The GREAT thing about history
is it's written down and can be readen.
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Mon 1 Mar 2010, 17:02, 3 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

^ BLATANT LIE.
No it can't. If it could, it would be possible to learn about all sorts of things though the ages without having to personally experience them.

And that is of course a laughable proposition.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 1 Mar 2010, 17:04, Reply)

I just imagined that we could have some idea of what people were like before written language existed
as if people used to live in rudimentary wooden shelters, or caves, and hunt animals with rocks. That certainly raised a chuckle I can tell you.
(Bazongaloid, Mon 1 Mar 2010, 17:06, Reply)

As far as I know
things have been like the 1st of March 2010 since the beginning of time.
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Mon 1 Mar 2010, 17:08, Reply)

You're just fucking weird mate.
What ARE you like? I'd say 'you couldn't make it up' but clearly you can!! Rofl, lol, rspca etc
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 1 Mar 2010, 17:09, Reply)

"rspca"
I'm using that in an IM conversation next time someone uses too many "lol"s or smiley faces.
(LongJohnBaldry, Mon 1 Mar 2010, 17:31, Reply)

what, you mean in the way that everything written down in the last 30 years is true?
you mean THAT way of learning from history, then? I wondered why there was a Lancaster bomber on the moon, now you come to mention it.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 1 Mar 2010, 17:12, Reply)

"If you don't learn from History, then you are doomed to repeat it"

This is worrying as I know fack all about the 14th centuary and I'm worried about catching the black death
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 1 Mar 2010, 17:04, Reply)

Try being me.
If it's not the Persians I'm scared of, it's that utter cad Hannibal and his pesky elephants.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 1 Mar 2010, 17:07, Reply)

it's those
pesky Thracians I can't trust
(Halfy By light alone, Mon 1 Mar 2010, 17:09, Reply)

They really are cunts.
Like those Scythian archers. Fucking mercenary wankers.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 1 Mar 2010, 17:10, Reply)

I'm with you on the Persians. personally it's Xerxes who terrifies me
he could do anything, at any time!
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 1 Mar 2010, 17:12, Reply)

the less
said about the peloponnesians the better as well.

they can go get fucked by a hoplite for all I care
(Halfy By light alone, Mon 1 Mar 2010, 17:13, Reply)

yeah.
and political history, particularly recent history, is very, very subjective. Oh sorry, everything written down is true, isn't it?
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 1 Mar 2010, 17:10, Reply)

Yes because there is just the one master account of history
and thus only 1 viewpoint that simply must be trusted.
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Mon 1 Mar 2010, 17:12, Reply)

that would kind of be my point
except I can't spot if you are being sarcastic or not. online.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 1 Mar 2010, 17:19, Reply)

I am being sarcastic.
There is not only 1 master viewpoint of history.
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Mon 1 Mar 2010, 17:24, Reply)