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RE: National symbols
January 29, 2017 at 11:29 pm
(January 29, 2017 at 11:27 pm)Stimbo Wrote:
(January 29, 2017 at 9:56 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: Doesn't count.

Cricket isn't a real sport.

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The idea is for one guy to try and knock another guy's bails off with a ball, while he defends himself with a flat stick. If that's not sport then nothing is.

More of a hobby or, perhaps, what I'd call "Saturday night".

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RE: National symbols
January 30, 2017 at 12:32 am
Pffft.

A sport is only a sport if George Carlin would say so. Now remember they're his rules. He makes them up.
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RE: National symbols
January 30, 2017 at 1:16 am
I've got a simple rule: If you can drink a beer and smoke a cigarette while playing it, it's a game, not a sport.

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RE: National symbols
January 30, 2017 at 5:04 am (This post was last modified: January 30, 2017 at 5:05 am by account_inactive.)
We've got quite a few national symbols.
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RE: National symbols
January 30, 2017 at 6:07 am
(January 30, 2017 at 5:04 am)Bella Morte Wrote: We've got quite a few national symbols.

For tha Bri'ash or tha Scuttash? I don't know any Scottish ones, quite shamefully
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RE: National symbols
January 30, 2017 at 6:22 am (This post was last modified: January 30, 2017 at 6:29 am by account_inactive.)
(January 30, 2017 at 6:07 am)Regina Wrote: For tha Bri'ash or tha Scuttash? I don't know any Scottish ones, quite shamefully

United Kingdom. Smile

More info:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_s...sle_of_Man
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RE: National symbols
January 30, 2017 at 6:48 am
(January 29, 2017 at 8:06 pm)Jello Wrote: I always thought it was the lion, as back in the day it was on the english flag, plus we have god knows how many statues of lions decorating various official buildings Tongue

'Twas never on the national flag. 'Twas the royal banner, the current version ye happened to steal off us Irish.
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RE: National symbols
January 30, 2017 at 7:01 am
(January 30, 2017 at 6:48 am)Tazzycorn Wrote:
(January 29, 2017 at 8:06 pm)Jello Wrote: I always thought it was the lion, as back in the day it was on the english flag, plus we have god knows how many statues of lions decorating various official buildings Tongue

'Twas never on the national flag. 'Twas the royal banner, the current version ye happened to steal off us Irish.

Did we, aye?
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RE: National symbols
January 30, 2017 at 7:56 am (This post was last modified: January 30, 2017 at 7:59 am by Anomalocaris.)
(January 29, 2017 at 4:51 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote:
(January 29, 2017 at 4:49 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: Ours (the US) was going to be a turkey until cooler heads prevailed. 

Some would say now it's a baboon. (um, not me - yet)

Never a baboon.

They have charm, wit, and sophistication.  Unlike a certain, unnamed, president you guys now have.



Ours should be a pile of stale manure with orange fuzzy mold growing on top.
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RE: National symbols
January 30, 2017 at 8:02 am (This post was last modified: January 30, 2017 at 8:13 am by Whateverist.)
(January 29, 2017 at 4:51 pm)abaris Wrote: Eagle here. The sickle stands for farmers and the hammer for workers. The broken chain stands for getting rid of German occupation.

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But I thought you were german or at least in Germany, no?  [My bolded.]
(January 29, 2017 at 10:18 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
(January 29, 2017 at 4:46 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: So I was struck with a weird thought the other day.

Looking around here in Kiwiland I noted that the national symbol is the Kiwi.

Now this is the country that was once home to a Haast eagle, one of the largest eagles ever identified, which would make a great national symbol.  Instead they chose a rather plain, ugly, flightless bird.

And before any Aussies laugh, the national emblem for Oz is a large, bouncy mouse...

Why do you think there are no more Haast's eagles about?  Because the kiwis slaughtered them en masse.

Boru


Whereupon they all put down their 'arms' .. apparently.
(January 29, 2017 at 10:39 pm)Alasdair Ham Wrote: The Lion is the animal symbol of my country.

And by "my country" I mean this large land mass I was born on because philosophical determinism/chance (the former makes more sense.  Chance is just a way humans make sense of pseudorandomness in a universe that appears supremely chaotic on the quantum level because we're merely hairless apes with large egos).


You might be over thinking this a tad, lad.  Very, very locally wouldn't your personal animal be a turtle?
(January 30, 2017 at 7:01 am)Bella Morte Wrote:
(January 30, 2017 at 6:48 am)Tazzycorn Wrote: 'Twas never on the national flag. 'Twas the royal banner, the current version ye happened to steal off us Irish.

Did we, aye?


May as well give it back then.
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