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FreudianSlippers posted:Apparently the average Brit has healthier teeth than the average American it's just that Americans don't allow anyone without perfectly straight blindingly white teeth on TV and British dentistry is more focused on practical things like cavities while the Americans focus more on aesthetics. The explanation I've always heard as a Canadian is that the UK didn't put fluoride in their water for a long time which is why their teeth are all hosed up.
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The TV thing is the part that surprises me. I can go outside here right now and most people will have perfectly normal teeth regardless of their social class. Then when I turn on the TV and watch a British programme a lot of the people, including sometimes professional actors in high-budget productions, will just have horrible teeth. I think it's a specific cultural thing, where teeth are just traditionally not considered an important aesthetical attribute in the UK. Also seems to be changing now, with them paying more attention to it.
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May 18, 2020 21:43
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BonHair posted:The comedy answer to English people being ugly is that the Vikings stole all the hot women (and killed/enslaved the strong men), leaving the worst specimens to become the British empire somehow. They took all the women who had standards. quote:The Danes made themselves too acceptable to English women by their elegant manners and their care of their person.
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Platystemon posted:They took all the women who had standards. Ok you gotta source your quotes here
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Starks posted:The explanation I've always heard as a Canadian is that the UK didn't put fluoride in their water for a long time which is why their teeth are all hosed up. That doesn't make sense since most countries don't put fluoride in their water (including most of the UK), and they generally have much better teeth than Brits.  Platystemon posted:They took all the women who had standards. Proof that goons originated in England
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May 18, 2020 21:48
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It is purported to be from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, specifically Æthelweard’a Latin version.
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May 18, 2020 21:50
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As a Swede I had no idea this was a thing
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May 18, 2020 21:53
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It's probably a coincidence that I started noticing it, only because Americans are always going on about it.
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May 18, 2020 21:55
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Phlegmish posted:It's probably a coincidence that I started noticing it, only because Americans are always going on about it. they will probably stop going on about it soon since states no longer have an obligation to cover dental care under medicaid so many americans have extremely bad teeth because they literally can't afford to go to the dentist and will only do so if it's life-threatening and/or at the risk of enormous medical debt lol
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May 18, 2020 21:58
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according to reports from muslim travelers, vikings had terrible hygiene, and wouldn't clean themselves after pooping/pissing/sex, and would also do things like wash their faces and rinse their mouths out in the morning with a shared bowl of water, where they would spit the dirty facewash water back into the bowl and pass it to the next dude makes me wonder how filthy the average british person was if the vikings were so clean in comparison lol
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Rah! posted:according to reports from muslim travelers, vikings had terrible hygiene, and wouldn't clean themselves after pooping/pissing/sex, and would also do things like wash their faces and rinse their mouths out in the morning with a shared bowl of water, where they would spit the dirty facewash water back into the bowl and pass it to the next dude https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkcsLFSAS30
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“A longboat full of Vikings, promoting the new British Museum exhibition, was seen sailing past the Palace of Westminster yesterday. Famously uncivilised, destructive and rapacious, with an almost insatiable appetite for rough sex and heavy drinking, the MPs nonetheless looked up for a bit to admire the vessel.” The Times, 16 April 2014
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Rah! posted:according to reports from muslim travelers, vikings had terrible hygiene, and wouldn't clean themselves after pooping/pissing/sex, and would also do things like wash their faces and rinse their mouths out in the morning with a shared bowl of water, where they would spit the dirty facewash water back into the bowl and pass it to the next dude I can understand not cleaning yourself after pissing and sex during those times, but pooping? Edit: While trying to read up on Viking hygiene on wikipedia (spoiler: doesn't say much at all) I found this map:  Had no idea that the Vikings settled areas around the White Sea, I guess I missed that every time I read about Vikings before this Kamrat fucked around with this message at 22:27 on May 18, 2020 |
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Kamrat posted:I can understand not cleaning yourself after pissing and sex during those times, but pooping? *bawdy Brian Blessed laugh* It crusts off, my friend!!! It crusts off!
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Kamrat posted:Had no idea that the Vikings settled areas around the White Sea, I guess I missed that every time I read about Vikings before this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bjarmaland
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:Soviet Commubot's originally from Michigan so I think hes just salty they gave it to Montana instead of da UP. That's not untrue.
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taken from that article: quote:The collaborationist Quisling regime planned to build Norwegian colonies in Northern Russia, following a future success of Operation Barbarossa, and which were to be named Bjarmaland; but these plans never came to be.[11] drat, anyone ever seen a map of this? can't imagine what the Norwegian collaborator tasked with drawing this plan up was thinking
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Squalid posted:drat, anyone ever seen a map of this? can't imagine what the Norwegian collaborator tasked with drawing this plan up was thinking A search for that is probably a great way to discover Norwegian neo-nazi sites.
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Weembles posted:A search for that is probably a great way to discover Norwegian neo-nazi sites. I once came upon, in the first page of Google search results, a page about the death of Mussolini in lurid detail. The idea behind the page was “look at what barbaric things the socialists did to a great man”, but it just made me think “lol that owns”. I should have bookmarked it.
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British people have new rows of teeth that start to come in toward mid-adulthood that often bash up against their existing teeth. Eventually the old teeth fall out leaving most Britons with a perfect set of even teeth by their 70s or 80s. so what ignorant outsiders see as “bad” or “gross” scraggly teeth are really just part of the natural lifecycle on the island. hth
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While on the subject there is an Icelander living in Norway who's written a book called The Black Viking about a certain chieftain from Western Norway who was one of the first to settle Iceland. According to his saga (ed. I misremembered, that doesn't exist but it's from an old source) he was nearly disowned by his father when born because of his black skin. According to the author, his mother may have been a noblewoman from Northern Siberia (or Bjarmaland) and the marriage done to secure access to walrus, an important resource not just for ivory and blubber but also because its hide was needed to make the thick ropes that were used on the longships. In the author's estimation the colonizing of Iceland was also done to pursue the walrus as they retreated northwards to escape hunting by humans. It's very compelling but speculative and the author is not a professional historian, from what I remember he even has quarrels with some historians in the book. Doesn't mean he's wrong but something to keep in mind. Here's a couple of links for more on this: https://avaldsnes.info/en/informasjon/hjor/ http://immaterial.no/books/the-black-viking/ Grevling fucked around with this message at 04:41 on May 19, 2020 |
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It's amazing how completely reasonable the Finns were with the territory they hoped to gain from being part of the Axis when every other bunch of Reich-aligned groups wanted to bring back something insane like Bjarmaland.
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Phlegmish posted:The TV thing is the part that surprises me. I can go outside here right now and most people will have perfectly normal teeth regardless of their social class. Then when I turn on the TV and watch a British programme a lot of the people, including sometimes professional actors in high-budget productions, will just have horrible teeth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgI3Y7gxMO4
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Phlegmish posted:The TV thing is the part that surprises me. I can go outside here right now and most people will have perfectly normal teeth regardless of their social class. Then when I turn on the TV and watch a British programme a lot of the people, including sometimes professional actors in high-budget productions, will just have horrible teeth. Legitimate if insane answer - lots of upper class British people refuse to brush their teeth. The reason I've heard it's because most of them go to private boarding schools and not brushing their teeth is the one rebellion against authority they can get away with as a child.
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a pipe smoking dog posted:Legitimate if insane answer - lots of upper class British people refuse to brush their teeth. The reason I've heard it's because most of them go to private boarding schools and not brushing their teeth is the one rebellion against authority they can get away with as a child.
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 German money, German autographs(?), German promises are worthless. For our drowned polders, destroyed harbours, railways and cities the Dutch people expect German territory without Germans.
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Signatures, not autographs.
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As an Albertan, here is my map of the regions of Canada:
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Orange Devil posted:Signatures, not autographs. You know, I just realized Dutch doesn't distinguish between autographs and signatures the way English does. a pipe smoking dog posted:Legitimate if insane answer - lots of upper class British people refuse to brush their teeth. The reason I've heard it's because most of them go to private boarding schools and not brushing their teeth is the one rebellion against authority they can get away with as a child. Is this actually true? Any other country I would dismiss it, but that sounds extremely British.
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I grew up in Australia, I've travelled widely in the US, I've lived in the UK, and I can honestly say I've never seen any disparity in teeth between nations. Maybe in the 1960s or whenever was producing the films that Mike Meyers later joked about in the 1990s, but not in the 2010s.Kamrat posted:I can understand not cleaning yourself after pissing and sex during those times, but pooping? Now imagine how bad this would be considering Viking alcohol consumption
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A quick interlude from the newspaper comic strip thread: a map from today's page of Modesty Blaise. Trying to parse it briefly made me feel like I was having a stroke.
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Powered Descent posted:A quick interlude from the newspaper comic strip thread: a map from today's page of Modesty Blaise. Trying to parse it briefly made me feel like I was having a stroke. Part of this is the dude painting the comic did not understood the map, making it even more confusing.
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freebooter posted:I grew up in Australia, I've travelled widely in the US, I've lived in the UK, and I can honestly say I've never seen any disparity in teeth between nations. Maybe in the 1960s or whenever was producing the films that Mike Meyers later joked about in the 1990s, but not in the 2010s. Yeah I think it was definitely a real stereotype in the past, when you look at older movies / some much older people British teeth are abnormally bad. But I think it's changed a lot in recent decades.
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Powered Descent posted:A quick interlude from the newspaper comic strip thread: a map from today's page of Modesty Blaise. Trying to parse it briefly made me feel like I was having a stroke. I refuse to believe the person who drew this knows what the earth looks like in any way.
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It would be pretty rad to have a full sized desk with a map printed on the lid though.
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Chamale posted:As an Albertan, here is my map of the regions of Canada:
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Squalid posted:taken from that article: Awesome chance for Norway to grab some of the least-productive shoreline on Earth, hell yeah. Somewhere for the tens of millions of surplus Norwegians to colonize. Nazi plans are so loving dumb.
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If they kept going they would have gotten a summer port on the pacific!
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Longway
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Kennel posted:Longway All coastline, so technically impossible to truly know just how long it is.
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