Beefy's Corner.......For all off Topic threads

Well my home town is the birth place of British aviation. #Win

 

Hoadie, is that you?

 

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Reg Presley, of Andover, is dead.

 

I don't post for one evening and you all go gay. Typical.

 

What are your opinions on Andrew Luck?

 

Don't make me do this.

 

He's calling you, Dan.

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I see they have found the skeletal remains of Richard III in a carpark in Leicester. To bury someone in a multi storey car park is wrong on so many levels.........

 

It's a perfectly acceptable mancrush and you know it is.

 

Dat neckbeard.

 

It genuinely makes me jealous.

 

Good one .

 

It's times like this when I wish I knew the first thing about British history. All I know about Richard III is stuff that I've read about him today.

 

Well young Joe , here is you first lesson . You know the colours of the rainbow ? Red orange yellow green blue indigo violet ? The way to remember them is Richard of york gave battle in vain........

 

That's pretty good actually. Alternatively, one could remember the outcome of the Battle of Bosworth Field by reciting the colours of the rainbow.

Today I also learnt that he introduced the concept of bail and legal representation for poor people, and banned restrictions on the production of books. He was alright. Shame his death involved several hard blows to the head. That can't have been nice.

 

I was supposed to do stuff around the house today . Can see me spending more time on the internet . All in the name of research ...Mrs Jasper will approve i suppose........

Didn't know any of the stuff you just mentioned , have read that he had a bad name , but that history has proved it was undeserved

 

Maybe not totally undeserved, as I doubt there was a single monarch in the Middle Ages who didn't do some pretty nasty stuff. Richard may have been responsible for the deaths of these guys: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princes_in_the_Tower

Didn't Shakespeare write about him in a pretty bad light? I'm not really familiar with that play.

 

Well yes ok . Not quite bad as has been made out . I agree basically times / life in general was much tougher back then .

 

It's more likely that Henry Tudor's forces were responsible for murdering the Princes in the Tower than Richard III but Shakespeare has cemented the other version in history. Don't forget, Henry was Elizabeth I's grandfather and Shakespeare would have wanted to put her family in a good light to keep in her favour.