Reply With QuoteVery ginger beerOriginally Posted by Burney
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Very ginger beer
Chinks.
Corbyn.
Tories/Brexiters
Corbynistas.
Modi and the Hindutva fascist scum.
Septics.
Macron.
Sperz, Chavs, Mancs and all the rest, like the Aussie test team.
Corbyn's corpse.
Everyone else except me, my missus and my mates, basically.
None of this would have happened if Nixon hadn't opened up.
Evil socialist Belgian that he was. Oh, sorry. Septic Tory-type. But why let facts get in the way. Much easier to blame the EU.
Is there really no-one who gets even the basics of history on this fücking page?
Calm down g. So you’ve read a book or two and watched a lot of the Discovery Channel. Doesn’t make you Simon Schama, dude.
Yeah. Like Kohima/Imphal. Like Neuve Chapelle in WW1. Like the bloody mutiny and that's when we were fighting them anyway.
They've 50 Gurkha btns. If we can drop C's anti-Muzzie racism and add the 40th Pathans and the 129th Baluchis to the Sikhs and Gurwhalis, the Tibet-invading scum are toast.
I can’t help it man, I just don’t trust ‘em.
C, They only went bad when they stopped being British. At 1914, in WW1, at Neuve Chapelle, they were thrown in pell-mell and saved the empire, according to the contemporary Brits. The WW1 memorial there says "All God in One" cos their mentality was that them and the Hindus and the Sikhs and their white Christian officers and their white CofE allies and their Catholic French allies were all part of the same God. Which is true. No concept of infidels or jihad. Just kill Fritz cos he dissed the British Empire.
Same when they handed the Nips the biggest kicking in their entire history at Kohima/Imphal. Backward, slitty-eyed fücks. You may be able to do the Brits at HK and Singapore, but don't think you can get into India when we've got Gurkhas, Sikhs, Baluchis, Pathans, Gurwhalis, etc.
It only went wrong with partition.
So obviously I'm saying that us and India should invade Pak and re-civilise them. I mean, durr. That should go without saying. Give it a few years and Peter Pathan and Bobby Baluchi will be civilised again, winning VCs in Anglo-India interests.
Calm down g. So you’ve read a book or two and watched a lot of the Discovery Channel. Doesn’t make you Simon Schama, dude.
Since I went back to uni a decade ago cos the parties were stopping, I got a first in my history BA and straight As in my WW1 MA. But no, I don't get history, at all....
Still, thinking of doing another masters in Imperial history so I can concentrate on India. But when it was ours.
You would appear to set a great deal of store by book learning, g. Surely an educated chap such as yourself appreciates the essential uselessness of reading other peoples’ ‘facts’?
No, I’ll have no truck with so-called teachers and with reading. It simply fills the heads of the lower orders with ideas.
Actually, no.
When I got my first degree at the LSE, I just smoked dope, listened to music, played computer football in the 2nd year and blagged some revision notes off a girl I vaguely knew. And I thought it was just like o-level or whatever, to use your words: reading other peoples’ ‘facts’.
However when I did my history BA 3 decades later, in the third year I realised that it's actually all about your own research and how you can order everyone's facts into a coherent argument. And more importantly, you're given a reading list that shows all the different sides of the argument from the top historians on the planet.
And then at MA even more so, with added historiography where you look at how the history of a period has changed over time and work out why.
And that's the problem. You can speak to someone who hasn't studied academically, but has read loads about a given subject (very often wars) and they think they know it all. But it's the unknown unknowns for them. The fact that they haven't read any of the books putting the other side of the argument because none of their mates or sources recommend it.
If you didn't know much about the causes of WW2, I could convince you it was all down to Versailles. Or only caused by the Wall St Crash. Or simply the fault of appeasement. Whereas I actually put it all down to Hitler's long term plans.
But I sort of agree with your final sentence now. The chavs are going to uni, and while it's a good thing that it makes them Labour voters and more tolerant, the poor little mites are too thick to understand complex issues and start believing it's fine for blokes in skirts to be allowed into female only spaces such as prisons and changing rooms and sports teams.
But anyway, back to the point. If us and the Indians undid partition and recivilised Peter Pathan and Bobby Baluchi, would you have them fighting our cause with Johnny Gurkha and Stevie Singh again, like in the good old days?
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