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[–] DarkMessiah 141 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dunno where I was expecting that to go, but it was not where it ended up going. It’s actually hilarious.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago

I did a really stupid laugh at the punchline at like 1am, but thankfully nobody woke up from it.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It would be nice to have elected officials who were born after the Battle of the Bulge.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not american so the only Bulge I know is the one that furrys like to nuzzle

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

only americans know about world war 2

[–] Pirasp 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

More like: Only Americans get taught so much about specific battles in school. Elsewhere the focus for WW2 lies more on what led to it and the like.

[–] VinnieFarsheds 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes. The reason I learned about the Battle of the Bulge is from Battlefield 1942, not school.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I learned way more history from video games then I ever learned from school

[–] Pirasp 1 points 1 year ago

And I, not enjoying realistic historic shooters that much, have probably never learned anything about WW2 from videogames.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

my school didn't even focus on the battles besides a very basic timeline, no excuse

[–] Pirasp 1 points 1 year ago

Honestly, for you it may seem that way. For me other things you might have very little to no knowledge about seem like basic things everyone should know. It just so happens, that I don't specifically enjoy learning about moments in time where we were particularly intent on killing each other. My interest in history tends to be at the same time larger and smaller in scale, either following specific people or society in general.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

which is what matters. americans seem to only learn about america-centric subjects and it shows

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I don't remember learning much about the Battle of the Bulge in school, except for the fact that it happened.

My great uncle fought in the Battle of the Bulge, and he is who I learned all about it.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

For those who don’t want to use Imgur or deal with the data here is the video/gifv

https://files.catbox.moe/hao16o.mp4

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Imgur sucks completely, and doesnt work without enabling Javascript from like 10 origins. Mind sharing the actual image?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

Mind-sharing would be really nice.

[–] StewartGilligan 9 points 1 year ago

They got us in the first half. Not gonna lie.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

What is this from?