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That's so cool, drat.
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Imagine being able to travel back in time and asking, "What was the significance of this? Were you performing a hunting ritual?" And getting, "Huh? that was about this fart joke, you ever see those aurochs fart? Bwahaha!"
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# ? Sep 28, 2020 18:10 |
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Fartrunes from the Galdrabók, an Icelandic grimoire written sometime around 1600 though some of the pages were filled in as late as half a century later. 17th century Icelandic wizard posted:Write these staves on white calfskin with your own blood taken from your thigh and speak: Aside from the flatulence it's interesting how even 600+ years after Christianisation you've got someone invoking the Norse gods and doing so in the same breath as both Satan and God in an act of amazing syncretism though perhaps they were just making sure all their bases were covered when trying to give someone magically induced consumption. In 1656 Jón Jónsson the Younger was executed for casting fart runes on the priest's daughter. Amongst other things, he confessed to a whole laundry list of sorcery and by his decdbtly deep knowledge of runes revealed through his confessions it's likely that he did really dabble in the dark arts. FreudianSlippers has a new favorite as of 04:17 on Sep 29, 2020 |
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Dabbling in the dark farts
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# ? Sep 29, 2020 04:45 |
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Fuckin hell yeah
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# ? Sep 29, 2020 05:58 |
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Platystemon posted:Dabbling in the dark farts
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# ? Sep 29, 2020 08:41 |
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Platystemon posted:Dabbling in the dark farts
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# ? Sep 29, 2020 08:43 |
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This thread really highlights how majestic and cool humans are while also simultaneously being doofuses who love fart jokes and I appreciate all of this so much
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# ? Sep 29, 2020 13:32 |
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Platystemon posted:Dabbling in the dark farts lol Mostly unrelated, but sometimes I think about the Norse Greenlandic settlers, and what it must have been like to be the last one of them alive. We complain about global warming, but they would have been all over it.
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# ? Sep 29, 2020 13:46 |
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Phlegmish posted:lol Terminally hungry and cold.
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# ? Sep 29, 2020 16:19 |
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That's hella neat. Looks similar to the Cyprianus grimoires that were used in Denmark in the same period. Here the first & last pages from a much later one, entirely Christianized: You were supposed to read it backwards, or evil spirits could trap you. There are many stories about a servant boy or girl who comes across a Cyprianus & accidentally reads some of it, and must be saved by the book's owner or someone else reading it backwards. Platystemon posted:Dabbling in the dark farts — Anyway, came to post this little figurine that was recently discovered in Boeslunde: https://www.vestmuseum.dk/ark%E6ologi/unikt-fund-af-kvindefigur-i-s%F8lv?PID=3353&M=NewsV2&Action=1 Dated ca. 700–800s, it bears a resemblance to the Odin from Lejre that was found near the Viking stronghold Lejre (about 70 km from Boeslunde). Interestingly, though both are wearing womens' clothing, but have many characteristics of Odin, eg. the ravens on the seated figure, the differently sized eyes on the standing figure (one blinded). Is it Odin in disguise, or his wife Frigg?
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Phlegmish posted:lol The archaeological evidence suggest that they understood how hosed they were and left instead staying to the last man.
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# ? Sep 29, 2020 18:52 |
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https://twitter.com/JoaquimCampa/status/1311391615425093634
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# ? Oct 1, 2020 23:40 |
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That made me smile a lot
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# ? Oct 2, 2020 04:58 |
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I feel a bit sorry for the man who lost his hat.
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# ? Oct 2, 2020 08:17 |
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La guerre La guerre ne change jamais e: That doesn't seem cromulent, anyone who knows French? I just copied it off Le Goog Translate. 3D Megadoodoo has a new favorite as of 08:25 on Oct 2, 2020 |
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Phlegmish posted:lol Brother, do I have the podcast for you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmbY-GrM8pI
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# ? Oct 2, 2020 09:01 |
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Thanks! That looks interesting.
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Fish of hemp posted:I feel a bit sorry for the man who lost his hat. Don't feel too sorry. That man was Adolf Hitler.
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# ? Oct 2, 2020 18:57 |
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Alhazred posted:Don't feel too sorry. That man was Adolf Hitler. hitler wasnt old enough to wear a hat in 1896 but it was definitely his dad or his mom
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# ? Oct 2, 2020 19:02 |
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In celebration of finishing my thesis, here's a picture most people have never and will never see: a woodcut print from the Ukiyoboro, an early 19th century Japanese comic-book in which a tricksy character gives a rather sullen character a bunch of magic mushrooms and makes them dance uncontrollably for shits and giggles.
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# ? Oct 3, 2020 01:09 |
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Congrats on your thesis! Are you graduating soon?
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# ? Oct 3, 2020 03:25 |
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i will never graduate
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# ? Oct 3, 2020 04:22 |
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Carthag Tuek posted:i will never graduate Said with the same intonation as someone who would never reveal the wu tang secret
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# ? Oct 3, 2020 05:26 |
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Graduation aint nothing to gently caress with.
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# ? Oct 3, 2020 05:51 |
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50's CopenhagenSign posted:TUBERCULOSIS SURVEY Time is a flat circle etc. The Little Hornblower is this guy
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# ? Oct 3, 2020 10:16 |
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In the same vein:a newspaper in Augsburg, Bavaria from 1849 posted:Paris, August 22nd. In Rochefort [in France] sad scenes happened on August 14th. The cholera appeared there so terribly that it reached the relatively high number of 21 victims per day, almost all of them from the lower classes. Thus the mad idea of poisonings spread, people attacked doctors and nurses and loudly yelled: "Cholera doesn't exist, it is an artificial, political disease!" On 14th the following poster appeared on the walls: "In the name of the French people! The state and military authorities hereby are warned that, if the cholera pandemic won't stop within 24 hours, the city will be punished by blood and fire." In the evening the authorities were compelled to dissolve gatherings of the frightened citizens by force of arms and impose a military curfew throughout the night.
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# ? Oct 3, 2020 11:12 |
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ultra owns That mustachiod man is putting in work
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# ? Oct 3, 2020 17:52 |
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verbal enema posted:ultra owns Bike dude trying cruise through the crossfire LMAO
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# ? Oct 3, 2020 18:50 |
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An article I came across today that I felt was relevant to this thread: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/history-colourisation-controversy?utm_source=pocket-newtab quote:YouTubers are upscaling the past to 4K. Historians want them to stop I'm no historian but I'd say that colorization and software like Deoldify can definitely have a positive impact on connecting audiences to the past. Making sure that viewers are aware that an image is colorized is important, of course. And there are definitely times where it has had a negative impact. I remember the series "World War One in Color" back in the early 2000s was panned by historians for being really off the mark in how they colored everything from skin tone and uniforms to what the weather looked like.
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# ? Oct 4, 2020 05:06 |
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Photo-Academic: You can't do this without my input, you'll miss everything I have to say! Computer: haha computer go brrrrr E. To be serious for a bit; While it without question is paramount to not make up lies about history, or get mislead of what actually was and how it came to be, these upscale videos can't be seriously accused of doing that. Their point, is to remove the difference between film shot 150 years ago and a phone video shot 15 seconds ago - instinctively making the watcher see themselves reflected in their ancestors, to empathise with a million generations past, and maybe connect to humanity at large in the end. To put you in different shoes - shoes, standing somewhere where there's a different view - is a hell of a thing. History is an incredibly large subject, and it has more dimensions than the cataloguing of facts*. The videos don't remove anything from the historical record. Anyone actually interested will learn like before, all the sources are still there. These things just add a new way to visualising this material. What self respecting historian would denounce these videos, just because it appeals to a more general audience who where mildly interested before? Historians have always accused popular history as being to simplistic, and other historians have argued back, ad infinitum. It's academia, it's what they do. It's what keeps the field honest after all. But saying upscaling is wrong? Come on. Its not revisionism or retouching historic documents and burning the originals, it's the equivalent of reducing jpeg compression artifacts most of the time. Let the blasphemy brigade go bother someone else this time. People like the upscale videos, and you can too. (*as much as any historic fact has ever, or can ever, be truly settled.) ThisIsJohnWayne has a new favorite as of 06:33 on Oct 4, 2020 |
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I would never, ever have found or seen that footage of that snowball fight if it hadn't become popular on twitter. Same with those other city tours that have been DeOldifyied. They're incredible and make me feel like I've stepped into a time machine.
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# ? Oct 4, 2020 15:22 |
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Yeah, I mean I get saying "This could become dangerous if it's taken as accurate" but nobody's going to be studying this footage and assuming that it fully reflects reality and basing any views or works on it. It's a thing you watch and go "neat!"
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# ? Oct 4, 2020 15:29 |
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Wasabi the J posted:Bike dude trying cruise through the crossfire LMAO The whole battle comes to a halt just to pelt the poo poo outta him and send him back the way he came sans hat lmaoooo
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# ? Oct 4, 2020 15:41 |
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3D Megadoodoo posted:La guerre That’s grammatically correct, but in french the famous quote is “la guerre ne meurt jamais” or “war never dies”
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# ? Oct 4, 2020 17:13 |
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verbal enema posted:The whole battle comes to a halt just to pelt the poo poo outta him and send him back the way he came sans hat lmaoooo
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# ? Oct 4, 2020 20:40 |
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Alhazred posted:The archaeological evidence suggest that they understood how hosed they were and left instead staying to the last man. Wouldn't be surprised if there were a few stubborn assholes who refused to get on the last boat, though.
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verbal enema posted:The whole battle comes to a halt just to pelt the poo poo outta him and send him back the way he came sans hat lmaoooo “Tank operating without infantry support. Grozny, 1994 (colourised).”
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E:nm
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CannonFodder posted:I went to look up the history of the bicycle and his bike is a fairly modern design with equal sized wheels, a diamond-ish frame, and a chain driven rear wheel. In 1896 that design was less than 10 years old and the pneumatic tire was also less than 10 years old. I think they are pneumatic tires, it's hard to tell. goddamn! Vindolanda posted:“Tank operating without infantry support. Grozny, 1994 (colourised).” lmao
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