Webb wrote:King Obama doesn't seem to understand it.
OldAirmail wrote:Would the average, 30+, Englishman ask "What's that"?
OldAirmail wrote:Don't get "it"?
Or haven't got a clue.
I mentioned the Magna Carta to an exec. today.
"What's that?", he said.
Maybe he thought that it was the next "Game of Thorns".
He lost ALL interest when I told him it was something to do with history, and nothing to do with TV.
Would the average, 30+, Englishman ask "What's that"?
Hawkeye07 wrote:Webb wrote:King Obama doesn't seem to understand it.
I thought politics was a taboo subject here. By the way neither the Dems nor the Republicans seem to get it.
OldAirmail wrote:Thirty five to forty.
Back around 2002 - 2004 there was a "man in the street" question asked on a college campus.
As best I can recall, just less than 20% got this correct: On who's side were the Germans in WWII?
A history test in 2015
OK Class. There is no right or wrong answer, and we'll mark it on a curve anyway.
QUESTION: Does anyone remember someone named Paris Hilton?
The test is now over.
OldAirmail wrote:Rather testy, aren't We?
I have no idea why you have to take everything as a personal affront, even those things that aren't directed at you in any way.
But as you have pushed yourself into a froth, let me offer some friendly advice - Grow up.
OldAirmail wrote:Sad, Michael is correct.
Anyway, better to keep flying. THAT, we can agree on.
OldAirmail wrote:As I said before.OldAirmail wrote:Sad, Michael is correct.
Anyway, better to keep flying. THAT, we can agree on.
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