Periods Of Your Country's History That You Don't Take Seriously?

[CountDeMoney]

The Hanoverians are Germans and thus a little stiff.

Yeah, but at least that stuff gets real interesting once Victoria shows up.

[Martinus]

It's from the Baroque period.  Busy is what they did.

Hardly. It's second half of the 19th century. Baroque was 17th century.

To be fair, the Romantic and Historical painters of the 1800s were influenced by the Baroque approach, as is evident from the paintings we're looking at.

Death of Sardanapalus is pretty busy too, for example.

I was thinking about saying that Romanticism was inspired by Baroque, but then I thought it's Languish, and decided to take a cheap shot instead.

[Malthus]

Not complaining so much as baffled by it.

It's a family that makes for perfect soap-opera fodder.

And the Stewarts aren't?  Or heck the Plantagenets. 

The Hanoverians are Germans and thus a little stiff.

Not really, in the same way.

Mary Queen of Scots gets lumped in with the Tudor-fascination.

James I was into dudes, which for most soap-opera fans isn't as interesting.

Chuck the First was a devoted family man - booring.

Chuck the Second had mistresses galore - but was hardly a font of emotion about them: he finds Churchill boffing one of 'em, he just laughs it off.

It just isn't the same as ogre/playboy Henry, getting all messed in the head over his wives - and having 'em executed (well, two of 'em). Must have made for fun sisterly relations between his daughters: "dad divorced my mom to marry yours!" "Dad EXECUTED my mom and bastardized me in favour of you!" etc.

[Valmy]

James I was also really into his wife...though she did look a little mannish.

[Sophie Scholl]

All you guys complaining about the fascination with the Tudors - that is not nearly as bizzare and incomprehensible as the "Ricardians".

Why would thousands of apparently otherwise sane people care so very deeply that Richard III (allegedly) got a raw deal by Shakespeare? 

In any event, most of the shit he was accused of was just in the job description. Murder inconvenient claimants to the throne who are closely related to you? SURELY NO TUDOR WOULD DO THAT!

[Ed Anger]

The Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter years.

The shag carpets, yes. The mind numbing malaise, no.

[Agelastus]

Mary and Elizabeth cried their eyes out afterwards you monster!

I don't imagine Henry VII or VIII did though when they did the same thing.

[I don't imagine that Mary or Elizabeth did for that matter, although to give Mary her due she left the other two sisters alone.]

I used to be fascinated with the Tudors as a child; now many years later I can't understand what I ever saw in what was probably the most unpleasant dynasty to ever sit on the throne.

Although I still have a great deal of respect for Elizabeth.

[MadImmortalMan]

The Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter years.

The shag carpets, yes. The mind numbing malaise, no.

Dull yellow appliances ftw.

[mongers]

The Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter years.

The shag carpets, yes. The mind numbing malaise, no.

Dull yellow appliances ftw.

That's no way to talk of two ex-Presidents. 

[CountDeMoney]

The Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter years.

The shag carpets, yes. The mind numbing malaise, no.

Analog master tapes.  Typewriters.  Card Caddies.  Pens with chains on them.   Sideburns.   Ashtrays.

[mongers]

The Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter years.

The shag carpets, yes. The mind numbing malaise, no.

Analog master tapes.  Typewriters.  Card Caddies.  Pens with chains on them.   Sideburns.   Ashtrays.

Hot wheels. Chopper bikes. soft drinks in returnable glass bottles. 

[Ed Anger]

Wood paneling.

[CountDeMoney]

Plaid.  Everything.

[Ed Anger]

Orange furniture.

[Razgovory]

It's from the Baroque period.  Busy is what they did.

Hardly. It's second half of the 19th century. Baroque was 17th century.

I thought he was just insulting Poland for being backwards.