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Title: The Habsburgs
Post by: Queequeg on September 21, 2013, 12:28:18 AM
I don't understand them. 

How did they survive and thrive for 500 years?
Title: Re: The Habsburgs
Post by: Ideologue on September 21, 2013, 12:29:23 AM
Living in Seattle, listening to Gordon Lightfoot and drinking wine.
Title: Re: The Habsburgs
Post by: jimmy olsen on September 21, 2013, 12:32:13 AM
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?
Leave the waging of wars to others! But you, happy Austria, marry; for the realms which Mars awards to others, Venus transfers to you.
Title: Re: The Habsburgs
Post by: 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.
Title: Re: The Habsburgs
Post by: The Brain on September 21, 2013, 01:12:46 AM
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?

Sexual reproduction.
Title: Re: The Habsburgs
Post by: Admiral Yi on September 21, 2013, 01:48:41 AM
Quote from: Ideologue on September 21, 2013, 12:34:09 AM
she was hot like Kirsten Dunst

WTF
Title: Re: The Habsburgs
Post by: jimmy olsen on September 21, 2013, 01:50:35 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on September 21, 2013, 01:48:41 AM
Quote from: Ideologue on September 21, 2013, 12:34:09 AM
she was hot like Kirsten Dunst

WTF
We know you have no taste, no need to repeat it.

NSFW
http://staceyburr.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/marie-antoinette-kirsten-dunst-96139_900_550-1.jpg
Title: Re: The Habsburgs
Post by: Admiral Yi on September 21, 2013, 01:51:20 AM
What's with the tough guy routine Timmy?  You finally get laid?
Title: Re: The Habsburgs
Post by: 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?
Title: Re: The Habsburgs
Post by: The Brain on September 21, 2013, 02:07:51 AM
So much testosterone in this thread. Which is ironic.
Title: Re: The Habsburgs
Post by: Habbaku on September 21, 2013, 02:15:29 AM
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?

:huh:  You don't understand how an incredibly flexible and practical royal family survived that long?
Title: Re: The Habsburgs
Post by: 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.
Title: Re: The Habsburgs
Post by: Ideologue on September 21, 2013, 02:20:26 AM
Anyway, I still need to watch that movie sometime.  I'm put off by the fact that Lost in Translation was soooo boooring, although it is plausible that lots of cool sets and production design and the safe-for-everywhere imagery Tim linked to would redeem even a somewhat dull film.
Title: Re: The Habsburgs
Post by: The Brain on September 21, 2013, 02:21:36 AM
Let them eat lead.
Title: Re: The Habsburgs
Post by: Admiral Yi on September 21, 2013, 03:53:46 AM
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.

That doesn't seem very fair.
Title: Re: The Habsburgs
Post by: 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.
Title: Re: The Habsburgs
Post by: Drakken on September 21, 2013, 05:48:32 AM
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.
Title: Re: The Habsburgs
Post by: Syt on September 21, 2013, 05:49:51 AM
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).

(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F1.bp.blogspot.com%2F_-Adog2M7o8g%2FTRC9slhYPyI%2FAAAAAAAAAIQ%2FXWBqfFR75ac%2Fs1600%2FLand-of-the-Dead-2005-Hollywood-Movie-Watch-Online.jpg&hash=512417603f7021c3001a2c005f8a67679b2f879c)
Title: Re: The Habsburgs
Post by: Drakken on September 21, 2013, 05:56:17 AM
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.
Title: Re: The Habsburgs
Post by: 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".
Title: Re: The Habsburgs
Post by: jimmy olsen on September 21, 2013, 06:02:25 AM
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.




And though it's none of your business, the answer is yes, years ago.
Title: Re: The Habsburgs
Post by: Caliga on September 21, 2013, 06:03:42 AM
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:
Title: Re: The Habsburgs
Post by: Caliga on September 21, 2013, 06:04:37 AM
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?
Title: Re: The Habsburgs
Post by: Eddie Teach on September 21, 2013, 06:06:44 AM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on September 21, 2013, 01:50:35 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on September 21, 2013, 01:48:41 AM
Quote from: Ideologue on September 21, 2013, 12:34:09 AM
she was hot like Kirsten Dunst

WTF
We know you have no taste, no need to repeat it.

NSFW
http://staceyburr.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/marie-antoinette-kirsten-dunst-96139_900_550-1.jpg

Eh.

(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nndb.com%2Fpeople%2F185%2F000085927%2Fmarie-antoinette-1-sized.jpg&hash=202745fc8eee3d57d61e26e86401baa05c933a32)
Title: Re: The Habsburgs
Post by: Caliga on September 21, 2013, 06:19:56 AM
If she had really looked like Kirsten Dunst, I somehow don't think it would have taken so many years to consummate the marriage. :)
Title: Re: The Habsburgs
Post by: Savonarola on September 21, 2013, 09:17:27 PM
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?
Title: Re: The Habsburgs
Post by: 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.
Title: Re: The Habsburgs
Post by: Eddie Teach 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:
Title: Re: The Habsburgs
Post by: Razgovory on September 21, 2013, 09:47:57 PM
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?
Title: Re: The Habsburgs
Post by: Ideologue on September 21, 2013, 10:41:19 PM
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.
Title: Re: The Habsburgs
Post by: DGuller on September 21, 2013, 10:47:06 PM
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.
Yi's old and gay?  :huh:
Title: Re: The Habsburgs
Post by: Ideologue on September 21, 2013, 10:51:50 PM
Truly the worst of both worlds. :(
Title: Re: The Habsburgs
Post by: katmai on September 21, 2013, 11:02:23 PM
Quote from: Ideologue on September 21, 2013, 10:51:50 PM
Truly the worst of both worlds. :(

What does that mean considering we are all Yi? :o
Title: Re: The Habsburgs
Post by: DGuller on September 21, 2013, 11:09:30 PM
Is Yi still Korean, at least?
Title: Re: The Habsburgs
Post by: katmai on September 21, 2013, 11:10:11 PM
Quote from: DGuller on September 21, 2013, 11:09:30 PM
Is Yi still Korean, at least?
he can't even do that right as he is only half!
Title: Re: The Habsburgs
Post by: DGuller on September 21, 2013, 11:11:19 PM
Yikes.  :(
Title: Re: The Habsburgs
Post by: Ideologue on September 22, 2013, 12:45:46 AM
Quote from: katmai on September 21, 2013, 11:02:23 PM
Quote from: Ideologue on September 21, 2013, 10:51:50 PM
Truly the worst of both worlds. :(

What does that mean considering we are all Yi? :o

Well, garbon won't have to change anything.
Title: Re: The Habsburgs
Post by: garbon on September 22, 2013, 01:15:34 AM
Quote from: Ideologue on September 21, 2013, 10:51:50 PM
Truly the worst of both worlds. :(

:huh:

Ian McKellen is wonderful.
Title: Re: The Habsburgs
Post by: garbon on September 22, 2013, 01:15:50 AM
Quote from: Ideologue on September 22, 2013, 12:45:46 AM
Quote from: katmai on September 21, 2013, 11:02:23 PM
Quote from: Ideologue on September 21, 2013, 10:51:50 PM
Truly the worst of both worlds. :(

What does that mean considering we are all Yi? :o

Well, garbon won't have to change anything.

Well aren't you just a sass mouth?
Title: Re: The Habsburgs
Post by: Ideologue on September 22, 2013, 01:28:47 AM
:P
Title: Re: The Habsburgs
Post by: garbon on September 22, 2013, 01:33:00 AM
When I was on Long Island today, I saw 4 different vehicles with SC plates. I was like wtf? Is there an invasion on?
Title: Re: The Habsburgs
Post by: The Minsky Moment on September 23, 2013, 09:21:34 AM
Quote from: DGuller on September 21, 2013, 11:11:19 PM
Yikes.  :(

I know.
Next thing they'll be telling us he isn't even in the Navy.