Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146

[AtlanteanTroll]

No. It's better.

Good answer.

[Dr. Bath]

I was just about to say that!
I saw a play rendition of Nation for sale today. I'd have bought it, but I already had about 50 quids worth of books to pay for. Hooray, university!

The play was eeehh. Visually very well done, but they chopped and changed it until it was a shade of its former self, at least on a deeper level.

[Fifty-Eyed Fred]

WWI, Nazis, Cold War, Vietnam.
Too much focus on WWI and WWII for me. ou have to admit, the GCSE and A Level for Modern World History are boringly similar.

I didn't do Modern World History at A-Level, my modern stuff was Britain 1951-2007 which was actually very interesting, informative and useful (not to mention well-timed; what with the election, I couldn't help but think over what I'd been learning). I did the 1st half of the twentieth century for GCSE though. The Cold War and Vietnam are quite dull areas of study as well, as was 20's and 30's America. In terms of social history, Nazi Germany was reasonably interesting, but really as far as that period is concerned most of the things after WWI don't hold my interest apart from the buildup to WWII and the war itself.

Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction.
Did I mention the Best Friend was wearing a top hat, and that by some freakish coincidence we were both wearing navy and white striped tops with short sleeves?
Truth - you have fiction beaten hands down.

My life does often feel like a mixture between what Beckett was trying to do and Wilde was trying to convey. Besides, no imagination could create characters as bizarrely wondrous as the people I end up knowing.

The Old English Exodus. My tormenet, and my happiness.

An understandable sadism. I normally get my fix of that in conversation.

That's the guy! I knew it was something cake-y. I iust didn't want to say 'eccles'.

I always wondered why both Lambert Simnel and Perkin Warbeck had odd names, before I realised that Simnel at least was probably a pseudonym for cake-based reasons.

You still have Thanksgiving Leftovers Better eat those up before next Thanksgiving.

She could've given thanks yesterday, you know.

[Lyesmith]

The play was eeehh. Visually very well done, but they chopped and changed it until it was a shade of its former self, at least on a deeper level.

I've not seen it in production, but I gave it an extremely brief skim. Still, skim-reading is for breadth not depth.

Also, I do so love your avatar.

[AtlanteanTroll]

WWI, Nazis, Cold War, Vietnam.
Too much focus on WWI and WWII for me. ou have to admit, the GCSE and A Level for Modern World History are boringly similar.

Ha. We don't even learn WWI in American HS.

[Fifty-Eyed Fred]

Ha. We don't even learn WWI in American HS.

It seems a rather large event to miss out.

[Lyesmith]

It seems a rather large event to miss out.

From an English perspective, yes. America was less involved.

[Worira]

Also from the "it being the single most deadly war in all of history" perspective.

[Fifty-Eyed Fred]

From an English perspective, yes. America was less involved.

Well yeah, but one of the major reasons why American industries and such boomed was because Britain and Germany were fighting each other. Not to mention the policy of isolationism which the end of WWI brought on in America (though that may be a contributing factor to the lack of teaching there ).

Also from the "it being the single most deadly war in all of history" perspective.

QFT.

[Dragonrider]

Well yeah, but one of the major reasons why American industries and such boomed was because Britain and Germany were fighting each other. Not to mention the policy of isolationism which the end of WWI brought on in America (though that may be a contributing factor to the lack of teaching there ).

Of course then we had the Great Depression. Comeuppance I suppose. But you guys were kind enough to give us another war that jerked us out of it.

[AtlanteanTroll]

Well yeah, but one of the major reasons why American industries and such boomed was because Britain and Germany were fighting each other. Not to mention the policy of isolationism which the end of WWI brought on in America (though that may be a contributing factor to the lack of teaching there ).

We like to focus on WW2, probabl because we "Won it."

[CurlyKitGirl]

But I can't use the fhtagn caption unless it looks like you're sleeping. Since it's something along the lines of 'Koorlithulu waits dreaming'.

A napping Koorilithulu pose then. I was sure I'd put sleeping or something similar in the previous post.

Not sure. There was that Koorlithulu/Rabbithulu ship you wrote, but there have been other references to the idea of you as a very well-read eldritch abomination (Your first siglink is kind of one) so I'm not sure.

And In know I wrote that as a giftfic for Rabbit's birthday. Eh, Koorlilithulu existed before anyone ever knew she did. It's the only thing that makes sense.

Is Discworld really that good? The only book in the series I've read is Monstrous Regiment. Which, while funny, I must admit I read while English deprived.

Better.
For a series that produces one book every year (by the same guy) it has astoundingly high quality.
The Discworld is far better than you think it is. I could write essays on the subiect.

I was just about to say that!
I saw a play rendition of Nation for sale today. I'd have bought it, but I already had about 50 quids worth of books to pay for. Hooray, university!

Tried Amazon? They do very good deals - I got more than ninety percent of my books off Amazon.
Also: I may have books for sale . . . what d'you need?

I didn't do Modern World History at A-Level, my modern stuff was Britain 1951-2007 which was actually very interesting, informative and useful (not to mention well-timed; what with the election, I couldn't help but think over what I'd been learning). I did the 1st half of the twentieth century for GCSE though. The Cold War and Vietnam are quite dull areas of study as well, as was 20's and 30's America. In terms of social history, Nazi Germany was reasonably interesting, but really as far as that period is concerned most of the things after WWI don't hold my interest apart from the buildup to WWII and the war itself.

Exactly. Boring. Which is why I chose Mediaeval History - we'd already covered everything offered at A Level in CGSE.

An understandable sadism. I normally get my fix of that in conversation.

I'm at Camford. Academic sadism is my life.

I always wondered why both Lambert Simnel and Perkin Warbeck had odd names, before I realised that Simnel at least was probably a pseudonym for cake-based reasons.

ANd there we have it.
Bakers are responsible for all the uprisings of the fifteenth century in Britland.

We like to focus on WW2, probabl because we "Won it."

[AtlanteanTroll]

Oh yes, I agree. I'm just stating what most people (seem to) think.

[Fifty-Eyed Fred]

We like to focus on WW2, probabl because we "Won it."

If I go into this, things will start to get messy. I'll leave it.
Edit: Ah, OK. That's better.

Exactly. Boring. Which is why I chose Mediaeval History - we'd already covered everything offered at A Level in CGSE.

I got to do 1042-1087 and 1450-1558. I was very happy.
Where I live, there's only so long a curious person can go without wanting to learn about the Battle of Hastings and Norman Conquest anyway.

I'm at Camford. Academic sadism is my life.

In that case, my friend going to Oxford will take to it like duck to water. She has sadistic tendencies aplenty.

ANd there we have it.
Bakers are responsible for all the uprisings of the fifteenth century in Britland.

I've come to the conclusion that Late Medieval England was incredibly delicious. Unfortunately, that baker's fire on Pudding Lane in 1666 did away with most of the evidence.

[AtlanteanTroll]

If I go into this, things will start to get messy. I'll leave it.
Edit: Ah, OK. That's better.

If I had been serious, their wouldn't have been quotes

[Fifty-Eyed Fred]

If I had been serious, their wouldn't have been quotes

Ah, true. Must keep my eyes peeled.

[AtlanteanTroll]

Ah, true. Must keep my eyes peeled.

Yep. Always a good thing to do. Now if only I could do so in Science

[CurlyKitGirl]

I got to do 1042-1087 and 1450-1558. I was very happy.
Where I live, there's only so long a curious person can go without wanting to learn about the Battle of Hastings and Norman Conquest anyway.

:envy:
I did . . . arhkgh, so long ago . . .
Henvry VII, Cardinal WOlsey, Richard III, Mary I and Edward VI, Elizabeth I and the First Four Crusades.
So you can see my concentration.
ALl I know about the COnquest is what I read, and what was taught in Y7.

In that case, my friend going to Oxford will take to it like duck to water. She has sadistic tendencies aplenty.

If I may ask: where and what for?
And she'll enioy it.
Actually . . . a thought strikes me, I think my College Baby comes from somewhere that's roughly near you. Imagine the odds if it were true.
But she'll love Camford, no matter what she does.

I've come to the conclusion that Late Medieval England was incredibly delicious. Unfortunately, that baker's fire on Pudding Lane in 1666 did away with most of the evidence.

And yet more incontrovertible proof is piling up.
ANd Francis Drake! A drake is a duck, and duck is scrummy. And Walter Raleigh brought spuds over here . . . more proof!
The culinary world is out to destroy Britland.

[Fifty-Eyed Fred]

If I may ask: where and what for?
And she'll enioy it.
Actually . . . a thought strikes me, I think my College Baby comes from somewhere that's roughly near you. Imagine the odds if it were true.
But she'll love Camford, no matter what she does.

History at Mansfield. She hasn't decided which period to focus on first though, and whether to focus on sociology or anthropology, so I went "Do the Tudors and Stuarts! And do sociology!" I was overruled.
It's a small world - out of my best friends, one of them had his grandparents living next door to mine when I met him, and another one went to my nursery school, but I don't remember him being there, and lived just down the road from where I live and left the moment I moved there.

And yet more incontrovertible proof is piling up.
ANd Francis Drake! A drake is a duck, and duck is scrummy. And Walter Raleigh brought spuds over here . . . more proof!
The culinary world is out to destroy Britland.

George IV probably mopped most of it up, thus creating the conditions for the Irish Potato Famine. And then Gladstone burned the evidence! It all makes sense!

[Thufir]

It's a small world - out of my best friends, one of them had his grandparents living next door to mine when I met him, and another one went to my nursery school, but I don't remember him being there, and lived just down the road from where I live and left the moment I moved there.

Small world evidence? I think I mentioned a little while back, a friend of one of my RL friends recently became facebook friends with Castaras.

[Dragonrider]

Small world evidence? I think I mentioned a little while back, a friend of one of my RL friends recently became facebook friends with Castaras.

A girl who lives upstairs from me at university went to high school with a guy I've known since age 11, who grew up a day's drive away from me. In other words, the odds of me meeting this friend of my friend were astronomical. What.

[AtlanteanTroll]

A girl who lives upstairs from me at university went to high school with a guy I've known since age 11, who grew up a day's drive away from me. In other words, the odds of me meeting this friend of my friend were astronomical. What.

My friend (while in France) saw a friends brother in Paris. Unintentionally I mean.

[Gullara]

She could've given thanks yesterday, you know.

Everybody knows it is physically impossible to give thanks on any day but Thanksgiving. Unless you live in the United States, then you can give thanks sometime in November.

[AtlanteanTroll]

Everybody knows it is physically impossible to give thanks on any day but Thanksgiving. Unless you live in the United States, then you can give thanks sometime in November.

Thanksgiving is an American holiday.

[Gullara]

Thanksgiving is an American holiday.

We stole it. It's now officially Canadian

OH CANADA!!!

[AtlanteanTroll]

We stole it. It's now officially Canadian

OH CANADA!!!

I see. This means war. At least we still have Halloween.

I'd post the American National Anthem, but I don't know it. Aren't I patriotic.

[PJ the Epic]

We stole it. It's now officially Canadian

OH CANADA!!!

YOU CAN'T HAVE IT!!!

*We steal it back*

OH UNITED STATES!!

...wait that's not right...

[Gullara]

YOU CAN'T HAVE IT!!!

*We steal it back*

OH UNITED STATES!!

...wait that's not right...

WHAT!!! You can't steal our anthem.

[AtlanteanTroll]

WHAT!!! You can't steal our anthem.

You stole Thanksgiving, I told you: THIS IS WAR!!

[PJ the Epic]

WHAT!!! You can't steal our anthem.

WATCH ME!!