Men of the Reach - Page 2

quote NightingaleAssassin

quote psiberzerker

(|"Can you hold my Uzi while I take a leak" Jews

What? (didn't understand the meaning) Is that good or bad? (:

Neutral, I'm just saying that the Israelis aren't what most Americans would think of as Jews. They have Manditory Military service, their women fight, and shoot as well as the men, and nothing about the Mossad is even remotely reminiscent of the Jewelry store owning Jewish-American stereotype.

quote psiberzerker

quote NightingaleAssassin

quote psiberzerker

(|"Can you hold my Uzi while I take a leak" Jews

What? (didn't understand the meaning) Is that good or bad? (:

Neutral, I'm just saying that the Israelis aren't what most Americans would think of as Jews. They have Manditory Military service, their women fight, and shoot as well as the men, and nothing about the Mossad is even remotely reminiscent of the Jewelry store owning Jewish-American stereotype.

We have Manditory Military service because we surrounded by Arab countries and terror organizations that want to attack us and the women serves in the army but NEVER fight (they don't shoot)

quote Lacdad

Bloody charming. >.>

It's ok because I'm English too

The orcs also remind me of the Roman-era Gaul or Germanic countries. Gruff, fierce and hard working with a strange religion. Plus the chiefs of the strongholds live in longhouses. Nuff said really.

On that thought, I would love to see what an orc city actually looks like

quote shavedzebra

quote Lacdad

Bloody charming. >.>

It's ok because I'm English too

Eh, the real question is; "North or South?"

quote SimDalmatian

quote TheBeardedMan

I find the civil war very similar to the Irish War of Independance, i'm Irish and know a lot about my culture. The celts arent Irish but actually Scottish and invaded Ireland in 300 BC.

I believe the celts came from Czecoslovakia and came to Ireland, Scotland and Cornwall when they were wiped out everywhere else.

Aww, shucks i was right about them invading Ireland though. Wasnt i?

quote SimDalmatian

quote TheBeardedMan

I find the civil war very similar to the Irish War of Independance, i'm Irish and know a lot about my culture. The celts arent Irish but actually Scottish and invaded Ireland in 300 BC.

I believe the celts came from Czecoslovakia and came to Ireland, Scotland and Cornwall when they were wiped out everywhere else.

I'm pretty sure that the Celts were just there originally. Assuming that early "humans" began to spread from Africa to Europe, you would assume that the Celts (a race of Gaelic people who populated the British Isles before the Roman invasion) actually came from all across Europe, not just the Czech Republic. You could argue that the Celts were simply early settlers from Europe and that Germanic peoples, Gauls or otherwise are Celts, although you would usually say that the Celts are simply these people who moved to Britain.

After the successful invasion of Britain by the Romans, all the areas of England became populated by the Romans and architecture in these areas became "Roman," as did the populace. The "Celts" of this time spread out across the rest of the British Isles; merging with other Northern Celts in Scotland, the "Picts," moving also to Cornwall and Ireland. This is why native Irish/Gaelic/Cornish languages sound quite similar.

In terms of a "Celtic invasion" of Ireland, that's disputed. The Celts certainly populated Ireland before the Romans came to Britain, but whether an invasion or a gradual immersion into the population is disputed.

A little off-topic, perhaps. :3

I haven't seen any historical documentation on where exactly the Celts originated, and there's also the definition of who you consider Celtic. The Gaels came from the Gauls, which originated around what is now Germany/Austria/Hungary/Romania along with the various Goths, Franks, and other "Barbarian" tribes. (Basically anyone that Rome was at war with at the time.)

Of the Gaels, they split up into the Celts, which interbred with the Druidic peoples (Not sure what their name was, everbody knows them by their religion now) while the Picts were smaller cousins that migrated to the area between Manchester, Liverpool, and the coast of the Irish Straight before being forced across it by the Scotts. The Scotts were Gaels who were bred with Danish Vikings (which is where the red hair came from.) Then a succession of invasions by the Engels, Normans, Saxons, Bretons, and Spaniards added the dominant browning genes to the pool after Rome collapsed. There were also a lot of Crusades babies brought back from the wars of the Infidels.

The highest concentration of Celtic culture surviving today is in the southwest, in, and around Wales. Anywhere else, they were mostly bred out.