knapping flint

[Gob]

Well done Bill, choose any prize from the second shelf...

[liberty]

Why do you want to sleep in Michael Moore's hometown?

Sorry Gob I don’t have clue what you talking about. I will Google Moore and see what I can.

liberty, I believe Moore is originally from Flint, MI; remember, he made his reputation on "Roger and Me", the documentary about the decline of Flint when GM pulled out — and 'knapping' (without the 'k') refers to sleeping.

-"BB"-

Smarty pants

[liberty]

Eurasia is the combined continental landmass of Europe and Asia.[1][2][3] The term is a portmanteau of its two constituents. Located primarily in the Northern and Eastern Hemispheres, it is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, the Pacific Ocean to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and by Africa, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Indian Ocean to the south.[4] The division between Europe and Asia as two different continents is a historical and cultural construct, with no clear physical separation between them; thus, in some parts of the world, Eurasia is recognized as the largest of five or six continents.[3]
Eurasia covers around 55,000,000 square kilometres (21,000,000 sq mi), or around 36.2% of the Earth's total land area. The landmass contains around 5.0 billion people, equating to approximately 70% of the human population. Humans first settled in Eurasia between 60,000 and 125,000 years ago. Some island countries, including the United Kingdom, Ireland, Japan, and Indonesia, are included under the popular definition of Eurasia, in spite of being separate from the massive landmass.

[MajGenl.Meade]

Why irrelevant quote from wikipedia?

[wesw]

yeah, so much for the promised insight.....

[liberty]

Eurasia is the combined continental landmass of Europe and Asia.[1][2][3] The term is a portmanteau of its two constituents. Located primarily in the Northern and Eastern Hemispheres, it is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, the Pacific Ocean to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and by Africa, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Indian Ocean to the south.[4] The division between Europe and Asia as two different continents is a historical and cultural construct, with no clear physical separation between them; thus, in some parts of the world, Eurasia is recognized as the largest of five or six continents.[3]
Eurasia covers around 55,000,000 square kilometres (21,000,000 sq mi), or around 36.2% of the Earth's total land area. The landmass contains around 5.0 billion people, equating to approximately 70% of the human population. Humans first settled in Eurasia between 60,000 and 125,000 years ago. Some island countries, including the United Kingdom, Ireland, Japan, and Indonesia, are included under the popular definition of Eurasia, in spite of being separate from the massive landmass.

You Wes said that it was 0k with you if the discussion branched out. I was thinking a discussion of flint knapping could lead to a discussion of the primitive peoples of Eurasia. I posted the material above to demonstrate that I did not create the idea of Eurasia. It has been around for a while; I am an apostles not the originator. It makes a lot more sense than the BCE/CE movement, I oppose, which had no problem catching on with the intellectual class.

[wesw]

yeah dude, everyone knows what (obscenity deleted) Eurasia is....

i was hoping for something a bit more interesting

[Bicycle Bill]

Eurasia is the combined continental landmass of Europe and Asia.[1][2][3] The term is a portmanteau of its two constituents. Located primarily in the Northern and Eastern Hemispheres, it is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, the Pacific Ocean to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and by Africa, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Indian Ocean to the south.[4] The division between Europe and Asia as two different continents is a historical and cultural construct, with no clear physical separation between them; thus, in some parts of the world, Eurasia is recognized as the largest of five or six continents.[3]
Eurasia covers around 55,000,000 square kilometres (21,000,000 sq mi), or around 36.2% of the Earth's total land area. The landmass contains around 5.0 billion people, equating to approximately 70% of the human population. Humans first settled in Eurasia between 60,000 and 125,000 years ago. Some island countries, including the United Kingdom, Ireland, Japan, and Indonesia, are included under the popular definition of Eurasia, in spite of being separate from the massive landmass.

At this moment, for example, in 1984 (if it was 1984), Oceania was at war with Eurasia and in alliance with Eastasia.  In no public or private utterance was it ever admitted that the three powers had at any time been grouped along different lines.  Actually, as Winston well knew, it was only four years since Oceania had been at war with Eastasia and in alliance with Eurasia.  But that was merely a piece of furtive knowledge, which he happened to possess because his memory was not satisfactorily under control.  Officially the change of partners had never happened.  Oceania was at war with Eurasia: therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.  The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible.

NOW do you remember what Eurasia was?

-"BB"-

[liberty]

yeah dude, everyone knows what (obscenity deleted) Eurasia is....

i was hoping for something a bit more interesting

I am getting there, but I wanted first to be clear about what I mean by the word Eurasia.

Now to your parody of the migration of my people. I never said that they were not yours or anyone else’s ancestors I was merely speaking for myself. They are my ancestors because I identify them as such:

You implied that an reincarnated ancestor of mine lead my people out Egypt to the promised land of the Eurasian steppes. You need to work on your channeling you got it backwards. The steppes was not the promise land but the homeland. The land of the south was the promise land. A branch of my family came south as far as the Middle East and India and displaced the Negroid people living there making the land their own. They moved on over into North Africa doing the same there. They pushed the black people of the Nile valley south setting the stage for Neolithic Egypt.

They came on horse back with their bows and Lances; without horses the Africans (blacks ) didn’t have a chance. If this is not the case what happened to the blacks tribes that lived in the land from Egypt to India. They migrated from Africa to Australia and left no one behind?

[MajGenl.Meade]

It's not your family, you silly person. Your ancestors are the same as all ancestors - ancestors but not family. Blacks left Africa and went to Australia, leaving the place empty? Step back from the kool-aid, sir. Step back

[wesw]

well, I ve lost interest now....

I thought that you might have something interesting to say, but it appears that your tale would only be interesting to someone in the mental health community....

I thought that Australian aboriginal peoples were classified as a branch of Caucasians anyway....

[liberty]

It's not your family, you silly person. Your ancestors are the same as all ancestors - ancestors but not family. Blacks left Africa and went to Australia, leaving the place empty? Step back from the kool-aid, sir. Step back

Who are you Mr. Meade to say who is and is not my family. Just because I may not think as most people do does not mean that I must change my way of thinking. Both your family and ancestors are the people that made it possible for you to be here, so once a family member dies they join the ancestors. My ancestors are dead members of my family. How far back one wishes to count their ancestors and family is up to the individual.

“Blacks left Africa and went to Australia, leaving the place empty? Step back from the kool-aid, sir. Step back”

The point that I was making is that Caucasian and that includes Arabs came from the north, Eurasian steppes. And that they took the land of the south from the original people who were black. I say black, but they most likely had brown skin, but were Negroid. What are you saying? Are you saying that the original people of South Asia were not black or that they did not disappear?

[liberty]

well, I ve lost interest now....

I thought that you might have something interesting to say,...

What can I say Wes, if you don’t like anthropology I can’t make you. I try to spice it up, but if you don’t like you don’t like it.

[Burning Petard]

I have never objectively checked out my ancestors, beyond 3 generations back, but just as a thought exercise, I have decided I am Afro-asian. My mother, many times removed, was Lucy in Africa, and my father, similar generations back, was the Peking Man.

snailgate

[MajGenl.Meade]

It's not your family, you silly person. Your ancestors are the same as all ancestors - ancestors but not family. Blacks left Africa and went to Australia, leaving the place empty? Step back from the kool-aid, sir. Step back

Who are you Mr. Meade to say who is and is not my family. Just because I may not think as most people do does not mean that I must change my way of thinking. Both your family and ancestors are the people that made it possible for you to be here, so once a family member dies they join the ancestors. My ancestors are dead members of my family. How far back one wishes to count their ancestors and family is up to the individual.

“Blacks left Africa and went to Australia, leaving the place empty? Step back from the kool-aid, sir. Step back”

The point that I was making is that Caucasian and that includes Arabs came from the north, Eurasian steppes. And that they took the land of the south from the original people who were black. I say black, but they most likely had brown skin, but were Negroid. What are you saying? Are you saying that the original people of South Asia were not black or that they did not disappear?

If they are your family, tell me their names and how you traced them? How about, a name from 3,000 years BC that you can prove is related to you?

I'm not saying anything about black people in South Asia. You said Africa. Your theory is that all the blacks left Africa and went to Australia. Aside from being bullshit it's also... er, bullshit

[BoSoxGal]

We are all relations.

[liberty]

We are all relations.

All people on earth are related, hell all life on earth is related.

[MajGenl.Meade]

Deep and original insights - that's why I love this place.

[dales]

I have never objectively checked out my ancestors, beyond 3 generations back, but just as a thought exercise, I have decided I am Afro-asian. My mother, many times removed, was Lucy in Africa, and my father, similar generations back, was the Peking Man.

snailgate

My great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grand pappy was Piltdown man

[Gob]

Just goes to show that evolution doesn't always happen.