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ChubbyChecker posted:ah, looks like that you haven't seen the new rules. explaining why something happened is the same as approving it. there was a thread in qcs and everything That’s not what happened but let yourself feel smug if it’s what you need to get through the day. That guy has no idea what he’s talking about though, just to make things clear. There are books on the subject which this guy clearly hasn’t read CharlestheHammer has a new favorite as of 13:51 on Jul 17, 2021 |
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Technically, Hess was number 2 in the nazi party before he ran off to England, and after that it was Göring. But I have a hard time seeing either of those two coming out on top of the absolute clusterfuck that would be a succession crisis in nazi Germany. Maybe Göring, if he allied with Himmler and settled for being führer in name only.
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Mr. Sunshine posted:Technically, Hess was number 2 in the nazi party before he ran off to England, and after that it was Göring. And then Göring was kicked out of the party and placed in housearrest and Dönitz was appointed instead. Fun fact about Hess: He thought that Churchill was against the nazis because jews had hypnotized him.
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Alhazred posted:Fun fact about Hess: He thought that Churchill was against the nazis because jews had hypnotized him. hess is a very interesting character. his, objectively insane plan to more or less steal a jet, fly directly into the most fortified airspace on the planet undetected and without navigation aids, sneak into scotland and somehow negotiate a peace with the british monarchy and several steps of this plan worked somehow? hitler flipped the gently caress out and had him loudly denounced in the press as a madman, while gobbels was like "there may be some propaganda problems telling everyone that your chosen second in command has always been crazy". he definitely wasn't in a well state of mind as a POW, i suspect a lot of the nazi high command was suffering severe psychological problems by that point and hess was always kind of borderline? ranting about jewish psychic assaults and how his food was poisoned and so forth.
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It always boggles my mind that Hitler's deputy was alive and in prison until 1987. That's only half a year before I was born, talk about recent history
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System Metternich posted:It always boggles my mind that Hitler's deputy was alive and in prison until 1987. That's only half a year before I was born, talk about recent history holy poo poo
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Heading back to Versailles, it really irks me when the prussian conquest of Alsace is treated as a liberation reversed by the big mean french. Alsace fun facts: Alsace-Lorraine (Elsŕss-Lodringa ) is not a cultural and german thing, it's a colonial construction that did not include most of Lorraine Alsace was culturally rather tied to France since the revolution, even though we still spoke alsatian then. La Marseillaise was actually first sung in Sdrossburi, not Marseille The Second Reich's teachers were harsher than the notoriously harsh french teachers in stomping out the local dialect Reichsland Elsass-Lothringen was ruled directly from from Berlin, rather than having the autonomy of the other german states. Prussian colonists were settled in Alsace
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System Metternich posted:It always boggles my mind that Hitler's deputy was alive and in prison until 1987. That's only half a year before I was born, talk about recent history When I was in school in Germany in the 80s, I would occasionally see this scruffy old guy walking around town in a sweatshirt proclaiming "Freiheit für Rudolf Hess". Funny thing, I think I remember seeing him in that well after Hess died. Anyway, the best thing Hess' death gave us is this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLkPwxcIji0
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Zopotantor posted:Anyway, the best thing Hess' death gave us is this. I was just gonna post this! I only learned that Hess lived so long after I heard that song and looked up who the Nazi in question was.
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This is more TIL but apparently there is like a super-liberal Unitarian-like denomination of Latter-Day Saints founded by Joseph Smith's son whose name was also Joseph Smith but who was super-chill and reasonable compared to his dad and Brigham Young (like opposing plural marriage from the start) and is nicknamed "the pragmatic prophet": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_of_Christ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Smith_III quote:The Community of Christ states that it recognizes that "perception of truth is always qualified by human nature and experience" and it therefore has not adopted an official religious creed. Apparently he would have easily succeeded his father...had he not been 11 at his death. Talk about interesting alternate history. There's about a quarter million of them now which isn't nearly as small of a number I would have expected.
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DarkCrawler posted:This is more TIL but apparently there is like a super-liberal Unitarian-like denomination of Latter-Day Saints founded by Joseph Smith's son whose name was also Joseph Smith but who was super-chill and reasonable compared to his dad and Brigham Young (like opposing plural marriage from the start) and is nicknamed "the pragmatic prophet": Actually the schism between what would become the community of christ, or the reformed LDS church, and the mainstream LDS was based on the question of successorship. The RLDS went with Joe Smith III while the mainstream went with Brigham Young and hosed off to Utah. The fact that he was 11 didn't matter as it was primarily his mother who was the driving force in that regard.
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DarkCrawler posted:This is more TIL but apparently there is like a super-liberal Unitarian-like denomination of Latter-Day Saints founded by Joseph Smith's son whose name was also Joseph Smith but who was super-chill and reasonable compared to his dad and Brigham Young (like opposing plural marriage from the start) and is nicknamed "the pragmatic prophet": Certainly wasn't the most damaging of churches to grow up in
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https://twitter.com/agraybee/status/1416229172033343491?s=21
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A strange name, said "Ridgeon" who may be a cartoon pigeon
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A reverse Tiffany Problem, that’s really interesting
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That Jennifer comes from Guinevere is something of a revelation to me, but it makes sense.
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Ah she's of the Cornish Dubedats. Didn't know that
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girl dick energy posted:That Jennifer comes from Guinevere is something of a revelation to me, but it makes sense.
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Platystemon posted:That’s just a normal history book. lol where did you get your text
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girl dick energy posted:That Jennifer comes from Guinevere is something of a revelation to me, but it makes sense. You pronounce it like gif
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Milo and POTUS posted:lol where did you get your text It could be from either the D&D or GBS coronavirus threads. There’s no obvious recent provoking incident. I have apparently been getting on someone’s nerves for a while. I appreciate that they found an image that continued the GameBoy theme of my old avatar.
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Amazing to think that a few short decades later Mike Doughty would ride a bus with 27 Jennifers
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girl dick energy posted:That Jennifer comes from Guinevere is something of a revelation to me, but it makes sense. I'm just Guine from the block
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The Once and Future King has Guinevere be nicknamed Jenny. Though British nobility have a tradition of names that are pronounced nothing like they're spelled.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Having endless slaves is kind of easy mode. See: American history and prison labor.
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https://twitter.com/HISTORY/status/1006328812236361730?s=20quote:On the morning of January 28, 1986, a nation of viewers gave a collective gasp. Space Shuttle Challenger, the crown jewel of NASA’s ambitious shuttle program, had just exploded, leaving a telltale trail behind as it disintegrated into thin air. The disaster prompted an outpouring of national grief and raised serious questions about the safety of space flight.But if it weren’t for a historical fluke, something else may have been lost that day—Big Bird.
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Didn't someone discover a huge underground grotto in their basement in Rome very recently
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Milo and POTUS posted:Didn't someone discover a huge underground grotto in their basement in Rome very recently Why were your mom in Rome?
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https://twitter.com/artisanrocky/status/1419747499389210632?s=21
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Quoting myself from another thread, sorry. But after writing it, realised that it was an interesting history fact:Samovar posted:Oh, in that case, I've got a doozy. And after being asked why... Samovar posted:Well, the main story that I heard was back in the day of the Thanes/Chieftains/Whatevers there was a man accused of being a thief and the head guy in charge said 'Ok, you're guilty and for your punishment, we're locking you up on the island on Linlithgow loch and you'll starve to death.' And to prove my point, please find said coat of arms here. Samovar has a new favorite as of 12:56 on Aug 23, 2021 |
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This reminds me of the famous origin of the word "kangaroo". Which is initially told as when Captain Cook and the first White people came to Australia they saw this giant hopping beast that they had never seen before, so asked a local what it was. The aboriginal bloke replied "kang garoo", which meant in his own language "I don't understand what you are saying to me." It turns out this story is only half true, and the "I don't understand" stuff comes from when Cook and his party ventured further inland and came across another aborigine who belonged to an entirely different tribe and spoke an entirely different language. So when the invaders tried to communicate using the few words they had learned from the coastal people, this new bloke was still baffled.
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BrigadierSensible posted:This reminds me of the famous origin of the word "kangaroo". It also contributes to a huge myth about Australian history, that the Aboriginal people were all hunter-gatherers with no knowledge of the wider world. The first British expedition to Australia met a local sailor who spoke English because he had spent several years trading with Singapore. But as part of colonizing the land, they plowed over Aboriginal farms and destroyed Aboriginal dams and houses and fisheries.
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Samovar posted:Quoting myself from another thread, sorry. But after writing it, realised that it an interesting history fact: this post kicks rear end
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BrigadierSensible posted:This reminds me of the famous origin of the word "kangaroo". The slavic words for germans, nemetsky and similar, basically just means "idiots who don't talk right"
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Wales has got to be the ultimate case of semantic ownage, it comes from the Old English word meaning "outsider" and it's still the legal name of the country 1200 years later. Like imagine the USA calling themselves the Foreign States of America.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Ah she's of the Cornish Dubedats. Didn't know that The sad thing is that Mrs. Cornish Dudebat wasn't even the worst Batman reboot.
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steinrokkan posted:The sad thing is that Mrs. Cornish Dudebat wasn't even the worst Batman reboot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Bv8_D4y_bc
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:The slavic words for germans, nemetsky and similar, basically just means "idiots who don't talk right" Germans being known by six different names by the rest of Europe is just fantastic:
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"Deutsch" itself comes from a word that means something like "of the people" Deutschland - Land of the people. Deutsche Sprache: Language of the people. And so on.
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Carbon dioxide posted:"Deutsch" itself comes from a word that means something like "of the people" Terry Pratchett posted:They called themselves the Munrungs. It meant The People, or The True Human Beings.
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