Recent content by hrotha

With that last name, his career was always going to be a flop https://www.procyclingstats.com/rider/matteo-fiaschi

Wait, biological passports are still being looked at?!? Also, are the Friars losing their touch or what

You didn't mention Leifr, no, but you were questioning the "claims about a changed world", dismissing them as "histories of the victor", right after Potomac's statement that Leifr was forgotten "because the world didn't change [after Leifr found Vínland]".

Then that's irrelevant to the point being made about Leifr Eiríksson

I think it would be extremely hard to argue that the event didn't result in a "changed world" from the point of view of much of the global south

:| (Thanks for the info, it's still a :| from me though)

From where are you guys getting the bit about calling themselves "Cycling Academy"?

It's the least real a race has ever been since the London Olympics road race

"Chronoescalaga"

On Sunday, live, the battle for the North-East, as Del Toro meets Rogl in a race already being described as "on this Sunday"

Funnily enough, Niels is a Danish form of Nicholas which essentially means "victor"

Unfortunately, people have been dying on strange hills for centuries so it would have been an insult to their memories if he had done things differently

This is funny and also a bit creepy Anyway it was a great gig and everyone else should go listen to The Beths right now View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ct8AwQwlbNA

Yep that's where I dump all my crappy live recordings. Were you also there?

Last names* were not created to determine lineage - that's what patronyms were for, and in most of Western Europe last names effectively came to supplant them. Last names are about identifying individuals and families/households in a large enough community, a purpose that is accomplished just as...