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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Winston Churchill. .not a great academic or even a great soldier..had several disasters in his early military career..but was destined to be a great leader of his country for which he is now remembered. |
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By *nigmatic1Woman
over a year ago
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"Winston Churchill. .not a great academic or even a great soldier..had several disasters in his early military career..but was destined to be a great leader of his country for which he is now remembered."
The famous quote....Madame, I can lose weight but in the morning you will still be ugly!! Hehehe go Winston!! |
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By *emmefatale OP Woman
over a year ago
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"I find notorious people intersting. I'd love to know what make/made them tick etcInfamous rather than famous people then? Like?
Yes, spot on"
Serial killers etc, I like to explore the dark side of the human psyche,so I totally agree.  |
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Have always been curious about Hitler and his thinking. I started to read Mein Kempf in an attempt to understand his warped _iews on the perfect race etc. A very difficult read. |
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"I find notorious people intersting. I'd love to know what make/made them tick etcInfamous rather than famous people then? Like?
Yes, spot onSerial killers etc, I like to explore the dark side of the human psyche,so I totally agree. "
Definitely serial killers, were they just born to kill or did some chain of events lead them down the path they set upon. Much more fascinating than people that are famous for just being famous. |
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By *nigmatic1Woman
over a year ago
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"Have always been curious about Hitler and his thinking. I started to read Mein Kempf in an attempt to understand his warped _iews on the perfect race etc. A very difficult read."
I can imagine it was...what was Anne Frank thinking of?? Lol |
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By *B9 QueenWoman
over a year ago
Over the rainbow, under the bridge |
"I actually found hitler and his aryan beliefs quite interesting!  I think quite a lot of people do.
Oh to get in his head for a few hours.... "
I'm more interested in Himmler - the actual architect of the Holocaust, closely followed by Heydrich and Eichman. |
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By *B9 QueenWoman
over a year ago
Over the rainbow, under the bridge |
"I actually found hitler and his aryan beliefs quite interesting! I think quite a lot of people do.
Oh to get in his head for a few hours.... "
I'm more interested in Himmler - the actual architect of the Holocaust, closely followed by Heydrich and Eichman. |
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I love eccentricity... especially when it's inadvertent. There are really so many of these... but for the purpose of this thread I'll pick Lieutenant General Paul Van Riper.
He was part of the biggest war game of all time called "Millenium Challenge". It was intended as a pre-run of the invasion of Iraq. Mr Van Riper was given the task of being Saddam. He decided that technology was the US armies strength so he would send all communications by word of mouth. Due to this and other well thought out strategies he succeeded in destroying the majority of the US invading navy forces so badly that the game was halted and the navy was refloated lol. Then the army kept on giving him constraints that he found ways out of and majorly damaging them until eventually the army took over his command and started deliberately loosing the war game for him lol ... so he walked out.
That guy was just too good at being Saddam   |
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Charles Darwin! Love nature programmes and would love to have been around in those days to find and watch all those new species and try to work them all out.
Or Leonardo da Vinci he was amazing. |
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By *emmefatale OP Woman
over a year ago
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"Charles Darwin! Love nature programmes and would love to have been around in those days to find and watch all those new species and try to work them all out.
Or Leonardo da Vinci he was amazing. "
Good call on both counts! |
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"Serial killers etc, I like to explore the dark side of the human psyche,so I totally agree. "
Whohooo, someone I can talk to at least!
I have great interest in twisted minds, I have watched and read tones of stuff.
What is your favorite serial killer?
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By *emmefatale OP Woman
over a year ago
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"Personally I think Hiter's mind is not that interesting. Boring, stupid, close minded, focused on one -two things.
Very probobly without sex life at all.
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There is much speculation and discussion, and quite a few book on that subject alone. |
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"Personally I think Hiter's mind is not that interesting. Boring, stupid, close minded, focused on one -two things.
Very probobly without sex life at all.
There is much speculation and discussion, and quite a few book on that subject alone. "
Agreed. That is just my opinion, after seeing and reading quite lot of stuff. |
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By *qua vitaeWoman
over a year ago
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"Have always been curious about Hitler and his thinking. I started to read Mein Kempf in an attempt to understand his warped _iews on the perfect race etc. A very difficult read.
I can imagine it was...what was Anne Frank thinking of?? Lol "
Learning from the British scientists and politicans about eugenics and their use of concentration camps in South Africa, followed by America. The Nazis just happened to organise things that much better...  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Winston Churchill. .not a great academic or even a great soldier..had several disasters in his early military career..but was destined to be a great leader of his country for which he is now remembered.
The famous quote....Madame, I can lose weight but in the morning you will still be ugly!! Hehehe go Winston!! "
Don't think he said he could lose weight, think it was to do with him being d*unk and he said that he might be d*unk now but in the morning he would be sober but she would still be ugly. |
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Learning from the British scientists and politicans about eugenics and their use of concentration camps in South Africa, followed by America. The Nazis just happened to organise things that much better... "
Yep. All the concentration camps and the gas chambers was one great example of perfect organization. |
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Learning from the British scientists and politicans about eugenics and their use of concentration camps in South Africa, followed by America. The Nazis just happened to organise things that much better...
Yep. All the concentration camps and the gas chambers was one great example of perfect organization."
Just to be clear, you are being sarcastic otherwise that is one of the most crass and offensive comments I have seen on here. |
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Learning from the British scientists and politicans about eugenics and their use of concentration camps in South Africa, followed by America. The Nazis just happened to organise things that much better...
Yep. All the concentration camps and the gas chambers was one great example of perfect organization.
Just to be clear, you are being sarcastic otherwise that is one of the most crass and offensive comments I have seen on here."
Well guess? I live in Poland when all those take place.
And I find disgraceful someone saying Nazis was so great organized, when all we know what were their goals. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"commander data
From star trek?? Thought he was a leiutenant? "
You're both sort of correct - his final rank was Lieutenant Commander 
IMO, Leonardo DaVinci was probably the most interesting and enigmatic person in history. |
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"In your opinion, and why?
Cleopatra or Alexander, so much bigger in life and what life offered then, but they went beyond themselves  "
I'd like to have a chat with cleopatra's sister, arsinoe. In the fight for the throne, arsinoe actually defeated Julius Caesar in battle at the lighthouse. Quite a good strategist, she was. |
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Learning from the British scientists and politicans about eugenics and their use of concentration camps in South Africa, followed by America. The Nazis just happened to organise things that much better...
Yep. All the concentration camps and the gas chambers was one great example of perfect organization.
Just to be clear, you are being sarcastic otherwise that is one of the most crass and offensive comments I have seen on here.
Well guess? I live in Poland when all those take place.
And I find disgraceful someone saying Nazis was so great organized, when all we know what were their goals."
The poster used this -  - which I take to mean they were being sarcastic.  |
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"In your opinion, and why?
Cleopatra or Alexander, so much bigger in life and what life offered then, but they went beyond themselves
I'd like to have a chat with cleopatra's sister, arsinoe. In the fight for the throne, arsinoe actually defeated Julius Caesar in battle at the lighthouse. Quite a good strategist, she was. "
but wasn't she killed by Cleopatra? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Jesus Christ... Because they count years according to his birth... How cool is that? BC and AC... how epic must you be for historians to decide counting years according to your birth? |
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By *iguy39Man
over a year ago
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Da Vincini. An absolute genius. Not for his art but for his science. He understood the workings of the human heart 3 hundred years before medical science caught up. He had an anstonishing mind. |
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"Jesus Christ... Because they count years according to his birth... How cool is that? BC and AC... how epic must you be for historians to decide counting years according to your birth? "
Lol, cool, didn't want to mention hime arlier as thought some may have gotten on high horses, but how about Adam or Eve, timeless? |
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"Da Vincini. An absolute genius. Not for his art but for his science. He understood the workings of the human heart 3 hundred years before medical science caught up. He had an anstonishing mind."
And even foresaw the helicopter? Amazing man in all hid did! |
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Elizabeth 1st. She was a woman in a position of power in a man's world, her father disowned her, then recognised her as legitimate, he had her mother beheaded and her half sister had her imprisoned in the tower. When she took the throne the country was in a bad way financially when she died it was doing very well. I would love to spend an hour in her company if I could stand the smell. |
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"Jesus Christ... Because they count years according to his birth... How cool is that? BC and AC... how epic must you be for historians to decide counting years according to your birth?
Lol, cool, didn't want to mention hime arlier as thought some may have gotten on high horses, but how about Adam or Eve, timeless?"
You are joking, right? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Spiderman!
He was bitten by a spider and developed spider-like abilities. How cool is that?!
Well if Jesus is allowed then I think other characters from books and comics should be too... |
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"Jesus Christ... Because they count years according to his birth... How cool is that? BC and AC... how epic must you be for historians to decide counting years according to your birth?
Lol, cool, didn't want to mention hime arlier as thought some may have gotten on high horses, but how about Adam or Eve, timeless?
You are joking, right?"
yep sure am , the clue was in the word "timeless" |
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"I actually found hitler and his aryan beliefs quite interesting! Apart from the beliefs being vile and inhuman shite?"
People seem to be ignoring the word interesting, am sure the OP will find this very funny, I know I do, seems posters are taking offence that others find a figure interesting and perhaps assume they like them, ... there is a wide difference in finding interesting and liking!
Read history and learn springs to mind, if you don't read you won't learn...
therefore interest is not admiring IMHO!  |
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"I actually found hitler and his aryan beliefs quite interesting! Apart from the beliefs being vile and inhuman shite?
People seem to be ignoring the word interesting, am sure the OP will find this very funny, I know I do, seems posters are taking offence that others find a figure interesting and perhaps assume they like them, ... there is a wide difference in finding interesting and liking!
Read history and learn springs to mind, if you don't read you won't learn...
therefore interest is not admiring IMHO! "
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"I actually found hitler and his aryan beliefs quite interesting! Apart from the beliefs being vile and inhuman shite?
People seem to be ignoring the word interesting, am sure the OP will find this very funny, I know I do, seems posters are taking offence that others find a figure interesting and perhaps assume they like them, ... there is a wide difference in finding interesting and liking!
Read history and learn springs to mind, if you don't read you won't learn...
therefore interest is not admiring IMHO! "
I used the phrase "apart from" Interesting apart from! Just read springs to mind or engage your brain before putting your mouth in gear? |
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"I actually found hitler and his aryan beliefs quite interesting! Apart from the beliefs being vile and inhuman shite?
People seem to be ignoring the word interesting, am sure the OP will find this very funny, I know I do, seems posters are taking offence that others find a figure interesting and perhaps assume they like them, ... there is a wide difference in finding interesting and liking!
Read history and learn springs to mind, if you don't read you won't learn...
therefore interest is not admiring IMHO! I used the phrase "apart from" Interesting apart from! Just read springs to mind or engage your brain before putting your mouth in gear?"
Or you yours as the comment was most certainly not directed to you! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I actually found hitler and his aryan beliefs quite interesting! Apart from the beliefs being vile and inhuman shite?"
"Much can be learned from the mind of a madman."
Sigmund Freud |
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"I actually found hitler and his aryan beliefs quite interesting! Apart from the beliefs being vile and inhuman shite?
People seem to be ignoring the word interesting, am sure the OP will find this very funny, I know I do, seems posters are taking offence that others find a figure interesting and perhaps assume they like them, ... there is a wide difference in finding interesting and liking!
Read history and learn springs to mind, if you don't read you won't learn...
therefore interest is not admiring IMHO! I used the phrase "apart from" Interesting apart from! Just read springs to mind or engage your brain before putting your mouth in gear?
Or you yours as the comment was most certainly not directed to you! "
Sorry, I meant to highlight another posts or 3 but quoted you. Humble pie!  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I actually found hitler and his aryan beliefs quite interesting! Apart from the beliefs being vile and inhuman shite?
"Much can be learned from the mind of a madman."
Sigmund Freud"
Like how not to do it again? |
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"I actually found hitler and his aryan beliefs quite interesting! Apart from the beliefs being vile and inhuman shite?
"Much can be learned from the mind of a madman."
Sigmund FreudLike how not to do it again?"
Or how to recognise similar traits in others who have the ability and/or power to do it again, and stop it before it happens. Knowledge is never dangerous, just its application. |
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"In your opinion, and why?
Cleopatra or Alexander, so much bigger in life and what life offered then, but they went beyond themselves
I'd like to have a chat with cleopatra's sister, arsinoe. In the fight for the throne, arsinoe actually defeated Julius Caesar in battle at the lighthouse. Quite a good strategist, she was.
but wasn't she killed by Cleopatra?"
They aren't sure. They think she was taken to a temple in turkey and held there for a time. |
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"In your opinion, and why?
Cleopatra or Alexander, so much bigger in life and what life offered then, but they went beyond themselves
I'd like to have a chat with cleopatra's sister, arsinoe. In the fight for the throne, arsinoe actually defeated Julius Caesar in battle at the lighthouse. Quite a good strategist, she was.
but wasn't she killed by Cleopatra?
They aren't sure. They think she was taken to a temple in turkey and held there for a time. "
I always thought Cleopatra ordered her death, by Mark Anthony at the Temple of Artemis, 41 b.c? |
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"Henry the 8th was interesting in a sense that why would he have his wives executed...strange times I guess "
He couldn't divorce them and re-marry but if they died and he was a widow he.was in the clear |
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"Henry the 8th was interesting in a sense that why would he have his wives executed...strange times I guess
He couldn't divorce them and re-marry but if they died and he was a widow he.was in the clear "
Ahh right never thought of that doh but still think he was mad in his method |
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"In your opinion, and why?
Cleopatra or Alexander, so much bigger in life and what life offered then, but they went beyond themselves
I'd like to have a chat with cleopatra's sister, arsinoe. In the fight for the throne, arsinoe actually defeated Julius Caesar in battle at the lighthouse. Quite a good strategist, she was.
but wasn't she killed by Cleopatra?
They aren't sure. They think she was taken to a temple in turkey and held there for a time.
I always thought Cleopatra ordered her death, by Mark Anthony at the Temple of Artemis, 41 b.c?"
Yeah, but they discovered some things that hint that she was taken as a prisoner to a temple in turkey, though i can't think of the name for the life of me, and eventually died there years later probably as an execution. |
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"In your opinion, and why?
Cleopatra or Alexander, so much bigger in life and what life offered then, but they went beyond themselves
I'd like to have a chat with cleopatra's sister, arsinoe. In the fight for the throne, arsinoe actually defeated Julius Caesar in battle at the lighthouse. Quite a good strategist, she was.
but wasn't she killed by Cleopatra?
They aren't sure. They think she was taken to a temple in turkey and held there for a time.
I always thought Cleopatra ordered her death, by Mark Anthony at the Temple of Artemis, 41 b.c?
Yeah, but they discovered some things that hint that she was taken as a prisoner to a temple in turkey, though i can't think of the name for the life of me, and eventually died there years later probably as an execution. "
see my comment above ;-0 |
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"In your opinion, and why?
Cleopatra or Alexander, so much bigger in life and what life offered then, but they went beyond themselves
I'd like to have a chat with cleopatra's sister, arsinoe. In the fight for the throne, arsinoe actually defeated Julius Caesar in battle at the lighthouse. Quite a good strategist, she was.
but wasn't she killed by Cleopatra?
They aren't sure. They think she was taken to a temple in turkey and held there for a time.
I always thought Cleopatra ordered her death, by Mark Anthony at the Temple of Artemis, 41 b.c?
Yeah, but they discovered some things that hint that she was taken as a prisoner to a temple in turkey, though i can't think of the name for the life of me, and eventually died there years later probably as an execution.
see my comment above ;-0"
Cool. I'm too tired to process, sorry. Researching for essays turns my brain to mush |
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"Winston Churchill. .not a great academic or even a great soldier..had several disasters in his early military career..but was destined to be a great leader of his country for which he is now remembered.
The famous quote....Madame, I can lose weight but in the morning you will still be ugly!! Hehehe go Winston!!
Don't think he said he could lose weight, think it was to do with him being d*unk and he said that he might be d*unk now but in the morning he would be sober but she would still be ugly."
It was to lady Aster, who said "sir you are d*unk" to which he replied "yes madam, but in the morning I will be sober, but you will still be ugly" My Hero. And as I said in a previous thread, without the likes of him, our national anthem would be, Deutschland Deutschland Uber alles |
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By *B9 QueenWoman
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Learning from the British scientists and politicans about eugenics and their use of concentration camps in South Africa, followed by America. The Nazis just happened to organise things that much better...
Yep. All the concentration camps and the gas chambers was one great example of perfect organization."
The English 'concentration camps' were very poorly run internment camps which were part of the 'scorched earth' policy of the second Boer War. They were not a deliberate attempt at genocide.
Germany's treatment of the Herero and Nama people, however, in around 1904, was part of a deliberate policy of genocide.
Sorry, just thought it was an interesting historical fact. |
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"In your opinion, and why?
Cleopatra or Alexander, so much bigger in life and what life offered then, but they went beyond themselves
I'd like to have a chat with cleopatra's sister, arsinoe. In the fight for the throne, arsinoe actually defeated Julius Caesar in battle at the lighthouse. Quite a good strategist, she was.
but wasn't she killed by Cleopatra?
They aren't sure. They think she was taken to a temple in turkey and held there for a time.
I always thought Cleopatra ordered her death, by Mark Anthony at the Temple of Artemis, 41 b.c?
Yeah, but they discovered some things that hint that she was taken as a prisoner to a temple in turkey, though i can't think of the name for the life of me, and eventually died there years later probably as an execution. "
As above..Temple of Artemis. 41b.c |
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"Winston Churchill. .not a great academic or even a great soldier..had several disasters in his early military career..but was destined to be a great leader of his country for which he is now remembered."
Actually we were probably lucky he spent most of the war pissed off his head with other advisors making most of the decisions. As you said yourself....when he actually made decisions (eg Galipoli, Dardanelles etc he was a feckin disaster). How he was trusted with a wheelbarrow after that God only knows....oh yes...it was hi snobby family connections!
Got to be the most over-rated so called "great Person" ever. |
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"Winston Churchill. .not a great academic or even a great soldier..had several disasters in his early military career..but was destined to be a great leader of his country for which he is now remembered.
Actually we were probably lucky he spent most of the war pissed off his head with other advisors making most of the decisions. As you said yourself....when he actually made decisions (eg Galipoli, Dardanelles etc he was a feckin disaster). How he was trusted with a wheelbarrow after that God only knows....oh yes...it was hi snobby family connections!
Got to be the most over-rated so called "great Person" ever."
I didn't think he came up with the ideas just approved or turned then down after advice to you are well off the mark there. Did he keep the morale of the nation up? Well the history books say so and I would think there are many others more greatly overrated. |
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Aristotle..... Had his head propa screwed on for sure... Like his quotes too, as well as ancient Greek philosophy , making contributions to logic, metaphysics, mathematics, physics, biology, botany, ethics , politics, agriculture, medicine, dance and theatre... interesting for sure |
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"Aristotle..... Had his head propa screwed on for sure... Like his quotes too, as well as ancient Greek philosophy , making contributions to logic, metaphysics, mathematics, physics, biology, botany, ethics , politics, agriculture, medicine, dance and theatre... interesting for sure "
Ahh, but could he tell a good joke ? |
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"Aristotle..... Had his head propa screwed on for sure... Like his quotes too, as well as ancient Greek philosophy , making contributions to logic, metaphysics, mathematics, physics, biology, botany, ethics , politics, agriculture, medicine, dance and theatre... interesting for sure
Ahh, but could he tell a good joke ?"
with such an excellent mind , no doubt there was space for humour too! |
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"Aristotle..... Had his head propa screwed on for sure... Like his quotes too, as well as ancient Greek philosophy , making contributions to logic, metaphysics, mathematics, physics, biology, botany, ethics , politics, agriculture, medicine, dance and theatre... interesting for sure
Ahh, but could he tell a good joke ? with such an excellent mind , no doubt there was space for humour too! "
Aahh,... but would you fuck his brains out? |
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By *imiUKMan
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"Winston Churchill. .not a great academic or even a great soldier..had several disasters in his early military career..but was destined to be a great leader of his country for which he is now remembered.
Actually we were probably lucky he spent most of the war pissed off his head with other advisors making most of the decisions. As you said yourself....when he actually made decisions (eg Galipoli, Dardanelles etc he was a feckin disaster). How he was trusted with a wheelbarrow after that God only knows....oh yes...it was hi snobby family connections!
Got to be the most over-rated so called "great Person" ever.
I didn't think he came up with the ideas just approved or turned then down after advice to you are well off the mark there. Did he keep the morale of the nation up? Well the history books say so and I would think there are many others more greatly overrated."
Quite - he was a jingoistic nutjob who was an utter disaster as a peacetime politician. Let us not forget that he was willing to turn the machine guns on the strikers of the '20s.
I admit he served a purpose during the war, he gave good quote and was a useful point to rally around, and there is a school of thought that to take on/deal with monsters it helps if you are one yourself. |
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"Aristotle..... Had his head propa screwed on for sure... Like his quotes too, as well as ancient Greek philosophy , making contributions to logic, metaphysics, mathematics, physics, biology, botany, ethics , politics, agriculture, medicine, dance and theatre... interesting for sure
Ahh, but could he tell a good joke ? with such an excellent mind , no doubt there was space for humour too!
Aahh,... but would you fuck his brains out?"
No, he's Dead! |
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"Aristotle..... Had his head propa screwed on for sure... Like his quotes too, as well as ancient Greek philosophy , making contributions to logic, metaphysics, mathematics, physics, biology, botany, ethics , politics, agriculture, medicine, dance and theatre... interesting for sure
Ahh, but could he tell a good joke ? with such an excellent mind , no doubt there was space for humour too!
Aahh,... but would you fuck his brains out? No, he's Dead! "
Don't stop some people in this den of depravity.lol |
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Wasn't he lieutenant commander Data?
Also, I would suggest Arnold schawrzenneger (or how ever you spell it lol)
Immigrant to porn star to Mr Olympia to actor and now governor! |
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over a year ago
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Peter Sutcliffe..
I come from west Yorkshire rite in the heart of his carnage..
My dad was questioned on 3 separate occasions, one of his victims was a friend of my oldest sister they went to school together and started working at the Building society on the same intake |
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"Personally I think Hiter's mind is not that interesting. Boring, stupid, close minded, focused on one -two things.
Very probobly without sex life at all.
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Say what you like about Hitler, he was certainly one fucked up individual, but stupid and boring would not be attributes I would associate with him. He knew exactly what he was doing, and he executed it near to perfection for years before it all went wrong with great charisma and personality. |
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"Aristotle couldn't hold a candle to Pluto's brilliance. "
Define "brilliance". If you mean "unintelligible", then I would have to agree.
The man was a loon. |
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The triumvirate of Shakespeare , Charles Dickens , and Oscar Wilde simply because their literary output has culturally influenced societies globally and are timeless in their respective appeal to successive generations . |
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"I find notorious people intersting. I'd love to know what make/made them tick etcInfamous rather than famous people then? Like?
Yes, spot onSerial killers etc, I like to explore the dark side of the human psyche,so I totally agree. "
look up Albert Fish and others on the serial killer central website. Also Richard Kuklinski: "ice man killer" on youtube and the book ice man by philip decarlo. |
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"Da Vincini. An absolute genius. Not for his art but for his science. He understood the workings of the human heart 3 hundred years before medical science caught up. He had an anstonishing mind."
There was a US TV show called Doing Davinci in which movie special effects guys built working models of some of his inventions based on his drawings. It may be online somewhere.
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"I actually found hitler and his aryan beliefs quite interesting! "
my son was fascinated by him for many years - we have so many hitler books on the shelf |
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"I actually found hitler and his aryan beliefs quite interesting!
my son was fascinated by him for many years - we have so many hitler books on the shelf"
Bit worrying for a youngster.............? |
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"Aristotle..... Had his head propa screwed on for sure... Like his quotes too, as well as ancient Greek philosophy , making contributions to logic, metaphysics, mathematics, physics, biology, botany, ethics , politics, agriculture, medicine, dance and theatre... interesting for sure "
Aristotle Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle. His totally wrong ideas regarding an Earth Centric universe....supported by the (Catholic) church held science back for centuries. His ethics/morals etc were excellent...the basis for modern politics...but his science....so wrong it defies belief. Other mathematicians of the time had shown that the Earth orbited the Sun, had measured the circumference of the Earth etc.... All dismissed by Aristotle. |
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"Aristotle..... Had his head propa screwed on for sure... Like his quotes too, as well as ancient Greek philosophy , making contributions to logic, metaphysics, mathematics, physics, biology, botany, ethics , politics, agriculture, medicine, dance and theatre... interesting for sure
Aristotle Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle. His totally wrong ideas regarding an Earth Centric universe....supported by the (Catholic) church held science back for centuries. His ethics/morals etc were excellent...the basis for modern politics...but his science....so wrong it defies belief. Other mathematicians of the time had shown that the Earth orbited the Sun, had measured the circumference of the Earth etc.... All dismissed by Aristotle."
But he thought outside the box! With out such people giving idears ( ok so not always correct ones!) the times as we know now , could have been totaly different. There is no progression in life if idears aint voiced, proved right or wrong and facts are then facts. He had these opinions and made others think too, the rest as they say, is history |
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"I actually found hitler and his aryan beliefs quite interesting!
my son was fascinated by him for many years - we have so many hitler books on the shelfBit worrying for a youngster.............?"
not at all - he went on to become very interested in politics to A-level and did a degreee in modern languages - just about to move to germany with his job - |
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"I actually found hitler and his aryan beliefs quite interesting!
my son was fascinated by him for many years - we have so many hitler books on the shelfBit worrying for a youngster.............?
not at all - he went on to become very interested in politics to A-level and did a degreee in modern languages - just about to move to germany with his job - "
Well at least he was not moving to Poland! |
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By *B9 QueenWoman
over a year ago
Over the rainbow, under the bridge |
"I actually found hitler and his aryan beliefs quite interesting!
my son was fascinated by him for many years - we have so many hitler books on the shelfBit worrying for a youngster.............?
not at all - he went on to become very interested in politics to A-level and did a degreee in modern languages - just about to move to germany with his job - Well at least he was not moving to Poland!"
He'd have to go through Czechoslovakia first.  |
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"I actually found hitler and his aryan beliefs quite interesting!
my son was fascinated by him for many years - we have so many hitler books on the shelfBit worrying for a youngster.............?
not at all - he went on to become very interested in politics to A-level and did a degreee in modern languages - just about to move to germany with his job - Well at least he was not moving to Poland!
He'd have to go through Czechoslovakia first. "
Good point but Poland could be dodgy for the UK! |
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Henry 8th was apparently a really nice guy,athletic etc but historians believe that when he had his jousting accident it damaged part of his brain which made him go the way he went. He wrote the classical piece greensleeves for ann Boleyn. And that he also wasn't as good in bed as what history says. It's also said that to get ur kit off took 15 minutes or more.
Einstein would be quite cool to speak too, though Steven hawking would be pretty cool too. William Wallace too if the legend is true. On the subject of Jews and holocaust Oskar Schindler would be interesting |
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"Henry 8th was apparently a really nice guy,athletic etc but historians believe that when he had his jousting accident it damaged part of his brain which made him go the way he went. He wrote the classical piece greensleeves for ann Boleyn. And that he also wasn't as good in bed as what history says. It's also said that to get ur kit off took 15 minutes or more.
Einstein would be quite cool to speak too, though Steven hawking would be pretty cool too. William Wallace too if the legend is true. On the subject of Jews and holocaust Oskar Schindler would be interesting"
" Henry 8th was apparently a really nice guy " ???????
Fuck me that really is twisted, obviously he wasn't " a really nice guy "
Whilst Greensleeves is a nice piece of music - for a murderer - would you have wanted to hear it as your head was on the block ready to be chopped off because he wanted another woman as his wife / breed stock, and thought he was " really nice "
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Over the rainbow, under the bridge |
"Henry 8th was apparently a really nice guy,athletic etc but historians believe that when he had his jousting accident it damaged part of his brain which made him go the way he went. He wrote the classical piece greensleeves for ann Boleyn. And that he also wasn't as good in bed as what history says. It's also said that to get ur kit off took 15 minutes or more.
Einstein would be quite cool to speak too, though Steven hawking would be pretty cool too. William Wallace too if the legend is true. On the subject of Jews and holocaust Oskar Schindler would be interesting
" Henry 8th was apparently a really nice guy " ???????
Fuck me that really is twisted, obviously he wasn't " a really nice guy "
Whilst Greensleeves is a nice piece of music - for a murderer - would you have wanted to hear it as your head was on the block ready to be chopped off because he wanted another woman as his wife / breed stock, and thought he was " really nice "
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Towards the latter part of his life he was off his rocker due to syphilis. |
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"Henry 8th was apparently a really nice guy,athletic etc but historians believe that when he had his jousting accident it damaged part of his brain which made him go the way he went. He wrote the classical piece greensleeves for ann Boleyn. And that he also wasn't as good in bed as what history says. It's also said that to get ur kit off took 15 minutes or more.
Einstein would be quite cool to speak too, though Steven hawking would be pretty cool too. William Wallace too if the legend is true. On the subject of Jews and holocaust Oskar Schindler would be interesting
" Henry 8th was apparently a really nice guy " ???????
Fuck me that really is twisted, obviously he wasn't " a really nice guy "
Whilst Greensleeves is a nice piece of music - for a murderer - would you have wanted to hear it as your head was on the block ready to be chopped off because he wanted another woman as his wife / breed stock, and thought he was " really nice "
Towards the latter part of his life he was off his rocker due to syphilis. "
Not off his rocker JUST towards the end of his life and it was not because of an STD. |
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For me its several people.
Gaius Julius Caesar - If we didn't know better you would swear his life story was made up. The sheer number of his achievements is incredible, his personality & force of will must have been something to behold.
Alfred the Great - not a soldier in himself, but a master tactician & an incredible politician. When all the other English Kingdoms had fallen before the Danes, & Wessex all but defeated he not only managed to turn it around and save Wessex but create the military/political alliance with Southern Mercia that created the base for the reconquest of the English Kingdoms & the eventual creation of England itself.
His Children Edward & Æthelflæd and his grandson Æthelstan. They continued his work until Æthelstan had defeated all comers, not only the Danish rulers of the Danelaw & incorporating it into England but the Scots, the Picts, The Strathclyde Welsh and the Welsh Princedoms too, making himself Emperor of Britain.
I would love to have known that family. |
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"Aristotle..... Had his head propa screwed on for sure... Like his quotes too, as well as ancient Greek philosophy , making contributions to logic, metaphysics, mathematics, physics, biology, botany, ethics , politics, agriculture, medicine, dance and theatre... interesting for sure "
For me , he as to be Socrates ...he said conversation rarely give an answer |
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"For me its several people.
Gaius Julius Caesar - If we didn't know better you would swear his life story was made up. The sheer number of his achievements is incredible, his personality & force of will must have been something to behold.
Alfred the Great - not a soldier in himself, but a master tactician & an incredible politician. When all the other English Kingdoms had fallen before the Danes, & Wessex all but defeated he not only managed to turn it around and save Wessex but create the military/political alliance with Southern Mercia that created the base for the reconquest of the English Kingdoms & the eventual creation of England itself.
His Children Edward & Æthelflæd and his grandson Æthelstan. They continued his work until Æthelstan had defeated all comers, not only the Danish rulers of the Danelaw & incorporating it into England but the Scots, the Picts, The Strathclyde Welsh and the Welsh Princedoms too, making himself Emperor of Britain.
I would love to have known that family."
Wikipedia is SO useful huh? |
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"For me its several people.
Gaius Julius Caesar - If we didn't know better you would swear his life story was made up. The sheer number of his achievements is incredible, his personality & force of will must have been something to behold.
Alfred the Great - not a soldier in himself, but a master tactician & an incredible politician. When all the other English Kingdoms had fallen before the Danes, & Wessex all but defeated he not only managed to turn it around and save Wessex but create the military/political alliance with Southern Mercia that created the base for the reconquest of the English Kingdoms & the eventual creation of England itself.
His Children Edward & Æthelflæd and his grandson Æthelstan. They continued his work until Æthelstan had defeated all comers, not only the Danish rulers of the Danelaw & incorporating it into England but the Scots, the Picts, The Strathclyde Welsh and the Welsh Princedoms too, making himself Emperor of Britain.
I would love to have known that family.
Wikipedia is SO useful huh?"
No, its an interest I have. |
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The prophet Mohammed. I would love to stick him in a time machine and find out his _iews on what all the nutters are doing in his name.
Personally I think he would be a bit pissed off, to say the least. |
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"The Venerable Bede. Without him, we would be so in the dark regarding the 7th Century "
And of course King Alfred who had Asser (another monk then Bishop) who recorded the Anglo-Saxon battles as well as the great King's reign, mostly through Alfred's own one-to-one dialogue with him xx
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