Literal Odds and Ends
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Speaker to Animals
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Re: Literal Odds and Ends
The problem there was dependency on asingle crop. Inca grew somewhere around a dozen different potato varieties. If blight took out one it was no big deal.
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Fife
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Hastur
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Re: Literal Odds and Ends
The Irish don't fish. They live on an island in the Atlantic ocean where fish is plenty but when the potato crops fail they starve.
Also they exported a lot of potato during the famine due to the high prices brought on by the scarcity.
Humans are humans.
Also they exported a lot of potato during the famine due to the high prices brought on by the scarcity.
Humans are humans.
An nescis, mi fili, quantilla prudentia mundus regatur? - Axel Oxenstierna
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Speaker to Animals
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Re: Literal Odds and Ends
Fuck fish. Shit is nasty.
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Montegriffo
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Re: Literal Odds and Ends
Thing is the English knew the Irish would starve if they bought all the potatoes but they did it anyway. Not a proud moment in our history.
For legal reasons, we are not threatening to destroy U.S. government property with our glorious medieval siege engine. But if we wanted to, we could. But we won’t. But we could.
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Speaker to Animals
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Re: Literal Odds and Ends
Because nobody can turn down potatoes. Nobody.
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SuburbanFarmer
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Re: Literal Odds and Ends
The blight happened on its own, but the English turned it into a famine.
The Irish only grew potatoes, because that was the cash crop of the time. It’s a valuable lesson of history, that we’re repeating with corn and soybeans here.
The English landlords kept exporting food from Ireland while the people starved. That’s a big part of why Ireland will never integrate with them.
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Montegriffo
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Re: Literal Odds and Ends
Ulster thinks differently.
For legal reasons, we are not threatening to destroy U.S. government property with our glorious medieval siege engine. But if we wanted to, we could. But we won’t. But we could.
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SuburbanFarmer
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Re: Literal Odds and Ends
Only because of religion. The English managed to convert Northern Ireland back in the day.
I don’t think you’d call them integrated though.
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TheReal_ND
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Re: Literal Odds and Ends
The English treated the Irish as slaves, no doubt worse than any plantation negro was ever treated. As a result, the island is a seething hot bed of leftist politics that has only been held, barely, in check by their religion. Importing these inculcated from birth leftists to the US to fight in our civil war for the Union was a mistake, and rightly recognized as such at the time by people like the Know Nothings.
