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Originally Posted by Pierre
I remember, and people of my age probably will too, a programme we used to watch at school called "How we used to live", which IIRC detailed the lives of different classes of normal people in the Victorian era.
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There were several seasons of that programme - one my my siblings got WW1; I got WW2. Whatever period it was covering it was always interested in social history. The WW2 series is all set in one street and follows it from before the war to afterwards. It focuses on air raid precautions, frugality (“make good and mend” and so on) and IIRC a GI bride in one of the last instalments.
In one episode, an old woman is killed when a stray bomb lands on her house. After we saw it, we made up a song about how the old bag was dead. Then some of us noticed our class teacher, a fairly elderly woman, was wiping away a tear. Years afterwards I realised she would have been old enough to have been personally touched by stuff we saw in that series.
(Edit) - turns out there is a lot more How We Used to Live than I realised. From the description I saw series 4, and the old woman who got bombed was Mrs Battersby (I thought I’d remembered that but wasn’t certain). We sang “Old bag Battersby is dead” repeatedly. Ah to be a 10 year old boy again.
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Originally Posted by ianch99
Yup, got it. He is waiting for Italy to apologise because the Romans invaded Britain 
I'm also waiting for Norway, France, Denmark, and Germany to apologise while we're at it  |
But Italy is the successor state
Obviously the argument is a reductio ad absurdum but the question perhaps is, where do you stop? At what point do we stop being culpable for the actions of our ancestors? And if we’re not culpable, what does an apology achieve?