this post was submitted on 03 Jan 2026
248 points (100.0% liked)

History Memes

1320 readers
533 users here now

A place to share history memes!

Rules:

  1. No sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia, assorted bigotry, etc.

  2. No fascism (including tankies/red fash), atrocity denial or apologia, etc.

  3. Tag NSFW pics as NSFW.

  4. Follow all Piefed.social rules.

Banner courtesy of @setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world

OTHER COMMS IN THE HISTORYVERSE:

founded 7 months ago
MODERATORS
PugJesus@piefed.social
Deceptichum@quokk.au
248
Never too broke to dab on the Brits (infosec.pub)
submitted 6 days ago by PugJesus@piefed.social to c/historymemes@piefed.social
5 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Well, they dug HALFWAY to England. :-)

[โ€“] SARGE@startrek.website 8 points 5 days ago

Maybe France is playing the long con and is secretly giddy they convinced England to pay for half the tunnel construction?

Modern military invasion isn't really feasible through the chunnel, but an 11th century force? It would take weeks to land the armies you could march through in a day.

France is playing 5d chess thinking ahead to WW4.