cause i like having a 3day weekend birthday
Last edited by RTHKI (2015-05-25 14:10:05)
I'm not saying we get rid of the holiday. I'm saying we should rename this one instead.RTHKI wrote:
cause i like having a 3day weekend birthday
It should be a national holiday for retards, you could enjoy that.SuperJail Warden wrote:
I'm not saying we get rid of the holiday. I'm saying we should rename this one instead.RTHKI wrote:
cause i like having a 3day weekend birthday
We had a barbeque and my wife put up American flag stuff all over the place. I told her it's not a patriotic holiday and the bunting should be yellow or black. I'll win this eventually.Adams_BJ wrote:
Becuase one day is specifically for the soldiers killed in action.
It's my understand many Us service personnel dislike being thanked on memorial day as the day is not about current serving members.
Why not yellow AND black? Surely there's some Austrian Empire thing going on.Jay wrote:
We had a barbeque and my wife put up American flag stuff all over the place. I told her it's not a patriotic holiday and the bunting should be yellow or black. I'll win this eventually.Adams_BJ wrote:
Becuase one day is specifically for the soldiers killed in action.
It's my understand many Us service personnel dislike being thanked on memorial day as the day is not about current serving members.
Members of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine were not allowed to run for Federal President in Austria until 2011, because the Habsburg Law from 1919 is de jure still in force. Probably because it was feared that they want their confiscated property back.DesertFox- wrote:
Why not yellow AND black? Surely there's some Austrian Empire thing going on.
The Habsburgs still had enough property and wealth in Switzerland, where they moved afterwards.Cybargs wrote:
I'm reading up on it and it's pretty fucked how they just took their shit.
You can say the same for any landed elite Still makes it awkward to take all their assets without just compensation. Guess you can call it a bloodless revolution.globefish23 wrote:
The Habsburgs still had enough property and wealth in Switzerland, where they moved afterwards.Cybargs wrote:
I'm reading up on it and it's pretty fucked how they just took their shit.
You can't be sorry for an authoritarian monarch, who basically inherits all his wealth from his predecessors, who in the long run, have grabbed it at some point.
Aristocracy as it was back then, was just a totalitarian dictatorship, with some added romanticism, more loyalty and a silly excuse that everything was god-given.
From what I overheard when my mom was talking to our realtor, it may be a possibility if things don't start to fall in line before the weekend. But I may have misheard hopefullyCybargs wrote:
Hopefully the sellers aren't dicks and frustrate the contract and keeping the deposit.
Cybargs wrote:
You can say the same for any landed elite Still makes it awkward to take all their assets without just compensation.
Yes, bloodless insofar that the emperor didn't get assassinated, but got the hint to just relinquish his claim to the throne.Cybargs wrote:
Guess you can call it a bloodless revolution.
And here the rest of the world just thinks you guys enjoy good schnitzel, good deserts, terrible wine and yodeling. Who knew?globefish23 wrote:
Cybargs wrote:
You can say the same for any landed elite Still makes it awkward to take all their assets without just compensation.Yes, bloodless insofar that the emperor didn't get assassinated, but got the hint to just relinquish his claim to the throne.Cybargs wrote:
Guess you can call it a bloodless revolution.
After WW1 and the constitution of the First Republic, democracy was preferred by most and no one wanted a totalitarian regime anymore.
Most, because in 1934 we had exactly that again with civil a war, were the outlawed socialists got shot with artillery.
Fun thing is, the totalitarian Austro-Fascist Dollfuß is still revered by the current conservative party ÖVP, complete with a picture hanging in their club rooms in the parliament. He was killed by Austrian Nazis in 1934, why they consider him the first resistance against Hitler.
IMO, if Hitler hadn't annexed Austria in 1938, Austria would have become a fascist state anyway, like Mussolini's Italy, with some deeply rooted antisemitism added on top.
WW1 problems.SuperJail Warden wrote:
World War 2 problems
I blame the Popeuziq wrote:
really groundbreaking historical analysis going on in this thread right now.
3,2,1 before someone blames Prussian militarism and kaiser wilhelm for the whole thing.
Half of Europe was craving for war.uziq wrote:
really groundbreaking historical analysis going on in this thread right now.
3,2,1 before someone blames Prussian militarism and kaiser wilhelm for the whole thing.