Well, to be fair, it was painted by a Prussian painter who never saw either party in their life, commissioned by a Prussian Institution.
Well, yes, it's not a photograph. I'm only saying it's using hyperbole to communicate something real that is highly surprising, much like me saying Peter III was metaphorically offering Fritz a blow job. :P
Interesting statistics! I was not familiar with those. Fritz did a lot of traveling *within* Prussia for the sake of micromanaging everything that happened within it, and a bit of sightseeing outside his country (attempted incognito, which, we'll just say he was no Odysseus in terms of the quality of his disguises), but he probably would have benefited greatly from more of a "check out your neighbors in person" approach, or maybe "talk to their envoys for more than 5 minutes at the beginning and end of their visits" or "don't physically throw them out" or something.
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Re: Joseph: the RATIONAL fanboy
Date: 2019-08-21 04:19 am (UTC)Well, yes, it's not a photograph. I'm only saying it's using hyperbole to communicate something real that is highly surprising, much like me saying Peter III was metaphorically offering Fritz a blow job. :P
Interesting statistics! I was not familiar with those. Fritz did a lot of traveling *within* Prussia for the sake of micromanaging everything that happened within it, and a bit of sightseeing outside his country (attempted incognito, which, we'll just say he was no Odysseus in terms of the quality of his disguises), but he probably would have benefited greatly from more of a "check out your neighbors in person" approach, or maybe "talk to their envoys for more than 5 minutes at the beginning and end of their visits" or "don't physically throw them out" or something.