WyattSheepMask Posted July 29, 2016 Share Posted July 29, 2016 If there was to be a second scandal involving the Watergate, does that become Watergate-gate? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members ReturnOfTheMack Posted July 29, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted July 29, 2016 The Falkland Islands. I spent a few years learning about the history of the place, to the point that people living in Argentina send me translations of Argentine news reports about them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members WWFChilli Posted July 29, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted July 29, 2016 If there was to be a second scandal involving the Watergate, does that become Watergate-gate? Watergates? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members gmoney Posted July 29, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted July 29, 2016 Election coverage. I've watch people discussing the counting of votes for any old shit. Not sure I'd class it as irrational, but it's not something I could easily explain. It began well before I had a clue about politics too, the 92 General Election. Perhaps it had something to do with staying up late and my parents letting me, or perhaps it was the simple pleasure of watching numbers come in, people attaching meaning to them and producing charts about them on the hoof. Shout out to my boy Anthony King, who never seems to do them anymore, probably because he's fucking ancient now. I'm not a fan of those cunty Jeremy Vine CGI pieces though. They're obviously designed to be so shit that they're entertaining, but give me a simple pie chart and a uncomfortable spokesman trying to explain why his party have shat on the toilet floor over that any day. Luckily they seem to have phased those out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members SpursRiot2012 Posted July 29, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted July 29, 2016 I fucking hate the Jeremy Vine CGI shit. The one for the EUref with him prancing around beside it made me want to kick my tv in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merzbow Posted July 29, 2016 Share Posted July 29, 2016 Chairman Mao is my latest one, while I do fall on the filthy commie side of politics I'm in no way a student of Maoism. He should have stuck to studying Kroptokin. Â I'm waiting on a Red Star cap in the mail.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Sergio Mendacious Posted July 29, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted July 29, 2016 Damn you, Kropotkin! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Coconut Posted July 29, 2016 Share Posted July 29, 2016 M. Kahn is bent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deathrey Posted July 29, 2016 Share Posted July 29, 2016 I'm not a royalist and generally couldn't give a flying fuck about the royal family but I am strangely drawn to Queen Elizabeth 1st. I've got loads of books about her, I've gone on certain tours of London to see her history, I enjoy watching documentaries and films about her. I have no idea where the fascination comes from. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Chest Rockwell Posted July 29, 2016 Moderators Share Posted July 29, 2016 When I saw you'd posted last I thought it would be Mike Patton, but that wouldn't be irrational at all, so well done you weirdo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deathrey Posted July 29, 2016 Share Posted July 29, 2016 I think my obsession with Mike Patton is perfectly rational! It wouldn't have even crossed my mind to post it here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patiirc Posted July 29, 2016 Share Posted July 29, 2016 Damn you, Kropotkin! Damn you, Martin! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Divorced Dad Posted July 29, 2016 Share Posted July 29, 2016 For me it's the Titanic. I've read tons of books about it, accounts of the building, the journey, the sinking, absolutely everything. I've watched tons of documentaries too. Â There's just something about it that I find fascinating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Chilly McFreeze Posted July 30, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted July 30, 2016 A thread for discussing things that you love and why you love them, despite all know logic telling you they are shit/uncool. Â I'm probably not explaining this particularly well, but as an example I have a stonking rod-on for Richard Nixon, he of Watergate fame. I ended up doing a degree in politics solely because I happened to pick up a biography of Nixon when I was 16 and ended up being fascinated. I must own about 20 books on him/his administration. Â Â I've always had a passing interest in Watergate but never got into the meat & bones of it. Can you recommend a beginner's guide/pop-history type book on the subject to get me going? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drfunke Posted July 31, 2016 Share Posted July 31, 2016 Very much love my aliens/ufo conspiracy stuff.... truth is out there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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