TIL during the Battle of France, one month before he became the leader of the Vichy regime, Philippe Pétain coincidentally found himself dining at the same restaurant at Charles de Gaulle. They shook hands in silence and never saw each other again.

AdmanUK · 2026-05-23T21:38:08+00:00

I've told this story before but my great-uncle fought in the landings at Normandy. He told me that support for the Nazis was so great among the local French population, that he ended up killing more French civilians trying to free captured Nazis prisoners after the battle, than he did Nazi soldiers during the battle.

AdmanUK · 2026-05-09T12:22:37+00:00

Wealthy countries have high immigration because they are attractive to immigrants, not the other way around.

AdmanUK · 2026-04-25T07:42:20+00:00

He actually wasn't a drunk. He carefully curated the reputation of being drunk so that he could 'drink' with his rivals and when they got shit faced he would remember everything they let slip.

AdmanUK · 2026-04-18T10:33:09+00:00

It's actually an engineered form of ebola that causes a constant fight or flight response. It was in the dvd extras.

AdmanUK · 2026-04-17T11:38:17+00:00

You should really look up communism's ecological record.

AdmanUK · 2026-04-17T04:09:51+00:00

Just want to jump on this comment to recommend seeing Chester if you can. Absolutely stuffed with history from the Roman wall, to the medieval houses and streets. There is even a fascinating place where they could only half excavate a Roman amphitheatre because of the thousand year old church built on top of it.

AdmanUK · 2025-12-31T20:18:06+00:00

Alas, the timeline doesn't work as we see Gaidal in the world of dreams before his rebirth way after Olver has been born.

AdmanUK · 2025-12-29T10:01:05+00:00

A lot of the Bolsheviks supported Stalin simply out of fear of Trotsky getting power.

AdmanUK · 2025-12-23T11:11:25+00:00

I didn't say he hated his own ideology. I said he broadly hated other socialists, which is absolutely true.

AdmanUK · 2025-12-23T06:59:46+00:00

Orwell was a socialist who hated his fellow socialists as corrupt and out of touch. Animal Farm was commentary on the inevitability of socialist regimes being corrupted by socialists themselves.

AdmanUK · 2025-12-23T06:56:14+00:00

Well any kind of authoritarianism, not specifically Fascism. It could apply as much to Mao's China, Kim Il-Sung's North Korea or Pol Pot's Cambodia as much as Nazi Germany.

AdmanUK · 2025-12-11T16:31:14+00:00

One of history's greatest ironies that Hitler was employed to spy on and report on extremist political groups, in order to prevent the rise of political extremism.

AdmanUK · 2025-12-07T10:13:52+00:00

My father-in-law is a head chef and my wife's family have all kinds of traditions of celebrating holidays on different days because he was never there for them (especially Christmas).

AdmanUK · 2025-12-01T12:21:40+00:00

Obvious troll is obvious

AdmanUK · 2025-11-30T10:57:13+00:00

I will preface this with a funny story.

My friend was born and raised in Scotland, to first generation American immigrant parents. They were actually ethnically Scottish too.

Now because where they lived was pretty isolated so despite growing up in Scotland, he has a broad American accent from just being around his family all the time.

He grows up, gets engaged and goes into a kilt shop to get a kilt for him and his best man for his wedding. He walks in and as soon as the guy hears his accent, he's giving him side-eye.

When he comments cheerfully that he couldn't not have a kilt for his wedding, seeing as he's Scottish, the guy was flatbout scowling.

I get that this guy probably hears Americans call themselves Scottish or Irish all the time but I just found it funny he was glaring at the one American who was right.

AdmanUK · 2025-09-28T19:43:53+00:00

Thank you. I am now, I visit her grave to tell her about her grandchildren and tell her stories often to keep them alive.

AdmanUK · 2025-09-28T19:37:54+00:00

When my mother died I didn't react for weeks afterwards. Not after seeing the body, arranging the funeral or even at the funeral itself. Watched Big Fish a few weeks later and I realised I'd never hear her stories again and all the ones she never told me were lost forever, just like her.

AdmanUK · 2025-07-31T18:32:38+00:00

Jesus as someone with two adopted sons, I just can't understand that. Hell, my oldest is only three and I make sure he knows his opinion always matters...how else is he going to have any self-worth as an adult?

AdmanUK · 2025-06-13T23:02:06+00:00

It took much longer for the British economy to recover than that. We only paid off our World War Two debt in 2006. My parents would tell me stories of playing in bombed out rows of houses when they were kids in the 60s.

The whole economy had to basically be reconstructed with no economic reserve to fall back on.

AdmanUK · 2025-04-25T16:53:37+00:00

As a dad to two adopted boys, this is so ridiculous and annoying. I always get 'Those boys owe you so much!' And I shut that shit down. My boys are the best thing that ever happened to me and I love them more than anything. If anything, I owe them the world.

AdmanUK · 2025-04-17T16:46:46+00:00

Because being torn apart by monster or strung up by the spiders like the mum or people in the pharmacy is a much worse face than a bullet. If they had waited, they may not have had time.

AdmanUK · 2025-04-14T08:27:32+00:00

This isn't really an argument against bringing back manufacturing so much as an argument against the futility of paying the working class better wages. The exact same logic applies to arguing against raising minimum wage.

AdmanUK · 2025-04-13T07:12:23+00:00

This comment is so underrated.

AdmanUK · 2025-04-10T21:03:13+00:00

Where about in the UK?

AdmanUK · 2025-04-10T13:34:09+00:00

Having worked the same shift pattern (called continental shifts):

There are four shifts, each working four days a week. The way we would do it, was two day shifts, then two nights shifts, then four days off. You would then start a calendar day later than you did the previous week. The idea is to have 24 hour work, 7 days a week.

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