Is it important e forgive the 'sins' of our ancestors? When the panzers sunk the Titanic, it was an evil act so do we forgive the Japanese?

When General Custard was defeated bu the Spanish Amrada at the Battle of Little Big Horn do we forgive the French? Finally, Adolf Hitler was born and raised near Linz, but should we condemn the Australians for this?

I am a historian and I feel we should not blame the present for the past...what are your thoughts?

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Nimbus · M

Seems like the magic mushroom harvest was particularly good this year.

AndysLoft · 56-60, M

@Nimbus A mushroom that is magic, how fascinating. Sir I do not to wish to appear condescending but there is no place for 'magic' or even 'magic mushrooms' in the important subject of history.

Nimbus · M

@AndysLoft Really?
Did you not know that Nero ate mushrooms whilst Rome burned?
Did you not know that Churchill's best decisions were after a breakfast of mushrooms?
Did you not know that mushrooms are associated with the atomic bomb?

AndysLoft · 56-60, M

@Nimbus Thank you for your retort Sir but when Churchill defeated Napoleon at Rorke's Drift I think you will find that he had sausages, no mushrooms.

smiler2012 · 56-60

@Nimbus 😆 have you been sampling them yourself mimpy and this is why you say all these things about jurgen and liverpool 😆

Nimbus · M

@AndysLoft You may be correct and that, ultimately, led to the Full English Breakfast which is the envy of the world and the USA.

Nimbus · M

@smiler2012 You scullion! You rampallian! You fustilarian! I'll tickle your catastrophe!

spjennifer · 56-60, T

@Nimbus Don't the English have Kippers for Breakfast?

Nimbus · M

@spjennifer Not for many moons now though I hear Supertramp are partial to them.

AndysLoft · 56-60, M

@spjennifer Ma'am, being Scottish I only eat stones, bark and porridge. My good lady is English and she only partakes of curds and whey...I think, maybe I dreamed that.

spjennifer · 56-60, T

@AndysLoft Some dreamscape that must have been! 😝

spjennifer · 56-60, T

@Nimbus What else would Super Tramps have, maybe canned Kippers from the food bunks?

AndysLoft · 56-60, M

@spjennifer I am astonished Ma'am, you don't eat bark, stones and curds and whey....you must think of your health.

spjennifer · 56-60, T

@AndysLoft And our teefs, lol

smiler2012 · 56-60

@Nimbus ha ha ha that is it nimby hurl abuse of words i have no idea what there definition is 😆