NationStates Jolt Archive


Who says feudalism is dead?

Refused Party Program
05-05-2005, 00:01
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1594451,00.html

THE rural tranquillity of North Norfolk is being threatened by a bizarre feudal battle between villagers and an Old Harrovian aristocrat who claims that their land is really his.

Robert Harbord-Hamond, the youngest son of the 11th Lord Suffield, has enraged local people in a number of villages by his attempts to reclaim common land that once belonged to his ancestors.

He has put barbed wire fencing round the 34-acre common in Hanworth so that he can graze cattle, and his security guards patrol it nightly.

Baron Vs. The Villagers...now there's class war for ya! :D
Ekland
05-05-2005, 00:12
Oh you sad, sad, sad little Englishmen. :p
Kervoskia
05-05-2005, 00:16
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1594451,00.html



Baron Vs. The Villagers...now there's class war for ya! :D
You can say that again. :eek:
Colodia
05-05-2005, 00:42
FEUDAL system? Bloody hell, I always thought it was called "futile" system...
Amyst
05-05-2005, 00:45
FEUDAL system? Bloody hell, I always thought it was called "futile" system...

Ba dum chish
Freakstonia
05-05-2005, 00:48
It rather reminds me of the time Prince Chuckie tried to take back the City of Manchester. That didn't work either and the Prince is better connected.
Renshahi
05-05-2005, 00:48
This is good. Maybe commoners will learn there place again
McLeod03
05-05-2005, 00:48
Ba dum chish

Two elephants and a drum kit falling off a cliff?
Bodies Without Organs
05-05-2005, 00:55
Who says feudalism is dead?

No one. It is well known to be alive and well on the Channel Island of Sark.
Colodia
05-05-2005, 01:05
Two elephants and a drum kit falling off a cliff?
No, just my act.
Freakstonia
05-05-2005, 01:10
No one. It is well known to be alive and well on the Channel Island of Sark.


I hate the sark infested ocean.
Bynzekistan
05-05-2005, 03:35
Damn feudal system... Lawlessness and tyranny, heroes and villains, peasants and maidens... hey, this is starting to sound like fun...
Common Europe
05-05-2005, 03:49
If that were the case, the queen of England (thats in england right?) actually has a right to his land too and can use his own rights about his.
Refused Party Program
05-05-2005, 13:53
No one. It is well known to be alive and well on the Channel Island of Sark.

Aye, ya Sarky bastard! :D

It rather reminds me of the time Prince Chuckie tried to take back the City of Manchester...

I thought that was just a vicious rumour?
Mattikistan
05-05-2005, 14:02
Meh, if he can prove it, give it to him. If not, slap him around the face a few times. I hope that he gets slapped sooo muuuch... erm... yeah.
Ormr
05-05-2005, 14:05
*Twitch* You used the F word.... *twitch twitch* The f word doesn't apply to peasants. The f word doesn't apply to anyone below the rank of knight. What you're talking about here is the manour system and enserfdom, which are the economic and social systems that support the political system of *twitch* f-f-feudalism. *Washes keyboard out with soap* The f word only really existed in England anyway. Everywhere else it was pretty much modified into something completely outside the bounds of... feudalism.

Fear the rabid historian. Yes, FEAR!.... wait... no! It was only a joke! Don't give me rabies shots! Noooo! Not the needles! *whimper*
Armed Bookworms
05-05-2005, 15:25
Feudalism is dead. It expired 2 minutes before noon GMT, last thursday.