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# I've started work on a 'Never Forget' calendar ...
listing all the tragedies and brutality committed in the name of Imperialism that rarely get a mention. What I'd like to know, dear peers, is it worth completing?

Never Forget calendar - a remembrance of anti-imperialism
Click pic for bigness, or here for more context
(Tarka_the_Frotter, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 19:42, archived)
# I might buy it.
(I helped save b3ta! 4Q just lurking, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 19:45, archived)
# Because the elephant's eye looks a bit like a
lady garden?
(I helped save b3ta! LordManley twitter.com/LordManley, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 20:05, archived)
# Canesten for her birthday this year, i think.
(I helped save b3ta! drbroon abloooobloobloo, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 20:11, archived)
# yes
(I helped save b3ta! Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 19:46, archived)
# What year is the calendar for? That is important to me
when do 1-Jun and 1-Sept fall on Mondays?
(I helped save b3ta! PedroHin Come along & ride on a Flantastic Voyage, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 19:47, archived)
#
It's for my special year when I become King of Calendars
(Tarka_the_Frotter, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 20:20, archived)
# Is it purely
anti-USA or are you going to include every genocide in the last 50 years? Just askin'.

Edit: My bad, you go back to 1898. That is a lot of Imperilaism to cover! Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Romania, all the Baltic states, Soviet Russia, China, Japan, Korea, Cambodia, South Africa, well, most of Africa...

Edit 2: Iraq, Iran, Malaysia, Oman, Phillipines, India, Pakistan, Chechnya, Kurdistan, Vietnam, Germany, Austria, Poland, Hungary and quite possibly Watford.
(I helped save b3ta! TheSundaeLunch I'm a fucking shrub, alright?, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 19:49, archived)
# and Mordor
(I helped save b3ta! Mighty Nibus who dares gins | @nibus, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 19:59, archived)
# I hope there are only 12 bad things
otherwise the calendar would be shit.
(I helped save b3ta! drbroon abloooobloobloo, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 20:03, archived)
# I haven't quite decided
US-imperialist adventures of, say, the last 100 years or so would be manageable and give it a focus, but might be unnecessarily picking on the Americans, when they learnt everything they know from us Europeans. But then again, they are the largest and most relevant today.

Dunno. What would you do?
(Tarka_the_Frotter, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 20:24, archived)
# Don't ask me
politics is beyond my feeble brain. Mainly because I am aware I don't know the half of it. Knocking the USA is fashionable now. 100 years ago I'd have said go for Austria-Hungary. 200 years ago I'd have said the French. 300 years ago, Russia or Spain. 400 years ago probably the French again. If we go back further, the vikings, Rome, Ghengis Khan, Alexander the Great, Vlad the Implaler, the Vandals, the Goths, Trojans, Spartans, Gauls, Normans, Huns, Thuggees, Shoalins, Assasins, Greeks, Persians, Aztecs, Egyptians and the French...
My point being, there has ALWAYS been an imperialistic power running most of the world. Get used to it. The USA is better than most of the ones listed above.
(I helped save b3ta! TheSundaeLunch I'm a fucking shrub, alright?, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 20:36, archived)
# You know more than you let on
I wouldn't say knocking the USA is "fashionable", they just happen to be the current big kids in the playground. Power and abuse of power has always been correlated, so naturally as the most powerful nation on the planet, they're guilty of the most offences.

I'm not sure what yard stick you'd use either to compare Washington's policies to previous empires, but it's also neither here-nor-there. We can't judge the past by present standards, nor vice-versa.
(Tarka_the_Frotter, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 21:49, archived)
# If its for a calender,then look to the future
What attrocities will China commit when they become world no1 next year
(I helped save b3ta! CanonCaliber A big bore, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 20:41, archived)
# THIS HAT COULD ALSO BE A SEAT
A HATSEAT
(I helped save b3ta! Mighty Nibus who dares gins | @nibus, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 19:53, archived)
# NEVER FORGET SHANNON MATTHEWS
(I helped save b3ta! drbroon abloooobloobloo, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 19:55, archived)
# I often wonder if monsters worry that Shannon Matthews is lurking under the bed
(I helped save b3ta! Mighty Nibus who dares gins | @nibus, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 19:57, archived)
# I often wonder if parents worry that Maddy will bob up to the surface
(I helped save b3ta! drbroon abloooobloobloo, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 19:59, archived)
# they've got a giant brass candle snuffer to keep her down
(I helped save b3ta! Mighty Nibus who dares gins | @nibus, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 20:00, archived)
# NEVER FORGET ED TUDOR POLE
(I helped save b3ta! drbroon abloooobloobloo, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 19:57, archived)
# NEVER FORGET "YOU BET!"
(I helped save b3ta! drbroon abloooobloobloo, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 19:58, archived)
# NEVER FORGET "NEVER FORGET" BY TAKE THAT, IT REMINDS US NEVER TO FORGET IN CASE WE FORGET TO NOT FORGET
(I helped save b3ta! drbroon abloooobloobloo, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 20:00, archived)
# I like your username.
(I helped save b3ta! LordManley twitter.com/LordManley, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 20:01, archived)
# Happyb3taday
(herman:D, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 20:10, archived)
# thank you, i like yours too
(Tarka_the_Frotter, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 20:26, archived)
# Happy anniversary of signing up for another account
(I helped save b3ta! mediocre ha ha ha, you're reading this, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 20:28, archived)
# :)
(I helped save b3ta! LordManley twitter.com/LordManley, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 20:29, archived)
# I'd forget me head if it weren't screwed on
...so me old ma used to joke RIP ma :)
(I helped save b3ta! Elvis impersonator, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 20:09, archived)
# I'll take two, please!
(I helped save b3ta! Invisible Wizard - 12th Level Errorer, Sun 11 Sep 2011, 21:51, archived)