Your Preferred Solution to the Crimean Crisis?

[Valmy]

This has been helpful to the Ukrainians yearning for liberty.

Mind you, they're 67th generation Ukrainians.

Damn.  When did their ancestors immigrate?  200 BC?

[Beenherebefore]

This has been helpful to the Ukrainians yearning for liberty.

Mind you, they're 67th generation Ukrainians.

Damn.  When did their ancestors immigrate?  200 BC?

Ask Spellus, he knew their parents.

[Valmy]

Ask Spellus, he knew their parents.

[Queequeg]

 
I don't get it.

[PDH]

I think the Ukraine should be paved.  That would solve the crisis and end the 1st world parking problems for good.  Of course, the shuttle system from the new world parking lot will take some time to work out, but it is a start.

[crazy canuck]

It could easily be the fifth:

Great Great Grandfather Barrister Boy emigrates to Canada in 1900 at age 25 the first generation
Great Grandfather Barrister Boy is born the year of his parents arrival the second
Grandfather Barrister Boy is born in 1925, the third generation
Father Barrister Boy is born in 1950, the fourth generation
Barrister Boy is born in 1975 the fifth.

Not easily.  It would require that every generation of Beeb's ancestors produced the next generation by age 25.

No, it necessitates that the mean age of reproduction was 25.  If Grandfather Barrister Boy was born when his father was 18, he could have been 32 when Father Barrister Boy was born.

The reason I was so sure BB must have been wrong is because both the maternal and paternal sides of my family immigrated at about the same time and I am third generation on both sides.  Also, the Welsh side of my wife's family also immigrated at about the same time and she is also third  generation on that side. 

[Barrister]

It could easily be the fifth:

Great Great Grandfather Barrister Boy emigrates to Canada in 1900 at age 25 the first generation
Great Grandfather Barrister Boy is born the year of his parents arrival the second
Grandfather Barrister Boy is born in 1925, the third generation
Father Barrister Boy is born in 1950, the fourth generation
Barrister Boy is born in 1975 the fifth.

Not easily.  It would require that every generation of Beeb's ancestors produced the next generation by age 25.

No, it necessitates that the mean age of reproduction was 25.  If Grandfather Barrister Boy was born when his father was 18, he could have been 32 when Father Barrister Boy was born.

The reason I was so sure BB must have been wrong is because both the maternal and paternal sides of my family immigrated at about the same time and I am third generation on both sides.  Also, the Welsh side of my wife's family also immigrated at about the same time and she is also third  generation on that side.

1st generation is the generation that came from the old country, right?

Because otherwise even given your age I'm having difficulty seeing it.  Unless all of your grandparents came over as young children...

[crazy canuck]

It could easily be the fifth:

Great Great Grandfather Barrister Boy emigrates to Canada in 1900 at age 25 the first generation
Great Grandfather Barrister Boy is born the year of his parents arrival the second
Grandfather Barrister Boy is born in 1925, the third generation
Father Barrister Boy is born in 1950, the fourth generation
Barrister Boy is born in 1975 the fifth.

Not easily.  It would require that every generation of Beeb's ancestors produced the next generation by age 25.

No, it necessitates that the mean age of reproduction was 25.  If Grandfather Barrister Boy was born when his father was 18, he could have been 32 when Father Barrister Boy was born.

The reason I was so sure BB must have been wrong is because both the maternal and paternal sides of my family immigrated at about the same time and I am third generation on both sides.  Also, the Welsh side of my wife's family also immigrated at about the same time and she is also third  generation on that side.

1st generation is the generation that came from the old country, right?

Because otherwise even given your age I'm having difficulty seeing it.  Unless all of your grandparents came over as young children...

I was counting the first generation as the one born here.  The ones that come here are the immigrants.

[The Brain]

Can we carry the Crimea into Mordor and destroy it forever?

[Ideologue]

Do we really want our country to interfere in a purely internal Soviet matter?

[Beenherebefore]

Do we really want our country to interfere in a purely internal Soviet matter?

Glad to see you have matured from Soviet fanboi to Soviet Ultra fanboi.

[crazy canuck]

Do we really want our country to interfere in a purely internal Soviet matter?

You are like the Languish Pete Seeger, taking whatever position will best benefit the USSR.

[Beenherebefore]

Can we carry the Crimea into Mordor and destroy it forever?

Obama is adamant that we can.
I look forward to the movie with Ideologue in tow saying "My precious" and "My crisis" alternately.
I foresee some issue in picking which one to bear the Crimea, though.

[Ed Anger]

Use my time machine to tell Hitler about what happens. Save the Reich from defeat and get blonde German girls as a reward.

No more Russia!

[Tonitrus]

I am sure Hitler already had tons of neo-nazi time travelers put into concentration camps for trying to tell him he was doing things wrong.