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Disinterested posted:In genuine news: http://qz.com/551210/researchers-just-unearthed-a-lost-island-in-the-aegean/ Isnt it amazing how archeologists somehow always seem to find something that exists in the few remaining pieces of text we have from the ancient world?
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Charlie Mopps posted:Isnt it amazing how archeologists somehow always seem to find something that exists in the few remaining pieces of text we have from the ancient world? Why, next thing you know, they'll find Atlantis!
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Tomn posted:Why, next thing you know, they'll find Atlantis! Turns out it was right under our noses all along! 
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This.. triggers.. meeeeee! 
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Dalael posted:This.. triggers.. meeeeee! Congrats on becoming an Ask/Tell history thread in-joke. Just like me and my opinions about Niall Ferguson.
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Nov 19, 2015 02:16
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ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:Congrats on becoming an Ask/Tell history thread in-joke. Just like me and my opinions about Niall Ferguson. I'm still waiting for my own :aegilaus: style smiley. 
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Dalael posted:I'm still waiting for my own :aegilaus: style smiley. If we go in for $10 each we can just split up the pixels
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Dalael posted:I'm still waiting for my own :aegilaus: style smiley. Unfortunately the altiplano is a bit big for a smiley.
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Smoking Crow posted:I want to believe he was a pug Not sure if gigantic man with a pug's head would be scary or not. Probably a bit off-putting either way. St Chris: C'mon, I'll carry you across the river. Peasant (trying not to STARE at pug head): Maybe I don't need to cross the river THAT badly....
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so what iconography represents his perpetual wheezing?
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ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:Congrats on becoming an Ask/Tell history thread in-joke. Just like me and my opinions about Niall Ferguson. the Correct Opinions about niall ferguson are no joke
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Nov 19, 2015 10:32
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He's bad. Also not nice in person.
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i heard he makes his grad students do his research for him and then doesn't give them credit
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I know he was a dick to his undergrads at Cambridge and that his former colleagues don't like him or respect him
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HEY GAL posted:i heard he makes his grad students do his research for him and then doesn't give them credit Probably for the best they don't have their names tied to his work.
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xthetenth posted:Probably for the best they don't have their names tied to his work. Some of the financial stuff is OK.
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Was that the insane poster?
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LingcodKilla posted:Was that the insane poster? You're gonna have to narrow this down a bit. We're all insane here.
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ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:You're gonna have to narrow this down a bit. We're all insane here.
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HEY GAL posted:speak for yourself Says the person who travels to Germany to simulate doing one of the world's shittiest jobs for fun, in order to take their mind off the day job of staring at ancient mail until all the squiggles blend together and all you're left with is a vague impression of drunken defenestration. Keldoclock fucked around with this message at 12:15 on Nov 20, 2015 |
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Keldoclock posted:Says the person who travels to Germany to simulate doing one of the world's shittiest jobs for fun, in order to take their mind off the day job of staring at ancient mail until all the squiggles blend together and all you're left with is a vague impression of drunken defenestration. Says Keldoclock.
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all my life choices are good ones
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ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:You're gonna have to narrow this down a bit. We're all insane here. Right. drat I was thinking about the guy who was defending Roman slavery style as possible modern solution to economic problems. Didnt he also have some strange Atlantis beliefs? I think he got banned from a few different posts and I havnt seen him post in months.
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Lord Tywin posted:What was the name and the author of that book? Just trying to search for Babylon unfortunately turns up quite a lot of books! Whoops, yeah. Paul Kriwaczek.
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LingcodKilla posted:Right. drat I was thinking about the guy who was defending Roman slavery style as possible modern solution to economic problems. Didnt he also have some strange Atlantis beliefs? I think he got banned from a few different posts and I havnt seen him post in months. Ah, you mean good ol' Agesilaus. I don't remember what he had to say about Atlantis but it was probably really drat stupid.
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LingcodKilla posted:Right. drat I was thinking about the guy who was defending Roman slavery style as possible modern solution to economic problems. Didnt he also have some strange Atlantis beliefs? I think he got banned from a few different posts and I havnt seen him post in months.  was a monarchist and classical-supremacist that unironically held the viewpoint that democracy was rule by smelly plebs, and that he was of the superior aristocratic breed of humans that can handle power. There might have been something in there about Roman slavery being cool and good, too, I don't remember.Bolivian Atlantis was Dalael.
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Keldoclock posted:Says the person who travels to Germany to simulate doing one of the world's shittiest jobs for fun, in order to take their mind off the day job of staring at ancient mail until all the squiggles blend together and all you're left with is a vague impression of drunken defenestration. You're missing the bit where drunken defenestration is really fun to read about.
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Jazerus posted:
Even I think that guy sounds hosed up. 
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xthetenth posted:You're missing the bit where drunken defenestration is really fun to read about. edit: when the book finally comes out, the amazon reviews are just going to be page after page of "cuck" and "i'm gay," won't they HEY GUNS fucked around with this message at 15:02 on Nov 20, 2015 |
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Dalael posted:Even I think that guy sounds hosed up. He was so bad, I, generally a terrible poster, didn't want to get involved in his poo poo. I like this little odds and ends of history discussion.
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LingcodKilla posted:Was that the insane poster? From what I recall Niall Ferguson is a neo-conservative historian who unironically argues that colonialism was a good thing and Britons (Europeans in general really) should feel good about it. Among other arguments. Dalael posted:Even I think that guy sounds hosed up. Enjoy! Here's a quick excerpt: Agesilaus posted:Don't get too far ahead of yourself, though. Humanity is still yet to recover in may ways; we have regressed politically, philosophically, culturally, and socially from Classical Greece. I can think of ways we are behind Ancient Rome, too. It's not hard to find people today that will talk about how we've lost certain positive values and practices; out in the colonies you might not have any physical ruins to squat around, but there's still the mire of intellectual and social ruin.
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"certain positive values and practices"
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HEY GAL posted:after someone else has found it, translated it, and typed it If you were, hypothetically speaking, drunkenly defenestrated, would you rather land on a pile of rubbish bags or a pile of manure? Did your guys have any opinions on the appropriate method to defenestrate someone?
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HEY GAL posted:after someone else has found it, translated it, and typed it I'll write one that won't be. MikeCrotch posted:If you were, hypothetically speaking, drunkenly defenestrated, would you rather land on a pile of rubbish bags or a pile of manure? Did your guys have any opinions on the appropriate method to defenestrate someone? "Hopefully this one won't lead to a massive war by setting off religious tensions!"
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HEY GAL posted:edit: when the book finally comes out, the amazon reviews are just going to be page after page of "cuck" and "i'm gay," won't they Yes, but they'll all be five-stars.  MikeCrotch posted:If you were, hypothetically speaking, drunkenly defenestrated, would you rather land on a pile of rubbish bags or a pile of manure? Did your guys have any opinions on the appropriate method to defenestrate someone? You may not be pleased to hear that the contents of historical rubbish bags might be a bit sharp Keldoclock fucked around with this message at 08:49 on Nov 21, 2015 |
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Ferguson wrote a short article in the Times the other day comparing the current EU to the fall of Rome, and it was embarrassingly bad. Like, how is this man a professor bad. Highlights include thinking the sack of Rome was especially horrific because Gibbon said so, thinking Rome was a politically relevant city at that time, forgetting the Eastern Empire existed, and saying the Goths invaded because Rome didn't bother defending its borders or having a real army.
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you think that's bad, check out victor davis hanson
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i like some of victor davis hanson's stuff, he has some interesting work on hoplite warfare for example, but then all of a sudden he'll throw in "oh PS - anyone who isn't Western is basically subhuman"
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Jamwad Hilder posted:i like some of victor davis hanson's stuff, he has some interesting work on hoplite warfare for example, but then all of a sudden he'll throw in "oh PS - anyone who isn't Western is basically subhuman"
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Strategic Tea posted:Ferguson wrote a short article in the Times the other day comparing the current EU to the fall of Rome, and it was embarrassingly bad. Like, how is this man a professor bad. I'm going to guess he had a stupid argument to make about current events and worked from there. Am I right?
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