History Subforum?

[OwO What's This?]

History has always been my worst subject. I do not enjoy reading stiffly worded Wikipedia articles, but I love hearing about history through word of mouth.

I know we have a lot of history spergs that post here at farms, so maybe there's some traction for this idea.

ok love you, talk to you later bye

 

[Gym Leader Elesa]

At first, I liked this idea, but then I realized that it would be even more polarizing and autistic than Deep Thoughts. I would have to listen to people who allegedly have history degrees drag on endlessly about how taxes are unconstitutional because of the Whiskey Rebellion, how "#BasedLincoln was fighting a liberation war against the South which I think fought for slavery because I'm a middle-aged white man from Wisconsin who manages a Kroger", how Jesus wasn't real because Richard Dawkins said so one time, how women's history proves that men have higher IQs, how Karl Marx was in-league with the Jews to end the "teutonic race", people unironically throwing about the word "Holohoax" and trying to disprove the holocaust and everyone taking them seriously. Oh God, it sounds awful.

I respect this proposal, because I think it is well intentioned, but in reality...oh, man. It would lead to more halals than the Chained Divinity thread. I'm giving you a drink rating though because if you have more patience than me you might get a lot of humor out of it.

 

[OwO What's This?]

At first, I liked this idea, but then I realized that it would be even more polarizing and autistic than Deep Thoughts. I would have to listen to people who allegedly have history degrees drag on endlessly about how taxes are unconstitutional because of the Whiskey Rebellion, how "#BasedLincoln was fighting a liberation war against the South which I think fought for slavery because I'm a middle-aged white man from Wisconsin who manages a Kroger", how Jesus wasn't real because Richard Dawkins said so one time, how women's history proves that men have higher IQs, how Karl Marx was in-league with the Jews to end the "teutonic race", people unironically throwing about the word "Holohoax" and trying to disprove the holocaust and everyone taking them seriously. Oh God, it sounds awful.

I respect this proposal, because I think it is well intentioned, but in reality...oh, man. It would lead to more halals than the Chained Divinity thread. I'm giving you a drink rating though because if you have more patience than me you might get a lot of humor out of it.

All those hypotheticals you described sound incredible and now I want it even more.

 

[Vitriol]

Use deep thoughts- there is a thread somewhere there on the byzantine empire that someone made who was curious about the period im sure people will happily chat about others.

We had quite an active history group when the user groups mod was still a thing.

 

[OwO What's This?]

Use deep thoughts- there is a thread somewhere there on the byzantine empire that someone made who was curious about the period im sure people will happily chat about others.

We had quite an active history group when the user groups mod was still a thing.

People don't seem to be actively posting history in Deep Thoughts currently and I certainly don't know enough about history to post about it myself... doesn't seem like a good solution.

 

[cuddle striker]

People don't seem to be actively posting history in Deep Thoughts currently and I certainly don't know enough about history to post about it myself... doesn't seem like a good solution.

go to deep thoughts, make a thread called "history questions" and use the OP to ask a few things you're interested in. there'll be some salt to lick for sure, but you might get some interesting stuff out of it.

 

[OwO What's This?]

go to deep thoughts, make a thread called "history questions" and use the OP to ask a few things you're interested in. there'll be some salt to lick for sure, but you might get some interesting stuff out of it.

With how many history fanatics we have on the forum I still think there's merit in having a subforum for it. If not, well, it's just as easily reverted.

 

[An Ghost]

Could use the same rules as articles and happenings 'no american history' to avoid sperging about slavery and the south and whatever.
There are a lot of really cool little bits of history out there that some of us know offhand. Something like for example:

Spoiler: Audie Murphy

The only recipient of 2 medals of honor, Audie Murphy was a 5' American soldier who nobody thought would do shit in WWII so they put him in the army despite not passing the physical because they needed another bullet catcher. He went on to be an incredible badass and then movie star who starred in the movie about his own life. His heroics were so badass they had to leave some out to make the movie believable.

So something like an old war hero is cool, could open a discussion of war heros now and other war heros. A "cool history facts" thread or "war hero general" might be the place. I dunno about a forum about history. I mean it's already happened. Nothing new to screen cap.

 

[Maiden-TieJuan]

Could use the same rules as articles and happenings 'no american history' to avoid sperging about slavery and the south and whatever.
There are a lot of really cool little bits of history out there that some of us know offhand. Something like for example:

Spoiler: Audie Murphy

The only recipient of 2 medals of honor, Audie Murphy was a 5' American soldier who nobody thought would do shit in WWII so they put him in the army despite not passing the physical because they needed another bullet catcher. He went on to be an incredible badass and then movie star who starred in the movie about his own life. His heroics were so badass they had to leave some out to make the movie believable.

So something like an old war hero is cool, could open a discussion of war heros now and other war heros. A "cool history facts" thread or "war hero general" might be the place. I dunno about a forum about history. I mean it's already happened. Nothing new to screen cap.

ThIs idea could be cool. Like a "interesting historical personages that no one knows about" or even "local historic items" would be good. There are a shit ton of things people don't really know about (like Emperor Joshua Norton, Emperor of the United States of America and Protector of Mexico?) that can start some people looking at history as something more then dry uninteresting encyclopedia entries. Hell, I LOVE obscure history. I would endorse a thing like that.

 

[Vitriol]

People don't seem to be actively posting history in Deep Thoughts currently and I certainly don't know enough about history to post about it myself... doesn't seem like a good solution.

Post a question then.

I am not sure why a new sub would attract more traffic than DT does, esp in the longer term. A new sub for something which is not generating content naturally seems like clutter.

 

[BillionBisonBucks]

This sounds brilliant, especially after the education I received on Australian police in chat the other day.

 

[An Ghost]

something which is not generating content

This. If people want to write history essays KF is not the place.

 

[AnOminous]

Maybe there should be a thread on how a useless idiot named @OwO What's This? showed up one day and then acted like an utter dick and got other posters banned by constantly crying to admins and mods in a pathetic attempt to get social credit, and how literally everyone hates this piece of shit.

 

[Locksnap]

Can't you just watch some shitty pop history vids on youtube? I wouldn't advise that normally but you'd learn more from those than the morons on here.

 

[OwO What's This?]

Maybe there should be a thread on how a useless idiot named @OwO What's This? showed up one day and then acted like an utter dick and got other posters banned by constantly crying to admins and mods in a pathetic attempt to get social credit, and how literally everyone hates this piece of shit.

drumpf

 

[millais]

Maybe there should be a thread on how a useless idiot named @OwO What's This? showed up one day and then acted like an utter dick and got other posters banned by constantly crying to admins and mods in a pathetic attempt to get social credit, and how literally everyone hates this piece of shit.

why stop there? we should have a whole subforum dedicated to it

 

[HG 400]

People don't seem to be actively posting history in Deep Thoughts currently and I certainly don't know enough about history to post about it myself... doesn't seem like a good solution.

Just make a thread called "tell me cool stuff from history or w/e" you dummy

 

[Strelok]

Just make a thread called "tell me cool stuff from history or w/e" you dummy

Fuck it i'll start.

There was a time a Pope dug up a previous pope and put his corpse on trial, complete with a guy whose job was to answer the accusations against the corpse Pope since the real guy was too busy being dead . He was found guilty and dumped in a river. Then people got mad about it (wonder why?) and killed that Pope as well.

I made 0% of that up.

 

[WhitestPawn]

Not sure I can post something quite as interesting, but here is possibly the most :autism: tank ever designed

Spoiler

The Tsar tank, it was an experimental Russian vehicle that was abandoned not long after the outbreak of WW1. Unsurprisingly, it was dropped due to being easy as hell to spot and destroy with artillery. After it was abandoned , it was too weird and heavy to move, so it sat at its testing site for nearly 8 years until they finally broke it down and used it for scrap.

 

[HG 400]

Cleopatra was a 4/10 irl and that's being generous.