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His mother was also apparently an emotionally unavailable paranoid shut-in who raised young Howard with an unhealthy level of fear, particularly fear of the unknown, which manifested as racism but also an incredible genre of fiction. And I think he changed his views later in life.
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I can't be arsed to confirm it, but evidently he married a Jewish woman, who was able to curb some of his racist/anti-semetic views with the classic "Hey, you realize I'm the one you come home to after saying that poo poo" technique.
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Bertrand Hustle posted:And I think he changed his views later in life. If anything he got worse.
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Alhazred posted:If anything he got worse. I never got that from his later works. The incredibly explicit and gross racism mellowed out and eventually became barely a part of it. The subtext remains with the fear of others, othering, and so on, but it felt like it moved beyond the mere physical and into the more purely existential and metaphysical Other, instead of immigrants and black people.
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Tashilicious posted:I never got that from his later works. In his later years he openly wrote about how he admired Hitler and how the country were flooded with jews.
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Yo please post some of your favorite facts about love craft because the one I'm most familiar with is that he named his cat Uh His cat has a name.
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Alhazred posted:In his later years he openly wrote about how he admired Hitler and how the country were flooded with jews. same with half the US tbh
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Tashilicious posted:same with half the US tbh example:  msg in new york city
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plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose
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Yosselle Greenstein, The Mighty Atom: In New York in 1939, members of the pro-Nazi German-American Bund were enraged to see a five-foot four, 140 pound man tearing up the sign on their headquarters which read “No dogs or Jews allowed”. The man, they figured was Jewish, and a group of around 20 Nazis, men who liked a fight, decided to teach the little man a lesson. ... When the group of German-American Bund member appeared in court to level charges against Joseph Greenstein, the judge asked why not all of them were present. The Nazis told the judge not all of them were out of the hospital yet. The Nazis were not eager to press charges against him and admit that one little Jewish man had defeated all of them. Before dismissing the case, the judge asked Greenstein about the fight. Greenstein’s reply was: “It wasn’t a fight your honor, it was a pleasure.”
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dee eight posted:Yosselle Greenstein, The Mighty Atom: I love this story, and the one about the guy who charged up the stage during a rally at in New York to punch some Nazis. Like, full on Nazi regalia, the very rally the picture Peanut posted is from, and just decked a guy. Isadore Greenbaum was his name. https://www.washingtonpost.com/hist...m=.0342b1e1a5c9 To the credit of New York, there *was* a 100,000 person demonstration outside that was chomping at the bit to bust Nazi heads.
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Look up Sputnik Monroe, the pro wrestler, too.
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dee eight posted:Yosselle Greenstein, The Mighty Atom: Nate Dimeo delivers this story well.
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Jack Kirby was a Nazi puncher as well.
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Jack Kirby was a Nazi killer too.
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Punching Nazis is both patriotic and self-defense.
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gently caress yeah Jimmy
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FreudianSlippers posted:Also his voice was noted as being noticeably high pitched. I was thinking of a different comedian.
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The oldest known named pet is Abuwtiyuw, the royal guard dog of an unknown pharoah.quote:The dog which was the guard of His Majesty, Abuwtiyuw is his name. His Majesty ordered that he be buried (ceremonially), that he be given a coffin from the royal treasury, fine linen in great quantity, (and) incense. His Majesty (also) gave perfumed ointment, and (ordered) that a tomb be built for him by the gangs of masons. His Majesty did this for him in order that he (the dog) might be Honoured (before the great god, Anubis).
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Alhazred posted:In his later years he openly wrote about how he admired Hitler and how the country were flooded with jews. Wait where did you read that? I've never heard that before. I remember reading that Lovecraft thought Hitler was irrational or something to that effect but nothing about him admiring him. It's always seemed more that he got less xenophobic as he aged, at least it's less reflected in his later writing. But I dunno could be wrong.
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Zeniel posted:Wait where did you read that? Lovecraft posted:Hitler’s] vision is of course romantic & immature, & coloured with a fact-ignoring emotionalism … There surely is an actual Hitler peril—yet that cannot blind us to the honest rightness of the man’s basic urge … I repeat that there is a great & pressing need behind every one of the major planks of Hitlerism—racial-cultural continuity, conservative cultural ideals, & an escape from the absurdities of Versailles. The crazy thing is not what Adolf wants, but the way he sees it & starts out to get it. I know he's a clown, but by God, I like the boy!
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Lovecraft was horrid. Not even a product-of-his-times kind of bad. His fellow 1920s white boys were shocked at how loving bigoted he was. However, his work has resonated, especially with queer people like me. I’m going to post this video rather than construct a post: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=l8u8wZ0WvxI
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In the 14th century a cow was worth one hundred squirrel pelts in Russia and Finland (the finnish word for money is still "raha" which means squirrel pelt). In what is now Gabon a wife was worth thirty potato clubs in the 16th century. Parmesan cheese was so valuable that when London burned in 1666 Samuel Pepy buried his cheese so that it wouldn't perish. Some banks in Italy still accept parmesan as collateral and Credito Emilliano has 440 000 cheese wheels in their vaults. In Ethiopia in the 19th century you would have to have a donkey cart of salt to buy a slave. If you wanted to buy a slave in Oceania in the 16th century it would cost you 200-300 kauri shells. In the 17th century the market crashed and a slave was now worth 20 000 kauri shells. In 1880 one dog tooth was worth ten coconuts in Papa New Guinea. If you wanted a pig you needed a chain of dog teeth that was as long as the pig from snout to tail.
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Alhazred posted:Papa New Guinea. If you wanted a pig you needed a chain of dog teeth that was as long as the pig from snout to tail. Holy poo poo. Talk about working for your money! Who thought this up, Charley four-fingers? e: Randaconda posted:
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Traditional Western Medicine was just as terrible back then as Traditional Chinese Medicine is now. HEY GUNS posted:human fat has curative properties and the body parts of people who die by violence are more magically potent. you can see what people who believed this would have done during the french revolution: No matter what, do not literally eat the rich, or use them to make a salve for cuts and burns.
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golden bubble posted:No matter what, do not literally eat the rich, or use them to make a salve for cuts and burns. Don't tell me what to do. Alhazred posted:
What's a potato club?
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Beachcomber posted:Don't tell me what to do. Like a seal club but for tubers.
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Beachcomber posted:What's a potato club? the first rule of potato club is that you don't talk about potato club
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Beachcomber posted:
What you mash potatoes with: 
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Alhazred posted:What you mash potatoes with: So considering the price of a potato masher these days, a wife would be worth about 60 bucks? Nice.
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Welp there you go..
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golden bubble posted:
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But why would you need 30 potato mashers?
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BattyKiara posted:But why would you need 30 potato mashers? To mash 30 potatoes, idiot
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BattyKiara posted:But why would you need 30 potato mashers? They were made out of iron which was rare in that area.
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Alhazred posted:What you mash potatoes with: Bit dangerous to mash your spuds with a ww2 hand grenade imho
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DesperateDan posted:Bit dangerous to mash your spuds with a ww2 hand grenade imho If you do it right, you won't need to mash for long.
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