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Dortmund Victory Could Cause Baby Boom

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Will famous Liverpool FC win spark a baby boom?


Tens of thousands of Liverpool fans will have woken up this morning nursing a hangover .
Understandable, you might think, given the heady events of the night before in Liverpool's dramatic comeback against Dortmund, but, if past experience is anything to go by, some of them could find themselves nursing more than they bargained for.
Nine months after Liverpool staged a similar dramatic comeback in the Istanbul Champions League Final of 2005, Liverpool’s maternity hospitals reported 100 extra births.
Football, it appears, can be an aphrodisiac.
 
Athens said:
Is that w pronounced the way we would say it, or was it more Germanic? Do we know stuff like that?
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Good question. W was, by the late Middle Ages, a wuh sound. Not all letters were sounded as now though, particularly vowels.
 
doctor_mac said:
Good question. W was, by the late Middle Ages, a wuh sound. Not all letters were sounded as now though, particularly vowels.
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I've heard that the dark ages never happened. There's a lack of evidence for them actually existing.

Is this true? You can tell us.
 
Athens said:
I've heard that the dark ages never happened. There's a lack of evidence for them actually existing.

Is this true? You can tell us.
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No medievalist would ever use the expression 'the dark ages'. The idea of the Middle Ages is very problematic too, and the 'Renaissance' is nonsense. Periodisation is useful for the purposes of discussion, but inherently problematic.
 
doctor_mac said:
No medievalist would ever use the expression 'the dark ages'. The idea of the Middle Ages is very problematic too, and the 'Renaissance' is nonsense. Periodisation is useful for the purposes of discussion, but inherently problematic.
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So you don't use the term 'the dark ages' because they didn't exist?

Your game is up!
 
After the Romans left in around 400, the supply of reliable history dried up for a few centuries. There were chroniclers like Bede, but much of what they wrote comprised frustratingly useless accounts of the miracles of saints and so-on. Modern scholarship and archaeology are piecing together what actually happened in the "dark ages" but some big questions still remain open. For example, did the Angles and Saxons "invade" and conquer the Brythonic peoples, or did they just assimilate as modern immigrants do?
 
Portly said:
After the Romans left in around 400, the supply of reliable history dried up for a few centuries. There were chroniclers like Bede, but much of what they wrote comprised frustratingly useless accounts of the miracles of saints and so-on. Modern scholarship and archaeology are piecing together what actually happened in the "dark ages" but some big questions still remain open. For example, did the Angles and Saxons "invade" and conquer the Brythonic peoples, or did they just assimilate as modern immigrants do?
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I think they definitely invaded. The assimilation would have been assimilating the fuck out of celtic women.
 
You dirty dog. I have a strange fondness for Bettany Hughes, who I think may have a pictish origin. Dr Lucy Worsley comes across as a snobby, posh little madam. And all the more sexy for it.
 
Portly said:
I imagine the Celtic women were like Professor Alice Roberts, for whom I really have the hots.
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I recently read her book 'The incredible unlikeliness of being'. It was a good read, if you're into evolution you would enjoy it.

Incidentally, while Europe was (and I include England in this) languishing in the dark ages, Ireland was keeping the light of learning burning bright. It went a bit pear shaped after that, though.
 
Athens said:
I recently read her book 'The incredible unlikeliness of being'. It was a good read, if you're into evolution you would enjoy it.

Incidentally, while Europe was (and I include England in this) languishing in the dark ages, Ireland was keeping the light of learning burning bright. It went a bit pear shaped after that, though.
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Ireland was rocking the shit out of it then in terms of Northern European religious culture.
 
The Celtic Christians ended up being elbowed out of the scene by Rome, didn't they?

I've been to St. Kevin's place at Glendalough - very atmospheric and gives you the feel of what it was all about.
 
Portly said:
The Celtic Christians ended up being elbowed out of the scene by Rome, didn't they?

I've been to St. Kevin's place at Glendalough - very atmospheric and gives you the feel of what it was all about.
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Yeah, amazingly, missionaries from my home town, Bangor, County Down, were evangelising in Northern Italy, which, with the fall of Rome, had reverted to pagan beliefs. They were also evangelising in what is now Austria and Germany. Which was probably unwise at the time.
 
Portly said:
The Celtic Christians ended up being elbowed out of the scene by Rome, didn't they?

I've been to St. Kevin's place at Glendalough - very atmospheric and gives you the feel of what it was all about.
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I believe the church in Ireland was pretty relaxed and liberal until the church in Rome got wind of it all. They didn't like women being treated as equals and what not. Obviously they hadn't met many Irish women, who don't take lightly to the whole 'not being treated equal' thing.

doctor_mac said:
Yeah, amazingly, missionaries from my home town, Bangor, County Down, were evangelising in Northern Italy, which, with the fall of Rome, had reverted to pagan beliefs. They were also evangelising in what is now Austria and Germany. Which was probably unwise at the time.
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Wurzburg in Germany has St Cillian as their patron saint. I believe he was martyred there. There's a few places in that part of the world that have Irish saints and place names,
 
I know a guy, named his daughter Rafa, in 2006..

Any kids baptized as Jurgen in Liverpool this year? How about an explosions of Brendan's in 2013? Poor kids!
 
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