studying for uk residency
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@whitequark i wonder if anything embarrassing happened in the falklands
@kouhai i thought it was embarrassing for argentina?
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@whitequark "Shipbuilding and coal mining declined"
Exactly *how* did that decline happen?
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"most" paramilitary groups in NI are inactive
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"most" paramilitary groups in NI are inactive
@whitequark What do I know about the life of Roald Dahl? More than I'd like to, thank you very much.
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@whitequark "for the most part" doing some very heavy lifting there.
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@whitequark What do I know about the life of Roald Dahl? More than I'd like to, thank you very much.
@xgranade do tell, this will be on the test i think
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"most" paramilitary groups in NI are inactive
@whitequark that's a "just in case" if ever I heard one
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@xgranade do tell, this will be on the test i think
@whitequark That he's a terrible antisemite, mostly.
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does anyone say 'the Blitz spirit'
@whitequark it's funny how even when writing about enemies, it's still in such a milquetoast terms.
Hitler just wanted to spread the German power and felt that terms of post-WW1 peace were unfair, nothing more. Just a guy who wanted to spread the power and address unfairness.
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became how
became independent how, motherfucker
@whitequark a Britain-involving independence has happened
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@whitequark it's funny how even when writing about enemies, it's still in such a milquetoast terms.
Hitler just wanted to spread the German power and felt that terms of post-WW1 peace were unfair, nothing more. Just a guy who wanted to spread the power and address unfairness.
@IngaLovinde Holocaust is not mentioned whatsoever, so far as I can see
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@whitequark a Britain-involving independence has happened
@IngaLovinde exactly
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@whitequark ah yes, the Turing machine, the famous British invention. I wonder who were the inventors or what happened to them eventually.
Also I guess Tu-144 doesn't count because it's socialistic aviation as opposed to commercial aviation. Concorde might not be the only or even the first supersonic passenger aircraft, but it's the first _commercial_ one!
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@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).
@Foritus @whitequark oh god, in the us we were actually taught about the holy roman empire in school, and we aren't even on the same continent.
there were a lot of things skipped unless you tool more advanced classes, like they never mentioned us colonization of the philippines.
i did learn about hereditary peerage in the house of lords in class though.
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@Foritus @whitequark oh god, in the us we were actually taught about the holy roman empire in school, and we aren't even on the same continent.
there were a lot of things skipped unless you tool more advanced classes, like they never mentioned us colonization of the philippines.
i did learn about hereditary peerage in the house of lords in class though.
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"most" paramilitary groups in NI are inactive
@whitequark "against the proliferation of the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq"
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@whitequark "against the proliferation of the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq"
@IngaLovinde every single page is a gift
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i am so going to fail this test by knowing some actual history instead of propaganda at some point...
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"Terrorism" and "WMDs", yeah, sure.
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@whitequark @Foritus finally. i'd heard that they were doing that, but i won't believe it until it actually passes
