The Off Topic Topic

[crazy canuck]

I like Covid optimistically lists Putin as a former leader

[mongers]

Map error seem intentional and get a well deserved laugh.

[Zanza]

Austria: 

(map is wrong on many accounts, which makes it midly funny)

What's wrong with Austria? 

[HVC]

They did the old switcharoo and pawned hitler to Germany.

[Sheilbh]

I mean that just describes Austria for the last 70 years

[DGuller]

Finns know what really matters.

[Josquius]

I wonder where the creator is from. Interesting selection of reasonable vs. troll choices.

[The Larch]

David Suchet

Isn't that the guy who played Poirot in the iconic TV show?

[Sheilbh]

Yes.

[The Larch]

Yes.

Good trolling indeed. 

Anyway the best trolling has to be Alexander the Great.

[Sheilbh]

Once again, the Balkan internet are flaming each other

[The Larch]

Once again, the Balkan internet are flaming each other

Croatia claiming Tesla would be quite good trolling as well. 

[Sheilbh]

Always love this stuff - the 1875 clerkship to the Foreign Office exam. You needed to sit the exams on constitutional history of England, history of Europe 1783-1847, geography, Euclid (?! ) and French, Latin plus German, Italian, Spanish or ancient Greek. Each was a three hour exam and it looks like you had to answer all questions (so 18 minutes each - which isn't much time for what are basicallly essay questions ):
https://twitter.com/dave_clay/status/1519947507362639872

For example, the history of Europe 1783-1847 questions:

David Clay
@dave_clay
1. Give some account of Mirabeau, Necker, Dumouriez, Lafayette, and Roland

2. To what cause may the failure of the Allies in the campaigns of 1793 be ascribed?

3. Trace the career of Napoleon from the siege of Toulon to his appointment as First Consul.

4. In what ways did the Peninsular War contribute to the downfall of the power of Napoleon?

5. What part did England take in the Settlement of Vienna in 1815?

6. On what grounds was the countenance of Foreign Powers first denied, and then extended, to the Greek Insurrection?

7. Compare the Government of the Restoration with the government of Louis Philippe.

8. At the end of the contest with Republican and Imperial France what territory had Austria gained and what had she lost? What were the dangers to which her new possessions exposed her?

9. Give a sketch of the diplomatic struggle which ended in the Spanish Marriages.

10. Write a biography of the Emperor Alexander I of Russia.

[Eddie Teach]

People who can't grasp geometry aren't worthy to work for the Foreign Office. 

[celedhring]

Once again, the Balkan internet are flaming each other

Croatia claiming Tesla would be quite good trolling as well. 

Oh, they do, and it's some quite fine trolling: he will be on the Croatian Euro coins once they join the Eurozone.