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I don't want to say that Trump made you a favor, but I realized that I had completely forgot about Canada. Are you aware of this? (lemmy.world)
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I mean, sure, it's not as population dense as the USA, or Mexico, but Canada is huge, your people are nice, you have some of the best entertainment companies on the planet (namely Cirque du Soleil and Pornhub), your natural resources and attractions are unbelievable and your actors are the best (especially the BSG/Chronicles of Riddick cast).

And yet, as an Italian with an international perspective (lived abroad for the last 16 years and visited the USA and South America repeatedly), I have been not "Canada-aware" for most of my life.

I get it that you are not boasting like your neighbors (and that alone makes you better than them imho), but how come that I was left to realize only today that the Manitoba flour I used to make pizza all my life takes its name from one of your provinces, while I know about all the shitty pizzas the US made up in a century.

Same thing goes for Latin American countries, even the ones I never visited, like Mexico or Argentina.

I shall visit soon and I hope you can take the chance to teach me more in the meanwhile.

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[–] Daryl@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The only connection between the two (or three or maybe four) movies is to promote Vin D's public persona as a 'badass action figure'. The franchise is all about Vin D, not anything related to a plot.

The franchise tag 'Chronicles of Riddick', or even the promotion of the character 'Riddick', did not jell until the second movie. I tis like 'The First World War' only became 'the First...' when the Second World War started. Without the second, there would be no purpose for the term 'First'.

If you had to wear the 'Necromonger' costume, you would know why it was impractical to do another movie featuring these creatures.

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well it was actually called the First World War before the war ended because people already knew there was going to be another one.

Anyway, only three characters survived Pitch Black and Chronicles features two of them prominently, only the priest didn't have a big part. But it's a priest, not too much they could do with a character like that in an action movie.

[–] Daryl@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Sure they did. That's what they called it. If you say so. You are the expert. I suppose you were even around then, so you know first hand.

But here is al the history books saying it was called The Great War.

And of course they expected there to be another war. That's why they also nicknamed it The War to End All Wars.

Historical revisionism, replacing historical reality with a mythical fantasy world.

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I saw Major Johnstone, the Harvard Professor who is here to lay the bases of an American History. We discussed the right name of the war. I said that we called it now The War, but that this could not last. The Napoleonic War was The Great War. To call it The German War was too much flattery for the Boche. I suggested The World War as a shade better title, and finally we mutually agreed to call it The First World War in order to prevent the millennium folk from forgetting that the history of the world was the history of war.

-- Charles à Court Repington, September 10, 1918 (with emphasis added)

Historical revisionism happens when someone ignores history because they want to win an argument. Which is what you just did. Which is particularly ridiculous given you were just using that as an analogy to make some other point. But the fact is, that while most people called it "The Great War" while it was ongoing, historians started calling it the "First World War" before the war had ended.

[–] Daryl@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 hours ago

There is a very big difference between calling it the 'first' (lower case 'f' and the 'First' (upper case 'F' World War. The lower case 'f' implies that it was the first war to be fought on a world canvas. (However, it was far from being the first such war. The American Revolution was, in fact, just part of a bigger global world war. ) The upper case 'F' implies it will be part of a series, and is thus part of the name. The correct quote has the 'f' as lower case, not the upper case as you altered it to be. This is evident in the context of the quote. He was looking for a unique name for the war, and that unique name was 'World War', or 'The Wold War'. It was the first war to be called that, making it a unique name, in his perspective. He was pretty sure there would be another war, but to be unique it would certainly not be called The World War, or even the Second World War. Otherwise The Second Great War would have been an acceptable name.