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Post by unc40 on May 16, 2021 20:51:47 GMT -5
Stella Liebeck, the lady who sued McDonald's over spilled hot coffee, was not out to make a quick buck but had every right to be angry at McDonald's.
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Post by jimmyjackezekiel on May 16, 2021 20:53:10 GMT -5
Mark Wahlberg was not a member of New Kids on the Block.
Linkara thoroughly debunked this.
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Post by Dub H on May 16, 2021 21:59:47 GMT -5
That The Wright Brother were to first to fly
They invented a freaking catapult.
Alberto Santos-Dumont is the man to truly fly first,he built the first flying machine
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Post by Sam Punk on May 16, 2021 22:07:51 GMT -5
Jackie Robinson was not the first AA MLB ballplayer.
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Post by Milkman Norm on May 16, 2021 22:47:58 GMT -5
Here’s another one: Nazi Germany was NOT the super-efficient, unified, making-the-trains-run-on-time machine it’s often depicted as. On top of all its other evils, it was super corrupt and disorganized, plagued by bureaucratic turf wars, and paralyzed at numerous steps by indecisiveness, incompetence, unclear directives, and people not knowing who was in charge of what. A lot of fiction imagines them establishing a moon base by the end of the 1950s or whatever if they had won the war, but that’s giving them way too much credit that they’d be able to get their crap together for once. Strictly an amateur historian who reads a lot, but I do think it's kind of tough to argue that between the Roman Empire and the modern United States than Nazi Germany wasn't the most efficient war machine on Earth. Best technology, best morale, best military minds. That they were able to steamroll a historic power like France, to the astonishment of the English, says volumes. They also had an almost unique advantage in the sense that there was never any significant domestic opposition to the war effort. Their downfall was in deciding to fight on two fronts against two superpowers, devoting inordinate resources to an extermination campaign that didn't benefit them militarily, and overestimating their ability to hold territory in the face of significant opposition. There was no major opposition because there couldn't be of course but at the same time wealthy & upper middle class Germans weren't really rah rah beyond a generic way. In part because why would you ask people to sacrifice if your propaganda says total victory is imminent, in part because the influence of the old conservative pre Nazi military order still had influence. Regardless of why Germany didn't get on Economic wartime footing & lost the advantage it had in production over the UK due to GDP alone pretty early in the war. Once Land Lease happened, and when the US joined the Allies the gap only grew.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on May 16, 2021 23:47:23 GMT -5
Myth - alcohol quickly burns off when cooking.
Fact - unless you're cooking it for around two hours, anywhere from 45%-95% of the drinks original alcohol content will still be found in the food, depending on the cooking method and other ingredients used.
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on May 16, 2021 23:55:27 GMT -5
That movie and comic obviously cared not about history But taking the queer out of the Spartans in a story should really have you asking yourself why the f*** you are writing about Spartans When you look at Frank Miller's other works that didn't delve into licensed properties, like Ronin, you get the idea that Miller was infatuated with romanticizing cultures by making them edgy and stoic, while tossing out the parts that made them weird or mundane. 300 was written SPECIFICALLY to be Spartan propaganda though. Which is why they don't wear armors the guy that betrayed them is a monstrous cretin and the Persians are all like superhumans... he was not being subtle with the idea... Zack Snyder seemingly missed that point... (surprisingly) as he added scenes that take place that break the flow of the story and the guy allegedly telling the story would have absolutely no idea about...
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Post by Sparvid on May 16, 2021 23:56:02 GMT -5
Strictly an amateur historian who reads a lot, but I do think it's kind of tough to argue that between the Roman Empire and the modern United States than Nazi Germany wasn't the most efficient war machine on Earth. Best technology, best morale, best military minds. That they were able to steamroll a historic power like France, to the astonishment of the English, says volumes. They also had an almost unique advantage in the sense that there was never any significant domestic opposition to the war effort. Their downfall was in deciding to fight on two fronts against two superpowers, devoting inordinate resources to an extermination campaign that didn't benefit them militarily, and overestimating their ability to hold territory in the face of significant opposition. There was also the part that Hitler started to micromanage the military's strategies more and more, despite not being a particularly good military commander, instead of leaving that to his generals.
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Post by Perd on May 16, 2021 23:56:26 GMT -5
Just finished a book about Columbine. The exchange, about god, between Cassie Bernal and Eric Harris never happened. That doesn’t make her death any less tragic or meaningful. But the thing most know about it, isn’t true.
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on May 16, 2021 23:57:49 GMT -5
Stella Liebeck, the lady who sued McDonald's over spilled hot coffee, was not out to make a quick buck but had every right to be angry at McDonald's. Yeah, the warning hot coffee on the cups and the rest fo the campaign was specifically designed to make it sound like a frivolous lawsuit. When it was anything but... hell Stella only wanted her medical bills payed... I do want to know why McDonald's lawyers after all the other burn suits they settled looked at the 70 year old grandmother and decided that this was the case to try.
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Post by Koda, Master Crunchyroller on May 16, 2021 23:58:45 GMT -5
Strictly an amateur historian who reads a lot, but I do think it's kind of tough to argue that between the Roman Empire and the modern United States than Nazi Germany wasn't the most efficient war machine on Earth. Best technology, best morale, best military minds. That they were able to steamroll a historic power like France, to the astonishment of the English, says volumes. They also had an almost unique advantage in the sense that there was never any significant domestic opposition to the war effort. Their downfall was in deciding to fight on two fronts against two superpowers, devoting inordinate resources to an extermination campaign that didn't benefit them militarily, and overestimating their ability to hold territory in the face of significant opposition. There was also the part that Hitler started to micromanage the military's strategies more and more, despite not being a particularly good military commander, instead of leaving that to his generals. And in fact a lot of the bumbling about they do, especially in the last year of the war, was because shit hit the fan but no one wanted to be the poor bastard who forcibly woke Hitler and caught his wrath, so they just kinda...waited for him to wake up, sometimes several hours after the fact.
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Post by darbus alan on May 17, 2021 0:08:48 GMT -5
Stella Liebeck, the lady who sued McDonald's over spilled hot coffee, was not out to make a quick buck but had every right to be angry at McDonald's. Yep, that's all through a McDonalds-invented misinformation campaign to win in the court of public opinion. They conveniently glossed over that the coffee Stella Liebeck was served was way too hot to be consumed, caused third degree burns, and required skin grafts and months of hospitalization.
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Post by WoodStoner1 on May 17, 2021 7:12:23 GMT -5
That Randy Savage story. You know the one. And yes, there's people out there who believe that.
I hear less of it these days, but back in the day...the belief that Johnny Storm was banned from SatAM TV in the 70s/80s (Fantastic Four '78, also apparently he was to have Firestar's place on the Amazing Friends) because TV execs were afraid kids would set themselves on fire.
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Post by Push R Truth on May 17, 2021 7:23:06 GMT -5
DX did not invade WCW with a tank.
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Post by Natural Born Farmer on May 17, 2021 7:23:46 GMT -5
Stella Liebeck, the lady who sued McDonald's over spilled hot coffee, was not out to make a quick buck but had every right to be angry at McDonald's. This is a good one. Third degree burns, to a really sensitive area of the body, to the tune of $40k in skin grafts, behind a known issue with the coffee. That was a completely legitimate lawsuit, and she STILL only asked for Mickey D's to cover her medical expenses initially.
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Post by Feyrhausen on May 17, 2021 7:35:29 GMT -5
Nobody in Christopher Columbus’s time believed the world was flat. Everybody knew the world was round: the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and other ancient civilizations had already figured this out by studying astronomy and following the curvature of the stars. People just (quite reasonably) believed he was a death-wish having idiot who had no way of knowing how big the Atlantic Ocean was if he sailed westward to try to get to Asia, and very likely could’ve just sailed out into an endless ocean until he and his crew starved to death. The fact that he bumped into the Americas was sheer dumb luck. Thing was the educated of the time had a pretty accurate idea of how big the world was. So sailing west was a death sentence. Columbus believed all their estimation was wrong and the world was smaller. And they would have starved to death if they didnt have the dumb luck to find the Americas.
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Post by Natural Born Farmer on May 17, 2021 7:51:42 GMT -5
Speaking of the American Revolution, I distinctly remember being taught in school that the British were stupid for fighting in formation and wearing bright red coats, whereas the Americans were smart for not wearing uniforms and using guerrilla tactics.
At a time when weapons were really inaccurate and battles still often came down to a calvary charge, fighting in formation was the smartest way to maximize the effectiveness of ballistic weapons, and wearing bright clothing helped the guy next to you tell if you were friend or foe.
It's telling that as soon as they had the resources the Americans started doing exactly the same thing.
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on May 17, 2021 7:54:16 GMT -5
Stella Liebeck, the lady who sued McDonald's over spilled hot coffee, was not out to make a quick buck but had every right to be angry at McDonald's. That case is very useful. If someone cites that as an example of a frivolous lawsuit I know I can just disregard the rest of what they are saying.
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Post by Milkman Norm on May 17, 2021 8:49:51 GMT -5
Back to the WW 2 era: Chamberlin appeased Hitler in 1938 because he took him at his word. By 1938 Hitler's desire to fight another major war was well known, and the Nazi's were much better prepared in '38 then the British or French. By giving Hitler what he asked for Chamberlin caught Hitler off guard, who was assuming diplomatic talks would end & he would have his excuse to start a war. The UK used the following 14 months or so ramping up production. The failures of 1940 had more to do with poor strategic planning between the Allies, not a lack of resources. This would have not have been the case in a war in 1938.
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2021 9:48:49 GMT -5
Something something something current politics.
Something something something dark.
Something something something complete.
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