It will never compete with....

"I don't know
but I've been told.
Eskimo pussy
is mighty cold."

(June 4, 2013 at 2:38 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote: Weird thing about "Austria". That used to BE Germany. No, not just included in Germany; it actually was Germany.

When the Frankish Germanic tribe's empire conquered under that Christian thug "Charlemagne" was split between his three sons, the western empire became France (Frankish kingdom) and the eastern empire became the first German empire (Ost Der Reich or "Eastern Empire"). Ost Der Reich became Osterreich or Austria.

Austria became known as the Holy Roman Empire when it conquered northern Italy. It was, as Napoleon observed, neither Holy nor Roman but it fit with the German obsession to become the revived Roman Empire, or at least that's a theory of mine which I can go into in further depth.

After the 30 Years War, Germany was ravaged and disunited (an occupational hazard being a country located in the middle of Europe). It was Prussia that would later reunite Germany under its banner becoming the 2nd Reich and cutting Austria out. And so the 2nd German empire became a separate country from the 1st German empire.

Any effort to unite the two must overcome having a very unfortunate advocate so the separation is a done deal. Still, I regard it as kind of funny, as if London were a separate country from England, but that's the way international politics unfolds sometimes.

TGAC, please let me know if there's any part of your country's history I got wrong. Thanks.

I'm not German but I know you're wrong about one thing. Austria only became the holy empire when it birthed our god, Arnold Schwarzenegger, king of bodybuilding.

(June 4, 2013 at 10:55 am)KichigaiNeko Wrote: Where in Germany are you TGAC?

My Father's family came from Gdańsk (Danzig) and Todtnauberg

My family decends from Bremen, Hannover and the UK.
Yet they made the dumb decision to let me be born in Vienna.
But I spent most of my time in Germany, feel more at home there and will move there for ever next year.

(June 4, 2013 at 4:02 pm)The Germans are coming Wrote:

(June 4, 2013 at 10:55 am)KichigaiNeko Wrote: Where in Germany are you TGAC?

My Father's family came from Gdańsk (Danzig) and Todtnauberg

My family decends from Bremen, Hannover and the UK.
Yet they made the dumb decision to let me be born in Vienna.
But I spent most of my time in Germany, feel more at home there and will move there for ever next year.

Moving AWAY from this?

You have strong will.

Um, Stim. Where are these imgfit tags of which you speak? Can you enlighten me?

They are an ancient and arcane atheist incantation of demonic origin, uttered beneath the waxing Moon whilst drinking the warm blood of a sacrificed theist martyr on the altar of...

Ok, they're not that. But they can be employed by adding the suffix -fit to the standard [img] tags (minus the - of course).

Ah, so you have to manually edit the tag? Got it.

I've previously given up on a lot of photos/maps that were just too big to post. Good to know.

(June 4, 2013 at 4:05 pm)littleendian Wrote: Moving AWAY from this?

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You have strong will.

Have you ever been there????

Believe me, when compared to Lower Saxony - Lower Saxony is the shining example of human civilisation!

Austria is the worst shithole in western Europe (besides Switzerland)

If there should ever be an apocalypse, I might move back, since over there everything happens 30 years later.

(June 4, 2013 at 4:45 pm)The Germans are coming Wrote: Have you ever been there????

Believe me, when compared to Lower Saxony - Lower Saxony is the shining example of human civilisation!

Austria is the worst shithole in western Europe (besides Switzerland)

If there should ever be an apocalypse, I might move back, since over there everything happens 30 years later.

They have a great orchestra, though.

(June 4, 2013 at 4:48 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote:

(June 4, 2013 at 4:45 pm)The Germans are coming Wrote: If there should ever be an apocalypse, I might move back, since over there everything happens 30 years later.

They have a great orchestra, though.

Probably because in the field of classical music nothing much has happened in the last 30 years.

They could play Zappa, though, he did marvelous modern classical music, but he's only dead for 20 years, so lets wait another ten.