Otto Kretschmer

Who was he? The name does ring some bells but nothing specific.

Today I learned that I didn't learn anything new today.

Today I learned that the No True Scotsman fallacy is just 51 years old (it was coined in 1975 by a philosophist Antony Flew). That Scotsman could still be alive today if he was a real person!

Today I learned that when the descendants of Cornelius Vanderbilt held a family reunion in 1973, there wasn't a single millionaire among the 120 people present there.

I have been looking for the 2011 version but YT only has one with a handful of episodes translated into English. And I am just starting to learn Chinese. There is the 1998 version though:

Classic Chinese TV series from 1994 about the Three Kingdoms. IMO it's better than the newer 2010 version. Eng sub available:

One of cult classic of early Polish Youtube, I remember watching that in August 2007 when I was about to go to middle school lol. A Tibia (a MMORPG game super popular in Poland at that time) pro with an altair who supposedly prays to Game Master for levels and skills. It's satire mocking the players of that particular game but still funny if you understand Polish. I still undersand all the words related to Tibia gameplay that he uses. Why am I so big on nostalgic stuff lately? 🤔

Tasting History with Max Miller - a BRILLIANT food history channel, though the sentence: "Balmoral, where the Queen is as we speak" became outdated very quickly after the release of that particular video.

Well, actually it doesn't technically count as purring since big cats of the genus Panthera can only do it on the exhale. 😛

@MigL What about larger ones?

Rulers of the world? I knew those pesky felines are up to something...

So, was it refered to as "Red Army"? That name was officially abolished shortly after ww2, in the same wave of reforms in which People's Commisariats became Ministries.

Technically that's true - the name "Red Army" stopped being used in 1946 but I guess it's still used informally by people who aren't super pedantic about names. xD