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That was a cool as post thanks System Metternich
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# ? May 28, 2024 15:53 |
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Lol if you don’t have a manservant named “Enrique” to crank your meatspit.
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# ? Oct 18, 2017 01:37 |
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I hire a French maid twice a week
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# ? Oct 18, 2017 05:19 |
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Platystemon posted:Lol if you don’t have a manservant named “Enrique” to crank your meatspit.
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# ? Oct 18, 2017 05:21 |
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John Big Booty posted:How terribly nouveau riche. I have a Kensington who spits on my meatcrank. Whatever cranks your hog.
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# ? Oct 18, 2017 06:57 |
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System Metternich posted:
As an aside to this very excellent and informative post, my grandfather is credited with saving the Glen of Imaal terrier from extinction in the 1950's. They are nice dogs Pookah has a new favorite as of 08:22 on Oct 18, 2017 |
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Pookah posted:As an aside to this very excellent and informative post, my grandfather is credited with saving the Glen of Imaal terrier from extinction in the 1950's. They are nice dogs Adorable! Up until the 20th C, animals were expected to earn their keep. That's still true in much of the Third World. Even the earliest of animal fairs and shows were searching for 'perfect' specimens who had the correct build for doing a task. Every horse, dog, sheep, swine or cattle rulebook I've seen insists the animal be judged by its ability to do the task first, and all other attributes later. Yes, even that one. That one too. Dogs have actually come a long way from 1970s, when they were even more extreme than now.
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Khazar-khum posted:Adorable! To be fair for many animals their task was "be decorative" or "be fun to play with". Though the examples I can think of (pugs, chihuahuas, Pekinese dogs, fancy ducks and chickens) were all first developed outside the western world. pidan has a new favorite as of 10:50 on Oct 18, 2017 |
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I did some additional research and found out that the use of turnspits wasn't limited to the UK and the US, but they are at the very least found in Germany/Austria and France as well. An 1815 Viennese journal reports that "until recently" two dogs were in use at the Lilienfeld monastery, while the manorial kitchen in Frankstadt (probably today's Nový Malín in north-eastern Czechia) still employed some. The article tells us of two dogs who were so good at their job that they smelled when the roast was ready and gave the cook notice by barking. Apparently sometimes dogs were also used in the smithy to work the bellows. Another encyclopedia entry from 1791 claims that most turnspits were actually found in France, while Dutch dogs were sometimes used to churn butter. An 1859 article in the Atlantic reports that there was at least one "old Dutch-Yankee farmer, in a remote and very rural district" who still had his dog run the dairy wheel. In the same article the author also talks about the turnspit's descendants, though he obviously is not a fan: " I have alluded to his alleged descendants, as pointed out to my observation in boyhood; but they were an effete and degenerate race, purposeless, and wallowing much with the pigs, whom their grandsires would have recognized only to roast." Finally have some anecdotes related to the turnspit: The Book of Days. A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities, Vol. 1 (1863), p.490-491 posted:[T]wo turnspits were employed in the kitchen of the Duc de Lianfort at Paris, taking their turns every other day to go into the wheel. One of them, in a fit of laziness, hid itself on a day that it should have worked, so the other was forced to go into the wheel instead. When the meat was roasted, the one that had been compelled to work out of its turn began to bark and wag its tail till it induced the scullions to follow it; then leading them to a garret, and dislodging the skulker from beneath a bed, it attacked and killed its too lazy fellow-worker.
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pidan posted:To be fair for many animals their task was "be decorative" or "be fun to play with". Though the examples I can think of (pugs, chihuahuas, Pekinese dogs, fancy ducks and chickens) were all first developed outside the western world. Not saying they don't also fill the "toy dog" function, but Chihuahuas were also rat catching dogs. Their small frame lets them follow vermin into their dens. And any dog breed that was bred to kill is likely still very good at that job. I had a terrier as a kid and he was bringing a fresh possum or squirrel to the back door every other month with a dopey dog grin and wagging tail. Which was even more impressive after he had a stroke and he only had full use of three legs (his front right leg was permanently paralyzed and stuck out fully extended).
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InediblePenguin posted:ok listen, I am aware that historically "naked" often just meant "not in a state of full formal dress worthy of being shown in public," such that a man without his coat on could be so described even with his shirt and trousers-equivalents on, but even so I am puzzled as to how this dude was naked enough to wash his cock in his wine glass in full view of god and everyone, but still dressed enough that THEN he pulled down his breeches This was a while ago, but Back in the 1600s, "pants" weren't the garment we know today; they were either two completely separate pant legs (this is why it's "a pair of pants" today), or two legs joined at the back but not at the front. The idea of button-up flies was still a century away. This meant that if you needed to piss (or wash your dick in a wineglass) you could just whip off your codpiece and go for it without taking your pants off, but you'd still need to drop trou to "excrementize".
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ToxicFrog posted:This was a while ago, but
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And because the way people are the codpieces became bigger and bigger. Both because, obviously, it implied that the wearer had a big dick and because it was a handy way to hide your syphilis.
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ToxicFrog posted:This was a while ago, but Yes, it was
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In archaeological circles these pendants has been the source of some controversy: They were believed depict Thor's hammer but critics has claimed that it doesn't look enough like a hammer to be one. But recently a pendant was unearthed that had the inscription "this is a hammer" which more or less settled the argument.
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Alhazred posted:In archaeological circles these pendants has been the source of some controversy:
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Alhazred posted:And because the way people are the codpieces became bigger and bigger. Both because, obviously, it implied that the wearer had a big dick and because it was a handy way to hide your syphilis. They're also a useful place to put your money if you're a mercenary.
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xthetenth posted:They're also a useful place to put your money if you're a mercenary. *Grabs crotch* I got your money right here.
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Alhazred posted:In archaeological circles these pendants has been the source of some controversy: To be fair...the story behind Thor's Hammer was that it wasn't exactly well made. Quite the opposite: the dwarves hosed up them loving up ended up making it awesome due to some fluke.
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Alkydere posted:To be fair...the story behind Thor's Hammer was that it wasn't exactly well made. Quite the opposite: the dwarves hosed up them loving up ended up making it awesome due to some fluke. I thought it was that they hosed up (or rather were hosed up by Loki in disguise), but they were such awesome craftsmen that it still turned out to be something useful despite the upfuckery.
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:I thought it was that they hosed up (or rather were hosed up by Loki in disguise), but they were such awesome craftsmen that it still turned out to be something useful despite the upfuckery. Yeah, Loki made a bet with the dwarves that they couldn't make something that was better than Odin's spear. When Loki realized that the dwarves were going to succeed he turned himself into a fly and tried to bother the dwarves so much that they failed. The dwarves still won the bet because Mjølner was pretty awesome despite being so short it could be wielded by one hand and then claimed Loki's head as reward. Loki kept his head because of a technicality (he claimed that the dwarves could not get his head without cutting his neck and the neck was not part of the clam), but the dwarves got to sew Loki's mouth shut as a consolation prize and also because the gods was probably tired of Loki's bullshit by then.
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Back in 1989, at the tail end of the Cold War, can you guess who had the world's seventh-largest submarine fleet? If you don't already know, it's probably not someone who'd be among your first guesses - it was Pepsi. How did this happen? Had the cola wars reached DEFCON 1? Well, back in the days of the USSR, Pepsi had managed to secure quite a coup by becoming the sole supplier of imported cola drinks in the Soviet Union, since the Olympics in 1980 (which, having been boycotted by the USA, was a bit of an own goal publicity-wise). Anyhow, the way the USSR did business meant that Pepsi couldn't just sell the drinks, and take the roubles out of the country - they had to receive payment in Russian product - initially, mostly vodka, which is a fair enough trade for Pepsi. However, there was only so much vodka that they could sell in the USA, so opted to diversify their portfolio a bit when it came to goods received from Russia. Amongst the various things they took as payment was shipping, including 17 submarines, a cruiser, a frigate and a destroyer, that they then passed on to a company in Sweden for scrap recycling. Sure, they eventually disposed of them, but for the few days they had them, Pepsi possessed the world's seventh largest fleet of submarines. The president of Pepsi, Donald Kendall, told the National Security Adviser of USA: "We are disarming the USSR faster than you".
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Technocrat posted:The president of Pepsi, Donald Kendall, told the National Security Adviser of USA: "We are disarming the USSR faster than you".
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Alhazred posted:And because the way people are the codpieces became bigger and bigger. Both because, obviously, it implied that the wearer had a big dick and because it was a handy way to hide your syphilis. It occurs me that the guy may have been so hammered that was trying to wear a wineglass and drink out of a codpiece, and that got reported as "washing his dick in a wineglass".
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Alhazred posted:In archaeological circles these pendants has been the source of some controversy: it's my (very loose) understanding that at some point when certain pagan groups were undergoing relatively peaceful christianization via missionaries that some scholars argue that there was a transitional period where the hammer motif was morphing into a cross - the hammer wasn''t just exclusive to thor or vikings but figured into other european pantheons too - where the figure of Christ was also initially adopted as a sort of philosopher-warrior king who on the one hand taught mercy, humility, charity, etc but on the other hand scourged the unrighteous and personally, violently undertook the harrowing of hell a la doomguy when he was dead for 3 days; that interpretation would later finalize into something much more orthodox later on i can't give any more detail than that because it was in a documentary i watched years ago and it may only apply to certain pendants that look even more unusual than that
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hard counter posted:it's my (very loose) understanding that at some point when certain pagan groups were undergoing relatively peaceful christianization via missionaries that some scholars argue that there was a transitional period where the hammer motif was morphing into a cross - the hammer wasn''t just exclusive to thor or vikings but figured into other european pantheons too - where the figure of Christ was also initially adopted as a sort of philosopher-warrior king who on the one hand taught mercy, humility, charity, etc but on the other hand scourged the unrighteous and personally, violently undertook the harrowing of hell a la doomguy when he was dead for 3 days; that interpretation would later finalize into something much more orthodox later on Christ: Knee-Deep in the Damned is a new one on me but sounds pretty intriguing.
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syscall girl posted:Christ: Knee-Deep in the Damned is a new one on me but sounds pretty intriguing. The idea is that he took that time to bring all the formerly-damned Old Testament figures back to Heaven because were only there because they predated Christ. It was a major part of the whole Jesus story in the medieval conception of things though; no idea why it went out the window.
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Jesus Christ’s difficulty level: Hurt Me Plenty
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Yeah, it's called the Anastasis, the Byzantines in particular were all about it.
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syscall girl posted:Christ: Knee-Deep in the Damned is a new one on me but sounds pretty intriguing. i'm sure there were more lines of thinking that weren't included in the evidence presented in the documentary but the argument from the scholars who believe this was that there are depictions of Christ that are bizarrely swole and armed to the teeth, ready to do battle in hell for 3 straight days to break the curse of death forever, that were associated with these pagans during these transitional periods and that these depictions were falsely categorized as alternate ways of imaging odin/wodin/etc even tho they don't match any earlier depiction while also featuring strange new christian iconography i doubt this argument is widely accepted as of yet but as long as i'm not misremembering it's definitely what some scholars argue, it's certainly not a historical fun fact but it might be why some people were skeptical of certain hammer amulets Mister Olympus posted:The idea is that he took that time to bring all the formerly-damned Old Testament figures back to Heaven because were only there because they predated Christ. it's my (again shoddy) understanding that the details of Jesus' three days in hell isn't sourced enough for certain christian theologians who won't even include the line He descended into hell when reciting the apostle's catechism, going further ahead to comment on whether it was in humiliation or in victory or if it was to save all righteous pre-gospel people is probably going beyond what some people are comfortable with stating and maybe it fell out of favor for that reason e: i should also mention that iirc there are also issues with the language itself being unclear hard counter has a new favorite as of 23:08 on Oct 19, 2017 |
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Keru posted:Whatever cranks your hog.
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I can't speak for other faiths, but at least in Catholic churches around here the apostles creed is said during every mass with the line “[he] descended into the realm of death“, but otoh I've never heard anybody speaking or preaching about that bit in terms of the harrowing of hell. If asked, most people would probably think that it's nothing more than a wordily stated “he was dead, and rose again“
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Yeah, in Swedish Protestantism it's the same. Jesus descended into "dödsriket" ie the kingdom (or realm) of death. Then again, in old Norse the kingdom of death is "Hel", so... Also, funny thing: In the abrahamic religions, sprung from the dry and hot lands of the levant, hell is a place of eternal fire. In the norse faith, hell is a place of eternal cold and ice.
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Alkydere posted:To be fair...the story behind Thor's Hammer was that it wasn't exactly well made. Quite the opposite: the dwarves hosed up them loving up ended up making it awesome due to some fluke. He had to rub the end of it in order to make it grow. Should also be pointed out that Thor is a fertility god.
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Josef bugman posted:He had to rub the end of it in order to make it grow. Shame about his imperfect hammer.
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Mr. Sunshine posted:
In christianity hell is a place of eternal fire because Gehenna, the hebrew word for hell, was a place were children were sacrificed by fire and therefore considered to be cursed.
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It's in Dante's Inferno too - the gates of Hell are wide open because Jesus kicked them in, He took the Jewish prophets from Limbo, and all the way down in the Eighth Circle all the bridges over the Malebolge are still wrecked from the earthquake of Christ smashing his way through Hell.Gyro Zeppeli posted:Yeah, it's called the Anastasis, the Byzantines in particular were all about it.
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Byzantine posted:It's in Dante's Inferno too - the gates of Hell are wide open because Jesus kicked them in, He took the Jewish prophets from Limbo, and all the way down in the Eighth Circle all the bridges over the Malebolge are still wrecked from the earthquake of Christ smashing his way through Hell. lmao at the three wise men being like "hes too much. you notice how he dances when hes suposed to be dead?"
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I assume one of them is like, "Why did I give him incense? What use is incense for a baby?"
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What use is gold to a baby?
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