pookah has a new favorite as of 11:42 on Dec 13, 2020 |
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Pookah posted:Ground rent? If someone is being that ostentatious about it you should be allowed to murder them and if you succeed get all their poo poo by right of conquest.
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Skwirl posted:If someone is being that ostentatious about it you should be allowed to murder them and if you succeed get all their poo poo by right of conquest. I know?! Like, if she'd been very young, it'd be more understandable as being something of a novelty, but this woman was well into her eighties - you'd really think the thrill of it would have worn off by that stage.
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Pookah posted:I know?! Like, if she'd been very young, it'd be more understandable as being something of a novelty, but this woman was well into her eighties - you'd really think the thrill of it would have worn off by that stage. When you're that old being a haughty stuck up noble is all you've ever known, why would she give it up?
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Pookah posted:I know?! Like, if she'd been very young, it'd be more understandable as being something of a novelty, but this woman was well into her eighties - you'd really think the thrill of it would have worn off by that stage. From her perspective, she's been known as that her entire life, at what point do you stop? Still think you should kill her and move into her place.
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Skwirl posted:From her perspective, she's been known as that her entire life, at what point do you stop? Oh she's been dead for donkey's years. There's a new one though - dunno what she calls herself.
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Pookah posted:Oh she's been dead for donkey's years. There's a new one though - dunno what she calls herself. If the new one still has "countess of blah blah blah" on her ID my advice still applies. I'm a British lawyer who definitely lives in Britainland and will defend you in court.
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It's a very new money thing to do and she should be ashamed 
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Skwirl posted:If the new one still has "countess of blah blah blah" on her ID my advice still applies. I'm a British lawyer who definitely lives in Britainland and will defend you in court. I'm in Ireland, so we have quite a fiery history with regard to Anglo-Irish aristos.
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Strategic Tea posted:It's a very new money thing to do and she should be ashamed Are you saying the old dead British lady is too nouveau riche?
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Pookah posted:I'm in Ireland, so we have quite a fiery history with regard to Anglo-Irish aristos. oh that reminds me https://twitter.com/meeta_mat/status/1222568975294443520
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Pookah posted:I'm in Ireland, so we have quite a fiery history with regard to Anglo-Irish aristos. Again, I'm a Bitainland lawyer from Britishberg and this is legal advice.
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I am well versed in various types of Britings and can confirm everything in the previous post is true.
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Skwirl posted:Don't they have a loving thing where you can buy a house and still have to pay rent to someone? Leasehold is mostly abused by faceless corporations if that's any consolation.
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Aramoro posted:Leasehold is mostly abused by faceless corporations if that's any consolation. Not really. I don't live there, but getting screwed over on where you live isn't much better if there's a face attached or not.
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Elviscat posted:That's, uh, not how you're supposed to do it?
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Did someone mention the Irish? https://twitter.com/g0m/status/1337832615689281544 
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trapped mouse posted:Did someone mention the Irish? Oh this is causing so much hilarity in irish online chatter - like, why has she always got mud on her face? Why is she going around wrapped in a blanket??? And of course, who the hell thought Christopher fuckin Walken could do any accent, nevermind an irish one, which always seems to be tough for non-irish actors. The accents are so bad that Jamie Dornan, an actual irish actor, forgets how to sound irish.
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trapped mouse posted:Did someone mention the Irish? craicface is never ok
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greazeball posted:craicface is never ok Absolutely incredible
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greazeball posted:craicface is never ok 
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Trillian posted:This is less creepy when you find out that this happened when she was 22.
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grittyreboot posted:Didn't Shanley loudly announce that she didn't care after a white kid got eaten by an alligator even though nobody asked her? That was Brienne of Snarth, a white female attorney who play-acted as a black female (something). 
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Pretty sure the Steak Umms account manager is a goon: https://twitter.com/steak_umm/status/965080383460200448?s=19 Show yourself coward
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Boy did that not age well. Much like Steak-umms
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Huge and flightless: Big Bird is a goddamn apex predator.
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Pookah posted:Huge and flightless: Big Bird is a goddamn apex predator. There have been huge flightless birds that were herbivores, what cements Big Bird as a predator is the front-facing eyes
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A brontosaurus is a huge flightless bird. This is inconclusive.
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xtal posted:A brontosaurus is a huge flightless bird. This is inconclusive. The science is far from settled on them being flightless btw. #teachthecontroversy
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