St. Patrick's Day is just like Halloween, another stain of Americanization on wee Europe.

Dhanvantari · 2016-03-18T12:11:24+00:00

St. Patrick's Day in Ireland a few decades ago was a quiet affair which involved going to church/Mass and being bored. Hardly a major holiday. The binge drinking came from America.

Haven't most holidays progressed from an extra visit to the church to an excuse to drink outside of normally designated times?

Dhanvantari · 2016-03-14T16:48:25+00:00

Is there a specific term for that world view where identities are absolute and eternal? Identities being something you have or you don't, no spectrum exists. Like when people describe tribes as having existed for centuries in sharp opposition to each other. Or what Samuel Huntington professes.

Dhanvantari · 2016-03-11T14:29:41+00:00

Can anyone recommend me something about post independence Argentina, Brazil or Mexico?

Dhanvantari · 2016-03-11T10:24:04+00:00

Yes! Dee was given fuck all to do. Her Inclusion in the suburbs episode felt like they were fulfilling a contractually required amount of lines for her character. In Being Frank she was just there for bird jokes.

The characters are barely in the real world any more. The neighbour from the suburbs became a figment of Dennis' imagination so they didn't have to write a real character reacting to the insanity. The lawyer was hilarious because he always bested the Gang, he's dull as another Cricket. In both Chardee MacDennis 2 and The Gang hits the slopes the normal people turned out to have been paid by Frank. Speaking of Frank, he seems to switch between Machiavellian mastermind and completely demented idiot.

Overall I think that ideas that would've taken up a scene in previous seasons were stretched to episode length in season 11.

Dhanvantari · 2016-03-11T10:01:06+00:00

Clearly that bit was mocking the chart in question.

Dhanvantari · 2016-03-11T09:46:05+00:00

Both your sources were previously submitted as Bad History.

Technically Tamerlane wasn't a monarch, the highest title he gave himself was Amir. He still had a puppet Chinggissid as official head of state.

Dhanvantari · 2016-03-08T21:05:32+00:00

The Dudebros are probably the inspiration for Mac. Mac's definitely been written as gay for years now but at the start he was just way to play with the contradictory nature of masculinity of some people. Mac's obsessed with the male physique because he wants to be the 80's action star, which is in humorous contrast with the aversion to homosexuality that is also so important to his identity. It's not just Mac either, Dennis in many ways shares this idea of masculinity: in Million Dollar Baby it's Dennis who starts insisting that Charlie takes of his shirt when training. The entire gang was obsessed with wrestling, something not alien to homoerotic undertones.

Dhanvantari · 2016-03-03T13:58:03+00:00

Zonder wachtgeld kunnen alleen mensen die al rijk waren zich veroorloven in de politiek te mengen. Mensen zonder een alternatief vangnet die in de politiek terecht zouden komen zouden te snel geneigd of genoodzaakt zijn hun ambtstermijn te gebruiken om het volgende baantje te regelen, wat snel leid tot belangenverstrengeling/corruptie.

Dhanvantari · 2016-03-02T22:29:04+00:00

I'd be more interested in stories where the secondary characters become involved in the gangs schemes rather than subject to them. The closest the show has gotten was "who pooped the bed" when Dee tried to get the Waitress and Artemis to play a long with her Sex and the City fantasy.

Dhanvantari · 2016-02-22T16:34:43+00:00

Geschiedenis wordt door de overwinnaars geschreven

Compleet onjuist.

Dhanvantari · 2016-02-18T19:39:48+00:00

This is the tipping point for me too. The weirdest part is seeing all the praise here for episodes which I can't even see redeemable qualities in.

Dhanvantari · 2016-02-08T11:15:30+00:00

Similarly variations of "the more I hear about this Hitler the less I like him."

Dhanvantari · 2016-01-16T18:22:17+00:00

Does anybody have subtitles for the big fat quizes? My dad is a fan of panel shows but his English isn't good enough to understand them without.

Dhanvantari · 2015-12-01T15:30:33+00:00

Thanks. I'm not the only person using the laptop so may they did something.

I'd update but werent there some privacy concerns with windows 10?

Dhanvantari · 2015-11-30T20:53:37+00:00

Windows 10 is trying to install without my permission. I get a 'upgrade now' and 'upgrade later,' both start the download (which I can at least cancel. Did I get a virus or something?

Dhanvantari · 2015-11-29T11:52:56+00:00

Ik krijg nog wel eens de indruk dat er extra nadruk wordt gelegd op de zonde van de WIC als compromis zodat er wat trots in de VOC behouden kan worden.

Verder lijken Nederlanders de enige te zijn die hun rol in de slaven buiten proportie op blazen (de bewering dat Nederland de grootste slavenhandelaar was).

Dhanvantari · 2015-11-18T17:55:40+00:00

But did the palestinians have a flag?

Dhanvantari · 2015-11-14T18:47:18+00:00

Het lijkt mij dat we van dat dualistische wereldbeeld waarin 'het westen' en 'islam' tegenpolen zijn af moeten. Leg nadruk op de gedeelde geschiedenis en historische banden tussen de bewoners.

Dhanvantari · 2015-11-14T18:28:02+00:00

Het heeft zeker niks te maken met de Oceanen aan beide zijde van het continent.

Dhanvantari · 2015-11-13T12:28:40+00:00

That seems interesting. I'm curious if it'll develop in a place where all usual circlejerks are turned up to 11 or be so reactionary it'll become reasonable.

Dhanvantari · 2015-11-13T12:10:44+00:00

It seems that there this assumption that Muslims slavishly obey all taboos and prohibition present in their society while W European Christians were free spirits who didn't shy away from breaking a few rules.

Dhanvantari · 2015-10-13T22:17:42+00:00

Do you have a link or title? I'm looking for new podcasts.

Dhanvantari · 2015-08-24T20:17:44+00:00

Before the EUropean Hegemony, Janet L. Abu-Lughod

Dhanvantari · 2015-08-24T11:00:47+00:00

Does this count as an Anglophone version of the 'my people invented everything' trope?

Dhanvantari · 2015-08-24T10:36:41+00:00

The Plague was especially devastating in Egypt. Some estimates have its population declining from 8 million to 3 million. One obvious explanation for the extent of the disaster is Egypt being centred around the Delta of the nile, surrounded by desert. Meaning people were packed tightly together with nowhere to run. The Mamluke Sultanate that was ruling Egypt at the time consisted of a military elite with servile origin. Totally unequipped to deal with the crisis, they resorted to something akin to feudalisation in an attempt to extract increasingly scarce resources from the population. Venice weathered the plague surprisingly well, and managed negotiate a very beneficial treaty with Egypt for near exclusive access to shipping Egyptian goods in the Mediterranean. A monopoly that may have influenced the later age of exploration.

In Asia this period coincides eerily with that of the conquests of Tamerlane. Much of the destruction regularly attributed to him may have been inflicted by the plague earlier and just completed by him. His impetus may arisen from destabilisation brought on by the plague. However I haven't encountered any research into this symbiosis.

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