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Bust Rodd posted:the idea of smart-rear end UK kids in High School being like “what? we were the largest imperial colonizers in human history and owned 25% of the planet and now were just a loving mudskip away from total economic collapse, LMAO, yeah right you tosser!” or whatever the gently caress young brits talk like is very funny to me, the same way it was when the very smart and extremely woke kids at my high school kept interrupting our lessons on the Industrial revolution with questions like “but where was all the cotton coming from?” “why was everyone so eager to do trade with the American South” until the school swapped her into AP history so she wouldn’t corrupt the dumb-dumbs. lol where were you that people didn't teach about slavery
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Grape posted:lol where were you that people didn't teach about slavery Slavery in America though, I too was never really taught about the British role in the slave trade.
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gonadic io posted:Slavery in America though, I too was never really taught about the British role in the slave trade. Strange, in the US I heard all about the British role in the slave trade. Funny that
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marktheando posted:lol at this idiot Seriously, this is like the farcical version of the fall of Numenor.
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"The way slavery is taught in schools, you would think the British established the slave trade just so they could abolish it."
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PostNouveau posted:The big question when you walk around like the Agora is "What kind of loving rear end in a top hat would do this?" The Chinese emperor's Old Summer Palace in Beijing is mostly unreconstructed rubble in the middle of gorgeous natural scenery, and every pile of rubble has a sign with a slightly different version of "This was something amazing and then the British burned it in 1860 during the Opium Wars; gently caress the British" in Chinese.
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gonadic io posted:Slavery in America though, I too was never really taught about the British role in the slave trade. Bust Rodd is American (pretty sure anyway) though.
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it’s the US we have “Social Studies” instead of History. Up through 8th grade the only thing we learn is “Columbus discovered America & then America fought England and WHOOPED THEIR rear end & then Lincoln freed the slaves”. We cover the entirety of triangular trade and the Trail of Tears in a single unit that lasts 2 months. Once you make it to High School we transition to World History and learn all about Imperialism and Communism and Colonialism and after a few years of learning about everyone else and how stupid everyone else is, then we come back to US history from Post Slavery forward. like, you really cannot overstate the level of minimization of the US’s genocidal practices in our public schools. This was a small High School in NY state, and I was even in AP History in 12th, which DOES start during the Industrial Revolution, but the syllabus starts with the Cotton Gin and just breezes over how we got there. it’s entirely possible for people in similar rural school systems to mine, who don’t go on to college and more sincere approaches to US History, could literally never learn about slavery.
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I remember during the coalition years even as they were trying to detoxify the Tory brand Gove announced that he wanted schools to teach that the first world war was good, actually. Can't imagine what sort of horrible poo poo they're pushing at this point
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MikeCrotch posted:"The way slavery is taught in schools, you would think the British established the slave trade just so they could abolish it." What's that a quote from?
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The history I learned in high school was almost entirely focused on Britain in the 19th and 20th century and the Empire was mentioned exactly once, briefly, to give context for German imperialism in the run up to WW1
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Yeah we're probably not getting any cool little bands here anymore... https://twitter.com/CarrieGrant1/status/1230770323127037954?s=20
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does that include bands from like Ireland and France ?
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euphronius posted:does that include bands from like Ireland and France ? No
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Olympic Mathlete posted:Yeah we're probably not getting any cool little bands here anymore... https://twitter.com/alexwhiteman49/status/1230830996871839744 FYGM but it's music. That's a new one to me.
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I feel like discouraging art and culture from coming or going was exactly what Brexit was supposed to do.
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I already heard all the music I ever need in my life we don't need to let any more of those foreign bands in.
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Bust Rodd posted:I feel like discouraging art and culture from coming or going was exactly what Brexit was supposed to do. first, the British Invasion, and now, the British Inoculation
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alphabettitouretti posted:https://twitter.com/alexwhiteman49/status/1230830996871839744 "mate I don't even know what music is so crack on"
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Currently in the process of helping a musician get a O-1 visa in the US. There is a long way to go for Britain to become as awful as the states to visit for foreign musicians.
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sincx posted:What kind of stores sell toilet plungers in the UK? Wilkos is a safe bet.
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sincx posted:What kind of stores sell toilet plungers in the UK? in the uk its called a loo plungie so try asking for that
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Bust Rodd posted:it’s the US we have “Social Studies” instead of History. Because it covers more topics than History. This is not a point of mockery.
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sincx posted:What kind of stores sell toilet plungers in the UK? Wickes, B&Q, Homebase. Those are all giant places you'd find in a retail park though. Maybe Robert Dyas?
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sincx posted:What kind of stores sell toilet plungers in the UK? incidentally, most of the supermarket chains have shops that are large enough to have a homeware section which will stock this stuff. the proliferation of smaller versions of the shops in cities is to get around Sunday Trading laws
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Robo Reagan posted:in the uk its called a loo plungie so try asking for that it's also called a dirty dalek dick
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what the gently caress is up with news papers in your country
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https://twitter.com/TheBirmingham6/status/1231135528118104064?s=20 https://twitter.com/TheBirmingham6/status/1231159863687831553?s=20
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jonathan paedophile information exchange
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sincx posted:What kind of stores sell toilet plungers in the UK? we don't have these here. you're expected to use your hands hakimashou posted:what the gently caress is up with news papers in your country newpapers are considered entertainment
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sincx posted:What kind of stores sell toilet plungers in the UK? Bigger edge of town supermarkets like Tesco Extra or just a local hardware store in the neighbourhood.
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Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:newpapers are considered entertainment And, like most British entertainment, they're inevitably shite.
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hakimashou posted:what the gently caress is up with news papers in your country This is just the normal brain rot of Guardian readers.
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tim dowling is a particularly bad example though for some reason they pay him to write tedious poo poo about stuff no-one cares about, as opposed to all those other guardian opinion columns
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I just googled Tim dowling and of course he plays the banjo in a band lmao
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So sad to hear of her imminent suicide.
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hobbesmaster posted:Strange, in the US I heard all about the British role in the slave trade. For some perspective, I went to US high school for a year and you singlehandedly won WW2 and is the bestest country in the world all around.
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Captain Splendid posted:So sad to hear of her imminent suicide. Is Jeffrey Epstein the centre of a new hyoid bone deficiency epidemic???
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