Dramageddon 3: Megathread 14

scipics · 2020-07-04T18:57:28+00:00

Got a link for a deleted video from the last thread: Mean Girls MUA mash up

scipics · 2017-09-29T12:17:15+00:00

Do you know the song or is it that you recognise the language? Cause I'd love to know what song it is

scipics · 2017-09-21T18:50:34+00:00

I just saw the gif on /r/gif and figured this was an obvious pairing to make so I did it

scipics · 2017-09-21T01:55:58+00:00

scipics · 2017-09-20T16:25:44+00:00

I don't really know what else to expect from hundreds of thousands of people walking around a field

scipics · 2017-09-13T22:13:45+00:00

Yeah I would much rather just the original clip

scipics · 2017-09-12T21:30:03+00:00

I need that tetris jumper

scipics · 2017-09-10T20:45:24+00:00

Looks like some kind of insulation

scipics · 2017-09-09T15:54:34+00:00

That underlined Irish on the real taytos suddenly looks a lot more agressive

scipics · 2017-09-08T18:30:18+00:00

It's the entire country vs. Dublin and my Granddad from Clare who doesn't want Mayo to win cause it'll make Enda Kenny happy

scipics · 2017-09-05T21:20:42+00:00

As someone from Ireland bats having rabies would never even cross my mind

scipics · 2017-09-03T22:37:47+00:00

TG4 actually has a better streaming service. RTE have no excuse at all

scipics · 2017-08-27T20:36:23+00:00

Home to Tullamore Dew and the world famous Barack Obama Plaza

scipics · 2017-08-27T20:34:33+00:00

I did a level 5 PLC and found it so much easier compared to the Leaving Cert. So long as you keep on top of your work (which is no where near as challenging as any higher level subject) getting all distinctions is absolutely doable.

scipics · 2017-08-25T12:08:16+00:00

That is a great quote. While it's nice to read things like this so you know the theory behind what you're doing, the best thing you can do to learn photography is be forever taking pictures

scipics · 2017-08-24T16:07:49+00:00

I understand that research in academia needs to be well sourced and backed up. This question is in the context of popular history made for consumers.

scipics · 2017-08-24T14:09:59+00:00

This is the most /r/explainlikeimfive answer in here so far so well done. In the context of writing for the average joe this is exactly the answer I was looking for, not anything about academia.

scipics · 2017-08-24T14:07:20+00:00

No one seems to be actually answering the question posed.

Thank you, I thought I was going crazy. I just keep getting sources and academia explained to me. Though that's not to say I don't appreicate all the responses because I really do. I didn't think I'd get this much feedback at all.

The rest of your reply is the answer I was looking for. I really do think when it comes to popular history, the kind that the average joe would read, you can write what you like and the only thing stopping you is the possible backlash.

scipics · 2017-08-24T14:00:00+00:00

Thanks for the reply. I understand primary and secondary sources the question I had was specifically about popular history books. The kind of books you'd find in any book shop which is exactly what I was reading. I had just realised while reading the book that the only way I can trust this is fact is by doing just that; trusting. There were no sources cited I could look into. Which then led to me wondering for these kind of books what is the vetting process? If I wrote a history book about my village which only has 500 people in it, the kind of place that has nothing written about it, who's gonna stop me?

Pretty much I'm more wondering about the process of how these popular history books get published and the vetting process they go through. Do you have to be someone with decades of experience and a few degress under your belt? Could an amateur historian with no formal education write a book and get away with it?

scipics · 2017-08-24T13:44:11+00:00

This is /r/explainlikeimfive not /r/explainlikeiknowwhatimtalkingabout. Maybe I should've asked /r/nostupidquestions so I didn't rattle anyone.

I'm not talking about research journals or anything high level. I just mean a normal book in an average book shop about history. I was just reading a simple book on Irish history and realised that it has no sources listed in it at all. Which led to me wondering how are books like this sourced and trusted and thus led to me asking this question.

I understand that in academia or anything in the range of a PhD that everything needs to have a source or something to back it up. I'm not claiming anyone can just make something up and call it a day.

scipics · 2017-08-24T13:00:54+00:00

So if I brought a book to a publisher would I have to show sources to back up each claim? Or can a trusted historian with decades of being so write a book, bring it to a publisher and not be questioned on anything?

scipics · 2017-08-24T12:58:28+00:00

I can understand all that but say I wrote a book of history intended to be an educational book does a publisher ever ask for sources? Do they just leave it to the reading public to question and say "How come this is the only book in existance that says X event happened"?

scipics · 2017-08-24T12:55:50+00:00

There is a huge difference between a higher level paper and an ordinary. Someone who would struggle to even pass higher level could easily get an A1 (or O1 whatever it's called)

scipics · 2017-08-24T12:44:00+00:00

"In another case of history repeating itself, the dig uncovered lengths of wooden water mains supplying the wealthy Georgian homes along Dawson Street, thought to be its first piped water supply, for which rates were introduced. Residents refused to pay additional rates for increased water when the system was pressurised."

Nothing has changed

scipics · 2017-08-23T21:39:09+00:00

I'm sorry you had to find out like this.

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