European here. That concept is really alien to me: if I drive 1h in some direction (assuming I’m not just stuck in traffic) I’m somewhere else, some other city, region, maybe even a different country.

Maybe the gaps between the towns/cities have closed, and it’s just buildings everywhere now, but they were separate at some point and that still shows in how streets, schools, etc are organized - like smaller hubs that expanded until they fused, but not like some tree where every year there’s more and more rings around the central core…

“1h from the nearest city”

“suburban area”

What? How? I has questions…

They might not have gotten a girl, but at least they got a wookie at #9.

Damn if a human had that cat’s poise they’d be at risk of being made a king or something.

Damn that’s brutal…

I’ve jumped out of ladders as I’ve felt them starting to fall a couple of times, never more than like 2 metres high though, and it’s scary.

I wouldn’t climb anything higher without strapping my self up to something, it’s just asking for a quick grave…

I was mostly referencing the crusades, but it’s there, everywhere.

https://as.cornell.edu/news/end-times-rhetoric-us-military-didnt-infiltrate-was-invited

And not just in wars or suicidal terrorist attacks - people use it to normalise the most vile shit you could think of.

Provide convenient excuses for everything, from collecting alms to genocidal intercontinental warfare, you name it, god can be used as a pretext.

Sounds like bliss. Things I’d pay to forget, but the memory munchers come for the good bits.

“a member of the parrotfish genus Scarus”

Most apt name ever, they always look so afraid.

Alternatively, big players can take note that poking the orange pig around a bit and wait for the lawsuit so they get judicially mandated access to a bunch of information trump would fight tooth and nail to hide is a possible strategy.

There are no good guys in war, only survivors.

Kinda like a drug dealer that doesn’t touch the goods, just making bank.

I wouldn’t say cheap, that puzzle box is at least 1€.

He has to be desperate for a new “supplier” after his BFF Epstein was suicided, maybe he’s thinking these morons fit the bill.

By all the same arguments that you could invoke to justify British colonization in the first place, assuming you’re not going for bullshit like “god gave our King that holy right”.

What no, I’m talking of the 1830s. The British came back and expelled the Argentinian settlement, and settled back in.

They came back because the Argentinians occupied it.

I see two different reasons for a claim for Argentina: that they settled when there was no permanent occupation, like the French and the British did originally, and that they inherited Spain’s claim (who purchased the French settlement) following their independence from Spain.

My post was mostly going for humour, but if we’re looking at it a bit seriously, England’s claim is a colonial one, a legacy from a bygone era. They will inevitably have to cede the islands.

Yes it did. Argentina’s “Venticinco de Mayo” revolution in 1810 made it independent, though a formal declaration happened only in 1816 (technically “the United provinces of the Rio del la Plata”, that’s being nitpicky).

Let’s recap islands history:

Deserted, no permanent population.

French set up a settlement.

English makes another, fight the French.

Spain buys French port, fights British.

Britain leaves.

Spain leaves.

Deserted, no permanent population.

Argentina sets up a settlement.

England comes back, fight them off.

Conclusion: “rightfully British”? The law seems to be whoever smacks the other in the teeth and takes it by force, so I suppose that’s accurate.

However, having had a settlement in the island, Argentina’s claim is as valid as the UKs, and they just got smacked in the teeth so my verdict is that Argentina takes over administrative control over the Islands up until such time as they meet again in a world cup.

I mean, imagine how much this will fuck up someone’s mind? You’re all happy and gay going about your killing business and then they tell you you’re not enough of a macho man, low T, need injection to be manly?

With how fragile some of these folk are, this is gonna be a clusterfuck

You’re looking kinda immigrant to me. Here, come with us so you’re not seen again for the next 6 months, if ever.