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I bought some long pepper after the thread mentioned it. It tastes good in its own way, but it’s not interchangeable with black pepper. I certainly wouldn’t be happy if I had paid a king’s ransom for it. Now I’m doubting the idea that asafoetida really tastes anything like silphium.  I believe that black pepper and long pepper were considered more interchangeable that asafoetida and silphium—asafoetida was always the poor man’s version. Platystemon fucked around with this message at 10:30 on Aug 30, 2019 |
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Platystemon posted:
This sounds like a ye olden prank.
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maps are stored on the balls
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Agean90 posted:maps are stored on the balls Maps stored on the balls are called globes, right? 🤔
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Just call me Restitutor Orbis
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Platystemon posted:I bought some long pepper after the thread mentioned it. Looking forward to the day they find some silphium seeds and bring it back. Gotta be some frozen peeps in the alps with a stash or something.
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If science only allowed us to bring back Triceratops or Silphium, who would y'all choose?
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Why not both? All hail the terrible lizard abortion cattle!
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:If science only allowed us to bring back Triceratops or Silphium, who would y'all choose? why is this even a question? fuckin' dinosaurs cavalry, man.
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sullat posted:why is this even a question? fuckin' dinosaurs cavalry, man. Maybe we should get the rhino cavalry working first, they’re smaller
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Is a thagomizer good for breaking a phalanx? 
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fishmech posted:Is a thagomizer good for breaking a phalanx? Actually, the great advantage of the pre-Marian legion over the phalanx was its greater flexibility enabling it to maintain battle order in the face of diadochan armored T. rex shock troops
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Platystemon posted:Now I’m doubting the idea that asafoetida really tastes anything like silphium. Be consoled by that you can now make kick rear end dhaal and tell people: yes it does have the devil's poo poo in it.
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sullat posted:why is this even a question? fuckin' dinosaurs cavalry, man. Yeah, it's not like we don't already have other contraception methods.
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Goons don't need contraception.
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The desirability of silphium probably had as much to do with its scarcity as with its taste. Sort of like how shark fin soup is not very good when judged solely on its flavor, and its desirability is based largely on conspicuous consumption.
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Grand Fromage posted:Goons don't need contraception. But they need triceratops.
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fishmech posted:Is a thagomizer good for breaking a phalanx? No one said anything about stegos. 
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You didn't really get dinosaur-mounted heavy cavalry till after the development of the stirrup, though. https://d188rgcu4zozwl.cloudfront.net/content/B00S52BU5Y/resources/973471950
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skasion posted:Maybe we should get the rhino cavalry working first, they’re smaller I honestly wonder I anyone actually considered this.
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Alhazred posted:I honestly wonder I anyone actually considered this. I assume whoever did ended up as a moist patch of ground. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/watch-rhino-attacks-zookeeper-s-car-germany-no-one-was-n1047221 Per wikipedia: "It is unsubstantiated that rhinoceros were used for war functions. By analyzing Albrecht Dürer's famous 1515 woodcut, it is possible that the liberties taken with the rhino's design[clarification needed] were in fact designs for a suit of armour created for the rhinoceros's fight in Portugal.[10] However, rhinos' apparently 'thick' or 'plated' skin is actually very sensitive and the animals have poor eyesight, heavily limiting their ability to run in a specific direction. Their overly aggressive nature would make them unsuitable for use in mounted combat." Edit: This also led me to the entertaining story of Clara the Rhino - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_(rhinoceros) CleverHans fucked around with this message at 03:41 on Sep 1, 2019 |
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CleverHans posted:I assume whoever did ended up as a moist patch of ground. 
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CleverHans posted:Edit: This also led me to the entertaining story of Clara the Rhino - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_(rhinoceros) i hope she was happy edit: https://imgur.com/gallery/WufzaiX HEY GUNS fucked around with this message at 07:50 on Sep 1, 2019 |
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:If science only allowed us to bring back Triceratops or Silphium, who would y'all choose? Triceratops It’s a two‐for‐one deal because you can eat triceratops.
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Triceratops roast skewered on its own horns. Tasty.
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For reals tho I don't want triceratops I want dwarf miniature wooly mammoth as domesticated housepets
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:For reals tho I don't want triceratops Tiny little dudes trumpeting around the house, leaving hair everywhere
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:For reals tho I don't want triceratops You mean mimmoths.
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Zopotantor posted:You mean mimmoths. I keep forgetting that that's still running
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Are they still in a large fortified structure with no real means of escape?
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House Hippos are real and I will not be convinced otherwise.
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Grand Fromage posted:Goons don't need contraception. Conversely, many goons are the people who need contraception the most.
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I have been told that the etymology of the Latin juglans (walnut) is basically “Jupiter’s dickhead”. However, when I look up the etymology of glans, dictionaries suggest it’s “acorn”. So a walnut would just be a “Jupiter acorn” because they’re really big acorns. So which is it? Were the Romans thinking of literal or figurative acorns when they named walnuts? Do we have any way of knowing?
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I don't know and it probably doesn't have anything to do with it, but in Dutch 'eikel' means both acorn and dickhead.
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Platystemon posted:I have been told that the etymology of the Latin juglans (walnut) is basically “Jupiter’s dickhead”. According to one etymological dictionary juglans is probably a calque of Greek dios balanos, Zeus' acorn and Greek for chestnut. Seems like coincidence to me that that walnuts were given this name and glans also came to refer to the glans penis. I'd guess the Romans also borrowed that meaning for glans from balanos. But why the chestnut has such a grand name in Greek I don't know.
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So it's just a bunch of balanos.
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aphid_licker posted:You've schooled me on German before so don't take this as me laying down the law here but the only meaning for Erdapfel I'm aware of is potato Ever heard of a "kartoffel"?
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Groda posted:Ever heard of a "kartoffel"?
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There's a baked potato chain in Germany called Erdapfel, and their Hamburg location is the closest veg*n restaurant to Hamburg HBF so I ate there twice when changing trains this summer. This has been my Erdapfel anecdote
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traveling in germany is an endless round of not understanding anyone except the people in the first place you came to when you moved to germany
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