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100 Years ago today Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, thus putting into motion a series of escalating events that would shape every aspect of modern human existence.So why doesn't anyone seem to care? Hell even Google seems to have forgotten about it. You'd think if anyone remembered it'd be the company that likes to remind everyone that February 19th is the birthday of some obscure 15th century Bangladeshi turd sculptor. However, it is now 11 am eastern standard time, and as of yet I've not seen, or heard anything mentioning the significance of this date. Is it just me, or has everyone forgotten? Maybe its because I'm in the USA? Euro-goons is this date being treated any differently over there? Am I just in some strange bubble where there has been a lot of remembrances today, but I'm missing them? Why the hell isn't anyone acknowledging this date?
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Jul 28, 2014 16:13
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Probably because they wasted all of their caring on the anniverseray of Ferdinand's assassination a while back. Most people I know view that as the start of the war.
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Jul 28, 2014 16:16
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nobody gives a poo poo about the third world countries over in europe, bitch.
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Jul 28, 2014 16:16
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I've been watching The Great War, a BBC documentary from 1964. The ethos of total war living is alive and well today. Read Company K written by the man who eventually wrote The Bad Seed, William March. Kind of obsessed with WWI at the moment.
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Jul 28, 2014 16:20
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I highly recommend Dan Carlin's Blueprint for Armageddon episodes on his podcast Hardcore History. It's a great primer on World War I, particularly the people and politics involved (less so the individual battles).
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Jul 28, 2014 16:21
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lets celebrate white cis men getting angry about taxes and peach laws yeah ok GREAT
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Jul 28, 2014 16:22
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I forget did we win that one? Or I remember something about an arch duke, and the battle of somme or something and germans had machine guns, and nothing important happened. All the world wars taught us is if you get a german excited they will try to murder your country.
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Jul 28, 2014 16:24
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OP, thanks I will be watching "Paths of Glory" Starring Kirk Douglas and directed by Stanley Kubrick. It is part of The Criterion Collection.
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Jul 28, 2014 16:24
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iron maiden wrote some cools songs about this war so i guess thats good
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Jul 28, 2014 16:27
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.jpg) I also recommend Hew Strachan's book "To Arms" a huge tome of a book that is the first in a planned 3 volume series on WWI and is entirely about how the war began and the first engagements of the war. Also recommend the documentary series he did with channel 4, which is available for free on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qY3Sb8xiQ_c <--- episode 1
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Jul 28, 2014 16:27
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100 years ago A.D. war was beginning
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Jul 28, 2014 16:28
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Eleanor Pwnsevelt posted:100 years ago A.D. war was beginning Post owns, username owns, av owns
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Jul 28, 2014 16:35
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dontcareaboutname posted:I forget did we win that one? Or I remember something about an arch duke, and the battle of somme or something and germans had machine guns, and nothing important happened. All the world wars taught us is if you get a german excited they will try to murder your country. Tanks, bombers, flamethrowers were invented during the war. Chemical warfare - what they wanted. milkingmycow fucked around with this message at 16:47 on Jul 28, 2014 |
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Jul 28, 2014 16:35
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milkingmycow posted:Tanks, bombers, flamethrowers were invented during the war. Chemical warfare - what they wanted. How hosed would we be today if Germany and France simultaneously developed nuclear weapons during WW1 and used them against eachother? ----------------
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Jul 28, 2014 16:41
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HarlanHell posted:100 Years ago today Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, thus putting into motion a series of escalating events that would shape every aspect of modern human existence.So why doesn't anyone seem to care? Well, I mean...it finished. If it was still going on then that would be news, yeah. People would be like "gently caress man, hundred years I been in this trench"
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Jul 28, 2014 16:41
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texaholic posted:How hosed would we be today if Germany and France simultaneously developed nuclear weapons during WW1 and used them against eachother? hosed in perpetuity. jesus if u handed 1914 France and Germany a couple of Big Red Buttons and told them they would reduce the other side to ash and irradiated cinders, theyd both mash on those motherfuckers like candy was going to come out
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Jul 28, 2014 16:42
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A line of men, all over a hundred years old, sitting in a field that used to be a trench system but is now just flat earth again because they've completely filled the trenches with their own feces. Half a mile away, a second line of elderly men in German uniforms sit facing them. Both lines sigh heavily in unison.
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Jul 28, 2014 16:49
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Book Barn cares! Guns of August is one of the nominees for next month's Book Barn Book of the Month! http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3653702
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Jul 28, 2014 16:52
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guns of august is good but it is super a product of its times and lays on very heavily with the "perfidious Teuton" rhetoric, as if all sides in the matter were not completely insane.
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Jul 28, 2014 16:53
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Really just a continuation of the Napoleonic Wars. Over-rated.
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Jul 28, 2014 16:57
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Fixed Expression posted:Well, I mean...it finished. If it was still going on then that would be news, yeah. People would be like "gently caress man, hundred years I been in this trench" It is still going on. All the poo poo from the middle east, Gaza, and Ukraine, is just the current end of a thread that stretches all the way back to a few inbred European cousins having a dick measuring contest.
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Jul 28, 2014 17:02
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i liked hte movie war horse even though im not a brony
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Jul 28, 2014 17:05
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HarlanHell posted:It is still going on. All the poo poo from the middle east, Gaza, and Ukraine, is just the current end of a thread that stretches all the way back to a few inbred European cousins having a dick measuring contest. "yes a border here would look just smashing. oh i know those sorts over there dont get along, but they will just have to learn to cope wont they"
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Jul 28, 2014 17:05
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world war I is called by the chinese "the european civil war" so
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Jul 28, 2014 17:06
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I heard that it started when a bloke called Archie Duke shot an ostrich 'cause he was hungry.
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Jul 28, 2014 17:10
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Palpek posted:world war I is called by the chinese "the european civil war" so hey buddy, gently caress the chinese
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Jul 28, 2014 17:17
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Palpek posted:world war I is called by the chinese "the european civil war" so World War 1 is kinda China's fault when you think about it. The Boxer Rebellion was just one big tease. It allowed everyone to get together dress up, and see how awesome they all looked in their uniforms. The blue balls left over from crushing the Boxers so easily drove them all mad. So they chose up sides, and had a proper war.
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Jul 28, 2014 17:17
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HarlanHell posted:World War 1 is kinda China's fault when you think about it. The Boxer Rebellion was just one big tease. It allowed everyone to get together dress up, and see how awesome they all looked in their uniforms. The blue balls left over from crushing the Boxers so easily drove them all mad. So they chose up sides, and had a proper war. “Should you encounter the enemy, he will be defeated! No quarter will be given! Prisoners will not be taken! Whoever falls into your hands is forfeited. Just as a thousand years ago the Huns under their King Attila made a name for themselves, one that even today makes them seem mighty in history and legend, may the name German be affirmed by you in such a way in China that no Chinese will ever again dare to look cross-eyed at a German.” oh, cousin willy, you scamp
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Jul 28, 2014 17:18
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I still don't understand how a Serb killing Franz Ferdinand kicked off a world war, but then I was never a fan of his music.
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Jul 28, 2014 17:20
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whats a good ww1 strategy game
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Jul 28, 2014 17:21
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Parallax Scroll posted:whats a good ww1 strategy game victoria II
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Jul 28, 2014 17:22
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This is clearly because it only affected men and the current fashion is to not treat men as human
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Jul 28, 2014 17:23
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Parallax Scroll posted:whats a good ww1 strategy game drawing two parallel lines on a map of france and staring at them real hard
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Jul 28, 2014 17:23
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alternatively if oyu rape someone from liege you're haflway there
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Jul 28, 2014 17:24
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paranoid randroid posted:drawing two parallel lines on a map of france and staring at them real hard or, alternately, put on an ushanka, look at a map of eastern europe, and cry
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Jul 28, 2014 17:25
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get a job as a railway timetable manager
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Jul 28, 2014 17:26
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write some really big numbers on a piece of paper, and then subtract some even bigger numbers from those initial really big numbers. that is your monthly deficit of everything.
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Jul 28, 2014 17:26
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Fandyien posted:victoria II hmm yeah this looks good
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Jul 28, 2014 17:28
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Effectronica posted:or, alternately, put on an ushanka, look at a map of eastern europe, and cry advanced sukhomlinov mode: pound a handle of vodka, shout something about the moral superiority of the bayonet, and then throw a dart at a map of austria
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Jul 28, 2014 17:29
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italian front: draw parallel squiggly lines on a map of northern italy pacific front: get out a japanese dictionary and a map of the pacific ocean and start crossing off names for islands and coastal chinese cities and writing in the kanji
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