There ain't nothing like a Dane

[Gob]

nothing in the world...

[Long Run]

When I see a list like this, I can't help but think something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

[dales]

Denmark?

btdt........................meh

If you recall, NAZI Germany ran thru them like sh-t thru a tin horn.

[Sue U]

Denmark?

btdt........................meh

If you recall, NAZI Germany ran thru them like sh-t thru a tin horn.

And yet the Danes saved the country's entire Jewish community from the Nazis in one of the greatest escape and rescue actions ever undertaken -- even keeping tabs on and retrieving those who had been captured and sent to the Theresienstadt concentration camp.

[Gob]

Dales, I know you're ancient, but WWII ended in 1945 mate, 70 years ago.



Danes TODAY have an amazing society and social structure.

[rubato]

Denmark?

btdt........................meh

If you recall, NAZI Germany ran thru them like sh-t thru a tin horn.

And yet the Danes saved the country's entire Jewish community from the Nazis in one of the greatest escape and rescue actions ever undertaken -- even keeping tabs on and retrieving those who had been captured and sent to the Theresienstadt concentration camp.

They also had a well-organized and effective resistance movement.. The harbormaster for the Carlsberg brewery helped organize the evacuation of Jews, Neils Bohr helped dozens of Jewish scientists escape to the west, helped them get jobs and was active in the resistance (and had to escape). The chief engineer for Bang and Olufsen sent designs for improved radios back to England which the resistance used. they built underground factories to make machine pistols (the assault weapons of their day).

And this:
"... Antoine Lavoisier called aqua regia nitro-muriatic acid in 1789.[11] When Germany invaded Denmark in World War II, Hungarian chemist George de Hevesy dissolved the gold Nobel Prizes of German physicists Max von Laue (1914) and James Franck (1925) in aqua regia to prevent the Nazis from confiscating them. The German government had prohibited Germans from accepting or keeping any Nobel Prize after jailed peace activist Carl von Ossietzky had received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1935. De Hevesy placed the resulting solution on a shelf in his laboratory at the Niels Bohr Institute. It was subsequently ignored by the Nazis who thought the jar—one of perhaps hundreds on the shelving—contained common chemicals. After the war, de Hevesy returned to find the solution undisturbed and precipitated the gold out of the acid. The gold was returned to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation. They re-cast the medals and again presented them to Laue and Franck.[12][13] ... "


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[dales]

Speaking of Carlsberg beer....................

It tastes lie piis

[rubato]

Not a fan either; all lager is piss. But their harbormaster had balls, which you lack.


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[wesw]

ISIS got a hold of you, eh dales?

I heard that they were making eunuchs again to protect their harems of yazidi and Christian women while ...

(actually I just made that up, but keep your ears open, I wouldn t be surprised)

[dales]

Not a fan either; all lager is piss. But their harbormaster had balls....


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I dunno if I would like to drink something with "balls" in it.

Anyway, if Danish urine is your fancy...............................