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[Cthulhu]

I had to get three of my wisdom teeth taken out.  One had enough room, but it grew in sideways and got all fucked up so I'm gonna have to have it removed anyway, possibly this Wednesday.

When I got my wisdom teeth taken out one of them dry-socketed.  That was awful.  They stuck this herbal packing into the hole which hurt like hell when they put it in and since I was playing KotoR at the time now when I think about KotoR I taste cloves.

[Tellemurius]

ergh, herbs? i thought that burned you?

[AntiAntiMatter]

My history class just finished the WWI unit. We learned: a) How it spread across Europe, and b) How much it sucked to be a soldier on the Western front. And that's it. I've learned absolutely nothing about the war that I didn't already know. Classes have gotten far too easy.

[Vector]

My history class just finished the WWI unit. We learned: a) How it spread across Europe, and b) How much it sucked to be a soldier on the Western front. And that's it. I've learned absolutely nothing about the war that I didn't already know. Classes have gotten far too easy.

Then protest and root out some more texts.  Find people to discuss them with.  There are communities on the internet, if nothing else.  Learn, and educate your fellow students, and see what you can do.  It is possible.

[Bauglir]

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[Cthulhu]

ergh, herbs? i thought that burned you?

It was a strip of some kind of cloth soaked in oil of cloves.

[Vector]

Ask your teacher what s/he thinks of Falkenhayn's orders at Verdun. It's reasonably basic knowledge (so if your history teacher knows anything about WW1, they should know what you're talking about) and can, ideally, start off some interesting discussion on the reasons behind why things were so terrible on the Western Front. If you've not talked about it, that's the one where the German commander (Falkenhayn) explicitly said, in essence, "We will bleed the French army", and then successfully ground about 300,000 troops (summed from both sides) into the mud over the course of 10 months. Those're just the dead, not the rest of the casualties.

My goodness, I never heard about that in my (very brief) coverage of WWI in a world history course.  That's... insane.

... Do you have any recommendations on especially good history books?

[SalmonGod]

I ate buffalo wings the night my wisdom teeth were taken out.

[Bauglir]

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[Vector]

That's so kind of you.  Thank you very much.

[Aqizzar]

Man, through seventeen years of school, I never learned anything more about WW1 than its existence, at least in the course of any class.  Most textbooks didn't even give an entire chapter to itself for independent reading.  The way I came to understand it, was that the events of WW1 flowed directly into WW2.  Any historical implications of WW1 of any relevance to an Anglo-European audience would be subsumed or rewritten by WW2 anyway, so just focus on that.  Which has a certain validity to it in terms of general study, but it's still some bad short shrift.

Now that I think about it, my college world history class did go into quite a bit of detail about it, namely how the European commanders tried through most of the war to approach other European armies with the kind of industrial-scale contemptuous destruction they had managed to visit on aboriginal warriors over the century prior.  Or snippets like how Britain, good little empire that it was, began the war with an artillery ammunition stockpile specifically intended to survive and win a war against Germany.  It was exhausted in nine months.

[Rose]

With my massive jaw, I have no trouble finding room for wisdom teeth.

[Tellemurius]

urgh, i just found out the donuts in the rec room were stolen >.> but they were so good.

[The Merchant Of Menace]

Bleh. Everything's making me sad lately :<

[ToonyMan]

Go dam donu thieve stealin letter to!