studying for uk residency

[whitequark@social.treehouse.systems]

this... document... is gravely insulting to at least tens of millions of people

[whitequark@social.treehouse.systems]

does anyone say 'the Blitz spirit'

[foritus@toot.dusepo.co.uk]

@whitequark Welcome to the British Establishment's view of history. It's gross.

[vmp_@mastodon.social]

@whitequark "_mostly_ harmless"

[samantha42@infosec.exchange]

@whitequark

https://arethebritsatitagain.org/ remains accurate and useful.

[pervognsen@mastodon.social]

@whitequark If they had more space, I'm sure they would have mentioned that 95% of the land in Ireland was owned by English or Anglo-Irish landlords, which might have had something to do with the famine.

[whitequark@social.treehouse.systems]

became how

became independent how, motherfucker

[jsbarretto@social.coop]

@whitequark Yes, it's a very common phrase and it's got a lot of association with inner city working class communities

[whitequark@social.treehouse.systems]

@jsbarretto huh, never heard it in my life. live and learn

[http_error_418@hachyderm.io]

@whitequark yes, but mostly fascist little shits like Farage and obnoxious hate rags like the Daily Mail

[foritus@toot.dusepo.co.uk]

@whitequark If you want an example of how skewed the British institutional view of history is: I didn't learn of the _existence_ of the Holy Roman Empire until I was.. 19? and that was from reading history myself. UK schools teach tedious crap about the royal family, WW1, WW2 and then you're done. Maybe it's different now (unlikely).

[jsbarretto@social.coop]

@whitequark It's been somewhat coopted by politicians nowadays sadly, but most people that have lived ancestrally in the UK since the war have some sort of family story about the blitz. For me, it's my great grandmother dodging bullets from a Messerschmitt that was firing down the street with her knickers around her ankles because an air raid caught her when she was on the loo

[whitequark@social.treehouse.systems]

@Foritus yeah not hugely surprised, my hs history class was incredibly tedious and not useful at all, i had to fix that myself later

[synec@messydesk.social]

@whitequark "The crop failed." Huh! I wonder if anyone has looked into this.

[thepi@urusai.social]

@whitequark Do not ask such questions. It more important that you know that a Conservative government was in power during the great Number Go Up period of 70 years ago.

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[becomethewaifu@tech.lgbt]

@whitequark Reminds me of one particular moment watching the Space Battleship Yamato live-action... If I had been drinking anything when they said it, my screen would probably have been covered in it. "On April 7th 1945, the Yamato set out to bring a ray of hope at a time of utter despair" (I may have substituted a few words by accident, but the phrasing is largely accurate)

For context, that date is "Operation Ten-Go", aka "The Yamato attempts to fling itself at the Americans invading Okinawa, beaching itself, and to keep firing until it physically can't." It didn't even make it to Okinawa before it got blown to shrapnel by the US. (And it's quite disturbing just how pointless the whole thing was, all because the top brass couldn't get their heads out of their "honor-bound to do something" asses...)

[typeswitch@gamedev.lgbt]

@whitequark "The structure of DNA"

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[airtower@woem.men]

@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems Turing machine? They don't mention what happened to the guy it's named after, do they?