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Edgar Allen Ho posted:There is a reason the ancestors of the feral hogs lived on and the decadent megafauna did not That’s true. Hogs worry me more than black bears, but less than cougars and grizzlies (where present).
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Speaking of hogs, until at least the 1700s they'd just be gelded & branded and left running around the woods in Denmark. The owner would pay a fee to the king for this usage of the forest. Dunno how much time they spent finding them when it was time for butchering lol.
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Krankenstyle posted:otoh wolves are back in Denmark which is p badass Ulver i myren?
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Platystemon posted:That’s true. Why are you worried about cougars? Just make sure you have a wine supply.
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Alhazred posted:Ulver i myren? åbenbart!
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Platystemon posted:If the natives hadn’t been nearly wiped out by infectious disease, it would have been cool if they’d killed all the pigs like it’s hypothesised their ancestors did to the North American megafauna. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAfJG1PMjbY Even drive-bys with AR-15s aren't enough to stem the hog tide. Females can give birth to 1 to 3 litters of 5-12 hogs a year and they can become sexually mature within 6 months, which means that video was probably rendered moot within a few days. Over 700,000 a year are hunted and they just keep bouncing back. You would need something like poisoning or napalm strikes on a statewide scale to finally wipe them out. zedprime posted:Would be interesting to see the thread but I don't know if anyone really needs to go beyond the attitude of it to see it as a dick thing to do. The forest was just where domesticated pigs lived because it was hard to keep up with feeding them. They were mostly just gonna graze on acorns but they'll still gently caress anything up with a positive calorie balance because they are pigs. So you do it into forests you own and are accountable for. Pigs were an extremely important food source throughout European and colonial history because they're a very easy one to have. They can be kept in the yard or allowed to roam semi-wild nearby because they eat literally anything you put in front of them as long as it's edible, even garbage. You could make enough money back from selling the fresh meat to buy another piglet or two and keep part of the meat yourself in the form of sausage, bacon, and smoked hams, making them a self-sustaining food source as long as you had a market. Remember that when the first colonizers and pilgrims landed in America, they didn't have any extent of the land they uncovered and didn't have the "We're here, gently caress off" attitude to the natives that would appear later as the population grew and conflict began occurring. Early interactions during the time when they would have seeded the land with hogs were often positive or at least neutral, as they understood that they were dealing with other human inhabitants who lived here before them. Pushing natives off their land and breaking treaties was a thing done by the larger government entities as a whole when they wanted to expand, with conflict (including massacres of civilian colonists, which are inexcusable regardless) providing opportunities to go to war and take the land.
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Nessus posted:Bunnicula lives??
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Alhazred posted:People were real stupid about invasive species for a shockingly long time. For example the european starling was introduced to America in 1890 because those admiring the works of Shakespeare wanted to see all the birds mentioned in his creations represented in North America. It is estimated that the starling causes damages worth 800 million dollars each year. we brought pigeons over here so we could eat em now look what happened
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GolfHole posted:we brought pigeons over here so we could eat em The one time americans failed to eat themselves out of a problem. 
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canyoneer posted:He fashioned tools, became adept at catching goats—some of them for fornication, others for food and pelts. Very important not to mix up your fornicatin' goats and your food goats.
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Nessus posted:Bunnicula lives?? No, Muntjack deer. They're really bad for young trees.
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 This is a zamburak, before firing it the camel had to be tied up so that it didn't flee in panic.
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During an excavation in London archaeologists found a bunch souvenir styluses from ancient Rome that had humorous inscriptions on them: One of the inscriptions has been translated to "I went to Rome and all I got you was this stylus".
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Alhazred posted:During an excavation in London archaeologists found a bunch souvenir styluses from ancient Rome that had humorous inscriptions on them: that's the SECOND HALF of the inscription. The first half reads "i come from the city with a sharp point that you may remember me" which reads to me like a joke about going to Rome and getting stabbed
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Alhazred posted:During an excavation in London archaeologists found a bunch souvenir styluses from ancient Rome that had humorous inscriptions on them: Can I have the source for that, please? Not disbelieving you, just want to see it proper.
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Samovar posted:Can I have the source for that, please? Not disbelieving you, just want to see it proper. https://www.mola.org.uk/blog/i-went-rome-and-all-i-got-you-was-stylus-rare-inscribed-roman-writing-implement-discovered The actual inscription (and translation): ‘ab urbe v[e]n[i] munus tibi gratum adf(e)ro acul[eat]um ut habe[a]s memor[ia]m nostra(m) rogo si fortuna dar[e]t quo possem largius ut longa via ceu sacculus est (v)acuus’ ‘I have come from the City. I bring you a welcome gift with a sharp point that you may remember me. I ask, if fortune allowed, that I might be able (to give) as generously as the way is long (and) as my purse is empty.’ i.e. "I know this is a cheap memento, but it's all I can afford."
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Samovar posted:Can I have the source for that, please? Not disbelieving you, just want to see it proper. It honestly doesn’t surprise me at all, considering some of the Pompeii graffiti. To be honest I’m surprised we haven’t found any “I’m with Stupid —>” tunics
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Were souvenir styluses just a thing in general because otherwise the entire thing reads like a joke where you came all the way from Rome becoming broke along the way in order to stab someone. Like a Roman general.
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Basically the equivalent of souvenir pens.
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I think it's making a joke like: "i hope the eraser on this pencil wont delete my memory" except in this case it's "i hope this pointy object really makes the thought of me stick" it's probably not about stabbing and the fact a stylus is stabbable is 100% incidental
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GolfHole posted:I think it's making a joke like: "i hope the eraser on this pencil wont delete my memory" I suspect most Romans had gotten stuck by a stylus at some point in their lives, probably fairly often. The sentiment seems to be, "when you stick yourself with this stylus, think of me!"
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Are we absolutely sure it's not a dick joke
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Milo and POTUS posted:Are we absolutely sure it's not a dick joke It’s Roman, it’s absolutely also a dick joke.
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Milo and POTUS posted:Are we absolutely sure it's not a dick joke Romans loved puns, like every other society on earth, so it is all of the above, plus this, plus also something for the scribe that has everything.
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Phew, I was wondering if it was my mind that was all hosed up
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 Louis Bourdaloue (1632-1704) was the son of a lawyer famed for his skill in rhetorics. At the early age of 15, Louis entered the Jesuit order with the goal to follow in his father's footsteps and excel at rhetorics. He soon attained a reputation for his excellent homilies, and from 1669 on he regularly held Mass and preached at the court of King Louis XIV. His homilies were both so interesting and downright riveting that all the court flocked to his services to listen to him, bent on not missing even a single word - and his homilies also were long. So, what's a noblewoman to do when she is sitting in church listening intently to her favourite preacher, when suddenly nature calls? Why, she takes a sauciere with her and just lets go, of course! Some smart craftsmen soon realised that money was to be made there and started producing a slightly differently shaped sauciere which was easier to piss into, calling it the "Bourdalou"  Bourdalou female urinal made from leather at the Wellcome Collection. France, 18th century And if you ever wondered what an 18th century French noblewoman pissing into a small pot looks like, then Louis XV's official court painter François Boucher has got you covered:  "The intimate Toilette" or "A woman who pees", mid-18th century
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Time to get this thread going again with another tale of historical Swedish hubris and pointless battles. The battle of Orford Ness 1704. Sweden had spent most of the 1600s waging war on all its neighbours; Denmark, Russia, the Netherlands, Austria, Poland, looting their way through Germany and back several times. Sweden had mostly come out on top after century of expansionism and warmongering outside of Sweden. The name of this era in Swedish is "Stormaktstiden" meaning "The Great power era". This would eventually lead to most of northern Europe banding together to gently caress Sweden up in the great Northern war. But before that happened the successful campaigns on the continent let Sweden believe it was a big player that could play with the big boys. The Swedish king Charles XII had ordered all Swedish naval commanders to never strike their flag or sail as a salute to another nation on pain of death for the commanders who did. The reason for this order was that Sweden would refuse to show subordination to another monarch. 28th July 1704 (Old Swedish calendar) a Swedish convoy escorted by the Swedish navy ship Öland under Gustaf von Psilander, met a Royal Navy squadron with 8 ships of the line and a frigate outside of Orford ness in the English Channel. The English demanded that the Swedes lower their sails as a salute. The Swedish commander refused, and the English sent off two warning shots. Psilander then sent Lieutenant Schmidt over to the English ship to negotiate. According to Psilander the conversation Between the Swedish lieutenant Schmidt and Captain Butler of the royal navy went like this:  Can’t you see the flag of the Queen of England? Yeah, we see it well enough, but can you not see the Flag of the King of Sweden? Yes, but why won’t you do your duty to the Queen of England? What duty does the King of Sweden have to the Queen of England? You must strike your topgallant sails. My commander has no such orders and will not. Well, then I’ll teach you how to. Captain Butler then opened fire on Öland. The Swedes, surrounded by a superior enemy and unable to escape, chose to return fire. At first the Swedes did reasonably well, damaging several of the English ships without taking too much damage themselves. Two hours into the battle the English managed to manoeuvre both in front of and aft of Öland raking the ship. After four hours the Swedes couldn’t continue the fight. 16 Swedish sailors dead, 37 wounded and Öland crippled. The English suffered up to 70 casualties but were still far superior and in a better position. Psilander refusing to strike his flag in surrender, used a “one weird trick, naval commanders hate it”, and had his flag tied into a ship in distress signal. Technically not surrendering. Thereby following his orders not to strike his flag and maintaining the honour of Sweden. When the fighting stopped the English took command of Öland, imprisoned the crew and looted the ship. Towing Öland back to England with the other Swedish trade ships. The Swedish crew was imprisoned for months before being released along with their ships and possessions by Queen Anne of England. The Queen demanded that the Swedish king punish Psilander, but Charles XII always keen on finding more enemies refused and sent an angry letter back saying that it was England who had broken the rules of friendship and international law. The incident was covered up by the Swedish government fearing yet another war, England was too busy with France to care much and nothing much came of it. Psilander rose through the ranks of the Swedish navy to admiral and was eventually ennobled as Gustaf von Psilander.
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86 people dead because the royals needed a good dick sucking?
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probably a lot of people through history that have died for some pointless bickering over some trivial formalities just so Kings, Queens, dictators whatever could win a pissing contest.
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Shaman sacrifices berrypicker of few winters for saying "as you say, elder", claims saying offend ancestors, cave lion god and cause bad hunt season.
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jyrka posted:Here's a fact: Ivan the Terrible is a mistranslation, a more accurate name would be Ivan the Magnificent or Ivan the Great. Who said it was a translation though?
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"Awesome John" is also perfectly valid.
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C.M. Kruger posted:Shaman sacrifices berrypicker of few winters for saying "as you say, elder", claims saying offend ancestors, cave lion god and cause bad hunt season.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:86 people dead because the royals needed a good dick sucking? All war is peasants dying because nobles had a tiff. This battle was notable because the peasants preemptively assumed their nobles would have one and decided to get ahead of the game. C.M. Kruger posted:Shaman sacrifices berrypicker of few winters for saying "as you say, elder", claims saying offend ancestors, cave lion god and cause bad hunt season. Berrypicker should have understood "elder" is as offensive as n-word.
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FreudianSlippers posted:"Awesome John" is also perfectly valid. "Johnny Bigtime"
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OutOfPrint posted:Berrypicker should have understood "elder" is as offensive as n-word. Neanderthal?
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