Josef bugman posted:

He had to rub the end of it in order to make it grow.

Should also be pointed out that Thor is a fertility god.

Take the plunge! Okay! posted:

I’m the Turk OR Greek

canyoneer posted:

He didn't even use it either, his oral care routine was Walther-based

Slugnoid posted:

Der Kyhe posted:

Yes, stuff that is obviously harmful but does not play into the grand scheme of evolution. In nature, the ones born with that stuff just get eaten and die early, and only the positive genetic straits survive. We just don't observe that because they simply do not survive to adult age.

For example in nature, becoming a blonde or red-head (or any other color variation) is usually harmful, because it also fucks your ability to blend into the background and hide.

ToxicSlurpee posted:

Pretty much everything that exists is doomed anyway. It isn't a matter of if something gets destroyed so much as when.

TooMuchAbstraction posted:

No, but it's a similar concept -- finding the edges in the rules that allow you to do things that wouldn't be feasible in a real war. It just so happens that the case I'm thinking of also involved one side doing monstrous things like sending out thousands of sailors in tiny speedboats with no armor, and then sinking your own boats (including the men on them) when they aren't able to fight any more. Come to think, I think part of the reason the speedboats worked was that the rules de facto restricted how many targets a ship could destroy in a turn, so it wasn't so much that the speedboats could dodge as that they just overwhelmed the enemy with a blob of units. Sure, whatever you hit dies, but you have to do that a thousand times or more before the end of the match; you're dealing damage 1HP at a time while they're dealing it much faster.

I'm kind of sad I can't find the original writeup (which included more detail about why the winning strategy involved going all-speedboats); all my attempts to search just turn up actual board/tabletop/computer games.

Biplane posted:

When I was in the army in Norway my security clearance was withheld for six months due to my paternal grandfather being labelled a communist for fleeing Spain during Francos regime. I was told this by my CO in 2007.

MisterBibs posted:

The seige of Tyre, where Alexander The Great had a goddamn road built to take an island city is well known, but thanks to the meme thread, I looked up some details and Jesus wept it's like they wanted a dude who was really good at conquering good and offended:


Do not taunt Alexander The Great, what the gently caress is wrong with you?

Sulla-Marius 88 posted:

Why not just smear the honey on a stick that you carry around

Alhazred posted:

There was actually some instances were egyptians not only sold themselves into slavery but paid a monthly fee in order to remain slaves. They became temple slaves because that protected them against forced hard labor such as digging canals.

bony tony posted:

It's a dynamite-throwing unit in Red Alert?

duckmaster posted:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vzLduvnW-FA

Pope Leo XVIII, almost certainly the earliest born person to be filmed.

In 1810 the French were being pushed out of Portugal in the Penninsular War and the US annexed the Republic of West Florida. Mind blowing.

That drat Satyr posted:

Krankenstyle posted:

That guy is cool af

Krankenstyle posted:

Kanine posted:

i guess he was ok if you only give a poo poo about white people

edit: oh also non-disabled people since he was into eugenics

Kanine posted:

and extremely conservative compared to his contemporaries who didn't believe that poo poo or worse (decent people)

verbal enema posted:

Washington Washington
6 foot 8 weighed a loving ton

Metal Geir Skogul posted:

Welp, now I know what a surfacing repressed memory is.

Khazar-khum posted:

Lincoln punched Andrew Jackson so hard that Jackson flew forward through time and space and ended up as Joe Jackson, patriarch of the Jackson 5.

System Metternich posted:

In Germany they find unexploded ordinance from WW2 at least once a week, more than 70 years after the war. The only time this ever really makes more than local news is when the number of people that have to be evacuated is unusually large. Back in 2016 they found a 1,300 kg (iirc) bomb a couple of days before Christmas in Augsburg which led to a good 10% of the population (more than 25,000 people) having to spend Christmas outside of their homes worrying that a 78 year old bomb might blast their house to hell in the meantime. I’m pretty sure that this sort of stuff is one of the main reasons why Germans are to this day pretty set against military interventions abroad.

CharlestheHammer posted:

Those cows are gonna die real quick if your trying to feed a city with their milk every day.

Samovar posted:

They were all executed for many reasons.

Also, at the baptism of the last Dauphin, he managed to do as babies do and partake in a fecal explosion. Dye artists made a shade of brown based off of the incident.

Sulla-Marius 88 posted:

that is neat. i panned to the right to see more of australia and waited a few seconds for the rest of the map to load before i realised i was being dumb

TooMuchAbstraction posted:

This is like the plan to strap firebombs to bats and airdrop them over cities. The idea being that the bats would seek shelter in the houses, then the bombs would go off, and cause more damage than if they were dropped normally. They stuck the bats in the fridge to make them hibernate, stuck bombs on them, dropped them out of planes...and the bats didn't wake up, and thus couldn't fly.

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