OH GOD NO

[Valmy]

Oh okay. I thought you meant continental Saxons.

Yeah I am talking Anglo-Saxons not Sachsens.

[Richard Hakluyt]

What really pisses me off is that, after Hastings, a number of the bolder thegns and huscarls travelled to Constantinople and took up service in the Varangian guard. Alexius was campaigning in the Balkans against the Normans and fought a major battle against them at Durazzo, where nearly all the Varangians got killed 

[Caliga]

Congrats! Napoleon used your ancestors as cannon fodder.

Lee used mine as cannon fodder.

I have ancestors from my mother's side who fought and died for Dixie.

[Valmy]

I have ancestors from my mother's side who fought and died for Dixie.

Wow and I thought my ancestors were losers.

[KRonn]

Bon Jour, Caliga...   

[Valmy]

What really pisses me off is that, after Hastings, a number of the bolder thegns and huscarls travelled to Constantinople and took up service in the Varangian guard. Alexius was campaigning in the Balkans against the Normans and fought a major battle against them at Durazzo, where nearly all the Varangians got killed 

Some people just can't catch a break.  That battle turned out to be significant for stopping the Norman ambitions in the Balkans for awhile IIRC?

[Caliga]

Wow and I thought my ancestors were losers.

I have ancestors on my father's side who fought and died for the Union.  I hedged my bets.

Actually, I'm not sure any of the Rebs actually died, but I know a great great great great uncle on my dad's side died at Cedar Mountain (46th Pennsylvania).

[Caliga]

Bon Jour, Caliga...   

I just made a to-do list:

a) buy a beret
b) practice surrendering to all of my neighbors
c) learn how to frown indignantly and shrug shoulders in the same motion
d) start referring to RH and co. as "rosbif"
e) organize labor strike for every minor infraction I see at work

[Ed Anger]

Congrats! Napoleon used your ancestors as cannon fodder.

Lee used mine as cannon fodder.

I have ancestors from my mother's side who fought and died for Dixie.

Mew!

[Ed Anger]

Bon Jour, Caliga...   

I just made a to-do list:

a) buy a beret
b) practice surrendering to all of my neighbors
c) learn how to frown indignantly and shrug shoulders in the same motion
d) start referring to RH and co. as "rosbif"
e) organize labor strike for every minor infraction I see at work

f) Swill French Wine. American wine is so...pedestrian

[Warspite]

You know you could adopt the Napoleonic paradigm and conquer vast swathes of your neighbourhood.

[Valmy]

You know you could adopt the Napoleonic paradigm and conquer vast swathes of your neighbourhood.

And then parcel it out to your incompetent relatives!

[Caliga]

f) Swill French Wine. American wine is so...pedestrian

I already avoid American wine. 

...but I greatly prefer Italian to French wine... hmmm... maybe I can compromise and be Occitan rather than Cosmopolitaine.

[Darth Wagtaros]

I was doing a bit more geneaology research and it turns out I have actual French ancestry, not just Alsatian as I had been previously led to believe.

My great x 10 grandfather came from Charleville, Champagne.

Ok Euros, go ahead and flame me for caring now.

You have no business in the South where the men are proud and properly non-Eurocommie.

[Ed Anger]

f) Swill French Wine. American wine is so...pedestrian

I already avoid American wine. 

You wouldn't buy my wine?