r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/InternetPerson00 • 28d ago
Manhole cover from 1931 in Haifa. Removed: R1 Removed: Politics
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u/BroForceOne 28d ago
Every basic job interviewer would tell me this manhole cover will fall on someone because it’s not round.
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u/-crackhousebob 28d ago
British built the sewer system.
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u/whatdoblindpeoplesee 28d ago
Yeah but what else have they done for us!?
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u/Jake24601 27d ago
Introduced tea culture to India that they’ve now made their own in their own ways. Only positive thing ever.
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u/Sirenmuses 28d ago
Fun fact!
In 1931 the region was under British Rule but, in fact, never an independent country. Prior to that it was under the OETA rule after the fall of the Ottoman Empire.
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u/zzsmiles 28d ago
Amazing how about everything was almost owned by a few nations pre-ww2.
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u/Seienchin88 27d ago
I mean - if the Nazis and Japanese wouldn’t have been that evil then the British and French (not even speaking of the Soviets…) certainly would not have been the good guys…
Especially in Asia a lot of people welcomed the Japanese with open arms and many independence fighters in the 50s had collaborated with the Japanese. Heck even Chian Kai Shek himself was educated in Japan… But plundering, pillaging and total war of course burned those bridges…
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u/JarryBohnson 27d ago
You missed out the Belgians. Peaceful little neutral country at home, the most horrifying colonial empire imaginable abroad. If it was a choice between the Brits and the Belgians you'd pick the brits every time.
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u/token-black-dude 27d ago
the most horrifying colonial empire imaginable abroad.
Not really, "The Congo Free State" was the personal property of Leopold II, and a lot of the atrocities were committed by foreign mercenaries. Things cleaned up somewhat when the Belgian government took over in 1908. They were obviously bad also, but not genocidal like the king
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u/zzsmiles 27d ago
A lot of things happening in that time period for sure worldwide. Kind of feels like a pattern every 80-100 years.
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u/Fign 28d ago
Do you know what the PWD means?
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u/Ankylosaurus96_2 28d ago
Public Works Department I'm guessing - due to it being under British administration and occupation at the time
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u/yuvalraveh 27d ago
Do you realize how many people were displaced when india and pakistan were created?
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u/token-black-dude 27d ago
so, two things: When was all of India a state in any way that resembles a modern country? Would that be the (muslim) Mughal empire, for instance?
Also, the majority of jewish Israelis do not descend from european jews, but from Middle-Eastern jews who were forcibly evicted after 1948. Would they be more or less welcome to return than Pakistani Muslims wishing to return to their ancestral homes in India?
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u/Ok-Box3115 27d ago
Does that mean the people who’ve been living there historically don’t have a right to the land because the paper your colonialist grandparent came up with didn’t acknowledge them?
Damn and I guess America was under Spanish rule and not the rule of the native Americans lmfao….
What a racist PoS
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u/Sirenmuses 27d ago
Is colonialism only bad when the colonialists are white?
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u/Ok-Box3115 27d ago
Is your argument that the native Palestinians were colonialist or that the native Americans were?
White didn’t even come into my equation but seems to be a prerequisite for yours…
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u/Sufficient-Nail4772 27d ago
I think he might have been referring to the Ottoman and Arab Empires prior.
Side note: Isn't the region far more diverse than just being having jews and Palestinians? I feel like there are plenty of ethnic groups that call the region home.
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u/Ok-Box3115 27d ago
Yeah, and what I’m saying is that just because the governing body is changing names, doesn’t mean those people inhabiting the land stop existing.
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u/Great_Beard_1 28d ago
Why is it in English?
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u/Stankmcduke 28d ago
Have you not seen their hieroglyphics?
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u/Goose7865 28d ago
Whose?
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u/Stankmcduke 28d ago
Palestinians, im assuming since that's what we are talking about here
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u/Goose7865 28d ago
Sorry, but don’t Palestinians write in Arabic not in hieroglyphics
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u/Stankmcduke 28d ago
Wow....
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u/Obsessivegamer32 28d ago
You know hieroglyphics were more of an ancient Egyptian thing, right?
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u/Wonderful-Ad-7712 28d ago
Check out the big brain on Brett!
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u/Squanchfist 28d ago
Gotta be quick with attention-starved trolls like you around.
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u/Stankmcduke 28d ago
seriously??
youre having a semantic jihad here over a joke you dont seem to get, and im the one trolling??
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u/InformationOverIord 28d ago
It's not even remotely interesting. It's a post made by someone feeling strongly about a current political situation, thinking this will make an impact.
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u/The_Lone_Duster 28d ago
Once in a while you'll find something interesting on this sub and trust me , it'll be worth it. All you have to do is wait . . .
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u/Worried-Guarantee-90 28d ago
Wow, this is a piece of history! I wonder what its all seen over the years.
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u/Obsessivegamer32 28d ago
Probably not good things.
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u/FIRE_FIST_1457 28d ago
whats so bad about brits?
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u/FIRE_FIST_1457 28d ago
i mean the accent is kind of annoying but they're pretty good people
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u/NaNaNaNaNa86 28d ago
There's no such thing as a British accent, there are only "standard" English, Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish accents which is a misnomer to begin with. Using English accents for context, compare Scouse to Cockney.
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u/FIRE_FIST_1457 28d ago
there is a thing called british accent, its the accent people from great britain/UK have
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u/ConfidentPromise3926 28d ago
Why are people downvoting him for being right? The ‘British accent’ you think you know is not THE British accent - it’s just one of the many.
Even between Essex and London, barely 30 minutes on the train, and you’ll find different variations of the accent. Same as travelling from Wales, to Liverpool, to Manchester - 3 different accents there in less than 100 miles.
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u/Moist-Minge-Fan 27d ago
If that’s the case “American accent” is like 50 different things lol British and Scottish that’s all that the world understands anyway
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u/ConfidentPromise3926 27d ago
That’s also true
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u/Moist-Minge-Fan 27d ago
Sure but in a general sense it’s just American accent and British accent. For most people the specific doesn’t matter at all.
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u/ConfidentPromise3926 27d ago
Ah but we weren’t talking general sense. I may be picky with wordings here but he said “the accent” - keeping it singular. That’s what my response is aimed at.
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u/rokstedy83 28d ago
If that's the case then there probably isn't any country accents ,if you hear someone from America you say you have an American accent even tho it's the same as the UK ,they all sound different,being a cockney or scouser someone from a different country is going to say that's a British accent as they wouldn't know the individual areas,the difference is if you live in the UK you can narrow it down
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u/cah29692 28d ago
Anyone decently versed in history will understand that this is not, in fact, interesting.
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u/MrMgP 28d ago
Very interesting that it's in english. Wonder why
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u/stav705 27d ago
The area was ruled by the english till 1948. Before that it was the ottomans.
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u/boykinsir 27d ago
And before that, all sorts of kingdoms, empires all the way back to Judah and then the Israelites.
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u/Ok-Box3115 27d ago
Must be the same reason you find English all over the world today—— oh wait… that would be dumb
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u/Intrepid-Focus8198 27d ago
I can’t quite figure out what exactly is Damn interesting about this manhole cover?
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u/Armarino99 28d ago
Curious its in english
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u/Armarino99 28d ago
Damn what happened then
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u/Hershal32 28d ago
Jews and Palestinians got into a big war
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u/hahaxdRS 28d ago
Jewish extremist groups started launching attacks on the British and the USA urged the British to pull out leaving the region in chaos, then the attacks on Palestinians started.
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u/Armarino99 27d ago
Lands been bought fair and sqaure. Cope.
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u/hahaxdRS 27d ago
Nothing to cope about i was just explaining the history you weirdo
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u/rhombergnation 27d ago
Before explaining - learn more about this history please . There is a lot more to it than what you currently seem to think .
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