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« Reply #45 on: July 23, 2012, 05:13:08 AM »

I would have felt like that after Agincourt.  Great credit to Bradley Wiggins, but he didn't rid the world of a single Frenchman.
No, but he severely bruised a few egos!!  Grin
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« Reply #46 on: July 23, 2012, 05:14:58 AM »

That's true.  Grin
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« Reply #47 on: July 23, 2012, 07:51:41 AM »

I would have felt like that after Agincourt.  Great credit to Bradley Wiggins, but he didn't rid the world of a single Frenchman.
No, but he severely bruised a few egos!!  Grin

Yeah, you can take comfort, Git, from the fact that there are more French left alive to contemplate their own demise.

And possibly even more galling (pun intended) that Wiggo is an accomplished Francophone and conducts all his local interviews in the native tongue. Did you hear him when asked about his meeting with French President Francois Hollande by a French interviewer last week (not when he won) he said (in French) with a smirk "Oh I thought that was the fella from Big brother".
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« Reply #48 on: July 23, 2012, 09:20:12 AM »

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« Reply #49 on: August 24, 2012, 09:56:33 PM »

The basis for patriotism is equivalent to any in-group dynamic. If a person is within a group, then showing solidarity with the group is, historically, beneficial to survival, as the person who was most likely to leave the village was most likely to die. In certain countries where individualism is an atractive feature in mates, however, this tendency appears to he lessening. In other places, such as the middle east, tribalism is so important to survival that it is practically hard-coded into the system.
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« Reply #50 on: August 27, 2012, 06:00:03 PM »

Hmm... I think I killed the mood there. Well, I'm proud to be an American. Mostly because of the playboy mansion, but other stuff, too.
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