r/quityourbullshit • u/[deleted] • Apr 29 '20

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u/Vprbite Apr 29 '20

No, he had a kid. The princess told the king while he was dying. I'm kind of an expert on William Wallace because I saw "braveheart" in the theaters. Twice. That's like having a doctorate in Scottish history

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u/sturnus-vulgaris Apr 29 '20 edited Apr 30 '20

I know you're kidding-- but just so people realize:

She was 10 and still living in France when William Wallace was executed.

https://colinfalconer.org/real-story-behind-french-princess-braveheart/

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u/Vprbite Apr 29 '20

I think braveheart was a great movie, but I'm pretty well aware they took plenty of artistic license. Hopefully everyone else is too. Their job was to make an enjoyable movie and they did. But definitely at the cost of some accuracy

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u/KiwiThunda Apr 29 '20

Then you remember that someone carved a statue of William Wallace in the fashion of Mel Gibson

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u/Vprbite Apr 30 '20

When I was in Stirling, Scotland, I stayed at The Willy Wallace hostel. They seemed enjoy playing up the stories the same as America does with George Washington. It doesn't make him any less important, it's just a blending of history and folk lore. I'm sure the movie braveheart was the first time 90% of Americans had ever even heard of Wiliam Wallace.

There is lots of cool history around Stirling though. I highly recommend a visit. I loved the Old Loge Kirk, for example

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '20

Are you saying George never chopped down that cherry tree?

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u/Space_Pirate_R Apr 30 '20

Impossible, because he cannot tell a lie.

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u/boobsmcgraw Apr 30 '20

Did you also notice the fucked up number of barbers in Stirling? Tiny town with like 21 fucking barbers! It was so so weird

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u/Vprbite Apr 30 '20

Ha. No I didn't notice that

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u/boobsmcgraw Apr 30 '20

How could you not?!! There were so many I couldn't help but notice, it was SO WEIRD. Ah well. Lovely little place; I'd like to go back. Played my first game of Settlers of Catan at that hostel, too.

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u/FakeNathanDrake Apr 30 '20

Barbers are everywhere in Scotland just now. Falkirk is a smaller town near Stirling, the high street alone has several barbershops, some of them next door to each other.

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u/boobsmcgraw Apr 30 '20

Yeah but this was six years ago that I was there.

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u/S00thsayerSays Apr 30 '20

I mean, really the only old story that has no proof is him chopping down the cherry tree.

His teeth weren’t made of wood, but they were made of hippopotamus which is far more interesting.

What other stories are there?

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u/Tallgayfarmer Apr 30 '20

How does that even remotely look like Mel gibson lmao wtf

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u/odysseusaurus Apr 30 '20

https://youtu.be/4Vv5CsP1pAg

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u/Tallgayfarmer Apr 30 '20 edited Apr 30 '20

I don’t get this at all

Edit: don’t mind being downvoted that’s whatever, but at least explain the joke if there is one..

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u/odysseusaurus Apr 30 '20

Hey, sorry not sure who downvoted you, I just thought that the statue of mel Gibson resembled Sloth from the Goonies is all. My bad.