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Wednesday March 4, 1767. Here lives a craftsman who chews cud. He is 20 years old; and when he has eaten, it takes 15 minutes until he gets up the food again and starts to chew it anew. It seems that the food during that time must stay in the esophagus, as he there feels something hard and a thickness. When he lays down after eating, he cannot fall asleep until he has completed his second meal by the chewing of cud. By this cud-chewing the food tastes him just as well, even better than when he first ate it. All food comes up again for him in the same order as he first ate it. What he first has eaten comes first again for the cud-chewing. This human has in all his time chewed cud; for he says himself that he never could recall when he first began. When he has done a good meal, he spends an hour and a half by chewing cud, and when it fails to appear, he is ill. He lacks nothing of his mind. His mother has nursed him herself, and his father has, by his account, occasionally chewed cud, but not so proper as the son. That humans chew cud is somewhat rare but not unheard of. It is different from the illness whereby the food rises up against the will of the human; for the proper chewing of cud is tasteful and pleasant. There is told of a Paduan tailor who at a party so chewed the food again, that his comrades said that he should pay double, as he had double gain thereof.

(If potables were of the same condition, that they could come tastefuller back, many a brandy-lover, who now sips 3 or 4 times at a glass of brandy to properly get the taste thereof, would swallow it at once so to the sooner get it again tastier. It is by the way not so uncommon to find cud-chewers.)

Travis343 posted:

I mean gently caress me, two drummers?

Hogge Wild posted:

D&D had a more logical currency system. Brits had 12 pence per shilling and 20 shillings per pound. The 'd' is from denarius, 's' from solidus and 'L' or '£' from libra or a Roman pound.

Snapchat A Titty posted:

From a Danish paper, not sure which (probably Adresseavisen of Copenhagen):

Retro Access posted:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumination_syndrome

Stoatbringer posted:

Carnival of Shrews posted:

drat, I was just going to post that. I bet the guys from Puppetry of the Penis already have this talented fellow on the phone.

(bonus points as it's from The Independent, which is usually too staid for headline shenanigans)

Linda Poon for Citylab posted:

An Indian City Is Getting Inundated by Creeping Toxic Foam

Froth from polluted water is overtaking roads in Bangalore and filling the air with a noxious stench.

Strange, puffy, dense clouds are descending on the streets of Bangalore, India’s technology capital. While whimsical-looking, they are actually puffs of a toxic foam inundating the city.

Documentary photographer Debasish Ghosh has captured images of the clouds floating around the city and overrunning the roads. The foam comes from Bellandur, a 1.4-square-mile lake that for years has been polluted by chemical and sewage waste. Every time it rains, the lake rises and wind lifts the froth up and carries it into the city.

The toxic foam gets in the way of pedestrians and cars, creating awful traffic jams. It carries a stench so strong that it burns the nose. And if it comes into contact with your skin, you’ll get an itchy rash.

“It causes a nuisance,” Ghosh says.

Making matters worse, the froth is flammable. In May and June, the entire lake caught fire, leaving a 56-year-old man who was standing on a bridge above the lake with a ruptured cornea.

The froth has come every summer for more more than a decade now, but Ghosh says that this year is particularly bad. He’s been documenting the pollution since May, making sure to immediately clean his arms, hands, and face any time he gets too close.

Say Nothing posted:

http://i.imgur.com/2axt6UZ.webm

Wheat Loaf posted:

My mum still thinks decimalisation was a mistake, because it made the currency "less charming".

poop dood posted:

Very possibly the most British thing I have ever heard.

Wheat Loaf posted:

Well, we live in Northern Ireland and she grew up in East Belfast, so I suppose she has to make a special effort.

budgieinspector posted:

pussy riot police posted:

Do you want to deal with some wanker 4000 times?

budgieinspector posted:

budgieinspector posted:

Zamboni_Rodeo posted:

Me, just a minute ago: "Who would want to have an orgy with Cor -- OHHHHH... right."

...I'm a little slow today.

Zamboni_Rodeo posted:

Me, just a minute ago: "Who would want to have an orgy with Cor -- OHHHHH... right."

...I'm a little slow today.

CJacobs posted:

I'm assuming your realization was 'who wouldn't want to have an orgy with Corey Feldman'.

Platystemon posted:

Police called to meeting of beard fans in Sweden after passer-by confuses them with Isis terrorists

ncumbered_by_idgits posted:

Can someone let me in on ?