Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: naughty Pascal Date: 11 Jan 2026 05:39:59 GMT Lines: 45 Message-ID: References: <10jak55$13ji1$2@dont-email.me> <20260105104946.00005ab4@gmail.com> <10ji02o$3f9k2$3@nntp.eternal-september.org> <10ji20j$3fsod$3@nntp.eternal-september.org> <20260106142216.00007bbc@gmail.com> <20260107085703.00006e86@gmail.com> <10jo4bg$1e3l8$6@dont-email.me> <20260108184608.07ed7f69@coppelia.commodorejohn.com> <20260108201342.60f93466@coppelia.commodorejohn.com> <10jqjjk$292fm$3@dont-email.me> <546dnQj9vYmXn_70nZ2dnZfqnPSdnZ2d@giganews.com> <10jv3tv$3kkhi$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net kHBtIcO02/tuuzaDFRDv5gH9I0AFqu45gtnjpz2FMwRcmqeqbl Cancel-Lock: sha1:YxykMQniqKdJPUwAHE1MAJ4Rp38= sha256:sJcL2Fjxz3PxvgceUZoSGWUIyTsVts5jBXURSoLpgqo= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:80883 alt.folklore.computers:233507 On Sat, 10 Jan 2026 20:03:27 -0700, Peter Flass wrote: > On 1/10/26 18:51, c186282 wrote: >> On 1/9/26 15:32, rbowman wrote: >>> On Fri, 9 Jan 2026 10:00:20 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote: >>> >>>> On 09/01/2026 04:13, John Ames wrote: >>>>> They do now - but they had a different character once upon a time. >>>>> England used to be a bunch of Celts and a handful of Roman expats 't >>>> It was other people before that. too. Celts are late invaders from >>>> the broinze age. >>> >>> Before Doggerland sank anybody could wander over without having to >>> build a coracle. >> >>   Correct. However it mostly sank about 12,000 years ago when all the >>   ice melted. Even the Beaker People had to float over to England. >> >>   Stick to my estimation that England perhaps ranks as the "most >>   invaded" country ever  :-) >> >>   Original pop ? Who the fuck knows ? >> >> > People just kept heading west, and when they got to England they had to > stop. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2150867.Westviking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Farfarers No, you just build a boat. Mowat has been accused of having a vivid imagination particularly for 'Never Cry Wolf' but he does point out that by island hopping in the Hebrides and Faroes before heading for Iceland you are only out if sight of land for a couple of days, assuming you don't get blown off course. He tells a plausible story. In 'Collapse' Jared Diamond claims that one of the reasons for the abandonment of Greenland along with climate change was an irrational reluctance of the Norse to eat fish. Excuse me? He bases that on the lack of fish bones in the middens. I've never had it but I think the process of producing hákarl might dissolve the bones.