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Anosmoman posted:Their views on our generation will depend on the content from which social media platform will be best preserved. The Library of Congress is archiving Something Awful forums. Also a brony forum and some others. Twitter too, iirc
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Alhazred posted:They also mocked them for wearing trousers and for the Romans trousers were a sign of barbarism. Asterix and Obelix makes a little more sense now.
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Nov 10, 2015 21:39
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Nostalgia4Butts posted:He also would sleep with his head at the foot of his bed because he had a very nice headboard and thought it was a waste to not look at it as he was going to sleep So he was a Connecticut Yankee
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Nov 13, 2015 01:56
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trickybiscuits posted:Werner Herzog, who I won't shut up about, made a film about Chauvet Cave in which these footprints appear. Very worth watching. That was a volcano though? He was both a real piece of work and kind of impressive at the same time. Rape and murder are still bad but it was impressive.
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Nov 15, 2015 05:37
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Not taking sides but that was a thing of beauty
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Nov 15, 2015 11:33
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goose fleet posted:The Jerry Seinfeld movie "Bee Movie" (2007) predates America's first black president, Barack Obama (2008) lol
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Nov 27, 2015 05:34
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Alkydere posted:With any luck, we'll also be the last generation that remembers the the noise as your computer loudly dialed up the internet on your phoneline. It didn't have to be audible. Only scrubs and severe autists left it that way. Unless you're talking about one of those handset > modem couplers like in Wargames. You'd probably hear that I guess.
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Nov 28, 2015 02:16
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Raygereio posted:The Slaughter at Pyana river? That's a pretty famous one. To be fair to the Russians they never stood a chance and getting drunk/laid the night before was really the best option.
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Dec 3, 2015 00:02
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Molentik posted:The English once hanged a monkey for being a French spy. This isn't exactly ancient history but http://www.israelandstuff.com/saudi-arabia-detains-3rd-israeli-bird-as-possible-mossad-spy
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Dec 8, 2015 04:36
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad posted:In 1814 at the junction of Tottenham Court Road and Oxford Street in London, a vat containing 641000 liters of beer ruptured and caused a cascading failure at the Meux & Co. Brewery, ultimately leading to one and a half million litres of beer flooding central London. The beer wave destroyed two homes and killed at least eight people, and although the brewery was taken to court the London Beer Flood was declared an Act of God by the judge & jury. Remember when the history channel used to be good?
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Dec 21, 2015 02:18
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Hogge Wild posted:Mao didn't clean his dick except by loving virgins. And Jefferson hosed his slaves.
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Dec 27, 2015 23:31
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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:He wasn't a full blown Nazi, but when you look at his record as the head of the Inquisition, he was still a regressive far-right rear end in a top hat who loved to scream about the dangers of Marxism and working with people of other faiths. And when you looked at his face you saw the emperor from star wars. Good grief that dude was creepy looking. Covering up for pedophiles just seemed like a natural fit for the guy.
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Jan 1, 2016 01:26
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Alhazred posted:Gold wasn't the most valuable metal in all cultures. In ancient Egypt iron was actually rarer. The only way the Egyptians knew how to get iron was from meteorites and iron meteorites smashing down in Egypt wasn't an everyday occurrence. This means that the iron dagger found in Tut Ankh Amon's tomb was probably more valuable than all the gold he was buried with. The Aztec called gold "teocuitlatl" which means excrement of the gods. To them gold was good for making jewellery but otherwise they considered it worthless. To them feathers from the quetzal bird was far more valuable, it was even used as currency. It was considered a crime to kill the bird so they had to capture it alive, pluck some feathers and then release it. When Cortez arrived he was given a cape made from quetzal feathers which was considered a royal gift, worth far more than any gold they had. At one point aluminum (aluminium?) was worth more than gold by weight.
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Jan 1, 2016 21:57
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Back To 99 posted:What are some cool dead South American species? Please respond The Quetzalcoatl terror bird. Poor thing adorned it's nests with chocolate and couldn't fly. It could kick the poo poo out of your average puma but numerically they were at a real disadvantage. Their propensity for making roadrunner lasagna didn't do them any favors with the catyotes either.
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Jan 21, 2016 16:13
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FreudianSlippers posted:Abraham Lincoln had a very high pitched voice sometimes described as sounding like a tea kettle. He was also possibly gay making him the second gay president after James Buchanan. Thomas Jefferson had severe nerd voice and was almost certainly on the spectrum.
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Jan 31, 2016 23:50
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Johnny Aztec posted:Speak Softly...and carry a BIIIIG Stick! Seems like more of an LBJ thing but I recognize the quote.
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Feb 1, 2016 06:02
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RagnarokAngel posted:You basically doped them up with opium or alcohol and just do it. All I got was this jumpsuit, some nike trainers and a TNG box set.
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Feb 3, 2016 07:30
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hard counter posted:I've read that 50% would have been the expected contemporary rate with a skilled 'physician' but I can't recall my source at the moment - odds weren't great in any case. Although it's highly fictionalized The Knick has some graphic depictions of the race against the clock type of surgical techniques and it's horrifying. At least they were up to the point where they knew about hygiene and sanitation.
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Feb 3, 2016 08:14
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hard counter posted:I could see that. If you looked into the article I linked, there's some discussion of pre-hygiene surgery and it gets pretty Thank you Semmelweis.
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Feb 3, 2016 08:34
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Arcsquad12 posted:Barring the atomic bombings, the Battle of Borodino on September 7th, 1812, was the single bloodiest day in all of military history, and possibly human history. I'm not familiar with this but I feel like the Golden Horde had a more gruesome kill count. Lacking in nuclear weapons as they were.
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Feb 7, 2016 07:36
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:Fact: people at one point wished for a "dark Zelda game". They're all kind of dark for children's games. Not super grimdark but even the one with babby Link had Hyrule drowned, casualties unknown. Twilight Princess tried to be dark in a really tumblry way. Ocarina kills everyone by dropping the moon on you every time you screw up. Skyward sword is kinda post apoc, iirc. Even the original is like, monsters everywhere, oh hey a human I'll go talk to him, welp I killed him. Only monsters now.
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Feb 14, 2016 23:19
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A CRUNK BIRD posted:Besides the fact that every post you make on this website is loving stupid, it was Majora's Mask that had the moon crashing down I didn't really play either of those. But okay. The Tallest Presidents: Abraham Lincoln 6' 4'' / 1.93 m Lyndon Johnson 6' 3'' / 1.91 m Thomas Jefferson 6' 2.5'' / 1.89 m George Washington 6' 2'' / 1.88 m Franklin D. Roosevelt 6' 2'' / 1.88 m George H.W. Bush 6' 2'' / 1.88 m Bill Clinton 6' 2'' / 1.88 m Andrew Jackson 6' 2'' / 1.88 m Chester Arthur 6' 1'' / 1.85 m Ronald Reagan 6' 1'' / 1.85 m Barack Obama 6' 1'' / 1.85 m
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Feb 16, 2016 10:33
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Shbobdb posted:Concrete is super stable. The problem is reinforced concrete since steel changes size fairly dramatically with temperature which introduces cracks in the concrete. Water gets into those cracks and rusts the steel. That further expands the beams, causing more cracks, causing more water. Eventually the steel has rusted out and is worthless from a stability perspective and the concrete is cracked to poo poo. I thought rebar expanded and contracted at the same rate as concrete.
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Mar 7, 2016 05:48
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FreudianSlippers posted:Yeah but he was god and you're not really supposed to hear god's voice. Where's Alan Rickman when you need him? Oh yeah 
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Mar 21, 2016 01:53
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Cacafuego posted:Lol, now I have an image of Jesus showing up on the corner of a Mesopotamian version of a Home Depot or wherever the gently caress they were and shouting the Hebrew equivalent of 'trabajo! trabajo!' except that he did shoddy work, enough to ditch the lucrative career of being a Jewish day laborer. That scene in Dick and Jane where Jim Carrey gets rounded up by la migra outside of a home depot The parable of the lawn
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Jun 14, 2016 03:09
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Canemacar posted:So it was prequel to Bruce Almighty? Yeah. I think Noah used the grass to sod the roof of his ark. And then Harrison Ford came along and smoked all the grass
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Jun 14, 2016 03:30
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A White Guy posted:My favorite approximation of history: The Romans are as old to us, as the Ancient Egyptians were to the Romans. I read this on cracked.com, pretty sure. Doesn't change it from being a really cool fun fact. One of my faves.
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Jun 29, 2016 09:59
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Hashishins were ancient ninjas who would get stoned as gently caress before they did the dirty deed. They got pulled over a lot for doing 35 on the freeway.
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Jul 2, 2016 22:03
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John Big Booty posted:This is almost certainly not true, as is the competing story that potential assassins (more on this later) were drugged with hashish, shown some phony bullshit sound stage paradise, then told when they sobered up that they could get right back to the party if they died murdering someone. It's really on par with the Messalina/Scylla sex contest in terms of likeliness. The real story, as completely as it can be known, is much more interesting. That's what I get for telling tales out of school (erowid.com I think) you making this good post.
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Jul 3, 2016 02:02
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hard counter posted:It was a pretty common belief, it's actually how they got the name Hashishins (assassins) after all. The spooky thing about these guys was that there were limited ways of stealthily killing a dude back then - particularly those available to people of restricted means - so they just didn't give a gently caress when it came to the actual deed in some cases. Out of nowhere there would just be this guy shiving the everloving poo poo out his mark without regard for personal safety once the right opening presented itself. Their apparent contempt for their own well-being made them ludicrously successful (not to mention the demoralizing effect this kind of dramatic spectacle would have on their enemies) and the only way their contemporaries could explain that kind of self-sacrifice was through the use of drugs. Dang. I was reading this piece http://disinfo.com/2012/07/hasan-bin-sabbah-and-the-secret-order-of-hashishins/ and whoa. But you seem to have summed it up better. Asymmetrical as heck.
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Jul 3, 2016 02:38
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Alhazred posted:In 1910 Bill Wilson, Henry Bowers and Apsley Cherry-Garrard went to Antarctica to collect penguin eggs, the reason was that it was though that the eggs of the emperor penguin would reveal a link between reptiles and birds because the emperor penguins was thought of as a primitive bird. The penguins nests during the winter and winter in Antarctica is absolute hell. Its complete darkness and temperature well below −40 °C. During the expedition Cherry's teeth chattered so violently that they shattered, while Wilson was blinded in one eye by a blob of boiling blubber from a camp stove. It got so bad that at one point the men simply laid down and waited for death. Finally they were able to snatch five eggs but dropped two of them before they staggered into bascamp where their frozen clothes had to be cut off them. There are some names here I recognize from a work of fiction, perhaps they were gathered up by a lazy novelist 
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hogmartin posted:"This skeleton's cool guys, he's with me" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjaXWL0fepw
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Arcsquad12 posted:On the airplane front, P-47 Thunderbolts did more to break the Luftwaffe than the P-51 Mustang. While not an especially good escort fighter, it was extremely fast in a dive due to it weighing over nine tonnes and being built like a brick shithouse. Throughout 1943, Thunderbolts took on the brunt of the Luftwaffe and managed to fight on equal terms. Eventually, once P-51s were able to escort the bomber formations all the way to and from their targets, P-47s roles changed to ground attack. They would launch from forward airbases and attack german planes before they could scramble to intercept the bombers. The British did the same thing with their Hawker Tempests, taking out the ME-262 airfields and taking advantage of the jets' slow warmup time. I loving love Thunderbolts. They are the namesake of the A-10 
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The guy partly responsible for those engines was wellwiki posted:Charles Stewart Rolls (27 August 1877 – 12 July 1910) was an English motoring and aviation pioneer. Together with Henry Royce he co-founded the Rolls-Royce car manufacturing firm. He was the first Briton to be killed in an aeronautical accident with a powered aircraft, when the tail of his Wright Flyer broke off during a flying display in the Southbourne district of Bournemouth. He was aged 32.
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Suspect Bucket posted:Sounds like a good time 
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Jul 24, 2016 02:45
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Powaqoatse posted:One of the worst decisions ever made in history. Almost totally absolves everyone who works for and (especially) directs a bad company doing bad things. "Just following orders!" I guess it'd be okay if there was a heavier "you should have known better" clause. I don't know why they can't imprison or execute (in the case of a capital crime of which many companies are very guilty) a company.
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Nov 19, 2016 03:56
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Tiny Brontosaurus posted:I'm not saying I don't like this idea, because I very much do, but what would imprisoning a company entail. Shutting it down for a period of time determined by a judge or jury. v0v
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Nov 19, 2016 04:03
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Kevin DuBrow posted:If you've read 100 Years of Solitude you'll have heard a bit about how politics in Colombia was deeply divided between the Conservatives and the Liberals, two parties that were founded shortly after Colombian independence in 1849 and eventually became two sides in the Thousand Days' War around the turn of the century. That's confusing because I just read that book and I'd swear the "Liberals" had them paint the houses blue and the other side wanted them painted red?
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Kevin DuBrow posted:I don't have my copy on hand but I'm pretty sure that the Conservatives favored blue. Yeah the painting blue was apparently was Don Apolinar Moscote's idea and he was a Conservative stooge. Had to look it up.
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