― 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
― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― benrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:59 (seventeen years ago) link
For a while, when she heard W refer to the 'War on Terror', my gf had a tendency to affect the accent of Scarlet O'Hara and inquire what he had against Tara.
― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 16:02 (seventeen years ago) link
eh, the Iroquois Confederacy or those guys from TEH LAST OF TEH MOHICANS are hardly European powers. In India I understand that local forces were major players.
― DV (dirtyvicar), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 16:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 16:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 16:27 (seventeen years ago) link
(Sorry, Archel.)
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 16:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 17:01 (seventeen years ago) link
They'll give it some trendy name like "Wr3.0 (beta)"
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 17:25 (seventeen years ago) link
Repurposing thread for actual World War One talk as we're in the 100th anniversary year.
Obligatory: https://twitter.com/RealTimeWWI
Highly highly recommend the current "Blueprint for Armageddon" series in the Hardcore History podcast. Part 2 just went up last week.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 5 February 2014 01:33 (ten years ago) link
Obviously, The Guns of August, Barbara Tuchman, needs prominent big-upping on this thread. When you finish reading it, you know why starting this bloody, pointless, enormously futile war seemed like such a compelling idea to so many people at the time.
― Aimless, Wednesday, 5 February 2014 02:55 (ten years ago) link
An avalanche of recent publications. I need to read Max Hastings' book. I finished this three months ago.
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 5 February 2014 02:58 (ten years ago) link
o man thx for that twitter rec. npr had a similar thing for 1963 last year that was great.
― balls, Wednesday, 5 February 2014 03:00 (ten years ago) link
planning to whip through a bunch of WWI books this year and decided to start with 'guns of august.' it's pretty much as good as everyone says, and actually really surprisingly laugh-out-loud funny in places, but the endless parade of unfamiliar names in the first 50 pages or so made me dizzy. i'm kind of thinking i need to read up on my late 19th century/early 20th century european history before i tackle another WWI tome.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 5 February 2014 03:17 (ten years ago) link