Battle of Hastings

Why did I post this   

Cheers,

The anniversary isn't until October ... so are you planning a holiday there?

Something to do with that Mods and Rockers nonsense back in 1964?  

Because the force made you / because you were amused by a "newspaper" article  



For non readers of The Huffington Post ...........

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/23/stormtrooper-crashes-battle-reenactment_n_3639601.html



Did I win the prize  

tarmacburner2 wrote:

Why did I post this   

Cheers,

To up your post count of useless information?     Just like this post.

Hi Yo wrote:

tarmacburner2 wrote:

Why did I post this   

Cheers,

 To up your post count of useless information?        Just like this post.

X2 or is that now X3 ??

Who did what to who? Why wasn't I told? What was Hastings fought over and when?
Why couldn't they "just get along"?


Edit.. Oh I've just Googled it. It happened before even the US was invented... Family infighting and jealousy. French Norse and Poms... like I said "couldn't they just have gotten along"

That was nearly 1000 years ago... Tarmie, get over it.

Duh.....I thought the Battle of Hastings was when Hastings Books & Music opened a store down the street from Barnes & Noble.  

I am still out to Lunch on this one... 

Magoo

That post was number 1066 from me. For those of you who think history started in 1607 the date 1066 is one most commonly known by English schoolchildren (well it was in my school days!).

1066 and All That: A Memorable History of England, comprising all the parts you can remember, including 103 Good Things, 5 Bad Kings and 2 Genuine Dates is a tongue-in-cheek reworking of the history of England. Written by W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman and illustrated by John Reynolds, it first appeared serially in Punch magazine, and was published in book form by Methuen & Co. Ltd. in 1930.

Cheers,

Tarmac, how bored are you?

Besides Ethelred the Unready , who were the other bad kings ?

Richard the Third,a bad ruler & as it later turned out (due to Cockney rhyming slang) a **** title  

hotwings wrote:

Tarmac, how bored are you?

Very bored.

Suffering from back trouble at the moment. Even getting the Silverwing off the sidestand is painful so riding has been halted for the present.

Anyway, the brain is still as active (or inactive) as it ever was.

Cheers,

The Bern wrote:

Richard the Third,a bad ruler

Tudor propaganda! Perpetrated by various playwrights, particularly W. Shakespeare (who needed to curry favour with the Elizabethan court in fear of his own well being) and given credence by 1st Duke of Marlborough, John Churchill (an ancestor of Winston), who said "I take my history from Shakespeare".

As all journalists will attest, never let the facts spoil a good story! Thus was sealed Richard's fate. There is NO evidence that he murdered the princes in the Tower.


What I don't understand is why they buried him a car park!

surlybiker58 wrote:

Besides Ethelred the Unready , who were the other bad kings ?

Æthered the Unready wasn't so much a bad king just badly advised.

As for Richard the Third, there's a campaign to have his recently found remains found under that carpark in Leicester moved for reburial in York Minster, he was the last Yorkist King of England.

Colin B wrote:

The Bern wrote:

Richard the Third,a bad ruler

What I don't understand is why they buried him a car park!

Richard III had nipped into a local hostelry for a pint. He was buried in a carpark because his horse had been clamped by the NCP carpark attendant. R3 started an argument with said attendant who then hit R3 on the head with his ticket machine, unfortunately it was a fatal blow. Not wanting to get into trouble with his supervisor the attendant used one of the big potholes in the carpark to bury R3 in. He then covered over the body and filled the pothole in.  

History is written by the victors, in this case the attendant kept quiet about it.

Cheers,

It must have been some ticket machine, as his remains show part of his skull had been hacked off!

You're really bored aren't you!  

Truth will out. I always suspected the parking attendant. History has been rewritten ... right here.


Now, about Henry VIII (8th!) and all those monasteries he destroyed, just because he took a fancy to a scheming slapper!

Geeeze, don't take much to get them started, ay Gov?

At least with a monarchy they are forced upon us, in a democracy the people vote the idiots in. so they only have themselves to blame. 

Anyway lets get this thread back on topic or the Forum Police will lock it!

Cheers,

Colin B wrote:

Now, about Henry VIII (8th!) and all those monasteries he destroyed, just because he took a fancy to a scheming slapper!

He also wanted to be remembered for posterity by having the adage .. FID DEF .. minted onto all the coins of the realm

Henry VIII may have topped one of his wives and ordered the Dissolution of the Monasteries, but to me he was the public face of Tudor Crisps. Sadly you can no longer buy a "canny bag of Tudor".    

Meldrew wrote:

Sadly you can no longer buy a "canny bag of Tudor"

Nor bottles of Stephens' fountain pen ink, or (more sadly) Gloy Gum*, the merest smell of which would transport me back to early skool days.

If anyone has a bottle .......  




*A brown coloured, viscous liquid glue made from cows hooves. Superseded by Prit Sticks.

there goes todays history lesson

tarmacburner2 wrote:

Anyway lets get this thread back on topic or the Forum Police will lock it!

I agree, and you can still buy thread lock!  

Wallowing in nostalgia is better than slinging mud!

Colin B wrote:

Wallowing in nostalgia is better than

Being forcibly drowned in a vat of sweet Madeira wine like George Duke of Clarence was,George being the brother of mad (in later years) King Henry VI

But he did get out three times to go to the toilet!

Seems we've had most of our sporting clashes with the French in October - maybe we didn't do so well at home at Hastings but we definitely won the next 3 away fixtures - Trafalgar, Crécy & Agincourt...

Two of histories greatest Frenchmen were :

Count de Money (history of the world)

&

Citizen Bidet (carry on don't loose your head