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Title: 1 in 4 Britons Think Winston Churchill Never Existed
Post by: wrag on February 04, 2008, 03:57:50 PM: And they're not kidding!!!

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,328088,00.html

American Students aren't far behind IMHO.

SEEMS like the dumbing down thing is intentional and working.
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Post by: trax1 on February 04, 2008, 04:03:09 PM: Wow, that sad.
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Post by: john9001 on February 04, 2008, 04:06:26 PM: Briton is a mythical island inhabited by King Arther and the knights of the round table.
Title: 1 in 4 Britons Think Winston Churchill Never Existed
Post by: Scherf on February 04, 2008, 04:48:15 PM: In'nit?
Title: 1 in 4 Britons Think Winston Churchill Never Existed
Post by: ZetaNine on February 04, 2008, 05:32:34 PM: Some recent news you must have missed...may help explain things:

"Churchill dropped from England's history syllabus"

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/07/13/1977438.htm?section=justin
Title: 1 in 4 Britons Think Winston Churchill Never Existed
Post by: 68Wooley on February 04, 2008, 05:38:59 PM: Sad, but not really surprising.

The average Brit is every bit as thick as his American cousins and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
Title: 1 in 4 Britons Think Winston Churchill Never Existed
Post by: Holden McGroin on February 04, 2008, 06:48:51 PM: Looks like this is not their finest hour.
Title: 1 in 4 Britons Think Winston Churchill Never Existed
Post by: Major Biggles on February 04, 2008, 06:57:26 PM: well, first off that's a load of frickin BS. they must have intentionally surveyed some of the dumbest and most foreign immigrants they could find. flipping somalians lol.
Title: 1 in 4 Britons Think Winston Churchill Never Existed
Post by: Treize69 on February 04, 2008, 07:34:10 PM: Quote
Originally posted by john9001
Briton is a mythical island inhabited by King Arther and the knights of the round table.

No, Briton is the centuries old name for anyone from the British Isles not covered by "Scot", "Irish", or "Welsh". Where do you think the term "Brit" came from?
Title: 1 in 4 Britons Think Winston Churchill Never Existed
Post by: john9001 on February 04, 2008, 07:41:09 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Treize69
No, Briton is the centuries old name for anyone from the British Isles not covered by "Scot", "Irish", or "Welsh". Where do you think the term "Brit" came from?

you forgot Celts, Vikings, Saxons, Normans.
Title: 1 in 4 Britons Think Winston Churchill Never Existed
Post by: Treize69 on February 04, 2008, 07:42:49 PM: Yes, because there's just so many of them left these days. :rolleyes:
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Post by: john9001 on February 04, 2008, 07:48:59 PM: what are you talking about, the Celts have a basket ball team, the vikings have a football team and i know several people named Norman.
Title: 1 in 4 Britons Think Winston Churchill Never Existed
Post by: AKIron on February 04, 2008, 07:52:29 PM: and don't forget the saxophone
Title: 1 in 4 Britons Think Winston Churchill Never Existed
Post by: Holden McGroin on February 04, 2008, 08:54:13 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Treize69
No, Briton is the centuries old name for anyone from the British Isles not covered by "Scot", "Irish", or "Welsh". Where do you think the term "Brit" came from?

And now the obligatory quote
Quote

"Oo are the Britions?"

"We all are, and I am your King."

"I didn't vote for you."

"You don't vote for Kings."
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Post by: DiabloTX on February 04, 2008, 09:13:29 PM: I sure am hungry for some fish 'n' chips now.

Who makes the best? Long John Silvers?
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Post by: C(Sea)Bass on February 04, 2008, 09:20:02 PM: Quote
Originally posted by DiabloTX
I sure am hungry for some fish 'n' chips now.

Who makes the best? Long John Silvers?

Take my advice, avoid fish and chips. IT's made from the nastiest little critters in the sea, dogfish, gosh darn garbage fish

Who is Winston Churchill anyways?:D
Title: 1 in 4 Britons Think Winston Churchill Never Existed
Post by: Meatwad on February 04, 2008, 11:25:38 PM: Fish and chips around here is a box of fish sticks and a bag of Lays
Title: 1 in 4 Britons Think Winston Churchill Never Existed
Post by: DiabloTX on February 04, 2008, 11:31:40 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Rainman
Fish and chips around here is a box of fish sticks and a bag of Lays while watching The People's Court. K-mart sucks!

:D :aok
Title: 1 in 4 Britons Think Winston Churchill Never Existed
Post by: Meatwad on February 04, 2008, 11:32:34 PM: :rofl :rofl :cry :rofl

Now thats piss your pants funny
Title: 1 in 4 Britons Think Winston Churchill Never Existed
Post by: Pooh21 on February 04, 2008, 11:44:32 PM: This is a prime example why, when inevitably the Germans get uppity again. America should let them have europe, rather then joining the Allied Zerg rush for a 3rd time.
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Post by: Chairboy on February 04, 2008, 11:47:51 PM: Quote
1 in 4 Britons Think Winston Churchill Never Existed
It's ok, England, Winston Churchill believed in you.
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Post by: Charge on February 05, 2008, 02:16:40 AM: "Where do you think the term "Brit" came from?"

Where do you think it came from? ;)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breton_language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Briton

-C+
Title: 1 in 4 Britons Think Winston Churchill Never Existed
Post by: Angus on February 05, 2008, 02:28:39 AM: Quote
Originally posted by ZetaNine
Some recent news you must have missed...may help explain things:

"Churchill dropped from England's history syllabus"

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/07/13/1977438.htm?section=justin

SCANDAL! Maybe it's just me, but on my list, if I was teaching British history, he'd be the last one to drop out.

Anyway, one more linkie
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=512087&in_page_id=1770

Sad really, that the British now enter the same level of history knowledge as (cough) their cousins in Geography :D
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Post by: Lusche on February 05, 2008, 02:55:09 AM: Winston Churchill has always been my favourite character in Lord of the Rings. I was very disappointed when Steven Spielberg left him out of the film adaption.
Title: Re: 1 in 4 Britons Think Winston Churchill Never Existed
Post by: SIG220 on February 05, 2008, 04:35:42 AM: Quote
Originally posted by wrag
And they're not kidding!!!

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,328088,00.html

American Students aren't far behind IMHO.

SEEMS like the dumbing down thing is intentional and working.

But was his contribution to history significant?

Would anything be different now, if he had never been born?

SIG 22o
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Post by: Bruv119 on February 05, 2008, 04:45:12 AM: yea we would all be living in the thousand year Reich.
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Post by: RTHolmes on February 05, 2008, 07:14:57 AM: survey carried out by UKTV Gold, then reported by Fox News :rofl
Title: Re: Re: 1 in 4 Britons Think Winston Churchill Never Existed
Post by: Angus on February 05, 2008, 07:51:50 AM: Quote
Originally posted by SIG220
But was his contribution to history significant?

Would anything be different now, if he had never been born?

SIG 22o

I'd say quite a lot. The total layout of the world after WW2 for starters.
Title: 1 in 4 Britons Think Winston Churchill Never Existed
Post by: Bruv119 on February 05, 2008, 08:05:03 AM: If Britain had a weak politician, see chamberlain and agreed to a peace deal like France. This is purely a "what if"

No daylight bombing, No aerial threat to German production. The rest of the empire on friendly axis terms. No second front, Russia I believe would have been defeated.

Now lets see Japan in the far east, the whole of russia and Africa. It would have been West vs East and West would have been outnumbered.

I'm going to go stick his ugly mug on our website so people can remember what he looked like :aok
Title: 1 in 4 Britons Think Winston Churchill Never Existed
Post by: Airscrew on February 05, 2008, 09:11:26 AM: Quote
Originally posted by RTHolmes
survey carried out by UKTV Gold, then reported by Fox News :rofl

I read this yesterday and came to the same conclusion... this survey probaby has the same significance has one of Jay Leno's Jaywalking segments...