GB & UK

hmm up to tom but I'm for the separate countries

did you not read it?

a few moments after posting it

I really did not realize you were referring to "on listal" and thought this was a debate about the real definition of the countries! I was ready to come in guns blazing and say we should just be England and forget them, or invade them and declare them all England! Its our Island for hells sake, who do they think they are?

OI! I find that very very ignorant

The only ignorance in here is yours Vincent Valentine, as i was clearly joking. Id thank you not to respond to my posts in future as iv deemed them too high brow for your comprehension.

**realizes it was a quote**

In an ideal world France could just be deleted all together instead Tom.

The only ignorance in here is yours Vincent Valentine, as i was clearly joking. Id thank you not to respond to my posts in future as iv deemed them too high brow for your comprehension.

You wouldn't say that if he didn't have an anime avatar, would you?

or at least, merged with Germany. :)

(what? did that joke go too far?)

Not as far as the shape and form of eastern residents went from natural genetics.

Don't you EVER call Final Fantasy Anime!

Oh crap, you're right. The artistic style has kind of hit that though.

According to his profile aswell, rb6k is an FF fan too so it has nothng to do with being Anime! Look at Thnilian tarring people with brushes!

You're more defensive than I am aggressive. Don't call me out for sneaking a piece of cake out of the freezer if you're the one with jewelry in your socks.

What's the deal with France, anyway? Wherever I go I hear nothing but disapproval (humorous it may be) in reference to the place. I'm not sure if there's an issue or if there's some universal understanding that the French are everyone's scapegoats.

Nice. So now everyone looks down on them, because the big bad countries with the big bad armies didn't surrender - rather, they threw a couple bombs here and there? Correct me if I'm sounding ignorant, but that's what I've collected so far. So France aided the Nazis?

They don't teach us anything but Johnny Appleseed and Paul Bunyan as far as history goes over here.

So there's a contrast between France and Belgium. I love civil disobedience. I've always liked the white plastic erasers Belgium makes, too. To me, though, all history's pretty much connected one way or another.

Not at all. France built the Maginot Line to protect themselves from Germany & Italy. However, they didn't build the line all the way to the North of their borders where Belgium was. The Nazis simply walked around their defensive wall through Belgium. Check a map of Europe and it'll make more sense.

I edited my post once I found out the geography was jumbled. Damn, I'm being deprived.

Would you like to move this discussion out of LD and into GD? It has become off-topic pretty much.

Yeah. It'd also be helpful if you could recommend reading for me on the time period. I know there's an Amazon forestful of documented history, but I'd like a starting point.

You wouldn't say that if he didn't have an anime avatar, would you?

Just to clear it up (not starting any flame wars or anything) i would have said that to anyone who keeps replying to my posts without understanding them, i wasn't picking on him specifically, nor was i trying to be outrageous. The way i write seems to just confuse people of a certain type. (...Not anime people...)

Its that dastardly Gemlil i tells ya. All her, she did it.

Just to clear it up (not starting any flame wars or anything) i would have said that to anyone who keeps replying to my posts without understanding them, i wasn't picking on him specifically, nor was i trying to be outrageous. The way i write seems to just confuse people of a certain type. (...Not anime people...)

American sarcasm's so much more obvious... Except to the occasional Australian. :)

Here in Texas, fourth grade and seventh grade history are spent on the history of the state. Eighth grade and one of the high school credits have to be spent on US history, and just about all the rest of elementary school entails something having to do with US and Texas history.

Sixth grade and one high school credit include World History, and then there's a required high school credit of World Geography in addition to a year of Government. Americans are to the Brits like the Romans were to the Greeks - going off to do their own thing (architecture/colonization) while shoplifting most of the artistic influence.