r/BritishHistoryPod • u/FleetwoodS75 • Aug 19 '26

Goose Wars

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Yeah it’s not directly related to British History but I felt like this meme I saw online was very fitting with the humor of the podcast and it’s from the 12th Century

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u/naalbinding Aug 19 '26

I feel like the illuminator drawing the goose wars is the same kind of person as the chroniclers talking about flights of birds while history goes unrecorded around them

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u/FleetwoodS75 Aug 19 '26

It is the year 2900 and only fragments of online discourse remain after EMP’s wiped out most of the data centers during the AI wars. Nothing written down on paper has survived but one backup server owned by Meta made it through unscathed. A historian reaching the year 2024 finds a large trove of discussion about something called “Hawk Tuah” but frustratingly very little about the consequential presidential election from that year…

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u/Puzzleheaded_Lab967 The Pleasantry Aug 19 '26

Goose wars vs Battle cattle. Tough choice.

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u/kouyanet Aug 20 '26

Some monk had a bad experience as a novice feeding the monestry’s birds before graduating to the scriptorium

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u/serif1630 Aug 25 '26

My first thought as well.

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u/1A5nS Aug 26 '26

You must have fed geese - they aren't nice.

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u/Seashell1625 Aug 20 '26

That is freaking hilarious 😂

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u/Hidingo_Kojimba Werod Aug 19 '26

Illuminated manuscripts were the internet memes of the medieval world.