The arrogance of you to assume only you have a very basic knowledge of the early Middle Ages. Bede is hardly an obscure character.
I would assume most people from Yorkshire with a basic level of education will have at least heard of him. Everyone who has ever been to Whitby for a start
Really? We have a Foreign Secretary in this government who thought the son son of Henry VIII was Henry VII and that Marie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize was Marie Antoinette. And I said some. After all we have people on here who have to ask others what time our games kick off and whether we are on TV.
*GFAW He's the one who breaks every sentence down word by word to prove someone didn't say exactly what you said they did.
Some didn’t need to Google to know who he was. Some would. I wonder who they could be? Some would know the Bede was Venerable. Others would not tie it up with Bedia. Some in Cheshire will have been googling before coming on here.
Not really, I’ve noticed that you seem to enjoy putting other people down for some reason, which I find a bit odd, so I thought I’d just query the need for it. The username is just because it was when I first started going to BP and I wasn’t old enough to be a hippie but if the petty little jibes are what floats your boat, knock yourself out.
Yes, plenty do but I generally just ignore them and scroll on, which is probably what I should have done this time too, in order to avoid the back and forth.
So you decided to pick on me and ignore others. If I was as soft as some delicate little things on here it would bother me. Fortunately I am not so it doesn’t.