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Slime posted:tbf even if they didn't consider cats sacred it would have been an effective tactic, having a cat thrown at your face is gonna make it hard to fight When I saw the painting I was thinking "what about herding a bunch of cat onto a catapult and then throwing them over the wall" I guess it wouldn't be easy or effective but just the imagine being inside the walls waiting for the attack & hearing that *chunk* reeeaaMrwooMEAAROWOWOO and looking up into a cloud of cats descending upon you.
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Powaqoatse posted:When I saw the painting I was thinking "what about herding a bunch of cat onto a catapult and then throwing them over the wall" "A thousand nations of the Persian empire will descend upon you. Our cats will blot out the sun!"
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Alhazred posted:"A thousand nations of the Persian empire will descend upon you. Our cats will blot out the sun!" Then we shall fight in the litterbox 
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IIRC the Persians thought cats were dog-shaped snakes and all good animals were some form of dog.
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FreudianSlippers posted:IIRC the Persians thought cats were dog-shaped snakes and all good animals were some form of dog. they weren't wrong
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snakes are alright: check cats are alright: check dogs are pretty poo poo but theyre similary shaped: check checks out
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Twain, in Innocents Abroad posted:I shall only say that the fuel they use for the locomotive is composed of mummies three thousand years old, purchased by the ton or by the graveyard for that purpose, and that sometimes one hears the profane engineer call out pettishly, “drat these plebeians, they don't burn worth a cent—pass out a King”
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Instant Sunrise posted:In 1842, US Navy Commodore Thomas Catesby Jones accidentally conquered California. He had thought that the US was already at with Mexico (they weren't), and that Britain would try to take over California in the mean time (they didn't). Don't end the story halfway. Where did he head next?
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He sailed into a timewarp and took command of the USS William D. Porter.
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eats says whoops my bad and leaves
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They also thought ants were literally demons and while I don't agree with their rather unfavorable view of cats I think they might have a point on the ant front. look what I found: http://www.zoroastriankids.com/ FreudianSlippers has a new favorite as of 04:47 on Aug 5, 2017 |
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FreudianSlippers posted:They also thought ants were literally demons and while I don't agree with their rather unfavorable view of cats I think they might have a point on the ant front. I wasn't expecting Zoroastrian kids to all look lilly white tbh
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Hey I mean "Land of the Aryans"
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What am I expected to sacrifice to this vehicle
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Aesop Poprock posted:What am I expected to sacrifice to this vehicle premium gasoline, none of that basic unleaded poo poo
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Aug 5, 2017 06:27
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trick is to sacrifice the mazda to itself
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Aesop Poprock posted:What am I expected to sacrifice to this vehicle Anoint it daily with oil.
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i'm just kind of imagining a different world where Sol Invictus or the Mithra cult won Check out the new MMDCCLXXI Tetragrammatron Jesus! Optional all-wheel drive, stow and go seating, and front and rear climate control available on selected vehicles.
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steinrokkan posted:Not just Persians. Ever heard of black cats and bad luck?
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Grand Prize Winner posted:i'm just kind of imagining a different world where Sol Invictus or the Mithra cult won prepares thursday roast beef
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Nessus posted:Aren't black cats good luck in England? England hates orange cats for whatever weird rear end reason
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Grand Prize Winner posted:i'm just kind of imagining a different world where Sol Invictus or the Mithra cult won Say “Jesus, take the wheel” to activate autopilot.
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Nessus posted:Aren't black cats good luck in England? Nah Sunderland have been poo poo for years
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Nessus posted:Aren't black cats good luck in England? supposedly if youre an old wise danish woman & you feed the cat with like 50/50 milk & viper venom, i think cats are supposed to be good luck e: but also if you wanna mess with newly weds, put cat hair under their pillows on their wedding night. thatll kill that marriage straight up.
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I personally find that nothing spices up the ol' matrimonial act so much as toxoplasmosis.
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Aesop Poprock posted:England hates orange cats for whatever weird rear end reason They keep eating all the lasagne I assume
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Aesop Poprock posted:England hates orange cats for whatever weird rear end reason You'd think it would be the Irish that hate the orange cats.
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Something about gingers. Also apparently ginger people are more likely to own ginger cats.
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Tasteful Dickpic posted:I personally find that nothing spices up the ol' matrimonial act so much as toxoplasmosis. another pro tip: travel to the indies (east or west, depending who tells the story), find a wise man & declare that youre in love with some lady. then look into a pot of water until you see her before your eyes & then spit in the pot. when you come home from those indies, shes in love with you and you will live together happily ever after until you tell her how she fell in love and then she hates you forever oh and also, there will be a number in the pot, thats the age of your death.
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Pff you Protestant/Anglican heathens with your silly superstitions Everybody knows that for a young man or woman to know who they'll marry they simply have to peel an apple during the night of the feast day of St Thomas and throw the pieces over their shoulder. They'll spell the name of their future spouse on the floor, it's just science!
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Aesop Poprock posted:England hates orange cats for whatever weird rear end reason
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Aesop Poprock posted:What am I expected to sacrifice to this vehicle Nothing it's a mazda. It'll sacrifice itself to oxizidation in a tenth of the time of other cars
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Aesop Poprock posted:What am I expected to sacrifice to this vehicle Apex seals
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quote:Twain, in Innocents Abroad posted: This just reminded me that powdered human mummies were used as medicine at various times in history. 'Mummia' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummia Or, for something a little more horrifying, you can try some Mellified Man. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mellified_man
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stab posted:Nothing it's a mazda. I actually drive a Mazda 3 is this a real thing 
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Twain related another pleasant story about cats in that same travelogue. quote:Spain chastised the Moors five or six years ago, about a disputed piece of property opposite Gibraltar, and captured the city of Tetouan. She compromised on an augmentation of her territory, twenty million dollars' indemnity in money, and peace. And then she gave up the city. But she never gave it up until the Spanish soldiers had eaten up all the cats. They would not compromise as long as the cats held out. Spaniards are very fond of cats. On the contrary, the Moors reverence cats as something sacred. So the Spaniards touched them on a tender point that time. Their unfeline conduct in eating up all the Tetouan cats aroused a hatred toward them in the breasts of the Moors, to which even the driving them out of Spain was tame and passionless. Moors and Spaniards are foes forever now. France had a minister here once who embittered the nation against him in the most innocent way. He killed a couple of battalions of cats (Tangier is full of them) and made a parlor carpet out of their hides. He made his carpet in circles--first a circle of old gray tomcats, with their tails all pointing toward the center; then a circle of yellow cats; next a circle of black cats and a circle of white ones; then a circle of all sorts of cats; and, finally, a centerpiece of assorted kittens. It was very beautiful, but the Moors curse his memory to this day. https://twain.thefreelibrary.com/The-Innocents-Abroad/10-1
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Aesop Poprock posted:I actually drive a Mazda 3 is this a real thing The first gen 3 is notorious for premature body panel rust, especially above the rear wheel wells. Not sure about frame rust.
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Phy posted:The first gen 3 is notorious for premature body panel rust, especially above the rear wheel wells. Not sure about frame rust. oh well mine is not that
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Been reading stuff on World War 1 and watching The Great War youtube channel. The Battle of Messines in 1917 is rather insane when you think about it. For years the Germans held the ridge, so the British response was to simply remove the Ridge with giant fuckoff mines,
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