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    Quote Originally Posted by Marco View Post


    It was a little bit different though, on home soil, with your battles against the Scots and the Welsh...

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    That was six of one and half a dozen of the other though. And it was the middle ages, everyone was fighting everyone.

    You got to bear in mind that these days the rich have a lot of potential entertainment possibilities but back there was bugger all to do with all their spare time except going to war against someone.
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    Mmm... Best leave that one there, I think, as we're not going to agree on the matter, and most likely strongly disagree!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Marco View Post
    Mmm... Best leave that one there, I think, as we're not going to agree on the matter, and most likely strongly disagree!

    Marco.
    I was joking but history is always more complicated than you think. It's very rarely goodies versus baddies or us against them. Did you know for example that more Scotsmen fought with the English at Culloden than fought against them?
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    Yesh, they were traitors!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Marco View Post
    Yesh, they were traitors!

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    Lol. people tend to act in their best interests both now and then. All this high fallutting nonsense about fighting for freedom, or principle or for king and country or whatever is complete bollocks and always has been as anyone who has read a bit of history will know. It's all make-believe just to get the rubes fired up and ready to die. And it works!
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    Is it true that during WW2, Italian army tanks were fitted with five reverse gears? We've all heard the jokes, and some are actually funny. But regarding attitudes to other nationalities and cultures I agree with Marco (#55) that you take people as you find them, as they have absolutely nothing to do with what happened centuries ago, and possibly what may be happening now.

    Last line of Marco's post contradicts this somewhat - I'm English and I don't want to fight anyone (unless there's five of us and only four doughnuts)

    Forty years ago I had an Armenian friend who told jokes about the Kurds, and they were just the same as the jokes English told about the Irish. The humour didn't work very well, as none of us knew anything about Kurds, or Armenians for that matter.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony View Post
    Is it true that during WW2, Italian army tanks were fitted with five reverse gears? .
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    I think it is about as true as the advert that appeared in The Times in September 1940'


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    Quote Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony View Post
    Forty years ago I had an Armenian friend who told jokes about the Kurds, and they were just the same as the jokes English told about the Irish. The humour didn't work very well, as none of us knew anything about Kurds, or Armenians for that matter.
    Even the Irish tell jokes against the Irish, claiming that people from 'the [Irish] Midlands' are really thick.

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    Playing poker in America you always get some good-natured ribbing from the rest of the table when they realise that you're English. They're straight onto the Revolution, or criticising our cars, or our sports. Right bunch of wind up merchants but it's all in fun and it breaks the ice.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Macca View Post
    The English had no option since the French and Spanish were always trying to invade us. Most of the Empire was acquired not because of any intended territorial desire but in a bid to keep the continentals from taking the places for themselves and so becoming too powerful.

    People pay far too much attention to lefty, revisionist, back-of-a cornflake-packet history these days. I've no idea why but it seems to get worse as time passes. The way it's going in another 20 years they'll be telling us that the British started WW2 in order to conquer Germany and Hitler wasn't a mass-murdering lunatic bent on world conquest but a brave freedom fighter making a stand against English imperialism.
    I took my daughter to the museum of London at the weekend and took advantage of a free guided tour of their Victorian street. The young woman showing us round informed us she was a trained historian specialising in gender issues. Around 30% of the tour consisted of slagging men off. A couple of gems were in the toy shop saying that the toys were designed to enforce gender stereotypes from a young age. Looking at the dolls she told us women were forced to wear hats whenever they were outside to restrict their freedom of expression. (No mention of the fact that men were also expected to wear hats whenever they went out.) Looking at an early urinal, she said they only had public toilets for men to restrict the distance women could travel away from their home. Similarly the design of early bikes was so that women couldn't ride them in their restrictive clothing and be free to travel further. This is being sold as the truth by the foremost museum of the history of London.

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