Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label history. Show all posts

Saturday, April 10, 2010

I don't even know

It seems that during the height of the Cold War the Soviets were secretly testing the bounds of "what the fuckery" with the intent of using it to infiltrate and destabilize the West. Unfortunately, or fortunately depending on your perspective, the Japanese were simultaneously doing their own research on the subject, and excelled far more at it than the Soviets, or any nation for that matter, could have hoped to. So much so that Japanese "what the fuckery" surpassed the ability to destabilize nations, and evolved to a status that simply lead to your eyes screaming for a few seconds, an exclamation, usually profanity ridden, of confusion, and then you blacking out for a couple minutes while your brain systematically forgot what you were just witness to. Defeated and dejected, the Soviet Union abandoned their ground breaking research for the less impressive nuclear development and stockpiling of munitions. At least that's the only rational explanation I can come up with for why this is out there.

Saturday, August 22, 2009

Drunk History

Saturday, December 20, 2008

Terry Jones' Medieval Lives

An amazing, informative 2004 BBC program from one of the most consistently intellectual Britons, never mind Pythons.


"each half-hour episode examines a particular Medieval personality, with the intent of separating myth from reality."


And if you have a Netflix account, you can stream it there.