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Oh shit, the Aussie Death Squad's coming to America! I'll be watching my back for a pale, unprepossessing man, all right.

And the front.

And the sides.

Yeah.

EDIT P.S. Thanks for the context, that was actually useful.

I dunno if I didn't know Los was in Nebraska I might assume he was in S America based on his post.

He is The Bat.

Count Chocula wrote:Oh shit, the Aussie Death Squad's coming to America! I'll be watching my back for a pale, unprepossessing man, all right.

And the front.

And the sides.

Yeah.

EDIT P.S. Thanks for the context, that was actually useful.

lol, walk around in a group of people. "Can you go in front and behind, so I can go in the middle?"

lol today i learned about the biritsh attack on mers-el-kébir in 1940, where they killed over 1500 frnech sailors and sank their ships in case they might have helped germany maybe

had literally never even heard of this, what a clusterfuck

rabid i imagine your schools mention this, what's that like

Dude, don't your schools teach anything?

Aaron wrote:Dude, don't your schools teach anything?

look if it's not related to how america curbstomped the nazzys and saved the british in WW2 after we kicked their ass all on our own in the revolutionary war it's not covered

my history classes either never dealt with the time period or just didn't get through the curriculum in time to really even cover ww2

Losonti Tokash wrote:lol today i learned about the biritsh attack on mers-el-kébir in 1940, where they killed over 1500 frnech sailors and sank their ships in case they might have helped germany maybe

had literally never even heard of this, what a clusterfuck

rabid i imagine your schools mention this, what's that like

Well, it isn't taught in middle- or high-school [1], but it is brought up very often during WWII documentaries involving France, to explain partly the distrust between the French and the "Allies".

As you can understand it was a source of very bad blood between the French (The people at large, whatever their allegiance was) and the Allies, particularly considering France had one of the best fleet in the world at that time, and that it was seen as a gesture by the Anglo-Saxons to castrate France's naval-power and allow Britain to "Rule The Wave" unrivaled.



[1] : the teaching of History in our educational system is quite lacking on a general basis, and as a results of having only two hours a week dedicated to it it tend to concentrate on broad generalities rather than entering into details. As far as I remember, WWII will take maybe 4, 6 hours at best, to be taught, and it will focus over the horrors of the war rather than which battle happened during such and such campaign.

that's pretty interesting, i like learning about how other countries' education systems teach about the same events

like i always wonder how canadian and british students get taught about the american revolution, that'd be a neat perspective

also lol at "biritsh"

I don't recall much about it. There was a bunch of stuff on the Fenian raids and fur...

don't your schools teach you anything?

1812

Oxymoron wrote:1812

That is the dumbest thing in our history to be proud of.

PS : I may have, like, zero knowledge of Canadian History

Aaron wrote:

Oxymoron wrote:1812

That is the dumbest thing in our history to be proud of.

Which is why Harper is being all rah rah 1812.

We didn't learn anything about that attack on the French when I was in school.

Phantasee wrote:

Aaron wrote:

Oxymoron wrote:1812

That is the dumbest thing in our history to be proud of.

Which is why Harper is being all rah rah 1812.

We didn't learn anything about that attack on the French when I was in school.

I never thought I'd miss Cretin, but here we are.

That's a weird coincidence. I just learned about mers-el-kébir today as well.

What is Cretin, Aaron?

starku wrote:History is just about how tough you are right

"Crétin" is a French word which can translate as "dumbass"

Former PM. That's not how you spell his name but it fits.

The Spartan wrote:That's a weird coincidence. I just learned about mers-el-kébir today as well.

Today is the 72nd anniversary.

Ah, I didn't notice that.

Knubble tov wrote:What is Cretin, Aaron?

Jean Chretien, Liberal Prime Minister during the glory days of the 90s.