QuoteOne in eight children think World War Three has happened
Staggering 13% of British schoolchildren have imagined a third global conflict, which may or may not have involved laser cannons
MORE than one in eight schoolchildren believe that the Third World War has already happened, a new survey says.
The report showed that 13 per cent of under-16s had made up an imaginary third global conflict, possibly involving hover-tanks and space battles.
Another 22 per cent of youngsters did not know if their family members were involved in the Second World War.
Meanwhile, just 56 per cent claimed to have learnt about the war from school textbooks.
The survey was commissioned by Leger Holidays in the build-up to the 65th anniversary of D-Day.
The battlefield holiday specialist has launched a campaign entitled Keep The Memories Alive.
They are urging people to talk to their elderly relatives about their involvement in the Second World War. They can then share these stories at keepthememoriesalive.co.uk.
Paul Reed, Leger's leading battlefield expert, said: "For many younger people the Second World War will seem like a long time ago, and it can be hard for this generation to relate to their family's experiences.
"We want to bridge this generation gap by encouraging as many people as possible to find out a unique story about the war and then share it with the nation online."
One thousand under-16-year-olds were questioned for the research.
Dumbasses. Everyone knows WWIII was against the zombie virus :rolleyes:
I'd like to see more details on their research methodology here.
'WW3' is quite the staple of fiction and so is something school kids love to rip off when writing stories for school, they know fine well laser cannons and all that aren't real.
This sounds like a typical conservative/nationalist survey that lets them go 'OHHH NOEEESSS REMEMBER TEH CHURCHILL! RULE BRITANIA! WHAT IS OUR COUNTRY COMING TOOOOO!'
QuoteThey are urging people to talk to their elderly relatives about their involvement in the Second World War.
My father's uncle Bill was a Guadalcanal Marine. Left some of his bowels there the second time, and is still full of piss and vinegar in Texas.
Last time I talked to him, he was still bitching about my aunt buying a Japanese car.
God Bless Our Vets.
Quote from: CountDeMoney on June 08, 2009, 05:57:31 AM
My father's uncle Bill was a Guadalcanal Marine. Left some of his bowels there the second time, and is still full of piss and vinegar in Texas.
Last time I talked to him, he was still bitching about my aunt buying a Japanese car.
That's awesome :D
World War Three did happen. I called it My First Marriage.
Maybe they're counting the Seven Years' War as world war? :unsure:
Kids have imagination, news at 11.
When I was kid I thought they were hundreds of World War. Got 1 & 2, why stop there?
Quote from: Syt on June 08, 2009, 06:25:14 AM
Maybe they're counting the Seven Years' War as world war? :unsure:
Lasers at Lobositz?
Quote from: CountDeMoney on June 08, 2009, 05:57:31 AM
QuoteThey are urging people to talk to their elderly relatives about their involvement in the Second World War.
My father's uncle Bill was a Guadalcanal Marine. Left some of his bowels there the second time, and is still full of piss and vinegar in Texas.
Last time I talked to him, he was still bitching about my aunt buying a Japanese car.
God Bless Our Vets.
My great uncle sold cars on the black market. :(
Quote from: CountDeMoney on June 08, 2009, 05:57:31 AM
QuoteThey are urging people to talk to their elderly relatives about their involvement in the Second World War.
My father's uncle Bill was a Guadalcanal Marine. Left some of his bowels there the second time, and is still full of piss and vinegar in Texas.
Last time I talked to him, he was still bitching about my aunt buying a Japanese car.
God Bless Our Vets.
Heh... One of my great uncles, about the last living one, fought as a combat marine infantryman. Saw much action on several islands, was wounded also. Saw a lot of very tough combat, has some incredible stories. He would never buy a Japanese car either of course.
He's in a Veteran's Dept nursing home, in his 90s and his health has started to slip.
Quote from: Brazen on June 08, 2009, 05:50:24 AM
QuoteOne in eight children think World War Three has happened
Staggering 13% of British schoolchildren have imagined a third global conflict, which may or may not have involved laser cannons
MORE than one in eight schoolchildren believe that the Third World War has already happened, a new survey says.
The report showed that 13 per cent of under-16s had made up an imaginary third global conflict, possibly involving hover-tanks and space battles.
Another 22 per cent of youngsters did not know if their family members were involved in the Second World War.
Meanwhile, just 56 per cent claimed to have learnt about the war from school textbooks.
The survey was commissioned by Leger Holidays in the build-up to the 65th anniversary of D-Day.
The battlefield holiday specialist has launched a campaign entitled Keep The Memories Alive.
They are urging people to talk to their elderly relatives about their involvement in the Second World War. They can then share these stories at keepthememoriesalive.co.uk.
Paul Reed, Leger's leading battlefield expert, said: "For many younger people the Second World War will seem like a long time ago, and it can be hard for this generation to relate to their family's experiences.
"We want to bridge this generation gap by encouraging as many people as possible to find out a unique story about the war and then share it with the nation online."
One thousand under-16-year-olds were questioned for the research.
Dumbasses. Everyone knows WWIII was against the zombie virus :rolleyes:
Schoolkids are dumb, film at 11.
Well some schoolars claim that the Cold War was WW3 and the current War on Terror is WW4, so the the lttle punks may be right... ;)
Quote from: Mr.Penguin on June 08, 2009, 10:20:46 AM
Well some schoolars claim that the Cold War was WW3 and the current War on Terror is WW4, so the the lttle punks may be right... ;)
Ouch. Those are some stupid scholars.
Quote from: Mr.Penguin on June 08, 2009, 10:20:46 AM
Well some schoolars claim that the Cold War was WW3 and the current War on Terror is WW4, so the the lttle punks may be right... ;)
Gah, the Korean War has a better claim for WW3 than the Cold War.
Quote from: ulmont on June 08, 2009, 10:44:08 AM
Quote from: Mr.Penguin on June 08, 2009, 10:20:46 AM
Well some schoolars claim that the Cold War was WW3 and the current War on Terror is WW4, so the the lttle punks may be right... ;)
Gah, the Korean War has a better claim for WW3 than the Cold War.
Actually I think they included the Korea War as part of the Cold war, together with the Vietnam war and the Sovjet intervention in Afghanistan. All part of the wars fought by proxy between the Sovjet Union and the USA...
Quote from: Mr.Penguin on June 08, 2009, 10:54:46 AM
Actually I think they included the Korea War as part of the Cold war, together with the Vietnam war and the Sovjet intervention in Afghanistan. All part of the wars fought by proxy between the Sovjet Union and the USA...
Ehh, the Korean war had multiple belligerent countries on both sides explicitly, making it a lot less proxy than Vietnam and Afghanistan.
How many children believe in the bronze age sky fairy?
Quote from: ulmont on June 08, 2009, 11:08:01 AM
Ehh, the Korean war had multiple belligerent countries on both sides explicitly, making it a lot less proxy than Vietnam and Afghanistan.
True, I think that they in order to keep it simple, included all wars from Churchill's iron curtain speech to the the fall of the Berlin Wall...
Quote from: CountDeMoney on June 08, 2009, 05:57:31 AM
QuoteThey are urging people to talk to their elderly relatives about their involvement in the Second World War.
My father's uncle Bill was a Guadalcanal Marine. Left some of his bowels there the second time, and is still full of piss and vinegar in Texas.
Last time I talked to him, he was still bitching about my aunt buying a Japanese car.
God Bless Our Vets.
Heh, my great uncle, who was part of the marines airborne experiment in WWII and who fought at Guadalcanal and then Guam and Iwo Jima just passed away this last week at 87. :cry:
Quote from: katmai on June 08, 2009, 11:45:53 AM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on June 08, 2009, 05:57:31 AM
QuoteThey are urging people to talk to their elderly relatives about their involvement in the Second World War.
My father's uncle Bill was a Guadalcanal Marine. Left some of his bowels there the second time, and is still full of piss and vinegar in Texas.
Last time I talked to him, he was still bitching about my aunt buying a Japanese car.
God Bless Our Vets.
Heh, my great uncle, who was part of the marines airborne experiment in WWII and who fought at Guadalcanal and then Guam and Iwo Jima just passed away this last week at 87. :cry:
RIP :console:
Most of my great uncles were too old for WWII. My uncles were all in the Navy. One of them was a Pearl Harbor survivor but the others served stateside.
A WW3 involving hovertanks and laser cannons would give me a total timmaygasm.
I'd totally enlist in the 93rd Arkansas Combat Mech Battalion :w00t:
Quote from: katmai on June 08, 2009, 11:45:53 AM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on June 08, 2009, 05:57:31 AM
QuoteThey are urging people to talk to their elderly relatives about their involvement in the Second World War.
My father's uncle Bill was a Guadalcanal Marine. Left some of his bowels there the second time, and is still full of piss and vinegar in Texas.
Last time I talked to him, he was still bitching about my aunt buying a Japanese car.
God Bless Our Vets.
Heh, my great uncle, who was part of the marines airborne experiment in WWII and who fought at Guadalcanal and then Guam and Iwo Jima just passed away this last week at 87. :cry:
That sucks. They're not making them like that anymore.
School children are thankfully still in school and may be saved still.
I'd be more worried about Joe Dumbass Public.
I was afraid I missed something. Lasers? Giant Space Battleships? Tim as the next Ranke?
QuoteDumbasses. Everyone knows WWIII was against the zombie virus :rolleyes:
:yes:
(I hope the movie makes justice to the book)
This reminds of a story I think I've shared here in the past. I used to hang out at this cafe known for thugs, lowlifes, hippies etc.
One time I was talking with someone about America entering ww2 after Pearl Harbor when this 17 yr old goombah wannabe butted into the conversation to explain to me how the very first act the US did upon entering the war in 45( what he averred) was to nuke Hiroshima. I laughed in his face and ignored him....until he started to piss me off by not shutting up about it (turned out his grandpa had been in the war and told him all this or told him something that he turned into this alt history retardation) then I explained to him the various high points of WW2. All of which he was credulous of, since he'd never heard of them (Midway, the Blitz, Guadalcanal etc)
When i told him to pick up any history book, he said, "you can't find anything true in a book. all lies." I started to think this guy was yaking my chain. But weeks later... he tried to collect on some hundred dollar bet he imagined I'd made with him about this. I walked up to an old guy (holocaust survivor) I knew and asked him to confirm with the kid my version of the history. The kid took him seriously and walked out all embarrassed.
goes to show you that you shouldn't take Grandpa's stories as anything more than that.
Quote from: BuddhaRhubarb on June 09, 2009, 11:49:02 AM
One time I was talking with someone about America entering ww2 after Pearl Harbor when this 17 yr old goombah wannabe butted into the conversation to explain to me how the very first act the US did upon entering the war in 45( what he averred) was to nuke Hiroshima. I laughed in his face and ignored him....until he started to piss me off by not shutting up about it (turned out his grandpa had been in the war and told him all this or told him something that he turned into this alt history retardation) then I explained to him the various high points of WW2. All of which he was credulous of, since he'd never heard of them (Midway, the Blitz, Guadalcanal etc)
When i told him to pick up any history book, he said, "you can't find anything true in a book. all lies."
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Did you collect the bet? :)
Wah, I want a link or it isn't true.
Although part of me can't help but get miffed at all the credit and praise for the boys at D-Day. My grandfather spent 43 to 45 fighting in Italy, but he and the thousands of others Allied servicemen there get routinely ignored.