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onlifeboats April 13 2012, 21:05:53 UTC
I'm kind of wishing you were my history teacher rn, tbh.

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queerlyobscure April 14 2012, 17:38:03 UTC
::blushes:: - I will take that as a very high compliment :)

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jacknjill270 April 14 2012, 16:40:25 UTC
I feel like building a wall is a pretty good policy when dealing with angry, shouty neighbors. Especially if they're overly fond of body paint and public nudity. Also, yay history! I'm looking forward to reading your 100 things about it. :)

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queerlyobscure April 14 2012, 17:41:58 UTC
I would say wall-building is generally an excellent policy when faced with any geographically-related problem. See also: houses, dams, office cubicles etc. (Points to anyone who starts referring to their office cubicle partitions as 'Hadrian's Wall')

I hope I won't disappoint! History can be so hit-and-miss.

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belladonnanoir April 15 2012, 15:18:34 UTC
I had to chuckle when I read this. I'm Scottish and the image of naked blue Scotsmen just cracks me up :D It is very easy to see why they built the wall!!

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queerlyobscure April 16 2012, 05:56:08 UTC
It's one of my favourite imagined scenes from history, I can't lie. I'm glad you got a laugh out of it as well :D

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croissantkatie April 16 2012, 16:36:13 UTC
This made me giggle! Reminds me of a fancy dress party I went to where someone came dressed as a Scot, complete with blue body paint. Sadly, they'd constructed some kind of loincloth which I felt lost them points.

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queerlyobscure April 16 2012, 16:42:53 UTC
At least they got in the body paint! I'm so used to seeing something out of Highlander passed off as True Scottish Warrior (I mean, it works, but only for a certain period and a certain level of, uh, creative interpretation) that I'd probably die of shock to see that someone knew about the blue.

Definitely better without the loincloth, though!

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croissantkatie April 16 2012, 16:44:13 UTC
Ah, this is the benefit of having a lot of history obsessed friends who may or may not force their boyfriends to dress in something vaguely accurate. :D

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aryas_zehral April 18 2012, 11:22:42 UTC
TBH, shouting nekkid Scotsmen doesn't sound very far fetched. Given that with the slightest hint of sunlight men here still strip down (to shorts, lest you be worried). And if there's a match on they do like to paint at least their faces. :) And they do shout a lot. Esp on Saturday nights about two in the morning. LOL.

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queerlyobscure April 19 2012, 01:09:13 UTC
Doesn't sound at all unreasonable to me. Good to see ancient traditions going strong and all ;)

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