What could Beta Male possibly say about male insecurity around issues of sex and relationships that Chris Gethard didn’t cover in two minutes?

AFAIK, Wilno is the Polish version — although tbf we’ve always assumed that side of the family contains at least a few crypto-Jews.

Aw, the US tries.

Shouldn’t it be Wilno? At least, that’s how my grandfather STILL referred to it in the 1990s.

Ah, Billy Haisley. An insightful football blogger — except where current or former Barcelona players are concerned.

Ahh, memories

I once dated a guy who always went to the bank teller to take out money, so he could request it in $2 bills. (Our relationship didn’t last long.)

Screw that bunch of relics. They should make stamps with Nadiya and her adorable family on them:

Yeah, WWI is a pretty clear example of what happens when your technology for killing people is more advanced than your technology for healing people... This is a time when they’d figured out how to blow holes in the ground the size of a cadillac, but hadn’t yet figured out antibiotics.

This. Not to mention the incalculable dearth of leadership in the late 1930s, thanks to all the men who’d died twenty years earlier. The “Lost Generation” really meant something different in France and Britain, where up to 1/3 of all men born in some years had died.

Thank you for that link! I’m always eager to read more about the Great War. I think it’s such a weakness in American school curriculum that it largely gets short shrift at the primary and secondary levels, since it’s basically the foundational act of the twentieth century. Nothing else, from WWII and Hitler, to the…

God bless ‘Allo ‘Allo!

Ah, I see. “Mission accomplished.”

What fight? The French have a hugely active military presence overseas, particularly in francophone Africa, where they have an ongoing anti-insurgent operation after single-handedly ousting an Islamist coup in Mali.

Sorry, but no. You can’t say that the French military sucks because it doesn’t win wars (or in the case of WWI, because it doesn’t win wars in a manner of your liking), and then go around and claim that the US military shouldn’t be judged on the conflicts it fails to win. I don’t even agree with your shitty metric to…

In your firsthand experience? Oh, I’m sorry — I didn’t realize I was speaking to a 130-year old WWI veteran.

So I guess that’s the only metric for gauging military prowess? I’m sure the US military will be thrilled to hear that after Iraq and Afghanistan....

Oh, I totally agree. I mean, I don’t think most Americans know about the War of 1870, let alone who won or lost. And IDK about the French being the worst Allied army in the First World War. I think the Russians certainly earn that distinction, although the Italians didn’t cover themselves in glory, either. But…

No one’s saying they didn’t lose. Clearly they did. But the idea that these weren’t hard-fought battles by brave soldiers — the implication of your joke about French rifles — really shows how little you know about the topic.

To be fair, they also got creamed in the War of 1870 (which I think is called the Franco-Prussian War in the States) — but if your capital city is besieged for four months, and almost 50,000 civilians die, I feel like you get a pass on being called “surrender monkeys” when you finally give in.