At 67, I no longer care who finds me here, if they even know where to look. Most of them have either passed or I haven't seen them in years. So I'm weird, but not too much by the standards of Lit. So what?
The bad habit jokes write themselves.
The whole point of forums / boards / YouTube comments, etc., is to waste time.
Nothing is more dangerous than the Youtube rabbit hole...just one more video, its only ten minutes....ten vids later
You can't remember the old school nuns of the 1960's. Those were real nuns. Fortunately, I only had to see them one afternoon per week. The shorter they were, the meaner they were.
I was thinking of the comments - hundreds of them sometimes, comments on comments. comments on those comments.
All war is murder.
Yeah, often the comments are more amusing than the videos
And usually driven by money, politics or religion and never fought by the assholes that start them.
"Only the dead have seen the end of war." Sometimes attributed to Plato, but definitely used by George Santayana. And those assholes go back before the beginning of written history, so I doubt we've seen the end of them too.
It's hard to grasp what it must have been like. Glory has some intense depictions of Civil War battles. I'd link to them, but you can find them online if you are curious. The History Channel reenactments are horrific too.
Hey, all of that is to be expected.
I had a great-great grandfather who came over from Germany (he had been in one of the armies over there too) who fought with a New York regiment. My mom had one photo of him taken years later and I think my sister has it now.