The Off Topic Topic

[Neil]

Apparently there's a march today in Berlin commemorating the 125th anniversary of the end of the Berlin Conference 1884/5 which carved up the colonial spheres in Africa.

The marchers call for a memorial in Berlin that condemns colonialism, slavery, and racist violence. They also intend to raise awareness of Germany's blood stained colonial history (pre-1933 Germany is not present in most people's minds except in the broadest of terms).

Why would anybody in their right mind condemn colonialism?

[Syt]

Why would anybody in their right mind condemn colonialism?

Germans like to feel guilty about all their history? I still expect we'll see a public apology some time in the future for Lechfeld and Teutoburg Forest.

[Josquius]

Half naked drunken bacon cooking FTW

All the ingredients for a truly horrifying grease fire.

Worth the risk for the taste.

[MadBurgerMaker]

I have finally bought a CSA flag to hang it on my wall.

Why hang that particular flag on the wall?

[Mr.Penguin]

Why would anybody in their right mind condemn colonialism?

Germans like to feel guilty about all their history? I still expect we'll see a public apology some time in the future for Lechfeld and Teutoburg Forest.

[Syt]

 

[Josquius]

Why would anybody in their right mind condemn colonialism?

Germans like to feel guilty about all their history? I still expect we'll see a public apology some time in the future for Lechfeld and Teutoburg Forest.

I've seen a few of those things about, where are they from? They're always on imageshack and never have the website written on them...

[Mr.Penguin]

I've seen a few of those things about, where are they from? They're always on imageshack and never have the website written on them...

They are from http://humon.deviantart.com/

[Josquius]

Deviant art huh
I thought it was a proper comic site, they're around the internet a lot.
Ta.

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Gragh. My lips are all cracky and nasty. I hate it when that happens. I can't put vaseline on them either as that makes my lips break out in spots

[Tamas]

I have finally bought a CSA flag to hang it on my wall.

Why hang that particular flag on the wall?

Not sure, but I have had the urge... For one thing, it will look somewhat ying-yangish with my EU flag. Plus it is a homeage to my decentralization-preferance, and a joke no one but me understands, because the flag also represents the ignorant rightwingedness I am certainly very far from.

[Tamas]

Why would anybody in their right mind condemn colonialism?

Germans like to feel guilty about all their history? I still expect we'll see a public apology some time in the future for Lechfeld

Can't come soon, enough, frankly. 

[The Larch]

and a joke no one but me understands, because the flag also represents the ignorant rightwingedness I am certainly very far from.

So that's the reason you're hanging it in your wall, to show how far you're from it, right.

[Tamas]

and a joke no one but me understands, because the flag also represents the ignorant rightwingedness I am certainly very far from.

So that's the reason you're hanging it in your wall, to show how far you're from it, right.

I told it was an inside joke

But also, in my mind it is a kind of universal symbol of rural bum-ism which has been strongly present where I live, so that is one of the layers why I wanted it. Who knows I may grow tired of it quickly. But right now, I want it on my wall.

[Syt]

rural bum-ism which has been strongly present where I live

Use the Hungarian flag instead.

[Tamas]

rural bum-ism which has been strongly present where I live

Use the Hungarian flag instead.

it lacks all those other layers, and any kind of exotic nature