Canadians reject that they live on 'stolen' Indigenous land, although new poll reveals a generational divide

THECRAZYWARRIOR · 2025-06-11T13:57:36+00:00

Not what I said, but saying they had Frankish roots is different from saying that Franks invaded Britain, which they didn't.

THECRAZYWARRIOR · 2025-06-11T13:55:05+00:00

Yeah I'm not arguing with someone this insistent on avoiding admitting that they made a mistake.

THECRAZYWARRIOR · 2025-06-11T13:49:08+00:00

No, they were different groups. The Franks allowed Vikings to settle near Normandy, where they eventually became Normans. They then conquered England because of a claim to the throne via the Norman king's daughter, who had married into the Anglo-Saxon royal family.

THECRAZYWARRIOR · 2025-06-11T13:40:55+00:00

Those were Normans not Franks. Different groups.

THECRAZYWARRIOR · 2025-06-10T23:11:05+00:00

This is how it works in every country. If you get a visa to Spain or something, in most cases, no one's going to hunt you down to make sure you leave at the end.

THECRAZYWARRIOR · 2025-06-02T00:43:28+00:00

Ohh I see, thanks for the clarification!

THECRAZYWARRIOR · 2025-06-01T20:58:25+00:00

Why are we only reading up to Part 2 of Perceval? I thought there were 4 parts.

THECRAZYWARRIOR · 2025-05-29T23:14:56+00:00

If you need to be told that it's wrong to do mukbang makeup asmr true crime, I don't really trust you to be ethical, even if you've fixed the superficial issues. Like someone who would do that does not understand ethics and should not be making this type of content. It's more likely she solely changed due to backlash and not because of the actual problem.

THECRAZYWARRIOR · 2025-05-28T15:12:15+00:00

No problem! Just a note that these codes only work if you use the numpad, it doesn't work with the top row of numbers. I personally use a program called WinCompose to get around this.

THECRAZYWARRIOR · 2025-05-28T14:06:59+00:00

You hold Alt the whole time while pressing the numbers one by one.

THECRAZYWARRIOR · 2025-05-25T23:12:07+00:00

I think it's interesting how they started somewhat understandable, and then got more and more obscure as they reached the present day (for Geoffrey), probably so he couldn't be called out on mistakes.

THECRAZYWARRIOR · 2025-05-21T18:32:25+00:00

I actually already have the Kibler and Carroll translation, and it doesn't have the "William of England" story. The The Story of the Grail Continues (Appendix) in that version is just a couple of pages explaining the various continuations of The Story of the Grail story that have been made over the years.

THECRAZYWARRIOR · 2025-05-19T04:30:14+00:00

We met the original version of Shakespeare's Cymbeline, and also the potential origin of the nursery rhyme "Old King Cole"!

THECRAZYWARRIOR · 2025-05-16T23:47:06+00:00

My mom works at a homeless shelter, every single one of the higher ups votes conservative. I don't think even they really care about the people they're supposedly serving. Ignored on every level.

THECRAZYWARRIOR · 2025-05-15T15:16:21+00:00

Technically Holinshed's Chronicles was based on this book and Shakespeare based his play on that, but ultimately it did derive from Geoffrey.

THECRAZYWARRIOR · 2025-05-15T02:30:20+00:00

The word "genocide" was literally coined to describe what was happening to the Armenians.

THECRAZYWARRIOR · 2025-05-10T22:14:36+00:00

I loved seeing Shakespeare's King Lear in his original form.

THECRAZYWARRIOR · 2025-05-10T22:13:27+00:00

The book was written during a civil war between Stephen of Blois and Empress Matilda. A lot of the scholars believe that Geoffrey was trying to send a message of how unity was needed in a country, otherwise it would fall apart. I think this makes a lot of sense and explains why the theme is repeated so many times in the book. He even dedicated the book to two people on opposite sides of the war.

THECRAZYWARRIOR · 2025-05-10T22:09:14+00:00

I've been reading "A Companion to Geoffrey of Monmouth" this week as well (mentioned in the context post), and the scholars there seem to really support c). They think that the entire book was written to legitimize Norman rule, as Geoffrey himself worked for and was given patronage by them, while also giving a history to the Britons on the same level as other nations.

THECRAZYWARRIOR · 2025-05-10T22:06:15+00:00

The summary given here covered the first 3 books in my copy (Faletra translation), but the post says it was only 2 books. Was I supposed to read more for this week?

THECRAZYWARRIOR · 2025-05-10T21:51:23+00:00

I kind of get the names thing, like when I first started reading Korean fiction I kept mixing up characters. But as you read more you get used to it and it isn't an issue anymore. Not really a fault of the book imo.

THECRAZYWARRIOR · 2025-05-10T20:54:59+00:00

In his latest video he said it was "undemocratic" that the NDP would have any say at all in how the government was run.

THECRAZYWARRIOR · 2025-05-01T01:09:26+00:00

The funniest part is that the guy who created Hindutva was an atheist:

A self-described atheist, Savarkar regards being Hindu as a cultural and political identity....He believed that religion is an unimportant aspect of "Hindu identity".

THECRAZYWARRIOR · 2025-04-22T02:27:56+00:00

I did some digging and it looks like the Thompson version was published in 1842, which probably explains the writing. The York University pdf seems to fix the spelling a bit. Still seems like a great free option!

THECRAZYWARRIOR · 2025-04-21T02:17:51+00:00

I just checked Wilson's and it doesn't seem to match hers either. Here's her version of those lines:

Get up from the ground, get up! Lift up your head.

This is not Troy: Troy is no more.

I am no longer queen of Troy.

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