The Off Topic Topic

[FunkMonk]

that's my flip-i-can

use to have contests with gues to see who would give up first when it came to DIS.

I felt I had to represent the beaner/flip demographic.

[Neil]

No.  The Electorate of Hanover was in a personal union with the United Kingdom, but it was never under British rule.  That's why when Victoria became Queen, she couldn't assume the Electorate:  A woman couldn't inherit under Hannoverian law.

I wonder why they didn't change the law. Compared to other possessions, surely Hanover was quite valuable. Or did they want to disentangle from continental politics perhaps?

It's not like changing the succession law from Salic Law was a little thing.  Wars are fought and men will die over those sorts of things.  Besides, Hanover wasn't a particularily valuable possession anyways, from a British perspective.  It wasn't actually a part of the Empire, it inextricably involved the sovereign in the German question and tied the constitutional British sovereign to the backwards, absolutist East.  One wonders if the upper classes of Hanover, who would have been the ones making the change, would have any desire to be a poor appendage of a very large, powerful and infinitely more wealthy and civilized United Kingdom.

[Neil]

queer power and class war.

What the fuck is this?  1969? Jesus.

It's always 1969 in retarded San Francisco.

[garbon]

It's always 1969 in retarded San Francisco.

We usually keep such activity contained to a few neighborhoods. Its just that large public events (like parades, pride, protests) bring the crazies out of the woodwork.  I dislike hippies and I usually find it easy to live here.

[PDH]

San Francisco would be a hell of a lot nicer if it weren't for the San Franciscans.

[Ed Anger]

San Francisco would be a hell of a lot nicer if it weren't for the San Franciscans.

Place freaked me out back in 1989.

[Zanza]

It's not like changing the succession law from Salic Law was a little thing.  Wars are fought and men will die over those sorts of things.

The Austrians did it 100 years before - granted that led to war, but still, it was possible. And there was no power to really threaten the UK if they had changed it, no? Prussia was still too weak in 1839.

Besides, Hanover wasn't a particularily valuable possession anyways, from a British perspective.  It wasn't actually a part of the Empire, it inextricably involved the sovereign in the German question and tied the constitutional British sovereign to the backwards, absolutist East.  One wonders if the upper classes of Hanover, who would have been the ones making the change, would have any desire to be a poor appendage of a very large, powerful and infinitely more wealthy and civilized United Kingdom.

That's probably it.

[Josquius]

I wonder on Hanover though; did they want their own king or were the nobles happy with the king always away so they could rule freely?

[Neil]

It's not like changing the succession law from Salic Law was a little thing.  Wars are fought and men will die over those sorts of things.

The Austrians did it 100 years before - granted that led to war, but still, it was possible. And there was no power to really threaten the UK if they had changed it, no? Prussia was still too weak in 1839.

Except the UK isn't really involved.  It's a Hanoverian issue.  I can't see either Melbourne or Peel being interested enough in the issue to go to war over it, and the British Parliament had roughly the same power over the Kingdom of Hanover as the Emperor of Japan did.  It's like when India and Pakistan became republics:  It didn't matter.

[Tamas]

Air conditioning is broke at work and the windows can't be opened (not that they dont let us, but that these windows were not made to be opened).

It is a TINCY-WINCY BIT HOT IN HERE!

[Syt]

Container for:

THE LUNCHPACK OF NOTRE DAME

[Josquius]

Air conditioning is broke at work and the windows can't be opened (not that they dont let us, but that these windows were not made to be opened).

It is a TINCY-WINCY BIT HOT IN HERE!

Eastern Europe is messed up, such extreme temperature variations between seasons.
Prague and Bratislava in August: Bloody hell am I in Spain?
Krakow and Wroclaw in late October: So cold.....

[Syt]

It's warm (25+°C), humid here, plus rains in the afternoon.

When I was going home from work there was thunder (no lightning), rain and sunshine AT THE SAME TIME.

[Barrister]

Container for:

THE LUNCHPACK OF NOTRE DAME

I laughed.

[Grey Fox]

Air conditioning is broke at work and the windows can't be opened (not that they dont let us, but that these windows were not made to be opened).

It is a TINCY-WINCY BIT HOT IN HERE!

Eastern Europe is messed up, such extreme temperature variations between seasons.
Prague and Bratislava in August: Bloody hell am I in Spain?
Krakow and Wroclaw in late October: So cold.....

The real messed up place is England.