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View Poll Results: Where is Poland?
Eastern Europe. 124 59.62%
Central Europe. 51 24.52%
I'm gonna relocate it to your mouth if you start another stupid poll! 33 15.87%
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Old Jul 05, 2012, 04:21 PM   #61
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Below is an image of how I see Europe. It is a compromise between the Polish desire for it to be considered "Western", whilst still acknowledging that they are basically Russian.

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Old Jul 05, 2012, 04:31 PM   #62
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You have missed out Celtic
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-> If Romania is in western europe, then you'll get a problem to explain why Poland isn't ^^.
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hahaha this is an awful categorization
Geez do you guys know what "roughly" means?
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Old Jul 05, 2012, 04:33 PM   #63
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Balls, I should have added Turkey to Western Europe, as a NATO core member.
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Old Jul 05, 2012, 04:38 PM   #64
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Poland also supplies half of Germany's footballing team SNAP
Podolski, Klose ... didn't know we had only four team members. Could explain why we didn't win the last championship

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Poland is west of where it used to be, but it is still in eastern europe, but so is Germany, Sweden and Italy

France, Belgium and the Netherlands are central europe
Never ask the British about Continental geography.

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Roughly:

Western Europe = Romantic languages (Portugal, Spain, France, Italy) + UK
Eastern Europe = Slavic languages (fmr USSR, Poland, fmr Yugoslavia)
Central Europe = Germanic languages (Netherlands, Scandinavia, Germany, Austria)
Poor Finno-Ugric languages. Where do they live? The Great Pannonian Taiga?

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Geez do you guys know what "roughly" means?
Yes, but you should never that in the way of some snark!
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Old Jul 05, 2012, 04:44 PM   #65
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You have missed out Celtic
Wouldn't that be Northern Europe?

BTW, Africa is Southern Europe, if any one was interested.
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Old Jul 05, 2012, 05:12 PM   #66
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Geez do you guys know what "roughly" means?
Approximations are useless when dealing with Poles.
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Old Jul 05, 2012, 05:16 PM   #67
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Yes it did. So what?
It makes no sense to use Cold War definitions in a world where there is no Cold War.





Here is a compromise everyone, give us back Lwow, Luck, Bresc, Grodno and Vilnius and then we can be Eastern European.
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Old Jul 05, 2012, 05:18 PM   #68
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Oh, I think I can do another one!

"The Poles roughly won the Siege of Vienna."
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Old Jul 05, 2012, 05:19 PM   #69
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Here is a compromise everyone, give us back Lwow, Luck, Bresc, Grodno and Vilnius and then we can be Eastern European.
Done, if Germany gets Schlesien, Posen, Pomerellen, and Westpreußen back.

Surprised you said Vilnius instead of Wilno, actually.
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Old Jul 05, 2012, 05:20 PM   #70
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Oh, I think I can do another one!

"The Poles roughly won the Siege of Vienna."
No, Polish influence on that battle was worthless at best. It was all Austrians with the help of their Holy Roman allies that won the battle and beat back the Turks. Everyone knows this.
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Old Jul 05, 2012, 05:21 PM   #71
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Done, if Germany gets Schlesien, Posen, Pomerellen, and Westpreußen back.

Surprised you said Vilnius instead of Wilno, actually.
I slipped.

I accept that offer. Because then I would be German and could support a successful national team!!
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Old Jul 05, 2012, 05:42 PM   #72
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Your saying Poland is in Asia?
Will that make patriotic Poles more irritated?
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Old Jul 05, 2012, 06:10 PM   #73
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Old Jul 05, 2012, 07:15 PM   #74
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Here is a compromise everyone, give us back Lwow, Luck, Bresc, Grodno and Vilnius and then we can be Eastern European.
I have even better solution.
Give Lwow, Luck, Brest, Grodno and Vilnius back to Poland,
and Poland back to Russia.
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Old Jul 05, 2012, 08:09 PM   #75
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No, Polish influence on that battle was worthless at best. It was all Austrians with the help of their Holy Roman allies that won the battle and beat back the Turks. Everyone knows this.
Actually, it's more because Kara Mustafa was a terrible general.
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Old Jul 05, 2012, 08:26 PM   #76
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Actually, it's more because Kara Mustafa was a terrible general.
Generals who lose battles and more importantly wars, are not often remembered for being "great".
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Old Jul 05, 2012, 10:47 PM   #78
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Generals who lose battles and more importantly wars, are not often remembered for being "great".
Hannibal, Napoleon, Charles XII, Lee, Rommel
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Old Jul 06, 2012, 01:02 AM   #79
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Wrong. Poland is in CANADA.
I've already covered this in great detail. Try and keep up, mortals.
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Old Jul 06, 2012, 01:45 AM   #80
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Not sure where it lies though...
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