Napoleon
Posted: 26 Jan 2003, 14:14
OK, so i was watching this brit comedy show on tv the other night, and even though it was damn funny, yes brits are good in humour, one thing got me thinking. I obviously like humour just like everyone else, but when jokes get too easy, it makes me think maybe they are not that funny after all. So they made this joke about Napoleon, which in the context of the situation was funny, i admit, i even smiled a little, but...
Everyone knows about the animosity between the french and the brits (and how the brits have always wanted to be like the french but never have so they hate them
), which later translated into a great animosity between the french and americans, but everyone hates americans anyway, so this one shouldn't be a surprise. What i meant to say with all this is that they obviously made a joke about his size. What i want to know is why are people so incredibly stupid. Napoleon was actually a very normal size for the time, 5'6, but one day, a british officer, who was tall, called him a little men, in an attempt to belittle and take importance away from him, technique used several times in order to belittle your enemy, especially used by american presidents (this alone should tell you that it is not something to be done). Even if he was small, which he wasn't, he was absolutely normal, he was still one of greatest military geniuses this world has ever known, but in the anglo saxon world it seems that he's some kind of a joke, and even something called the napoleon complex was named after him. Thus what i mean by easy jokes, which appeal to the most basic knowledge people may have. People are conditioned to react a certain way to certain words, and don't even know why they react they way they do, they just do. Why, oh why are the masses so f**king stupid?
As a final note, i like brit history very much, but that brith officer was envious, the brits never had a genious like that.
Everyone knows about the animosity between the french and the brits (and how the brits have always wanted to be like the french but never have so they hate them
), which later translated into a great animosity between the french and americans, but everyone hates americans anyway, so this one shouldn't be a surprise. What i meant to say with all this is that they obviously made a joke about his size. What i want to know is why are people so incredibly stupid. Napoleon was actually a very normal size for the time, 5'6, but one day, a british officer, who was tall, called him a little men, in an attempt to belittle and take importance away from him, technique used several times in order to belittle your enemy, especially used by american presidents (this alone should tell you that it is not something to be done). Even if he was small, which he wasn't, he was absolutely normal, he was still one of greatest military geniuses this world has ever known, but in the anglo saxon world it seems that he's some kind of a joke, and even something called the napoleon complex was named after him. Thus what i mean by easy jokes, which appeal to the most basic knowledge people may have. People are conditioned to react a certain way to certain words, and don't even know why they react they way they do, they just do. Why, oh why are the masses so f**king stupid? As a final note, i like brit history very much, but that brith officer was envious, the brits never had a genious like that.
and just why Britain became so important on the wolrd scene
) 
