I feel hostile towards french looking people today

[clive3300]

Brendan Wrote:

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> I think most countries are the same to be honest.

> Unless you actually have an interest in finding

> things out yourself you are pretty much just going

> to learn the history that a bunch of bureaucrats

> in the Department/Ministry/office of Education

> feel will foster a national image which in most

> expedient to their political ends.

>

> Well that is if, like me, you are perpetually

> distrusting and paranoid. It could just be that

> you can only fit so much history into so many

> years of schooling.

You mean there was more to South African history than the Great Trek?

[Brendan]

Not sure, I seem to remember someone called Simon van der Stel who I think was a General in WW1 and a bloke called Shaka who was the Governor of the Cape Colony.

[mockney piers]

And then there was Michael Caine who only came to build a bloody bridge, or something ;-)

[clive3300]

Brendan Wrote:

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> Not sure, I seem to remember someone called Simon

> van der Stel who I think was a General in WW1 and

> a bloke called Shaka who was the Governor of the

> Cape Colony.

Our school was more traditional: Great Trek all the way.

Every year. Every subject too I think.

[Michael Palaeologus]

...... and all "Eskimos" lived in Igloos, "Red Indians" lived in Teepees and "Mongols" didnt nescessarily live in Mongolia, but if they did they all road horses, all of the time, even when giving birth or engaging in intimate congress.

A 1970s West Midlands comprehensive education was a marvellous thing to behold.

[Brendan]

Glad you mentioned Michael Caine Mockney. He was the most significant figure in South African history up until, well you know who; Bob Geldof.

I know what you mean Clive. If you have 100 displaced families living nomadically in ox wagons, 10 get eaten by warthogs, 15 get killed by zulus, 5 move to London to fix computers and return 3 years later married to uitlanders and 12 disappear for 7 years after a mysterious biltong related accident. What is the capital of Finland?

Mongols do don't they?

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

You're forgetting the ones who become England captains.

[EDOldie]

mockney piers Wrote:

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> And then there was Michael Caine who only came to

> build a bloody bridge, or something ;-)

Local though, went to Wilsons in Camberwell, and not a lot of people know that. Wonder how he did at french?

[Brendan]

Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote:

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> You're forgetting the ones who become England

> captains.

Mongols, England Captains. I can never remember. Which are the ones who interfere with horses again?

[Jimbob]

Brendan Wrote:

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> Glad you mentioned Michael Caine Mockney. He was

> the most significant figure in South African

> history up until, well you know who; Bob Geldof.

>

> I know what you mean Clive. If you have 100

> displaced families living nomadically in ox

> wagons, 10 get eaten by warthogs, 15 get killed by

> zulus, 5 move to London to fix computers and

> return 3 years later married to uitlanders and 12

> disappear for 7 years after a mysterious biltong

> related accident. What is the capital of Finland?

>

>

> Mongols do don't they?

i think stanley baker would disagree with that one.