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100 years to the day

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  • #32
    HerrScheisse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 783 ✭✭✭HerrScheisse


    That comment could apply to any conflict. WW2 inclusive. Seemingly human technological and social progress is drenched in gasoline and oiled with blood.


  • #33
    Riddle101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,670 ✭✭✭Riddle101


    There should be a concert in Sarajevo today to mark the 100th anniversary. The headline acts would be Franz Ferdinand and Kaiser Chiefs.

    Also I thought this was pretty funny. If WWI was a bar fight.
    http://asset-f.soup.io/asset/7345/3823_f8f7.jpeg


  • #34
    Maphisto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,014 ✭✭✭Maphisto


    HerrScheisse wrote: »
    That comment could apply to any conflict. WW2 inclusive. Seemingly human technological and social progress is drenched in gasoline and oiled with blood.

    And? That doesn't make it false or untrue.

    You could say WW2 started when Hitler invaded Poland but that wasn't the cause.


  • #35
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,245 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    Riddle101 wrote: »
    There should be a concert in Sarajevo today to mark the 100th anniversary. The headline acts would be Franz Ferdinand and Kaiser Chiefs.
    There was a concert there today - but with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, none of this new-fangled popular music.

    The story of the assasination would be a comedy if not for the people who died, then and later. Short version: first the Black Hand gang tried to kill the Archduke by lobbing home-made grenades at his car, but only succeeded in wounding a guard. They called it a day, split up, and Gavrilo Princip went for a sandwich ... but when he came out of the restaurant, the Archduke's car was right there. They were on their way to visit the injured guard in hospital, had gotten a bit lost and the driver was trying to reverse back on to the main street - and Princip still had his gun on him. :(

    Government resting upon the will and universal suffrage of the people has no anchorage except in the people's intelligence.

    — Grover Cleveland



  • #36
    Christy Browne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,176 ✭✭✭Christy Browne


    Harry Palmr wrote: »
    Playing in a car park in Waterford soon!

    Manchester Guardian was on the ball

    That's Kaiser Chiefs :pac:


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  • #37
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,059 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Christy Browne wrote: »
    That's Kaiser Chiefs :pac:

    Meh, Kaiser Chiefs, Franz Ferdinand, they're all basically the same! :o


  • #38
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,183 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    Hande hoche! wrote: »
    A brave Yugoslav patriot.

    History and geography not your strong points then.


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