Interesting Links for 29-05-2013

[andrewducker]

• Plus-Size Dress Form A Reality Thanks To Cornell Students
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• This "Crusader Kings II: The Old Gods" trailer tries to make clicking on icons look exciting. Not very successfully.
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• The Ridiculously Racist Robots Of Mobile Fighter G-Gundam. (Tequila Gundam FTW)
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Comments

[call_waiting]

I may be being dense, but who the frack is "John Bull"?

[hfnuala]

British equivalent of Uncle Sam. Less popular since the 1960s or so.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bull

[call_waiting]

Yeah, having asked the question I then looked it up (as I'm obliged to do ;) but I have never, ever heard of this before. I have seen the fellow on a pub sign, but had no idea he was a Thing.

I'd totally fail the citizenship test, I'm sure.

[momentsmusicaux]

I've only heard of him because of the rock factory.

[hfnuala]

I think most uk natives would:) my other half, who is actually British is amused by how much more British history I know. Combination of me being interested in history and, he maintains, Irish people being more interested in British history than .brits, because so much of it happened to us.

[cartesiandaemon]

It's vaguely familiar to me from reading some historical fiction, but that's about all. I don't think I've heard it aloud.