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Edgar Allen Ho posted:The oldest woman ever reportedly drank a bottle of wine every day and chain smoked. Genetics, like the french, are weird. She didn't start smoking until she was in her 70's. I think the entire bottle of wine every day might be a myth but she did eat like 2 pounds of chocolate a day. Real chocolate, though; not this imitation crap America thinks is chocolate. She also stayed active and rode her bike a lot until she was like 110. She also reported that she was "immune to stress" and the theory is that that was part of why she lived as long as she did. Pretty much nothing got to her ever and we all know exercise is healthy so yeah.
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Gonna quit my stressful job and drink wine all day! My health comes first.
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Solice Kirsk posted:Who the hell gets into D&D thinking they're gonna get laid? What kind of weird bizzaro world are your from?!
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CoolCab posted:Was Japanese codebreaking that bad that they couldn't figure out a simple substitution cypher? Have him listen to a lot of talking, write it down, correlate it to facts you already know - if you're routinely hearing the word for "fish" before an assault, maybe fish is something assault related. Wasn't Japanese military intelligence like, particularly inept? In the typical WW2 Japan fashion of the Army and Navy loving hating each other and their respective intelligence branches never functionally working together? Seriously reading about the Japanese Army/Navy rivalry it's absurd how much they actively undermined each other. Like "we're just going to conscript your most important dockworkers into the army out of spite because we can" was a thing during the war. But it was a technical improvement over outright interbranch assassinations that happened in the 30s. Mr Luxury Yacht has a new favorite as of 05:44 on Mar 6, 2018 |
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ToxicSlurpee posted:She didn't start smoking until she was in her 70's. I think the entire bottle of wine every day might be a myth but she did eat like 2 pounds of chocolate a day. Real chocolate, though; not this imitation crap America thinks is chocolate. If she had eaten two pounds of chocolate a day, she would have had to weight like 500 pounds.
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Solice Kirsk posted:Who the hell gets into D&D thinking they're gonna get laid? What kind of weird bizzaro world are your from?!
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NorgLyle posted:In the early 90s when I was in high school (Jesus I'm old), there was a D&D style game about Vampires. It was wildly popular and attracted all kinds of horny nerds despite a near complete lack of +3 Swords or Wands of Wonder. It was super easy to get laid going to the LARP (Live Action Roleplays) sessions and being even slightly clean with a decent shirt.
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Vampire: The Masquerade? That's still going. Pretty much the same as ever.
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See, I didn't get into D&D stuff until I was out of high school. I wasted my high school life being in industrial bands and sleeping with cheerleaders.  I do love playing stupid D&D stuff now though. Every year one of my friends throws a big "International Table Top Day" party and it's tons of fun.
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steinrokkan posted:If she had eaten two pounds of chocolate a day, she would have had to weight like 500 pounds. Not if it was 70-80 % cocoa, which is pretty common in Europe
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Angrymog posted:Not if it was 70-80 % cocoa, which is pretty common in Europe Doesn't matter, it would still be like 5000 calories.
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Mar 6, 2018 14:17
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steinrokkan posted:Doesn't matter, it would still be like 5000 calories. 1kg of cocoa is 2280 kcal.
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Mar 6, 2018 14:23
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A 90% chocolate bar isn't made of 90% cocoa powder. That would just fall apart and choke you to death. The cocoa portion includes cocoa butter and other crap as well. http://www.myfitnesspal.com/food/calories/lindt-excellence-90-cacao-supreme-dark-chocolate-1-square-119526975 steinrokkan has a new favorite as of 14:30 on Mar 6, 2018 |
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Mar 6, 2018 14:25
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No, just a frame of reference because this seems like an extremely strange hill for you to die on.
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You shouldn't have posted if you didn't want a reply. Anyway, the amount of calories in a chocolate bar has very little to do with the amount of calories in cocoa powder.
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:No, just a frame of reference because this seems like an extremely strange hill for you to die on. Maybe, but he won't die on that hill for like another 95 years.
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No it's like there's this nice discussion about the oldest living person that's probably mostly hyperbole and he comes in with a complete derail "NUH HUH 2 POUNDS WOULD MAKE HER LIKE 500 POUNDS"  And then retroactively editing posts to keep defending this stupid loving anecdote.Keep defending that hill, dude.
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:No it's like there's this nice discussion about the oldest living person that's probably mostly hyperbole and he comes in with a complete derail "NUH HUH 2 POUNDS WOULD MAKE HER LIKE 500 POUNDS" I think I will.
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Or maybe just look it up? Jeanne Calment did apparently eat a lot of chocolate - up to 2 pounds a week, which is quite a lot of chocolate. Not 2 pounds a day, which is vast amount of chocolate.
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I like that this thread got this far before anyone thought the mention the late lady's name. Here is a fun fact: she met Vincent van Gough in her youth and considered him to be a bit of a douche.
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i just liked the implication that the chocolate was healthy, because it wasn't american chocolate
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Alaois posted:i just liked the implication that the chocolate was healthy, because it wasn't american chocolate Are you implying that American chocolate IS healthy? Because it's not. At all. Any of it. But I still love it.
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TapTheForwardAssist posted:Hard to beat Tsutomu Yamaguchi: he was in Hiroshima in 1945 on a business trip, was about to leave from the train station but realized he'd forgotten his travel papers back at his office. He ended up being 3km away from Ground Zero when the nuke dropped, was wounded and spent the night in an air-raid shelter. The next day he made a dash for safety back to his hometown... which happened to be Nagasaki. So three days later he was back at work, telling his boss the crazy thing that happened, when the US dropped the second nuke, coincidentally also 3km from his office. I like how he was at work describing how a single bomb had just wiped out a city, and his boss had a go at him for being "crazy". I bet he was at least a little bit smug, pointing out the window and saying "Yeah, see that? Yeah." before making GBS threads himself in terror of the most horrifying thing imaginable. Slightly related, I can't seem to find it now but I vaguely remember one of the leaked text messages during the 9/11 attacks where a guy in the WTC was texting his boss (who was elsewhere in the country) saying [paraphrased] "I told you I didn't want to loving work in NYC, you can kiss my rear end in hell" or something like that.
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That reminds me of Rick Rescorla, a disaster/security manager who worked in one of the towers. He constantly had employees of the floors he was in charge of practice disaster drills, and was convinced the WTC would be targeted by a terror attack (and, in fact, was hired after the original parking garage bombing). He was one of those overbearing, forceful "douchebags" who would make office workers practice escape drills for years while working as a security consultant and nobody liked him, until on 9/11 when he led 2,700 people out and died when he went back to look for stragglers.quote:When a Port Authority announcement came over the P.A. system urging people to stay at their desks, Rescorla ignored the announcement, grabbed his bullhorn, walkie-talkie, and cell phone, and began systematically ordering Morgan Stanley employees to evacuate, including the 1,000 employees in WTC 5. He directed people down a stairwell from the 44th floor, continuing to calm employees after the building lurched violently following the crash of United Airlines Flight 175 38 floors above into Tower 2 at 9:03 A.M. Morgan Stanley executive Bill McMahon stated that even a group of 250 people visiting the offices for a stockbroker training class knew what to do because they had been shown the nearest stairway.
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Trabant posted:Motherfucker, take some sick leave. He credits the first bombing with saving his family because their home in Nagasaki was destroyed but they were out getting him more medical supplies for his wounds from Hiroshima when it hit. Also his superior was specifically in the middle of telling him that the story of a city-destroying bomb was a load of bullshit when the second one went off, and he was unharmed except for all of his bandages being blown off.
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anonumos posted:Are you implying that American chocolate IS healthy? Because it's not. At all. Any of it. But I still love it. no you loving dip, no chocolate is healthy
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:
Checks out. van Gogh was an rear end in a top hat.
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Tasteful Dickpic posted:Checks out. van Gogh was an rear end in a top hat. The fucker only ever half listened to anyone.
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Tasteful Dickpic posted:Checks out. van Gogh was an rear end in a top hat. my van gogh misspelling reminds me that I misspelled my fuckin' username fun fact: it should be allan ho
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You're the most famous author from Balmora!
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:my van gogh misspelling reminds me that I misspelled my fuckin' username (shakes head disappointingly)
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Going back to my last Stasi post: I found out that the BStU, i.e. the federal agency in Germany tasked with keeping, reconstructing and researching what's left of the Stasi archives, also offers some interesting stuff on its homepage: https://www.stasi-mediathek.de/medien/beobachtung-einer-der-spionage-verdaechtigen-ehemaligen-ddr-buergerin/ Surveillance footage of a woman in East Berlin, early 1970s. The woman in question used to live in the GDR before legally emigrating to West Germany. She would frequently return, visiting family and friends who had stayed. The Stasi was afraid that she might have been spying for the West German BND (the only reason for this being her somewhat frequent trips to the GDR) and would observe her every move during her visits. Only after three years of intense surveillance the Stasi higher-ups decided that there was no sign whatsoever that the woman was a spy and stopped the operation. https://www.stasi-mediathek.de/medien/mfs-schulungsfilm-revisor-ungesetzliche-verbindungsaufnahme/ A training video made in 1984 for internal Stasi use. It depicts the surveillance operation of Paul Bento, a GDR citizen who was given the codename "Revisor" by the Stasi. Bento had been born in 1921 in Stettin/Szczecin and was working as a clerk in East Berlin. In his free time he wrote poems and a utopian novel, much of it subtly and not-so-subtly critical of the GDR (and also pretty badly written, tbh). In 1983, he tried to get his novel published in West Germany, after every GDR publisher he had asked sending the manuscript back. When the Stasi got wind of this, they quickly concluded that Bento must be up to no good and started an extensive surveillance operation. Bento was arrested in 1984 but let go soon afterwards, when even the Stasi had to concede that he hadn't actually violated any law. The training video was made before Bento's acquittal and consists of a Stasi agent describing the case, surveillance footage of Bento leaving his house, footage of two Stasi agents breaking into his flat and searching it for clues and finally footage of Bento being arrested. https://www.stasi-mediathek.de/medien/uebungen-in-nahkampf-und-selbstverteidigung/ And finally this mysterious and weird video. It mostly shows a bunch of masked guys training for hand-to-hand combat and was presumably shot in an (unknown) Middle Eastern city, probably in the 70s or 80s. Nothing more is known about it, though I have to say that the guy seen from 1:18 onward has some pretty  movese: If you can read German, those worksheets (part one, two and three) made for students by the BStU about the Bento case are well worth a read. The second one also shows additional photos made during surveillance and when the Stasi broke into his flat. System Metternich has a new favorite as of 21:25 on Mar 6, 2018 |
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So, I found a article detailing the utterly terrible medical practices of a forgotten founding father. It's worth a read to see one doctor's stubbornness and inability to see the obvious. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1312212/ quote:Benjamin Rush has been hailed as “the American Sydenham,” “the Pennsylvania Hippocrates,” the “father of modern psychiatry,” and the founder of American medicine. The American Medical Association erected a statue of him in Washington, DC, the only physician so honored. A medical school is named after him. He was a prolific and facile writer and a very influential teacher. Yet, the only enduring mark he has left on the history of American medicine is his embarrassing, obdurate, messianic insistence, in the face of all factual evidence to the contrary, on the curative powers of heroic depletion therapy. Rush is one of the more interesting founders due to his eccentricities. Modern right-wingers like to claim him because he was likely the only one who believed the the US was "a Christian nation" and divinely inspired but his anti-war, and anti-capital punishment stances along with his rejection of Hell are completely at odds with modern American 'Christianity'.
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Well today I learned the other meaning of facile! But wow he sounds like a complete madman, bloodletting 100 patients a day. "Rush estimated that the average person contained 25 pounds of blood and recommended that up to 80% be removed." An adult body actually contains less than half that amount 
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I like that this thread got this far before anyone thought the mention the late lady's name.
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Tumblr of scotch posted:She also said he was ugly and reeked of alcohol. dang, I'd be 3 for 3 if i knew how to paint Historical fun fact: The Holy Roman Empire was in fact holy, Roman, and an empire.
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Grand Prize Winner posted:The Holy Roman Empire was in fact holy, Roman, and an empire. gently caress you say?
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Grand Prize Winner posted:dang, I'd be 3 for 3 if i knew how to paint drat, I knew my professors always lied to me
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Grand Prize Winner posted:The Holy Roman Empire was in fact holy, Roman, and an empire. Sounds like we need to have us a Thirty Years War to settle this.
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