So life is pretty cool right now...

[the_gabih]

1. I just realised that the ex-manager in the Phantom of the Opera is called Mr. Lefevre. My grandmother's maiden name was Lefevre, and the fact that I may be distantly related to an extraordinarily minor fictional character is probably making me more happy than it should. xD

2. I have successfully avoided the Ex since his last display of skeeziness

Comments

[the_gabih]

WHY YES, A CIVIL WAR MEANS THAT YOU FIGHT AGAINST YOUR OWN PEOPLE, RLY.

I think I had that conversation in primary school once- we very briefly did the English civil war, and everyone else was so confused. ('No, seriously, who were they fighting?') Having it at college, though, makes me fear for the world's future.

And yes, you seriously do. Even if you don't like the utter crack that is the canon stuff, the fanfic is incredible.

[sabriel75]

LOL!

Now that's what I call enlightening someone.

Dude, no way! That's what I thought when I first read your remarks that they truly didn't know how the Revolutionary War went down. Uh... yeah. Be afraid. Very afraid.

[the_gabih]

That's what I thought when I first read your remarks that they truly didn't know how the Revolutionary War went down.

*nods* I know we have a habit of not teaching people the worse bits of our history (my Irish friend and I have had many a discussion on this), but some things really should be known anyway. And our school's supposed to be for the best and brightest...

[versipellis]

Even I know that they were rebelling against us, and I didn't even do history GCSE *facepalm*

"Skeeziness" is a good word :D

[futuresimple]

RHS: Well, I don't really get the whole revolution thing. Who were they rebelling against?
Me: (thinking: you have got to be kidding me) Erm... us?
RHS: Really?
Me: Yeah... they were kind of our colony for a few hundred years.
RHS: Dude, no way!

... sometimes I feel so much smrtr than the English in terms of the knowledge of England's history OTL

[tierfal]

Pretty skirt sounds pretty! 8D

/one of my DREAMS is to see a play in the Globe ;_____; .../this dream has quadrupled in insistence since having seen "The Shakespeare Code" twice in the last few weeks XD

omg are you serious. XD'''' I lol'd! And now I feel much better about sometimes having trouble keeping English monarchs straight, lol. XD Was it James I or James II that liked pineapples?

And I get not knowing our history, but you'd think it would at least sound FAMILIAR given how intricately it interacts with your own up until 1800 or so. O_o

Seriously though, why is it that I know more about history than any of the people studying it in my year group do?
Umm... because you're really smart? XD