• Flying SquidOP
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      Well he doesn’t care what you say!

  • @[email protected]
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    I don’t care what anyone says!

    proceeds to talk at length and with much fervor about what he believes people said

  • @Rhoeri
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    Because that’s what you want. A “historian” that opens with:

    “I don’t care what anyone says…”

  • Hossenfeffer
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    164 days ago

    “I dont want to hear about the Welsh”

    Well. Quite. Who does?

  • @[email protected]
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    144 days ago

    This is so insane I cannot take it seriously. What the absolute fuck. I am really hoping this not real.

    It’s not real, right? Right??

    • Flying SquidOP
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      Do you doubt a historian on YouTube?!

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        104 days ago

        Oh! I’m sorry, I didn’t realize his degree was from YouTube. Clearly his expertise is beyond mine and my lame university degrees. I shan’t bother him with all my literal knowledge of the progression between Old and Middle English.

    • Flying SquidOP
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      I would not be at all surprised if he thought that was the language Shakespeare used.

      Because I have seen Early Modern English called Middle English sooooo many times.

      • @shalafi
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        24 days ago

        Shakespeare’s easily understood, especially if you pick up on the vocabulary. LOL, the English wouldn’t understand a word of Middle English.

        • Flying SquidOP
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          23 days ago

          Yeah, I tried reading Chaucer untranslated once. Gave up quickly.

    • Diplomjodler
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      44 days ago

      What are you talking about? He took all the pills.

  • @[email protected]
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    It’s like the Victorians who believed that Britain was founded by a Trojan named Brutus, because how could the mighty lion-race of Albion who conquered a third of the globe possibly be descended from a bunch of woad-painted savages rather than the noble civilisations of classical antiquity?

    • @shalafi
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      44 days ago

      woad-painted savages

      I now have a new slur for the English. Thanks!

      • Flying SquidOP
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        Oh that’s an old one. Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli (who had Jewish ancestry) said this in Parliament in the 1830s:

        While the ancestors of right honorable gentleman for Upper Ordure were walking around dressed in pelts and woad, my ancestors were signing psalms to the Lord in the temple of King Solomon.