The Viking age was due to pi33ed-off sexless men

[Jesse Pinkman]

Link below is NSFW and contains insensitive language, of which I do not approve or condone, but it is from one of my favorite movies. This is the moment Dennis Hopper realizes that the Sicialian mafia are going to kill him for not telling them how to find his son, and he has a few words for them first...

Best scene in film history IMO, easily top 5 at least. The way he takes what the guy is telling him and turns it on its own head in a way, it was pure savagery. The way he delivers the lines and the facial expressions he makes ("did so much f*ckin with Sicilian women") mixed in with how brash he is with his slurs ("like WOPs from Northern Italy"), it was something else. The delivery was everything but the scene was just so beautifully written.

Then the checkmate, he reads dude his taboo history and says "am I lying?". The last thing the mob boss wanted to do was kill him but he had to because of how much he got under that guy's skin. Given this kind of wit, it is no mystery to me as to why the Irish cucked the Italians in NY and the northeast for so long. The Irish were witty and quick thinkers while the Italians were fueled purely by emotions.

If you know the history of someone's ancestors, it is the most unfair weapon you can have against them.

Nothing cuts deeper for your typical New York or New Jersey Italian than this, especially if they look sort of ethnic themselves (dark hair, olive skin, etc.). It does exaggerate a bit in the sense that Moors were supposedly black, they were North Africans so likely Arabs. However, they most certainly conquered Sicily and finished in a lot of women in the south of Italy.

 

[taiyuu_otoko]

If anyone back then had known about germs and disease, you could have ruled the world.

The Mongols knew about germs and disease. They would launch dead dudes who died during the plague into fortified cities as he lay siege.

History of biological warfare - Wikipedia

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During the Middle Ages, victims of the bubonic plague were used for biological attacks, often by flinging fomites such as infected corpses and excrement over castle walls using catapults. Bodies would be tied along with cannonballs and shot towards the city area. In 1346, during the siege of Caffa (now Feodossia, Crimea) the attacking Tartar Forces (subjugated by the Mongol empire under Genghis Khan more than a century earlier), used the bodies of Mongol warriors of the Golden Horde who had died of plague, as weapons. It has been speculated that this operation may have been responsible for the advent of the Black Death in Europe.

 

[MatureDJ]

Actually it's because they basically gave one of the Vikings, Rollo, titles, land and the daughter of the king as a wife to protect them from the other Vikings...he became the Ruler of Normandy

Yes, I'd file this under "if you can't beat 'em, let them join you".

 

[BillyPilgrim]

Not really.
The Swedish Vikings went the route through the Baltic rivers to Russia and beyond towards Asia. So the did the Norwegians too too some degree and to Iceland and from there to US.

The Danish Vikings however conquered Europe and especially United Kingdom and Ireland and then to the Mediterranean Sea which is why the English language is so heavily influenced by the Scandinavian language and uses a lot of words rooted in Danish and some of the Swedish/Norwegian language.

We spread our seeds pretty well over Europe and beyond that that time...

LOLZ then explain modern-day Denmark. Surely the remnants remain, no?

I mean, why are you guys known for pastries than anything else?

 

[BillyPilgrim]

It might be taboo amongst the Europeans and brings your average Italian or Spaniard to the boiling point of rage but I think it is something that is rarely talked about. I never knew until only a few years ago that Muslim invaders had f*cked so many European women hundreds of years ago. You have to look it up but it seems like Europeans try to conceal that part of history at every turn, that certain parts of Europe has masses of Muslims screwing local women and darkening up the gene pool. Like I have seen Spaniards and Italians that can easily pass for Arabs.

I used to wonder why but it made more sense to me when I started reading the history.

It seemed quite significantly given that Spain had the "Reconquesta" and even literature like The Alchemist story talk about this influence but you never hear of it.

Apparently a French king was the one who had to stop the Saracens but along the way, they did so much f*cking that it left a big chunk of Southern Europeans looking like Muslims. No wonder that part of the EU is so anti-Muslim compared to the Scandinavians.

From my experience and understanding, Arabs themselves aren't all that bad, they're friendly and hospitable. It's Islam that's the problem.

 

[Jesse Pinkman]

From my experience and understanding, Arabs themselves aren't all that bad, they're friendly and hospitable. It's Islam that's the problem.

The only Arabs I find annoying are Lebanese people and of the Middle Eastern people, Iranians get annoying too. However, Arabs I have met from the EU have been cool. The only people in the EU I have had a bad experience with were people from the Mediterranean, Belgium, and to a degree the French and British.

 

[AureliusMaximus]

LOLZ then explain modern-day Denmark. Surely the remnants remain, no?

I mean, why are you guys known for pastries than anything else?

Read a history book, it helps.

 

[Bokanovsky]

The only Arabs I find annoying are Lebanese people and of the Middle Eastern people, Iranians get annoying too. However, Arabs I have met from the EU have been cool. The only people in the EU I have had a bad experience with were people from the Mediterranean, Belgium, and to a degree the French and British.

I met two Americans during my recent travels, one from South Dakota and one from North Dakota. The guy from South Dakota was super cool while the guy from North Dakota was annoying as fvck. Based on those two interactions (which, combined, lasted about 3.5 minutes), I came to the conclusion that South Dakotas were awesome and North Dakotas were a bunch of d!cks.

 

[Jesse Pinkman]

I met two Americans during my recent travels, one from South Dakota and one from North Dakota. The guy from South Dakota was super cool while the guy from North Dakota was annoying as fvck. Based on those two interactions (which, combined, lasted about 3.5 minutes), I came to the conclusion that South Dakotas were awesome and North Dakotas were a bunch of d!cks.

The Politically Correct Party Pooping King @Bokanovsky strikes again.

 

[BillyPilgrim]

I met two Americans during my recent travels, one from South Dakota and one from North Dakota. The guy from South Dakota was super cool while the guy from North Dakota was annoying as fvck. Based on those two interactions (which, combined, lasted about 3.5 minutes), I came to the conclusion that South Dakotas were awesome and North Dakotas were a bunch of d!cks.

Lolz was the North Dakotan an oilfield worker getting gouged on the cost of living with no women within 500 miles?

 

[BillyPilgrim]

Read a history book, it helps.

Lol so Kievan Rus wasn't founded by Vikings?

I'll read one over breakfast with a nice pastry.

 

[AureliusMaximus]

Lol so Kievan Rus wasn't founded by Vikings?

I'll read one over breakfast with a nice pastry.

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You said that, not me.
I referred to that you attempt to compare modern Denmark to the old Viking Denmark more than a thousand years ago which of course is two very separate things...

You forgot the beer too btw.

 

[Zimbabwe]

Their concept of slavery was different, in that it was temporary. Slaves were basically worker class and were treated at least ok.

That's sounds exactly like what we have today with the working class population.

 

[Zimbabwe]

?
You said that, not me.
I referred to that you attempt to compare modern Denmark to the old Viking Denmark more than a thousand years ago which of course is two very separate things...

You forgot the beer too btw.

The Rus were descendent from the real Vikings, there is a reason why Russian men are chads while Scandinavians are mostly soyboys

 

[Jesse Pinkman]

The Rus were descendent from the real Vikings, there is a reason why Russian men are chads while Scandinavians are mostly soyboys
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Whether Vikings or Muslims, seems like some areas of Europe were ruled by one kind of invader or another