On Ancient Discoveries: China

[the_epic]

Ok, you stupid show. Are we really going to do this again

Comments

[bluegrasshopper]

while I am sure you are ENTIRELY correct, two notes:

1 - come on... you know better than to trust half of what Wikipedia says ;]
2 - well, ok, I agree. the Great and Wise Wizards of Time and Space would be the Timelords*

*obligatory Doctor Who reference... mwah ha ha...

[the_epic]

Dr Who Fail.

[bluegrasshopper]

the_epic fail =p

[the_epic]

I want to love Dr. Who - but it's just become the Twilight of Sci Fi.

[lightfromlight]

If you and fleurdelista ever need something to keep you from being bored, you can start a blog where you fact-check the History Channel. I'd read it.

[fleurdelista]

This is actually a brilliant idea. But I'd be afraid of punting your brand new tv.

[the_epic]

And I'd be afraid of trying to convince her to punt your brand new tv.

[lightfromlight]

Yeah, you'd have to do that shit on your own TV. Or I could build a cage around it.

TV needs a name. Hmm.

[alagbon]

Oh gods, are they spreading the absurd mistake that the Xiongnu were the same as the Huns? Just because the Sogdian term for the Xiongnu was pronounced more or less "khoon" doesn't mean these guys had diddly-squat to do with Attila and his bunch. (And the Xiongnu didn't amount to anything more than an annoyance for the Chinese, which is exactly why nobody is sure who exactly they were. But everyone who isn't a freakin' idiot knows that they most likely were not the same as the Huns!)

[the_epic]

Oh historical inaccuracies.

[alagbon]

Call themselves the "History Channel" and they perpetuate bullshit that the legitimate academic world stopped believing before freakin' WWII! Bah.

[raphsody606]

While they didn't use the term barbarians they certainty treated outsiders badly/differently.

[the_epic]

Of course!

But they didn't call anyone "barbarians."

[raphsody606]

Heavens no. Chinese equivalent thereof - yes.

[the_epic]

I'm sure they did.
I'm complaining about the word useage.

[ex_hellocth126]

It's the same sort of Asia-philia (there's probably an official term for that) that leads to people proclaiming that samurai with their almighty katanas are history's ultimate warriors.