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WW1 is one of those things where I don't think straight-up documentary realism or such can ever adequately convey its horror, to properly do it justice you need you a painter like Otto Dix:
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Hardcore History's Blueprint for Armageddon does a good job detailing the horror of barb wire. It is basically immune to artillery shells.
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They just needed to carry a sample size of carpet around, throw that over the barbed wire and climb on over easy peasy! Ok I know it’s not always that easy but sometimes it is 
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For some reason I was surprised that Garrath didn't know hanging from the old barbed wire. As I heard it, it goes down the ranks where the officers do things like sleep, get drunk, etc. Then it ends with the private. The first and last verse go something like this. Hanging on the Old Barbed Wire posted:If you want to find the general
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I have a scar on my chest from walking into a barbed wire fence I couldn't see in the dark. It ruined my shirt too. 😕
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I'm going through the archives, and I just noticed Episode 63 is missing. Anyone know what episode that was/why it's gone?
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Binowru posted:I'm going through the archives, and I just noticed Episode 63 is missing. Anyone know what episode that was/why it's gone? They deleted a few because of "plagiarism"
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The missing episodes are still on their old site. Like http://thedollop.net/wp/episode-63-smollop/ Just enter the episode number in the search.
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Donnerberg posted:The missing episodes are still on their old site. Like http://thedollop.net/wp/episode-63-smollop/ that is... quite a website
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Previa_fun posted:SubSEEquent. He had a speech impediment as a kid. Was one of the words he said over and over and this was how it was pronounced to get over his impediment. He explained this on Facebook.
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LentThem posted:The part that gets rough for me is Dave not actually understanding anything he has in his script leading to situations where: I've noticed this too but those are often quotes from a long time ago and the language is confusing. Quote are quotes.
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dougdougdougdoug posted:He had a speech impediment as a kid. Was one of the words he said over and over and this was how it was pronounced to get over his impediment. He got over his speech impediment by mispronouncing a word?
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Snowy posted:He got over his speech impediment by mispronouncing a word? They probably wanted him to move his tongue in a certain way and didn't care about the word. This wasn't uncommon at the time.
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dougdougdougdoug posted:He had a speech impediment as a kid. Was one of the words he said over and over and this was how it was pronounced to get over his impediment. Yo I'm aware but thanks
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He's not a kid anymore. Arguably.
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Gareth thought a "firefight" included literal flames. 
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prefect posted:Gareth thought a "firefight" included literal flames. I also enjoyed a couple 2017 urbanites completely mystified by old time ranching practices. "But they were concerned about nature, right?"
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stealie72 posted:I also enjoyed a couple 2017 urbanites completely mystified by old time ranching practices. "But they were concerned about nature, right?" Yeah, somewhere along the line, Gareth decided the anti-wire people were doing it because it was more "natural". 
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Some interesting news about Uber today.BuzzFeed posted:Uber Accused Of Espionage, Bribery, Hacking, And More In Bombshell Letter https://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanmac/ric-jacobs-uber-letter-allegations-waymo?utm_term=.uypWqOr49#.fkzKpqBEM
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one question as a newer listener. Gareth always likes to joke about how serious hats used to be. I was wondering if anyone knows what episode that bit originally came from, since I don't really see one that makes it jump outBinowru posted:Some interesting news about Uber today. there is probably enough material since late May alone that would justify an Uber part 2 discovery for the Uber/Waymo case didn't start until a few weeks before the episode was done, around the same time that Travis Kalanick's mother drowned in a tragic boating accident which he used as cover to step down from running the company the lawsuit might be dead around now if the judge didn't get that letter at the end of discovery and ordered them back because he could not believe that any company could be as stupid as Uber
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Hats started as some serious business very early in the show, best to just start at the beginning and work through it all so the references make sense. Someone else might know better though.
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Straw Hat Riot is the big one, as I recall.
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Hats get mentioned here and there but yeah, Straw Hat Riot is the ep that really burns "hats were serious business" into Gareth's mind.
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i was like "straw hat riot wasn't an early episode???" but it's one 129 out of currently 306, so yeah, i guess that counts as early now, wow
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Episode 30 (The Taxidermist) laid some groundwork too, I think, with Gareth shocked at the ridiculous nature documentary scenes that were being put on hats.
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My question is, when did wearing a hat become a requirement?
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I could be wrong but I think they made the revelation about hats during the episode where a new bridge was built and everyone wanted to go walk on it, and in news articles about the crowded claustrophobic panic the kept drawing attention to how people were losing their hats in the chaos - it was given about as much significance as losing track of your family on the bridge.
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A distant second to the importance of hats is how much attention ship arrivals and departures used to get.
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LentThem posted:I could be wrong but I think they made the revelation about hats during the episode where a new bridge was built and everyone wanted to go walk on it, and in news articles about the crowded claustrophobic panic the kept drawing attention to how people were losing their hats in the chaos - it was given about as much significance as losing track of your family on the bridge. Yeah I think that was the Brooklyn bridge crushing episode. Was just looking for that one in reference to the hat thing.
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I love the hats in the taxidermist episode
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See also Mashers and Hatpins, in which we learn women used to stab catcallers with the giant spikes that were holding dead birds in place on their heads.
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Episode 232 - Breaking Glenn Burke was the first episode that ever invoked a real visceral response for me. I was crying by the end of the show. I wish Glenn could've been the openly gay, loving awesome baseball player he was always meant to be.
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Gone Fashing posted:Yeah I think that was the Brooklyn bridge crushing episode. Was just looking for that one in reference to the hat thing. There's also the Orange Catholic Riots, where it doesn't hit home for people how many people were just massacred until they see all their hats laid out. God, that's such a great episode.
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Gargamel Gibson posted:He's not a kid anymore. Imagine how peaceful and simple the world would be if people could easily get over things from childhood. But, as we've heard in endless episodes of The Dollop, that's not how life works.
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dougdougdougdoug posted:Imagine how peaceful and simple the world would be if people could easily get over things from childhood. Imagine a world where the Rube got that puppy
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Man, I love this podcast. History and comedy and (ultra-short-form?) improv(?) - turns out it's just my thing, and I'm not even that interested in American history (or at least I thought I wasn't). Discovered it about 3 weeks ago and have gone through about a hundred.
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http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-22522695 I recently saw this and all I can think of goddamn loving Burke and Wills.
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I'd be surprised if the dollop weren't already selling hats.
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They should be doing licensed taxidermy hats Ps happy new year
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