I prefer Egyptian history as well.
But WW2, particuarly Nazi Germany, is super interesting.
But WW2, particuarly Nazi Germany, is super interesting.
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Never heard of it
 Also this film is the only one i've seen that actually uses a shell ricochet in a semi-realistic way 
"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. For if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes unto you."
(August 15, 2016 at 9:45 pm)Yeauxleaux Wrote: I can't even feign interest in learning about WW2 after it was literally ALL we learned about year after year in history classes at school. The stuff they teach you about in class is the boring stuff to be honest. If they taught about the battle of stalingrad, of kursk, or hell even bastogne and berlin would be good
"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. For if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes unto you."
 (August 15, 2016 at 9:48 pm)Jello Wrote:Yeah I guess so, because I like hearing about other countries.(August 15, 2016 at 9:45 pm)Yeauxleaux Wrote: I can't even feign interest in learning about WW2 after it was literally ALL we learned about year after year in history classes at school. Our WW2 education was (naturally) VERY Britain-centric almost to the degree of one-sidedness. It was all the boring shit, and literally with no depth or international context.
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"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie 
We got taught the basics of those things at school. I'm actually surprised most schools don't teach those, but fair enough.
(August 15, 2016 at 9:51 pm)Yeauxleaux Wrote:(August 15, 2016 at 9:48 pm)Jello Wrote: The stuff they teach you about in class is the boring stuff to be honest. If they taught about the battle of stalingrad, of kursk, or hell even bastogne and berlin would be goodYeah I guess so, because I like hearing about other countries. Well, we live in the UK. Of course it's going to be Britain-centric to a degree. Same with the 'muricans, and so on and so on. (August 15, 2016 at 9:51 pm)Yeauxleaux Wrote:(August 15, 2016 at 9:48 pm)Jello Wrote: The stuff they teach you about in class is the boring stuff to be honest. If they taught about the battle of stalingrad, of kursk, or hell even bastogne and berlin would be goodYeah I guess so, because I like hearing about other countries. Oh christ, that is the boring crap. First two are russian, Stalingrad is an interesting one, as it's considered the bloodiest battle in all history, around 2 million soldiers died there. Kursk is the biggest tank battle in history as 300 german tanks managed to accidentally run into 500 russian tanks outside the town of Prokhorovka, near the city of kursk. Bastogne is in belgium, a bunch of paratroopers held a hill around this strategic town against insane odds, and berlin is of course the last battle of the war, and is by far the most interesting, because a lot of interesting things happened that you wouldn't expect from the germans. (And yes, this was a boring post by your resident boring history guy. )
"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. For if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes unto you."
 (August 15, 2016 at 9:45 pm)Yeauxleaux Wrote: I can't even feign interest in learning about WW2 after it was literally ALL we learned about year after year in history classes at school. In 2 1/2 men, in the eponymous episode, a character remarks that "It's always Nazi week". It's true...
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
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Ooookaaay... I'm not sure how that is going to reduce the stigma rather than make it appear crazier, but I suspect it's at least not a public health hazard if it is dried up?
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
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