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Ras Het posted:that "by means of which the pursuit of dishonour is indicated" 
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HEY GUNS posted:lmao Magnificent. Reminds me of the very lofty and elevated language with which Tolkien indicates a character is a total babe.
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My brow will never be fair enough for JRRT
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I would but I’m fresh out of flamingo tongue and dor mice.
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Dec 25, 2019 17:28
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The preface specifically mentions leaving out all the stuff involving sow wombs
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Continuity RCP posted:The preface specifically mentions leaving out all the stuff involving sow wombs 
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Continuity RCP posted:The preface specifically mentions leaving out all the stuff involving sow wombs Nature's crock pot
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LingcodKilla posted:I would but I’m fresh out of flamingo tongue and dor mice. Duck tongue is still a popular snack in China, I wonder if its similar to flamingo tongue.
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HEY GUNS posted:I'm not a leftist. As an actual leftist I can confirm this. Like what the hell, 'Hey Guns is a commie' is a nuclear bad take 
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GlassEye-Boy posted:Duck tongue is still a popular snack in China, I wonder if its similar to flamingo tongue. Duck tongue just tastes like duck except there's a weird bone or gristly thing in the middle and like a lot of popular snacks in China it's more effort than it's worth.
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This gem about a samurai getting completely owned deserves to be reposted here:wiki posted:A popular incident tells how a commoner bumped into Saiheiji Tomo, treasurer of the Owari-Tokugawa family, and ignored him further when Tomo demanded him to apologize. Feeling merciful, the samurai offered the peasant his wakizashi so he had a chance to defend himself, but instead, the commoner decided to run away with his wakizashi, causing further dishonor. The incident resulted in Tomo being disowned from the Owari-Tokugawa clan. He later regained his honor by seeking out the commoner, collecting the wakizashi and killing the whole family.[5] I only wish it had a happier ending.
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Arglebargle III posted:This gem about a samurai getting completely owned deserves to be reposted here: It was a happy ending for Tomo, at least. Less so for the commoner.
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What a lame move giving the untrained peasant the smaller weapon
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a honorable man pushed to the edge. why do peasants always have to be so terrible?
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Tbh the peasant got what he deserved; apologise if you bump into someone, especially if that someone is gonna kill you and your family if you don’t
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Arglebargle III posted:I'm like a thousand percent sure that discussing how a particular late medieval individual fits into modern gender schemes so bleeding edge that even the people they describe don't agree on them is a fruitless discussion capable only of obfuscating its object. You have a very flawed and condescending understanding of transgender issues past and present and how history relates to modern gender. You should shut the gently caress up and stop making a fool of yourself and go read some queer theory before opening your mouth again Alternatively keep digging a hole
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Grand Prize Winner posted:When did people start calling it "the bird"? Is that an English-language thing? In Germany, it's "Der Finger" / "The finger", so it's definitely not used here. (For extra confusion, showing someone "the bird" / "den Vogel zeigen" is a completely different gesture in German, where you are tipping your forefinger at your forehead. It signifies that you think someone is an idiot.)
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underage at the vape shop posted:You have a very flawed and condescending understanding of transgender issues past and present and how history relates to modern gender. You should shut the gently caress up and stop making a fool of yourself and go read some queer theory before opening your mouth again please don't come into this thread, my safe space, bringing negativity. If you disagree with someone here don't tell them to shut up, talk to them.
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Quick question for you latin goons. I may be starting up a geoscience business educating people about foraging, and I would like to call it Terra Cognita. Am I right in the assumption that if Terra Incognita means 'unknown earth' then Terra Cognita would mean 'learned-of earth' or 'known earth' ? Probably not, right, but would it make any sense, if only as a pun?
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Tias posted:Am I right in the assumption that if Terra Incognita means 'unknown earth' then Terra Cognita would mean 'learned-of earth' or 'known earth' ? Probably not, right, but would it make any sense, if only as a pun? Yes. It's been used quite a few times before. https://www.google.com/search?q=%22...chrome&ie=UTF-8
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"Known world" is a phrase in common usage, and "terra cognita" seems like a reasonably close latin version.
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Pity you're probably not not making another goon front for the CIA, De Rei Frumentariae would have been an excellent name.
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Arglebargle III posted:
Lynx? Some emperor got killed by a cute little Lynx? 
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Libluini posted:Lynx? Some emperor got killed by a cute little Lynx? He tried having sex with it.
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Libluini posted:Lynx? Some emperor got killed by a cute little Lynx? I think the intent here is a pun on "Caracalla," who killed his brother and co-emperor Geta.
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Eurasian Lynxes are pretty big by cat standards. Still really hard to get killed by one.
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happy new year thread after the festivities I was reading Vitruvius's book On Architecture and I was amused to find that overbilling is apparently a problem as old as contracting: quote:In the magnificent and spacious Grecian city of Ephesus an antientº law was made by the ancestors of the inhabitants, hard indeed in its nature, but nevertheless equitable. When an architect was entrusted with the execution of a public work, an estimate thereof being lodged in the hands of a magistrate, his property was held, as security, until the work was finished. If, when finished, the expense did not exceed the estimate, he was complimented with decrees and honours. So when the excess did not amount to more than a fourth part of the original estimate, it was defrayed by the public, and no punishment was inflicted. But when more than one-fourth of the estimate was exceeded, he was required to pay the excess out of his own pocket. Also looking more broadly at some history of architecture stuff, it makes me wonder a bit about some modern practices. Today you can't lay the foundation of a house without many kilograms of steel reinforcing, nor put down a ground floor without a reinforced concrete pad. Of course before 150 years ago none of this was true and virtually no houses had any concrete or reinforcement. Rather than concrete, a Roman was a base of tamped earth over laid by cobbles, then with a layer of "rubbish" (I assume crushed brick? would probably be the modern substitute) mixed with lime onto which tiles and mosaics were overlaid. I'm pretty sure the modern foundations are stronger and take up less space, but I wonder if there's any reason, besides maybe cost, we couldn't build Roman style ground floors today. Then of course in traditional Japanese domestic architecture, the house isn't even fixed to a foundation at all. Instead the house rests entirely on beams which are fitted to large stones. This helps give them a great deal of resilience to earthquakes. I'm sure there must be some drawbacks of course, I just can't think of them off hand.
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Arglebargle III posted:Apologies in advance: Are you proud of yourself?
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cool maps i found: 
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i'm the WOOL(?) also let me make a cisternpost here's a guy taking a picture of an ancient Caucasian cistern (it's hard to image search 'ancient cistern' because of a level in a zelda game)  is that an incredibly tiny animal on the right of the image, or is it on another mountain peak? probably the latter since there isn't any magic in the world edit: oh poo poo, here's an actually good picture of a 3,000 year old cistern (haaretz article) in israel: 
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oystertoadfish posted:i'm the WOOL(?) If you do a search and subtract Zelda and Tomb Raider you can get better results. "ancient cistern" -"zelda" -"tomb raider"
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oystertoadfish posted:i'm the WOOL(?) I just want to know who was making jets.
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mossyfisk posted:I just want to know who was making jets. i believe that refers to a kind of coal used for gemstone carving  Unrelated but I was reading some more Vitruvius and in the middle of a chapter on how to weather proof homes he goes on a weird racist tangent which is extremely funny in the way his stereotypes of different people are exactly the opposite of Victorian writers: quote:So moreover, from the clearness of the atmosphere, aided also by the intense heat, the southern nations are more ready and quick in expedients: but the northern nations, oppressed by a gross atmosphere, and cooled by the moisture of the air, are of duller intellect. That this is so, may be proved from the nature of serpents, which in the hot season, when the cold is dispelled by the heat, move with great activity, but in the rainy and winter seasons, from the coldness of the air, they become torpid. Hence it is not surprising that man's intellect should be sharpened by heat and blunted by a cold atmosphere.
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Technically it's a form of fossilized wood, but chemically it's probably about the same as coal.
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It's a type of lignite coal (brown coal). It's just particularly solid and conducive to carving.
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Scarodactyl posted:It's a type of lignite coal (brown coal). It's just particularly solid and conducive to carving. I usually use ligma coal in mine.
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