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I will tell you this, farmers are hilariously belonging to the group of both 'private school old boy cuntery' and hard working-man because farms so remote in Australia they have to send their kids to boarding schools just to get an education. I think the same applies in England as well. We really aren't so different, the English and the Aussie.

Cricket is the working man's sport in Australia. More Aussie cricketers come from public schools than private That is why we have legends like Border and Taylor and you have twats like Joe Root. Ironically Boonie is one of the few to go to private (twat) school. They usually end up diddling each other in rugby union, and wearing akubra hats pretending they are from 'out bush'.

Fucking legend that is

The duality of religion is that it does help some people. There are lessons in religions purposely told to make people better humans. There are more than just spiritual stories that are told; for instance the parables of planting seeds in soil and not dry sand, or building a house on a solid foundation. If people have the self-awareness enough to use their religion as a building block of their life, then they are on the right track. If they use it as the entire existence of their life, I believe they'd failed themselves. Objective morality can't exist without religion, right? Every single culture has the basis of it's moral code derived from some sort of religion. If there is no higher being that created a moral code, who is to say that murdering another human is immoral? You? Me? Who has that authority to mandate? And that is whole new bag of words to consider, if human morality is derived from a higher being, who is to say that the higher being exists? If it doesn't exist then it's just humans telling each other how to act. That is where faith comes into play. If every human being on earth feels that it is immoral to kill another human, where does that objective morality stem from? Is it a DNA memory? Is it an implanted feeling of a higher being?

You have to get people onto a team, and Atheism is a lame team, mainly because it's the most insulting. Haha, you believe in an imaginary being in the sky. Well, since I'm an enlightened individual I suppose I will tolerate your nonsense. *tips fedora*

So what yer saying is; you don't fuck your sister? Anyway, it's probably a good thing that Iran is embracing Zoroastrianism to a degree, because as far as I know it isn't as soul-crushing as Revolutionary-Islam can be. At least, if you can stomach incest and leaving dead bodies in the sun for birds to devour.

@Dr. Gonzo does your family have ties with Zoroastrianism?

Is Tolisso as important as Kimmich? The only reason I mentioned the latter is because he is already elite.

As an outsider, it seems that Bayern still rely on Robben and Ribery too much. Did Pep's transfers set the club back in terms of age? Outside of Kimmich have any youngsters exploded onto the scene at Bayern?

@Toinho which are your favourite Aussie bands? Gone on a bit of a binge today on Aussie music.

Gotta be making sure I'm getting dem upboats

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Cyrus the Great tho

@Blue

Gimme a quick rundown on the Egypt/Africa incident.

Just fucking sick to shite of being a barista, mate. I need something 'real' I need a skill.

For instance, 'how the fuck do I get to be an apprentice if all the apprenticeships require two years of apprenticeship experience?" lmao

Any of you blokes done an apprenticeship before?

I like how they are ancient memes.

That is true. I'm not saying it's a requirement that it be known in public. My initial question was more of a rhetorical one; musing the idea of how many or how little people are related directly - as it's impossible to know. Also a curiosity of how open the knowledge is.

That is a fair enough sentiment. As I said earlier, the knowledge isn't to burden people with the sins of the father. I would think, as I said with the disconnect between the past and the present, it's a sensitive issue but to forget entirely is a travasty, and a mistake. I don't think this regime will ever be idolised but looking at the past and it's atrocities you'll find eventually in time they stop having an impact. I speak not just for the children of Nazi Germany, but the world over -as the times of WW2 influence more than the Germans. Do the times of Genghis Khan mean anything to you? Do you feel anything about the millions killed? I don't particularly, I can't speak for you but I can't imagine you're outrage would be that severe. In time the same thing will happen to WW2, and when people forget is when repeat history. My question was more of a larger curiosity in the mind frame of a country that has evolved incredibly over the last 150 years. I'm not here to rub it in people's face or remind them of things they don't want to, I just want to understand the German mindset. Aren't there people in Germany rallying around the flags of Neo-Nazism in this day and age? Perhaps if they knew the reality they wouldn't be flying those flags. Of course, the reality of it doesn't exist anymore because it's in the past but when things become blurry they are much easier for weak minds to romanticise.The same logic applies to many places, many people from Turkey deny that an Armenian genocide even occurred.

It is funny that you would make this joke when I explicitly said that it doesn't matter what people ancestors did on personal level.

Thanks for the mature response. IMHO it is when memories fade that people make the same mistakes. For instance their is a reason why young people get around pretending to be fascists, nazis, and communists it is because they are from a world that never experienced any of those things.Of course for most of the time it is a phase that won't amount to anything but all it takes is one incident to ruin lives. On my own side my paternal grandfather uncle is a war hero from the pacific. Books written in how great he was, only forgetting he was a notorious cheat and a liar. Poisoning horses with lead during races, amongst other dodgey things. Nothing to serious but something that would be lost in time if not told verbally.