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Obviously eBay thinks it goes against their guidelines. I had no clue and I'm rather embarrassed.

What would you assume I was selling? I want to know if it's obvious to everyone but me.

Thanks.

I do mix words up. Feel like sending this post to the PIP accessor 😂😂

Not the point of the thread but what's the point of these historical days if people just buy inaccurate costumes without even trying to cobble something together that at least vaguely looks like something from a history book? What is anyone learning from this exercise?

"You mean to tell me that there was more than one lobster present at the birth of Christ?!?!"

@vera99 Stone “henge” is ok if you do the finger quotes. My grown up son frequently tells people about my muttered rant at a kids “pirate party”. I know they meant peg legs, eye patches and parrots but its such a stupid inaccuracy. I am a lot of fun at parties. I tell long boring stories about pirates but know nothing about current events.

When you actually stop and think about it pirates is the weirdest thing to be a popular theme for kids

Yes I don't like pirates for kids.

I think it was simply word Tag tbh.

OP please brush up on your History!

It's quite normal for people not to know. History is not generally taught chronologically and is not a compulsory gcse subject so the majority of kids finish in yr8 or 9 if the school does 2yr key stage 4. Most don't so by age 13 most people stop studying history.
In RE kids in yr7 struggle to connect Moses and Rameses with Rameses the pharaoh and the building of Egyptian cities by slaves, although they often know both stories as they were taught one in RE and one in History they don't make connections. Same for sociology, they may have vague knowledge of the cold War or of the industrial revolution but don't connect it to changes in society or development. 😁

Yes, pirates is quite an odd theme to have become so widely accepted a general topic for light-hearted kiddies' fun. Maybe if serial killers or terrorists got the reputation for singing jolly songs whilst they were about their business, we could have fun parties themed around them

I'm reminded of this news story, that was even reported in the 'and now for something amusing' sections of the papers, but is actually anything but, really.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/womens-institute-members-dress-pirates-1865801

Are they the same Rameses?!!

Yes Ramesses II or ramses or ramseses depending on translation.

Mind blown. So knew I'd learn so much from a thread about ebay

The same one as here, so pre pyramids but well known.

Sorry post pyramids obviously 😜 by about 1500 years later

Hence moses trying to free his people from slavery, they were used to build the temples etc.

It's my memory and the fact I can't retain things. I have Dyspraxia and Executive Dysfunction Disorder too. It won't matter.

OOOOOOOOH! seriously thank you! I'd never linked it

@vera99 Thanks Vera, that is as near to an answer as I have ever got over this incident. I couldn´t get anywhere, was not allowed to send proof of my identity (same google account for 18 years, card in my name, all paid up, no issues, zero complaints). So just gave up deleted app, they deleted my account themselves after my complaint, so saved me the trouble. It was a person from India who said it was definitive and I had no say in it. Love your user name, my gran´s name Vera.

Evacuees weren't refugees. My great uncle was an evacuee from East London. Not exactly well off, but hardly escaping the depths of poverty. They evacuated due to location, not wealth, though presumably the very well off would have had relatives or a second home to stay in.

He would have been perfectly clean, as well nourished as any other working class child and respectably dressed.

I was in a university city just before Halloween this year and loads of the students going to parties were dressed in orange jumpsuits I.e. Guantanamo Bay 😔

Nazis are out though and quite rightly so as Harry found out !!

No one has called her stupid, except for the op herself. It's more an indictment of the education system than of people as individuals.

It IS scary if people are growing up with such limited understanding of the past that they merge things that happened in living memory with events from 150+ years ago. It's important to understand the broad patterns and key events of history. That's not the same as knowing the exact dates of Edward the Confessor.

In all seriousness, I think that Horrible Histories is a really excellent programme and one of the few kids' shows that adults can both enjoy and learn from.

@ABrotherWhoLooksLikeHellMugYou - I did correct my evacuee/refugee slip in another post.

Obviously, there would have been children from a variety of social strata being evacuated from London, but the highest priority was evacuating those from areas around strategic targets like docks, marshalling yards, etc., and the families living in those areas were predominantly (though not exclusively) poor.

The prevalence of rickets in Europe and the USA in the 1920s and 30s was 75-98% (see apps.who.int/iris/rest/bitstreams/1259910/retrieve), and only started to go down with the introduction of free cod liver oil for children in some countries in the 40s. While children from slightly better-off homes will have had much better diets, and possibly more exposure to sunlight, the great majority in areas from which children were evacuated would have been malnourished. It's easy to forget quite how many people lived in abject poverty at that time.

Now I can’t shut up 😳. That isn’t my issue with pirates (though I agree it’s an issue). My issue is that they are not confined to history, pirates exist. But also that it’s a bit “history written by the victors”, lots of what the East India Trading Co was doing was extremely morally questionable, the Royal Navy didn’t so much recruit as drag men and boys against their will and Zheng Yi Sao was basically running a trading co op that had health and retirement benefits for its members.

But I still thinking knowing or caring bog all about history isn’t as big a deal as some people are making out.

@Doormatnomore - I couldn't agree more. I don't see any pirate-themed parties featuring machine-gun-toting Somali gangs. In a historical context, I don't see them featuring press-ganged privateers or heavily-armed traders taking over local markets, or promoting opium smuggling. We celebrate pirates like Henry Morgan, who was made lieutenant-governor of Jamaica after buying sugar plantations on the island with gold stolen by armed force from Spanish ships.

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