I think what's involved here is the fact that you made a statement that wasn't very grounded in fact. Someone went to great pains to correct you politely, and you've now just brushed it off with ragtime.
Cindy, I understand your objection and I apologise if you are upset. However when I am speaking about my own viewpoint of my own history in my own country it is only polite to let me finish. I would never lecture you on finer points of American history, society or governance, please show me the same respect.
However when I am speaking about my own viewpoint of my own history in my own country it is only polite to let me finish.
Let you finish?!? It's a message board! It's kind of hard to interrupt people. If you hit "Post", you finished.
I would never lecture you on finer points of American history, society or governance, please show me the same respect.
Oh, give me a freaking break. Because Betsy's American, she's not allowed to be a student of British history? That's insane troll logic on monkey crack with a side order of WTF?
Besides which, Jim ET isn't American, and your response to him was on the same lines.
Zoe, you made a factually incorrect statement about European history. If an American corrects you rather than a European, it doesn't make them wrong.
Sure she can be a student. I can study American history she can study Scottish, English, Irish and Welsh if she likes.
And if you say something patently wrong, is she allowed to correct you?
And if you say something patently wrong, is she allowed to correct you?
She's welcome to produce primary, secondary and/or tertiary evidence to repudiate my interpretation.
Why, thank you.
George I assumed the British throne in 1714 and died in 1727.
Ernst Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, 5th son of George III became King of Hanover in 1837 when his niece, Victoria I, assumed the British throne due to Salic law.
Bismarck unified Germany in 1871, having annexed Hanover in 1866
So, the Germans never controlled the British throne. There was no Germany during the period when a King of Hanover was also King of Britain. The two titles were separated bloodlessly when a woman succeeded to the British throne.
To interrupt:
Where exactly is everybody with the viewing of
Buffy
and
Angel?
I need to know in order to determine if I need to whitefont something in the Other Media thread.
Thanks.
Zoe, the obnoxiousness is really getting out of hand. Please cool it, and I think it would be wise to apologize, to Betsy at the very least.
