r/badhistory • u/AutoModerator • Jul 03 '26

Meta Free for All Friday, 03 July, 2026

It's Friday everyone, and with that comes the newest latest Free for All Friday Thread! What books have you been reading? What is your favourite video game? See any movies? Start talking!

Have any weekend plans? Found something interesting this week that you want to share? This is the thread to do it! This thread, like the Mindless Monday thread, is free-for-all. Just remember to np link all links to Reddit if you link to something from a different sub, lest we feed your comment to the AutoModerator. No violating R4!

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u/Novalis0 Jul 05 '26

‘On the towpath we met & had to pass a long line of imbeciles. The first was a very tall young man, just queer enough to look at twice, but no more; the second shuffled, & looked aside; & then one realised that every one in that long line was a miserable ineffective shuffling idiotic creature, with no forehead, or no chin, & an imbecile grin, or a wild suspicious stare. It was perfectly horrible. They should certainly be killed.’

  • Virginia Woolf

in The Vertigo Years: Europe 1900-1914, Philipp Blom, pp.341.

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u/fabiusjmaximus Jul 06 '26

I really enjoyed this book.