Guess he was called William the Bastard for more than one reason then...

So, what Putin tries to imitate

I guess William The Absolute C-Word wasn't quite as catchy

Read the article. What he did made sense for the time.

I read this as “Will.I.Am and was so fucking confused.

It’s the internet. You can say cunt here.

I save my usage of it for special occasions.

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"The harrying of the North" it's called, I'm from the North and we still haven't forgiven those Southern bastards, the North remembers

They fucked around and found out.

We are genetically the same people today as these Normans. Civilization is a very thin veneer that is extremely fragile.

Yeah, I don't think people are holding 1000 year grudges mate.

Edit: Seeing as I'm getting edgy throwaway comments, I'm not talking about the world, I'm talking about England.

...the recorded history of human civilization has entered the chat

I’m guessing history and religious study weren’t your best subjects.

Clearly someone's never been to a mosque with Christian parents. Or even a black church with white Christian parents.

Ever heard of a place called Palestine?

Tell that to Slobodan Milošević, may he burn in hell.

Damn, I didn't know Palestine is in the North of England.

Please, find me a study where people in the North of England are holding a grudge against the south because of a king 1000 years ago. If you ever tried anything more than being smarmy on the internet, you'd know that historians rely on facts and evidence.

Can’t conquer without breaking a few eggs.

>Yeah, I don't think people are holding 1000 year grudges mate.

I'm illustrating that they do. What would make any other group of humans less susceptible to that, regardless of what they call their homeland?

That was my point.

The issue is that your example has had continuous developments since then. If everything happened in Palestine, once, 1000 years ago, people would have moved on. Which the event of OOP is talking about. Like I get what you mean, but we're talking different timelines.

He must have really hated hobbits.

Where there is CURRENTLY armed conflict?

Sounds like the northerners should have negotiated with him instead.

/s

Will.I.Am which means William. And Apl.D.Ap means Apple Dibble Dap

Jesus, that's unfortunate

You might have forgotten though that William I was a Norman invader with the Harrying taking place only three years after his initial conquest...

Or that the Northern aristocracy were Danish having fought a war against the English a few years prior. And that they invited the Danish King's armies to assist them who promptly raided and looted the coast.

Hardly Southern bastards vs the North of today, is it?

Besides, records show approximately 75% of the Northern population was killed or fled. It's far more likely you're one of those bastards than a Northern Anglo-Dane of a thousand years ago.

Shit. You do revisionist Cromwell in the second act and non-colonial cum racist Churchill for the final scene?/s

Tell it to irish and Scott's

You're going to tell me something amazing about Flo Rider next, aren't you?

I have a special card that gets punched every time I say it. One more time and I get a free soda.

No you didn't, stop making shit up.

So, wholesale slaughter of the inhabitants of the northern shires and the burning of homes, food, crops, tools, livestock so that the survivors would freeze and starve doesn't qualify? You're exceptionally lenient.

So what happens then? Land is Barren, House is destroyed.

In 20 years a young family moves onto the land from behind the hill and starts their own farm there?

100 years later it’s back to normal with only old stories and maybe some ruins about the destruction?

Yer've made an enemy fer life!

yeah I'm kinda thinking don't give them any ideas, current government might like that cleansing

THE KING ORDERED IT!

There wouldn't be a family behind the hill. They'd have been killed too.

People would have moved back, over time. Lords would have convinced people to move to the northern countryside from the south and from cities like York which weren't devastated. People who managed to flee south - or north to Scotland - might have eventually returned because that's their home damnit, it's all they know and they're going to rebuild as best they can.

But it would have taken time. A lot of it.

Hell, grab a caveman from 100,000 years ago and bring him to the present. Throw him in a suit after a bath and a haircut and you've got yourself an average hedge fund manager.

Bit harsh, sure the caveman would be capable of something useful.

Tbh mass murder definitely constitutes cunt-status

I glanced at your username and thought it said “Pussyelastic” and was not even a little confused.

Like making flint arrowheads.

Is he wrong?