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Mr. Belpit posted:I like the implication that we all know what a "hyper war" even is. The kinds of wars this guy fights in, I'm assuming.
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I'm primarily curious as to the exact purpose and function of the Giza Mass Autism Array. Can any history buffs chime in on this one 
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Alhazred posted:In the 17th century the highwayman Dick Dudley bought a merkin and sold it to the pope claiming it a piece of St Peter’s beard. Dudley was paid 100 ducats for the merkin. I know that that's from QI, but I would still be very suspicious about it. English literature of the 17th to 19th centuries was full with accounts of robbers, conmen and highwaymen which were semi-fictionalised at best, and outright made up at worst. These stories were meant to entertain and educate, but not to seriously represent factual accounts of anything. This is why they functioned wonderfully as social and political commentary (Here's a paper about that), and this is also why any story where Catholics are represented as negatively as they are here (i.e. as gullible morons who mistake the pubes of a dead hooker that had been hanged for poisoning one of her johns for a holy relic) should be seen more as a reflection of the strongly anti-Catholic sentiments that were widespread in 18th-century England. Here's the fully story if you're curious.
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Powaqoatse posted:it's called the Mandela Effect & the old people have a website for it: http://mandelaeffect.com Eh, there's also the guy that in a whim made up a female Street Shark, edited some wikipedia page to make up a few episodes featuring her, and came back 10 years later to find that she had been accepted as gospel truth and people remembering her as their favorite. https://www.google.com/amp/www.geek...656188/%3famp=1
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FELD1 posted:I'm primarily curious as to the exact purpose and function of the Giza Mass Autism Array. Can any history buffs chime in on this one It sent a blast wave that is still felt, in this very forum among other places. However the array destroyed itself because the bolts weren't set just right. But obviously, the entire thing is one of the many faces of Spurdo Spärde and the Finnish meme supremacy.
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Mr. Belpit posted:I like the implication that we all know what a "hyper war" even is. Make Hyperlove not Hyperwar, imo.
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Jan 23, 2017 00:55
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You can't hug a child with hyper arms
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Sulla-Marius 88 posted:You can't hug a child with hyper arms I would have thought you would hug better if anything
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NLJP posted:I would have thought you would hug better if anything In my mind they'd explode like in Watchmen.
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System Metternich posted:I know that that's from QI, but I would still be very suspicious about it. English literature of the 17th to 19th centuries was full with accounts of robbers, conmen and highwaymen which were semi-fictionalised at best, and outright made up at worst. These stories were meant to entertain and educate, but not to seriously represent factual accounts of anything. This is why they functioned wonderfully as social and political commentary (Here's a paper about that), and this is also why any story where Catholics are represented as negatively as they are here (i.e. as gullible morons who mistake the pubes of a dead hooker that had been hanged for poisoning one of her johns for a holy relic) should be seen more as a reflection of the strongly anti-Catholic sentiments that were widespread in 18th-century England. Here's the fully story if you're curious. I read a book that treated Propaganda-as-social-commentary, except using the French Wars of Religion. The Protestants were represented in exactly the same way as the English represented Catholics, proving that the English are the original talentless hacks who couldn't make up anything good unless they stole it from someone else.
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Phyzzle posted:And Western Europe's term comes from the Sanskrit word naranj, a produce of Arabic traders first bringing them from India. Which is odd, because it's "portugal" in Arabic. "Zürj" sounds suspiciously like a brand name for an Eastern European energy drink. System Metternich posted:I know that that's from QI, but I would still be very suspicious about it. You should be very suspicious of it because it's from QI, the show too stupid to understand how the Moon works. Vincent Van Goatse has a new favorite as of 10:07 on Jan 24, 2017 |
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:"Zürj" sounds suspiciously like a brand name for an Eastern European energy drink. how does it work
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It's a chariot driven by Selene, sister to Helios.
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Hogge Wild posted:how does it work They have repeatedly claimed that objects with orbit resonance of 1:1 are somehow moons of each other, or some such nonsense. And that as a result Earth has something like eight moons.
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QI isn't a history show, or a science show. Their primary goal is to be entertaining. Their fact-checking is atrocious and they'll blindly repeat urban myths and obviously made-up "facts" if they're funny.
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Sweevo posted:QI isn't a history show, or a science show. Their primary goal is to be entertaining. Their fact-checking is atrocious and they'll blindly repeat urban myths and obviously made-up "facts" if they're funny. Any excuse to deduct points from Alan Davies.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:You should be very suspicious of it because it's from QI, the show too stupid to understand how the Moon works. Which Moon are we talking about? 
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Ensign Expendable posted:Any excuse to deduct points from Alan Davies. This is my favorite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmu47rpda24
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Sweevo posted:Their primary goal is to be entertaining. Well, they fail in that too.
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It's not always easy to distinguish real historical facts from a G.I.Joe cartoon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Tank
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Alhazred posted:It's not always easy to distinguish real historical facts from a G.I.Joe cartoon: I don't care the practicality of it, seeing a swarm of those things headed towards you would be a def poo poo your pants moment
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Aesop Poprock posted:I don't care the practicality of it, seeing a swarm of those things headed towards you would be a def poo poo your pants moment Until one of their spindly rear end wheels falls off going over a bump and it turns into a circus clown like fuckup.
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Yeah, they're like a slightly more dangerous penny-farthing.
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Sweevo posted:QI isn't a history show, or a science show. Their primary goal is to be entertaining. Their fact-checking is atrocious and they'll blindly repeat urban myths and obviously made-up "facts" if they're funny. The Christmas special where they wholesale recount a load of horse poo poo about... Festivius or whatever is embarrassing, especially since that wasn't off-the-cuff but recited wholesale.
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Jan 27, 2017 19:06
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Walt Whitman and Oscar Wilde used to make out on the reg 
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Alhazred posted:This is my favorite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmu47rpda24 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvmq66op0G8 That and Alan bringing back some gimmick from a previous season and getting it right
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A fun historical fact: The statue of liberty was originally supposed to be an egyptian woman.
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Alhazred posted:A fun historical fact: The statue of liberty was originally supposed to be an egyptian woman. Why?
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Because making her look American takes too much copper.
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Bartholdi's design originated as a lighthouse for the Egyptians, which he conceived of as a statue of an Egyptian peasant woman holding a torch aloft. The Egyptians rejected it, but Bartholdi kept the idea alive and it gradually morphed into Columbia, the personification of America.
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The Statue of Liberty has a pointed crown in reference to the Colossus of Rhodes. The Colossus was a statue of the sun god Helios, including his crown of solar rays.
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A fact I learned today is that the release mechanism on the Enola Gay malfunctioned during pre-flight tests and was only fixed in the hours before it took off to head towards Japan, and that if they'd been delayed until the following day, weather patterns would have meant that Tokyo would have been the only realistic target. It's that whole butterfly effect / "for want of a nail" thing. You assume that history would have changed if Truman had said, "Let's hit Tokyo instead of Hiroshima," but it could well have been down to something as trivial as a damaged piece of machinery. It's a bit like the thing about how Obama might not have been elected in 2006 if Seven-of-Nine's husband hadn't had an affair (or whatever that scandal was). So imagine that: Obama doesn't get into the senate in 2006; Hillary Clinton is elected president in 2008 and whoever she had as her vice-president (probably somebody like Deval Patrick) would have lost the election to, I don't know, Christine O'Donnell last November; Donald Trump probably never rejoins the Republicans and spends all his time trying to build golf courses in Scotland.
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Wheat Loaf posted:A fact I learned today is that the release mechanism on the Enola Gay malfunctioned during pre-flight tests and was only fixed in the hours before it took off to head towards Japan, and that if they'd been delayed until the following day, weather patterns would have meant that Tokyo would have been the only realistic target. We were all very grateful for Jeri Ryan for the last 8 years. Don't put Trump on her too.
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Tokyo wasn’t on the target list. Truman wouldn’t have bombed it on a lark.
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Julius Caesar as a young noble was once captured by Cilician pirates, and held for ransom, as was the custom at the time. When they demanded 20 talents for him, he laughed at them and told them to ask for 50 talents instead. For 38 days he was their prisoner and buddy, hanging out with them, eating meals together, competing in games and athletic contests, and he'd go yell at them to pipe down if they were too loud when he wanted to go to sleep. He'd write speeches and poems and read them to them, and he'd mock them for not understanding them or appreciating him. He also told them that once he was free, he'd raise some ships and come back and crucify them all.  Har har! Our new buddy Caesar is such a jokester!Then when he was ransomed and released, he raised some ships and soldiers immediately when he got back to Italy. He sailed straight back, captured them all, and had them crucified. 
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Platystemon posted:Tokyo wasn’t on the target list. Truman wouldn’t have bombed it on a lark. Tokyo had already been bombed like crazy, and part of the criteria was to bomb something that hadn't already been extensively bombed.
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canyoneer posted:Julius Caesar as a young noble was once captured by Cilician pirates, and held for ransom, as was the custom at the time. When they demanded 20 talents for him, he laughed at them and told them to ask for 50 talents instead. For 38 days he was their prisoner and buddy, hanging out with them, eating meals together, competing in games and athletic contests, and he'd go yell at them to pipe down if they were too loud when he wanted to go to sleep. That is good stuff never knew that.
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verbal enema posted:That is good stuff never knew that. Yeah the Romans didn't gently caress around.
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I just enjoy him being a typical noble even when he has been captured and being ransomed. HEY SHUT THE gently caress UP IM TRYNA SLEEP UP HEEAH And then he did what nobles typically don't do and came back and murdered them all Do we know that he got the same dudes or did he just Crucify some dudes and call it a day
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verbal enema posted:I just enjoy him being a typical noble even when he has been captured and being ransomed. Same dudes. Supposedly, he was feeling merciful for his old friends and so had their throats cut prior to the crucifixion.
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