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Mine gatow airport for coal! Someone page HeyGal and ask if they know anything about the 19 cows in the German strategic reserve. Suspect Bucket has a new favorite as of 15:02 on Aug 6, 2018 |
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Imagine being those cows......really makes you think
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# ? Aug 6, 2018 19:33 |
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I'm being banged by berlins zoophiles
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# ? Aug 6, 2018 20:34 |
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Krankenstyle posted:Aw boo it seemed that Kriegskuhe (war-cows) were mentioned in 1595 but it turns it's just google misreading Kriegsleut(h)e (war-people). Jamie Jeffers mentioned Ragnar Lodbrok had an encounter with them.
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# ? Aug 6, 2018 21:29 |
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Samovar posted:They were all executed for many reasons. That's a hell of an act
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# ? Aug 7, 2018 00:40 |
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Alhazred posted:Therapy cows are a thing. For a certain amount of money you can lay next to a cow for a couple of hours. Not since my mother retired, you can't.
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# ? Aug 7, 2018 00:55 |
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Meanwhile, in Deutschland: https://www.npr.org/2018/08/06/635911260/germany-turns-to-brown-coal-to-fill-its-energy-gap
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# ? Aug 7, 2018 01:16 |
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quote:Sergeant Stubby
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# ? Aug 7, 2018 08:26 |
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Kanine posted:
All my fat terrier does is eat, sleep, and lick his crotch
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# ? Aug 7, 2018 09:44 |
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TheHomerTax posted:All my fat terrier does is eat, sleep, and lick his crotch Please don’t dox me
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# ? Aug 7, 2018 10:14 |
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TheHomerTax posted:All my fat terrier does is eat, sleep, and lick his crotch So do most soldiers given the chance
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# ? Aug 7, 2018 11:11 |
Chillbro Baggins posted:Weren't there historically some pretty severe penalties for shorting the customers on bread? That's why a dozen donuts, if not packed flat in a rectangular tray/box, is still thirteen. Because the Romans would execute a baker for selling light or aldulterated loaves, so it became customary to throw in an extra one on every order just to make sure you were within the law.
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# ? Aug 8, 2018 10:32 |
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Czar Ivan Grozny is usually translated as "Ivan the Terrible" but a better translation would be "Awesome John"
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# ? Aug 9, 2018 00:23 |
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I also refuse to call Charlemagne anything else than "Big Chuck"
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# ? Aug 9, 2018 00:24 |
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Lewis "Sunny" Bourbon
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# ? Aug 9, 2018 06:54 |
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oily josh
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# ? Aug 9, 2018 07:08 |
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Lil' Lizzie
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# ? Aug 9, 2018 08:17 |
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The Old Vick
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# ? Aug 9, 2018 08:29 |
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Adolf Hitler e: wait, poo poo
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# ? Aug 9, 2018 08:38 |
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Let's not go to far into names, otherwise mine's The Laurentian Friend of Horse of the Village Pasture. drat that loving Gaelic arsehole a thousand years ago who just went with whatever shithole he lived next to, as his name.
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# ? Aug 9, 2018 08:55 |
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Like most peoples, Danes originally only had one name, their given. Quickly, it became necessary to disambiguate, and so various bynames came around (see Harald Bluetooth, Ragnar Lodbrok, Sweyn Forkbeard, etc). A common byname was simply the patronymic (Ragnarsson for son of Ragnar), but in many cases that wasn't enough so a second byname was needed: Perhaps Jens Hansen Smed (smith, occupational) or Jens Hansen Søndergaard (south-farm, geographic) or Jens Hansen Krog (crook/hook, perhaps he was crooked/stooped or a fisherman?). Complicating things, the same person could have several different bynames over the course of their life. Some were inherited, otheres were not. This was problematic for the administration, and so a series of name laws beginning 1828 (1771 in the Danish-controlled duchies Schleswig-Holstein) tried to move the Danish population to "proper" inherited surnames. However, the laws were unclear and badly implemented, causing almost everyone to lose their (inherited) byname and instead retain a now frozen patronymic. Hansen was no longer the son of Hans (except in some hold-out parishes that refused the laws and kept to the old traditions at least up until the 1880s). A commission was appointed in 1898 to improve the situation, and the 1904 name law followed virtually all their recommendations, chiefly that anyone for a modest fee could reclaim a lost byname if they could prove it had been used by their ancestors (easily done with a confirmed transcript of the parish register from the priest). Subsequent laws have strengthened this, most recently in 2006. Since then, the usage of frozen patronymics has steadily declined (66% in 1986, 48% in 2016). Jensen, the most common surname since before 1900, was finally knocked off the top spot in 2015: Number of persons with patronymic: Still a ways to go, though it's looking up: Percentage of population with a patronymic, by age: I'm guessing the recent drop in the 20-30 cohort is that marrying couples will tend to drop their patronymics and use a combination of their middle-/surnames together. Graphs from statistics bureau: https://www.dst.dk/da/statistik/nyt/NytHtml?cid=20875 Carthag Tuek has a new favorite as of 09:40 on Aug 9, 2018 |
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Hannibal gave alcohol to his war elephants to embolden them for battle.
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# ? Aug 13, 2018 03:24 |
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Makes sense given historically war elephants have big downsides in that they tend to panic and rampage among your own troops when they actually get hurt, iirc.
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# ? Aug 13, 2018 07:46 |
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Getting them drunk seems like it would remedy that problem
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# ? Aug 13, 2018 09:06 |
Seems to me that drunk elephants would create more problems than they would solve.
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# ? Aug 13, 2018 14:03 |
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Alhazred posted:Seems to me that drunk elephants would create more problems than they would solve. All the extra pink ones running around will do that.
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# ? Aug 13, 2018 14:24 |
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I think we're meant to be looking at merely buzzed elephants, not full on ragers. Does remind me that wild elephants are known to binge drink when they realise humans have alcohol stores.
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# ? Aug 13, 2018 14:29 |
Do drunk elephants see pink humans?
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# ? Aug 13, 2018 14:35 |
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A movie just came out about him. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5314190/
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# ? Aug 13, 2018 14:41 |
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Though it seems moot given iirc only one of Hannibal's elephants survived the Alps crossing. Seems like elephants in warfare were mostly used effectively as beasts of burden before trucks were invented.
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# ? Aug 13, 2018 14:52 |
Speaking of Hannibal and the alps: According to one story he became tired of his men complaining about how dangerous the crossing was. He put his staff in the ground to prove it was perfectly sane, this causes an avalanche which killed half of his army.
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# ? Aug 13, 2018 15:20 |
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chitoryu12 posted:Do drunk elephants see pink humans? Mostly they drink so they can forget about pink humans
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# ? Aug 13, 2018 18:46 |
chitoryu12 posted:Do drunk elephants see pink humans?
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# ? Aug 13, 2018 18:50 |
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That sequence is the reason Dumbo terrified me as a kid.
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# ? Aug 13, 2018 18:54 |
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It's also one of the few reasons to watch it as an adult.
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# ? Aug 14, 2018 03:31 |
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It's no heffalumps and woozles.
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# ? Aug 14, 2018 05:49 |
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Ancient Egyptians had their own home pregnancy test. They tied a very fine thread around the womans neck. If she got pregnant, her enlarged thyroid would make her neck thicker and break the thread.
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# ? Aug 15, 2018 02:19 |
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ChocNitty posted:Ancient Egyptians had their own home pregnancy test. They tied a very fine thread around the womans neck. If she got pregnant, her enlarged thyroid would make her neck thicker and break the thread. Surely there must be a better way
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pidan posted:Surely there must be a better way For a very long time the best pregnancy test was to piss on frogs.
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