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No lie, the most racist people I knew in high school were stoners.
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Magnus Manfist posted:I love how viking sagas don't even pretend the heroes are "good guys" in any sense we'd understand. It always just starts "Ulf the Quarrelsome had been exiled for some murders, and then..." Most of the Viking gods aren't even "good guys", Odin spends almost all of his time seducing the poo poo out of pretty much anyone with tits he runs into, several of his stories basically results in yet another bastard son for his already huge collection. Thor is actually one of the nicer gods, and even he just took some farmers kids as slaves/servants, because one of the kids ate the bone marrow out of his goats. The goats that Thor could just resurrect whenever he felt like having goat for dinner. Balder is probably the closest thing you can get to a Viking "good guy", and he got killed off.
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steinrokkan posted:Did you know that Catholic soldiers didn't even have to travel through time to get to the Roman Empire? Sorry, I should have been more specific. THESE soldiers travelled from the 21st century.
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RagnarokZ posted:Most of the Viking gods aren't even "good guys", Odin spends almost all of his time seducing the poo poo out of pretty much anyone with tits he runs into, several of his stories basically results in yet another bastard son for his already huge collection. To be fair, the goat was crippled even after being resurrected once the kid ate the marrow.
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El Estrago Bonito posted:It's like how there were tribes in the middle east who were still using black powder ball rifles up until really the AK47 and Mosin got vomitted across the entire known world by the Soviets. Because they shot a bullet and that bullet killed game and the rare enemy well enough that you didn't need to develop the time and resources to switch to a new platform. There are still people in Africa (and more rarely the Middle East and Southeast Asia) that are using flintlock or even homemade matchlock muskets firing black powder and lead balls.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbZ-e0dGafM chitoryu12 has a new favorite as of 13:26 on Apr 21, 2017 |
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Apr 21, 2017 13:24
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lmao at the video title, truly homemade muskets are the greatest danger of them all
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A few notes on how to behave by Erasmus of Rotterdam (1466–1536), from his work De civilitate morum puerilium (On Civility in Children). Some are reasonable, others are a bit weird:
Couldn't find an English edition online, so these are my translations from the Danish 1646 edition. Highly recommended!
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Wheat Loaf posted:Many records were lost during the Finno-Korean Hyperwar. im still pissed I thought that was real
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Apr 21, 2017 15:44
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El Estrago Bonito posted:Also, like, a loooot of murder and casual violence. Just to show how truly causal the violence was: One day Torgeir Håvardsson rode past a peasant, without warning he then chopped the head off said peasant. When he was asked why the hell he did it Torgeir answered "He was so well poised for the blow". Everybody then had a good laugh and let Torgeir go free. Magnus Manfist posted:I love how viking sagas don't even pretend the heroes are "good guys" in any sense we'd understand. It always just starts "Ulf the Quarrelsome had been exiled for some murders, and then..." In some viking families it seems like getting exiled was a family tradition. In 960 Thorvald Åsvaldsson was exiled from Norway for murder and had to move to Iceland. His son, Erik the Red, was then exiled from Iceland for killing Eyiolf the Foul, this exile lead him to discover Greenland. Incidentally Erik the Red's son, Leif Erikson, avoided exile and became the first european to sail to America.
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verbal enema posted:im still pissed I thought that was real im still pissed it wasn't
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Apr 21, 2017 16:00
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Powaqoatse posted:A few notes on how to behave by Erasmus of Rotterdam (1466–1536), from his work De civilitate morum puerilium (On Civility in Children). Some are reasonable, others are a bit weird: I'm the wide stance of privilege throughout history
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Apr 21, 2017 16:29
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syscall girl posted:I'm the wide stance of privilege throughout history so farmerish
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Apr 21, 2017 16:33
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Even Erasmus was critical of manspreading. I approve. And I don't understand why you're all harshing on medieval Scandinavia. You don't like subsistence farming while you're trying not to freeze to death, or going out west in your cousin's best friend's longship because he heard there might be a non-ice covered place somewhere?
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Apr 21, 2017 16:52
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syscall girl posted:I'm the wide stance of privilege throughout history I'm the extreme Human.
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Apr 21, 2017 18:30
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chitoryu12 posted:I'm the extreme Human. Sorry, I'm pretty bad at translating archaic Danish adjectives into plausible English adjectives lol It was "overdaadig", probably better to translate it as "excessive" Also the incessant harping on farmers & common workers might be due to the work being written for I think prince Henry of Burgundy
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Apr 21, 2017 19:40
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System Metternich posted:lmao at the video title, truly homemade muskets are the greatest danger of them all
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Powaqoatse posted:Sorry, I'm pretty bad at translating archaic Danish adjectives into plausible English adjectives lol I'm the excessive Human.
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Apr 21, 2017 23:19
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chitoryu12 posted:I'm the excessive Human. That's fair 
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Apr 21, 2017 23:48
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Bertrand Hustle posted:No lie, the most racist people I knew in high school were stoners.
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John Big Booty posted:I knew this big, fat fucker who loved Hitler almost as much as he loved his knit rasta cap.
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Apr 22, 2017 06:06
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Nessus posted:Well, I mean, the two have an obvious point of overlap: They both celebrate 4/20. lol
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Apr 22, 2017 06:08
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Hitler probably celebrated 20/4 though.
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Apr 22, 2017 18:12
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Biplane posted:Hitler probably celebrated 20/4 though. 5?
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Can someone who knows more about history tell me why there's an actual weather site called Weather Underground when I assume that's a bad association for a lot of people?
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Pick posted:Can someone who knows more about history tell me why there's an actual weather site called Weather Underground when I assume that's a bad association for a lot of people?
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Apr 24, 2017 21:08
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I could swear Weather Underground was the name of a desktop bloatware program back in the early 2000s.
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Apr 24, 2017 21:13
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Pick posted:Can someone who knows more about history tell me why there's an actual weather site called Weather Underground when I assume that's a bad association for a lot of people? It was an early internet site based out of the University of Michigan, as was the original Weather Underground. They thought it was cute.
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Apr 24, 2017 22:52
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Nessus posted:It was probably a cute name when they started and now it's their #brand so they're stuck with it. There used to be a record store - and not some upstairs hole-in-the-wall, an actual big record store - in Grand Rapids MI called "The Vinyl Solution". Why... why would you... what? Who thought that was a good idea?
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hogmartin posted:There used to be a record store - and not some upstairs hole-in-the-wall, an actual big record store - in Grand Rapids MI called "The Vinyl Solution". Why... why would you... what? Who thought that was a good idea? The point is for the name to be memorable, so people will go there. Customers don't like having to look stuff up, they tend go to the first place that comes to mind. Lots of stores base their names on puns for that reason. In this case, the calculation is that it will bring in more business than it drives away.
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Apr 25, 2017 14:32
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Kindof like my ~Wee Historical Shoppe o' Curiosities~ called "HITLER STUFF"
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hogmartin posted:There used to be a record store - and not some upstairs hole-in-the-wall, an actual big record store - in Grand Rapids MI called "The Vinyl Solution". Why... why would you... what? Who thought that was a good idea? Probably the same people who run this place in a college town.
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Apr 27, 2017 23:58
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... MapQuest?
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hogmartin posted:There used to be a record store - and not some upstairs hole-in-the-wall, an actual big record store - in Grand Rapids MI called "The Vinyl Solution". Why... why would you... what? Who thought that was a good idea? That's a great name.
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:... MapQuest? 'Crepe Culture' which I assume is a bad pun for 'Rape Culture'?
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This is a burial from ~1770. Notice how it is mentioned that he's a Calvinist: This means no "dirt to dirt" from a Danish priest, that's only for the Lutherans "LøverDag d 8 Apr: blev Calvinist Johan Fornæs Tobaks Planteur begr: uden de 17 [all Ab.Skl.?] Ring: ætat: 80 Aar" https://www.sa.dk/ao-soegesider/billedviser?bsid=156992#156992,26325757 PS: "ring" = they paid for bells, as most people did if they could ætat = "of age" so dude got to be 80 years old
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value-brand cereal posted:'Crepe Culture' which I assume is a bad pun for 'Rape Culture'? No, I mean, MapQuest?
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Powaqoatse posted:This is a burial from ~1770. Notice how it is mentioned that he's a Calvinist: This means no "dirt to dirt" from a Danish priest, that's only for the Lutherans Do you have many tobacco farmers in Denmark?
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Powaqoatse posted:This is a burial from ~1770. Notice how it is mentioned that he's a Calvinist: This means no "dirt to dirt" from a Danish priest, that's only for the Lutherans So which is it? 1769 or 1775?
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