The Off Topic Topic

[Syt]

Remember the 80s D&D cartoon?



Renault in Brazil brings it back as LIVE ACTION for this car ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrp2nmfzxio

[Admiral Yi]

Fun historical fact from otherwise shyte book:

Admiral Byng was famously shot "pour encourager les autres" during the War of the Spanish Succession for failing to relieve the siege of Port Mahon in Minorca.  To celebrate the successful siege the French (being French) created a new sauce and called it Mahonaise.  We now know it as Mayonnaise.

[The Brain]

Rich.

[Habbaku]

Thank you for your service to world cuisine, Admiral Byng.

[The Larch]

Fun historical fact from otherwise shyte book:

Admiral Byng was famously shot "pour encourager les autres" during the War of the Spanish Succession for failing to relieve the siege of Port Mahon in Minorca.  To celebrate the successful siege the French (being French) created a new sauce and called it Mahonaise.  We now know it as Mayonnaise.

If you want to add even more historical pedigree to the trivia piece, you can say that Mahón is named after Mago Barca, its alleged founder and younger brother of Hannibal.

It's not 100% clear if mayonnaise is actually named after Mahón, though. 

[Barrister]

Mayonnaise is such a simple recipe I find it hard to believe it was "invented" in the late 18th century.

[The Larch]

Mayonnaise is such a simple recipe I find it hard to believe it was "invented" in the late 18th century.

AFAIK there are indeed references to similar sauces from antiquity. Mayonnaise as such, or with that name, is found only from the 18th century onwards.

[celedhring]

Remember the 80s D&D cartoon?



Renault in Brazil brings it back as LIVE ACTION for this car ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrp2nmfzxio

Thank God, after so many episodes where they just miss the portal back home EVERY FUCKING TIME I finally get closure. 

[derspiess]

I watched the cartoon because it came on after something else I watched, but I can't tell you what happened in a single episode.

[Syt]

Thank God, after so many episodes where they just miss the portal back home EVERY FUCKING TIME I finally get closure. 

Yep, I was glad they finally got the happy end they deserved.

[Razgovory]

It is not entirely correct. It is not entirely wrong either. Just like if he said the Anglo-Saxons were a bunch of ultra-violent warlords. I mean that is not untrue but that is a very simplistic and misleading way to frame it. And he is very detailed and pro-Anglo-Saxon. So I could sense an anti-Norman thing coming. Now someday I will go back and check out my prediction, but while I expect a certain bias in my podcasts He was simplifies everything about the Romans and spins it in a negative light because he has a visceral dislike for them. Now there are many things to dislike about the Romans. They existed a long time ago with very different values than our own so it is not surprising he would dislike them. But dial it down a bit dude. You can have an anti-Roman bias and still tell a great history of Roman Britain. He just took it way beyond simply a bias. Him comparing Roman Britain to 19th century European African colonies was especially cringe-worthy.

I would like to know why you think it is cringe-worthy to compare the British empire and the Roman one.

[Valmy]

I would like to know why you think it is cringe-worthy to compare the British empire and the Roman one.

It doesn't necessarily need to be. The way he did it was not very deep or thoughtful, just a throw-away line designed to provoke outrage by comparing it to something more recent. That was cringe-worthy.

Why? Are you doing a big study of Roman vs. British Imperial institutions and needed validation?

[The Larch]

Remember the 80s D&D cartoon?



Renault in Brazil brings it back as LIVE ACTION for this car ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrp2nmfzxio

Thank God, after so many episodes where they just miss the portal back home EVERY FUCKING TIME I finally get closure. 

Many of my friends were raving and sharing it on FB these days. I also liked it...but shudder at what implies. That is, that if you're familiar with the cartoon, at this point in your life you should be thinking about buying a SUV fit for a family. 

[Barrister]

Many of my friends were raving and sharing it on FB these days. I also liked it...but shudder at what implies. That is, that if you're familiar with the cartoon, at this point in your life you should be thinking about buying a SUV fit for a family. 

That show ran from 1983-1985.  If you're old enough to remember it why wouldn't you already have a family-sized vehicle?

[Razgovory]

I would like to know why you think it is cringe-worthy to compare the British empire and the Roman one.

It doesn't necessarily need to be. The way he did it was not very deep or thoughtful, just a throw-away line designed to provoke outrage by comparing it to something more recent. That was cringe-worthy.

Why? Are you doing a big study of Roman vs. British Imperial institutions and needed validation?

Not since college.  Who is supposed to be outraged in this scenario?  The British, the Romans or the Africans?  Personally, I think the myth of the civilizing Romans bringing enlightenment to the peoples of the world is bullshit.  Harmful bullshit.  The British were much nicer overlords than the Romans were.  I mean, the Romans inadvertently created the world's largest religion because of their habit of nailing people to pieces of wood.