• Gork@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    Let’s hope this isn’t an Archduke Franz Ferdinand moment. Last thing we need is full blown escalation in an already fractured geopolitical situation that could lead to WWIII.

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      2 months ago

      Wasn’t that because a bloke called Archie Duke shot an Ostrich because he was hungry?

      EDIT for those who don’t know where it’s from, it’s Black Adder Goes Forth: https://youtu.be/tGxAYeeyoIc

    • Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      2 months ago

      Assassinations were all the rage at the time. We just remember that one especially because it was the nominal match lighting the powderkeg that was bound to blow from something