Thoughts of the day every day in 2013

[Shirko]

I pretty much agreed, except the the "different homeland" statement, this is commonly by many, but I thinks the Indo-Iranian relation is an addition to Kyrda who are indigenous.

That's unfair.

I did not say that French drivers are better than Kurds. Look at Paris trafic at the same hour and we are more savage. But it has nothing to do with genes, for French people are 500% bastards in their blood. And that is a chance. Being a 'pure-blood' with a strong endogamy - is being a biological disaster, as we could see in our royal dynasties :

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... es_054.jpg

Who would like to be like that ?

Well, purity in the sense that kurds descend from the same ancestors, not from one group. I highly doubt that kurds descend from one single tribe or that others have not had a historical impact on kurds(You can see this in micro input in kurds). However they descend from Kurdish ancestors. They descend from the individuals and people who formed the coalescence of kurdish people. You see, genetics are constantly refining and changing. As time passes, people diverge. In genetics there is a term for this. Founder affect. As biological entity reproduces, the variety it has is lost. So over time... kurds in a biological sense as any people, including the french, have been refined to their current day profile. Kurds genetically belong to the larger indo-iranian family, but diverged via isolation and living in a different homeland. This said, I take no stance on whether I think endogamy is wrong or monogamy is right. All I'm saying is that kurds are biologically unique, as are any people, this is what constitutes their purity. And they all share more or less similar ancestors. While say latin-america is not the case, due to them having such huge variety in ancestors, all coming from geographically unrelated and distant areas. Kurds perhaps mixed less than their Iraqi arab/ Anatolian Turkish neighbours, due to mostly living outside urban centers and their mountaineering lifestyle.

[Shirko]

That's unfair.

I did not say that French drivers are better than Kurds. Look at Paris trafic at the same hour and we are more savage. But it has nothing to do with genes, for French people are 500% bastards in their blood. And that is a chance. Being a 'pure-blood' with a strong endogamy - is being a biological disaster, as we could see in our royal dynasties :

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... es_054.jpg

Who would like to be like that ?

And you mixing aggressive drivers with unorganized cultures. In Hawler, they are building state-of-art roads and highways, but they still have a bunch of aggressive drivers still, this is the Middle Eastern gene.

[Anthea]

30 October

If people go to Italy for a holiday they are often forewarned about the dangerous Italian drivers

There is a large ring road encircling London - the M25 - it is laughingly called the largest car park in England - there are a lot of accidents on it - and a lot of road rage incidents due to the hold-ups caused by accidents - it is considered so dangerous that many people will not use it

[Anthea]

31 October 13

HAPPY HALLOWEEN



The word Halloween or Hallowe'en dates to about 1745 and is of Christian origin

Halloween or Hallowe'en; a contraction of "All Hallows' Evening", also known as All Hallows' Eve, is a yearly celebration observed in a number of countries on October 31, the eve of the Western Christian feast of All Hallows' Day. It initiates the triduum of Hallowmas, the time in the liturgical year dedicated to remembering the dead, including saints (hallows), martyrs, and all the faithful departed believers.

According to many scholars, All Hallows' Eve is a Christianized feast initially influenced by Celtic harvest festivals, with possible pagan roots, particularly the Gaelic Samhain. Other academics maintain that it originated independently of Samhain and has solely Christian roots.

Typical festive Halloween activities include trick-or-treating (or the related "guising" or "trunk-or-treating"), attending costume parties, decorating, carving pumpkins into jack-o'-lanterns, lighting bonfires, apple bobbing, visiting haunted attractions, playing pranks, telling scary stories, and watching horror films.

[Anthea]

1 November

Another celebration - should be on the 5 November but most celebrations take part on the weekend before or after the date

Guy Fawkes

The only person to enter parliament with honest intentions

Guy Fawkes (13 April 1570 – 31 January 1606), also known as Guido Fawkes, the name he adopted while fighting for the Spanish in the Low Countries, was a member of a group of provincial English Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605.

Fawkes was born and educated in York. His father died when Fawkes was eight years old, after which his mother married a recusant Catholic. Fawkes later converted to Catholicism and left for the continent, where he fought in the Eighty Years' War on the side of Catholic Spain against Protestant Dutch reformers. He travelled to Spain to seek support for a Catholic rebellion in England but was unsuccessful. He later met Thomas Wintour, with whom he returned to England.

Wintour introduced Fawkes to Robert Catesby, who planned to assassinate King James I and restore a Catholic monarch to the throne. The plotters secured the lease to an undercroft beneath the House of Lords, and Fawkes was placed in charge of the gunpowder they stockpiled there. Prompted by the receipt of an anonymous letter, the authorities searched Westminster Palace during the early hours of 5 November, and found Fawkes guarding the explosives. Over the next few days, he was questioned and tortured, and eventually he broke. Immediately before his execution on 31 January, Fawkes jumped from the scaffold where he was to be hanged and broke his neck, thus avoiding the agony of the mutilation that followed.

Fawkes became synonymous with the Gunpowder Plot, the failure of which has been commemorated in England since 5 November 1605. His effigy is traditionally burned on a bonfire, commonly accompanied by a firework display.

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[Anthea]

2 November

My mouse is sick

[Piling]

It is also Diwali today, lights and bonfires

[Anthea]

3 November

My mouse still refuses to work properly on my new desk - perhaps it needs some more cheese

I have been far too busy to fix anything - another meeting - I am doing 3 different things with 3 different groups of people and having to keep everything separate - fortunately multi-tasking is something we women are best at

[Anthea]

4 November

I had a good meeting and an eve better lunch

[Anthea]

5 November

Some fireworks going off this evening - most of the bonfire parties will take place next weekend

I am becoming very busy - lots of research

[Anthea]

6 November

The Gorran are playing at politics - they obviously have no real interest in Kurdistan or the wants and needs of the Kurdish people - they should remember that while they are playing their political games they are playing with peoples lives

[Anthea]

7 November

Guy Fawkes parties all weekend

After this no more celebrations until Christmas

[Anthea]

8 November

I have to repeat the comment I posted earlier in reply to Aslan's post:

Moroccan Samira Said to Sing for Erbil

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Lebanese music-video director Fadi Haddad directing a Moroccan singer Samira Said who has been chosen as the voice and face of Erbil for a music video celebrating the Kurdistan Region’s main city as the 2014 Tourism Capital of the Middle East

Is this a joke - if so it is in bad taste

Kurdish girls are among the MOST beautiful in the world and many have voices like angels - this has to be a joke

[Anthea]

9 November

I am playing with proxies today

[Anthea]

I am having trouble finding a proxy which will keep me logged in to where I want to be

I am going to have to change proxies