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I've read a bunch of his poo poo and it's fun in a "this guy is so full of poo poo" sort of way.
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Samovar posted:Once upon a time, there was a man by the name of Augustus Montague Summers. Not much can be said about him that isn't covered by his wikipedia article. However, I still think he should be brought to everyone's attention as the person with potentially the worst hair-style in existence 
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I love that the way his Wikipedia page is written, mentioning an interest in pederasty before becoming a priest.
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Philippe posted:He gave himself that haircut to make himself more unfuckable, like a mix between a monk tonsure and a barrister wig. He's like the anti-Crowley.
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cult_hero posted:He's like the anti-Crowley. Did Yeats kick him up the stairs?
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https://twitter.com/Trey_Explainer/status/1663898944496103424
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McAuthur didn’t care what sex you liked only if you wanted to nuke some Asians
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Hides were an important resource in 16th century Europe and demand outgrew domestic supply. Livestock was a major industry in the Carribbean, especially in the Spanish colonies to the point that hides were used as currency. In the interior there were so many cattle raised for their hides that much of their meat couldn't be consumed and it went to waste. Source: Frank Moya Pons' History of the Caribbean
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The Naval Intelligence Service, not knowing that 'Friend of Dorothy' was a euphemism for gay men, spent years and thousands of man hours combing the Chicago area for this supposed Dorothy, based on the fact that 'Friend of Dorothy' turned up in the personnel files of a number of naval personnel discharged for homosexuality. They assumed that this Dorothy ran some sort of social establishment popular with gay men, and assumed she could be cajoled into giving up the lists of gay men she must certainly possess.
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A good madam don't talk to the fuzz
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Sounds like they were Toto-ly confused
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Samovar posted:Once upon a time, there was a man by the name of Augustus Montague Summers. Not much can be said about him that isn't covered by his wikipedia article. However, I still think he should be brought to everyone's attention as the person with potentially the worst hair-style in existence That got dark really quickly. this dude's wikipedia posted:Summers was ordained as deacon in 1908 and worked as a curate in Bath and Bitton, near Bristol. He never proceeded to higher orders, however, probably because of rumours of his interest in Satanism and accusations of sexual impropriety with young boys, for which he was tried and acquitted.[1]
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From the Danish ship Prince Frederic's journal (they've all been digitized as part of a project to register historical weather observations; below is my bad transcription/translation, not sure I got all the maritime terms correct & also I have no idea what island Luceperra is)quote:April 7, 1762 The boy ended up in Denmark where he was baptized as Frederik Christian Bendahl (two first names are king's names, later writers say his surname possibly means he was from Benda on Java). He married, had children and has Danish descendants to this day. Carthag Tuek has a new favorite as of 22:12 on Jun 9, 2023 |
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Jun 9, 2023 22:09
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That's wild.
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The co‐dinghy would be some variety of ship’s boat. I couldn’t say which. Luceperra is the islet known today as “Maspari”. Here it is in the 1800 edition of Moore’s New Practical Navigator.   Bowditch in his first edition of 1802 did better with 3° 11′ S 106° 14′ E, within four klicks of its position on today’s maps. Platystemon has a new favorite as of 11:34 on Jun 10, 2023 |
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Platystemon posted:The co‐dinghy would be some variety of ship’s boat. I couldn’t say which. thank you
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Watching the D-Day special(s) by Indy, Spartacus, et al and just heard of this guy:
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Carthag Tuek posted:From the Danish ship Prince Frederic's journal (they've all been digitized as part of a project to register historical weather observations; below is my bad transcription/translation, not sure I got all the maritime terms correct & also I have no idea what island Luceperra is) I'll bet a plugged nickel that "prauve" is an idiosyncratic spelling of "paraw" or "proa", a catchall name for various types of catamaran and trimaran common throughout the Pacific Also I expect the 13 laeggers of freshwater are indeed barrels or drums for storing drinking water. I know "lager" in German means storage and it's likely cognate here, and in any case, when your ship is at the mercies of wind and sun, always best to top up the things you need to keep a crew alive.
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Europeans butchering native names of things is one of the fun* tidbits of colonization. Sometimes it happens multiple times over, like how a huge swathe of the US is named the "original" thing but filtered badly into 17th century french, then browbeaten again to be english. And thus you get bullshit like Arkansas *colonization isn't fun, please don't do it irl
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Europeans butchering native names of things is one of the fun* tidbits of colonization. Sometimes it happens multiple times over, like how a huge swathe of the US is named the "original" thing but filtered badly into 17th century french, then browbeaten again to be english. And thus you get bullshit like Arkansas Lot of this in Arizona, though without the French influence. Some not-really indigenous names include: Papago There are a zillion things in central AZ named Papago, including a stretch of Interstate 10. It's an exonym for the Tohono O'odham people from the name given to them by their rival neighbors the Pima. In the Pima language it's "bean eaters", run phonetically through the Spanish language turning into Papago. The name is wholly rejected by the O'odham people but continues to be used everywhere. Navajo is an odd one, because it's also an exonym run through Spanish as Apaches de Navajó . Navajo is a corruption of a Pueblo people word for farms. Despite this, the Navajo nation has sorta rolled with it and uses Navajo as a synonym for their language and people. Their language's word for their people is Diné, which literally just means "the people" Ahwatukee is a suburb of Phoenix, surrounding the excellent South Mountain park and bordering the Gila River Indian Community. The name is supposed to mean "house of dreams" in the Crow language. It was named by a white person who didn't speak the Crow language, and certainly didn't have anyone to ask because the Crow people live thousands of miles away. It's a totally made up, nonsense word. (I've posted about it in this thread before) It's also fun that in many indigenous languages the group's autonym can usually be translated as "the people" and the word for any other people is literally "not us", or "the others" when it's not a specific disparaging term like "the bird eaters" or "mud people". My favorite is the Pawnee people's autonym, translated as "Men of Men."
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canyoneer posted:when it's not a specific disparaging term like "the bird eaters" or "mud people". Not that different from the norwegian word for swedes that's "svenskjævel" (the devil swede).
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Alhazred posted:Not that different from the norwegian word for swedes that's "svenskjævel" (the devil swede). This is bait. And also like the swedish word for a norwegian being "fjällapa" (mountain monkey) when the oil jealousy gets too strong. (The oilussy?) ThisIsJohnWayne has a new favorite as of 17:13 on Jun 12, 2023 |
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Phy posted:I'll bet a plugged nickel that "prauve" is an idiosyncratic spelling of "paraw" or "proa", a catchall name for various types of catamaran and trimaran common throughout the Pacific Those both sound very plausible, esp I'm positive you're right about the first one!
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:*colonization isn't fun, please don't do it irl
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:This is bait. And also like the swedish word for a norwegian being "fjällapa" (mountain monkey) when the oil jealousy gets too strong. I'd say that "norrbagge" (norwegi-ram) has probably been around longer. And as a half-Norwegian Swede with relatives in western Norway, I'd say that the stubborness all my Norwegian relatives seems to share makes the comparison to goats fairly accurate.
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And here we just call them "norski". What with them speaking norsk and all.
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Offler posted:I'd say that "norrbagge" (norwegi-ram) has probably been around longer. And as a half-Norwegian Swede with relatives in western Norway, I'd say that the stubborness all my Norwegian relatives seems to share makes the comparison to goats fairly accurate. What do y'all call the Danes?
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deong posted:What do y'all call the Danes? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlTukY9fV9Y&t=66s
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In Iceland Danes are called "Baunverjar" (Beanlanders) or "Baunar" (Beaners)*. It is debated whether this refers to the Danish colonial merchants (who had a monopoly on all trade in Iceland from 1602 and into the 19th century) being the only source of beans in the country or if its some sort of "beancounter" joke or if it's a corruption of the Danish word "bønde" meaning farmer. I've even heard one story about it being derived from a specific shipment of rotten beans hundreds of years ago that the Danish merchants tried to sell despite all of it having gone bad in the voyage over the Atlantic. But I'm fairly certain that one is a folk etymology despite being the sort of thing our colonial masters did often back then. Our other historical adversary the British we call "Tjallar" or "Tjalli" in the singular because it sounds kinda like Charlie.* *No relation to the American slur. *No relation to the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam.
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Danish farmer is "bonde", but plural "bønder" which is very similar to beans "bønne"/"bønner", the only difference in pronunciation of the plurals is the glottal stop in bønder is absent in bønner (in standard Danish; some dialects do not have glottal stops).
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3D Megadoodoo posted:How do they even survive without glottal stops idk but they sound like a bunch of bønner
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A bunch of danes sitting around with just their top buttons buttoned, drinking schnapps just waiting for some swedes to try them
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3D Megadoodoo posted:And here we just call them "norski". What with them speaking norsk and all. "Turskahurri" or "cod-swede" is the worst I have heard.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:How do they even survive without glottal stops Why do you think they consider their other adversary the British?
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Letmebefrank posted:"Turskahurri" or "cod-swede" is the worst I have heard. I've never heard that ever. I don't think you're actually Finnish.
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Letmebefrank posted:"Turskahurri" or "cod-swede" is the worst I have heard. I like how you politely translated hurri to swede like it was no thang I guess the etymology of ryssä is also clear enough, since they hail from the city of Rus. Finnish doesn't really have that many clever, awful names for our neighbouring colonizing nations, despite the centuries of horrors, it's all making a fist in your pocket and other assorted finnish-isms.
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Rappaport posted:I like how you politely translated hurri to swede like it was no thang Everyone in North America is a Yankee and lmao they refuse to believe it despite literally literally the whole planet agreeing.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Everyone in North America is a Yankee and lmao they refuse to believe it despite literally literally the whole planet agreeing. Calling someone south of the Mason-Dixon line a yankee is asking for a fight. Calling someone south of the US border a yankee is just ridiculous
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Everyone in North America is a Yankee and lmao they refuse to believe it despite literally literally the whole planet agreeing. They did have a war about that name and everything
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