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Solice Kirsk posted:He ruined a name and facial hair style forever. Let's take them back from that monster! Have baby Adolf grow a Chaplin mustache. I think there's still babies being named Dolph, and if you're really committed you could try Æthelwulf, which is apparently the original English version of the name.
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pidan posted:I think there's still babies being named Dolph, and if you're really committed you could try Æthelwulf, which is apparently the original English version of the name. Yeah, nobody would assume the parents of the kid called Aethewulf were neo-Nazis.
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Say Nothing posted:Hitlerina is a good stripper name. Jew Producer is my favorite historical figure
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Alhazred posted:In ancient Egypt when the pharaoh's army was victorious they would cut of the dicks off the fallen enemy soldiers and present them to the pharaoh. The only Pharaoh who ordered this was Amenhotep II. They usually just cut off a hand.
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Any idea why this one Pharaoh gave that order?
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Sounds like he might have just been kind of a dick.
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Kassad posted:Any idea why this one Pharaoh gave that order? Because he believed in handouts
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It's a pretty stiff regulation if you ask me.
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Kassad posted:Any idea why this one Pharaoh gave that order? If you give them an inch...
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Probably he did it because he thought it would be badass and make everyone fear him, but instead everyone just wondered what he wanted them for? Then anytime he tried to intimidate anyone, they just told him to go suck a bag of dicks, "which we all know you have!".
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I dunno I think that's a pretty well intimidating move. I don't want my dick stuck in a bag, waiting to be sucked by some phar-ugh. I'm not confident he'd ever get around to me and so it's all just very anxiety inducing and depressing, you know?
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Hope they washed them first.
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Solice Kirsk posted:He ruined a name and facial hair style forever. Let's take them back from that monster! Have baby Adolf grow a Chaplin mustache. True, but that facial hair style was terrible and destined to an ignominious retiring.
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Solice Kirsk posted:If you give them an inch... then you're halfway in?
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funmanguy posted:then you're halfway in? 
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funmanguy posted:then you're halfway in? lol
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I think the official idea behind the dickchopping instead of hacking off a hand was 'cut off a hand and there wont be as many soldiers invading tommorow, cut off some dicks and there wont be any soldiers in fifteen years time.'
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The dicks were cut off dead soldiers, weren't they?
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Yeah, but it's a lot easier to survive a chopped-off hand.
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PMush Perfect posted:Yeah, but it's a lot easier to survive a chopped-off hand. idk i think youll bleed out faster from a dickchop than ahandchop just an idea
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I think you'll still be dead, if someone comes to chop off your hand or dick when you're dead. What kinda tool would ya'll use for such a task anyway? I'd go with a shaolin spade. Slam it down, walk to next, repeat.
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zidane13 posted:I think you'll still be dead, if someone comes to chop off your hand or dick when you're dead. Spork
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Nuclear War posted:Spork
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Nuclear War posted:Spork https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhfuuKiTcYQ
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zidane13 posted:I think you'll still be dead, if someone comes to chop off your hand or dick when you're dead. Do the ol' welching on a Scottish drug dealer method - hammer and chisel.
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King Doom posted:I think the official idea behind the dickchopping instead of hacking off a hand was 'cut off a hand and there wont be as many soldiers invading tommorow, cut off some dicks and there wont be any soldiers in fifteen years time.' Soldiers were paid depending on how many hands / dicks they brought in, it was easy to bring in left and right hands and inflate your numbers, but most men only have one dick.
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Iceatollah posted:most men only have one dick. I thought it was two. This is very unsettling.
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and it's easier and less messy than heads!
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your friend a dog posted:and it's easier and less messy than heads! Heads are very heavy, which is why i ancient China they would allegedly collect ears off the fallen, which is allegedly why the Chinese character for "fetch" is an ear next to a hand: 取 (ear 耳 left, hand 又 right, 耳 still means ear, 又 means something else nowadays). I'm not fully convinced that it's not the case some historian just saw the character and got inspired.
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pidan posted:Heads are very heavy, which is why i ancient China they would allegedly collect ears off the fallen, which is allegedly why the Chinese character for "fetch" is an ear next to a hand: 取 (ear 耳 left, hand 又 right, 耳 still means ear, 又 means something else nowadays). I'm p sure that's 90% of the 'meanings' behind asian characters
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Also relevant - Nose Tombs IIRC there was a ancient battle that was lost, or at least almost lost, when the winning army stopped fighting and started collecting trophies to make sure they got paid before they'd actually achieved victory, making it the losing army. Or something like that, I can't find anything via google. My memory is such a tease sometimes 
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Inescapable Duck posted:I'm p sure that's 90% of the 'meanings' behind asian characters Eh, not really. Since the discovery of the "oracle bones" early in the 20th century, we do have a lot of info on what pictographs the characters developed from. For example, 女 meaning woman doesn't really look like a woman at all, but when you look at the earliest version of the character, you can kind of see a kneeling woman. And so on. It's true that when you read anything about Chinese characters (or proverbs, habits, laws...) in western pop culture it's probably made up by westerners and you generally shouldn't believe it.
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pidan posted:Eh, not really. Since the discovery of the "oracle bones" early in the 20th century, we do have a lot of info on what pictographs the characters developed from. For example, 女 meaning woman doesn't really look like a woman at all, but when you look at the earliest version of the character, you can kind of see a kneeling woman. And so on. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%A5%B3#/media/File:%E5%A5%B3-oracle.svg That's pretty obviously a twerking woman with a ponytail.
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The Sausages posted:Also relevant - Nose Tombs I remember reading about a battle involving Romans who had a number of slaves fighting for them and had promised freedom to every one who could produce the head of an enemy. This caused some slaves to stop fighting in order to collect a head and the Roman commander reacted by stating that he would free them all if they won, in order to keep them fighting. Dunno if this every actually happened, but makes for a good story.
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pidan posted:Heads are very heavy, which is why i ancient China they would allegedly collect ears off the fallen, which is allegedly why the Chinese character for "fetch" is an ear next to a hand: 取 (ear 耳 left, hand 又 right, 耳 still means ear, 又 means something else nowadays). In ancient China you actually had to collect a certain number of heads in order to be promoted.
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Alhazred posted:In ancient China you actually had to collect a certain number of heads in order to be promoted. Of course, no-one said it had to be different heads each time. And thus began the legend of the Dragonballs...
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"Let's base our ranking in the military by how many body parts a solider can collect and lets have no oversight. I fail to see how this can go wrong."
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Some of those freed slaves were able to buy ships with the bodyparts they took, hence the phrase "cost an arm and a leg" not really
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Alhazred posted:In ancient China you actually had to collect a certain number of heads in order to be promoted. Hard to get ahead in those days...
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