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Humans just love a good tale of revenge. There is so much inherent drama, wrongs being righted, betrayal and catharsis. So it stands to reason that throughout human history, there have been many cases of people taking matters into their own hands to resolve their differences.

Someone asked “What was the biggest "[s***w] you" in history?” and netizens shared their best examples. So get comfortable as you read through, if you happen to have a nemesis, perhaps take some notes, upvote the best ones and be sure to add your own thoughts and favorites in the comments below.

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“Created His Own Church”: 30 Of The Biggest “Go To Hell” Moves From History Mother Nature's big FU to the Chinese in response to the Great Sparrow Campaign. The campaign encouraged the Chinese to k**l sparrows by the truckload because supposedly they were eating seeds from planted crops. Well, the campaign was such a success that plant eating insects that the sparrows also ate were able to thrive and totally ruin crops which lead to famine.

famous_unicorn , Pixabay Report

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1 day ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The law of Unintended Consequences and why it's a bad idea to mess with ecosystems in general

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    “Created His Own Church”: 30 Of The Biggest “Go To Hell” Moves From History Olga of Kiev. Some jerks called the Drevlians killed her husband and tried to have her marry their Prince. She fooled them into sending their most important men to prepare for the wedding and trapped them in a building and burned them alive. When they tried to apologize she requested pigeons from the citizens and *rigged the birds with sulfur bags*. The birds flew back to their original homes and when they roosted it burned down all of their houses. The official bad b***h of the year 890. She's also a saint.

    Earlyecho , Mikhail Nesterov Report

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    Jrog
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    1 day ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sooo... a few things to set straight, I'll split in multiple comments. First: Igor of Kiev was the son of Rurik, the semi-mythical guy who founded the Kievan Rus, a loose aggregate of warrior tribes -formerly Viking- from northern Europe that congregated under the strong arm of a warlord. The state survived by collecting tributes from subjugated tribes. At some point Igor -we don't know why, Varangians kept very few historical records- decided to turn tyrannical against a specific tribe, the Drevlians, taxing them to death and subjecting them to raids. Possibly it was related to the fact that they were a cultural minority, being Slavic instead of Baltic. This just to say they were probably not 100% in the wrong and the guy was kind of an assh*le.

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    “Created His Own Church”: 30 Of The Biggest “Go To Hell” Moves From History Ferruccio Lamborghini was a rich man owning his company that built tractors, he talked to Ferrari about the imperfections of his car and how to improve them and they basically laughed at a young tractor mechanic trying to tell them about sport cars, so he decided to start making luxury sport cars to compete with Ferrari and thus, the rivalry was born. So i'd say the middle finger of this guy to Ferrari was pretty noticeable.

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    Forrest Hobbs
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    1 day ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Supposedly, it was over the price of the replacement clutch. The story goes: Lamborghini wasn't a great driver and kept burning out the clutch on his Ferrari, so he had to keep buying replacements. Then - the story goes - he found out that Ferrari charged 1000 lira for each replacement clutch, the same clutch Lamborghini's tractor factory bought for 10 lira. And there was an argument with Ferrari, and... https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a25169632/lamborghini-supercars-exist-because-of-a-tractor/

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    “Created His Own Church”: 30 Of The Biggest “Go To Hell” Moves From History The Rats of Tobruk.

    An Australian garrison in Tobruk during WWII that became infamous during an 8 month siege against an armored German/Italian Afrika corps.

    The tactics of the soldiers surprised the Germans in that usually when the lines are pieced by armored forces the enemy retreats. Not so the Tobruk Garrison, who instead advanced and attacked the infantry running behind the tanks while letting the armored division over-extend itself without support.

    >" I cannot understand you Australians. In Poland , France and Belgium once the tanks got through the soldiers took it for granted they were beaten. But you are like demons. The tanks break through and your infantry keeps fighting."

    Eventually they got a N**i war propaganda specialist to broadcast radio messages in Radio Berlin in an attempt to lower morale and deride the defenders, calling the soldiers in Tobruk 'cornered rats' because of their tactics in using tunnel networks to flank and steal supplies, and their supply ships 'floating scrap iron'.

    But rather than be demoralized the Australian's started calling themselves Rats and their supply ships 'the scrap iron flotilla'. Because in typical Australian dry humor they figured it is more insulting to the Germans to be beaten back by a bunch of rats. They gave themselves unofficial rat medals with metal from a scrapped German bomber shot down with stolen German guns.

    I like to think it was a long 8 months of Australians and their allies holding a giant middle finger to the Axis.

    Thagyr , Smith, N Report

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    “Created His Own Church”: 30 Of The Biggest “Go To Hell” Moves From History George Bernard Shaw: I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend—if you have one.

    Winston Churchill: Cannot possibly attend first night; will attend second—if there is one.

    bullettbailey , Unknown author , Yousuf Karsh Report

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    Forrest Hobbs
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    1 day ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah, but they were both just massively taking the p**s out of each other. I don't think there was any actual malice involved.

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    “Created His Own Church”: 30 Of The Biggest “Go To Hell” Moves From History Queen Gorgo of Sparta when asked why only Spartan women were equal to their men:

    "Because only Spartan women give birth to Spartan men.".

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    “Created His Own Church”: 30 Of The Biggest “Go To Hell” Moves From History The invasion of Belgium during WW1 comes to mind.


    Basically, the Germans were on a strict timeline and needed to move their massive army through Belgium in order to flank the French defenses along their own border. In order for this to be successful, they were counting on the Belgians kind of just stepping aside and letting them use their roads and rails and bridges and such. After all, the Germans could destroy Belgium in a war with relative ease, but they didn't have time for that. The Germans asked the Belgians not to sabotage any of the infrastructure so they could pass through and leave them alone.
    In response, the Belgians gave a resounding "f**k you". They blew up the bridges and the tunnels and the rails, and they gave a fantastic resistance against the Germans at a series of forts along their border with Germany. They really f****d s**t up.

    Amedais , Unknown author Report

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    1 day ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Eh, kind of misrepresented. Germany proposed a treaty (i.e. a full surrender) to Belgium to keep them under relatively light occupation if they did not oppose resistance to the army passing through. They needed to rush to Paris, and the German plans -that were outdated and incredibly optimistic- called to cross Belgium while they could have just made a short detour. Belgium had already standing agreements with France and the UK, and did not want to give up their independence, so acted reasonably like any invaded country. Also their agreed role in the defensive alliance was to slow down the enemy to allow French forces buildup.

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    “Created His Own Church”: 30 Of The Biggest “Go To Hell” Moves From History Not the biggest, but:
    Molotov said he wasn't bombing Finland, he was bringing them food. In actuality, he was bombing them. Finns got cheeky and called the bombs "Molotov Bread Baskets." Finns made the Molotov Cocktail as "a drink to go with the bread."

    A Molotov Cocktail is p much flammable "poor man's grenade" meant to set someone on fire rather than just flat out k**l them.

    It might not be a huge f**k you, but it's one of my favorite historical facts.

    yenetruok , Unknown author , abt137 Report

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    GenuineJen
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    1 day ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Umm... The designers of THAT "bomb" knew exactly what they were doing.

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    “Created His Own Church”: 30 Of The Biggest “Go To Hell” Moves From History Singapore getting kicked out of Malaysia in 1965, making it the only state in the world ever to gain its independence involuntarily.
    There is a video of Singaporean prime minister Lee Kuan Yew crying on TV right afterwards: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj6iKXMIiOg

    The reason Singapore got kicked out, was that then governor, and ethnic Chinese, Lee Kuan Yew did not agree with the racially discriminating policies put in place by the mostly Malay government. These policies grant Malays significantly more rights than any other of the many ethnicities that live in Malaysia, in an apartheid like manner.

    Of course, we know that it went very well for Singapore from then onwards, but back in the day virtually everyone thought that this decision would be the country's death penalty. I mean, it really wasn't much more than a Malaria infested swamp in 1965...

    The even bigger "f**k you" is that history in Malaysian school books has been rewritten to say that a mutual understanding had been reached and that Singapore left voluntarily. What's more, historical facts have been "amended" gradually, in order to justify the special rights that ethnic Malays get.

    While I am not a Malaysian myself, I have lived in the area for several years now and it griefs me to still see ethnic Chinese and Indians in Malaysia who are forced to keep quiet over political and personal issues, in order to avoid serious consequences.

    RhinoVanHorn , Mike Enerio Report

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    1 day ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It’s a rare month too that some church or ashram isn’t firebombed. Xtians, for example, keep religious gatherings pretty quiet.

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    “Created His Own Church”: 30 Of The Biggest “Go To Hell” Moves From History When Julius Cesar was kidnapped by pirates and his men paid 50 talents as a ransom.
    He went back home , took his time to raise a fleet and go after his kidnappers. He crucified them and got his 50 talents back.

    anon , Henri De Montaut Report

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    1 day ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He also said their original ransom was much too low, they should ask for more.

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    #11

    “Created His Own Church”: 30 Of The Biggest “Go To Hell” Moves From History Republicans refusing to hold a hearing for President Obama's supreme court nominee with nearly a year left in his term.

    trench47 , Pete Souza Report

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    1 day ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And then having no problem replacing Ruth Bader-Ginsburg when she died near the end of 45's administration. Suddenly the impending election was irrelevent. F them

    Fred L.
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    1 day ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That was a FU to democracy, just like the continued existence of that "party".

    David
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    1 day ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This was just politics, and nothing out of the ordinary at the time. This was within the rules, and no different than when the Democrats held up 3 Bush Circuit Court nominations for over 2 years each until the people removed their names. A fourth, Judge Janice Rogers Brown, held out until she was confirmed when Senator Biden's coalition that would have allowed him to filibuster her appointment vote was broken when Bush cut a deal with some Democrat Senators. Later Bush wanted to put Judge Janice Rogers Brown, a Black Woman (who grew up in segregated Alabama to sharecroppers, and went to law school as a single mother, and became a renown legal scholar), and Biden and 43 Democrats threatened that if Bush formally nominated her for SCOTUS (he had told Journalists he was going to, and the White House sent papers for the Senate about it), so Bush, not needing a fight, met with the Biden led Senators, and Alito, who is still on the court, was the compromise candidate.

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    21 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Mitch a*****e McConnell and Co brought us the colossal stupidity that is Trump. Shame on him and them for the rest of history.

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    Obummer - the great liberal socialist demonrat divider in chief!

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    HAHAHAHA! You folks aren't gong to be able to stand all of the WINNING in the next 12 years!!

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    “Created His Own Church”: 30 Of The Biggest “Go To Hell” Moves From History The Greeks saying a huge resounding "No" to Mussolini's ultimatum to allow the axis forces to enter the Greek territory in 1940.It forces admiration,it takes a special kind of badass to say the equivalent of "f**k you " to Hitler's minions at that time of history.

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    1 day ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Mussolini also screwed over Germany with invading Greece, since he didn't tell his allies of his plan the Wehrmacht had to delay their invasion of the USSR to assist him

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    “Created His Own Church”: 30 Of The Biggest “Go To Hell” Moves From History Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck. Famous German general from World War I.

    From his Wikipedia article:
    Later, when Hitler offered him the ambassadorship to the Court of St James's in 1935, he "declined with frigid hauteur."; the suggestion for the nomination as ambassador to the Court of St James had come from retired Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen during a visit to Berlin. During the 1960s, Charles Miller asked the nephew of a Schutztruppe officer, "I understand that von Lettow told Hitler to go f**k himself." The nephew responded, "That's right, except that I don't think he put it that politely."

    Very few people lived through telling Hitler that. But he was a decorated, historic officer. He survived, taking no part in the 2nd World War.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_von_Lettow-Vorbeck.

    x31b , Photoatelier Hermann Noack Report

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    Forrest Hobbs
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    1 day ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And they say Germans don't have a sense of humour? "I understand that von Lettow told Hitler to go f**k himself." "That's right, except that I don't think he put it that politely." 🤣

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    “Created His Own Church”: 30 Of The Biggest “Go To Hell” Moves From History Henry VIII created his own church when the Catholics told him no for divorce.

    jamesmichael34 , After Hans Holbein the Younger Report

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    1 day ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hence why the Church of England allows married couples to divorce, although it is discouraged. They do however draw the line at beheading your spouse

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    “Created His Own Church”: 30 Of The Biggest “Go To Hell” Moves From History Winston Churchill, in the face of what appeared to be utter and inescapable defeat only briefly delayed through the largest evacuation in military history.

    *Even though large tracts of Europe and many old and famous States have fallen or may fall into the grip of the Gestapo and all the odious apparatus of Nazi rule, we shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be.*

    *We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender, and if, which I do not for a moment believe, this island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God's good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old.*

    edit: [Here is the audio of his parliamentary address](http://audio.theguardian.tv/sys-audio/Guardian/audio/2007/04/20/Churchill.mp3) Above quote starts at 10:30.

    EDIT: TLDR; "F**k you Nazis, we'll sacrifice EVERYTHING to beat you -- our lives, our country, our empire, and even if we fail our valour will inspire future civilizations to rise up and defeat your descendants.".

    dbcanuck , U.S. Signal Corps Report

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    1 day ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The audio is from the BBC broadcast, actually voiced by an actor (ETA: not - see my follow-up post below). Parliamentary proceedings weren't recorded by audio until, if I recall correctly, the 1980s. One thing about Winston Churchill: people believed what he said in part because he'd actually fought in war himself, having taken part (e.g.) in the British Army's last serious cavalry charge. There's much to criticise about Churchill, but he was intensely loyal to his wife, king, and country; and personally highly courageous - rather unlike one recent Churchill-aping British PM I can think of. Yes I do mean that *&%! Boris.

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    “Created His Own Church”: 30 Of The Biggest “Go To Hell” Moves From History Not the biggest but still a great "F**k you" was delivered by Eli Whitney, the inventor of the cotton gin. His invention was copied all over the South and 20 years of lawsuits all failed in the Southern courts. He wound up broke. The new south became incredibly wealthy from his invention. That new "empire" felt itself put-upon by the North and decided to become an independent "empire". Eli Whitney then went and invented inter-changable parts for weapons with assembly lines and allowed the North to quickly arm hundreds of thousands of men with which to crush that would-be empire. He created and crushed an empire.

    Ambruster , Samuel Finley Breese Morse Report

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    Forrest Hobbs
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    1 day ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Don't forget the Lancashire cotton mill workers who embargoed US cotton. It hurt them badly, but they did so to end slavery, on the urging of Abraham Lincoln. https://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/06/06/role-british-workers-abolishing-slavery-winning-american-civil-war/. The mill workers drove the embargo - against the wishes of the bosses, who just wanted profit at any cost.

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    “Created His Own Church”: 30 Of The Biggest “Go To Hell” Moves From History The Mongols were essentially the Borg of the middle ages. They would show up at your city gates with a massive, stinking army of hardened killers and demand that you surrender, be integrated into the Mongol empire and pay tribute. If you didn't do this immediately, they would simply k**l every person in the city, relentlessly and brutally. The Mongols actually had quotas for how many people each member of the army was responsible for killing. It's believed that the Mongol Conquests were responsible for the death of over 5% of the world's population. If you did join the Mongol empire, they were actually pretty tolerant as far as the Middle Ages go.

    hiro11 , Karak-Kyzyl Report

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    “Created His Own Church”: 30 Of The Biggest “Go To Hell” Moves From History America taking over a huge chunk of Mexico and then naming one of that states New Mexico.

    delerpian , TUBS Report

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    1 day ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    this is one part of american history that so many citizens don't know. the whole 'remember the alamo' is such a crock because of how things actually played out.

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    “Created His Own Church”: 30 Of The Biggest “Go To Hell” Moves From History Hannibal crossing the Alps. Rome was not expecting a Carthaginian army to come from that direction especially with elephants. So I guess it's also the biggest "SURPRISE M**********R" of history as well. Bringing elephants didn't help much in terms of military might, but it did show Rome that Carthage could deploy it's most intimidating weapons wherever they damn well pleased.

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    1 day ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Historically, elephants did jack s**t in military terms, but were an amazing psy-op. It was like bringing a bazooka to a bank robbery... That said, Hannibal lost most of the elephants on the way, well before reaching Italy, and more so on the mountains. The trick effectively worked out only on the Trebbia river, where the few remaining elephants caused commotion. By the battle at Zama during the counterattack, the Romans already had spearmen and trap tactics in place to slay the Punic elephants as soon as they came close to the line.

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    “Created His Own Church”: 30 Of The Biggest “Go To Hell” Moves From History Arlington National Cemetery sits on what used to be Robert E Lee's estate.

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    1 day ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's not really a "go to hell" moment. He/his family donated the land so that way soldiers from both the north and south could be buried together.

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    “Created His Own Church”: 30 Of The Biggest “Go To Hell” Moves From History Anthony McAuliffe was the United States Army general who was the acting division commander of the 101st Airborne Division troops defending Bastogne, Belgium, during World War II's Battle of the Bulge, famous for his single-word reply of "Nuts!" in response to a German surrender ultimatum.

    manifesto88 , U.S. Army Report

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    1 day ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ""General Mac was the only general I ever knew who did not use profane language. 'Nuts' was part of his normal vocabulary."" The German ultimatum was quite wordy... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_McAuliffe#%22NUTS!%22

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    “Created His Own Church”: 30 Of The Biggest “Go To Hell” Moves From History During the Siege of Tobruk, the Australian soldiers would listen to German propaganda they would pick up on their radios, especially someone they named Lord Haw Haw.

    At the start of the siege, he called them to surrender because they were "caught like rats in a trap" and living in the ground, so the Aussies started calling themselves the Rats of Tobruk. As well, the ships that were supplying Tobruk were old at the time and were described as "piles of scrap iron" so were named the Scrap Iron Flotilla.

    The Aussies also pretty much said f**k you to the whole being in a siege thing. They would often have games of cricket going that would only stop during air raids, but keep going during shell fire. They would also go out of the perimeter and sneak into German and Italian camps and steal their artillery and other weapons and would use it against them, becoming known as the "bush artillery"

    The Aussies and Brits then went on to deal the Germans with their first defeat on land and by holding Tobruk, allowed Montgomery to stockpile the tanks and weaponry required for the Battle of El Alamein.

    MiguelHill , wikipedia.org Report

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    “Created His Own Church”: 30 Of The Biggest “Go To Hell” Moves From History The reply of the Cossacks, though it is most likely legend. Below is the original response and reply.

    Sultan Mehmed IV to the Zaporozhian Cossacks:

    As the Sultan; son of Muhammad; brother of the sun and moon; grandson and viceroy of God; ruler of the kingdoms of Macedonia, Babylon, Jerusalem, Upper and Lower Egypt; emperor of emperors; sovereign of sovereigns; extraordinary knight, never defeated; steadfast guardian of the tomb of Jesus Christ; trustee chosen by God Himself; the hope and comfort of Muslims; confounder and great defender of Christians - I command you, the Zaporogian Cossacks, to submit to me voluntarily and without any resistance, and to desist from troubling me with your attacks.

    --Turkish Sultan Mehmed IV

    Zaporozhian Cossacks to the Turkish Sultan:

    O sultan, Turkish devil and damned devil's kith and kin, secretary to Lucifer himself. What the devil kind of knight are thou, that canst not slay a hedgehog with your naked a**e? The devil shits, and your army eats. Thou shallt not, thou son of a whore, make subjects of Christian sons; we have no fear of your army, by land and by sea we will battle with thee, f**k thy mother.

    Thou Babylonian scullion, Macedonian wheelwright, brewer of Jerusalem, goat-f****r of Alexandria, swineherd of Greater and Lesser Egypt, pig of Armenia, Podolian thief, catamite of Tartary, hangman of Kamyanets, and fool of all the world and underworld, an idiot before God, grandson of the Serpent, and the crick in our d**k. Pig's snout, mare's a**e, slaughterhouse cur, unchristened brow, screw thine own mother!

    So the Zaporozhians declare, you lowlife. You won't even be herding pigs for the Christians. Now we'll conclude, for we don't know the date and don't own a calendar; the moon's in the sky, the year with the Lord, the day's the same over here as it is over there; for this kiss our a**e!

    - Koshovyi otaman Ivan Sirko, with the whole Zaporozhian Host.

    joellhitt , Konstantin Makovsky Report

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    1 day ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There's a great painting (done 200 years later) depicting this event at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reply_of_the_Zaporozhian_Cossacks

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    “Created His Own Church”: 30 Of The Biggest “Go To Hell” Moves From History After years of his fathers torment, Joseph Stalin's son tried to k**l himself in Stalin's house. When Stalin's wife informed him of his son's attempted s*****e by gun, Stalin's comment, loud enough for his son to hear, was "He can't even shoot straight!!"

    Afterwards his son, who was lieutenant in the red army, got captured by the German army in 1941 and when they tried to trade his release for a field marshall of their own. Stalin responded "I won't trade a marshall for a lieutenant.".

    illegallad , Wolfram von Richthofen Report

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    1 day ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When i was in 5th grade, it was the first leg of learning about WWII, which encompassed an entire semester of class. For our big report at the end, we had to pick a prominent figure of the war, write a 5 page report, and also had to dress up as whomever we picked as part of an event for the parents. Parents would then come around and ask the kids questions about who we were supposed to be, what they did during the war and what interesting tidbits we found that weren't common knowledge. I chose Stalin. That was among the tidbits i recounted, dressed as Stalin, complete with russian accent and fake moustache. Stalin....was kind of a d**k, and he hated his kids almost as much as they hated him.

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    “Created His Own Church”: 30 Of The Biggest “Go To Hell” Moves From History In 1347 the port city of Kaffa in the Crimea was under siege by the Mongols. The Mongols were forced to end the siege when their forces were depleted by the Bubonic plague. Before withdrawing the commander, Jani Beg, ordered the corpses catapulted over the city walls. The plague spread westward across Europe eventually killing 30 to 60 percent of the population.

    toastie2313 , I. Columbina Report

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    “Created His Own Church”: 30 Of The Biggest “Go To Hell” Moves From History Roman Emperor Caligula, reportedly had a favorite saying (Oderint dum metuant), which roughly translates to:

    "Let them hate me, so long as they fear me.".

    Electric_Evil , Sergey Sosnovskiy Report

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    Kiki Likes Sweets
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    1 day ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But we are talking about someone who once declared war against the sea and made his horse a senator. His biggest FU was against sanity.

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    “Created His Own Church”: 30 Of The Biggest “Go To Hell” Moves From History When Australians declared war on rampaging emus and slaughtered thousands of them in trench warfare style.

    anon , Guy Kavanagh Report

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    Srinivasan S
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    1 day ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Still the result of the war is declared as Australia lost. So the FU was delivered by emus

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    “Created His Own Church”: 30 Of The Biggest “Go To Hell” Moves From History When Arminius led Varus into the trap at Teutoberg forest in 9 A.D. and defeated three roman legions.

    Ptolemy_I , Nikater Report

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    Jesse
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    1 day ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's Teutoburg forest, or Teutoburger Wald in German. His German name was Hermann der Cherusker and he's got a big monument in the middle of said forest. hermannsde...n-oben.jpg hermannsdenkmal-detmold-von-oben.jpg

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    “Created His Own Church”: 30 Of The Biggest “Go To Hell” Moves From History So - France basically won the American Revolution against Britain. The best selling APUSH book puts it this way:

    To say that America, with some French aid, defeated Britain is like saying, "Daddy and I killed the bear."

    So - we had promised France that we would not betray their friendship by making a separate peace with England. BUT! England was so eager to undermine the territorial ambitions of France in North America after France had so deviously denied them 13 of their own North American colonies that England offered the new US all the land from the sea to the Mississippi. We took it, and in doing so, helped our enemy (England) screw over our most important ally (France).

    You'd think the Philippines would have seen it coming when we did it to them later.

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    C Hendrix
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    19 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Then there's the famous anecdote about when Philip II of Macedonia (Alexander the Great's father) called on the Spartans to surrender by sending the message: if I bring my army into your land, I will destroy your farms, slay your people, and raze your city”. The Spartans sent back a reply of one word: "If".

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    “Created His Own Church”: 30 Of The Biggest “Go To Hell” Moves From History After 100 years of fighting the Carthaginians for dominance of the Mediterranean, the Romans finally conquered Carthage and then evacuated and enslaved the entire population, burned the city to the ground, and plowed over the fields with salt to ensure that no civilization would ever arise there ever again.

    munderwood27 , Christian Manhart Report

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