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[Noggin]

Treaty with Native Americans? The US of A has ripped up about a dozen of those.

Apparently they forgot about this one. Plus precedent has been set by two cases where land was given back to the descendants of the black families it was taken from.. altho in one case here in LA they promptly sold it back to the city for $Millions...

Depending on the land and what was built on it, that sounds like a perfect outcome!!

[JackyJoll]

Treaty with Native Americans? The US of A has ripped up about a dozen of those.

Apparently they forgot about this one. Plus precedent has been set by two cases where land was given back to the descendants of the black families it was taken from.. altho in one case here in LA they promptly sold it back to the city for $Millions...

It would be confusing to work out who owes who what between France and Germany, over Alsace-Lorraine.

[Cousin Jack]

It would be confusing to work out who owes who what between France and Germany, over Alsace-Lorraine.

Never mind minor border issues, Aquitaine belongs to England.

[Count Steer]

Treaty with Native Americans? The US of A has ripped up about a dozen of those.

Apparently they forgot about this one. Plus precedent has been set by two cases where land was given back to the descendants of the black families it was taken from.. altho in one case here in LA they promptly sold it back to the city for $Millions...

It would be confusing to work out who owes who what between France and Germany, over Alsace-Lorraine.

Yup. It feels very much like Germany but is full of quite nationalistic French people. Germany said 'Germany ends at the Vosges mountains', France said 'France ends at the Rhine'.

(It also adds to the Oradour atrocity and is part of why it is as it is today. Some (14?) of the Waffen SS troops that did it were from Alsace....which France regarded as France).

[Saga Lout]

It would be confusing to work out who owes who what between France and Germany, over Alsace-Lorraine.

Never mind minor border issues, Aquitaine belongs to England.

And a good portion of the rest of France.

[JackyJoll]

It would be confusing to work out who owes who what between France and Germany, over Alsace-Lorraine.

Never mind minor border issues, Aquitaine belongs to England.

And a good portion of the rest of France.

Rule one of land belonging to you is don’t lose wars.

[Cousin Jack]

Never mind minor border issues, Aquitaine belongs to England.

And a good portion of the rest of France.

Rule one of land belonging to you is don’t lose wars.

Rule 2 is 'If at first you don't succeed, try again.' We haven't given up on your rebellious colony yet.

[Noggin]

It would be confusing to work out who owes who what between France and Germany, over Alsace-Lorraine.

Never mind minor border issues, Aquitaine belongs to England.

Savoie has changed nationality so many times!! Mostly between France and Italy. But I believe the Swiss made the effort at one point (they definitely had a go at Haut-Savoie!!).

The history around here is quite interesting on that score! LOL Probably why one of the staple foods is pizza


Also, the view of Mont Blanc that you can see from my resort is actually the Italian side of Mont Blanc. Weird because that is on the French side geographically

[cheb]

And a good portion of the rest of France.

Rule one of land belonging to you is don’t lose wars.

Rule 2 is 'If at first you don't succeed, try again.' We haven't given up on your rebellious colony yet.

Shouldn't you, as a Corn, be siding with your fellow Celts against the Bastard English?

[Cousin Jack]

I do, but it will be easier to get England back if the Engish bugger off. Of course the Angles and Saxons came from elsewhere, but Aquitaine sounds more appealing, and it's not quite so long ago.

[JackyJoll]

Shouldn't you, as a Corn…?

So they’re not called Wallies?

[cheb]

I'm alright then as I have Huguenot blood somewhere back . Confirmed by my liking of andouillette, frogs' legs and rudely correcting other people's bad grammar.

[JackyJoll]

Confirmed by my liking of andouillette,

Va t’on au forum bumming!

[Horse]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5115e7k2eno

A newborn baby found earlier this year in Newham, east London, is the third child abandoned by the same parents, the BBC can report.

DNA tests presented to the East London Family Court established that “Baby Elsa” is the sibling of two babies, a boy and a girl, found in very similar circumstances in 2017 and 2019.

[Noggin]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5115e7k2eno

A newborn baby found earlier this year in Newham, east London, is the third child abandoned by the same parents, the BBC can report.

DNA tests presented to the East London Family Court established that “Baby Elsa” is the sibling of two babies, a boy and a girl, found in very similar circumstances in 2017 and 2019.

Jeesus. There's either something really horrible going on to a girl/woman out there who's got no one to turn to/help her, or there's some seriously stupid people having sex

Ok, I know the second happens a lot, but really, have they not worked out what causes it yet?!!

[Horse]

Jeesus. There's either something really horrible going on to a girl/woman out there who's got no one to turn to/help her, or there's some seriously stupid people having sex.

Every time I started to put my thoughts into words, they just trailed off ...

[irie]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5115e7k2eno

A newborn baby found earlier this year in Newham, east London, is the third child abandoned by the same parents, the BBC can report.

DNA tests presented to the East London Family Court established that “Baby Elsa” is the sibling of two babies, a boy and a girl, found in very similar circumstances in 2017 and 2019.

Jeesus. There's either something really horrible going on to a girl/woman out there who's got no one to turn to/help her, or there's some seriously stupid people having sex

Ok, I know the second happens a lot, but really, have they not worked out what causes it yet?!!

How do they "work it out" if they're "stupid"???

[Mr. Dazzle]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5115e7k2eno

A newborn baby found earlier this year in Newham, east London, is the third child abandoned by the same parents, the BBC can report.

DNA tests presented to the East London Family Court established that “Baby Elsa” is the sibling of two babies, a boy and a girl, found in very similar circumstances in 2017 and 2019.

Jeesus. There's either something really horrible going on to a girl/woman out there who's got no one to turn to/help her, or there's some seriously stupid people having sex

Ok, I know the second happens a lot, but really, have they not worked out what causes it yet?!!

The only recent case of (legal) forced female sterilisation in the UK was a woman with an IQ of 70. The courts ordered that she could/should be sterilised for the protection of her and her children.

IIRC a chap was also treated the same way a few years ago.

Sadly I'm inclined to think your first explanation is the more likely one

[gremlin]

I think eugenics must be due a resurgence.

[Mussels]

What were the Italians trying to achieve with this? I hope they are prosecuting the cops with the same charges.

A court in Florence has reconvicted Amanda Knox for slander, years after she was acquitted of murdering her British roommate Meredith Kercher in 2007.

Knox will not go to prison as she has already served four years for the murder, for which she was originally convicted.

At the time she was also convicted of slander for blaming the murder on local bar owner Patrick Lumumba during police interrogation, but that conviction was quashed last year and a retrial ordered.

Knox's lawyers have said they expect to appeal against the latest verdict.

They added that Amanda was disappointed as she was hoping to finally clear her name after years of legal battles.

She told the court on Wednesday that police had coerced her into implicating Mr Lumumba.

"The police threatened me with 30 years in prison, an officer slapped me three times saying 'Remember, remember'," Knox, 36, said.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c877vp7v6lxo