― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 10:16 (seventeen years ago) link
I know this because I read it in one of Campbell's old Pears Cyclopedias. I didn't know it beforehand. In fact, it had never occured to me. I would be rubbish at being an ace attorney with the wildest cross-examining skills in town if I couldn't even wonder about THAT contradiction...
― Bhumibol Adulyadej (Lucretia My Reflection), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 10:19 (seventeen years ago) link
I see.
a friend claims to have once been in a history tutorial where someone in all seriousness asked from where Kings and Queens got the numbers after their names.
― DV (dirtyvicar), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 11:14 (seventeen years ago) link
-- Bhumibol Adulyadej (starrysdarkmaterial...), November 14th, 2006.
i'm being thick, i don't get you here. i don't know when that name came in, though it's possible it came in before the war started, given that everyone knew it was going to. but they could have got by calling it just 'the war'; as they did with the first one quite often.
― benrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 11:21 (seventeen years ago) link
Hint: it wasn't WWII, and it was more than just 'the war'!
I am surprised not more people know this - I felt really thick when I realised I didn't know.
― Bhumibol Adulyadej (Lucretia My Reflection), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 12:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 12:34 (seventeen years ago) link
yeahbut isn't it only later convention that says 01/09/39 is when 'it' started anyway? japan had been getting into it with china (and therefore teh brits) way before then; and even as of that date the ussr was involved.
and who can forget the battle of the river plate?
it only needed US involvement to make it as worldly as ww1.
― benrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 12:37 (seventeen years ago) link
given that the initial combatants included the British and French empires, it would seem not inappropriate to call it a world conflict.
― DV (dirtyvicar), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 12:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 12:39 (seventeen years ago) link
'operation polish storm'
― benrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 12:39 (seventeen years ago) link
This is cheating as it's the same source where Starry's got her info from!
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 12:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 12:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 12:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― benrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 12:48 (seventeen years ago) link
I don't. Someone please tell me.
― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 12:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 12:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 13:04 (seventeen years ago) link
that's not batshit, it's an iron law.
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 13:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 13:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 13:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 13:46 (seventeen years ago) link
It was called: THE WAR OF ATTRITION!
So there you go! Neener neener neeener. And they would have called it SOMETHING before the Brit/Fr empires got involved in 39 as PROVEN by the Pears Cyclopaedic evidence, your Honour!
The defense rests! SUSTAINED!
― Bhumibol Adulyadej (Lucretia My Reflection), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 13:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:05 (seventeen years ago) link
I guess I was too distracted by the giant sack of DAIM bars whilst I was reading that Pears Cyclopaedia - damn my eyes!
― Bhumibol Adulyadej (Lucretia My Reflection), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:09 (seventeen years ago) link
need more than 1x source to believe it.
― benrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:09 (seventeen years ago) link
however my answer is correct but the pears were too PC to admit it
― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:14 (seventeen years ago) link
like: let's get it on already.
― benrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:17 (seventeen years ago) link
they did czechoslovakia in march '39 i think.
― benrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― benrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― Revivalist (Revivalist), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:35 (seventeen years ago) link
it's an interesting question. i bet 'the falklands war' was always called that. and iirc 'the gulf war'. but what of our present wars. it's probably called 'the iraq war', but what about the war in afghanistan? doesn't have a real name.
― benrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:45 (seventeen years ago) link
I had a history teacher, echoing Churchill, who claimed that the Seven Years War (French & Indian War) was the first world war inasmuch as the hostilities occurred in Europe, the Mediterranean, the Atlantic, North America, the Carribean and India.
― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:37 (seventeen years ago) link
that has to be more 'worldy' than ww1 innit.
― benrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― benrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:46 (seventeen years ago) link
didn't know any of this
― geoff (gcannon), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― benrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:53 (seventeen years ago) link
xpost
― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― geoff (gcannon), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:54 (seventeen years ago) link
woof, xpost-a-rama
― benrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― geoff (gcannon), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:58 (seventeen years ago) link
no such thing as "uninhabitable toxic wasteland" in Real England!
― calzino, Sunday, 11 November 2018 17:27 (five years ago) link
so this Peter Jackson doc is on bbc2 tonight and its just mindblowing seeing all this footage in high-ish def colour.
― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Sunday, 11 November 2018 22:31 (five years ago) link
how is that P-Jax doc? I saw a trailer and it is really something else seeing the film transformed in this manner, hoping it's worth a view and isn't just a gimmick on which to hinge a thinly sketched statement.
― omar little, Wednesday, 5 December 2018 01:36 (five years ago) link
I thought it was very bland + heavily sentimentalised Our Boys type claptrap, and aside from the old movie stock tarted up by CGI - with absolutely nothing interesting to say and with no coherent narrative. Although I'm sure it made Tommy Robinson cry into his beer. Just basically the type of shite you'd see playing on one of the screens at the imperial war museum.
― calzino, Wednesday, 5 December 2018 10:06 (five years ago) link
Saw most of The Long Shadow repeated on BBC4 the last few weeks. That was interesting and challenging even when I was sceptical of some of the interpretations he made.
― biliares now living will never buey (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 5 December 2018 12:36 (five years ago) link
I want a full book about this story.
I want a movie too. I want the whole damn thing.
a gay love story of the 1st world war’s year. [thread by @guillemclua im just a translator]. pic.twitter.com/I3CkgKd1EO— maaayyy. (@brendonsexual) December 7, 2018
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 00:56 (five years ago) link
Well, the chances are probably quite high..
https://guillemclua.com/comunicado-sobre-el-hilo-de-twitter-emilyxaver/
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 01:37 (five years ago) link
Rather!
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 01:50 (five years ago) link