The 2016 Brexit debate in a nutshell............ oh wait sorry its how did WW1 start lol
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bluethrunthru
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The History Channel may be more accurate
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World War I: Summary, Causes & Facts | HISTORY
World War I began in 1914, after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and lasted until 1918. During the conflict, Germany, Austria‑Hungary, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire (the Central Powers) fought against Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy, Romania, Japan and the United States...
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PannickAtTheDisco
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cos the Germans wanted a scrap?
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5 minutes before this is merged into the EU thread.
The perfect fumble
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No, because of it an entire generation believes a lie about one of the most momentous events in our history.
It's funny so we excuse it, in a way we'd never excuse GB News if it peddled such a whopper, but Blackadder Goes Forth's lasting legacy is the perpetuation of a lie.
The men who fought in that war didn't see it that way....
Condemned by the poets and then by the comics, in a way they didn't or wouldn't with Dads Army.
2nd World War good, 1st World War bad, we're turning in to a nation of morons.
hilts
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I always thought blackadder was a comedy who knew it was on the school curriculum
bluethrunthru
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The she same with Horrible Histories. Aimed at kids and to be educational but also enjoyed by adults.
bluethrunthru
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so did we - that was the problem - both became so tooled up and on edge it couldn't be avoided in the end.
crazyg
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Boom, boom, boom
Boom, boom, boom, boom
etc
The German Guns
Classic.
The ending still brings a tear to my eye.