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Also worth bearing in mind is that the 8v8 and solo RVR crowds do not necessarily want to take part in mass events like relic raids.

Thandruil wrote:Yip i be there if Ambs is sure it's ok for her

I'm sure - I can't do Thursday now.

If you're short a warden I can do it but give someone else first crack.

Gandelf wrote:But Blair and Bush are preserving our Western lifestyles, which I think I personally prefer to the alternative offered by certain extremist middle-eastern regimes.

Are they though? Exactly how much safer and better preserved are our lifestyles thanks to their actions?

That's a straw man argument Xest. We didn't single out the British Empire because we think it was uniquely evil, we did it because we're British . And because of the language question, which is a post-imperial consequence we are seeing specifically related to English. @Banana I do want to answer you...

Why should we only judge the British Empire by the standards of the time? The fact that evil and barbarism and sheer incompetence have been rife throughout history doesn't make it OK. If you only judge a thing or person by their own standards, you aren't really making a judgement at all. I don't ima...

So I think Europe should abolish the teaching of any language other than English. They ought to allow 10 years for every European to learn English as a native tongue, then make it illegal to speak any other language, like Spanish, French, German, Italian, Greek etc. etc. Instead of conquering, subd...

Yep, that's what I meant by classic imperial guilt, in case it wasn't clear (thanks for articulating it Shark). Cultural hegemony as a concept makes me very uncomfortable. The Romantic & Germanic languages are pretty distinct & the thought processes (ooppss generalisation time) of those distinct gro...

Too many vowels? Ynfydi?

people talk their own languages in BG's etc now and again, and that really annoying tbh, ofcourse it can happen by mistake, but if I had the BG and someone keept doing so he would be out fast. Perhaps this is classic British imperial guilt, but I hate the idea of forcing everyone to speak English, ...