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That dude's sick arrow tricks were in fact incredibly lame looking. His little hop to shoot over that wall was hilariously awkward.
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Beef Jerky Robot posted:That dude's sick arrow tricks were in fact incredibly lame looking. His little hop to shoot over that wall was hilariously awkward. I liked his lameness it added to it, after he did a shot he struck a pose that reminded me of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcq-TZdDSlo With his arms held back in a dramatic fashion
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Jan 27, 2015 01:43
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Is that scene from a "legitimate" documentary about Ulillillia or like his sister filming or something?
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Jan 27, 2015 01:50
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You know those videos of people shooting baskets over the house/jumping into the pool/from a moving car/etc? Those people aren't really really good at basketball, they just do 400 takes until they sink it. SPOILER ALERT
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darkhand posted:Is that scene from a "legitimate" documentary about Ulillillia or like his sister filming or something? I dunno, sorry
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Fool and the World posted:Yeah, this is the important bit. History would have been a lot cooler if it had actually been John Woo's fever dream. It certainly was: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pd0bqLQrtdE
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Who gives a gently caress about archery. Here is a cat ten times more badass than any of you.] WANRNING: There is a picture of a sort of mangled up cat. quote:TAMPA, Fla. -- If ever the "Cats have nine lives" cliche was appropriate, it would be for Bart the miracle cat. I guess that's 2 down, 7 to go?
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Jan 28, 2015 04:05
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 I think I saw a movie about this once.
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Jan 28, 2015 04:10
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See, this is why historically when people die, you have a wake. It's a wake, because it's literally held just in case the "dead" person wakes up.
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Boat posted:See, this is why historically when people die, you have a wake. It's a wake, because it's literally held just in case the "dead" person wakes up. Although that loses some probability when they drain all your body fluids during embalming. 
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Here's Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson (aka The Mountain from TV's Game of Thrones) in the World’s Strongest Viking competition where he recreates a feat of strength from the Icelandic Sagas where Ormur Stórólfsson carried a 650kg log on his back for three steps. Björnsson manages five steps and therefore beats a record which had stood for 1,000 years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpUrXJNcS_8 He's not just strongest man of the year, he's the strongest man of the millennium.
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davidspackage posted:I have nightmares sort of like this. What if the Moon was as close as the ISS? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBDZtt0vWD8&t=22s What if Saturn flew past the Earth? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nY2jv4GWUhQ&t=154s
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Boat posted:See, this is why historically when people die, you have a wake. It's a wake, because it's literally held just in case the "dead" person wakes up. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake_(ceremony) quote:While the modern usage of the verb "wake" is "become or stay alert", a "wake" for the dead harks back to the antiquated "watch" or "guard" sense. This is contrary to the misconception that people at a wake are waiting in case the deceased should "wake up."[2]
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Still, leaving the body to sit for long enough that it starts to smell funky is a pretty good way to make sure you're not burying live people back before we knew how to tell for sure.
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Your wikipedia quote is for more of a modern definition of the term. Wake did in fact mean that it was a watch over the body to see if they woke up/ward off evil spirits. That is why the body could never be alone and had to always be watched. This is also why in some cultures wakes were large parties to make as much noise as possible to try and wake the dead. Read a few more books/websites than wiki.
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JEEVES420 posted:Your wikipedia quote is for more of a modern definition of the term. Wake did in fact mean that it was a watch over the body to see if they woke up/ward off evil spirits. That is why the body could never be alone and had to always be watched. This is also why in some cultures wakes were large parties to make as much noise as possible to try and wake the dead. citation needed
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I like how the camera man and the guy to the left don't even flinch.
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JEEVES420 posted:Your wikipedia quote is for more of a modern definition of the term. Wake did in fact mean that it was a watch over the body to see if they woke up/ward off evil spirits. That is why the body could never be alone and had to always be watched. This is also why in some cultures wakes were large parties to make as much noise as possible to try and wake the dead. Wrong, wrong, wrong. Wakes originated in Ireland, which is predominantly Roman Catholic. There are quite a few restricitions on when Catholic funeral masses can be held - basically a chunk of the Christmas season and about 50 days either side of Easter. Funerals can still be held at anytime but during these times there would be little or no opportunity for a gathering of friends, families and acquaintances of the deceased, so they began to hold wakes instead. The custom spread so wakes were even held outside of the Easter season. During a wake the body is kept in their home on show, and people could arrive uninvited at any time between the death and the funeral. This meant that someone would have to stay awake to receive these visitors and those same visitors would usually stay a while, particularly at night, to help the awake visitors stay awake. So it doesn't mean that they're waiting for the body to wake up, it means that everyone is staying awake to keep each other awake, so they can receive more visitors who in turn will stay awake. At a wake everyone is awake except the dead guy. Simple 
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That's the Peace Walker. 
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When I was a kid I figured it was called a wake because it followed death, a la the wake of a boat.
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WoodrowSkillson posted:in short he is using a bow that would do nothing to anyone back in the day. its one thing to do what he is doing with a light bow as opposed to one with a 100lb or more draw weight and war arrows. Horsebows were actually more lighter in draw than yeomen warbows used in England u uneducated swine, it was not about penetration, it was about massed volleys of sharp sticks flying towards you. If you re-watch the Andersson-clip you'd notice that most of the stuff he recites is from cultures that relied on and therefore refined the term "mounted archery" Also the subject was ancient archery and not "a form of archery that lasted about a century or two before replaced by firearms" Nebelwerfer has a new favorite as of 13:03 on Feb 19, 2015 |
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This is where Till Lindemann grew up, isn't it?
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Edmond Dantes posted:Man gets hip replaced, asks the doctor for his femur, makes a cane out of it. e: found it:  tl;dr Orthopedic surgeon calls bullshit Lady Disdain has a new favorite as of 23:19 on Feb 21, 2015 |
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Istari posted:e: found it: Welp, that'll teach me to trust the internet. 
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Don't trust reddit. Ever. Reddit pomps itself up as a populist website but it's run by power users and/or corporate plants spouting bullshit stories and has been for years now. It's owned by Conde loving Nast for god's sake, it's not some basement labor of love like 4chan supposedly was or even an Elite start-up story like Facebook. It is and always has been a corporate for-profit enterprise masquerading as "content submitted and determined by the users."
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mind the walrus posted:Don't trust reddit. Ever.  More importantly the voting system creates incentives to seek upvotes at any cost. People are endlessly reposting old photos and claiming to be the person who took it.
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mind the walrus posted:Don't trust reddit. Ever. But what about when Reddit posts are disproving Reddit posts. 
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Is that the ghost of Lassie watching over that jet?
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cowboythreespeech posted:Is that the ghost of Lassie watching over that jet? Stay safe Doge ghost
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cowboythreespeech posted:Is that the ghost of Lassie watching over that jet? lyk if u fall down a well evertim
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cowboythreespeech posted:Is that the ghost of Lassie watching over that jet? holy poo poo
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poptart_fairy posted:But what about when Reddit posts are disproving Reddit posts. That's the rub of reddit. It's the best link aggregator website I personally know of, even if most of its communities and general corporate ethos are absolute dogshit. That said there are pockets of quality and sincerity by basic semantic definition alone-- if most of the content is manufactured and/or fake, then by definition the rest has to be sincere.
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cyberbug posted:Then you're going to love these. This is literally the scariest thing I've ever seen.
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cyberbug posted:I have nightmares sort of like this. What if the Moon was as close as the ISS? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBDZtt0vWD8&t=22s What if Saturn flew past the Earth? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nY2jv4GWUhQ&t=154s [/quote] That is terrifying and beautiful. I've had dreams/nightmares like that too, and in my dreams I'm always scared and awed by the beauty of it. Just think if that were for real, we'd all be so used to it that we wouldn't even think about it.
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