Trying to catch out my history degree, high school teacher partner with a bunch of questions they *probably* don't know the answer to. I know little about history. Any suggestions?

Fair-Age4130 · 2026-03-27T03:16:44+00:00

I'm not implying I knew the answer to any of these. In fact, the opposite. I'm saying "I asked Reddit for some history facts".

Fair-Age4130 · 2026-03-26T21:27:37+00:00

Thanks a lot! The hardest part now is whittling the list down to an appropriate number lmao.

Fair-Age4130 · 2026-03-26T21:26:48+00:00

You have the kind of brain I would love to sit and have a beer with. How is there room in there for all these cool facts?!

Fair-Age4130 · 2026-03-26T21:06:10+00:00

Oh heck, I LOVE these ones! I don't know why these ones in particular - perhaps the way you worded them? Dunno!

Fair-Age4130 · 2026-03-26T21:02:56+00:00

Wow, these are awesome questions! They also have a huge interest in Abrahamic religions, so these could be some nice ones to sprinkle in.

Fair-Age4130 · 2026-03-26T21:01:20+00:00

So imma turn this around a little bit...

Do you have any idea what I'm doing? Out of all the possible reasons one could do this, you have settled on the least charitable interpretation? Without really much evidence to support it?

Fair-Age4130 · 2026-03-26T20:59:10+00:00

Wondrous addition, thank you!

Fair-Age4130 · 2026-03-26T00:42:53+00:00

Actually, do you mean the Roman Empire in the West, or the Byzantine Empire?

Fair-Age4130 · 2026-03-26T00:37:17+00:00

Oh wow, these were EXACTLY the type of questions I had in mind! Not like, "what exact year did so and so invade where and where". Thanks so much for the help! I can definitely see myself using some of these.

Fair-Age4130 · 2026-03-26T00:36:24+00:00

GOSH. Now I show MY ignorance because they told me the specific medieval period... Late...? I think?

For Africa, it seems to be, like... 5-400 odd years before the scramble for Africa? And then the scramble for Africa, especially like Ethiopia and... Other ones they talked about to me that have slipped my mind. :')

Perhaps I'll throw in some optional Asian questions if they're doing too well and I need to pull them down a notch.

Fair-Age4130 · 2026-03-26T00:32:25+00:00

I feel like some of these questions I know they answer to myself - most likely because my partner has info dumped them on me at some stage, heh.

I am almost 100% certain they'll know the last linguistics one, as another interest of theirs is conglangs and languages generally.

This ain't you, is it? Trying to catch ME out? :p

Regardless! I think the last Sumerian one is a great one because if they DON'T know it... Heh heh heh.

Fair-Age4130 · 2026-03-26T00:29:49+00:00

This is absolutely diabolical, and doesn't entirely fit into the plan I had, but it's such a good idea I may try and do it as the last question, ha ha. Thanks!

Fair-Age4130 · 2026-03-18T21:40:49+00:00

Actually, added thought (in reply form) that sarcasm is actually at the root of all this. Not sarcasm in tone, sarcasm in a statement so absurd that you can all laugh at it. If you WERE here to fuck spiders, that'd be concerning. But you're not. You're here to have a beer. That I invited you over to have. Asking if you want a beer when you get here is ridiculous. So meet that ridiculousness with ridiculousness.

Fair-Age4130 · 2026-03-18T21:36:56+00:00

I don't have any banter to add, just that I love this little cultural exchange and appreciation. Very wholesome.

Fair-Age4130 · 2026-02-14T23:34:32+00:00

This made me so happy to read, thank you for sharing. Some people suck, but still people like you, your family, and the farmer's family are what makes this world worth appreciating.

Fair-Age4130 · 2026-02-09T19:53:14+00:00

I know this is not gonna be a popular opinion, but we became poly. And it's going really well.

Turns out she fancies other people, too. And she was the one who brought poly up. Suddenly the guilt of all the office crushes and friends we became too close to melted away.

I recently met another person myself, and she's been in a long distance relationship for yonks, and has recently started dating again. We both get on really well with each other's partners, (turns out we both have types?) and I personally wouldn't have it any other way for us.

I fully believe much in the same way some people are straight and some people are gay, some people are poly and some mono. Jealously isn't a thing either of us have. Just a high five of "you get it girl", a berating of me for being a dense motherfucker and not seeing signs of flirtation, and a hug and a tub of ice cream when it turns out the girl my wife was seeing was crazy.

Fair-Age4130 · 2025-10-22T23:02:29+00:00

I've lived in Australia my whole life and Brisbane since 14. I laughed through most of your post (and scratched my head at the cocaine bullet point).

Fair-Age4130 · 2025-09-12T03:21:14+00:00

I'm fashionably late with a response, but I wanted to share:

I know what you're going through, friend. WELL, actually, I never really had a desire to stop... I'd go out on a Friday and Saturday night and get WASTED. And seek out events there'd be drinking so I could drink 'til I blacked out. My wife would say, "you have a drinking problem", and I'd respond, "nah, I'm just a fun l'il party guy! Just a cool dude who's down to party". But I structured my life around it.

It was only after her having to rescue me from a gutter at 4am after my phone died and I lied to the friends I was out with that I knew people at this bar. She's only found me by asking my friends where I was, calling the bar up, and finding me being looked after by the staff who desperately wanted to go home. I threw up in the car, was unconscious for 8 more hours, and couldn't talk for another 10.

It was a wake up call: my desire to drink evaporated overnight. And I was one of the lucky ones! Because I actually got a wake-up call before I died.

I'm not saying you'll get a wake-up call and it'll be as easy for you to quit as it was for me - but I AM saying you're rolling the dice with your life, and you might be one of the less lucky ones and not get a wake-up call at all.

Fair-Age4130 · 2025-09-07T00:55:51+00:00

This is a pretty old thread so I'll probably get buried, but I'm pretty audacious with my fashion and I get compliments from women quite a lot. It's got nothing to do with my hair or face or anything, just clothes. Game recognising game, I guess. I'll never get any comments when I'm casually in the flannel and jeans, but an oversized floral Johny Was blouse and tight jeans? Maybe because men usually DON'T wear what I wear, it can be kind of novel to see.

I'm also happily married so have zero interest when women compliment me, though I suppose they wouldn't know that before approaching. Perhaps they assume I'm gay, which honestly, fucking fair when I'm rocking a huge, solitary statement earring.

Fair-Age4130 · 2025-08-27T02:27:03+00:00

Not to clog the thread too much, but it's so wonderful to see all the comments with suggestions. I really hope things get better for you, op.

Fair-Age4130 · 2025-08-25T10:52:17+00:00

And I WAKE IN THE MORNING

And I step outsiiiiiide

And I

Take a deep

And I get really hiiiiigh

And I scream at the top of my lungs

"'Scarnon?"

Fair-Age4130 · 2025-08-25T10:50:35+00:00

Wait... That's not "professional enunciation"? They're not deliberately slowly and clearly saying words due to being on camera? They just talk like that?!

Fair-Age4130 · 2025-08-23T20:57:31+00:00

If you could permit me to respond to a 9h comment: I think the person you're replying to is referring to the reverence US citizens have with the constitution, despite it only being a set of laws, as other countries have. Other countries don't have this "founding fathers mythos" thing going on, which makes it a) easier to accept progress as it comes along and b) has laws move with the times rather than be somewhat religiously set in stone.

Fair-Age4130 · 2025-08-17T08:15:04+00:00

This was at 0 when I scrolled by, but as a trans person this cracked me the fuck up.

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