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Baron Corbyn posted:Is the octopus in the toilet thing real or the Roman version of alligators in the sewers?
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Nessus posted:Wouldn't it need to be on the sea coast for this to be even kind of possible? Not a problem for Neptune, duh.
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canyoneer posted:Not a problem for Neptune, duh. Then it would be a horse.
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Wouldn't that be Caligula?
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Getting a horse down a toilet really hard and only really possible if you've done at least a couple of weeks of prep work. Then once you get them out again, if you get them out, the smell of sewage will never go away completely no matter how often you wash them. With an ictopus on the other hand all you need is a stick, a toilet and a bit of elbow grease. And the octopus itself of course.
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FreudianSlippers posted:Getting a horse down a toilet really hard and only really possible if you've done at least a couple of weeks of prep work. Then once you get them out again, if you get them out, the smell of sewage will never go away completely no matter how often you wash them.
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PMush Perfect posted:You sound like you're speaking from experience If you squint really hard at FreudianSlippers name, you can read Fred Flinstone.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:He means the He 162, which was generally called the Salamander but Heinkel's official name for it was the Spatz. The production line was an underground nazi factory.  That's, uh, a very Wolfenstein place. WWII has weird bits to it that almost sound fake. That jet was mainly made of wood.  This was a long time ago, but the Tsar tank of WWI was posted in this thread. That's the most "no way you're making poo poo up" war artifact I've ever seen.  Looks just about ready to fight the tripods from War of the Worlds.
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Jul 1, 2017 04:23
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It's like a militarized penny-farthing. 
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Fringe theories on the location of New Albion Everything from Santa Barbara to Alaska.
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:It's like a militarized penny-farthing. What about a militarized railway penny farthing! 
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Is it true that Kaiser Wilhelm II had his sister placed under house arrest after she rode a bicycle in public and he thought that was conduct unbecoming of a member of the German royal family, or was that just something Terry Deary exaggerated or misreported for a Horrible Histories book?
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Wheat Loaf posted:Is it true that Kaiser Wilhelm II had his sister placed under house arrest after she rode a bicycle in public and he thought that was conduct unbecoming of a member of the German royal family, or was that just something Terry Deary exaggerated or misreported for a Horrible Histories book? Deary is literally the only source I can find for that, so I kinda doubt it. One of his sisters became Queen of Greece though, and when she dared converting to Greek Orthodoxy her brother became so enraged that he forbade her from entering Germany ever again. Their mother told her to just ignore the order, though, and they made up again eventually. Another sister met a Russian conman after the war who swindled her into marriage, made off with her money and later on worked as a waiter in a Luxembourg restaurant that advertised itself with the slogan "Here you are served by the Kaiser's brother-in-law!". Yet another sister got exiled into Breslau after her diary fell into Wilhelm's hands who found it to be full with salacious gossip about himself; he also suspected his sister in being the secret author of a number of letters detailing said gossip that circulated amongst the Berlin elite. Some of those letters even contained Kaiser porn photoshops   Wilhelm's four sisters. From top to bottom: Margaret (was Queen of Finland for all of 66 days), Sophia (Queen of Greece), Victoria (Russian conman) and Charlotte (loved to gossip) System Metternich has a new favorite as of 19:03 on Jul 1, 2017 |
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Alhazred posted:the people themselves smelled of piss because urine was used to both clean their clothes and their teeth.
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Nah, man, didn't you know? Before 50 years ago everyone was constantly covered in poo and smelled like a septic tank. We invented the concept of hygiene in 1896.
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oh right, just like an average life expectancy of 45 meant that in history times a 22 year old was middle aged and therefore greying etc.
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PMush Perfect posted:Nah, man, didn't you know? Before 50 years ago everyone was constantly covered in poo and smelled like a septic tank. We invented the concept of hygiene in 1896. Actually before 1937 every human alive was literally made of poo poo. It wasn't just covered in poo poo; we were literally poo poo until we invented the concept of not being poo poo. I mean we're still working on it. Physically we're made of things other than poo poo now but mentally we're still poo poo.
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Jul 2, 2017 05:37
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Hey, we were also made of bile. Let's not forget the four humours people.
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Jul 2, 2017 05:55
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Phlegm, blood, yellow bile, and goonposting.
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Jul 2, 2017 06:49
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Goons are pretty melancholic, when you think about it.
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Jul 2, 2017 07:15
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Tasteful Dickpic posted:Goons are pretty melancholic, when you think about it. Simple enough fix, we just need to shave our heads and rub rose water and verbena into our scalps and noses.
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PMush Perfect posted:Phlegm, blood, yellow bile, and goonposting. Your posts in no way resemble humor
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Solice Kirsk posted:Simple enough fix, we just need to shave our heads and rub rose water and verbena into our scalps and noses. Wait, do you not?
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Tasteful Dickpic posted:Goons are pretty melancholic, when you think about it. I'm more phlegmatic, as in I need to blow my nose a lot.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Wait, do you not? I'm not melancholic yet, so a simple preventative measure such as eating sugar mixed with fish stock will keep me from becoming afflicted.
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That's a massive exaggeration though that first appears like 60 years later. The scant contemporary sources we have speak of maybe 150 dead.
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Jul 3, 2017 10:40
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I thought the entire thing was completely apocryphal. Even losing 150 men to blue on blue crime speaks to remarkable incompetence.
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Grand Prize Winner posted:I thought the entire thing was completely apocryphal. Even losing 150 men to blue on blue crime speaks to remarkable incompetence. No one ever wants to talk about blue-on-blue crime
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Grand Prize Winner posted:I thought the entire thing was completely apocryphal. Even losing 150 men to blue on blue crime speaks to remarkable incompetence. It was dark, everybody was pretty exhausted, the army had already moved far into enemy territory making everybody even more jumpy, and the main problem was that the Austrian army was hardly comparable with a contemporary strictly organised army, but instead consisted of hundreds of different units coming from dozens of ethnic backgrounds who all distrusted each other to some degree, wore wildly different uniforms and spoke different languages. Going by what we know and seems reliable, the whole thing started when some lowly infantry soldiers bought some cheap booze from a wandering merchant and got pissed when a couple of posh useless cavalry officers disapproved of that. Some of those infantry soldiers fired a couple of shots into the air and yelled “The Turks!“ to piss the officers off without realising that they would maybe take that seriously. Add to that some (German) officers trying to quell the ensuing panic by yelling “Halt!“ and their (Slav) subordinates hearing “Allah!“ instead and the whole 100,000 strong army currently being in the process of traversing a bridge and it gets understandable why that whole episode could escalate the way it apparently did.
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The only good thing about fighting yourself is that you win every time. 
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But you also lose every time.
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So basically it evened out and everything's good
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I mean Hitler did kill Hitler.
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:I mean Hitler did kill Hitler. But he also killed the guy who killed Hitler, so it evens out.
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Bertrand Hustle posted:But he also killed the guy who killed Hitler, so it evens out. hosed up if true
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Plus he also did all that ethnic cleansing. So that's a plus.
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System Metternich posted:It was dark, everybody was pretty exhausted, the army had already moved far into enemy territory making everybody even more jumpy, and the main problem was that the Austrian army was hardly comparable with a contemporary strictly organised army, but instead consisted of hundreds of different units coming from dozens of ethnic backgrounds who all distrusted each other to some degree, wore wildly different uniforms and spoke different languages. Going by what we know and seems reliable, the whole thing started when some lowly infantry soldiers bought some cheap booze from a wandering merchant and got pissed when a couple of posh useless cavalry officers disapproved of that. Some of those infantry soldiers fired a couple of shots into the air and yelled “The Turks!“ to piss the officers off without realising that they would maybe take that seriously. Add to that some (German) officers trying to quell the ensuing panic by yelling “Halt!“ and their (Slav) subordinates hearing “Allah!“ instead and the whole 100,000 strong army currently being in the process of traversing a bridge and it gets understandable why that whole episode could escalate the way it apparently did. Another european army crumbles before the might of the Imaginary Islamic Jihad
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