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Started by Queequeg, September 21, 2013, 12:28:18 AM

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The Brain

Quote from: The Brain on September 21, 2013, 02:21:36 AM
Let them eat lead.

Idea for movie: the French Revolution from the perspective of the royal family but the revolutionaries are zombies.
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Drakken

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Mostly luck, but also the fact that the medieval Habsburgs, until the Spanish-Austrian split, had an internal dynastic house rule that the domain be partitioned between heirs in a primus inter pares system which ensured that Habsburgs (with one notable parricidal exception) usually cooperated, rather than feuded.

In other words, Habsburg heirs didn't complain about Gavelkind succession.

Syt

Quote from: The Brain on September 21, 2013, 04:46:32 AM
Quote from: The Brain on September 21, 2013, 02:21:36 AM
Let them eat lead.

Idea for movie: the French Revolution from the perspective of the royal family but the revolutionaries are zombies.

Kinda exists (though it's more about oppressed immigrants, but it's much the same).

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Drakken

#18
Quote from: Ideologue on September 21, 2013, 12:34:09 AM
Louis XVI had to get his dick cut so he could fuck Marie Antoinette.  Before that, every time he was around her he got a painful boner, because she was hot like Kirsten Dunst, but his foreskin wouldn't retract.  Phimosis.  True story.

It didn't help that neither Louis XVI or Marie Antoinette were correctly instructed on how to have sex, they thought that only putting it, leaving it there for a while, and pulling it out saying good night would do the trick. It took a visit from her brother, the future Emperor Francis II; he personally gave them both a sex ed class to explain them how to fuck the right way.

Besides, it is now known that Louis XVI, personally, had aversion for sex. Both Louis XV's lecherous behavior and his very devout and morally rigorous parents marked him profoundly.

dps

Quote from: jimmy olsen on September 21, 2013, 02:03:49 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on September 21, 2013, 01:51:20 AM
What's with the tough guy routine Timmy?  You finally get laid?
:rolleyes:

And this isn't a tough guy routine?

That would seem to be a "no".

jimmy olsen

Quote from: dps on September 21, 2013, 06:00:04 AM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on September 21, 2013, 02:03:49 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on September 21, 2013, 01:51:20 AM
What's with the tough guy routine Timmy?  You finally get laid?
:rolleyes:

And this isn't a tough guy routine?

That would seem to be a "no".
:D At least you were funny.




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Caliga

Quote from: Ideologue on September 21, 2013, 02:17:47 AM
To be fair, you made yourself a target for bullying when you revealed you were gay.
:hmm:
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Caliga

Quote from: jimmy olsen on September 21, 2013, 06:02:25 AM
And though it's none of your business, the answer is yes, years ago.
pics?
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Caliga

If she had really looked like Kirsten Dunst, I somehow don't think it would have taken so many years to consummate the marriage. :)
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Savonarola

Quote from: Queequeg on September 21, 2013, 12:28:18 AM
I don't understand them. 

How did they survive and thrive for 500 years?

The Hohenzollerns held out for about five centuries and the Romanovs for three; do you think the Habsburgs were any more improbable than those?
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

Ideologue

Quote from: jimmy olsen on September 21, 2013, 06:02:25 AM
And though it's none of your business, the answer is yes, years ago.

Whoa.  That's good.
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Eddie Teach

Quote from: Ideologue on September 21, 2013, 09:38:54 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on September 21, 2013, 06:02:25 AM
And though it's none of your business, the answer is yes, years ago.

Whoa.  That's good.

It's a natural assumption, as Tim has never mentioned his marriage. :pope:
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Razgovory

Quote from: Ideologue on September 21, 2013, 02:17:47 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on September 21, 2013, 01:51:20 AM
What's with the tough guy routine Timmy?  You finally get laid?

To be fair, you made yourself a target for bullying when you revealed you were gay.

Lol wut?
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Ideologue

Quote from: Peter Wiggin on September 21, 2013, 09:42:20 PM
Quote from: Ideologue on September 21, 2013, 09:38:54 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on September 21, 2013, 06:02:25 AM
And though it's none of your business, the answer is yes, years ago.

Whoa.  That's good.

It's a natural assumption, as Tim has never mentioned his marriage. :pope:

The funny thing is, Tim is so quiet an unassuming here, but I bet he gets ass like mad in the RoK.
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