10 Feb 2021, 9:06 am
Mountain Goat wrote:
Of course. We have had years of practice to reach this standard!
It's ridiculous. There are two pandemics, one is covid, the other is stupidity
10 Feb 2021, 9:11 am
10 Feb 2021, 11:53 am
11 Feb 2021, 6:33 am
Gaffer Gragz.
Oh, 14 years ago sounds like heaven! When the Brits were nice to each other and not divided into two camps which hate each other...
Yes, Britain has been fighting someone or other for many centuries. Especially France. We've been fighting them on and off since 1066 when they invaded us. We had A Hundred Years War with them in the middle ages
11 Feb 2021, 7:20 am
KitLily wrote:
Gaffer Gragz.
Oh, 14 years ago sounds like heaven! When the Brits were nice to each other and not divided into two camps which hate each other...
Yes, Britain has been fighting someone or other for many centuries. Especially France. We've been fighting them on and off since 1066 when they invaded us. We had A Hundred Years War with them in the middle ages
Oh, 14 years ago sounds like heaven! When the Brits were nice to each other and not divided into two camps which hate each other...
Yes, Britain has been fighting someone or other for many centuries. Especially France. We've been fighting them on and off since 1066 when they invaded us. We had A Hundred Years War with them in the middle ages
1066 .... was that about 'cutting the elm'? Hmmmmm, I think I need to have a read, bits has gotten messed up again.
Lol I have the red body hair trait, so I think one of my forbearers was a 'frille' from up north (scott or irish). Norwegians was not so much in the south
12 Feb 2021, 11:47 am
Gaffer Gragz wrote:
1066 .... was that about 'cutting the elm'? Hmmmmm, I think I need to have a read, bits has gotten messed up again.
Lol I have the red body hair trait, so I think one of my forbearers was a 'frille' from up north (scott or irish). Norwegians was not so much in the south
Lol I have the red body hair trait, so I think one of my forbearers was a 'frille' from up north (scott or irish). Norwegians was not so much in the south
I don't know about the elm but 1066 was when William the Conqueror decided that he should be the king of England, came over here with his army and took over the country. I think (as usual) the invaders killed all the aristocracy and replaced them. Our monarchs for the next 300+ years weren't born in England nor did they speak English. The English language contains a lot of French words, but pronounced the English way. Probably why the English were then at war with the French all the time
Yes apparently Britain has the most red haired people in the world. My dad had red hair, my hair is very dark brown but has a red tone and so does my daughter's. We all have pale skin and freckles. I think it was Danes in the south and Norwegians in the north. Around the 9th century, we had the Danelaw which divided England into East and West, with English in the West and Danes in the East. So they must have been around here somewhere, mainly in East Anglia I think. East Anglia is the bump sticking out above London.
12 Feb 2021, 12:25 pm
KitLily wrote:
Gaffer Gragz wrote:
1066 .... was that about 'cutting the elm'? Hmmmmm, I think I need to have a read, bits has gotten messed up again.
Lol I have the red body hair trait, so I think one of my forbearers was a 'frille' from up north (scott or irish). Norwegians was not so much in the south
Lol I have the red body hair trait, so I think one of my forbearers was a 'frille' from up north (scott or irish). Norwegians was not so much in the south
I don't know about the elm but 1066 was when William the Conqueror decided that he should be the king of England, came over here with his army and took over the country. I think (as usual) the invaders killed all the aristocracy and replaced them. Our monarchs for the next 300+ years weren't born in England nor did they speak English. The English language contains a lot of French words, but pronounced the English way. Probably why the English were then at war with the French all the time
Yes apparently Britain has the most red haired people in the world. My dad had red hair, my hair is very dark brown but has a red tone and so does my daughter's. We all have pale skin and freckles. I think it was Danes in the south and Norwegians in the north. Around the 9th century, we had the Danelaw which divided England into East and West, with English in the West and Danes in the East. So they must have been around here somewhere, mainly in East Anglia I think. East Anglia is the bump sticking out above London.
And Jordvik, todays York area.
13 Feb 2021, 1:37 am
KitLily wrote:
It's ridiculous. There are two pandemics, one is covid, the other is stupidity
this comment made my day. I totally agree. I feel like I have more intelligent conversations with my dogs than people outside my house lately. Every day I feel increasingly more like I've stepped into the book Catch-22, one absurdity after the next. And everytime someone wants to talk about certain topics I feel the rising need to jump out the window.
Also, shalom it's nice to meet you.
13 Feb 2021, 4:01 am
Gaffer Gragz wrote:
KitLily wrote:
Gaffer Gragz.
Oh, 14 years ago sounds like heaven! When the Brits were nice to each other and not divided into two camps which hate each other...
Yes, Britain has been fighting someone or other for many centuries. Especially France. We've been fighting them on and off since 1066 when they invaded us. We had A Hundred Years War with them in the middle ages
Oh, 14 years ago sounds like heaven! When the Brits were nice to each other and not divided into two camps which hate each other...
Yes, Britain has been fighting someone or other for many centuries. Especially France. We've been fighting them on and off since 1066 when they invaded us. We had A Hundred Years War with them in the middle ages
1066 .... was that about 'cutting the elm'? Hmmmmm, I think I need to have a read, bits has gotten messed up again.
Lol I have the red body hair trait, so I think one of my forbearers was a 'frille' from up north (scott or irish). Norwegians was not so much in the south
Nop:
1188. It happened after a meeting between King Henry II of England and King Philip II of France. At Gisors, Normandy
13 Feb 2021, 10:37 am
Gaffer Gragz wrote:
And Jordvik, todays York area.
Yes, York must have been in the Danelaw as it is in the East. I went to Jorvik years and years ago, I think I was a teenager, I wish I'd taken more notice of the information
13 Feb 2021, 10:41 am
Spunge42 wrote:
KitLily wrote:
It's ridiculous. There are two pandemics, one is covid, the other is stupidity
this comment made my day. I totally agree. I feel like I have more intelligent conversations with my dogs than people outside my house lately. Every day I feel increasingly more like I've stepped into the book Catch-22, one absurdity after the next. And everytime someone wants to talk about certain topics I feel the rising need to jump out the window.
Also, shalom it's nice to meet you.
Hello *waves*
Actually it was an Australian who said this to me about the two pandemics. All Australians and New Zealanders I've met online recently are looking in horror at what's happening in Britain these days, especially Covid. Their lives are more or less back to pre Covid normal and look at ours. I see you're American though, I wonder what they think of America.
I seriously believe a combination of fast food, not enough exercise, pollution, media influence is frying people's brains.
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14 Feb 2021, 1:11 pm
Gaffer Gragz wrote:
ohh, ummm, it marked the space where Franks ans Britts met to parlour, sort of embassy meeting spot.
It got cut down as a sort of 'enough is enough'. Both sides blame the other, as per usual .....
It got cut down as a sort of 'enough is enough'. Both sides blame the other, as per usual .....
Oh, number 18586387425 in the arguments between the English and French.
