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Re: Saras Fun History Fact of the Day. [Re: mpd]
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Re: Saras Fun History Fact of the Day. [Re: Repertoire89]
#19013452 - 10/22/13 12:15 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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on this day in 2012, i started to get freaked out every time i saw this one guys avatar
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Re: Saras Fun History Fact of the Day. [Re: hidenseek1]
#19013738 - 10/22/13 01:15 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Hey! That's not nice. Let's get together for brunch. As you can see I have the choppers for a great steak and eggs and anything else!
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#19013912 - 10/22/13 02:03 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Here is an interesting tid bit of history:
During the cold war we needed recon drones to survey their weapons cache etc. So in order for the U.s. space engineers make the SR-71 Blackbird, We had to buy All the titanium FROM the Russian. We had fake companies we used to buy the titanium right out from the soviets noses
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need moar fun fakt
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Re: Saras Fun History Fact of the Day. [Re: dontknow] 4
#19014180 - 10/22/13 03:19 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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hahaha this thread is a sticky ahahahahaha
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#19014587 - 10/22/13 04:48 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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You're mom is a sticky.
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#19014598 - 10/22/13 04:50 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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i bet andy did it right?
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Re: Saras Fun History Fact of the Day. [Re: SARAtonin] 2
#19014860 - 10/22/13 05:37 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Day 25:
Demise of the East Indian Trading Company:

If you know anything about history at it's time you're going to know a thing or two about the East Indian Trading Company, and if not I'm sure movies such as Pirates of the Caribbean must have brought them to your attention. This trading organization, headed out of Britain was once a trading tycoon much like what we might associate with Wal-Mart today. They had so much wealth that they were able to pay the soldiers in their own private army more then the soldiers of the British army, the largest force in the world to fuck with at the time.
With this army they decided to conquer India, lets just think about how weird that is for a second; imagine Wal-Mart deciding to invade Canada. When they arrived in India they were greeted by a peoples greatly divided into different tribes, which they used to their advantage. They would side with a tribe, then participate in the tribal warfare. They did this until they controlled all of India.
As you might guess, there was obviously some resistance from native Indians. What the British did to deal with this was to create different squads comprised of mostly Hindus, but also quite a few follows of Islam. They would send over fresh British recruits to India with generals rank and pay ti preside over the native Indians acting as the head of their unit. The reason they payed them so much, was that it was basically assured that the British would die after a few months of living in India, this was due to sicknesses and shit that the Indians were immune to.
Everything was going along smoothly until the worlds wax market plummeted overnight. The soldiers of the East Indian Trading Company stored their gunpowder in bags that they would soak in wax to make them water proof. The soldier would bite open the bag, then poor the gunpowder into their gun, so for each shot you fired you needed a different bag. Deciding to save some money because the price of wax was so high, they switch the wax with pigs fat. I'm sure some of you are already beginning to see what the problem here was.
As most of you know, Muslims are not allowed to eat pork as they find it to be a filthy animal. So when they switched to bees wax, all of a sudden all of the Muslims would no longer fight. This became so much of an issue that the commanding Brit would go around during battle executing all the Muslims that refused to fight.
The East Indian Trading Company decided that this was too much of a problem and decided to switch again. The price of wax was still threw the room, so that was out of the question, so their brilliant solution?! Cows fat! Some serious red flags should be going up for you here people, just as the Muslims are not allowed to eat pigs, Hindus do not eat cow believing them to be holy. Now what a lot of the Muslims willing to fight for you killed off, having all the Hindus not fighting takes the EITC out of the frying pan and into the fire. They relived the error they made too late, and eventually these two simple things caused the fall of one of the biggest trading tycoons that history has ever seen.
This right here is just one of many examples of why history proves to us the Brits are just an incredibly dimwitted group of peoples. (It's funny because it's true.)
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Re: Saras Fun History Fact of the Day. [Re: SARAtonin]
#19015083 - 10/22/13 06:14 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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sara can you paraphrase more so people like me are able to enjoy history
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Re: Saras Fun History Fact of the Day. [Re: SARAtonin]
#19015168 - 10/22/13 06:29 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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 It sucks for all those people who got executed and killed in war and all that, but it's still a really funny story. Thanks for posting!
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Re: Saras Fun History Fact of the Day. [Re: SARAtonin]
#19015302 - 10/22/13 06:49 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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That kind of outlines the ignorance of the ruling class in a lot of socieities, they knew so little about the people they were ruling that it came to that.
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#19015471 - 10/22/13 07:13 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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mpd said: On this day in 2012 I joined the Shroomery as a member.
That was the same day the shroomery started to suck a lot more.
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Re: Saras Fun History Fact of the Day. [Re: fapjack]
#19016814 - 10/22/13 10:48 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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haha fuck. I wish we didn't have the union jack on our flag.
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Re: Saras Fun History Fact of the Day. [Re: xanderofpella]
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xanderofpella said: i bet andy did it right?
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Re: Saras Fun History Fact of the Day. [Re: Constantine]
#19017613 - 10/23/13 04:40 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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What in the world would possibly make you think that!
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Re: Saras Fun History Fact of the Day. [Re: fapjack]
#19017917 - 10/23/13 08:24 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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mpd said: On this day in 2012 I joined the Shroomery as a member.
That was the same day the shroomery started to suck a lot more.
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#19018203 - 10/23/13 09:56 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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WOW AMAZING WOW
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#19019096 - 10/23/13 12:12 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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elborito said: haha fuck. I wish we didn't have the union jack on our flag.
HaHa. The fuck. If you didn't you-or your forebears-would probably be wishing you did. Look at the other major European powers that were busy colonising the world at the time, apart from the British.
Would you have preferred the Spanish, or Portuguese? Really? Look at the countries that make up the southern part of the American continent all the way from Mexico down to Argentina and Chile, for the sort of tin-pot military dictatorships and tyrannies that you may have born into. Countries that even with their vast natural resources are only just emerging from the quagmire of their heritage.
Then. Thank the fuckin dog that you're country was claimed by the British, and that you were fortunate enough to inherit, not only a democratic constitutional monarchy-that your country is free to drop at any time by voting to become a republic-but, English as your spoken languageya furkin ingrate. /rant.
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Re: Saras Fun History Fact of the Day. [Re: deucedbi9]
#19019404 - 10/23/13 01:34 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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