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https://twitter.com/WeirdMedieval/status/1519016072850153474
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May 28, 2022 22:10
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It can be for two reasons!
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May 28, 2022 22:32
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Medieval bestiaries are a wild trip. For example, many bestiaries would describe how the beaver would chew off it's own nuts if hunted and leave them for the hunters:
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May 28, 2022 22:34
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:There's a Milan in Michigan pronounced "Mai-lan". Same goes for Milan New Hampshire lol
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May 28, 2022 22:37
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Alhazred posted:Medieval bestiaries are a wild trip. For example, many bestiaries would describe how the beaver would chew off it's own nuts if hunted and leave them for the hunters: That beaver's just like "why the gently caress do I do this"
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May 28, 2022 22:39
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Just casually chewing off my junk to be casually murdered for my fur, as one does
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May 28, 2022 22:44
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Hunters come upon that they're just like "yo this things a fucken freak, nvm"
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May 28, 2022 22:46
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when they zig you zag
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May 28, 2022 22:53
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Broke: pillage foreign lands Woke: stab some sex freak animal and sell it to the germans The vikings never died.
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May 28, 2022 22:58
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Icelanders would sell unicorn horns (Narwhal teeth) to continental southrons at a massive profit for centuries.
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May 28, 2022 23:16
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Alhazred posted:Medieval bestiaries are a wild trip. For example, many bestiaries would describe how the beaver would chew off it's own nuts if hunted and leave them for the hunters: It is probably not supposed to be the balls but the very highly prized castoreum from the balls-like lower belly pouches that exists on all adult beavers no matter the sex. It is like a pee fermenting organ which produces a strong smelling secretion which along with the anal glands is used for marking territory. Humans have used that stuff for magic, folk remedies and fragrance for a really long time.
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May 29, 2022 00:26
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And "natural flavoring" in things that taste like vanilla or some berries  Still!
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May 29, 2022 01:04
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Alhazred posted:Medieval bestiaries are a wild trip. For example, many bestiaries would describe how the beaver would chew off it's own nuts if hunted and leave them for the hunters: TIL there are beavers in Europe
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May 29, 2022 05:59
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I get the feeling a lot of this comes from monks who spend all day indoors painstakingly practicing calligraphy talking to drunken nobles and peasants who say any old bullshit that comes to mind.
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May 29, 2022 07:34
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Zudgemud posted:It is probably not supposed to be the balls but the very highly prized castoreum from the balls-like lower belly pouches that exists on all adult beavers no matter the sex. It is like a pee fermenting organ which produces a strong smelling secretion which along with the anal glands is used for marking territory. Humans have used that stuff for magic, folk remedies and fragrance for a really long time. In the drawing it's supposed to be the balls. The latin word for beaver is castor which some confused with castratio. It was also not common knowledge that it was the anal glands that was supposed to have healing properties (which may have been true, beavers eat the willow tree's bark which contains salicin which can relieve pain) and they went for the testicles instead.
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May 29, 2022 09:56
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Alhazred posted:. It was also not common knowledge that it was the anal glands that was supposed to have healing properties (which may have been true, beavers eat the willow tree's bark which contains salicin which can relieve pain) and they went for the testicles instead. A millenium-plus and beaver's ball/brown/taint-area still pOwns my hunters
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May 29, 2022 10:01
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thetoughestbean posted:TIL there are beavers in Europe i'm a canadian and thus an accredited beaver lawyer and let me reassure you that there WERE beavers in europe but then something happened to their balls
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May 29, 2022 10:09
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Are we sure they're not just porcupines?
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May 29, 2022 10:15
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Beavers were kinda unlucky. Their fur were highly sought after. Their anal glands (and balls) were used in medicine and because of a ruling by the pope their tails could be eaten during the fast because it was like a fish. All these things combined led to the beaver being almost hunted to extinction in Europe.
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May 29, 2022 10:32
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Alhazred posted:In the drawing it's supposed to be the balls. The latin word for beaver is castor which some confused with castratio. It was also not common knowledge that it was the anal glands that was supposed to have healing properties (which may have been true, beavers eat the willow tree's bark which contains salicin which can relieve pain) and they went for the testicles instead. Yes I think it's probably the intent was that it is balls being depicted because neither the artist nor the common man knew that the highly sought-after testicle-like castoreum was, in fact, not the balls. I'm pretty sure they did not use the actual balls for anything special though.
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May 29, 2022 11:11
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thetoughestbean posted:TIL there are beavers in Europe That must mean there are beavers in redwall!
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May 29, 2022 12:42
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Milo and POTUS posted:That must mean there are beavers in redwall! Beaver (singular), yes. Book one I think, when he hadn't quite worked out the full series details yet. No records exist on what the beaver eats or whether he has a comedy accent.
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May 29, 2022 13:45
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*paragraphs-long feast scene but it's all their own balls*
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May 29, 2022 16:20
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Brawnfire posted:*paragraphs-long feast scene but it's all their own balls*
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May 29, 2022 16:35
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Alhazred posted:Beavers were kinda unlucky. Their fur were highly sought after. Their anal glands (and balls) were used in medicine and because of a ruling by the pope their tails could be eaten during the fast because it was like a fish. All these things combined led to the beaver being almost hunted to extinction in Europe. Also they gently caress with waterways which was kind of a big deal back in the day.
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May 29, 2022 17:05
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Also they gently caress with waterways which was kind of a big deal back in the day. A non zero part of my job right now is trying to bring beavers back in so they can go back into loving up rivers. Its great.
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May 29, 2022 17:50
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Roblo posted:A non zero part of my job right now is trying to bring beavers back in so they can go back into loving up rivers. Its great. Got to thinking about how handy rivers were for quick and/or easy travel locally back in the day, and then remembered my sister and her husband used to ski to work on the river - in the city - because it cut like 90% of travel distance. Last Winter I remember you could do that was maybe 2019?
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May 29, 2022 18:06
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IIRC you can control where beavers put their dams by putting loud speakers playing the sound of running water. Beavers hate that sound and try to destroy it by making dams
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May 29, 2022 18:18
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Tunicate posted:IIRC you can control where beavers put their dams by putting loud speakers playing the sound of running water. Beavers hate that sound and try to destroy it by making dams If they put a dam somewhere where they shouldnt (like, where it floods a road or something) you can put in a "beaver deciever" (which is basically just a pipe through it so they cant stop it leaking) which just confuses the gently caress out of them until they give up
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May 29, 2022 18:45
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Roblo posted:"beaver deciever" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lkHpBcIyQY
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May 29, 2022 18:57
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steinrokkan posted:A millenium-plus and beaver's ball/brown/taint-area still pOwns my hunters
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May 29, 2022 19:30
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Roblo posted:If they put a dam somewhere where they shouldnt (like, where it floods a road or something) you can put in a "beaver deciever" (which is basically just a pipe through it so they cant stop it leaking) which just confuses the gently caress out of them until they give up please don't gaslight your local wildlife
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May 29, 2022 19:38
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christmas boots posted:please don't gaslight your local wildlife Well if it means theyre not getting shot by the local farmer ill take it.
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May 29, 2022 19:46
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In Canada they eat beaver tails, the monsters
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May 29, 2022 20:26
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"How aboat a nice bag of beaver anus, eh?"
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May 29, 2022 20:45
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3D Megadoodoo posted:"How aboat a nice bag of beaver anus, eh?" Poutine sounds gross
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May 30, 2022 06:36
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Roblo posted:A non zero part of my job right now is trying to bring beavers back in so they can go back into loving up rivers. Its great. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gNAjBPIyjQ
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May 30, 2022 07:06
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Daaa-na-na-na-na-na-na
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May 30, 2022 08:54
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In 1901 the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization needed money badly. It was decided that simply robbing people would make them look bad but holding people hostage for ransom was acceptable. So in august one the leaders, Yane Sandanski, kidnapped the american missionaries Ellen Maria Stone and Katerina Stefanova-Cilka (who were pregnant at the time). Their demand were 25,000 Tturkish pounds. President Roosevelt denied to pay it, but allowed a private fund raising. They managed to raise 14,000 Tturkish gold liras which the milita accepted and an exchange happened. They then discovered that a sort of reverse stockholm syndrome had happened. The militia had helped Stefanova-Cilka deliver her baby, cared for it and even held a thanksgiving dinner for their hostages. The militia also complained about how Ellen Stone had treated them, saying: "Have you ever found yourself in a position of strong opposition to a middle-aged woman with a determined will all her own? She assuming the attitude that you are a brute and making you feel like a brute?"
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May 31, 2022 16:28
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Roblo posted:A non zero part of my job right now is trying to bring beavers back in so they can go back into loving up rivers. Its great. Some jamoke introduced them to Patagonia, where they have become an invasive species that has blighted forests that didn't evolve to cope with being chewed up and drowned all the time https://phys.org/news/2021-04-brought-humans-beavers-threaten-patagonia.html The New Zealand moose seem to have been much better neighbors
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