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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #112335 on: October 31, 2016, 09:17:35 am »

We have a costume day in high school <wait for it>

Freshman comes in with a toy (real looking) gun, sees no issue with this

honestly
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« Reply #112336 on: October 31, 2016, 09:23:16 am »

Weren't a significant portion of the natives dead when the colonists moved inland? I've heard it, but I'm not sure. It'd be pretty difficult repelling the invadors while undergoing a huge pandemic ripping across the land.

Of course, all history gets uncomfortable at some point, and it goes unexpected places, at times.
Yes -- IIRC the leading explanation for that is that a plague was set loose in one of the initial contacts. By the time Europeans started settling, they were encountering basically the battered remnants of the east-coast civilizations. When the Mayflower expedition landed, they were able to be so successful because they were literally moving onto cleared, planted land where the local population had recently died off. As in, they took over fields full of growing corn, that's how fresh a lot of the deaths were. The notion of the American "wilderness" is entirely fabricated, most of it was practically fucking parkland that was only thinly peopled because of how many had died to disease.

Until World War II, there was probably not a single real war where humans killed more than disease and famine.

Not that the colonists didn't totally genocide the natives literally and then culturally, but they would have lost that conflict if not for the pandemics. Hell, the US nearly got in trouble as it was, fighting the western natives and the Seminole.
World War I or the American Civil War, maybe. If you count deaths from botched surgery and infection as battlefield casualties. But yes, this is why pre-modern warfare sucked massive dick, most of the deaths came on the march and in camp/siege. You were already statistically lucky if you lived to die in a battle.

Oh yeah. Americans have conveniently forgotten that we spent something like a century constantly at war with different tribes and nations. So much of our history has been thoroughly whitewashed of that bit of guilt. The Louisiana Purchase wasn't a purchase of land, but of a fabricated paper-claim to land. The French-Indian war was fought predominantly through Amerindian proxies. There's also the slightly more positive stuff -- the Boston Tea Partiers didn't dress up as Amerindians to deflect blame (really? Are people today imposing their stupidity on the past? Nobody's that dumb, right?), but because at the time they were seen as a symbol of freedom from central control and oppression (incidentally, this was why a surprising number of European settlers ran off to join local communities, and why authorities worked so hard to suppress knowledge of that pattern of behavior).

It's like, there's historical revision and whitewashing and propaganda everywhere, but America's history with native populations is both incredibly more complex and interesting than it's made out to be, and also almost totally suppressed and forgotten. For good goddamn reason, too: it's as large a stain on our past glory, founding myths, and delusions of morality as fucking slavery. Remember that one of the main reasons the Spanish started the trend of bringing over African slaves is because they enslaved local populations and literally worked them to death.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #112337 on: October 31, 2016, 09:23:50 am »

So the Cubs are winning 3-2 in the World Series, and the next game is a home game. Whoulda'thunk it.
Chicago Cubs are actually losing 3-2.
True. The next games are in Cleveland, as well.
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« Reply #112338 on: October 31, 2016, 09:36:00 am »

I'm starting to believe the theory that the world ended in 2012, and as time goes by our collective purgatory gets more and more unstable.
That's the impression that followed certain people when 'the world ended' back in the 20th century and even before that :P A collective sense of 'everything is getting worse'...because they focused on big details like that. :P
It's less about thigns being bad and mroe things being balls to the walls crazy. :P

I mean, we're transmitting thoughts using light.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #112339 on: October 31, 2016, 10:49:24 am »

We have a costume day in high school <wait for it>

Freshman comes in with a toy (real looking) gun, sees no issue with this

honestly
If someone did it like that in my school, nobody would give a shit, because... <wait for it>
I live in no-gun country so nobody gives a shit. Like, really, all the plastic guns, all the ASGs - none of them even have the dreaded orange tip here.
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« Reply #112340 on: October 31, 2016, 10:57:04 am »

First light, then electron-bumps. Unless you also have that newfangled glass wire stuff *which is so cool*.
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« Reply #112341 on: October 31, 2016, 10:57:41 am »

We have a costume day in high school <wait for it>

Freshman comes in with a toy (real looking) gun, sees no issue with this

honestly
If someone did it like that in my school, nobody would give a shit, because... <wait for it>
I live in no-gun country so nobody gives a shit. Like, really, all the plastic guns, all the ASGs - none of them even have the dreaded orange tip here.

This kid just got a week suspension and you're telling me that there's places who don't care
I honestly didn't know those places still existed
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« Reply #112342 on: October 31, 2016, 11:00:06 am »

Yeah in Australia the orange-tip rule is kinda take it or leave it as well.
Kids are more likely to get suspended for wearing turbans.
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« Reply #112343 on: October 31, 2016, 11:11:04 am »

Yeah in Australia the orange-tip rule is kinda take it or leave it as well.
Kids are more likely to get suspended for wearing turbans.
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Joking aside, actual suspensions? I don't know as much about Australian schools as Australian every other country's schools know about American schools.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #112344 on: October 31, 2016, 11:15:51 am »

We have a costume day in high school <wait for it>

Freshman comes in with a toy (real looking) gun, sees no issue with this

honestly
If someone did it like that in my school, nobody would give a shit, because... <wait for it>
I live in no-gun country so nobody gives a shit. Like, really, all the plastic guns, all the ASGs - none of them even have the dreaded orange tip here.
Same here. The only people I've seen with real guns were policemen and private security guards, and they also have very recognizable uniforms. Lots of people complain about that, though. Say something about "they don't want to give us guns because armed people are less likely to be controlled" or something...
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« Reply #112345 on: October 31, 2016, 11:17:19 am »

Heh... I meant specifically to a costume day.

But I do recall a time there when they were trying to ban singing national anthems at parade because if was alienating our huge extra-national population.
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« Reply #112346 on: October 31, 2016, 11:23:45 am »

Honestly, if bringing a toy gun to school is a problem, then the problem is in the fact that you've took it far enough for this to be a problem.
I mean, fuck, I am /k/ as fuck, I hate the fact that I can't realistically own anything better than a ball and cap and an air gun, but if someone advanced that path long enough for people to worry about guns where guns don't belong, then there is something wrong.

But I do recall a time there when they were trying to ban singing national anthems at parade because if was alienating our huge extra-national population.
The fuck?
Polish nationalists would literally explode from the sheer fury if something like that were to happen. The parade would end up singing hate-songs.
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« Reply #112347 on: October 31, 2016, 11:38:20 am »

do we even have a national anthem
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« Reply #112348 on: October 31, 2016, 11:41:35 am »

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« Reply #112349 on: October 31, 2016, 11:45:15 am »

do we even have a national anthem
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