The Mail vs history

bluebellnutter · **Posted:** Tue Aug 03, 2010 11:48 pm

Why is it whenever anyone mentions bringing back crucifixion I get the Life of Brian jail scene running through my head?

"Crucifixion?"
"No, freedom actually."
"Oh really?"
"Nah, I'm just kidding, crucifixion."

davidjay · **Joined:** Tue Feb 17, 2009 8:24 pm **Posts:** 3816

But she was middle class. That's the important thing.

Picklechu2 · **Joined:** Mon Oct 13, 2008 10:01 pm **Posts:** 639

And the offenders were forrins...

Timbo · **Posted:** Wed Aug 04, 2010 9:05 am

Oh they always love medieval torture suggestions. I've frequently got high into the green saying things like 'a couple of hours in an iron maiden would set that young man straight'.

Mr Mordon · **Posted:** Wed Aug 04, 2010 8:11 pm

I have to admit, sometimes i would love to see some of the little shits who cause such problems on estates given a few hours in the stocks from time to time.

The Hate Mail · **Joined:** Fri Jan 30, 2009 8:26 pm **Posts:** 71

I think we'd all like to give some people a good kicking for being shits but we don't masturbate about it at the same time like mail readers.

Amazonian · **Posted:** Wed Aug 04, 2010 10:01 pm

Derailing, maybe, but from that story:

Quote:

In the Bible, God gave the death sentence for kidnapping. God cares! God is EXTREMELY merciful

I'm still trying to figure that one out. Congratulations, Linda from the USA, you are an utter wanker.

Needless to say, there are a lot of obvious BNP types healthily in the green for trying to make political hay out of the abuse of a badly-disturbed teenager. Cunts, the lot of 'em. (And of course, good English white folks never do anything like that. Just fuck off and die.)

Machadaynu · **Posted:** Thu Aug 26, 2010 12:45 am

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldne ... began.html

At least it gives the Mail an excuse to include a picture of Brad Pitt in this story.

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Thu Aug 26, 2010 12:49 am

Mr Mordon wrote:

I have to admit, sometimes i would love to see some of the little shits who cause such problems on estates given a few hours in the stocks from time to time.

That would cause them to change their behaviour how? Back to humiliation as a punishment? Something that morally developed people gave up 200 years ago...

glasgowgril · **Joined:** Fri Jan 29, 2010 2:51 pm **Posts:** 1439

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... chool.html

The mailite Gradgrind approach to the study of history strikes again. This comment in partic just brings up a picture of the commenter in my mind - "My nephew last year graduated, and from a proper University, with a degree in History.
I quizzed him as to whether he knew which group of people had arrived in Britain first, the Romans or the Saxons. Needless to say, he answered the Saxons.
Knew everything about the slave trade though.
- Man from Laramie, Czech republic, 10/9/2010 18:30

It's that word 'quizzed'. Bet the nephew thinks his uncle is a boring, ignorant old sod.

AshleeK · **Joined:** Sun Aug 22, 2010 12:56 pm **Posts:** 152

glasgowgril wrote:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1310903/History-threat-teenagers-receive-just-38-hours-lessons-entire-time-secondary-school.html

The mailite Gradgrind approach to the study of history strikes again. This comment in partic just brings up a picture of the commenter in my mind - "My nephew last year graduated, and from a proper University, with a degree in History.
I quizzed him as to whether he knew which group of people had arrived in Britain first, the Romans or the Saxons. Needless to say, he answered the Saxons.
Knew everything about the slave trade though.
- Man from Laramie, Czech republic, 10/9/2010 18:30

It's that word 'quizzed'. Bet the nephew thinks his uncle is a boring, ignorant old sod.

Just because he's doing a history degree, it doesn't necessarily mean that he studied every bit of history ever. Some people seem to think that history degrees are like doing history in school where you learn every period of British history.

mojojojo · **Joined:** Fri Mar 19, 2010 1:33 pm **Posts:** 4264

You just know he wants to say "so-called slave trade". I expect it was just the natural order of things but of course his PC nephew doesn't accept this.

tc-obo · **Posted:** Fri Sep 10, 2010 9:00 pm

Quote:

Hundreds of schools no longer teach history as a stand alone subject to 11 and 12-year-olds, instead offering 'integrated' topic-based humanities or social science courses, according to research by the Historical Association.

I might have missed something, but isn't one of the USPs of one of Gove's Magnificent Government-Approved Free Schools precisely that it will offer integrated humanities lessons within the framework of 'literacy'?

I really hate Michael Gove.

bluebellnutter · **Posted:** Sat Sep 11, 2010 12:23 am

AshleeK wrote:

glasgowgril wrote:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1310903/History-threat-teenagers-receive-just-38-hours-lessons-entire-time-secondary-school.html

The mailite Gradgrind approach to the study of history strikes again. This comment in partic just brings up a picture of the commenter in my mind - "My nephew last year graduated, and from a proper University, with a degree in History.
I quizzed him as to whether he knew which group of people had arrived in Britain first, the Romans or the Saxons. Needless to say, he answered the Saxons.
Knew everything about the slave trade though.
- Man from Laramie, Czech republic, 10/9/2010 18:30

It's that word 'quizzed'. Bet the nephew thinks his uncle is a boring, ignorant old sod.

Just because he's doing a history degree, it doesn't necessarily mean that he studied every bit of history ever. Some people seem to think that history degrees are like doing history in school where you learn every period of British history.

As someone who's just finished a history degree, I could tell you almost anything you want to know about Neville Chamberlains policy of appeasement, but I couldn't tell you when Edward IV died.

cycloon · **Joined:** Sun Jun 10, 2007 4:07 pm **Posts:** 3242

One suspects the 'man from Laramie' doesn't appreciate quite what history is beyond a mere regurgitation of facts that fits a flimsy framework of some sort of national pride.

But maybe that's just me.

Still, I'd have answered that question correctly. And then punched him for saying 'needless to say'.

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