Most Racist Person on this Forum

[Hwen Hoshino]

To be honest the Norsemen were only trying to improve the quality of life for the Britons. Ever since the bastard Anglo Saxon savages came over and displaced our Celtic ancestors we were stagnating in our own filth and depravity. It wasn't until the Normans came over and liberated us that Britain became great again.

Were depraved compared to the Norman period in what way?

That whooshing sound you just heard...

Care wery little about it. So. Explanation.

[Montegriffo]

Were depraved compared to the Norman period in what way?

That whooshing sound you just heard...

Care wery little about it. So. Explanation.

That whooshing sound you heard was the joke going over your head.
The Anglo Saxons gave us many fine things from great art to a rudimentary system of law. It's just that criticising them always gets a reaction from StA.
They were crap at building castles though, which is all that really matters...

[DBTrek]

The teabag ball-saxons more like.

Normans dropping trow and squatting on their lifeless foreheads.

*boink *boink *boink

[Montegriffo]

In related news, as a gift to Britain on his upcoming visit French President Macron has offered to lend us the Bayeux tapestry. Made in Canterbury, Kent in the 1070's this will be the first time it has left France in 950 years.
Not sure if he is taking the piss. Maybe in return we could lend to France Turner's painting of the battle of Trafalgar.


or this painting of Hougoumont Farm during the battle of Waterloo by Denis Dighton


or even, ''Morning of the Battle of Agincourt'' by Sir John Gilbert

[heydaralon]

In related news, as a gift to Britain on his upcoming visit French President Macron has offered to lend us the Bayeux tapestry. Made in Canterbury, Kent in the 1070's this will be the first time it has left France in 950 years.
Not sure if he is taking the piss. Maybe in return we could lend to France Turner's painting of the battle of Trafalgar.


or this painting of Hougoumont Farm during the battle of Waterloo by Denis Dighton


or even, ''Morning of the Battle of Agincourt'' by Sir John Gilbert

Holy shit that thing is awesome. That belongs in de officis' art thread. I have a couple of coffee table art books that you would probably like Monte. I know jack shit about art myself, but I still enjoy leafing through them now and again. Some of my favorite battle scenes are American Civil War ones, and ones concerning the 1453 Ottoman seige of Constantinople.

[Hastur]

In related news, as a gift to Britain on his upcoming visit French President Macron has offered to lend us the Bayeux tapestry. Made in Canterbury, Kent in the 1070's this will be the first time it has left France in 950 years.
Not sure if he is taking the piss. Maybe in return we could lend to France Turner's painting of the battle of Trafalgar.


or this painting of Hougoumont Farm during the battle of Waterloo by Denis Dighton


or even, ''Morning of the Battle of Agincourt'' by Sir John Gilbert

Holy shit that thing is awesome. That belongs in de officis' art thread. I have a couple of coffee table art books that you would probably like Monte. I know jack shit about art myself, but I still enjoy leafing through them now and again. Some of my favorite battle scenes are American Civil War ones, and ones concerning the 1453 Ottoman seige of Constantinople.

Turner is amazing. My favorite by him is The Fighting Temeraire Tugged To Her Last Berth.



In our time did an episode about it.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b081r260

[Montegriffo]

The Trafalgar painting was Turner's only royal commission apparently.
I like the Agincourt painting the most.
Captures the mood of early morning really well.

[Montegriffo]

Speculation is that Macron was making a point about a unified European force defeating England and a reminder of our common past.

[Hastur]

The Trafalgar painting was Turner's only royal commission apparently.
I like the Agincourt painting the most.
Captures the mood of early morning really well.

He made two Trafalgar paintings, right? I know there is a story about it but don’t remember now. Which one came first?

[Penner]

Speculation is that Macron was making a point about a unified European force defeating England and a reminder of our common past.

Of how you guys were once ruled by French Vikings?