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Don't ask me silly questions, I won't play silly games I'm just a simple choo-choo train, and I'll always be the same I only want to race along, beneath the bright blue sky And be a happy choo-choo train, until the day I die

The Canterbury Tales

You see the theme a lot, sometimes quite literal, like Hyperion, sometimes just a group on an adventure where each member has a story, like LOTR. Also in movies like The Breakfast Club, Love Actually or Snatch

It's only logical

Has it returned?

The Orange monkey is influenced by people who might be affected by this

I'm not proud to admit it, since I have an innate loathing of the French, but I like France's attitude lately

That's a neat list. I want show off the Netherlands. Top 5 is pure Dutch(ish)

Positie Naam Herkomst Branche Omzet in euro

1. Bol.com Duitsland E-Commerce 3,3 miljard euro
2. Coolblue Nederland E-Commerce 1,4 miljard euro
3. Albert Heijn Nederland Supermarkt 1,2 miljard euro
4. Zalando Duitsland Mode 835 miljoen euro
5. Wehkamp Nederland E-Commerce 766 miljoen euro
6. Amazon Verenigde Staten E-Commerce 530 miljoen euro
7. Jumbo Nederland Supermarkt 503 miljoen euro
8. Picnic Nederland Supermarkt 420 miljoen euro
9. De Bijenkorf Nederland Warenhuizen 380 miljoen euro
10. HelloFresh Duitsland Levensmiddelen 350 miljoen euro

Why is this legal? Isn't there an authority that watches over fair competition in the USA?

We are talking about the Roman era here, mate. The Romans conquered outside societies and enslaved them. Slavery in this context meant that these "foreigners" could earn Roman citizenship. There were some slaves that held higher esteem than some free citizens in the Roman Empire, most notably doctors.

Slavery was not just whipping people to make them plow the land. It was a very complicated socioeconomical construct and it was very much a "normal" thing. In the late Roman era, slavery grew rampant (because it was profitable) and often children of poor, free citizens were kidnapped into slavery. But in the Roman high tides, around the time of Jezus, it was, for lack if a better word, a rather sophisticated process.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_ancient_Rome

Yeah, we had a guy who did "just Ken" by Ryan Gosling from Barbie. It was not the best song for the moment.

Damn, that's a lot of zeroes. How do you even pronounce that? Brazillion? Vermillion? /s

The equality of women is indeed a point where the bible failed, but you can't do everything right at once. I'm not a fan of the bible, but in it's days, it was a good book that taught good values. Values that were better than society was at the time and it really improved society.