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Old Jun 16th 2017 | 5:18 am
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Originally Posted by Stinkypup
Apparently it was a Conflict avoidance Facebook group

They did say arguments were verboten
 
Old Jun 16th 2017 | 1:42 pm
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Originally Posted by bats
They did say arguments were verboten
So you were warned!

Clearly Kim Jong doesn't need to fling out missiles ...


Seven US Navy crew missing after collision off Japan - BBC News
 
Old Jun 16th 2017 | 2:12 pm
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This made me chuckle- a rather feisty and furry RCMP recruit

Bear helps RCMP by apparently treeing suspect near Fort St. John, B.C. - British Columbia - CBC News
 
Old Jun 17th 2017 | 6:47 am
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Originally Posted by bats
They did say arguments were verboten
Their use of German should have been your first clue.
 
Old Jun 17th 2017 | 7:43 am
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Originally Posted by caretaker
Their use of German should have been your first clue.
It was a German genealogy group, though mostly full of 'mercans.
 
Old Jun 17th 2017 | 7:45 am
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Originally Posted by bats
It was a German genealogy group, though mostly full of 'mercans.
Given the topic of the group how did you get into a big bust-up
 
Old Jun 17th 2017 | 11:25 am
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I have Prussians in the family, that's the worst kind... little wind-up Germans.
 
Old Jun 17th 2017 | 2:23 pm
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Originally Posted by Stinkypup
Given the topic of the group how did you get into a big bust-up
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I have Prussians in the family, that's the worst kind... little wind-up Germans.
My MIL was from East Prussia.
 
Old Jun 17th 2017 | 4:14 pm
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Originally Posted by caretaker
... little wind-up Germans.
Clockwork?
 
Old Jun 17th 2017 | 11:59 pm
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Old Jun 18th 2017 | 12:25 am
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My guys farmed near Gdansk, moved to Russia in the 1830's, then Canada a couple of hundred years later when the reds ran them off.
Edit to admit that it may have been somewhat less than 200 years...

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Old Jun 18th 2017 | 1:12 am
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Originally Posted by caretaker
My guys farmed near Gdansk, moved to Russia in the 1830's, then Canada a couple of hundred years later when the reds ran them off.
Some dodgy maths going on there
 
Old Jun 18th 2017 | 2:21 am
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Originally Posted by Souvy
Some dodgy maths going on there
Was never my strong suit.
Those generalisations about Prussians are over-rated too, they are a lot more fun than they look like in pictures.
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Old Jun 19th 2017 | 3:44 am
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So on a slightly related subject, the last time I came back from UK, I brought some of my Dad's books back. He was very into military history, so lots of books about World War II. Anyway, when I got back home, I stacked the books up on the floor in front of the bookcases. Soon after our property manager comes round with some German friends who were thinking of buying the house we rent. It was only after they had left that I noticed that all the books on the top of the piles were about the Third Reich and had great big red swastikas on the covers. They haven't been back....
 
Old Jun 19th 2017 | 5:51 am
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Originally Posted by becks_r
So on a slightly related subject, the last time I came back from UK, I brought some of my Dad's books back. He was very into military history, so lots of books about World War II. Anyway, when I got back home, I stacked the books up on the floor in front of the bookcases. Soon after our property manager comes round with some German friends who were thinking of buying the house we rent. It was only after they had left that I noticed that all the books on the top of the piles were about the Third Reich and had great big red swastikas on the covers. They haven't been back....
Maybe they are too busy joining bats old facebook group
 


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