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Sep 16, 2023 14:28
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War. War never changes.
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Sep 17, 2023 03:41
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And here I was about to mention the Swedish match scandal with Ivar Krueger, but it turns out, I learned it from this very thread!
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Sep 17, 2023 10:25
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https://twitter.com/LettersOfNote/status/644523690592485376
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Sep 20, 2023 16:55
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Is Will Oblige a name or the 1860s version of sincerely
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Sep 20, 2023 17:02
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If you pull out all the god damns and add punctuation, the last sentence is "Now, you old Abolition son of a bitch, I want you to send me about one dozen good offices, and three or four pretty gals, and by doing, you will oblige Pete Muggins."
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Sep 20, 2023 19:01
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How bout abolition plus I get the offices and pretty gals
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Sep 20, 2023 19:17
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So, has anyone heard of the time a Russian Tsar was almost assassinated by giraffes in England? The year was 1844. Relations between Russia and Britain was never great and, with current clashes over colonial control of Afghanistan, just now they were particularly prickly. But, nevertheless, in June, there was a visit of Tsar Nicholas I to Britain and, as one does to heads of states back then, he was invited to a fete held by the Duke of Devonshire at Chiswick house. The Duke, being an aristo of the time, made sure that there was food a-plenty, music and entertainment. And, it being in those benighted days of Victorian England, exotic wildlife were borrowed from a local zoo, was considered entertainment. Specifically, four giraffes. So, later in the evening, the Tsar and a bunch of other yoiky upper class tits went bunting over a lake so as to get closer to the giraffes (who were on the side of said lake). The giraffes, startled/curious, decided to go out into the lake themselves, passing by the boats and getting to the other side themselves, whereupon - confronted by a whole bunch of other people that they didn't know - they started running amuck as only several giraffes can. The British all laughed about it afterwards, but there were some amongst the Russian retinue who accused their hosts of an attempted assassination attempt using African ruminants. So there you are!
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Sep 22, 2023 13:20
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Kazakh and cossack are the same word from the same kipchak root. We spell it kazakh instead of the proper kazak or qazaq because the tsar decided having two kinds of казак in his empire was confusing, so he changed the spelling to казах when referring to the central asian ethnicity. E: technically this was only formalized under Stalin, much like spelling kazakh language in cyrillic and Kazakhstan being a majority-russian country. Unfun fact: kazakhs made up less than 30% of KSSR by 1960, down from 80% under the tsars. The UN says this is not a genocide. Killing a ton of people to replace with russians was a convenient side effect of stalinist economics. Edgar Allen Ho has a new favorite as of 15:41 on Sep 24, 2023 |
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Sep 24, 2023 13:41
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I was today year old when I found out that apparently no one knows what the p stands for in pH. I am going to ask my son to ask every chemistry teacher to hear their answer.
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Sep 24, 2023 15:37
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Comstar posted:I was today year old when I found out that apparently no one knows what the p stands for in pH. I suspect it's going to be along the line of "WE! DO NOT! TALK ABOUT! THE P!"
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Sep 24, 2023 18:01
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Comstar posted:I was today year old when I found out that apparently no one knows what the p stands for in pH. Positive. e: Oh it's not, welp.
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Sep 24, 2023 18:09
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Comstar posted:I was today year old when I found out that apparently no one knows what the p stands for in pH. It stands for "power," as in the exponent on 10 (actually the negative of it).
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Sep 24, 2023 18:12
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Potenz translating to power is assumed to be the word abbreviated by the p but it wasn't actually explicitly named so in the originating article. There is an argument that he may have been going for (exponential) power or that it is a nonsense cipher for whatever the reader wanted to associate with hydrogen ions.
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Sep 24, 2023 21:45
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We've (probably) all seen pics of the crucifixion of Jesus in Eastern Orthodox murals and had a good laugh at how it often looks like Christ has a massive chubby. But it is likely that the design choice is supposed to be representation of haemothorax, or some other build-up of blood and fluid in his trunk. You see, the act of crucifixion wasn't just some kind of a creepy way of getting a person to die of exposure, it was a way that forced a person's weight onto their lungs, which would slowly begin to give out, resulting in the poor bastard effectively no longer having the strength to take air in. One of the results of this would be the effusion of bodily fluids into the surrounding tissues, and would also explain the phenomenon of water and blood being observed to come out when Christ was stabbed - it would have been more likely to have been blood and plasma.
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Oct 2, 2023 09:46
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Samovar posted:We've (probably) all seen pics of the crucifixion of Jesus in Eastern Orthodox murals and had a good laugh at how it often looks like Christ has a massive chubby. But it is likely that the design choice is supposed to be representation of haemothorax, or some other build-up of blood and fluid in his trunk. With about 100% certainty I can say that no, it definitely was not meant to represent haemothorax.
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Oct 2, 2023 09:53
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Comstar posted:I was today year old when I found out that apparently no one knows what the p stands for in pH. It’s the “do Balrogs have wings?” of chemistry.
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Oct 2, 2023 10:07
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Comstar posted:I was today year old when I found out that apparently no one knows what the p stands for in pH. It stands for potential. pH comes from the phrase "potential of hydrogen".
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Oct 2, 2023 10:12
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For context
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Samovar posted:We've (probably) all seen pics of the crucifixion of Jesus in Eastern Orthodox murals and had a good laugh at how it often looks like Christ has a massive chubby. But it is likely that the design choice is supposed to be representation of haemothorax, or some other build-up of blood and fluid in his trunk. as depicted in brutal yet reasonably accurate fashion in this anime short film; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDRCwJHBCXc probably my favorite film depiction of the Crucifixion as it strikes a good balance between properly depicting what Jesus went through as the utterly horrifying act of violence that it was without devolving into a glorified snuff film like The Passion of The Christ
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Oct 2, 2023 10:53
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:It stands for potential. pH comes from the phrase "potential of hydrogen". It seems like there's some debate over the p, since the chemist who coined it never actually specified what it was short for, but the H is clearly hydrogen and all the various p-theories are pretty much the same thing Kind of a dull unsolved mystery tbh
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Oct 3, 2023 00:53
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drrockso20 posted:as depicted in brutal yet reasonably accurate fashion in this anime short film; having recently converted to orthodox christian myself, I'm glad to see even anime depict the well-known and 100% correct fact that in addition to his enormous weiner, Jesus was buff and shredded
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Oct 3, 2023 01:22
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Samovar posted:We've (probably) all seen pics of the crucifixion of Jesus in Eastern Orthodox murals and had a good laugh at how it often looks like Christ has a massive chubby. Wait, what? We have? 
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Oct 3, 2023 07:10
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Actually I just finished reading a text on Russian Messianism. It was pretty interesting, though also depressing in the way descriptions of patronizing chauvinistic attitudes always are.
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Oct 3, 2023 07:17
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Alhazred posted:Wait, what? We have? This is the thread where PYF nerds come clean with our weird reading habits.
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Oct 3, 2023 11:52
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christmas boots posted:It seems like there's some debate over the p, since the chemist who coined it never actually specified what it was short for, but the H is clearly hydrogen and all the various p-theories are pretty much the same thing
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Oct 3, 2023 14:38
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The p stands for puzzling
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Oct 3, 2023 14:46
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Homer p Simpson
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Oct 3, 2023 16:38
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I think you'll find the p in pH stands for pH.
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Oct 4, 2023 07:37
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Penis of Hydrogen.
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Oct 4, 2023 17:37
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Hydrogen only has one ball
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Oct 4, 2023 17:45
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That's why the p is small
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Oct 4, 2023 17:56
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What a strange melody
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Oct 5, 2023 09:38
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lol, never heard of this. In 1809, the Spanish village Huéscar declared war on Denmark and peace was only reached in 1981 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hu%E9scar-Danish_War
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Oct 6, 2023 14:17
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I always assumed it stood for proton.
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Oct 8, 2023 09:49
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I think “goddamn” was the “gently caress” of mid-19th century profanity.
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Oct 8, 2023 11:23
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It was probably worse, but IANAProfanityExpert
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Oct 8, 2023 11:26
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Rant from 668 BCE:quote:Mr. Bel-eṭir, you twofold prison fucktoy, twofold soggy, twofold staring, son of Ibâ, absent epoch, poo poo bucket of a farter, second-rate clan, slave of a dead god, house whose star has vanished from the sky, maidservant, woman, slave of Lady Balihitu, beard among hosed-out women, “Mr. Baby-boy,” much-maligned man. context explained Platystemon has a new favorite as of 23:52 on Oct 8, 2023 |
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Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks really stands out historically for its variety and creativity. I love the painting, it's one of those pictures that just tells a story without any context needed, and if you do have it it's especially fun particularly considering the likelihood that the monk-ish guy writing the letter with the quietly amused expression is probably one of the only people in it who is actually literate.
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