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There's a cool Robert J Sawyer trilogy about us accidentally opening a door to a parallel earth where Neanderthals became the dominant species and we died out instead Their society has some ... quirks, but generally puts ours to shame. First book is called Hominids. I haven't read it in probably a decade but I really enjoyed it
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3D Megadoodoo posted:The author's name is Jean Auel but in Finland the translations were published under the name Jean M. Untinen-Auel for marketing purposes, and the loving Finnish Wikipedia article on her is under that name. I'm sure I could start a war by correcting it. Do it, you could immediately post it to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lamest_edit_wars.
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The Bloop posted:There's a cool Robert J Sawyer trilogy about us accidentally opening a door to a parallel earth where Neanderthals became the dominant species and we died out instead I know about the Neanderthals having quantum computers and using helicopters instead of planes, but I have feeling you're talking about their society being weird.
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The MSJ posted:I know about the Neanderthals having quantum computers and using helicopters instead of planes, but I have feeling you're talking about their society being weird. Is that the one where neanderthals have a matriarchal society and the men have to live outside cities because all the women's cycles are in synch and they get absolutely murderous when the Red Baronness visits?
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3D Megadoodoo posted:The author's name is Jean Auel but in Finland the translations were published under the name Jean M. Untinen-Auel for marketing purposes, and the loving Finnish Wikipedia article on her is under that name. I'm sure I could start a war by correcting it.
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Duodecimal posted:Is that the one where neanderthals have a matriarchal society and the men have to live outside cities because all the women's cycles are in synch and they get absolutely murderous when the Red Baronness visits? Ehhh, that is their own anthropological explanation I think for their living arrangement, but basically the norm is for everyone to have two spouses, one of each gender, and they generally live with their same-sex partner with the women (and young children) in the city center and the men in the more outlying regions. They then go and spend romantic weekends with their opposite-sex spouses. Like all good sci-fi the differences are mainly so we can say "why IS our poo poo the way it is?" And they aren't really helicopters they have, more like stackable cubic drone taxis that you call when you need one. No roads, no private car ownership, nicer planet.
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Antigravitas posted:Do it, you could immediately post it to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lamest_edit_wars. This is an amazing page that really brings home the bottomless pettiness of Wikipedia editors.
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:Tell me more, please. What's the linguistic difference between the names? Why would correcting a wiki article be so divisive in Finland? I think it's just that Auel is a German name and Untinen is a Finnish name, so in Finland they market the book by including it. There isn't really an American equivalent because the majority of the country is European melting pot or whatever, but it's like the polar opposite of people criticizing Obama by highlighting Hussein as his middle name.
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Baron von Eevl posted:My understanding is it's not nearly as good as Quest for Fire, among the microgenre of "80s movies about neolithic hominids." Yeah, i have a copy of quest still as well... Antigravitas posted:Do it, you could immediately post it to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lamest_edit_wars. Some interesting stuff listed, but I was already getting tired of skimming it when lowtax came up and that sealed the deal to close the tab. Astounding what folks will argue over.
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Antigravitas posted:Do it, you could immediately post it to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lamest_edit_wars. loving Lowtax is on there 
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Dammit Kirk, you gotta lay low if you want witness protection to work 
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:He can not lie Those other Canucks can't deny
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Assman? I'll give you Assman!
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NuminaXLT posted:loving Lowtax is on there Lol and thus shall he be remembered
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Every time this news article comes back around I feel like I'm going crazy, because this was the exact plot of a Seinfeld episode, the license plate literally said "ASSMAN" and it was from nearly 30 years ago.
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Yeah but that was a proctologist, not a guy named John Q Assman.
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So this guy has to be related to Sask resident Dick Assman, who was a thing 30 years ago when Letterman had him on the show, right?
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doverhog posted:There's actually a book series about this set during the ice age?, where a woman is captured by neanderthals and kept as a slave but grows to love them and their tribe and feels bad when homo sapiens starts killing off her tribe. It was in my dad's (divorced) new partners bookcase. I have no idea what they were called or who the author was, but it was some pretty hard material a literal child probably shouldn't have been allowed to read. As was already posted, Clan of the Cave Bear. I read it a few years ago because I love nonfiction anthropology stuff, as well as the occasional fantasy series. It felt like a great mix of "where did humans come from?" documentaries with fantasy fiction in a world not too different from ours. Overall it was a compelling read. Then late in the book there is the rape scene. Absolutely "pretty hard material a literal child probably shouldn't be allowed to read." I was so into the "fantasy documentary" mode of thought that I read it in a detached view, just kind of an anthropological "hmm yes, an aggressive assertion of dominance." Then I read the summaries of the next books, and there's like, lots more sex? Maybe magic sex? And I lost all interest in completing the series. The first one is a really great fantasy novel set in semi-realistic caveman times when humans and neanderthals encountered each other. Can't speak to the rest of the series.
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"No One Can Stop Assman oh god there he is he's in the building what are you waiting for RUN"
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Phy posted:"No One Can Stop Assman "You'll smell him before you see him... But it won't help! ASSMAN is the terrifying new thriller from the twisted mind of Larry David..." Everything gets a 90s style trailer in my head 
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Paging Kirk Johnson, doctor of archaeological proctology.
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I just came here to post this, except I found it with the headline "scientists have described a dinosaur's butthole in exquisite detail" https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-have-described-a-dinosaur-s-butthole-in-exquisite-detail What a time to be alive.
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It appears President Biden has removed the red button on the Resolute Desk that former president Trump used to summon a White House butler with a Diet Coke
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Biden is getting so much mileage out of simply not being Trump
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Looking forward to the press photo of him looking inordinately pleased at treating visitors to Shake Shack
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Assistant Manager Devil posted:It appears President Biden has removed the red button on the Resolute Desk that former president Trump used to summon a White House butler with a Diet Coke What ice cream brand would like to sponsor an ice cream button in his desk?
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Is Ben & Jerry's too left for him?
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Lobok posted:Is Ben & Jerry's too left for him? He'd get B&J to install the button but then cave to corporate masters and use something less 'controversial'
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Assistant Manager Devil posted:It appears President Biden has removed the red button on the Resolute Desk that former president Trump used to summon a White House butler with a Diet Coke 
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Lets hope the white house is not full of leftover cardasian protocols https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Civil_Defense_(episode) Offtopic: https://twitter.com/straczynski/status/1352465912255770624 Tei has a new favorite as of 13:51 on Jan 22, 2021 |
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Ah, goddam it. She was so lovely.
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The man third in the line of presidential succession has been in five 'Batman' movies
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Whatever, let me know when "boiling acid" guy shows up in the line of succession.
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That's it Coronavirus! You mess with my adorable internet memes and you get three millennia of burning fury!
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