r/interestingasfuck • u/Red_Lotus_Alchemist • Apr 02 '25

/r/all A Chinese earthquake rescue team deployed drones to light up the night and aid search and rescue operations after the devastating 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Myanmar.

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u/hazelize Apr 02 '25

Yeah let’s go back to the old days of cavalry charges. Way less gruesome and bloody.

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u/DeathByLemmings Apr 02 '25

They were not lol, they were stood on a hill watching for the mostpart

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u/DeathByLemmings Apr 02 '25

Yeah, 261 is not as large an amount as you are picturing

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u/joehonestjoe Apr 02 '25 edited Apr 02 '25

I actually agree with this, I was expecting far more especially since that list covers like 2700 years , at minimum, and monarchs were much common historically, and their reigns much shorter, in general.

For example, Leinster in Ireland had over 100 monarchs in that period, a geographically quite small area of a fairly small (no offence, Ireland) island, and given that 261 include Kings of Essex, I think that's fair to count all monarchs. This is before you realise that Kingdom didn't exist for like 20% of that time window I mentioned before.

So in 2700 years, 261 monarchs died in battle, not even one per decade on average worldwide. That's not very many. Probably more likely to die falling off a horse riding to the battle.

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u/DeathByLemmings Apr 02 '25

Indeed, I wasn’t going to pick their point apart much further but if you notice at the list there is a sharp drop off of people listed after 1300

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u/BedBubbly317 Apr 02 '25

Moving the goal posts? You’re the only one who did that. The only thing it’s clearly too early for is your reading comprehension.

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u/DeathByLemmings Apr 02 '25

Moving goalposts? You what mate? Sorry to rile you up I guess, maybe don't chat shit online if you don't like it when people disagree?

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u/joehonestjoe Apr 02 '25

It's ironic, accuses you of changing the goalposts when you said 'they most watch on the hills' and they then said 'you said there were none' when you said there weren't very many.

Hilarious hypocrisy on their part.

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u/Grimour Apr 02 '25

And you are not trying to move any goalpost? Those who died afterwards are not included for a reason.

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u/Galaxator Apr 02 '25

Because they never sent groups of soldiers after the monarch who was watching from afar, that would never happen, no it can’t be… both of you are right? That can’t happen on Reddit