thanks!..... but just so you know i wont accept glass beads in return for Sweden:)

Happy Thanksgiving Edi.

Awww Edi you make me tear up when you get all sentimental like that ;) lol.
In all seriousness though, Happy thanksgiving, and thanks for all the tips you've posted in threads where I have asked Diplomacy questions. I'm from Canada so I've already had my fill of turkey, but in lieu of the American holiday I thought some thanks was in order :)!

Hey Edi, we need an Italian player for a game. It is still spring 1901. Any interest? If so, shoot me an email (in my profile). It is a private game so we are not expecting any cd's.

Lmao @ MasterGamer here. Haha.

Anyway Thanks for Thanksgiving.

the lions are a waste of thanksgiving football and even though they have hosted a thanksgiving football game since 1934 there are much better matchups.

But I do enjoy watching the Titans throttle them!

Happy Thanksgiving, all.

Hey! Hands off the Lions and their Thanksgiving day tradition! If it weren't for them, it wouldn't have been a tradition for you.

Besides, we feel the need to share our misery with a national audience. :)

Happy Thanksgiving!

Thanks Edi, and a happy Thanksgiving to everyone here who celebrates it. (Everyone else I just wish a pleasant day or whatever ;-).

Go Eagles!

Thanksgiving is perhaps the most bullshit holiday america has

Wow Sic, that's not easy to say... it's got a lot of stiff competition, from Christmas and Easter at the very least. You'll have to justify that...

Yeah, it's like saying Veteran's Day is the most BS holiday.

Thanksgiving is the purest and best holiday. It's all about spending time with family and being thankful for what we have.

...being thankful for what we have.

Probably a large amount of Sicarius' objection.

dont be an ass ghost.

the whole thanksgiving story is lies.
I mean if you want to be true to history after dinner you have to go rape and pillage. its a fantasy.

now, of course theres nothing wrong with eating lots of food with friends and family and generally having a good time
but you have to look at what you're celebrating.

and chris, easter? come on man. what does a giant bunny who gives out candy have to do with the ressurection sp of jesus?
how many kids even know what easter is really supposed to be about?

and christmas.... well I wont go into that

Thanksgiving isn't really about your hated Pilgrims, Biff. It was made by Lincoln during the Civil War to for the stated reason of making a day to give thanks. That's what's really being celebrated.

And does it matter that Indians and Pilgrims sitting together eating dinner isn't really true? It's the goal, maybe that's what's being said.

thats true enough.

still dont think thanks-taking warrants a holiday

Well too bad. Everyone else in America does.

Sicarius, I can't help but disrespect your way of life as much as you disrespect mine. I don't see that you add anything to society, and so do not see that you can be in a position to criticise it.

As for your criticism, I can't think of many public holidays that are not in some way idealised, and would pass your test. Even guy Fawkes' night, where us Brits celebrate burning a load of Catholics who tried to blow up parliament, is highly idealised.

but its not a public hoilday though gostmaker

*ghostmaker

Well, the point still stands (I'm not American, so I don't know the ins and outs of different festivals)

I don't know how you live so I cant say I dont respect you

jsut out of curiosity whos the patron saint of america

Ok, I'm an A-level (i.e.17 year old ) student in London's suburbs, from a fairly normal, well-off family, interested in the classics, rhetoric, mathematics and philosophy.

The Virgin Mary.

okay.

anywhere near barnet ghost? and thats a stupid saint to have invictus it cant be

Wow. You know America still has a Protestant majority? And no native saints with a real history of veneration? The Virgin Mary, (as Our Lady of X, I can't remember) was probably just picked because she's pretty ubiquitous.

yeah i know most patron saints arent actually native to the country, just seems like to big an important saint to have as a patron saint of a country but each to their own i guess

Not really, no. Surrey.

different suburb side was just curious

is lisbon a suburb of london

u sure you got the right place sic

I might be wrong, but aren't suburbs of London basically part of the city? I remember them saying we were in a suburb and it looked just like the rest of London. Maybe a little less shiny urban, but not like the sharp difference between suburbia and American cities.

Do they have stuff like that in the UK and call it something else or is it city, village, country, or nothing?

yes trim. Its not like I'm talking about portugal.
I'm asking is there a london suburb named lisbon

"and chris, easter? come on man. what does a giant bunny who gives out candy have to do with the ressurection sp of jesus?
how many kids even know what easter is really supposed to be about?

and christmas.... well I wont go into that"

Lol, yeah, I was pointing out that as far as bullshit holidays go, your claim has stiff competition from the bullshit of Easter and Christmas.

so we're agreed santas sack is full of shit

Good grief.

no Schultz please

Well normally Lisbon refers to a city in Portugal and as far as I know there is no lisbon in England (if wikipedia is to be trusted)

I was asking the people who live there.

thx for being helpful though

You were asking the people who live in an imaginary suburb? No wonder you're not getting answers.