| Nice story on Roman settlements found during HS2 works on 13:58 - Jan 11 with 490 views | leitrimblue |
| Nice story on Roman settlements found during HS2 works on 13:39 - Jan 11 by Churchman |
Agreed. I think DNA/discoveries are and should knock down some of the perceptions and prejudices we have. I suspect there’s a right old mix in my DNA, but I bet the lot that my ancestors came from other places to here.
I went to a lecture/presentation by the excellent Scottish historian Neil Oliver a couple of years. It was based on his new book at the time which looks at historical links going back to ancient times across these islands and was absolutely fascinating.
Nationalism and tribalism is fine for sport and sharing a beer or ten, but that’s where it should end for me. |
I have this good friend who is a retired professor of prehistory in Belfast. Think he first got interested in ancient DNA about 10 odd years ago and is now completely obsessed. Even though he is retired he still goes into college 5-6 days a week. Most of my knowledge on the subject comes from small talk from him. He writes the odd book on the subject, but as the information is so fast moving the front if the book is usually a explanation that DNA evidence used to write
it is now at least partially outta date. I believe there is now thought to have been enormous movement North west through Europe and then onto UK in Ireland at several times from the late Neolithic and through the bronze age |  | |  |
| Nice story on Roman settlements found during HS2 works on 14:23 - Jan 11 with 465 views | Keno |
| Nice story on Roman settlements found during HS2 works on 13:58 - Jan 11 by leitrimblue |
I have this good friend who is a retired professor of prehistory in Belfast. Think he first got interested in ancient DNA about 10 odd years ago and is now completely obsessed. Even though he is retired he still goes into college 5-6 days a week. Most of my knowledge on the subject comes from small talk from him. He writes the odd book on the subject, but as the information is so fast moving the front if the book is usually a explanation that DNA evidence used to write
it is now at least partially outta date. I believe there is now thought to have been enormous movement North west through Europe and then onto UK in Ireland at several times from the late Neolithic and through the bronze age |
Bl00dy immigrants coming over here taking our caves and eating out mammoths |  |
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| Nice story on Roman settlements found during HS2 works on 14:30 - Jan 11 with 458 views | leitrimblue |
| Nice story on Roman settlements found during HS2 works on 14:23 - Jan 11 by Keno |
Bl00dy immigrants coming over here taking our caves and eating out mammoths |
It's ok Ken, we only gonna let him do the sh1te jobs the locals don't want. Skinning mammoths with a tiny bits of flint, vegetable picking etc. Though we not gonna invent agriculture for another 10,000 plus years (that should teach um) | | | |
| Nice story on Roman settlements found during HS2 works on 14:35 - Jan 11 with 445 views | Keno |
| Nice story on Roman settlements found during HS2 works on 14:30 - Jan 11 by leitrimblue |
It's ok Ken, we only gonna let him do the sh1te jobs the locals don't want. Skinning mammoths with a tiny bits of flint, vegetable picking etc. Though we not gonna invent agriculture for another 10,000 plus years (that should teach um) |
At least we can give them music. dancing, fun and Guinness, the world will thank us later for that
but we are sorry about U2 and westlife | |
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| Nice story on Roman settlements found during HS2 works on 14:42 - Jan 11 with 433 views | leitrimblue |
| Nice story on Roman settlements found during HS2 works on 14:35 - Jan 11 by Keno |
At least we can give them music. dancing, fun and Guinness, the world will thank us later for that
but we are sorry about U2 and westlife |
Nothing wrong with a bit of Westlife..... I'm legally forced to say that as a few of my mates here went to school with um and are bizarrely protective | | | |
| Nice story on Roman settlements found during HS2 works on 15:27 - Jan 11 with 408 views | Churchman |
Maybe he should stick to the history stuff |  | | |
| Nice story on Roman settlements found during HS2 works on 15:38 - Jan 11 with 399 views | HARRY10 |
| Nice story on Roman settlements found during HS2 works on 12:19 - Jan 11 by leitrimblue |
Celtic is the word used to describe the iron age an early medieval times tribes of Northern Europe. It is far from perfect. Though the relationship between language and ethnicity may be less then clear. The fact they have a shared culture of art, metallurgy etc is less controversial. In which way would you dispute that the iron age inhabitants of UK and Ireland we're not Celts? |
I wouldn't, as our knowledge of them is limited so your description of them as Celts does the job.
I am sure our knowledge of native tribes in the US at the same time is limited so we can refer to them as Celts
All these people actually share is a lack of knowledge about them - so let's lump them all together and call them Celts |  | | |
| Nice story on Roman settlements found during HS2 works on 15:48 - Jan 11 with 380 views | leitrimblue |
| Nice story on Roman settlements found during HS2 works on 15:38 - Jan 11 by HARRY10 |
I wouldn't, as our knowledge of them is limited so your description of them as Celts does the job.
I am sure our knowledge of native tribes in the US at the same time is limited so we can refer to them as Celts
All these people actually share is a lack of knowledge about them - so let's lump them all together and call them Celts |
Paragraph 1, thanks
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Errrm, no, you can not refer to the native US tribes as Celtic as they share absolutely no cultural, artistic, linguistic or any other link to the Celtic world.
Paragraph 3, not sure of the meaning, so perhaps it's best to leave this here for now. | | | |
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| Nice story on Roman settlements found during HS2 works on 16:00 - Jan 11 with 364 views | HARRY10 |
| Nice story on Roman settlements found during HS2 works on 12:08 - Jan 11 by Steve_M |
Upgrading the existing rail lines leads to years of delays and enormous cost over-runs, the West Coast mainline upgrade is a case in point. Infrastructure is expensive but pretending that cheaper alternatives do the same thing is political short-termism.
HS2 was badly sold but the real advantage should be to increase capacity, taking the fastest services away from existing lines allows for more commuter and freight trains on those. The cuts to it seriously weaken connectivity in the North and should be reversed really.
I don't think the alternative to HS2 is more journeys on existing trains, but rather more on roads and planes. |
That assumes that everything will be the same in 15, 20, 30 years time, I venture to suggest that it will not.
The last couple of years have shown that. The pandemic has brought forward huge change. But it was changes that were already in the pipeline.
The French did not lose in 1940 because the troops did not fight - they did. They also had greater numbers and better ranks (Char B). But they still relied upon dispatch riders, used their tanks as pill boxes and had a structure that was too slow, and too rigid.
Look at supermarkets. Once, Tesco seemed unstoppable in building out of town shops. Yet within a few years that has ended, to be replaced by smaller Metros and Expresses. Lidl and Aldi have grabbed a huge slice of the market with stripped down shops offering far less range, but cheaper.
The idea that we will continue to moved people to where the information/data is, is no longer feasible.
The West Line you speak of is an example of why HS2 is a hugely flawed while elephant. What is needed in the north is providing enough trains on existing tracks. Proper maintenance and repair.
But above all ensuring the UK catches up with much of Europe and puts in fast broadband - everywhere.
How much would that cost - much like when the railways were first built and they compared the cost of more rail, or another canal.
We should be building for future needs, not past demands. | | | |
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