Yep those guys.

Too bad cause as you can see it in the movie they are actually really cool and friendly peoples.

Lille, what we call “Les ch’tis” so the 59th department.

I don’t feel like Corsica is considered inbred but maybe because they are noisier (wannabe independent and former terrorists) and probably because it’s a beautiful sunny vacation area.

North doesn’t attract that much tourists even if it is in fact a cool area. That might change with the yearly heatwaves.

Which has a few interesting details:

• The Hittite version claimed the Egyptians asked for peace; the Egyptian version claims the Hittites asked for peace
• The signatories for the Hittites were the king and his wife, the “great lady” Paduhepa

Also, about a century and a half earlier, there was nearly a marriage between an Egyptian queen who asked for one of the sons of the Hittite king, something so unheard of they commented about how mind blowing the request was. Unfortunately the prince they sent was assassinated en route, as otherwise the joint marriage would have established a kingdom the largest the region had seen or would see until Alexander the Great.

(That story and what may have really been going on with the queen involved is probably one of the most interesting hidden details in all of history as best I’ve seen.)

To be fair, incest is like weirdly common in many myths; for example the gods of the Greek pantheon got up to some really freaky shit that makes the light sister-fucking in the Kalevala seem practically wholesome.

Interestingly the story of Kullervo’s sister-fucking (which I think was accidental, but I’m too lazy to read the article to check) leading to terrible consequences was intended as a warning against the practice, because there was a heavy taboo on incest – and that’s a bit hilarious considering the fact that that we were such prodigious sister/cousin/etc-fuckers for such a long time that our gene pool now has turds floating in it.

Those amateurs in Alabama doesn’t have anything on us yet; we can reassess the situation once they have as many ridiculously rare hereditiary diseases as we do per capita.