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Kung Fu Fist gently caress posted:yea. like that time in the 14th century when 1/3 of europes population was wiped out by the bubonic plague. but white people dont get sick They got better!
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Jul 4, 2017 04:31
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loving white people and their disease immunity privilege 
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There was the time that Napoleon nearly reached an agreement with Haiti which might have led to total French dominance in the Gulf due to the Haitian rebels being the only sizeable number of "seasoned" soldiers in the region. In the end Napoleon decided to send several large armies to be ravaged by tropical diseases instead. Afterwards Napoleon himself said: "The Santo Domingo affair was a foolish business on my part. It was the greatest mistake I ever made in my administration." In general Yellow Fever devastated European migrants to the Caribbean and Central America. Bolivar lost his wife to yellow when she came back to Venezuela with him. Bolivar then sunk himself into politics in part to get over his loss. Munin fucked around with this message at 08:28 on Jul 4, 2017 |
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Yeah the only reason it didn't affect both continents equally bad is because Europe was in the middle of that post-plague population boom. Well, that, and native americans didnt have the ability to sail east and start wars and poo poo to destabilize people
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Jul 4, 2017 12:48
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are troops  http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/canada-day-halifax-indigenous-ceremony-proud-boys-1.4189020
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Dillbag posted:are troops I thought maybe they caused a ruckus by doing physical harm or drunkenly harassing people. That was decidedly Canadian.
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Larry Parrish posted:Yeah the only reason it didn't affect both continents equally bad is because Europe was in the middle of that post-plague population boom. Well, that, and native americans didnt have the ability to sail east and start wars and poo poo to destabilize people Also per Guns, Germs, and Steel it's possible their smaller number of domesticated animal species meant a smaller number of potential plagues.
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Yeah, the Americas hadn't been exposed to swine or cow diseases yet. Smallpox strains that weren't very potent elsewhere hit the Americas like some captain trips poo poo. There's accounts of explorers heading upriver and encountering large towns and on the way back a few weeks / months later the area is totally deserted. 1491 is a good book people should read it
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HAPPY FUCKIN 4TH OF JULY TO THE GREATEST NATION OF ALL TIME, THE NATION THAT MOTHERFUCKIN INVENTED FREEDOM
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HERE IS A PICTURE OF FREEDOM I CALL IT FREEDOM.
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just looked up the whole "proud boy" thing and now I have to put my yellow/black fred perry polo in the back of my closet until that whole thing goes away, thanks assholes
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Dillbag posted:are troops These fuckin' idiots are gonna get charge parade'd so hard their tiny little brains will spin.
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Doc Hawkins posted:Also per Guns, Germs, and Steel it's possible their smaller number of domesticated animal species meant a smaller number of potential plagues. I really like that book. Hopefully the person who found my copy on the shuttle at the Deid liked it too. 
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Smiling Jack posted:There used to be a goon, Sgt Zeno who worked at the Pentagon. When he got bored, he would call the Mojave Phone booth, this becoming an obscure but fevrerntly debated footnote among the That was an awesome thread. I tried to search for it to no avail--does anyone have a link?
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Itchy_Grundle posted:That was an awesome thread. I tried to search for it to no avail--does anyone have a link? I wanna read this poo poo now.
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Hopefully I'm not just being stupid and having my chain pulled, but the Sgt Zeno mentioned in the wikipedia page about the mojave phone booth was a goon? gently caress I really want to read that thread now.
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Mike-o posted:Hopefully I'm not just being stupid and having my chain pulled, but the Sgt Zeno mentioned in the wikipedia page about the mojave phone booth was a goon? gently caress I really want to read that thread now. Yeah I've heard about that phone booth before but never that he was a goon.
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I've never heard about it. What now?
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The Mojave phone booth was a phone booth out in the middle of bumfuck, nowhere. Back in '99, someone thought the Holy Spirit was telling him to answer the phone, so he camped out by it, miles from any other sign of civilization, for 32 days. One of the phone's callers identified themselves as Sergeant Zeno and said they worked at the Pentagon.
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Can confirm that Sgt Zeno was very much a goon. He used to post awesome pictures from his tour in Djibouti, which I hosted back when I ran a small game hosting businesses. (This is probably 10 or 12 years ago.)
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Hoooly gently caress I wish I had known about that. That was before I joined goddamn.
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I remember him posting pictures with his issue M3 grease gun and also Flat Stanley at the Pentagon.
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Seekhay posted:Can confirm that Sgt Zeno was very much a goon. He used to post awesome pictures from his tour in Djibouti, which I hosted back when I ran a small game hosting businesses. (This is probably 10 or 12 years ago.) Hahaha that rules
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Seekhay posted:Can confirm that Sgt Zeno was very much a goon. He used to post awesome pictures from his tour in Djibouti, which I hosted back when I ran a small game hosting businesses. (This is probably 10 or 12 years ago.) Yep, same guy. From what I remember he planned and led the logistics/protective details of foreign trips for US officials. His office was in the Pentagon, and while screwing around on the internet decided to dial the number of the Mojave Phone Booth. The thing was that his real last name is "Zeno". When someone actually picked up the phone and said, "who is this?", he quite truthfully said, "Sergeant Zeno from the Pentagon." Dumbassry ensued. He had a pretty long thread with details of his career, etc. and was a pretty nice guy.
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God I wish archive search worked, it'd be awesome to track down the original posts for that but the earliest I can find are https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3782665&pagenumber=157&perpage=40#post463890807 e: gently caress http://forums.somethingawful.com/member.php?action=getinfo&username=Sergeant+Zeno Moist von Lipwig fucked around with this message at 05:13 on Jul 12, 2017 |
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Moist von Lipwig posted:God I wish archive search worked, it'd be awesome to track down the original posts for that but the earliest I can find are https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3782665&pagenumber=157&perpage=40#post463890807 According to this Photoshop Phriday his username is "Sergeant-Zeno" https://www.somethingawful.com/photoshop-phriday/classic-art-ii/3/ But this one is "Sgt. Zeno" https://www.somethingawful.com/photoshop-phriday/you-dont-belong/1/ Lotta permutations to work through
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The previous incarnation of the search function, retarded as it was, had the ability to search by username and as you typed it would give a dropdown list of names matching what you were typing so far in. It made it really easy to find users even if they didn't have a single post left in the active forums. For a long time both the old and new search functions were working at the same time but it looks like sometime in the past year or three they took down the old search function so I don't know if there's anyway to search the username database
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FIDEL CASHFLOW posted:just looked up the whole "proud boy" thing and now I have to put my yellow/black fred perry polo in the back of my closet until that whole thing goes away, thanks assholes You're about 40 years too late https://theoutline.com/post/1760/fred-perry-polo-skinheads
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shame on an IGA posted:You're about 40 years too late yeah but the piping color tends to follow more regional variations for skins and there isn't really any scheme here from what I can tell
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I had an appointment with a civilian hip specialist that I've been waiting for since June, and it turned out the specialist that Navy Med referred me to doesn't even do the surgery I was sent to them to get. According to my case manager, when Navy Med refers you to a civilian specialist, they just make sure they're the right kind of doctor. Apparently it's too much work to make sure that doctor does the surgery you need before sending you to them.
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Internet Wizard posted:I had an appointment with a civilian hip specialist that I've been waiting for since June, and it turned out the specialist that Navy Med referred me to doesn't even do the surgery I was sent to them to get. Welcome. Aboard.
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At least some idiots are getting a comeuppance.
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How the gently caress do you fail to notice a goddamn cargo ship about to t-bone your ship
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Malachite_Dragon posted:How the gently caress do you fail to notice a goddamn cargo ship about to t-bone your ship join the navy
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I'll bet $5 that they had one of those "no energy drinks" standing orders, or something equally stupid. Not that such an order should ever prevent people from doin' what they gotta do to get stuff done, but, y'know.
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