I'm reading a book from the 30s and it has phrases like: "in the time after the war". It's written in 1937 and hits differently in hindsight.
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They called WWI "the war to end all wars". Then humanity developed its interest in sequels.
Yes, the "second war to end all wars" and the "cold war that only gets hot in the periphery"
Nukes are about the only reason we haven't made it a trilogy.
It'll be the last one in the franchise if they do.
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Typical holywood and their sequels. Just pray they don't remember to retrofit a prequel in there.
WWII wasn't even really a sequel - it's more of a classic reboot. It's almost exactly the same story as the first one, just with a few twists like Japan and the atomic bomb ending thrown in.
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Wow, that truly is my favorite part of reading/watching old media. I love learning how people thought back then.
People in November 2019: "Next year is my year!"
Little did we know.
Eventually they’ll be a bigger pandemic and all this post pandemic talk will be seen in the same light
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He also talks about unemployment rates in Britain and "unless a war is coming soon" many people will stay underfed. Maybe the British proletariat is behind WWII?
Edit: Since I'm downvoted: the last sentence was a joke, obviously
Pro tip for time travelers, ask what year it is instead. So much easier. It's weird to ask, or be asked, but it's less weird tham giving spoilers.
What year and country am I in?
Russia, 1917.
Unfortunately that doesn’t narrow down much except really telling you to get anywhere else asap
Easier? Yes. More fun? No.
As long as you are someplace and time where they use the Gregorian calendar
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"Ah yes, the start of World War 1."
"World War what now?"
Would you even need to ask? What with the trenches and mustard gas everywhere?
They did still have trenches and other fortifications in WW2. That said...
- Do you see any tanks traveling faster than 15mph? Any planes with less than four wings?
- WW2
- Mustaches? Waxed?
- WW1
- Folks with gas masks on their belts are definitely a tell.
yeah, no, gas masks were carried in ww2. some poor bastards (depending on unit) carried them all the way through the war. promask carriers were a choice bit of storage room if you decided to lose the mask, but early on lots of folks worried that it would be used on the battlefield again.
plenty of discussion on this with a quick search
Why would he even ask if it's 1 or 2, just ask the year.
Ground so dangerous you couldn't walk offinto the fields. So many shells fired it turn the soil into quick sand. Stick to the boards. If you slip and fall your compatriots dare not try and save you or their fate will be sealed as well.
So many shells fired it turn the soil into quick sand.
An interesting stat is that the major combatants fired approximately 300 artillery shells for every soldier that was killed - and 75mm shells (the most common caliber) are not trivial industrial products to produce. It's hard to even conceive of an industrial society devoting that much productive capacity to the task of killing somebody.
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I too have seen that scene from Doctor Who.
Spoilers
That hit surprisingly hard and unexpectedly. I don't remember any of the rest of that episode, but I remember that tiny bit very clearly.
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"But... but... they told us it's the "War To End All Wars!""
I think I saw on QI that WWI was already being called that before the war had ended.
People at the time knew there would probably be another one someday.
Which isn't that odd, really. We use the Term WWIII at times. It's not that we know it will definitely happen but it's not something that's unfathomable either.
I've always heard it was called the Great War.
You heard correct. I have never heard any contemporary account from the time call it "WW1" - they did call it "the war to end all wars," though.
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Really? That would be an extremely concerning thing to hear anyone say back then.
"Great" did not automatically imply "good" back then - just big.
Good point. Of course, with the number of nuclear war-heads we've built, I would feel pretty confident referring to it as "World War Final".
I actually usually just refer to it as "our extinction event". But I'll acknowledge I'm going out on a limb - there's plenty of other ways we could finish ourselves off.
"It sure isn't ww3, I don't see any drones"
And it's not ww4 because I don't see any weapons made from sticks or stone.
I think the fifth one was the best.
Imo they ran out of ideas during the third and from then on it was just a cash grab. Creativity really is dead
There's only so much you can do in radioactive wasteland.
What weapons did they fight that with?
Well, number four was with sticks and stones. For five they didn't have sticks any more.
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not General Angle!
"Nice shotgun! That'll really get the German's riled up."
That image of Kurt Angle will never stop being hilarious to me. God I love that man.
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Neither.
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