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Topic History of: BBC's WW1 soap opera !
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Pattaya |
In The Know wrote:
We are now up to the Somme .... could anything be more predictable?
The dimwits who marched off to war, are the same dimwits who now defend the celebrations (and would do it all over again !)
The establishment - whose ineptitude caused most of the problems - have managed to eradicate all blame for themselves and "con" the public into thinking it was a valiant effort that should be applauded !
.... and these sheep are allowed to vote lol !!!!!!!!!
Plenty with the brain of a sheep allowed to vote in the Sheep...sorry Peak district!  |
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SP17 |
In The Know wrote:
The establishment - whose ineptitude caused most of the problems - have managed to eradicate all blame for themselves and "con" the public into thinking it was a valiant effort that should be applauded
But there is no effort to 'con' anybody.
The facts, errors, futility of the 'creeping barrage', mutinies etc. - are so well documented.
And who is applauding?
www.pbs.org/greatwar
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In The Know |
We are now up to the Somme .... could anything be more predictable?
The dimwits who marched off to war, are the same dimwits who now defend the celebrations (and would do it all over again !)
The establishment - whose ineptitude caused most of the problems - have managed to eradicate all blame for themselves and "con" the public into thinking it was a valiant effort that should be applauded !
.... and these sheep are allowed to vote lol !!!!!!!!! |
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andrew |
In The Know (as always) wrote:
andrew wrote:
Do the actors put on a strong English accent to hide their cockney accents, which still comes through from time to time ?
No - even the ones playing the Germans speak in English !
I hate fake foreign accents, I'm sure a lot of people can cope reading subs ?
8 ½ anyone ? |
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Pattaya |
SP17 wrote:
SP17 wrote:
WW1 was such a pivotal event that changed the world dramatically; here's just a few of those changes:-
- World ecomomic power was ceded to the USA who provided a large portion of the war's finance. The influence of the English aristocracy was greatly curtailed, and workers' political parties gained ground.
- Empires collapsed; the Russian in 1917; the German/Austro-Hungarian in 1918; the Ottoman in 1922
- Much of the Arab Land which had been part of the Ottoman Empire was taken over by Britain and France
- Independent countries arose; Ireland, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia and Turkey
- The Bolsheviks took over Russia in 1917, and facists took Italy in 1922
- Further consequences of WW1 were an influenza epidemic (which killed over 25 million people worldwide) and the mass murder of Armenians in Turkey
But the Great War changed so much else - like nothing ever before; in Europe and beyond.
It is so deserving of the excellent work and attention that BBC TV are putting into it.
To type 'what's the point?/all of them dead' - exhibits and illustrates a sad unwillingness and/or inability to understand how and why the UK (and the world) has arrived in the here and now, approaching the end of 2014.
Sadly JK - there's little interest or debate about the reasons for - or consequences of WW1
When the TV coverage of WW2's 100th anniversary comes; again it'll be 'what's the point, all dead now'
My father (and yours, I think) had a hand in that more recent conflict.
But one has to wonder if a supreme smugness has taken over
Where it more important to say who you are, where you were, those you knew and what you think - and moan about folks just doing their best
Maybe, nothing really matters - and so many brave men and women died for nothing.....
One of my first University essays was about the origins of the Great War....One of the research options was actually 'railway timetables'....daft though it may sound... |
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