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  • Wait... are you saying I'm not serious. I respect the dead... never forget!

  • It just another thing for norms to get cranky, sanctimonious and punchy about...

  • 9/11 was yesterday bruv.

    no respec. SMH

  • Am unaware.

    I just googled "diana never forget" and that was the first hit, and middle-endian dates are always going to confuse me.

  • On a day where I read that 50% of Britons don't know about the Holocaust, you seem bang on the money.

    If you're talking about this Guardian article, then it's just clickbait. It confesses that the survey:

    ....found that the overwhelming majority of respondents (89%) said they had definitely heard about the Holocaust

    The "half of Brits" claim was those who couldn't recall that it was 6m Jews. I'd struggle to remember the figure myself, if asked, tbh.

  • try asking people if they know about the asian holocaust. so much just isn't spoken about.

  • or how many Russians died in WW2, see if they get close to either the military or civilian number, let alone the combined total.

    Country Military Deaths Total Civilian and Military Deaths
    Albania 30,000 30,200
    Australia 39,800 40,500
    Austria 261,000 384,700
    Belgium 12,100 86,100
    Brazil 1,000 2,000
    Bulgaria 22,000 25,000
    Canada 45,400 45,400
    China 3-4,000,000 20,000,000
    Czechoslovakia 25,000 345,000
    Denmark 2,100 3,200
    Dutch East Indies -- 3-4,000,000
    Estonia -- 51,000
    Ethiopia 5,000 100,000
    Finland 95,000 97,000
    France 217,600 567,600
    French Indochina -- 1-1,500,000
    Germany 5,533,000 6,600,000-8,800,000
    Greece 20,000-35,000 300,000-800,000
    Hungary 300,000 580,000
    India 87,000 1,500,000-2,500,000
    Italy 301,400 457,000
    Japan 2,120,000 2,600,000-3,100,000
    Korea -- 378,000-473,000
    Latvia -- 227,000
    Lithuania -- 353,000
    Luxembourg -- 2,000
    Malaya -- 100,000
    Netherlands 17,000 301,000
    New Zealand 11,900 11,900
    Norway 3,000 9,500
    Papua New Guinea -- 15,000
    Philippines 57,000 500,000-1,000,000
    Poland 240,000 5,600,000
    Romania 300,000 833,000
    Singapore -- 50,000
    South Africa 11,900 11,900
    Soviet Union 8,800,000-10,700,000 24,000,000
    United Kingdom 383,600 450,700
    United States 416,800 418,500
    Yugoslavia 446,000 1,000,000
  • I had no idea 20m civilians lost their lives in China, fuck, and I'd forgotten the USSR's numbers were that high... Staggering figures...

  • Not that it makes it better, but it was around 16 million, the 2nd column includes the 1st column.

  • There's on old Eddie Izzard routine (back from when he was still funny)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siBX0i1EIWk

  • From the replies

    "We Will Remember Fuckall"

  • That table gave me a semi. Markup porn.

  • I think Stalin said something along the lines of “one death is a tragedy but when you’re in the millions, it’s just a statistic”.

  • I forget that this forum does that... then I remember.

    Needs to be formatted like this:

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    Does not need to be cleanly aligned, messy works too, just pipe delimited columns.

    i.e., this is equivalent:

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  • Supraliminality. Our ape minds lose grasp of the significance of high numbers, so while 10k deaths is a tragedy, 20k deaths doesn’t “feel” twice as tragic, and so on.

  • I went to Verdun cemetery a few years back. There's supposedly 150k men buried there. Whether it's true or not, it's a truly horrifying place between the white markers (theres a significant section of muslim graves so not just crosses) and the ossuary. Impossible to comprehend the scale of death really, even when presented with that.

  • my dad took me there on our drive back from his farm house near Epinal when i was 13. really sombre experience.

    sadly the lasting memory for me was my dad had been telling me all about how it's such a damaged place that even now the birds there don't sing. so he wasn't happy when I pointed out the very obvious birdsong to him while we were there.

  • I did that one on the day too. Got less lols than I was hoping for, tbh.

  • I did that one on the day too. Got less lols than I was hoping for, tbh.

    I momentarily thought you were replying to @atz !

  • Peak 'membranceibilia


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  • Yeah but they also made this (and then has to pull it from sale..):

    Edit - of course this is a repost. Soz


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  • Did they pull it from sale?!

  • Wow. Three forenames yet the surname is (Hons)?

    Interesting.

  • Yup! Too many complaints.

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