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what do y’all think about the askhistorians subreddit
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Sep 27, 2019 23:46
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THS posted:what do y’all think about the askhistorians subreddit That's afaik by far the largest subreddit that's good. My only complaint would be the number of high-tier responders who seem to be mostly focused on surface-level military history I haven't been on reddit for a couple years though
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Sep 28, 2019 02:21
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Plutonis posted:I liked Umberto Eco's book Baudolino that gives an insane murder mystery explanation to why an experienced swimmer like Fred somehow died on such a lovely river Just read that recently based on some goon's recommendation, a pro pro read.
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Sep 28, 2019 03:55
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Grevling posted:Just read that recently based on some goon's recommendation, a pro pro read. Eco is as good an author as he was a social commentator ie very.
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Sep 28, 2019 05:13
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Flavius Aetass posted:responders who seem to be mostly focused on surface-level military history thats like 90 percent of reddit but if they aren't actually nazis cut them some slack anyone of us terminally online freaks could have gotten trapped in pedantic milhistory hell
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Sep 28, 2019 05:36
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THS posted:what do y’all think about the askhistorians subreddit Mr. Dick only stumbled into it once. It's not terrible but his experience did consist of a bunch of post about pederasty in the Socratic dialogs written by people who had never read Aristophanes or, likely, any of the dialogues outside of The Apology. Take it with a grain of salt, it's definitely good by reddit standards.
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Sep 28, 2019 06:00
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Mr. Dick posted:Mr. Dick only stumbled into it once. It's not terrible but his experience did consist of a bunch of post about pederasty in the Socratic dialogs written by people who had never read Aristophanes or, likely, any of the dialogues outside of The Apology. why are you referring to yourself in the third person
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Sep 28, 2019 06:06
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he always does that
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Sep 28, 2019 06:08
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THS posted:why are you referring to yourself in the third person Because the internet isn't real. It seems to deeply, instinctually and profoundly bother those who are so deluded that they cannot fathom that the internet is not real.
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Sep 28, 2019 06:34
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Mr. Dick posted:Because the internet isn't real. It seems to deeply, instinctually and profoundly bother those who are so deluded that they cannot fathom that the internet is not real. you post like you're huffing your own farts 24/7 which may also be a factor
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Sep 28, 2019 06:43
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The amoxicillin is making them exceptionally rancid.
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Sep 28, 2019 06:47
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https://twitter.com/TheTattooedProf/status/1176851459905871872
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Sep 28, 2019 08:53
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i took a seminar on incas for my professional development and a black lady in the group was using alien pyramid theory to advance her beliefs that the white race had stolen and covered up the interstellar legacy of ancient africa and south america. it made the nat hist museum guys eyes bug out and i told her that i believed her so she felt better about getting shut down by another white gatekeeper
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Sep 28, 2019 15:30
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Real hurthling! posted:salve. Ecce in pictura est puella romana, nomine Cornelia. Cornelia est laetae puella
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Sep 28, 2019 15:43
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Mr. Dick posted:Take it with a grain of salt, it's definitely good by reddit standards. That's damning by faint praise if I ever saw it.
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Sep 28, 2019 16:17
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ikanreed posted:Ecce in pictura est puella romana, nomine Cornelia. laeta laetae is like of/to the happy girl or a plural. also spoiler alert but cornelia and her fam spend most of the year stuck in a ditch waiting for help while their bougie parents have an anxiety attack about entering a low brow rest stop. #ecceromani1thoughts
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Sep 28, 2019 16:30
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Real hurthling! posted:i took a seminar on incas for my professional development and a black lady in the group was using alien pyramid theory to advance her beliefs that the white race had stolen and covered up the interstellar legacy of ancient africa and south america. lmao nice, solidarity
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Sep 28, 2019 16:49
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Captain_Maclaine posted:That's damning by faint praise if I ever saw it. Yes and no. Reddit's so loving normal that it's weird. There's 0 gate keeping, but there's also a massive user base. It's like how 90% of any medium or genre is utter garbage and the rest is some degree of good or great, it's that in forum form. Or like how if a million monkeys are working keyboards, eventually one of them will type up a poo poo post about working at a motel and one of the regulars dildoing his rear end with a sauve bottle mounted on a bed spring.
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Sep 28, 2019 18:01
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https://twitter.com/BillHolohanSolr/status/1177631604186996737 https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/railroad-gauge-chariots/ uber_stoat has issued a correction as of 20:38 on Sep 28, 2019 |
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Sep 28, 2019 20:36
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uber_stoat posted:https://twitter.com/BillHolohanSolr/status/1177631604186996737 Roman war chariots in England, right 
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Sep 28, 2019 21:06
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the chariot was obsolete in war long before rome came to britannia and caesar thinks its extremely interesting that britannii still used them at the time of his invasion, devoting an entire chapter to describing them in motion and their general strategy on the field while comparing them to sporting chariots the Romans were more familiar with. the chariot becomes useless as soon as you level up horse breeding enough cause a cavalry unit is much more agile and effective and deadly the ruts would have been from military wagons, plaustri et al. the spacing would certainly have been standardized though cause if you aint in the rut your wheels arent gonna last long
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Sep 29, 2019 05:16
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also because chariots are loving expensive compared to tack
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Sep 29, 2019 05:21
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Real hurthling! posted:i took a seminar on incas for my professional development and a black lady in the group was using alien pyramid theory to advance her beliefs that the white race had stolen and covered up the interstellar legacy of ancient africa and south america. i mean several incan emperors were named tupac so...
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Sep 29, 2019 06:35
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Real hurthling! posted:the chariot was obsolete in war long before rome came to britannia and caesar thinks its extremely interesting that britannii still used them at the time of his invasion, devoting an entire chapter to describing them in motion and their general strategy on the field while comparing them to sporting chariots the Romans were more familiar with. if the standard widths of the roads came from Roman military wagons why isn't the British rail gauge the same as the rest of ex-Roman Europe  besides the fact the story is bullshit I mean
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Sep 29, 2019 07:05
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continental European railway gauge is based on the dimensions of napoleon's artillery caissons this is true and i will not be taking questions, thank you
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Sep 29, 2019 10:17
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I've been reading Pantheon by Hamish Steele and it's a lot of fun: 
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Sep 29, 2019 10:24
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this seems more appropriate for cspam:
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Sep 29, 2019 11:19
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Plutonis posted:I liked Umberto Eco's book Baudolino that gives an insane murder mystery explanation to why an experienced swimmer like Fred somehow died on such a lovely river Sounds like it's something I'd like and other people have said it's good too. Thanks!
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Sep 29, 2019 11:31
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Plutonis posted:I liked Umberto Eco's book Baudolino that gives an insane murder mystery explanation to why an experienced swimmer like Fred somehow died on such a lovely river I'm reading this now because of this thread. Man I gotta tell you it oscillates wildly between "this is cool" and "this is the Hardy boys eating weed butter" (literally) levels of pap. E: also the 'sex scene' is...ooh la la an open mouth kiss! It was almost too risque for me to handle.
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Sep 29, 2019 12:48
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Alhazred posted:I've been reading Pantheon by Hamish Steele and it's a lot of fun: Doctor Jeep posted:this seems more appropriate for cspam: Placing a hold on this at the library
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Sep 29, 2019 13:57
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Dalael posted:Best place to ask would be the real ancient history thread: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3486446 ive been meaning to ask actually this thread is great and all but cspams gimmick is just having better versions of threads in other forums and uh the ask tell rome thread seems fine so why does this one even exist i guess it does have one flaw namely that every so often theres a derail about bizarre racist asian stereotypes and every time that happens i want to yell at everyone to shut the gently caress up korean people dont consider headlights to be bad luck and thats such a stupid idea i dont even have a clue where it could have come from let alone why anyone would repeat it but im still a few years behind so i cant thats a pretty specific problem that only really applies to me though
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Sep 29, 2019 14:19
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Doctor Jeep posted:this seems more appropriate for cspam:
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Sep 29, 2019 21:12
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So, the Cucuteni–Trypillia culture is cool and underrated I think. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cucuteni%96Trypillia_culture They were egalitarian Neolithic dudes in ~Ukraine that had maybe the biggest cities in the world for the time. The archaeological site at Maidanetske dates from 3700-3600 BC with population estimates of up to 46,000 inhabitants. They were kinda the European version of Sumer but on the other side of Turkey/Catalhoyuk. Ratios and Tendency has issued a correction as of 23:28 on Sep 29, 2019 |
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Sep 29, 2019 23:24
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Ratios and Tendency posted:So, the Cucuteni–Trypillia culture is cool and underrated I think. I think your link might be broken
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Oct 21, 2019 18:24
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Dreddout posted:I think your link might be broken Edit - tried to repost a fixed link, it didn't work? A google search for Cucuteni–Trypillia culture brings up the article.
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Oct 21, 2019 18:33
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An Abderite is dreaming that he is selling a pig and he is asking 100 denarii for it. Someone is offering 50 but he won’t take it. At that point, he wakes up. Then keeping his eyes shut, he holds out his hands and says ‘Oh well, OK, give me the 50’.
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Oct 21, 2019 18:43
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lol
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Oct 21, 2019 19:36
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loving dipshit abderites
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Oct 21, 2019 19:37
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I think Caligula had irony poisoning and used the horse to mock how bad the senators were but the dipshit historian senators wrote him straight, unaware that he was both “on one” and “doing a bit.”
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Oct 21, 2019 20:00
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This is correct imo
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Oct 21, 2019 20:21
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