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Crop circle reveals ancient ‘henge’ monument buried in Ireland

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Re: Crop circle reveals ancient ‘henge’ monument buried in Ireland

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Post by throwawaymanbot »

greglindahl wrote: post #39
knolan wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You may find this useful. https://youtu.be/rNu8XDBSn10

Posting youtube links without explaining why anyone should watch them is not considered useful by most HN people. I looked at the start, and it didn't seem useful for the issue at hand, which (to me) is that the Republic of Ireland and the landmass named Ireland are two different things. The Republic of Ireland doesn't include Northern Ireland, which is part of the United Kingdom. The landmass named Ireland does. I'm…

Most people on HN dont find snotty attitudes helpful either.

Re: Crop circle reveals ancient ‘henge’ monument buried in Ireland

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Post by throwawaybla111 »

Anthony-G wrote: post #38

The article content isn’t too bad but having “crop circle” in the headline is ridiculous when the phenomenon of crop circles has nothing to do with the subject of the article. In addition, the article itself starts off with some mis-leading information. It begins by implicitly indicating that “U.K. archeologists” were involved in the discovery (discussed in other comments). It also states that it was “drone enthusias…

crop circles: or does it??

The archeologist studied at Reading and Sheffield so probably from the UK. He is only one archeologist so unless there are only hiring foreigners probably better to say British and Irish. You never hear UK and Irish because of the north. Maybe UK and Irish of the Republic archeologists?

It's gets interesting alright. I am getting a sense now that the "South of Ireland" thing only exists because it's impolite to talk about Republics too much in Britain. It can be great to pointing out the most northernly point in Ireland is in "the south".

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