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“Don’t Know Much About History…”
(Beijing Olympics protester)
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Gives me some interest to read the olympics history.
Meh cbf
Don’t know much biology,…
Don’t know much about a science book…
Don’t know what a slide rule is for!
don’t know much about the french i took…
What I do know …
Oh great. Now it’s going to be in my head ALL day!. *grumble* *walks off humming and cursing*
but ivan… you love me, and i love you too. so it’s a wonderful world.
♫ La ta ta ta ta ta ta ♫
*scowls and hums*
*scowls and hums and still loves his shortright*
*snuggles up to ivan*
Just out of curiosity, do any you actually KNOW what a slide rule is for? Or, even what one looks like? Just doing an age check.
Multiplying, my friend! Of course, I only learned because computer geeks in the ’80s (at least in my town) collected them as museum pieces
Age 21. Yes I do know what it’s for and I own one Faber Castell 52/82. It’s a cool little tool.
It doesn’t really matter how old someone is, if you are interested in something you end up learning a lot of its history along the way.
Yes, I have used it in school.
My work here is done.
…is that i love you
and i know that if you love me too
what a wonderful world it would be
Moris Day and the Time are playing at the Rib-fest this week in my hometown.
I plan to get sloppy drunk and wear a toga!
GATOR!
You’re going to look damn silly, considering it was Otis Day and the Knights in the movie.
damn you and your logic…
morris day and the time was jay’s favorite band in jay and silent bob strike back though. so rafiq you could dress up as one of them! i’d go with silent bob.
You don’t know “Jungle Love?” That shit is the mad notes. Written by God himself and sent down to the greatest band in the world: The mother fvcking Time!
What TIME is it??!!?
Lol…I remember dancing to “Wild and Loose” with my friends in my first apartment. Good times.
Rando, the line is by God HERself. Remember this was made shortly after Dogma
Opes Dey???
Aren’t you thinking of Otis Day and the Nights? They were in Animal house and sang “Shout!”
Morris Day and the Time were created by Prince and sing oh ee oh ee oh “Jungle Love!”
And The Bird. Hated that song. *being Mr Grouch-Pants today*
DAMNIT! Where did my Y go? It’s Mr. Grouchy-Pants. *grouches and hums*
Don’t forget Shama-lama-ding-dong.” That song f’n ROCKS!!!
Don’t know much about this joke being made a month ago…
ok, i KNOW this photo/caption combo was on the front page before. what the hell is going on? are the PK admins sending up things that are “classics” without tagging them as such??
People further down in the thread found it and linked it (here).
So, not an exact rerun.
it’s close freaking enough. just like the last 3 or more…
I absolutely agree.
Seriously, I don’t know how far ahead the Olympics were planned out in the 1930s, but this guy might have a point; it’s entirely possible that the 1936 Games were allocated to Berlin in 1930..32, before the Nazis won the 1933 election.
Ah, but Olympics have been boycotted before …
But then Jesse Owen wouldn’t have had the opportunity to so definitively kick Aryan butt on the track!
According to this website ( I don’t know where they got their info)
http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/1936_Summer_Olympics
The Olympic committee decide on Berlin in 1931.
I’m certain that the idiot up there didn’t know that though
well, even if they weren’t decided until 1936, the war didn’t break out until 1939 and the attrocities being committed didn’t come out until later on, so it would be understandable that they’d hold them there thinking the nazi party was just another government. compare it to china, the beijing olympics – they let that go on and there was alot of fuss about humanitarian crimes.
anyway, point i’m trying to make is you make a good point paws
nah, atrocities were going on before 1939 – they were merely of the bloodless kind. (been reading “The Winds of War” by Herman Wouk)
i will at thanks lowly
but that was the reference to the beijing games – even now when there’s apparent atrocities being committed by the host country the games are still allowed to be held by them. that part kind of baffles me still.
What are the ‘apparent atrocities’ being committed by China? Please list in point form.
paws, interesting argument, but we are talking what is in the history books that this person obviously did NOT absorb in school. What would make this truly ironic is if the person who created the sign turned out to be African-American (for those who have no clue what I’m talking about, look up Jesse Owens … )
I think Paws’ point was that maybe this person did know that Germany hosted the Olympics. In other words, maybe the point was: would we have allowed Nazi Germany to host the Olympics if we had known they were going to be such assholes?
However, I think it’s a stretch. It honestly seems like this person has no idea that Nazi Germany did, in fact, host the Olympics.
It was a better submission when the caption was just “History FAIL” (click on my name).
No; I’m saying that the 1936 Games were probably allocated before the myth of Aryan supremecy became enacted genocide. IMO your caption is better that this one though.
Myth?
Yes, Aryan supremacy is a myth. But thinking that Aryan supremacy isn’t a myth isn’t. Erm. If that makes sense at all.
That’s Mth! I divorced my Mythter.
I got that; all I’m saying is that it’s entirely possible that this person knows more detail of history than we do, and that the 1936 Games were not allocated to Nazi Germany, where the Beijing games quite emphatically were allocated to China…
Which still makes the argument futile, since Germany turned Fascist, whereas China is communist. Fascism =/= communism.
Where do I say Fascism == Communism (or even State Capitalism)?
What I do say is that Germany was not a Fascist state when the 1936 Games were allocated, never mind a Genocidal one.
though china = a mix of fascism and communism.
Doesn’t matter. The world was quite different. It’s like trying to pick the greatest Quarterback — can’t do it, the rules were different, the players were different, the knowledge was different. 1/2 a century is a significant amount of time, and this time span was greater. Having said that, do a cost/benefit analysis and see what the end result was — again you can’t do it because only time will tell. Sometimes you take your best shot at improving the world and hope it works.
You speak as if you’ve lived their and suffered under their ‘fascist’ regimes.
Don’t know much about grammar either by the looks of it…
It’s a song lyric. So that makes your post…a pop culture fail!
…or about readin’ no history books!
Again?
apparently he was absent that day
This saddens me on how little some people know of history….or you could always take miss South Carolina’s answer of why they don’t know lol
That was geography. And she is a friend of my brother’s. We went to the same high school.
Wow, dumbass much?
Even if Berlin was given the Olympics, the Olympics could have been cancelled or boycotted. But if it was boycotted, then Jesse Owens wouldn’t have been there to thumb his nose at the notions of racial supremacy.
I don’t know exactly when the genocidal plans were made known, a multitude of people were in denial about it until the end of the war.
And to be fair, a multitude of people are STILL in denial about it.
Well, some troll from the Hitler thread suggested it was just “exaggerated.” Riiiiiiiight.
I think the operative word here is “we”. That is to say “we of the present” with the knowledge of the truly sinister intentions and deeds of Nazi Germany as opposed to those of the IOC of the 1930’s. We know what the Maoist did and still allowed them to host the games. Now it’s up to you to decide whether our not China has reformed itself enough as of late. Apparently the present day IOC did.
you do realize that they weren’t protesting the maoist issues, right?
have you heard of tibet? have you heard of all the shit happening there that is sanctioned by the chinese government? have you heard of all the protests revolving around tibet?
no one gives a rats ass about what mao did way back in the day… they were pissed about what’s going on now and the fact that the IOC gave china the games anyway and basically gave them a free pass saying “we don’t care what you do it tibet”.
Tibet is essentially a Maoist issue. He’s the one that got the ball rolling. They still follow the dictates of the Little Red Book to the letter as much as the economy will allow. That includes the subjection of Tibet.
You don’t need to know anything about history to know Olympic games are awarded many years prior to the actual games.
1936 Olympics were awarded to Germany in 1931. Nazi party didn’t become majority until 1932, and Hitler didn’t take power until 1933.
Now who’s a dummy?
I’m not up on the economy.
Don’t know much about industry.
Really can’t explain the price of gas.
Or what has happened to the middle class.
But I do know Bush one and two.
And the bra size of Sarah too.
What a terrible mess McCain would have been.
*standing ovation*
no one can beat you, pitty. you’re a gem.
Aw thanks, but the first four lines were from BO’s campaign
(I did the last 3 lines)
dammit, that almost makes me like him a little more. almost.
{pittypat}
<3 <3 <3
Pittypat is made of awesome.
Aww, thanks Dad.
If anything the participating nations tried to prove Nazism wrong by winning golds. Even though the US came in second with 56 medals “Germany had 89″
But then there was the 1980 Summer Olympics where boycotted by many nations for the Soviet War in Afghanistan. But Jimmy Carter was a stooge for even thinking about boycotting. Why not send in the teams, and beat the Soviets to prove a point? Then again good luck at that.
Couldn’t this be posted under Failblog?
The caption killed this. It was better without any caption.
…and yes. Yes it could, and probably has.
Angry german Früher Kid.
Jesse Owens wins
A. Hitler:OH MEIN GOTTT WAS IST GESCHEHEN???!!!!!!
okay, aside from the whole history thing, i must pose another question…. does the us get to choose who hosts the olympics these days?
The United States doesn’t run the Olympics.
How pretentious of you to think so.
don’t you know the u.s. runs everything??? duh…(this is sarcasm)
*facepalm*
*sighs, Head meets desk*
The International Olympics Committee chooses locations. Not any one country.
Why, yes, we do. We also get to decide on the leaders of the rest of the world, and which country wins the World Cup.
Does anyone know the source of this photo?
This photo has been submitted before with a similar caption.
Anyway, I think the guy might be saying “would WE have let Nazi Germany host the olympics knowing what we know now.”
We did allow them to host the olympics in 1936.Berlin Germany.The caption is what made this,not killed it.
“we” didn’t allow anything – the international olympics committee choses the host country…
And don’t forget that Time magazine named Adoph Hitler their Man of the Year in January 1939…not very long before the sh*t hit the fan.
That does not condone his activities, it is just a statement that he most affected the events of that year, for better or worse.
LOL … typical america
what’s typical america? there’s no location on that photo.
Look at the “No Left Turn / U Turn” sign: The only place I’ve seen that style of sign is in the USA.
LOL … typical hypocritical racism.
History moron FTW!!!
May I point out that some may ask the same question of British Columbia hosting the Winter Olympics in Vancouver this February after the treatment of its indigenous peoples (reservations, resudentail schools, etc).
hasn’t every country that’s hosted the Olympics done something really really bad?
Like… supported the bloated, money wasting, time wasting, pointless escapism that is “sports”? ;p
Remember Jesse Owens, America!!! Racially b*tch slapping hitler FTW!!!
Owens said that he got a much better reception from Hitler than Roosevelt. When he got back to America, he still had to get in the back of the bus.
Actually, yes. Yes we did.
I didn’t.
i don’t get it
Simple, Nazi Germany DID hold the Olympics during Hitler’s reign.
the nazis actually invented the olympic symbol and the torch.
americans still believe we are all nazis.
and that we all look like some guys from the oktoberfest.
btw: “Reich” = empire
why you always try to say “reich” it sounds so funny if you say that, ther IS a translation its just “empire” no special word.
Uhh…I could’ve sworn that there was already a LOL with this exact picture, and it said something like “History Fail”
people are to stupid…
… like cheerios is to milk?
Sorry – brain glitch. I mean are, not is. :/
yes, yes they did
Yea, you see there’s this funny story about that…involving a black guy, no less. I think his name was Jesse?