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[–]ankhx100stop stalin for time. hue hue hue 13ポイント14ポイント  (3子コメント)

So I'm in a bit of a pickle.

Last week my cousin got me an interview at my old high school for a Social Studies position. I went out of a sense of familial piety, but I did feel I wouldn't get the job. I've been to enough high school teaching interviews to know that the most important thing principals were looking for was classroom management over knowing the content.

But whatever, I still went.

Turns out, I'm likely to get the job :o It's for an "early college" program, so not only are the classes gonna be small, and my commute hella short, but the Principal there pretty much sold me on the vision of the school.

My problem has to do more with my social awkwardness than anything else. But:

  1. I need to know, for sure, if I got the job.
  2. I need to let down the colleges that I'm going to pass on their offers.
  3. I need to give my two week notice to my boss, even though it's more of a one week notice if I do get hired, since my boss convinced me to hold off until this week.
  4. Oh god this is so real D:

That's the situation for now. It's a bit overwhelming since everything is still in flux. And here I am at the office just silently freaking out ;_;

[–]wwstevensAbraham Lincoln owned slaves 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

Well nevertheless, congrats on the great interview and I hope you do get the job!

[–]Quouarthe Weather History Slayer 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Congratulations, though! It sounds like a great opportunity, and something you'll enjoy!

[–]Poopsonhead 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Congratulations! It sounds like a very nice job to have.

[–]viralmysteriesThe SS didn't even give me a waffle 9ポイント10ポイント  (11子コメント)

I'm getting my wisdom teeth removed tomorrow.

Oh joy.

In other news, yesterday I learned that the Central African Republic is in the middle of the one the worst humanitarian crises of our time. And the that the countries Muslim minority is the midst of ethnic cleansing at the hands of the Christian majority.

[–]40kfreakQuouaboo 4ポイント5ポイント  (2子コメント)

I'm an IR major and it's so upsetting that this is underreported even by jerkoffs like vice that eat this shit up

[–]tobbinatorFrancisco Franco, Caudillo de /r/Badhistory 1ポイント2ポイント  (1子コメント)

Vice had, like, one documentary about it compared to 120841931 on the war in Ukraine.

[–]40kfreakQuouaboo 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

They're in Burundi right now, like you can't deploy two more guys to the car?

[–]imgladimnothim 3ポイント4ポイント  (5子コメント)

That's very sad. You can't be a christian and participate in such things. I hope they come to see the error of their ways

[–]TiakoTevinter apologist, shill for Big Lyrium 1ポイント2ポイント  (4子コメント)

You can't be a christian and participate in such things.

Man, I get what you are saying but history would argue against that point.

[–]misunderstandgapPre-Marx, Marx, Post-Marx studies. All three fields of history. 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

Isn't "No True Scotsman" fun?

[–]40kfreakQuouaboo 0ポイント1ポイント  (2子コメント)

Personally I think the actions of the religious historically reflect more on the nature of man than the nature of Christianity or any religion for that matter

[–]TiakoTevinter apologist, shill for Big Lyrium 1ポイント2ポイント  (1子コメント)

I wasn't making an anti-Christian point or anything, just a bit of a dark joke.

Although since you bring it up, what exactly is this nature of man?

[–]40kfreakQuouaboo 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Fuck bitches get money? I think Socrates said that

Edit- sorry it was hobbes how could I make that mistake

[–]Philosophantry 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Getting wisdom teetg removed

Enjoy the Vicodin! My favorite part of that whole ordeal

[–]TiakoTevinter apologist, shill for Big Lyrium 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

The CAR is a really interesting country with a rather tragic, and somewhat bewildering, history. I did a project about it in middle school geography and have more or less kept up with it since. I think that, even though religious violence usually gets headlines, the CAR conflict has been largely ignored for a few reasons:

  1. The seleka (ex-seleka, I suppose), although Muslim, are not jihadist. In fact I don't think they have expressed any real religious dimension to their violence and quite a few of them have teamed up with the Christian LRA. Religious violence has usually been perpetrated on the part of the various Christian militias.

  2. Because of this the story wouldn't really pop because the media prefers stories of Christians being killed by Muslims over the reverse.

  3. It is pretty easy to fit this into the whole "no good guys, This Is Africa" narrative that gets shoved down our gullets. And, admittedly, there is some justification in this case.

[–]Guy_de_NolastnameThe UK and US did nothing wrong. 5ポイント6ポイント  (17子コメント)

Yesterday was the 2,230th anniversary of the Battle of Cannae, fun fact.

[–]belgarion90Graduated summa cum laude, Total War University 2ポイント3ポイント  (8子コメント)

Aww, and I forgot to play Rome 2 in commemoration.

[–]wwstevensAbraham Lincoln owned slaves 1ポイント2ポイント  (7子コメント)

I wish my computer was able to run that game. It's drool-worthy.

[–]belgarion90Graduated summa cum laude, Total War University 2ポイント3ポイント  (5子コメント)

It's overrated. I'm pissed I wasted $60 on it. It's the same engine as Shogun 2 but optimized pretty terribly. Attila is the game it should have been, but I refuse to buy it until Rome 2 gets better.

Rome 1 was so much better, especially if you get Europa Barbarorum.

[–]wwstevensAbraham Lincoln owned slaves 2ポイント3ポイント  (4子コメント)

Oh, not the answer I was expecting. That's disappointing.

I do have fond memories of playing Rome 1. That game was rad.

[–]belgarion90Graduated summa cum laude, Total War University 2ポイント3ポイント  (3子コメント)

The whole experience rather soured me on CA. I'm probably skipping Total Warhammer.

[–]wwstevensAbraham Lincoln owned slaves 2ポイント3ポイント  (2子コメント)

Total Warhammer seems kinda lame. I'm just kinda done with the whole over-blown, massive armor, huge dragons, goblins theme. It was too much to begin with. It's cheesy at this point.

[–]Guy_de_Nolastnamelegiones Cannenses 1ポイント2ポイント  (1子コメント)

I guess they ran out of time-periods to do. I, for one, was praying for a game that took place during the Victorian era. Imagine how cool a TW game about the Crimean War, American Civil War, and Franco-Prussian War would be.

But oh well.

[–]wwstevensAbraham Lincoln owned slaves 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I know. I have been waiting for a game like that for ages. I guess there is that extremely-involved nation-building sim called "Victoria". But I'm not about the micro-managing of empires. I'm way more interested in battlefield operations.

[–]TheGreatDainius 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

In contrast to Belgarion, I was super disappointed at first but ever since the Emperor Edition update it's a pretty good game! The Divide et Impera mod makes it even better

[–]wwstevensAbraham Lincoln owned slaves 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Was there a reenactment? sarcasm

[–]nota999The institution of a flaired gentry must be brought to an end 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Also the 25th anniversary of Iraq invading Kuwait.

[–]BhangbhangducGamerGate is the only real Marxism 0ポイント1ポイント  (5子コメント)

It's funny to me how so many generals throughout history have wanted to achieve a Cannae. Did they forget that Hannibal lost in the end?

[–]40kfreakQuouaboo 0ポイント1ポイント  (4子コメント)

I mean they want to repeat cannae not the whole of the Punic wars

[–]BhangbhangducGamerGate is the only real Marxism 0ポイント1ポイント  (3子コメント)

The idea of a Cannae is that it's a decisive battle, a knockout blow, but Cannae itself...wasn't.

[–]40kfreakQuouaboo 0ポイント1ポイント  (2子コメント)

But doesn't the narrative usually go that Hannibal crushed the Romans at cannae and Rome was in some deep shit because of it?

[–]BhangbhangducGamerGate is the only real Marxism 0ポイント1ポイント  (1子コメント)

Yeah, but Rome came back and won. The Carthaginians had them on the ropes for a bit, but it wasn't a knockout blow.

[–]40kfreakQuouaboo 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

But I think what a general who wants to recreate cannae is thinking is "I want to surround a bigger army with a smaller army and crush them" not "I want to engage in a war I'll ultimately and win a bunch of battles as part of it" like I get what you mean but I think this might be a difference between tactics and strategy type thing

[–]M35MakoMaurice Hankey caused WW2 5ポイント6ポイント  (3子コメント)

I saw a guy wearing an SS cap while in town today. Was kinda creepy. He also had some shirt that had nazi insignia on it.

But I recently found /r/shitwehraboossay, and it is quickly becoming my favourite sub.

Actually, speaking of SS uniforms, could someone more knowledgeable than me tell me if the SS uniforms being worn in this (hilarious) sketch are badhistory or not? I am guessing that enlisted men wearing ties isn't really accurate.

[–]wwstevensAbraham Lincoln owned slaves 3ポイント4ポイント  (2子コメント)

/r/shitwehraboossay is probably one of my favorite history subs because I get such a guilty pleasure out of watching wehraboos get torn apart rekt by facts.

[–]FeragornTime Traveling Space Jew 3ポイント4ポイント  (1子コメント)

If you feel guilty about watching wehraboos get rekt, you might be a bit of a wehraboo.

Say three "Hail Churchills" and repent.

[–]wwstevensAbraham Lincoln owned slaves 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

haha. You bring up a good point, sir.

[–]Quouarthe Weather History Slayer 6ポイント7ポイント  (6子コメント)

This week in "quotes from my stepfather," I present: "Black people should cheer when they see the Confederate Flag because it got them out of slavery early."

[–]Guy_de_Nolastnamelegiones Cannenses 3ポイント4ポイント  (3子コメント)

Oh yes, that most noble act of the Confederacy, the Emancipation Proclamation.

[–]Quouarthe Weather History Slayer 4ポイント5ポイント  (2子コメント)

Which my stepfather then proceeded to rail against as an illustration of the North's hypocrisy instead of, you know, political necessity.

[–]Guy_de_Nolastnamelegiones Cannenses 2ポイント3ポイント  (1子コメント)

Sigh

Thanks a lot, Lost Cause revisionists!

[–]Quouarthe Weather History Slayer 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

He also then talked about his great-grandfather who had been captured at Fort Fisher, North Carolina, and the four black soldiers who had been captured there as well as if that somehow demonstrated that the war couldn't have been about slavery because these soldiers were fighting for the Confederacy.

This is the last time I ask him a question about a clause in a lease.

[–]40kfreakQuouaboo 0ポイント1ポイント  (1子コメント)

Is this like that theory that Donald trump is an evil genius sabotaging the republican party?

[–]Quouarthe Weather History Slayer 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Probably

[–]joesap9 3ポイント4ポイント  (6子コメント)

Found out my family is taking a trip down to Florida for a week to visit some cousins on the last week of my internship, so I'm finishing a week early. Normally I'd be kind of upset that I'm losing a weeks worth of pay, but I've been really struggling through these last few months so I'm actually pretty happy. Normally I'd finish my internship a week before school starts but now I get two weeks to relax before starting again.

[–]40kfreakQuouaboo 1ポイント2ポイント  (5子コメント)

Where do you intern if you don't mind me asking?

[–]joesap9 1ポイント2ポイント  (4子コメント)

Micro, a manufacturing company in New Jersey. It's not really ideal for me because I'm studying a different kind of engineering that what they do there but I didn't have too many options available and I wasn't going to turn it down and risk not getting one

[–]40kfreakQuouaboo 1ポイント2ポイント  (3子コメント)

Well any experience is better than None, does stem usually pay interns?

[–]joesap9 1ポイント2ポイント  (2子コメント)

Yeah, pretty well actually, I get 17 and hour. The pay is good it's just really slow and uninteresting for me at least. Lot of data entry and part testing

[–]40kfreakQuouaboo 1ポイント2ポイント  (1子コメント)

17 an hour? God dammit why am I in liberal arts

[–]joesap9 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Haha, most it goes toward paying my outrageous tuition, but having some disposable income is nice.

[–]SinlessSinnerSinning 3ポイント4ポイント  (1子コメント)

Went to The Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum, to fulfill my quota of museums with 10+ syllable names.

It's interesting how small beans, demographically speaking, early Texas history was. The entire army of Texas was 3,700 men (1,500 were American volunteers). And Texas itself had a population of 30,000 Anglos, 7,800 Tejanos, and some number of Native Americans by the time of the revolution.

By comparison, the UT football stadium right by the museum has a capacity of ~100,000.

[–]phasv2 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

The Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum

Did you get your picture in front of the giant star? I have one of my son in front of it, but haven't had a chance to get my daughters picture in front of it yet.

[–]TiakoTevinter apologist, shill for Big Lyrium 2ポイント3ポイント  (2子コメント)

I'm sometimes really surprised that there aren't more silly Who Would Win threads here, given that a lot of you guys like military history. I remember back in the day on other history forums there were tons of arguments about whether the Roman legions could beat the Mongols, or if Hannibal was better than Alexander, or the legendary pirates vs ninja.

That being said, Hannibal all day every day all the way.

[–]shannondoahAurangzeb hated music , 'cus a time traveller played him dubstep 0ポイント1ポイント  (1子コメント)

I want you to drone on more about the Cholas actually. And gimme three tree kangaroos in relation to it.

[–]TiakoTevinter apologist, shill for Big Lyrium 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Chola art is so great. I really want to go to Thranjavur and see the temples one day.

[–]pittfan46 2ポイント3ポイント  (1子コメント)

Hey guys. Finally moving out of Pittsburgh this week :(

It's been fun here but time to move onto the next stage I suppose. Moving to an apartment in Washington Heights for the next year. That'll be fun :)

/r/historicalworldpowers got a bunch of new players, but we still need more in North America. It's really fun once you get the hang of it.

Everytime I've taken megabus, it has not had outlets or internet. Oh well.

How's everyone doing?

[–]Quouarthe Weather History Slayer 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

I'm okay. I went to a movie in a rose garden last night, and burst into tears in the car afterwards because I'm going to miss my friends. Are you going to start teaching in the next couple of weeks?

[–]namesrhardtothinkofScholar of the Great Western Unflower 2ポイント3ポイント  (4子コメント)

I really like posting to /r/debatereligion because most of the questions are simple enough to answer, and since I'm a Christian my answers usually stay at the bottom so I don't get piles of hate heaped on me. But I always try to write in depth and heartfelt posts, so that maybe a ratheist will have a second thought, or another Jesus bro will come to say hi.

[–]KaliYugazTenno Heika Banzai 2ポイント3ポイント  (1子コメント)

Debatereligion in itself is a lost cause. It's only funny to watch everyone get lost and confused whenever the /r/badphilosophy and/or /r/bad_religion crowd invades and turns the discussion into a high-level academic debate.

[–]namesrhardtothinkofScholar of the Great Western Unflower 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

One of my favorite posts in recent memory was: Has religion or Science done more good for the world? Feel free to give examples and points for the tally!

And when I said "What about religious people who studied and discovered things with the idea of praising God?" They said it didn't matter and all science is simply Science, so balls to whatever scientific or artistic contributions that has been religiously inspired

[–]Poopsonhead 1ポイント2ポイント  (1子コメント)

I recently got into /r/DebateReligion as well, and I quite enjoy it, I just apply the same rule as I do for the rest of reddit, which is be very selective about the threads I enter.

[–]shannondoahAurangzeb hated music , 'cus a time traveller played him dubstep 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

How to browse /r/Debatereligion: /r/badphilosophy regularly links to it. Watch from there. And worship Pallas cats.

[–]wwstevensAbraham Lincoln owned slaves 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

I'm staying at a friend of a friend's house while I do a graduate student summer program at a museum. Well the people I'm staying with have started to have huge marital issues and now the wife is out living a crazy drunken life and has left her husband and kid at home. Now I'm sort of caught in the middle of this nasty divorce where she's suing for the house, kid, and alimony. I feel like I've walked into an episode of Jerry Springer or Judge Judy. Not really the kind of experience I wanted this summer, but ya know, whatever, trying to bide my time and stay positive.

[–]DrManhattan16Public Masticator 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

So I've been thinking on an idea I've seen talked about on r/badhistory, which is that many American schools don't seem to cover the Eastern Front's importance, or that these schools exaggerate the U.S's role in the war. Yet in retrospect, I can't say that my schools did that while I was taking history classes with them. I don't even think the Eastern Front or WW2 in general was covered until my senior year. Yet my history teacher acted as if we might have all might have been exposed to such an idea prior to his class.

Many of the cases of bad history we see on this sub have some political agenda, promoting some country or group of people while denigrating others. But I don't think the Eastern Front bad history is being promoted by schools, it's just what happens when we teach kids about how many wars America won, and fail to get to WW2 in their school life. These kids might go and assume that the U.S was the only country to matter in WW2, based on what they know about other wars it fought. What do you guys think?

[–]_sekhmet_Lincoln fired Fort Sumter at the Confederate cannon balls 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Hi everyone! I'm getting a new car and I need to know your best car buying advice, because holy shit I'm terrified of buying a car. I keep thinking I'm going to accidentally get a really shitty car, I'll get tied to s car loan for too long, or something like that. I don't know what dealers to trust, or what car brands are nice, and all the dealers say "buy a new car, it has heated seats," but he'll will freeze over before I pay $5000 above my budget for heated seats.

Also, the amount of shredding I have to do at work today is unreal. Behold just one of the many piles of shredding I have to do:

http://imgur.com/vXGDjWv

[–]Poopsonhead 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Hi Monday people!

Newish here, but thought I would say Hi!

Also probably posting this because I am putting off finishing my thesis, it has been almost done for a month, but it feels so final, and "OMG what am I going to do next AAAARGH!", which feels even more ridiculous at the advanced age of 35, but I am panicking about finishing 5 years of uni, and worried I will not be able to get accepted onto a PhD. It has got to the point where all I have to do is the abstract and contents page, and in 8 hours today I have done half of the contents page, and half of the abstract....waking up after 90 minutes sleep in a semi panic that I had overslept probably isnt helping!

[–]phasv2 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

So, my inlaws are selling their house, like, it's going on the market at the end of the week, but my FIL is spending so much time working all over the country that my MIL is left with the whole giant property and house to try to get ready for viewing. Which means that, this weekend, instead of me and my wife smoking meats and drinking beer, we cleaned my FIL crazy messy five car garage, and put mulch in garden beds all over their two acres. I'm glad their moving though, that house is too big for them to take care of.

I've been reading The Spirits of America:A Social History of Alcohol by Eric Burns, and, well, it's an interesting read, and it has an extensive bibliography, but I think he is perhaps taking a few liberties for the sake of narrative. He isn't a historian though, and it is an interesting book, so I ain't mad.

In other news, my daughter is very close to walking, and I'm making beans and cornbread today, and I'm starting plans for building a BBQ pit out of cinder blocks.

[–]nota999The institution of a flaired gentry must be brought to an end 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Tomorrow is my birthday. I will only be two years away from being able to legally drink then.

[–]websterandy42All part of the Air-Nomad conspiracy. 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I don't wake up early enough for these over summer.

Anyways, I'm leaving Friday for a beech trip with my friends. After, I'm going strait back to school. But untill then, I'm going to be enjoying Jon Stewart's last episodes of the daily show and generally wasting away on reddit.