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21 Jan, 4 tweets, 2 min read
By meeting Churchill and Stalin at Yalta President Roosevelt indicates he's more interested in the views of the citizens of Yalta than in the lives of the citizens of Pittsburgh. This agreement will do little to effect the end of the war and will harm the livelihoods of Americans
By signing the 1783 Treaty of Paris with George III, George Washington indicates he's more interested in the views of the citizens of Paris than in the jobs of the citizens of Pittsburg.

By facilitating the Camp David Accords between Israel and Egypt, President Carter indicates he's more interested in the views of some guy called David than in the jobs of the citizens of Pittsburgh.
By signing the The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, President Polk indicates he's more interested in the views of the citizens of Guadalupe Hidalgo than the jobs of the citizens of Pittburgh. This agreement will do little to recognise Texan Independence.

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John Bull Profile picture
22 Jan
Right. Friday history thread!

Let's talk about how not once, but TWICE, in WW2 a 650 year old treaty between Britain and Portugal (that the rest of the world had mostly forgotten about) was invoked to help the Allies win the war. treaty screenshot: there sh...
~~ wobbly lines ~~

It's 1385 and John of Aviz is standing on a hill with 6,000 soldiers, asserting his right to be King of Portugal.

Unfortunately, at the bottom of that hill is is the King of Castile, along with 30,000 Castillians, French, Aragonese and Italians who disagree.
Luckily, for John:

1) This is a REALLY steep hill. A good hill to (potentially) die on
2) The Castillians and French love to Zerg rush with armoured knights
3) He has crossbowmen
3) He has 200 battle-hardened English longbowmen.

Because the English have just pulled a Helms Deep
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John Bull Profile picture
20 Jan
You know how my history threads about obscure stuff?

A disproportionate amount come about because someone meets me and says:

"Oh? You did THAT thread?! Reminds me: my family has a legend about x happening. But we tihink it's rubbish"

It might not be. DM me your famliy legends.
that thing you heard your grandfather did in the war that sounds suuuuuper sketchy?

Might not be. I have at least two largely unknown SOE ops in the thread bank because of crazy grandad stories and one more i'm still trying to track down info on.

SOE did weird shit.
That story your family tells about someone who helped them escape something awful?

How do you think I learned about Mary Burchill?

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John Bull Profile picture
20 Jan
EVERY interview with Boris Johnson starts with him looking like he's just been caught sticking his todger into a warm pie.

Once you've seen it, you can't unsee it.
For the sake of balance and to avoid libel, I should say that I don't think Boris Johnson sticks his todger in a warm pie before EVERY meeting.

Logisitically, that would be a lot of pies.
Not saying I think the Downing Street cooks couldn't keep with his thrusting. They're experts and I think they'd manage.

But Prime Ministers have to pay for any food they get cooked at the end of their term. And I just can't see Johnson being prepared to spend that much on pies.
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John Bull Profile picture
20 Jan
I take great joy from the fact that I will never have to hear Trump say 'Febwoowary' ever again. screenshot of trump talking...
"We got 75million votes. that's a record for...

for...

<SHIT. DON'T SAY A LOSER. DAMNIT DONNY WHY DID YOU START THIS SENTENCE? OKAY THINK. THINK. THINK>

...for sitting Presidents."

😆

L O S E R trump still talking shite
"We will be back in some form."

God knows what a Pokemon Trump evolves into. trump still... look. assume...
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John Bull Profile picture
25 Dec 20
So it's Christmas, and a bit of a weird one, so I want to tell you about a surprise Christmas present and the kindness of Twitter and total strangers on the other side of Europe that helped make it happen. 🎄🎄 Two wine glasses on a table
Ten years ago, as relative newly weds, my wife and I had a lovely holiday in Croatia.

During that, we visited an amazing small museum (I do love a small museum): The Museum of Ancient Glass.

Amazing displays and THEY STILL MADE GLASSWARE THE OLD WAY!

We bought two glasses. Ancient glassware on display in the museum
Now over the years, they got chipped and broken.

So I decided, as a present for my wife, to order some news ones for Christmas.

This turned out to be somewhat harder than expected.

Because: small museum.

No English website.

No online shop.
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23 Dec 20
There's a bit in Spike Milligan's memoirs where he talks about two fellow gunners who, after a brutal few months in the line, went a bit too mad on leave. Got too drunk in Alexandria overstayed their pass.

On their return, they were hauled in front of Major Chatterjack...
"Well gentlemen," The Major says to the two men now under escort by MPs and up on a serious charge, "What do you have to say for yourselves?"

"We was pissed sir."

"Such honesty cannot go unrewarded." Chatterjack said instantly. "Case dismissed."
Great example of how a good officer knows when to enforce the letter of the law, and when to judge that your men have been pushed to breaking point, not broken, and need to be cut a break of their own.

There was a reason they all loved him as an officer.
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