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Post by Push R Truth on Jun 6, 2011 12:05:25 GMT -5
Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?
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Post by bibboid on Jun 6, 2011 12:53:47 GMT -5
Both of the National Treasure movies made a mockery of American history.
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Post by potpie on Jun 6, 2011 13:49:07 GMT -5
Ninjas. Blatantly wrong. Ninja/shinobi/what-have-you were most of the time orphans or poor kids who grew up in a guild, much like geisha were. There were a great deal of ninja that were female (it's either that, or the whorehouse..I'd choose ninja too). They NEVER wore a sword on their backs- that was a change for the movies. In fact, ninja rarely if ever wore long swords, preferring cheaper, easily concealed weapons (like my favorite, the caltrop. My dog makes these out of done bone and drops them onto the carpet for me to step on in my bare feet). Ninja weren't flippy either. They were designed to come in, eliminate the target, and leave unnoticed. Thanks to Naruto, we got several kids and adults hoping to learn taijutsu and throw shurikens...and we just shake our heads. Some douche opened a ninjutsu school in our area although it was clear he didn't know the first thing about martial arts in general (the pot gut and the bad Japanese was a good indication).
Of course, we got just as many coots when Kill Bill and Last Samurai came out.
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Post by "The Rated XXX Superstar" Jed on Jun 6, 2011 17:32:31 GMT -5
A common misconception is that the South's reason for secession and beginning the civil war was mostly taxation, not slavery. However, when you read the several states' Ordinances of Secession, it becomes quite clear that their main gripe was the north interfering with their 'institutions', cheifly slavery.
From Mississippi's 'A Declaration of the Immediate Causes which Induce and Justify the Secession of the State of Mississippi from the Federal Union'
"Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery– the greatest material interest of the world."
"…a blow at slavery is a blow at commerce and civilization. That blow has been long aimed at the institution, and was at the point of reaching its consummation. There was no choice left us but submission to the mandates of abolition, or a dissolution of the Union, whose principles had been subverted to work out our ruin."
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Post by Confused Mark Wahlberg on Jun 6, 2011 17:37:31 GMT -5
George Washington did NOT invent break dancing.
If I see that in a movie one more time...
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Post by BorneAgain on Jun 6, 2011 17:56:03 GMT -5
I've met a ridiculous amount of people who seem woefully unaware of the role of the Soviet Union in the WWII. Taking into account that 7 out of 8 Germans were killed by the Red Army, that is absurd.
The sheer amount of in fighting between the various founding fathers generally is under taught. While brilliant compromises were reached (which Madison was the first to realize) a great deal of those involved walked away convinced the other side was completely destroying the young nation.
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Post by Koda, Master Crunchyroller on Jun 6, 2011 18:01:51 GMT -5
Ninjas. Blatantly wrong. Ninja/shinobi/what-have-you were most of the time orphans or poor kids who grew up in a guild, much like geisha were. There were a great deal of ninja that were female (it's either that, or the whorehouse..I'd choose ninja too). They NEVER wore a sword on their backs- that was a change for the movies. In fact, ninja rarely if ever wore long swords, preferring cheaper, easily concealed weapons (like my favorite, the caltrop. My dog makes these out of done bone and drops them onto the carpet for me to step on in my bare feet). Ninja weren't flippy either. They were designed to come in, eliminate the target, and leave unnoticed. Thanks to Naruto, we got several kids and adults hoping to learn taijutsu and throw shurikens...and we just shake our heads. Some douche opened a ninjutsu school in our area although it was clear he didn't know the first thing about martial arts in general (the pot gut and the bad Japanese was a good indication). Of course, we got just as many coots when Kill Bill and Last Samurai came out. And even what you said is kinda wrong. Most ninjas were actually samurai themselves. Hell the most famous ninja is also one of the most famous samurai ever, Hattori Hanzo. Plus ninjas were spies, not assassins. In fact there are hardly any recorded assassinations done by ninjas. They mostly dealt in doing espionage, scouting out enemy locations, gathering critical information through eavesdropping, and other things.
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Post by "Gentleman" AJ Powell on Jun 6, 2011 18:10:16 GMT -5
Ninjas. Blatantly wrong. Ninja/shinobi/what-have-you were most of the time orphans or poor kids who grew up in a guild, much like geisha were. There were a great deal of ninja that were female (it's either that, or the whorehouse..I'd choose ninja too). They NEVER wore a sword on their backs- that was a change for the movies. In fact, ninja rarely if ever wore long swords, preferring cheaper, easily concealed weapons (like my favorite, the caltrop. My dog makes these out of done bone and drops them onto the carpet for me to step on in my bare feet). Ninja weren't flippy either. They were designed to come in, eliminate the target, and leave unnoticed. Thanks to Naruto, we got several kids and adults hoping to learn taijutsu and throw shurikens...and we just shake our heads. Some douche opened a ninjutsu school in our area although it was clear he didn't know the first thing about martial arts in general (the pot gut and the bad Japanese was a good indication). Of course, we got just as many coots when Kill Bill and Last Samurai came out. And even what you said is kinda wrong. Most ninjas were actually samurai themselves. Hell the most famous ninja is also one of the most famous samurai ever, Hattori Hanzo. Plus ninjas were spies, not assassins. In fact there are hardly any recorded assassinations done by ninjas. They mostly dealt in doing espionage, scouting out enemy locations, gathering critical information through eavesdropping, and other things. They also never wore black pyjama suits & masks, preferring to wear normal civillian clothing, if anything normal clothing in a dark navy or black.
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Post by FinalGwen on Jun 6, 2011 18:11:42 GMT -5
Then there's Braveheart. I wish I still had the site, but I remember seeing a list of at least 20 details they completely botched in the first moments of the film alone. The geography makes no sense, the costumes are all wrong, and the timeline and events are warped beyond any recognition. If I recall correctly, the romantic lead in the movie would actually have been 10 at the time that William Wallace died, if she ever met him at all.
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Post by ThereIsNoAbsurdistOnlyZuul on Jun 7, 2011 1:06:17 GMT -5
And even what you said is kinda wrong. Most ninjas were actually samurai themselves. Hell the most famous ninja is also one of the most famous samurai ever, Hattori Hanzo. Plus ninjas were spies, not assassins. In fact there are hardly any recorded assassinations done by ninjas. They mostly dealt in doing espionage, scouting out enemy locations, gathering critical information through eavesdropping, and other things. They also never wore black pyjama suits & masks, preferring to wear normal civillian clothing, if anything normal clothing in a dark navy or black. Essentially organized espionage guilds. Though they did have their own fighting style, and such, but it wasn't mystical, and most of their weapons were "found." The hand claws that help them climb. Their short swords, that were designed to be tools as much as anything else. I mean, they were pragmatists. Which make sense given they were the intelligence arms of the lords. On that note: Knights and Samurai. And the idealization of them. In both cases the sense of "honor" that we all speak of them having was bull. The Bushido code was invented out of thin air in the early part of the 1900s to push an ideal of obedience on the populace. And Chivalry came about much later, as in the 1600s era, when guns were starting to come about. Knights and Samurai were the heavy calvary/badasses. The honor they did show was to whom they had fealty over, given that the peasant class were essentially serfs at worst, but distinctly possessed of less rights. Either could kill a peasant and have little to no reprisal.
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Post by Drillbit Taylor on Jun 7, 2011 1:20:52 GMT -5
What is commonly thought of as the Confederate flag...isn't. It's the flag of the Army of Northern Virginia. The actual flag of the Confederate States that flew in the capitol of Richmond, virginia is a blue background with a single star in the center nicknamed 'Ol' Dixie'. The single star, Bonnie Blue flag was never an official flag of the confederacy. The official one was the 3 horizontal bars with a blue feild on the left with a circle of stars representing the confederate states. But Bonnie, or as you call it the ol Dixie, was never an official flag.
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Post by hotshotalex on Jun 7, 2011 1:27:46 GMT -5
Mutants had no involvement in the Cold War.
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Post by Drillbit Taylor on Jun 7, 2011 1:34:21 GMT -5
I can't remember the specifics but I'm pretty sure that there were others that also did the famous "redcoats are coming!" midnight ride but Paul Revere has come to take sole credit for it, because his name rhymed in the poem that Longfellow(?) wrote. A guy by the name of Isreal Bissell did one. And it was a s*** TON longer than Paul's. Bissell's: 345 miles! Revere's went through three towns. But his and Dawes goal was less to warn everyone and more to make sure Sam Adams and other important figures got far enough out of dodge.
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Post by Koda, Master Crunchyroller on Jun 7, 2011 1:43:36 GMT -5
What is commonly thought of as the Confederate flag...isn't. It's the flag of the Army of Northern Virginia. The actual flag of the Confederate States that flew in the capitol of Richmond, virginia is a blue background with a single star in the center nicknamed 'Ol' Dixie'. The single star, Bonnie Blue flag was never an official flag of the confederacy. The official one was the 3 horizontal bars with a blue feild on the left with a circle of stars representing the confederate states. But Bonnie, or as you call it the ol Dixie, was never an official flag. Wasn't the flag everyone mistakes for the Confederate flag also flown as one of their naval flags?
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Post by Drillbit Taylor on Jun 7, 2011 2:03:17 GMT -5
The single star, Bonnie Blue flag was never an official flag of the confederacy. The official one was the 3 horizontal bars with a blue feild on the left with a circle of stars representing the confederate states. But Bonnie, or as you call it the ol Dixie, was never an official flag. Wasn't the flag everyone mistakes for the Confederate flag also flown as one of their naval flags? Yea, the St Andrews Cross started off as a navel flag.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Jun 7, 2011 6:51:30 GMT -5
Mutants had no involvement in the Cold War. If you can look at this man and claim there are no genetic anomolies going on here then I'm gonna have to call you a liar good sir.
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Post by Sir Woodrow on Jun 7, 2011 7:02:25 GMT -5
Albert Einstein did not invent Rock And Roll
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Post by Red Impact on Jun 7, 2011 7:25:46 GMT -5
Rudy, Remember the Titans and A League of their Own were all heavily fictionalized for dramatic license. Rudy in particular made the coach look like much more of a dick when he wasn't.
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Jun 7, 2011 8:07:49 GMT -5
The Patriot (mel Gibson) This was just offensive The Patriot does get some bonus points for being the first movie I remember to show that cannonballs bounce rather than explode.
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Post by Mozenrath on Jun 7, 2011 8:15:47 GMT -5
Mutants had no involvement in the Cold War. If you can look at this man and claim there are no genetic anomolies going on here then I'm gonna have to call you a liar good sir. Clearly he was misquoted, and actually said, "My mutant power is the ultimate aphrodisiac."
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