I thought the Civil War was about Vikings?
Well, there was the one side that said there should be dragons on the boats, and the other side wanted serpents, and someone said, "What's the difference?", and it went to Hel from there.
Hands! Hands in new places!
Willow ,'Storyteller'
Natter 66: Get Your Kicks.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Connie Neil - Aug 17, 2010 11:33:34 am PDT #18476 of 30001
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Nora Deirdre - Aug 17, 2010 11:33:42 am PDT #18477 of 30001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
but I'm now COMPLETELY OBSESSED with what the FUCK the vikings have to do with anything?? Because has anyone denied that they were in the Americas before Columbus? And why are they trying to build a mosque in my parents' neighborhood anyway? THEY'RE LUTHERANS!
INORITE?!?!?!??
amych - Aug 17, 2010 11:36:12 am PDT #18478 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I accept full blame for this obsession.
Dude, no! You are not to blame for the vikings. Your interesting facebook companion is like "BUT THE VIKINGS!" and other people are like, bzuh? And then he's like "JFK! VIKINGS!" and other people are, here, have some trufax. And he's all "CIVIL WAR! VIKINGS! WILL NOBODY THINK OF THE VIKINGS!!!"
You are totally not to blame for the vikings.
Jars - Aug 17, 2010 11:36:25 am PDT #18479 of 30001
Are people confusing Manhattan with Valhalla? If you squint they kind of look the same I guess...
amych - Aug 17, 2010 11:37:00 am PDT #18480 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Jars, many people have that problem. We call them hipsters.
Jessica - Aug 17, 2010 11:37:30 am PDT #18481 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I'm now COMPLETELY OBSESSED with what the FUCK the vikings have to do with anything?? Because has anyone denied that they were in the Americas before Columbus?
Also, didn't they, you know, leave after they decided it would be a lot easier to just colonize Iceland? Is someone trying to build a Muslim community center on the site of a former Viking settlement?
Ginger - Aug 17, 2010 11:37:57 am PDT #18482 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
The issue of free state versus slave state as states were created from the territories was the main thing that pushed South into seceding. The proximate cause was that the South started shooting. The original goal of the North was to preserve the Union, not emancipation. There were a lot of money issues involved, certainly, although the biggest one probably was that the slave holders simply could not see a way to survive economically without slavery.
In other words, what everyone else said, except the Viking part.
Steph L. - Aug 17, 2010 11:37:58 am PDT #18483 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
and it went to Hel from there.
t rimshot
javachik - Aug 17, 2010 11:38:15 am PDT #18484 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
I love you all so much. Thank you for existing.
Steph L. - Aug 17, 2010 11:38:48 am PDT #18485 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Is someone trying to build a Muslim community center on the site of a former Viking settlement?
Vikings don't have mosques! They worship Capital One credit cards!
t edit I have to note -- those commercials crack my shit up. Every. Time.