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This is not really political, more historical, but I genuinely find it interesting when someone becomes 'ethnic' German (in this case). I mean, take your average German now and take their father, their father's father, their great-grandfather's great-grandfather and so on...at some point there's gonna be someone who never even came within 1000km of present-day Germany

When does one start being (in this case) British though? After over a century, should they still be called Germans? Go back far enough and one can say every single country in the world right now is ruled by a South African (or Ethiopian?).

Also: funny how a new law that's largely about safety concerns leads to a discussion about who did what and "they were bad, no they were bad!" from 500 years ago.

There sure as shit was slavery very far away from Italy and Portugal before they came up with it.

Africans are a bunch of monkeys and cannibals who don't even know how to wear shoes properly.

I wonder why not every country is involved though. Can it really take more than a couple of minutes to copy-paste the standard uniforms and stuff and change it a bit into the colours of another nation?

An Olympic game that's not button mashing? I might even get a little interested

Building on my previous post, today was so much the Volta/Tour of Portugal The first regular stage was won by Davide Appolonio, who came back only a few weeks ago from a four year EPO suspension

They mostly think it's a safety concern when one's complete face is invisible. There's something like being obligated to identify oneself when required, for example.

Which is why I don't think a headscarf or for example wearing a cross should be banned or anything.

Erik ten Hag of course, bringing a team from outside a major club football power to the Champions League semi's (and literally 5 seconds/one attack away from the final, damn it)

That bird is cool

Excellent idea

Yep. One thing that came to mind: when one sees someone with something face-covering in for example a public institution, employees have to warn this person and tell them to either take the face covering off or leave the premises. If not, police can be called in to do the same and - if someone refuses - give a fine. The problem though: how is police going to get identification from someone who refuses to take off their face covering? That's impossible..

If Google is correct about abayas, yes Our right-wing moron Geert Wilders has already come out today and said the next step is a headscarf ban. Much as I'm in favour of banning things that completely cover the face, I'm just as much against this 'headscarf ban' thing.

Forgot to answer this, but no, it doesn't sound familiar...at all. It sounds more like a dangerous kind of cult that ends up in very unpleasant things. Seriously, that sounds shady as shit. "They looked like they belonged to the mafia." Judging people by the way they look doesn't sound very...you

This should be significantly easier though...I mean, we already have an entire multi-sports event for people with this kind of handicap, which is awesome (the event, not the handicap).

Yeah...not only in European history though. Not at all. By the way, when an alarming number of reactions to something like this are basically threats of violence, it does kinda make one think of a ban as a necessary evil. We shouldn't exactly go like "oh they're threatening with violence if they don't get their way, let's forget it".

I'm not entirely sure how to read this

There are no super religious Dutch groups where the women wear face-covering clothes, no. Sadly in these times it's a matter of safety, mostly. Women who want to wear it (or are pretty much forced to wear it) can still do so at home and, if I'm not mistaken, outside on the street. Just not in a few places. Again though, this is one of those issues where there's not really a clear-cut solution of what's good and what's wrong.

One of the bigger social discussions in the Netherlands has come to a next stage today. From today on, it's illegal to wear face-covering 'clothing' in public transport, educational institutions, healthcare clinics/hospitals and government buildings. Meaning those motorcycle helmets that cover your entire head (which one only needs on their motorcycle anyway), ski masks (or whatever the right word is, google the Dutch word bivakmuts) and - here we go - burqas. Obviously that last one is the main point of discussion and people have already threatened with violence in response to this.

Oscar Pistorius all over again https://olympics.nbcsports.com/2019/07/27/blake-leeper-paralympian-double-amputee-nationals/

Much to my surprise I now realize (while listening) I actually know the Pyeongchang medal music I don't really know how, because I guess it's just played during medal ceremonies and one is of course mostly watching sports instead of ceremonies....I guess a few must have slipped through

Yay, the Tour of Portugal started, the yearly festival of "WTF is happening?" and "Haha that guy is sprinting up that steep climb as if it's a downhill!" In the prologue, we've got 3rd place for a 39-year old Spaniard riding for the slightly suspicious W52/FC Porto team. A few days ago he was still chilling on the beach, until sadly Raul Alarcon couldn't participate due to issues and the whole Volta kinda got beheaded by it. https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/volta-a-portugal/2019/prologue

Right, understandable that makes for some harsh discussions. Definitely one of those things were there's no clear-cut good or bad way to deal with it.