Re: Lack Of Trees In Irish And British Countrysides

On May 12, 7:06 pm, "Falcon" <fal...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> "Culchie Aspirant" <republican_remove_th...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>
> news:0rrg245ovj945u2btv6vp83n5sd3ordqjm@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [...]
>
> > The building of the Spanish Armada itself deforested Spain and Spain
> > is significantly larger than Ireland and Britain added together.
>
> God almighty. Just when I thought things couldn't get sillier, we have a
> debate in which a 'scientist' actually claims to explain deforestation
by
> blaming hundreds of years of ecological damage on the building a couple
of
> hundred ****ps.
>

People love quite simplified myth-like stories, and if they can be
connected to a famous historical event all the better, because they
provide an easily shared reference point. You can almost hear all the
tellings and re-tellings in that one, that someone said to someone, or
that they remember from childhood, and so on.

>
> We're all doomed, I tell you.
>
> --
> Falcon:
> fide, sed cui vide. (L)