Interesting Links for 24-04-2014

[andrewducker]

• ‘Sell me this pen:’ The real answer to The Wolf of Wall Street’s challenge
  (tags: marketing sales movies )
• No, Tech Adoption Is Not Speeding Up
  (tags: technology history )
• 28 Shocking Pictures That Prove That The Illuminati Is All Around Us
  (tags: illuminati conspiracy funny )
• The Elder Scrolls Online continues to sound appalling
  (tags: mmorpg

Comments

[danieldwilliam]

My mum will be delighted by the elevation of the Cornish to the status of officially despised humorous ethinic group. It will make being ignored by London so much nicer for her.

*singing* "and shall Trelawny live? and shall Trelawny die, a hundred thousand Cornishmen will know the reason why?"

[andrewducker]

Step 1: Independent Scotland
Step 2: Independent Wales
Step 3: Independent Cornwall
Step 4: Tell the English to surrender, they're surrounded.

(Step 0, of course, happened in 1916.)

[danieldwilliam]

I am reminded of a conversation I imagine didn't take place between Camilio Cavour and Victor Emmanuel after Garibaldi "liberated" southern Italy and presented it to Victor Emmanuel.

Garbaldi: Your Majesty, I present you Italy Entire.

Cavour: (coughs and looks uncomfortable on his horse.)

VE: (sotto voce) Cavour old boy, is there any way I can say thanks but no thanks?

Cavour: (sotto voce) Alas, your majesty, I fear not. (To Garbaldi) Thank you Senor Garbaldi, I'm sure a medal will be in the post just as soon as we've invented one suitable for such an achievement.

[andrewducker]

I imagine that running such an alliance would keep some people very busy indeed :->

[hfnuala]

Ireland got independence in 1922 - once they'd realised guerrilla (terrorist in today's parlance) tactics would work better than sitting in the centre of the populace as a sitting duck for the gun boats.

[andrewducker]

True, it got it in 1922 - I was dating things from the Easter Rising, as "kicking things off" but if I'm doing that it would be just as reasonable to date it from 1914.

(I was taught bugger all about Irish history in school, and have been reading around it a bit over the last couple of days. Still woefully undereducated though.)

[ipslore]

Alternate Step 4: Independent England.

[andrewducker]

It could happen. I'd love to see a more federal model. But the Lib-Dems pushed for that for decades with no success.