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has there ever been a worse degeneration than Ancient Greece --> Modern Greece
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Date: April 18th, 2018 8:08 PM Author: Misunderstood Saffron Reading Party (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870443) |
Date: April 18th, 2018 8:12 PM Author: Abusive violet space water buffalo USA 1919 - 2018
That's less than 100 years. Ours dwarfs Greece's degeneration both in its scale and in its rapidity |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 8:13 PM Author: Misunderstood Saffron Reading Party let's be real. The US was never particularly cultured, sophisticated, or even literate. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870488) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 8:16 PM Author: Abusive violet space water buffalo US 1919: Temperance movement, largely agrarian, largely illiterate, filled with zealous Christians.
US 2018: Opium epidemic, Global Capitalism rampant, 50 Shades of Grey, filled with zealous trannies |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 8:23 PM Author: Cracking school milk (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870590) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 9:44 PM Author: Mind-boggling aquamarine lodge US 1919: Women still lacked the right to vote.
US 2018: LJL |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 9:50 PM Author: Abusive violet space water buffalo Mfcr (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35871085) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 2:58 PM Author: razzle-dazzle ruby home (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35875787) |
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Date: May 27th, 2018 1:17 PM Author: Maroon Alpha Locale In 1919, white mobs killed scores of blacks in dozens of cities. It was a year in which America went to hell. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#36136006) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 8:14 PM Author: crusty lemon temple Modern Greeks live closer to the Ancients than we do, buddy. Way closer and no GDP or employment rate got shit to do with it (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870500) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 8:15 PM Author: Misunderstood Saffron Reading Party how so? I'm not disagreeing, but they have like no cultural output so an explanation is necessary (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870511) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 8:18 PM Author: Abusive violet space water buffalo think you're hung up on Greece's relative decline, while he's focused on Greece's absolute level of culture etc. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870540) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 8:16 PM Author: Territorial macaca Egypt has to be worse. At least in modern Greece youre in the EU and can hie to Germany (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870517) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 8:32 PM Author: massive orchestra pit idea he suggested Yeah I think Egypt wins. Mexico is a strong contender because its precolumbian civilizations >> ancient Egypt, but Mexico today >>>>>> Egypt today. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870635) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 8:17 PM Author: supple orange nursing home gaming laptop India Mexico
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Date: April 18th, 2018 8:39 PM Author: massive orchestra pit idea he suggested Mexico is tough but mostly because it's cultures were totally wiped out, destroyed and lost. It's doing fairly well today and seems to be on the up and up. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870661) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 8:18 PM Author: Thriller theater stock car Spain from the 1400s to today is pretty bad. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870542) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 8:20 PM Author: umber twisted clown cuck (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870560) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 6:33 AM Author: Fiercely-loyal Talking Stead Haunted Graveyard (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35872691) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 8:22 PM Author: pontificating fishy step-uncle's house police squad can't believe nobody mentioned england yet (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870585) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 8:34 PM Author: Red Cruise Ship Dingle Berry Poor English (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870644) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 8:25 PM Author: sienna yarmulke ITT: a third worlder living on a festering piece of shit convinces himself turds flushed before his were bigger pieces of turd (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870602) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 8:27 PM Author: Misunderstood Saffron Reading Party lol if you think Korea even belongs in this discussion. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870613) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 8:28 PM Author: sienna yarmulke (guy literally living under feminazi matriarchy with a 75% female obesity rate claiming his country is first world) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870616) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 8:29 PM Author: Misunderstood Saffron Reading Party I readily admit that America sucks, don't see how it's relevant to the thread though. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870619) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 8:30 PM Author: sienna yarmulke "US 1919: Temperance movement, largely agrarian, largely illiterate, filled with zealous Christians.
US 2018: Opium epidemic, Global Capitalism rampant, 50 Shades of Grey, filled with zealous trannies"
oh u mad? |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 8:31 PM Author: Misunderstood Saffron Reading Party the 1919 US of illiterate Christian farmers is not any kind of height of civilization, I don't see it as a decline so much as a logical progression. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870626) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 8:37 PM Author: sienna yarmulke lol fair enough (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870654) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 9:51 PM Author: Abusive violet space water buffalo Yfwgi (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35871093) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 7:30 AM Author: bossy puce garrison Your attempts at trolling are increasingly ham handed and desperate. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35872767) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 3:19 PM Author: Abusive violet space water buffalo (guy who thinks literacy is a good in and of itself despite countless examples to the contrary) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35875930) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 8:32 PM Author: Cyan arousing national persian Zimbabwe (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870634) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 8:34 PM Author: Red Cruise Ship Dingle Berry Ancient Persia —-> modern Persia (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870643) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 8:36 PM Author: massive orchestra pit idea he suggested Persia still has potential today. They aren't demographicspwned like Egypt and not arabs like modern Egyptians. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870649) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 8:38 PM Author: Thriller theater stock car (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870656) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 7:42 AM Author: Frisky Spot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35872790) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 8:37 PM Author: Cordovan Den Elastic Band 50s CA -> 10s CA (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870651) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 8:40 PM Author: Red Cruise Ship Dingle Berry This hurt to read (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870670) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 8:40 PM Author: Hilarious Lascivious Old Irish Cottage Fortuitous Meteor Mongols (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870668) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 8:40 PM Author: sienna yarmulke they live through us (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870674) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 8:42 PM Author: Hilarious Lascivious Old Irish Cottage Fortuitous Meteor They were barely Asian. The people who today are closest to Mongols at the apex of their empire live in places like Uzbekistan. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870680) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 8:46 PM Author: sienna yarmulke wrong. uzbeks have massive amounts of turkic dna. mongols were always asiatic and the origin of the asiatic race. northern china is the only other group that traces its lineage to Chingis (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870709) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 8:41 PM Author: chrome marketing idea plaza Dum dums in this thread. The worst of all time is MONGOLIA. From ruling the world from Japan to Europe to being a backwater of herders. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870678) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 8:46 PM Author: Thriller theater stock car Not quite the same. Mongols were just military conquerors. They weren't top artists and scholars the way the Greeks were before their downfall. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870710) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 8:47 PM Author: Misunderstood Saffron Reading Party (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870715) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 8:53 PM Author: chrome marketing idea plaza Well if that’s your metric then the answer is obviously Western Europe under the Roman Empire to Western Europe during the dark ages (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870748) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 8:59 PM Author: Thriller theater stock car Western Europe outside Italy was kinda TTT even during the Roman Empire. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870786) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 9:11 PM Author: peach prole wagecucks Read "A World Lit Only by Fire" then report back please. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870843) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 9:19 PM Author: Thriller theater stock car That book is shit. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870892) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 9:20 PM Author: chrome marketing idea plaza You’re nuts (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870899) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 9:35 PM Author: Thriller theater stock car It's a lazy book Manchester shit out because he had writer's block on The Last Lion. He had no scholarly expertise on the period he was writing about and used almost no primary sources but nevertheless felt confident enough to make ludicrous assertions about a thousand years of history. It's a shitty book. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870980) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 9:42 PM Author: chrome marketing idea plaza Ok try “Britain After Rome” then for a nice dry text on archeological evidence showing how far the brits fell after the fall of Rome (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35871031) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 7:40 AM Author: Thriller theater stock car Oh it's no mystery that Western Europe declined post-Rome. It's just that it went from cruddy backwater to cruddier backwater. Roman Britain wasn't some apex of civilization beforehand. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35872786) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 8:42 PM Author: Medicated institution What's with this false idea that American farmers used to be illiterate?
Literacy rates are lower now than they were in 1750. |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 8:47 PM Author: sienna yarmulke holy shit (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870716) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 8:44 PM Author: Self-centered burgundy kitty cat That's not even that severe, tbh. They stopped fucking boys by and large and stopped fighting wars with more powerful foreign powers. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870690) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 8:44 PM Author: Medicated institution Portugal is up there. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870695) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 8:45 PM Author: marvelous outnumbered heaven pervert UK from 1880s to now
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Date: April 18th, 2018 8:46 PM Author: Medicated institution UK was always a shithole. Now it just also has a muslim mayor which is pretty lulzy. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870706) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 8:59 PM Author: marvelous outnumbered heaven pervert Nah man they ruled like 20% of earths surface and had 450 million citizens in 1940. By 20 years later, it had lost 90% of that (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870787) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 9:01 PM Author: Medicated institution "Rule" is a strong word, and that was also back when it was super easy and not very competitive. The past was like the special olympics...even if you were retarded all you had to do was show up to get a medal. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870790) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 7:28 AM Author: White adventurous center fanboi CR
by the time their power started to seriously wane 80% of the people still lived like absolute shit |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 9:07 PM Author: Buff Provocative Cumskin old china to 19th-20th century china was pretty disastrous. power has partially returned but mao really fucked classical chinese tradition. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870812) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 9:08 PM Author: Misunderstood Saffron Reading Party (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870817) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 9:19 PM Author: chrome marketing idea plaza Carthage pre second Punic war to post third Punic war
Mayan empire pre-Spanish invasion to post
Inca Empire same
England pre and post fall of Roman Empire |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 9:25 PM Author: Misunderstood Saffron Reading Party carthaginians were never particularly civilized, they were just cutthroat merchants, literally throwing babies into bonfires as sacrifices to the gods of commerce. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870919) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 9:35 PM Author: chrome marketing idea plaza ??? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870973) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 7:23 AM Author: light lay Hardcore history fan by chance? The Punic nightmares series was pretty cool. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35872757) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 9:23 PM Author: swollen cruel-hearted sex offender karate Greece is a world power (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870914) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 2:57 PM Author: Hilarious Lascivious Old Irish Cottage Fortuitous Meteor Not in the sense that we would want it to be though. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35875783) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 9:39 PM Author: Cyan arousing national persian Ur -> Tell el-Muqayyar (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35871008) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 7:28 AM Author: Self-centered burgundy kitty cat 1999-2019 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35872763) |
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Date: May 27th, 2018 1:58 PM Author: shimmering naked jewess (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#36136192) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 3:00 PM Author: razzle-dazzle ruby home Republic of Venice went from being an economic powerhouse, cultural center and able to build warships in 1 day to a literal tourist town (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35875800) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 3:21 PM Author: Medicated institution Winner. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35875941) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 3:20 PM Author: Exhilarant brunch Paris 1900 to Paris 2018. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35875933) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 3:39 PM Author: Bateful Box Office Volcanic Crater The Greeks are smarter now than they were then. They conned their way into the Eurozone, barely work, don't pay taxes and let everyone else bail them out and fret. The ambitious ones just leave.
2018 Greek: blasting through cigs and black cofffee, dinner at 11pm, take entire summer off, chill on gorgeous islands eating 180 food.
U: alternating between Uber shifts and basement. |
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Date: May 27th, 2018 1:22 PM Author: aqua aphrodisiac principal's office ancient india to modern india simply because india has fallen 100 times more than greece. nothing else comes close |
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Date: May 27th, 2018 1:25 PM Author: Well-lubricated Piazza Coldplay Fan Greece, Egypt, Persia, India: what do these countries ALL have in common? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#36136036) |
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Date: May 27th, 2018 1:57 PM Author: aqua aphrodisiac principal's office they all have 180 food? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#36136186) |
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Date: May 27th, 2018 2:01 PM Author: up-to-no-good field all invaded and occupied by muslims (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#36136205) |