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Our avid readers will know how much we love memes here at Bored Panda, from science memes, viral 2020 memes, and very literal memes to more specific memes like jokes and memes for women to relate to and car memes to laugh at while you’re stuck in traffic. Because memes are the unofficial language of the internet and if you haven’t been off to the moon lately, you’ll surely know how to speak a word or two.
So this time, we have a special treat for your inner nerd or anyone who missed that once-in-a-lifetime chance to make their history teacher proud. Yep, we’re talking dates, events, and contexts that happened either far back or quite recently in the past.
Welcome to the history memes fueled by the r/HistoryMemes subreddit, where a whopping 2.7M members and self-confessed history experts crack jokes about the old days. Scroll down and upvote your favorites!
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#1
I See What U Did There
Full of Giggles 4 years ago (edited)
Daaaaayumm! He ain’t wrong though. I live 2.5 miles from 800 year old rock paintings. Lord knows what my property use to be.
François Carré 4 years ago
Well I live quite close to a famous cave with 30.000 year old paintings, and it's obvious that the whole place around has seen some s**t through generations. That's Europe for you...
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#2
Selective Breeding
Claire Murray 3 years ago
Um, sorry but no. There are still wolves about. Something that evolved from something cannot co-exist with the thing it evolved from. This shows that dogs did not evolve from wolves. Sorry to be such a party crasher.
#3
A Joke Book From 1940
Laura Mende (Human) 4 years ago
I've got an other one. Stalin and Hitler are in hell. Stalin is put in a pot of boiling sulfur. Hitler is reading. So Stalin asks the devil: "Why you let him reading while I get tortured? We are nearly as same evil as the other!" Answer of the devil: "Everything is correct. Hitler translates Das Kapital into Hebrew ... "
cassiushumanmother 4 years ago
Would you post the Mozart and Haydn joke please if it is available? Dammit, i have read the trailer and now i want to see the movie. This kind of picture should be forbidden, i want to know what's next now. A bet that he could what? Die before honoring his requiem command?
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Internet memes have been a widely used visual form of online rhetoric since the early 2000s. Today they have become a prominent method of communication across the internet, but as a research subject, they're still not very well-examined.
With 20 years of communicating in memes, we still don’t know their exact implications, says Rebecca Ortiz, an assistant professor of advertising at the Newhouse School. “Research on internet meme effects is still in its infancy. But we can look to past media effects research to hypothesize how people may be influenced by them.”
#4
But At Least They Have The Cool Building With All The Flags In It
engineer_nope.avi 4 years ago
Sadly, genocides are still happening and they still ain't doing crap.
J. F. 4 years ago
Because a lot of people would call them warmongers and protest against such missions. Mostly leftist "#1world nobody needs armed forces pacifism activists" - we germans have such morons around in our government and oh boy is it a comedy show whenever the army is asked to do something (like helping to run vaccine centers)
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Alexei Arntzen 4 years ago
I realize that this is beside the point, but no, the T in tsunami is not silent. Tsunami is a Japanese word, and Japanese doesn't really have silent letters.
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Daniel (ShadowDrakken) 4 years ago
'T' is tsunami isn't silent it's just soft, 'ueue' in 'queue' isn't silent (otherwise it'd just sound like 'kuh'), but yes on the rest
cassiushumanmother 4 years ago
Queue is from the french word and we do pronounce it "kuh", we really like silent letters, like, a lot! this one is pronounced "uh": "œufs"(eggs) but if there is only one egg, we pronounce the F, this one is prononced "o": eaux (waters), yes, just "o".
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J9 4 years ago (edited)
To be frank, its not like the UN can do anything. If they make a move, they'll piss some off or some other country who then might do another bad thing, or worse. While IT IS the RIGHT thing to do, the UN is just stuck in the middle. That's why politics sucks... Especially when it's on a global scale.
Lucifer Takashi 4 years ago
But they were created to basically go into the country and try and he the people. If that government refused they would be allowed to take action. That is what pisses me off more than anything.
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Professionals Have Standards
Ginny Weasly 4 years ago (edited)
Him: “Sorry sir, I didn’t realize we weren’t meant to solve the problems on the board from yesterday but I solved them anyways” Teacher: You did what? Him: I solved the 2 questions that were on the board…. Teacher: the ones which were famous unsolved statistics problems? Him: oh… I…. Teacher: Him:
Monday 4 years ago
I'd love a transcript of what the teacher said when George turned in his "homework" next time.
SoozeeQ 4 years ago (edited)
George Dantzig, The Accidental Maths Genius (Good Will Hunting in Real Life). Here's a cute, 2.5 minute cartoon of his story https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xynFFqcSZDY
Load More Replies... Mazer 4 years ago
Way to go Computer George!!! You would have found my brain on the floor, in a corner, a quivering mass of stupidity
Cheri Aline Sydney 4 years ago
Mazer, you make up for lack of math skills with your sense of humor!!!
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Markus Holstein 4 years ago
Just imagine what could have been had his teacher written something else on that blackboard: "Find a cure for cancer", "develop a room temperature superconductor", "invent chocolate that doesn't make you fat"
MuddyPuddles 4 years ago
does anyone know what these two equations were? And why history was changed and his name removed from one of them?
#6
Not The Tea
Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago (edited)
That must be why they don’t have enough left to use with their accents. (Just kidding. I’m married to a Brit. We tease each other about stuff like this.)
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Susan Younger 4 years ago
They don’t say t because we dumped all their Ts in the harbor, right?
We should never underestimate the power that social media and the content that’s surfing there has on our beliefs, identities, and culture. “The most shareable content on social media will reach the most people and potentially have the greatest effect,” she said.
Think of memes as bits of humor that capture shared cultural meanings and speak to some of the largest audience on our planet. “[They] are some of the most shareable pieces of content on social media and therefore they deserve scrutiny and better understanding as to how they may influence us,” Ortiz explained.
In that sense, understanding a meme is a way to bond with people and feel a strong sense of community. We as humans are wired to do so, so memes are the perfect gateway to that.
#7
History Repeats Itself
Sorican 4 years ago
well that's because the largest block of voters are abject morons. I'm just glad that said block is split pretty evenly. can you imagine if their sheep ever joined herds?
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Watching 4 years ago
Hey to all our friends in other countries, we apologize profusely for the disaster that was Donald Trump. And we will spend a long time making it up to the other countries that we so respect.
J. F. 4 years ago (edited)
Ironically Donald Trump was one of the presidents that bombed the least countries
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Shelp 4 years ago (edited)
That's not even always about oil (think of Vietnam or Chile)
Load More Replies... François Carré 4 years ago (edited)
I think most people who were disappointed by Daenerys's ending actually missed the point of that interesting historical allegory.
cassiushumanmother 4 years ago
Not a popular opinion but i was not disapointed, always saw her as a power seeking person, hiding behind good causes but with a cruel side and eager to rule and submit anyone to her will. Nobody's perfect.
Load More Replies... An Co 4 years ago
Why do people expect the US wants to bring freedom and democracy to other countries? We mostly just want to be LEFT ALONE. We are finally done screwing over the people that used our own planes on three of our buildings. You don't have to be nice to us, just LEAVE US ALONE!
Soggy Crumpet 4 years ago
Yes. Isolationism is a def a thing for most of the United States.
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#8
So Much Spice!
Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago
"I receive spice. You receive... Asturias. Burgundy. Tuscana. And seven tons of gold. Add some cinnamon and I add the real crown of thorns."
H Edwards 4 years ago
My bf is a historian and when we were shopping once he stopped in front of the massive shelf full of big bags of salt and said 'Imagine a Roman soldier standing here and looking at this'.
Cip IESAN 4 years ago
That's where the word "salary" comes from! Salt was rare and preciousss and Roman soldiers were payed also in salt.
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Colin Matthews 4 years ago
Oh yes-If you really want to show how the world has changed-take them to a Supermarket in the middle of winter. Fresh fruit, fresh bread, food from all over the world etc
Demongrrrrl 4 years ago
It's been more than 35 years but ... we once took a friend from Poland to an American grocery store, and he could not get over the fact that bananas cost the same as potatoes.
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Vaida Kuodytė 4 years ago
I love how the British once conquered half the world for spices, and now never use any.
Christer Berdén 4 years ago
That reminds me of that I had a friend visited me in Europe from Africa he was most blown by hot water in the tap!
Martha Meyer 4 years ago
Yeah, these people would be very disappointed by today's social aspects.
BetweenTheCracks 4 years ago
It's a shame there isn't more evidence of how people really interacted every day-- I don't mean historical items that were made for posterity, but the more ephemeral/ "street" stuff. Household artifacts and things like that don't quite paint the entire picture there.
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Chris DiFonso 4 years ago
The importance of spices' impact on history cannot be overstated. Spices prompted travel and trade and wars.
#9
Scientifically Proven
Mónica Elisabeth Sacco 4 years ago
Nope. Constellations were named by Ancient Sumerians, Babylonians and Greeks.
Suzi Gauthier 4 years ago
Well, and there was no TV or computers, and you can only have sex for so long.
#10
They Here Cause You Dragged Them Her
Yara Balabanova 4 years ago
We also see this in the Netherlands now with Turkish and Morrocan people who were actually brought here in the 60s because the Dutch workforce was too small
Nicola Roberts 4 years ago
The UK has it's own Windrush scandal 1940s -1970. Bringing workers from the Caribbean then deciding that they weren't here legally. I am ashamed.
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tuzdayschild 4 years ago
Africa is a continent not a country by the way. I don't have any idea where on that continent I came from because we were punished for speaking our native languages and practicing our culture. But if you want me to go back, then you better start fund raising because I know you don't expect me to pay for it. Seriously though, I'm staying right here.
Daria B 4 years ago
I don't know where you're from or where you live now, but if you were born and/or grew up somewhere in Europe, you're European to me. I mean, how can you "go back" to where you've never been in the first place?
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Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago
I'm pretty sure they did not choose to get into those boats to pick coton.
jpaul 4 years ago
i recently learnt something that blew my mind. in old french territories slaves were forbidden religion. this because the slaves owners were scared of the egalitarian theories brought on by the christian religions, during the centuries of enlightened. Can you imagine these poor people. this blew my mind. french here
Andy Acceber 4 years ago
In the U.S. South, enslavers actually produced a "Confederate Bible" that was given to the people forced into slavery. It was an edited Bible that focused on obedience and servitude and glossed over mentions of revolts and egalitarianism.
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Black Karen 4 years ago
"Go back to Africa" is literally the most brainless, thoughtless, cliche, uneducated, tired, boring, one-toothed hillbilly jo-bob honkin' donkin' thing a white racist can say with their one brain cell.
Ladyandthetramp 4 years ago
I know right every time someone says go back to Africa I think you brought my ancestors here in the first place BLOODY IDIOT!
Andy Acceber 4 years ago
The chattel slavery of the Middle Passage was vastly different than the slavery practiced in Africa. Also just because Africans sold Africans, that doesn’t erase the fact that US slavery was a racially based system of hereditary slavery that harmed the vast majority of Black people living within it. "The fact that some members of an oppressed class participate in oppression doesn’t excuse that oppression." A couple resources: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1i3018.html https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2015/09/slavery-myths-seven-lies-half-truths-and-irrelevancies-people-trot-out-about-slavery-debunked.amp
Load More Replies... Mazer 4 years ago
For Sure. HEY, want to watch a beautiful movie, check out the movie Belle. Based on a true story. Buy lots of tissues before you start it. The movie has many depths and complexities to it, shines light on how so many really convinced themselves Blacks were the same as property.
Andy Acceber 4 years ago
In the U.S., "slavery" means Black people brought through the Middle Passage and their descendants, forced into slavery, who built this country for roughly 200 years. Rights were legally different for Black people and for white people. Erasing that fact erases a lot of history.
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If You Don't Believe Me Look At China Right Now
Sorican 4 years ago (edited)
what would you have us do? invade the place? even if we had justification, we'd loose the pr war. sanctions? china doesn't care, we still loose the pr war. provide asylum? maybe... but how do we get them here? and how do we convince China to let them come? no single nation is going to act against china... and they've too much influence to get an international community response. (why do you think they're investing in global infrastructure all around the world?)
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Ozacoter 4 years ago
Yes. They would have. They did already. Europe ignored the spanish dictature that also had concentration camps and citizens being tortured and killed.
Monday 4 years ago
Examples all over the world. The leaders of a country don't care what happens in other countries until it starts to affect their own.
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PeachPossum 4 years ago
Politics play an enormous role. The rest of the world looked the other way because Germany was seen as a buffer between Europe and the threat of Communist Russia. Japanese microbiologist Dr. Shiro Ishii was never brought to trial for his war crimes against Chinese citizens during the Second Sino-Japanese War. From 1937 to 1945, Ishii detonated bombs amid hapless victims strapped to vertical platforms, performed autopsies on the dead, vivisections on the survivors. He dropped bombs carrying the bubonic plague and studied the effects of the disease on the local population. When the Japanese surrendered to Allied forces, Ishii offered his volumes of meticulous medical studies on human subjects in exchange for his freedom. The Allied medical communities came to his rescue: such data on human subjects was invaluable. Ishii and his culpable colleagues were granted immunity.
J. M. Montes 4 years ago
I'd have arranged an accident after he had handed over the files.
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Jayne Kyra 4 years ago
In my city we have a Holocaust Memorial: "Road of No Return". The train tracks lead to Oswiecim.
Ally R 4 years ago
This is scarily true and not remotely funny. One of the things one of my history teachers told our class when we were learning about the years leading up to ww2 is that Hitler was one of the greatest leaders the world had seen until the war kicked off and his clear obsession of cleansing Europe and the rest of the world was apparent. If a country is seen as being successful be it from high employment levels, manufacturing, good infrastructure, housing etc, then everything must be ok. But dig a little deeper and you find some deeply sinister things. I think the issue with China is not only is the government corrupt, media being controlled and ridiculous infrictions on its citizens, but, most countries are dependent on being able to source cheaper labour and manufacturing from there. The western world has a lot to answer for, and I'm not entirely sure how this one will be resolved without a substantial number of casualties. Sorry for the long ramble & apologies for poor grammar etc.
Colin Matthews 4 years ago (edited)
I dount it. However the vast bulk of Concentration Camp victims were from other countries and there were no "Jew Concentration Camps" all the camps contained a wide variety of victims: Jews, Gypsies, Communists, Homosexuals, Career Criminals, Soviet POW etc etc. Hitler certainly hated Jews but eventually he would have got around to everyone.
K Witmer 4 years ago
But thats what it says. If he hadn't invaded no one would've cared
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Laura Mende (Human) 4 years ago
Oh... my... GOD! Never thought about it that way. It's terrible!!!
Troux 4 years ago (edited)
^Same. Economics is the main driving factor in making foreign morality so flexible (i.e. how much money China is worth for us), and considering Hitler was starting to roll out the (frankly phenomenal) VW Beetle, other countries would have been much too content to stand up.
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Radek Suski 4 years ago
Nothing to believe. Other countries were pretty aware of all the injustice happening to Jews long before Nazis invaded other countries. They knew it and not only they do not intervened, they even declined to accept Jewish refugees into their countries indirectly sentencing them to death
Angelus Jiménez 4 years ago
It's also weird, that some (or more) polish are becoming nazis. I mean, Poland was one of the first victims.
#12
Black Panther Flashbacks
Mohammad Ammar 4 years ago
To be honest they can keep ours. We can't keep them safe and no one even comes to visit us.
Mohammad Ammar 4 years ago (edited)
Ok I feel like I'm shitting on my country so let me explain a little XD. The situation in Pakistan has drastically improved ove the last decade and we're starting to get quite a fair amount of tourists. However, our country hasn't invested a lot in museums, heritage sites and tourist infrastructure so I think our artifacts are better off in western countries for now, where more people can view them. If you plan on visiting Pakistan, there's still a lot we have to show, just not behind glass in some aircon building. For example, just 1.5 hours from my house is a Buddhist stuppa with Buddhist statues dating back to the 2nd century! Soo yeah I really don't mind, but of course I can't speak on behalf of all Pakistanis or South Asians.
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Sofia Di Tutti 4 years ago
Well being italian I feel the same for french... (no I am not talking about Gioconda, that was sold, but there was a lot of other things that napoleon stole us)
Ποιητικό Αίτιο 4 years ago
Good joke ;) Aside from that, women need never be ashamed of their age and men need never be ashamed of their salary.
Lou 4 years ago (edited)
For all of you who feel that your countries are not protecting your national treasures and you feel some mistaken gratitude for other countries "saving" them, let's talk about colonies, invasions, about corruption from oil and mining companies, weapon industries etc in your lands.
Mike Crow 4 years ago
The deeper you look into history the more you realize that all over the world there was a lot of invasions, war, slavery, genocide and even colonies.
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#13
UK Is Like Belgium
Aroace tiger (any pronouns) 4 years ago
As an English person: not true. We were evil and we are being taught about it
Susie Keegan 4 years ago
Really because as an Irish person with relatives that grew up in England we had to explain A LOT of the history.
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BlackPearltheSeaWing/NightWing 4 years ago
Im not gonna make fun of Britain because America's history is the second picture no matter who's teaching it.
Suzi Gauthier 4 years ago
My sister's British friend wished everyone Happy Traitor's Day July 4th.
#14
I Dont Think You Want
Jo Morris 4 years ago
My grandma, was born in 1892 and died at 104 in 1996, put me straight when near the end of her life I said it must have been nice living at the turn of the 20th century and wearing the pretty white clothes of that era. Telling it like it is, she said "give me polyester clothes and automatic washing machines any day"!
Auntriarch 4 years ago
My grandmother would have been wearing a domestic uniform and washing the pretty white clothes
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Something 4 years ago
They had one advantage back then though: they thought they had a future.
Ozacoter 4 years ago
That is true. I feel that younger generations are very cynical about their future (as we are probably right) so we are more unhappy than previous ones
Load More Replies... Andy Acceber 4 years ago
The expression "Hindsight is always 20/20" has always baffled me. No, it's not. Somehow, culturally, we seem to collectively catch amnesia and block out the bulk of history.
Yara Balabanova 4 years ago
I assume they mean the time in which women and people of color were oppressed more and white men could do everything they wanted without repercussions
Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago
They always forget that the “good old days” were only good for the same tiny rich male WASP minority they continue to be good for today.
Luna Lovebug 4 years ago
Yesterday I was watching the mummy returns (because somebody here was throwing s**t around about bad sequels and the mummy being one of them) Now I love me some Brendan, so of course I had to rewatch this so called "shitty" sequel immediately. Anyway. The movie is set in 1933 and is for a small part set in London. And I was just thinking, look at Londen, looking all classy and dashing. I would have loved to live there in 1933. But then I remember 1945 an such. The blizz and had flashbacks to the call the midwife show which start just after the war. And hmm, you know. Maybe not.
Luis Hernandez Dauajare 4 years ago
Middle East, Chechenya, the Persian Gulf, Britain and most of Latin American would disagree...
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#15
Enslaving People Because Of Color Skin? Absolutely Barbaric!
Stimpy 4 years ago
Yeah, I always wondered how this can't be a major issue? I mean privately run for-profit prisons with forced labor, combined with "three-strike" policies that jail's people even for misdemeans...
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Auntriarch 4 years ago
If you have a big enough debt, you are not a borrower, you are a partner
Load More Replies... Martha Meyer 4 years ago
This is pretty big nonsense actually. The Ottoman empire got its slaves from Eastern Europe as well as Africa, the Roman word "slave" also comes from "Slav", meaning Slavic peoples. These kinds of empires were al opportunity slave traders and just took whoever they could get. The same goes for slavery in teh Americas. The natives died in too great numbers to enslave them, so slavers turned to Africa, where there was already a well established centuries old slave trade (see Ottoman sources). Slavery being tied to race was a very late development and almost entirely by chance.
F. H. 4 years ago
Eh... slave isn't a Latin word. The Latin word for slave is "servus". Which, for some reason, is a common greeting in many European countries.
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oddball0626 4 years ago
So much hypocracy. Western countries have simply outsourced their slavery. It's in the clothes you buy. It's in the phones and computers you use to extol the virtues of your domestic socialistic labor policies that are used to ensure your own standard of living is propped up above the rest of the poorer world.
Carmen Sandiego 4 years ago
Yes, absolutely. It is much better to enslave them because they are slaves.
#16
Ah, Good Times
Serial pacifist 4 years ago
I am from the region actually. Very true, unfortunately. Nevertheless, apart from mildly to largely racist jerks in power on all sides, we are beautiful countries with great people. Worth visiting.
Rosidah Yahya 4 years ago
all shud realize tht vast diff btwn ordinary ppl and the corrupted government any where , at anytime of history
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Jayne Kyra 4 years ago
Oh please, get lost with that shite, people were reading the paper and books to avoid talking to others before WiFi.
Something 4 years ago
Also if we're pretending it's 1995 I'd prefer to pay 1995 prices please.
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Bacony Cakes 4 years ago
Before WiFi it was Walkmans. Before Walkmans it was magazines. Before magazines it was newspapers. Before newspapers it was books.
lara 4 years ago
I was in Yugoslavia in the late 70's, it was gorgeous. Dubrovnik and "Most" [spelling?] the bridge, all the things we thought were so beautiful, destroyed.
Z Alexi 4 years ago
Yugoslavian sign in English? Yep, talking quietly~~where you can watch grimaces, eyes sparkle, smirks, nods~~is preferable to jerks hollering on phones...using lotsa words but saying nothing. [They've nothing left to say since they're on phones 3/4 of day~~We hang up on dull, insipid time-gobblers. Getta life.]
#17
What A Nice Little White Girl
Liet 4 years ago
I know a tiny bit more of this story. She wasn't able to ride first class on the trains because they were segregated. So the states solution was to try to get her declared white rather than desegregate.
BetweenTheCracks 4 years ago
Deny obvious reality rather than make proper systemic changes. Sounds like us, all right
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At least they didn't kill her for being prosperous. That's more than some got.
Watching 4 years ago
Oklahoma, one of the most racist states in our country. Pure red. And I mean that in more ways than one.
JonaLou2U 4 years ago
As a lifelong Oklahoman- sadly....this is true. (I'm a little blue dot in a sea of red) But I am HeRE!
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Virgil Blue 4 years ago
Oklahoma: Can't have rich black people now can we. Quick! To the swap machine.
K. Anderson 4 years ago
Weird as it is it allowed her to keep her money. Someone said they did so to keep the money in the state. Honestly I’m surprised they didn’t steal it from her
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Dave P 4 years ago
It allowed her the ability to cross the color line and use White Only facilities and more. Back then, for a black person, that was literally a trump card
Dodo 4 years ago
But that's so stupid. Not saying segregation was sensible but the "reasons" for it don't go away just because you declare someone white. It just proves that you're being an a-hole for the sake of it.
Load More Replies... Maria Schneider 4 years ago (edited)
Racism at its very best... If Elon Musk loses all his money, will his skin be dark then? 😉
BetweenTheCracks 4 years ago
No, he'd just be a poor white person and therefore invisible to both sides of the aisle.
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Kenny Kulbiski 4 years ago
The real surprise is that the didn't find a way to screw her out of the money.
Mina Minx 4 years ago
They did. She was appointed a white executor/guardian. She was found living in squalor while they were living it up. NAACP stepped in and fought for her to have better treatment. It was only then she began living a better lufe. She eventually gained control of her own finances.
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Just Make Up Your Mind!
Mohammad Ammar 4 years ago
And yet the USA isn't defined as a terrorist nation.That title is reserved for the rest of us.
Monday 4 years ago
But of course! They can't be terrorists! They're the good guys! /s
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Andy Acceber 4 years ago
Yup, and roughly 90% of Americans have no idea this happens. It's not in our textbooks.
Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago
Also, killing dictators... Or legitimate presidents... Depending on their mood.
Bacony Cakes 4 years ago
Yo, i heard you had oil, so i'm gonna establish this dictatorship we're gonna send 15 years destroying and send your country into a chaotic hellhole run by terrorist drug cartels, ok?
Mark Fuller 4 years ago
Oooo. I like this one. Clever. Never actually looked at it like that but now you say it...
Casey Burns 4 years ago
Don't base a nation off their people. Base a nation off the people that rule and control them.
#19
*laughs In Nazi Gold*
Sofia Di Tutti 4 years ago
Swiss is like "Si vis pacem prepara bellum" (if you want peace be ready for the war)
Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago
Don't underestimate the Swiss. They habe bunkers, weapons, and bombs in their tunnels / roads / mountains / bridges.
J. F. 4 years ago
Same here in Germany, a leftover from the cold war. A lot of our highways can be turned into airfields, bridges with holes to place explosives in and underground stations and parking garages that can be turned into bunkers for civilians.
Load More Replies... Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago
As Harry Lime said in Graham Greene’s “The Third Man”; “You know what the fellow said – in Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace – and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.”
Mónica Elisabeth Sacco 4 years ago
"Pas d'argent, pas des Suisses" (No money, no Swiss ) was the moto of Middle Age Swiss mercenaries. Maybe it's still working...
Computernaut 4 years ago
Definitely look into how the Swiss remained "neutral" during the world wars, really cool story.
Maria Schneider 4 years ago
Switzerland got no invention to the Axis (the latter being afraid with Switzerland engaged in the war, they'd lose all the money they had parked there)
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Life's A Witch
Kristin Ingersoll 4 years ago
They could be burned for practicing what we would call thinking. :/
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Michelle M 4 years ago (edited)
'Half a dozen? That is an indecent language for a woman. Sorcery I say! To the stake!
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BlackPearltheSeaWing/NightWing 4 years ago
I have a feeling I would have been killed for being a witch a long time ago had I been alive then. My views on life in general are not what you would expect out of a 1600s woman...
cassiushumanmother 4 years ago
My aunts and mother would be witches, they make homemade Swedish elixir, kefir and a lot of witchcraft potions. I had to drink Swedish elixir as a kid, in a cup of water, and i would definitely have sent a spell to my mother for making me drink that, on an empty stomach strait out of the bed, of cuuurse.
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#21
Also Forgot To Mention Hera Was His Sister...still A Classic Though
Samantha Lomb 4 years ago
Well rape and incest are not really on "on brand" for Disney, though dead parents certainly are. Which makes one wonder why they chose Greek mythology as source material at all.
Vic 4 years ago
Douche bags: She was wearing a short dress, she was asking for it. Zeus: it was moving, it was asking for it..
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Tom Hanlin 4 years ago
Of course Zeus was a loving family man! He kept creating so much more family! It didn't exactly so much involve his wife but, he had full enthusiasm for it.
Andy Acceber 4 years ago
I dunno. The whole Pocahontas movie was a pretty extreme example of ignoring the source material -- and to add insult to injury, it was based on a real person, not legend.
Whitney Gal 4 years ago
Also, Herakles murdered Megara and their kids and then ran away. I guess that was planned for the sequel? “Hercules 2: Sh*t Gets Real”
Sonia Bailey 4 years ago
Hera was also not the mother of Herakles - she was one of Zeus's many mortal lovers, Alcmene - she named her son 'Glory of Hera' to try to appease the wrathful goddess. Spoiler alert: it didn't work...
Analyn Lahr 4 years ago
I like the songs. But the plot is so cringe. Hera would not be pleased being portrayed as Hercules' biological mother. She tried to kill all of Zeus' half mortal kids at least once.
#22
Oh Well Its Not Like We Can Do Anything About That
Neil Bidle 4 years ago
History happened, you can't change that, learn from it and move forward. "Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it"
Laura Mende (Human) 4 years ago
Kaiser Wilhelm II wrote in the 20's (in exile): Jews are vermin. Get rid of them. I think the best solution would be gas? And at this point, I'm very ashamed of Germany. Antisemitism wasn't an invention of the Nazis. It was around for centuries all around in Europe. That's sad...
Lenka Smetanová 4 years ago
Everyone around me: They were SLAVES you have no rigts to say anything againts them!!!!... Me: I'm from czech republic. My ancestors were slavic.... the name Slave actually came from the name of this Slavic nation...
Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago (edited)
People are the products of their times and societies. The American Founding Fathers were both great men by the standards of their times and, in a lot of ways, by ours too. But many were also racists by anyone’s standards, then and now. Remember, there were some who fought for everyone to be free—-John Adams publicly opposed slavery and only employed paid labor (regardless of race) on his farm, and Benjamin Franklin even started the first abolitionist society, just to name a couple—-but the southern colonies wanted to hang on to their slaves and their plantation (translation: feudal lord) lifestyle, and threatened to torpedo the whole damned Revolution if they didn’t get their way, thereby forcing the anti-slavery group to capitulate, in order to at least get their vision up and running. Sound familiar?
Vaida Kuodytė 4 years ago
Many of our parents and neighbours are still racist. Despite them never having even met a non-caucasian person.
Luis Hernandez Dauajare 4 years ago
History is not meant to be pleasant. It is meant to be learned. Neither is meant to be glorified. If History makes you uncomfortable, good! If your own history offends you, better. You won't achieve anything by erasing or ignoring it.
Mark Johansen 4 years ago
Thomas Jefferson: Wrote the Declaration of Independence, a key force in creating freedom for hundreds of millions of people, but that doesn't count because he held slaves. He's a villain. George Floyd: Robbed a pregnant woman at gunpoint, but that doesn't count because he was killed by the police. He's a hero.
BetweenTheCracks 4 years ago
People REFUSE to acknowledge nuance, because that means they don't "win" the "argument". Generally speaking, leaders are in the positions they're in because they can and will do not-nice things. That includes the ones who benefit their country, such as the Founding Fathers. But do keep up the circular arguments and unending screeching, that seems to be working out well in moving the narrative forward.
#23
"George, I've Just Noticed Something..."
Seán Baron 4 years ago
Ah, British Foreign Policy in the 19th Century: Do you have a flag? No? We do, this is ours now!
Bob Belcher 4 years ago
No flag no country, that's the rules I just made up. Love Eddie Izzard.
Load More Replies... Kyle 4 years ago
Mitchell and Webb show — watched entire series twice. It was soooo funny. And that’s Numberwang!
N G 4 years ago
That's us sticking our noses into the bits we *didnt* own and drawing arbitrary pencil lines on a map.
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Uber Mensch 4 years ago
I think it was Oscar Wilde that observed that the reason the sun never set on the British Empire was because God didn't trust them in the dark.
Tiny Dynamine 4 years ago
A crucial point is that most Britons would admit this and say "Yeah, sorry, that empire was a disgrace."
ChinmayGhule 4 years ago
Saying it this way is equal to saying the Great Britan was perhaps the most sucessful Kingdom in the world.
jpaul 4 years ago
seriously, seems the whole world has leagued against the brits these days ^^
Lisa Shelton 4 years ago (edited)
I don't think there's a single country or region out there that hasn't done some sketchy s**t at some point. Just some of us have done more than others.
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#24
A Rare Glimpse Of A History Meme In The Wild
Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago
She is so bad she has been re-elected every time since... well... Almost forever.
Stimpy 4 years ago
"können Männer eigentlich auch Kanzlerin werden?" Something children in Germany apparently ask from time to time....
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wifeofweasley 4 years ago
She has not always made the best decisions in her 16 years as chancellor, but you can't deny that she has taken Germany a long way. She has led us through crises, problems and a pandemic. She is and remains the mother of the state. This woman has given her all for German politics over the last 20 years and I begrudge her her retirement more than anything else.
Martha Meyer 4 years ago
This is just rubbish. We'll all wish her back once one of the clowns who wants to follow her is in charge. I'm saying this as someone who has never voted for her.
Cupcake168 4 years ago
👍🏼 Me neither. I absolutely fear the oncoming elections (for US: We are going to vote a new chancellor in September).
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Rez Fidel 4 years ago
Ahhh.. bri´ish boulevard crap papers. Actually shes very popular...even for Lefties. (German here)
Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago (edited)
Merkel is not at all the bad guy. Believe me, I can think of a shitload of truly bad people, right off the top of my head, who should be publicly outed, tarred and feathered, and run out of town on a rail. Sunshine is the best disinfectant.
Ami Temi 4 years ago
Angela is freaking awesome and The Independent is being The Independent. She has more balls than 95 percent of the world leaders she meets and is an icon in my opinion. Angela, Jacinda and Nicola are the role models young girls can aspire to be!
Cupcake168 4 years ago
Angela Merkel is a really sincere person. Unfortunately, she is in the wrong party.
#25
A Toast To The Irish
David Beaulieu 4 years ago
And then they come back with "Irish road bowling" which sounds like something that had whiskey involved at some point.
Remi Flynne 4 years ago
They already know - they say 'the Irish may have invented whisky, but it took a Scotsman to perfect it'.
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John C 4 years ago (edited)
so nobody's gonna talk about the 800 year gap after installing religion? the answer to which was football & whiskey?
Stoopham McFernybabes 4 years ago
Come here to see if anyone was going to comment on that
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Jrizzy Jay 4 years ago
what about the 800 year gap after the Sacrament of Confession. They needed the whiskey after that
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 4 years ago
Umm what about that 800y gap after Catholicism was introduced?
#26
This Country Is Gonna Be Lit!
Thorfin Wolfsbane 4 years ago
Funny thing: when they wrote that they pictured muskets. Never would they have imagined an AK47
Whitney Gal 4 years ago
I enjoy telling gun-rights people who whine about their 2nd amendment rights that they can have all of the 18th century firearms that their hearts desire.
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abn_gator 4 years ago
The military have 50 caliber fully automatic weapons that are, by NATO, illegal to fire directly at someone due to what they do to a person. So don't think an AK or an AR are equivalent to what the military have. Also, you can't pick and choose how you interpret the laws. Such as freedom of speech. I imagine the founding father didn't even dream of something like the internet but yet what we say here is protected by the freedom of speech. In saying that, I do think some gun laws could use updating, but also keep in mind that those laws would not be adhered to by the people that break laws to begin with.
NuClea Bomb 4 years ago
Why do u need guns? "To protect ourselves" From what? "Other people with guns"
Sarah Grape 4 years ago
I think they were basing their country off of what they didn't have with britain but wanted
Randy Klefbeck 4 years ago
The amendments, suffice to say didn't just jump onto the page one after the other. It took Shay's (the wiskey) rebellion for the second amendment to be added.
Mark Johansen 4 years ago
Yes! That's what is, or at least used to be, great about America. Freedom. The freedom to speak, to practice one's own religion, to own guns, to associate or not associate with whom you choose. That's what liberals hate most about America. Because the big problem with freedom is that sometimes people don't do what you think is best. They have to be forced to do what you think is best. Because talking them into it requires logic and persuasion, and that's just way too hard.
Bacony Cakes 4 years ago
Let's ban beer! *door slams open* I'VE GOT A TOMMY GUN SEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! ...f*ck, go back.
Luther von Wolfen 4 years ago
They were also smart enough to create the Electoral College, ensuring that the will of the people wouldn't interfere with presidential elections.
Dave P 4 years ago
you mean to protect with will of people, as each state was a semi-independent entity and this was to protect the will of the people in the states, so big states couldnt bully small states.
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Literally Grave Robbers
Neil Bidle 4 years ago
At least when the British museum got hold of things, they were preserved, not destroyed or sold on the black market?
Rez Fidel 4 years ago
Thats a crappy excuse for invading foreign countries, forcing western religion on them, destroying their lands by extracting ressources, enslaving them, etc.. So... Are you serious?
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Auntriarch 4 years ago
Top tip - if you want to visit a really great museum, head for the capital of a former empire.
Suzy the observer 4 years ago
EVERY pilfering nation should be made to give back what was looted.
Shelli Aderman 4 years ago
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/04/british-museum-is-worlds-largest-receiver-of-stolen-goods-says-qc
Mark Johansen 4 years ago
At least when the British got hold of things, they didn't smash them to pieces because they didn't like the culture that produced them.
#28
The Madlad
Sofia Di Tutti 4 years ago
I am italian - if one of our president would have done such a thing we claimed it as a miracle... (Our president of republics are always old people)
Yvonne Dauwalder Balsiger 4 years ago
More information here https://medium.com/war-is-boring/the-cia-and-kgb-tried-to-blackmail-this-world-leader-with-sex-tapes-927fc7ddbd48
Lenka Smetanová 4 years ago
I mean.. do you know how much you would earn just selling those copie back then? When there was no piratebay or even internet itself?
Dave P 4 years ago
no, turned out that the dossier where that was from was created by the SVR as part of a disinformation campaign. So you can believe SVR disinformation if you want.
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Ratatouille’s Revenge
Jerry Mathers 4 years ago
Where's one of those group shots of trump, Cruz and McConnell standing in front of a flag?
Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago
Or a flood, fire, oil soaked beach and animals, oilfield wasteland, victim of an unnecessary police shooting, etc?
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Tracy Sellars 4 years ago
I down voted this one because it was the fleas. Leave the rats alone.
Tim Hancock 4 years ago
The flag(country) was and is being destroyed by the racists that started the KKK(Democrats), and is continuing under the radical socialist Democrats in office now! You idiots blame all bag things you can create on President Trump, a greater patriot than you are.
Maria Schneider 4 years ago
Regarding 2016-2020 I'm so happy presidency in da US is limited to four years
#30
This Is In The Book I’m Reading
Tiny Dynamine 4 years ago
I think that's pretty bad taste. Imagine saying that to Syrians or Yemenis, for example.
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Seabeast 4 years ago
Paris peace convention, 1919. That is when most of those borders were created. Ironically, it was an attempt to end war for once and for all.
Load More Replies... Ladyandthetramp 4 years ago (edited)
Lol imagine this in a happy and cheerful tone!!! Sarcastic
M O'Connell 4 years ago
Oman was never part of the Ottoman Empire, and was not re-partitioned by the Paris Peace Convention.
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#31
God Is An Englishman
Laura Mende (Human) 4 years ago (edited)
The weather is terrible is all you need to know! So all hands on board and let's conquer a few sunny countries. 😂😂😂
Uber Mensch 4 years ago
And let's not forget the (literal) f*cking they invariably gave the natives, as well.
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Tim Pillinger 4 years ago
I presume that they are talking about Yorkshire and Lancashire,. But who is the third...
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Blue of the yams 4 years ago
Weather is terrible? That's relative, I for one LOVE rain and fog!
Jackie Porter 4 years ago
The majority of the people who live there are miserable - I know, I'm one of them
#32
I’m So Lucky
Laura Mende (Human) 4 years ago
But fortunately, if you die in a game, you don't die in reality. That's the point.
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COLA 4 years ago
Not really. If everyone lives in harmony, we don't need to see the photo on the right. Though the technology would be so much different now.
Load More Replies... Soggy Crumpet 4 years ago
Thank you to those who died so that others could enjoy peace time and prosperity
ChinmayGhule 4 years ago
After growing up the guy wouldd do the thing in the right in a video game.
Requiem 4 years ago
really? because I dont remember my family being forced into the military as teens
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yellowphantom 4 years ago
My generation spent our teens waiting to be drafted and sent to die in a meaningless "war" that was mainly justified by analogy to another type of game, Dominoes.
Requiem 4 years ago
Yeah nothing to brag about, teens werent forced to join the army in the wars, they lied about their age so they could help. Now you have young people crying about everything and getting anxiety. While their great great grandfather was 16 in a trench
COLA 4 years ago
What is your point? wishing that young people now would suffer as much as doing war in the trench? What is the point? protecting rich and powerful people in the country? Stop romanticize violence and war.
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The Grand Tour Has A Lot Of Meme Potential
Andy Acceber 4 years ago
Nope. Seriously. It's not in any of textbooks. The closest we get is "a draw." Or that the U.S. "chose to end due to political pressure." The word "lose" never appears, and if you ask most Americans, they wouldn't be able to identify any war we lost.
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Maria Schneider 4 years ago
No problem, Sir. We simply NEVER use "USA" and "Lose" in one sentence.
Luther von Wolfen 4 years ago
"Vietnam: We were winning when I left" is a bumper sticker. It reveals a lot more than it says.
Skulduggery Pheasant 4 years ago
I'm not even joking here: Wait, they lost? Don't judge. Just 12 yrs old
Tiny Dynamine 4 years ago
They've lost most wars they've been in. Either that or they turn up at the end when most of the work is done.
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albernistuff 4sale 4 years ago
The US Government lost that war, but Hollywood has been winning it back for them for decades
Andrewsarchus42 2 years ago
As an American, the textbooks don’t say that we lost. But the majority of Americans are well aware that that’s what really happened.
#34
Guten Tag, Polen
Daniel Atkins 4 years ago
Oversimplification if it wasn't him someone else would have done the same thing and if not Germany what about Stalin the point could be made it would be a whole lot easier to just protect the Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
Springy boi 4 years ago
Hitler almost drowned as a boy but survived, if he died of drowning then we wouldn't have to deal with his stupid racist ass!
Navindu Wijewardena 4 years ago
Hitler was in WWI. Once, he was in a trench when the British bombed the trench. The others died. Hitler lived. WHYYYYYYYY?????
Vicky Z 4 years ago
Women got centuries and centuries of oppression and nobody objected or noticed! You'll be fine don't worry
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#35
It’s Not Even Close Really
DC 4 years ago
His d**k has a weird cross section, but that were times then, that were the times ... of d***s being squares...
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Susan Bosse 4 years ago
It was closed for repairs when we went when I was a kid. I've always been mad about that.
/bored_as_heck/ 4 years ago
They were supposed to put a sculpture of his head on top, and it was supposed to be the most hilarious prank from the British loyalists all time. Then the Revolutionists stopped then and all the citizens were left with Washington's long neck.
#36
One Of Our Fellow Scholars
troufaki13 4 years ago
This is so sad on so many levels. Women's rights are non existent in Turkey. Except for Melek Ipek who was acquitted for murdering her abusive husband, probably only because of the power of social media.
Jon Dumaresq 4 years ago
I think you may have missed the point on this one. It's referring to the systematic annihilation of an estimated one million ethnic Armenians in 1915, which the Turkish government still refuses to acknowledge. It is not about a little princess who is upset because her parents keep nagging her to get married. The former in my opinion is slightly more important than the latter.
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François Carré 4 years ago
Primary reaction : Me (a creepy 43 year-old single guy) : OMG you're gorgeous, marry ME maybe ? Secondary reaction : Also me (a convinced feminist) : you go lady, it's your life, nobody can tell you how to live it ! ... Sorry about that, since it is exactly what women have to deal with.
Mark Johansen 4 years ago
Muslims are right about women. Agree? You're a sexist. Disagree? You're an Islamophobe.
#37
Belgian History 101
Nicholas Kraemer 4 years ago
Yes, they were doing very well until day 19.
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Suzy the observer 4 years ago
Leopold II, king of the Belgians, is considered the perpetrator of genocide in Congo. He was a disgusting person.
Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
Respect for Belgians notwithstanding.... At least it's a speed bump and not a welcome sign? ...
Barbara Vandewalle 4 years ago
Belgium fought the Blitzkrieg before England. Two weeks we fought German so the rest of the world could mobilize themselves to fight German. Belgium was out numbered 20 to 1.
#38
All Road Lead To Rome
Computernaut 4 years ago
I'm a bit bugged by the fact that the person whop says they dye their hair has black hair in the picture.
Aaricia 4 years ago
Maybe it was dark purple and you can't see it in the picture?
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ChinmayGhule 4 years ago
I don't understand this. Asia is so damn large! Why are they grouped together? There are so many different cultures within it.
Kenny Earthling 4 years ago
I think that saying needs updating since, you know, roads have been built in america and australia, lol
#39
Oh No
Laura Mende (Human) 4 years ago
"Do I look stupid with a mask on?" "Is the Spanish Flu real or a hoax made up by Henry Ford?"
Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago (edited)
Should I bob my hair, go to college, stop wearing a corset, get a job, go out to speakeasies on the weekends, and generally live a free and independent life, or should I just get married to whatever man my father chooses for me and be my husband’s chattel?
Load More Replies... Luis Hernandez Dauajare 4 years ago
I have a meeting with my friends at Versailles. Should we bankrupt Germany?
Bacony Cakes 4 years ago
Yeah. And make them give Russia a zillion trains.
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Vetus Vespertilio 4 years ago
Any reason why I shouldn’t invest all my money in the stock market?
#40
Coincidence? I Think Not
Lauren Caswell 4 years ago
Are you really certain the doves were so innocent? They certainly have a lot to do with a coo 😁
Auntriarch 4 years ago
Mine does because I handed over my phone whilst I wiped my eyes
Load More Replies... Bob Belcher 4 years ago
Communist, you mean Communist. Sorry but this always annoys me. Russia , Venezuela, North Korea, China; they are Communist not socialist. If speaking in regards to the main types of economies discussed in Econ 101 you learn in high school, most modern countries are in some degree socialist where capitalism exist in some form with government control. No country anywhere on the face of this earth is a pure capitalism as described by Adam Smith. If it was, all of the Too Big To Fail bailouts would have never happened.
Load More Replies... Suzi Gauthier 4 years ago
I know there was in the 80's. I don't know about now. My dad used it. The one he used was a cream that you put on with your fingers.
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JitkaBlitka 4 years ago
I've spent an hour searching the internet and haven't found it, so if anyone knows, please tell!
Load More Replies... Estelle Winwoode 4 years ago
Roman "emperers"? Doesn't Bored Panda have proof readers/editors? Emperors.
#41
So True
Seabeast 4 years ago
Not exactly a valid comparison. The need for home maintenance has not disappeared.
Laugh or not 4 years ago
Yes, and no. My parents bought a washingmachine when I was born and it died and honorable death when I was around 25. At the time, the products of that company were advertised to last a life-time. Now we have to make laws to forbid programmed obsolescence. Many people would not think of repairing stuff, because it is easier and cheaper to replace.
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May 4 years ago
My boomer parents taught me diy. If younger generations don't know how to do stuff - that's on the generations that didn't take the time to teach them.
Catlady6000 4 years ago
Exactly. I'm a late boomer, and my daughter has all the traditional "womanly" skills, and can do car repair and basic plumbing and electricity. In fact, she's my primary mechanic. If I had had a son, he would have had the exact same skillset. Unfortunately, I knew nothing of woodworking or carpentry. I did teach her how to hammer a nail :/
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yellowphantom 4 years ago
Even boomer guys who could build cars from spare parts can't do anything with the computerized versions today. My new car broke down and even the dealer shop was not allowed to physically touch anything that did not read as "broken" by computer diagnostic. Couldn't even just take a look at the fuel pump.My dad (Silent Gen) would do stuff like fix the toaster. Who is going to take time now to fix a $12 POS that was DESIGNED to break so you have to buy a new one and fill up landfills with more stuff?
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marianne eliza 4 years ago
Was just talking about this very thing. My dad, now 90, could do most everything, plumbing, electrical, concrete, landscaping, work shop and tractor garage, correct pruning of all types of fruit trees and shrubbery. These days??? Can't even hire a "handyman" anymore around here. They may call themselves a handyman but they really only want the big money jobs. Just got ghosted by 3 different handyman companies because my request was a long list of little things, not a kitchen or bath remodel.
#42
Sparta, This Is
#43
Manifest Destiny Be Like
engineer_nope.avi 4 years ago
The funny thing is that this is the 3rd time in US history that a President tried to buy Greenland. 1st time was after the purchase of Alaska, 2nd was after WW2.
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Daniel (ShadowDrakken) 4 years ago
We learned from the best. And now that we're entering our adolescent state, we have to prove we can do it better ;) (*crying inside*)
Load More Replies... Dave P 4 years ago
hey, we offered Mexico money over the disputed border territories but they attacked instead, we captured Mexico City and only took what we originally wanted and not a inch more when we could have taken the whole thing.
Dave P 4 years ago
1) the myth is $27, and 2) it is debunked myth, the dutch actually paid a quite a bit for it, and given the steep price they assumed they were buying it, the Manhattan's thought it was just land usage rights, and those who acted as translators probably mistranslated things along the way
Load More Replies... tuzdayschild 4 years ago
Paid for it. Made an offer that was accepted. Did not kill and take it. That behavior was reserved for native Americans.
J 4 years ago
France was over extended at the time and need the money and couldn't protect the colony. Best thing, take the cash and run. Also, no one really knew what was included until Lewis and Clark.
Load More Replies... Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago (edited)
That’s adjusting for inflation. You also have to consider the context. First off, they were completely undeveloped territories. Secondly, wages for the average person were nothing compared to today, though skilled laborers were still able to support themselves and their families. But let’s look at their wages. For example, a mason made about $1.66/day and a carpenter about $1.08/day in 1800 (source link: https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/title/4126). They also didn’t work 8 hour days with breaks and lunch hours, or have weekends, so that pay wasn’t based on what we would consider an average shift. So $7.2 million and $15 million were astronomical, and virtually unattainable, amounts of money—-just like $37 billion and $1.2 trillion are today.
Mark Johansen 4 years ago
The Louisiana Purchase territory and Alaska are worth a lot more now because Americans poured billions of dollars and billions of hours of work into developing them. You might as well complain that it's unfair that a restaurant paid the grocery store only $7 for a pound of beef but then charged a diner $70 for the gourmet meal they made from it. The time and skill of the chef is worth more than the cost of raw materials.
#44
Quick Fake China Is Asleep! Up-Vote Flag Of Real China
Neill Powell 4 years ago
I have been referring to "West Taiwan" since i saw the meme back in January on 9gag, and it never gets old.
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Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago
Taiwan is the only real China. That big communist thing on the continent is just a bunch of rebelious provinces that are ruled by an illegitimate dictatorial "government". So sayeth history.
plush n puppet shenanigans 4 years ago
the republic of china is the one true legitimate government of China, the prc is just a fake communist genocidal government lead by winnie the pooh
Kenny Earthling 4 years ago
Many people do, they are just scared of China
Load More Replies... Bacony Cakes 4 years ago
What are they gonna do? Build a replica of my house in some field and leave it to decay?
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Carter Mosoff 4 years ago
I don’t know why we recognize commie China if we hate commies
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Faked Their Deaths
Rabbit Carrot 4 years ago (edited)
Before they were hired by the USA to work in the space and tech industries.
A B C 4 years ago
Uh, those were German scientists, not the Nazi officers.
Load More Replies... F. H. 4 years ago
You have to face it: Most Nazi officers didn't have to flee to South America. The Soviets were too busy filling their gulags with common soldiers to hunt for the more important Nazis. The same was true in the west: After the Nuremberg Trials, mostly unimportant and low ranking Nazis were put on trial, with the idea to save the more important cases for later, when enough evidence was gathered. Of course this had the effect, that the courts grew "tired" and punishments got more and more lenient. Judges and doctors were hardly persecuted because Germany needed people in those positions. Even the Soviet-controlled GDR filled the ranks of their medical schools with former Nazis. Futhermore, the Allies were completely OK with keeping even high ranking Nazis for their military know-how.
#46
Not Sure If This Has Been Done Before
Bob Campbell 4 years ago
Get over it or we will be in a thousand year war. Just don't do it again.
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Aliquid A 4 years ago
Most other developed countries decided to move on and grow up sooner, that's all.
Load More Replies... Mohammad Ammar 4 years ago
Exactly, we Asians love to act all high and mighty when we're just as bad. The only difference is that we were colonies for the last 2 centuries so no one really remembers.
Ozacoter 4 years ago
Exactly. All big old civilizations are based on conquer, murder and slavery. People from USA seem to not have read a history books in their lives.
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Helenium 4 years ago
And genocide. Africa also has their own slaves not just white folk seems it’s easier to pick the parts of history people like.
Ozacoter 4 years ago
And they also conquered others. Like Al Andalus for example. That luckily was also a wonderful cultural influence in Spain and Europe. But still based on war, murder, rape and slavery
Load More Replies... M M 4 years ago
Europe was rich even before the colonialism. The real affluence was made possible by industrial revolution.
Load More Replies... Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
And in other news, water is wet. We know. Sadly, the myths of our history were not debunked until relatively recently in history, so it's taking a while for some to catch up.
Mark Johansen 4 years ago
Yes. Mostly slaves bought from African countries who raided their neighbors and kidnapped people so they could sell them as slaves to Europeans. And now the people who enslaved their neighbors preen themselves on their moral superiority over those who bought the slaves from them.
Barbara Vandewalle 4 years ago
Slavery is still occurring. The Muslims would board ships in the Mediterranean and take the men for ship slaves. The women were sold to the Caliph for sex slaves.
#47
Yeah, Someone Definitely Used A Ruler To Draw Some Of These Borders
Andy Acceber 4 years ago
Yup, but vastly different population sizes. I come from the box-shaped state of Colorado. We have roughly 6 million residents. Compare that to the angular country of Algeria. It has 43 million residents. The "let's draw lines on a map" way of divying land hurt both of us, but the boxy African countries have it a lot worse.
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Lisa Chambers 4 years ago
Waiting for someone to do one about Africa and how they are all so primitive there when they have skyscrapers and high rise buildings they *actually* live in.
Helenium 4 years ago
im sure this was called The Big Grab and it was 1800 odd and because of these borders the African people couldnt trade and have their rituals and then came poverty, i dont know i read it on WIki
Shelp 4 years ago
The idea is there but the way you put it is extremely inaccurate
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Not Cool Andrew Jackson
Fus 4 years ago
The Spanish conquered South America from the Aztek, Inca and Mayan's. You never hear anyone saying Mexicans need to give that land back. Mostly because the Spanish invaders killed every last one.
Ripley Dog 4 years ago
What are you talking about? There are plenty of Aztec, Maya and Inca descendants left. I had a friend in high school that spoke Nahuatl and most people in the Yucatan and Central America speak mayan (like 6 million of them) and Indigenous Rights are a "thing." The situation in Mexico is different because most of the citizens are mixed native and spanish (mestizo) so it's quite different from the dynamic in the US. You absolutely DO hear that Indigenous land should be "given back" and people in Brazil are actively being murdered over this concept as are people in Guatemala/El Salvadore/ *parts* of Mexico. Dude...Google is free and none of this is "obscure" info.
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Margaret Flanders 4 years ago
I am native american, this one made me laugh. We took the education provided by the government in Indian schools, sued the government, and now get free healthcare for life through Indian Health Services
Mark Johansen 4 years ago
Ok. Let's give the land in America back to the original owners. Which is ... who, exactly? Indian nations routinely fought each other and took land from each other. So which Indian nation was the original owner of any given piece of land? And if you say, "That doesn't matter. They're all Indians", that would be like saying that it didn't matter when Germany invaded France because "they're all Europeans". Saying that France and Germany and Russia are different nations with different cultures while the Cherokee and Navajo and Iroquois are all the same because they're all Indians is incredibly racist.
Suzi Gauthier 4 years ago
I didn't think Native Americans believed in owning land. They might have their territory, but they didn't consider it "ownable."
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Christina Marie 4 years ago
You realize Native America ARE those migrants. Your limited knowledge of simple history is amazing.
Load More Replies... #49
We See Through Your Disguise, Himmler
cassiushumanmother 4 years ago
And i don't know if this is real in any country but in mine, everybody pronounce Himmler well and Hitler wrong, and they both have the same ending letters. This is really strange, they both deserve to be prononced wrong.
Claire 4 years ago
That's interesting. How do they pronounce it? What country are you from?
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Are We The Baddies?
Martha Meyer 4 years ago
No one here has history in third grade. It starts in 5th grade and certainly not with events in the 20th century, but with prehistory and the stone age.
Stephanie IV 4 years ago (edited)
I’d still wager that a fair share of third graders have some sort of concept that a man called Hitler lived, and he was evil, and times were difficult when great-grandma lived.
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Laurie Ostergaard-Overbey 4 years ago
my mother absolutely refused to discuss our background, her parents escaped from Germany as newlyweds......i didn't learn about the maternal side of my family until i was a full grown adult....
Lisa Chambers 4 years ago
Now I am curious, what are German children taught about their history?
Shelp 4 years ago
Well at least they do learn about it (although not about everything, looking at you Namibian genocide)
Blakkur Sverrir 4 years ago
That's mostly because WW2, the holocaust and our inherited guilt are covered in such detail, that anything else is only mentioned very little. I learned most of our history after school. Most "in school history" is really just the Third Reich (at least in my school-time, 90s and early 2000s. Don't know about today)
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#51
Have We Forgotten?
TmKhr 4 years ago
I prefer being part of gayest generation than the generation that started two world wars and had millions killed
Seabeast 4 years ago
Those wars were more than 20 years apart, so... not the same generation starting both.
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Bacony Cakes 4 years ago
greece but every region's flag is replaced with an lgbt flag at random (except for the north aegean)
SparklePony94 4 years ago
Ancient Rome. They also had running water. And swimming pools. Cool.
David Beaulieu 4 years ago
Most social norms are based in religious doctrines and are just ways to control the masses. But at the same time, some of the norms of today are essential and better. Pedophilia was also accepted in the ancient world. The ancient world was also not so great on slavery, war, genocide.
Whitney Gal 4 years ago
I see your Classical Greece and raise with Ancient Mesopotamia. They were fine with transgender people, too.
Martha Meyer 4 years ago
But this isn't really true. In ancient Greece it was only acceptable for men to do this when they were young and they were still expected to marry a woman later and become a "family man". Lesbians weren't even considered, I think.
#52
Don’t You Think?
F. H. 4 years ago
Not that he needed proof. It's already from a play about the Spanish Reconquista and Inquisition.
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Thought It Would Fit Here
Bacony Cakes 4 years ago (edited)
Hitler: "Freud, what ze F*CK is THIS?" Freud: "That's just a drawing of a woman!" *Freud gets slammed against the wall* Hitler: "WHY ZE F*CK DOES SHE HAVE A D-" *Tito walks in through the door* *Tito slowly backs out through the door*
Luis Hernandez Dauajare 4 years ago
"Stalin, I remind you I was left in charge!" "Really? Ah, Trotksy, I forgot! Btw, haven't you seen a pickaxe around here?"
#54
Well, They Did Something At Least
Rez Fidel 4 years ago
Actually a lot of them collaborated with the Nazi regime too.
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History Doesn't Repeat Itself, But It Often Rhymes
François Carré 4 years ago
Real historians don't comment on current events. They need to step back from the fever of breaking news. They be more like "mmmh, let me think about this, see you in a couple of decades OK ?"
Whitney Gal 4 years ago
Probably because “historian” means they analyze history, not that they try to figure out current events on the fly.
#56
Threw This Together Real Quick But I Think It’s Pretty Solid
Neil Bidle 4 years ago
There are so many weird things about the pearl harbor attack that don't add up
Colin Matthews 4 years ago
Oh yeah thats right like how all the sailors had covid..And how the planes then went on and crashed in to the world trade centers
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Found This
BlackPearltheSeaWing/NightWing 4 years ago
Teddy Roosevelt was a force to be reckoned with for sure
Luis Hernandez Dauajare 4 years ago
Teddy Roosevelt mocked his would be assassin. Andrew Jackson beat up his with a cane...
#58
*cane Noises Intensify*
Jo Morris 4 years ago
My left-handed mother was forced to write with her right hand. The teacher would hit her over the knuckles with a ruler when she swapped back to her left hand. As a little 5 year old she managed to write right-handed which continued throughout her life, however, she did everything else left-handed.
Victor Botha 4 years ago
Can relate. Had a terrible old Scots bitch of a teacher in primary school who tried to force me to write with my right hand by smacking my open palm with a ruler, bad mistake. Told my parents that night at dinner. The next morning in the heads office, the headmaster and said teacher were bearing the brunt of my petite little mother, and my extremely hot tempered father threatening them with untold physical violence and pain if they ever so much as looked at me in a funny way. I was in a new school the following week. It was in 1966
cassiushumanmother 4 years ago
I would be so doomed! I use both hands depending on the activity. Writing: right handed. Eating: left handed. Tennis playing: right handed. Open a bottle: left handed. I do everything righthanded of lefthanded, i'm absolutely not ambidextrous, my brain was just unable to choose so he made his own mix to respect my hands feelings. You are equally respected, you both matter beloved armstools.
Al Christensen 4 years ago
I was born in 1952 and somehow managed to escape this forced conformity. Well, at least regarding handedness.
Lauren Caswell 4 years ago
I'm off to watch this on YouTube I have seen the video in years! Do u wanna copy me and (don't say it)....do exactly like I did?
#59
Winner Of The 1446 Grammy Goes To
#60
“Mr Watson, Come Here. I Want To See You”
Laura Mende (Human) 4 years ago (edited)
The first sentence was "Das Pferd isst keinen Gurkensalat"(The horse does not eat cucumber salad) spoken by Phillip Reis, a German who invented the telephone first. Wikipedia: Johann Philipp Reis (German: [ʁaɪs]; 7 January 1834 – 14 January 1874) was a self-taught German scientist and inventor. In 1861, he constructed the first make-and-break telephone, today called the Reis telephone.
M O'Connell 4 years ago
If you've ever tried to research the development of any particular technology during the late 19th or early 20th centuries you'll see how muddy it can become regarding who actually 'invented' something first. So much innovation was going on, and so many technologies were primed to exist that the same things were 'invented' numerous times by different people, each of whom had no knowledge of the others.
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My Hero!
#62
The Original Time Traveller Meme
#63
Happy Mlk Day!
TmKhr 4 years ago
No matter your skin color, culture, gender, age etc. you can either be a nice person or a complete d**k.
Something 4 years ago (edited)
The BLM movement is primarily about not allowing the police to murder people, which is an issue that disproportionately affects Black people. It has nothing to do with judging people at all, except for the part where if the police encounter people whom they believe are guilty of crimes, they should arrest them so they can be brought before a judge rather than being judge, jury and executioner.
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Money Print Time
Shelp 4 years ago
Why? Financial blame was a common thing to do back then, (especially considering that the war wasn't fought on German soil and that they didn't have to repair entire provinces, like Poland, Belgium or France) and Germany was the best treated country after WW1. They only lost 1/5th of its territory, which was mostly (if not solely) inhabited by non-Germans. Compare it with Austria (completely gone), Hungary (lost 2/3 of its territory as long as several million Hungarians people), Turkey (lost like 4/5 of its territory including its own capital city).
Load More Replies... Shelp 4 years ago
Well, have you ever seen how much Germany made France pay after the German Unification War?
Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago
When Napoleon III attacked them for his own personal glory and failed miserably ?
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#65
Respect The Facts!
Helmut Kok 4 years ago (edited)
and the drama when you post a meme of one of the helicopter on the roof of the Hanoi embassy. With the text "at least we did not lose like France"
#66
It's A Fact
Something 4 years ago
There's no such thing as being good at war. That's like being good at cancer. War is bad.
Martha Meyer 4 years ago
Sorry, but here in Germany we will continue to make jokes about France's and Italy's war performances in the last 200 years.
Laura Mende (Human) 4 years ago
Me, an intellectual: the ancient Gauls had a magic portion... That means french soldiers must be good.
Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
France was sometimes good at war. Everyone is sometimes good at war. Sadly, when you hear nothing for fifty years from "The Greatest Generation" that France sucks... And, yes, "The Greatest Generatoin" is used sarcastically here.
#67
Japan's Capital Be Like:
#68
How Many People Know What Happened In Tasmania For Example?
Mohammad Ammar 4 years ago
You're one of the good ones then. I think countries don't talk about their atrocities because they need public support for when they want to repeat it all in the future.
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AlmightyOne 4 years ago
Sad reality. Germany is perhaps the most mature of them all when it comes to handling the aftermaths of things like that
F. H. 4 years ago
Oh and how does it turn out for Germany? Worse than for Japan or Turkey who continously damage their diplomatic relations with their denial?
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#69
Genghis Was A Chad
#70
Yes, Sorta Funny
Sofia Di Tutti 4 years ago
Fun fact: Austria asked to Italy protection from Hitler, and Mussolini sent some division to borders - ready to help. Then the 2 fascists settled an agreement and the rest is history...
F. H. 4 years ago
Fun fact: Austria was a fascist regime at that point, too. You can't trust a fascist even if you are one yourself.
Load More Replies... Helmut Kok 4 years ago (edited)
Explanation who got shot i Sarajevo, and declared war against Serbia. And what Country was Hitler born in
J. F. 4 years ago (edited)
World War 1 started because an austrian got shot, World War 2 happened because an austrian DIDN'T got shot
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Why?
qwerty 4 years ago
I've said it before, I'll say it again: Zeus wasn't heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, pansexual, omnisexual, or any other sexuality. He was simply sexual.
Load More Replies... Al Christensen 4 years ago
What's the point of being a god if you can't do whatever you want? (Modern equivalent: What's the point of being rich if you can't do whatever you want?)
#72
Not A Story A Red Neck Would Tell You!
#73
Be Careful Everyone
BingeFest1 4 years ago
lmao. Don't see them that often, but Internet Explorer jokes never fail to crack me up
#74
Oh Boy, Here We Go
Mohammad Ammar 4 years ago
The only reason it's a "controversial" issuie is because the west wasn't able to completely eradicate Palestinians without the world noticing. It's a very straight forward issuie, and if you can't see that it's because you don't want to.
Lauren Caswell 4 years ago (edited)
I looked up the maps of pre and post Israel formation, and nowadays, so I could give context to my son of what it was about. But I was sad to see with every set of maps showing the shrinkage of Palestine was a copied set plastered with "LIES" etc. I read their reasons for calling the map lies. It made no sense, it was vitriol.
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Monika Rhodes 4 years ago (edited)
People who think there is nothing wrong with israel destroying palestinians need to a wake up call. It's disgusting israel is destroying a nation with applause of most of the world. And all it took is putting 'terrorists' name to people who just didn't want to have their land taken from them and be oppressed. Downvote me. I don't give a s**t. Israel is the terrorist here and they're getting away with it. While they're crying bomb hit them and injured few people or killed 1- they already murdered 30x more palestinians, anyone- kids too. Disgrace.
Monika Rhodes 4 years ago
Terrorist? The f**k would you do if your land was slowly taken from you and your people killed with silence from other countries? You'd f*****g defend it. Simple as.
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Some Cool Guy 4 years ago
You need a better history source and take off the rose coloured glasses
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#76
The British Are Wild
#77
Rebel Scum
Andy Acceber 4 years ago
Slavery was enshrined in the Constitution of the Confederacy and explicitly protected. "Slavery" was also mentioned in many Confederate states' documents of secession. These are primary source documents from the Civil War. Anyone not believing that the US Civil War was about slavery is spouting their ignorance. (To be fair, a lot of U.S. textbooks contain convoluted nonsense. They pull from the texts written after the war by the Daughters of the Confederacy -- who unsurprising tried their best to create the "lost cause" narrative and spin history in their favor. It still shows up in textbooks today.)
Bob Belcher 4 years ago
I remember my 7th grade history teacher telling us that the Civil War was about much more than slavery. It was about their way of life, how they make money, how they raised their family..etc etc etc. Yeah I saw past all of that BS.
Load More Replies... David Beaulieu 4 years ago
Yes, they were fighting for their state's right to keep slavery legal... even if you take the other side of the argument here, it's still about slavery at its core. The constitution made no statement about slavery (mainly because it was written by people own both sides of the issue), so the southern states were fighting for their right to do as they wished on the matter. They felt there was no mechanism in the constitution that allowed the federal government to dictate federal laws outside of the constitution. This is all spin control.
The Sarcastic Witch 4 years ago
Okay, as a proud Southern, that argument is bs. Of course it was about slavery! That doesn’t mean we have to continue to be racist! Accept that we were wrong and move. Tf. On.
#78
Not Sure If This Is The Right Place To Post, But Whatever
L.A. Trefry 4 years ago
Not to be pedantic but the book How the States Got their Shapes is surprisingly interesting.
#79
Banning European Immigration In Order To Stop The Spread Of Deadly Viruses
#80
Pretty Princess Palace
Seabeast 4 years ago (edited)
I think this refers to medieval cities as they were in medieval times. Not as they are today, all prettied up for the tourists.
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#81
Hey Guys Remember In China When Nothing Happened At All
Lauren Caswell 4 years ago
That's a joke on the simpsons, it was the phrase on the memorial when they went to China to adopt Selma's baby
Lauren Caswell 4 years ago
Then Google is scared of Chinese retribution 🤷♀️
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No Laika No!
#83
Even Then, We Lived In A Society
Jayne Kyra 4 years ago
From Reddit: The painting is called "The last Judgement" and Hell is painted in the bottom left corner. This is where the pope would sit physically in the church: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Judgment_(Michelangelo)
#84
At Least You Gotta Good Anthem Out Of It
Irina Deneva-Slav 4 years ago
I guess the author means the USSR was no better than Tsarist Russia.
Load More Replies... Samantha Lomb 4 years ago
Wow. What a load of Bull. The Tsar was a dictator, that is what an autocrat is. And there were 2 revolutions in 1917, one in February which deposed the Tsar and one in October that deposed the provisional government.
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#85
I Am Surprised No One Has Made This Before
#86
100% Legitimate Quote
Cain Hargreaves 4 years ago
The sickest US space program burn came from a BBC reporter at a press conference with von Braun here. The reporter asked him, "How can we be sure the Saturn V won't land on London?" (I've quoted Tom Lehrer once already, so I'll change things up here.)
Whitney Gal 4 years ago
I hate that this Nazi is so revered in America today. While in Germany, he worked on a project to bomb New York into oblivion. He would have sold his soul to Satan if it meant he got to make big, shiny, flying phallic symbols.
#88
So You’re Telling Me They’re Not All Cowards??
#89
Don’t Ever Say That Again
Madbilby 4 years ago
When the 5 permanent members of the U.N. security council are the planets largest arms dealers you have to wonder if they are serious about stopping wars.
J. F. 4 years ago
If 1 of them is somewhat involved in most of them and the veto is enough to stop the UN
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Veto has its place but is flawed. Each side just vetoes the other and nothing of significance seems to get done. But I don't have any ideas on how to fix the system either
#90
Maybe It'll Work?
#92
All The Cool Kids Are Doing It!
#94
The Zimmermann Telegram Be Like
chi-wei shen 4 years ago
Zimmermann and the German government were dumb enough to admit what they have done without realizing what they really have done.
#95
America Irl
Martha Meyer 4 years ago
It wasn't done to "end the war", it was done to test the new weapons.
F. H. 4 years ago
Of course it was done to end the war. Of course they also needed a field test for their new weapon, but that doesn't exclude the other reason. It was a cold and hard calculation: They assumed they could save the lifes of a certain number of US soldiers by killing a high number of Japanese civillians. Generally, it was just the same idea as any conventional bombing of civillian cities in WWII. The Nazis started doing it, the Allies brought it to terrible perfection.
Load More Replies... Sofia Di Tutti 4 years ago
There was a guy that was present in first bombing, then evaquated to the second... Surivived both.
Dodo 4 years ago
I heard about a guy whose house was in Hiroshima, and whose workplace was in Nagasaki. Dude was unlucky as hell
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you know... Japan will never surrended to Americans back then, the ywould just.... rather sacrifice theor people... butthey actually wantet the emperor to abdicate and already talking with USA about end of the war.... I imagine it like, they just discussing it and someone came to tell them they nuke the city... and the japan be like "The city is gone, hmm cool, cool... WELL... where we are? Oh yes, we talked aboutsurreding and abicate the emperor..." :D
#96
Either That Or Joker Sent A D**k Pic To Charlie
#98
Poor Yuri
Shelp 4 years ago
There's a good meme about how the Soviets sent the first spaceship, the first animal in space, the first man in space, the first woman in space, the first robot on Venus, and the US still ended up winning the space race somehow
J. F. 4 years ago (edited)
And nobody mentions that it was a german rocket that was the first man made object that reached space
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Remember Kids, Don't Start A Land War In Asia
#100
It Was A Serious Thing Tho
Whitney Gal 4 years ago
At no time in the entire history of humanity have things ever been peaceful and not racist. However, for most of the 1990s, the US wasn’t engaging in extended military conflicts, so technically America was fairly peaceful.
Cain Hargreaves 4 years ago
I grew up on the East Coast of the US, but I still recall the LA riots and protests in the 90s. I was a kid, but I had family out there in California.
David Beaulieu 4 years ago
Its all about the platform baby! Us GenXers were fighting the good fight, just like the hippies before us, we just didn't have the internet and social media to get people to listen.
#101
Nice Try, F.b.i.
Lauren Caswell 4 years ago
I didn't know who he was, so I stopped and googled. There is so much I want to express about the injustice and despicable use of government, but I'm still processing it and reading more, I just popped back to this tab to say thanks for the tip, Fred is a man worth knowing about
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He Got Plagued
Helmut Kok 4 years ago (edited)
Denmark "wasn't Norway part of Denmark from 1390 to 1814?" And Harald Bluetooth did also rule a part of Norway?
#103
Austrian Hungary Empire In A Nustshell
Lenka Smetanová 4 years ago
its not that much about bloodline lika about wealth... If you keep it in family you don'tneed to share.. which is sad.
F. H. 4 years ago
Not really. Marrying siblings in high nobility was almost exclusivly done for esoteric reasons. For keeping wealth and land in the family, marrying cousins was enough.
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WWII And Rome Are Pretty Cool Though
Lenka Smetanová 4 years ago
I would love to see a picture, where the phone will be put up, and there would be art history and military histry, and the Hand would say HitlerMemes :D :D :D :D
Alexandru Bucur 4 years ago
Well, to be frank, you just have to give each genre the type of music that fits. Metal just sounds "right" for military history. Meanwhile, for art history I'd suggest a youtuber strumming about the impressionists on an ukulele in their bedroom and for science it's Weird All letting it rip with an accordion about Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
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What's That?
ThatGuv 4 years ago
Don't forget about the man who was on his last day of a business trip in Hiroshima when that happened... he survived the blast and eventually got to hospital at his home town of Nagasaki then dragged himself to work just to get hit by the second bomb... and survived again.
Sofia Di Tutti 4 years ago
sad part is that Japan was going to surrender and there was a big misunderstaning on the word "Mokusatsu"...
Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago (edited)
Baka gaijin are not such baka after all. War criminals, yes, but not idiots.
Monday 4 years ago
I dunno dropping a radioactive weapon that they weren't 100% sure wasn't going to ignite our atmosphere still seems like a pretty idiotic thing. Ballsy for sure, but idiotic.
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#107
Caput Mundi Intensifies
Rabbit Carrot 4 years ago
I’ve literally never heard anyone call NYC the capital of the world.
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Suzanne McHenry 4 years ago
Could be that it stems from that the UN head building is in New York City. Perhaps??
#108
Hold Up
Auntriarch 4 years ago
But your grandpa would have been nervous if he'd had to go on holiday with his mom
#109
Both From A Metaphorical And Historical Pov
Anna Phalactic 4 years ago
Most of the 'boomers' I know did more to fight for equality and rights for all than the keyboard warriors of today and they're not all financially secure as you seem to imply
Seabeast 4 years ago
This is tiresome. Very few people fought in *both* world wars, because they started 24 years apart.
N G 4 years ago
Depends on the definition of "fought". Actively participated in some way to the defence of their country, that was a lot of people (Hitler for a start!), because there were older people - who fought as teenagers in the first war - who worked in factories or were part of the Home Front, etc.
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Marcia Cash 4 years ago
BS. We fought hard for civil rights, women's liberation, and the end of war. We're still fighting!
Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago
And then, those spoiled little brats grew old, and took all the wealth and credit, then blamed the next ones.
#110
Times Change
#112
The 80's Were A Crazy Time
Catlady6000 4 years ago
Research the state sanctioned dance shows and music of East Germany as well.
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There's History Outside War Category You Know
Monday 4 years ago
Does that mean fewer facebook minion memes, or just fewer minions in general?
Load More Replies... Ralph Kretschmer 4 years ago
"Its", like his or her. "It's" = it is. Btw, I am not even a native speaker, and know this.
Dodo 4 years ago
Yeah but it's a stupid rule. Apostrophe S denotes possession in any other form. Like 'the dog's tail'.
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#115
Um... No, It's Not Like That
#116
Tanks For Nothing
#117
Hitler Was A Naughty Boy, He Wanted To Prank His Colleagues
#119
Fly Me To The Moon
Bob Belcher 4 years ago
New poll shows he's neck and neck with our current governor. He may soon be Governor alright alright alright in 2022. If he wins and doesn't start his speech with that, I will be livid lol.
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Thank You Mr.gorbachev!
Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago (edited)
The communist leader who ended communism... You did not bring back the Tsars, but thanks anyway dude.
#121
Them Soldiers Be Slacking Tho
F. H. 4 years ago
The German author Heinrich Böll became heavily addicted to Pervitin when he was in the Wehrmacht. It's somewhat funny to read his letters to his family from the front. He always snuck the question in somwhere if they just could send him another box of pills. Of course it's only amusing to read if you know he did have a full and good life later on.
#122
Luther Shortened His 95 Theses Down To 1
#123
Haha France Surrender So Funny
#124
Something Something Charles II
Az 4 years ago
As long as you call your brother Daddy. (I'm sorry, I'll see myself out)
Load More Replies... Lenka Smetanová 4 years ago
you know... yeah Hapsburgs really is famous for their incests, but... Every smaller village back then had the same problem.. but they was not rich so nobody knows :D
#125
He Had A Pretty Sweet Mansion Tho
Ivy la Sangrienta 4 years ago
Yes, but in Britain your class isn't defined by your wealth. He was born working class (then raised middle class by his aunt). His wealth didn't change that.
#126
Heh Heh Boy
#127
Does Music History Count?
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Shelp 4 years ago
Very funny, but lots of them rely on inaccurate or very generalizing history "knowledge"
Marcellus the Third 4 years ago
BP titled it "To Prove That The Best Way To Learn History Is Through Memes" --- hint: no, it's not.
Load More Replies... Raccoon Queen 4 years ago
I can relate to the last one(Jewish so everyone looks at you). My friends ask me questions that I don’t know the answer to because my grandmother grew up Jewish.
Cupcake168 4 years ago
Hint: people can up- and downvote, so the last place probably changes continuously.
Load More Replies... Bored Birgit 4 years ago
I enjoyed all the commentaries and answers of BP readers from different nations. That is why I'm here. Love it!
Computernaut 4 years ago
I think they overplayed the whole imperialism/slavery/genocide trope. Yes, it happened, but it's not any of our faults (now in the 21st century) and there's a lot more to history then just that.
Jacqueline Dartley 4 years ago
These are not funny but horrible. Actually made me sick reading them. So many inaccuracies, and misspellings. Please remove this feed.
juice 4 years ago
but does it have any history memes on it? how am i supposed to learn when my shirt is only luxurious and colorful???
Load More Replies... Shelp 4 years ago
Very funny, but lots of them rely on inaccurate or very generalizing history "knowledge"
Marcellus the Third 4 years ago
BP titled it "To Prove That The Best Way To Learn History Is Through Memes" --- hint: no, it's not.
Load More Replies... Raccoon Queen 4 years ago
I can relate to the last one(Jewish so everyone looks at you). My friends ask me questions that I don’t know the answer to because my grandmother grew up Jewish.
Cupcake168 4 years ago
Hint: people can up- and downvote, so the last place probably changes continuously.
Load More Replies... Bored Birgit 4 years ago
I enjoyed all the commentaries and answers of BP readers from different nations. That is why I'm here. Love it!
Computernaut 4 years ago
I think they overplayed the whole imperialism/slavery/genocide trope. Yes, it happened, but it's not any of our faults (now in the 21st century) and there's a lot more to history then just that.
Jacqueline Dartley 4 years ago
These are not funny but horrible. Actually made me sick reading them. So many inaccuracies, and misspellings. Please remove this feed.
juice 4 years ago
but does it have any history memes on it? how am i supposed to learn when my shirt is only luxurious and colorful???
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