jlf1961
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ORIGINAL: needlesandpins Oi, I'm English, and I don't touch tea. I'm a black coffee drinker, and no sugar. Not because I'm sweet enough already, but because I'm evil and don't want that nonsense messing stuff up No Starbucks here though, that's just not real coffee Needles Actually, needles, to get really technical, you probably are not truly English, most likely anglosaxon/norman with a bit of viking thrown in for shits and giggles. You see, the original inhabitants of that little Island were the forebears of the Celts and Picts (which for reasons known only to them, ended up on the Emerald Isle.) Then the Romans showed up, and after they left, came the Jutes, Anglos, Saxons, Normans, Vikings, Britons (from Brittany) so leaving those poor, but pure Brits in Scotland and Wales, with a scattering in Cornwall. So, you are probably part English, a very small part, but not a pure Englishwoman. Dont feel bad, most Americans are mutts as well, of course, I do have a substantial amount of Native American in my veins, but even that blood is not pure first inhabitant, since there were two migrations to this continent. It seems that the clovis culture (named for the spear point found near Clovis New Mexico) were descended from a bunch of people that somehow migrated along the ice shelf in the North Atlantic from Europe. The evidence is in the Clovis point itself. It is totally unlike anything found in Asia, but very (within 80%) similar to spear points found all through France and the British Isles. To claim it was an offshoot of spear points found in neolithic sites in Mongolia is like saying that a tomato is a branch of the cactus family. It is also true that Clovis sites predate the opening of any passage south from Alaska by about 9000 years. And all that is connected to Starbucks and Coffee by way of the British tea trade in China and the use of Opium to buy silver in china to pay for the tea. I thought the Welsh were supposed to be the oldest identifiable British population since the Scots wiped out the picts? They are, with some of the over lap in Cornwall, and the surviving Picts moved to Ireland.
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Boy, it sure would be nice if we had some grenades, don't you think? You cannot control who comes into your life, but you can control which airlock you throw them out of. Paranoid Paramilitary Gun Loving Conspiracy Theorist AND EQUAL OPPORTUNI
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