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The Carthaginians were descendants of the Phoenicians, who were so named by the Mycenean Greeks not for their resemblance to the mythological bird but for their purple dyes. You would have pronounced phoenix like POH-nee-kay in Ancient Greek, which became the eventual namesake of the Punic Wars between Rome and Carthage in the 3rd Century AD.
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Speaking of the Mediterranean, it took a while for it to sink in just how much the greeks colonized the black sea. The golden fleece was in crimea, mithradates was from the black sea, etc.
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hawowanlawow posted:Speaking of the Mediterranean, it took a while for it to sink in just how much the greeks colonized the black sea. The golden fleece was in crimea, mithradates was from the black sea, etc. One of the longest surviving Hellenistic kingdoms was in freakin' Afghanistan!
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I've been watching this YouTube channel of a guy restoring old stuff. https://youtube.com/c/mymechanics/videos?disable_polymer=true&itct=CBMQ8JMBGAEiEwiJy8DmuLTuAhWX4XMBHV59AbQ%3D Around the fifth video or so I was like "how the hell is that box off to the side of his lathe magically sucking up the finished piece? Why isn't it falling to the floor?" I finally realised about half way through that he was, and always had been, filming his lathe top-down and not side-on.
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hawowanlawow posted:Speaking of the Mediterranean, it took a while for it to sink in just how much the greeks colonized the black sea. The golden fleece was in crimea, mithradates was from the black sea, etc. What's crazy is how much time these cultures span. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B965f8AcNbw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xl9RaHE9ZpI
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Feb 10, 2021 07:30
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I didn't even think about it until I saw this tweet. https://twitter.com/VaGyver/status/1359080831663407106
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Feb 10, 2021 09:28
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Jippa posted:I didn't even think about it until I saw this tweet. Durn it. Nor had I.
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Feb 10, 2021 10:26
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Hyperlynx posted:I've been watching this YouTube channel of a guy restoring old stuff. This is a rabbit hole I did not expect to fall down but this is really satisfying stuff to watch.
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Feb 10, 2021 10:43
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Jippa posted:I didn't even think about it until I saw this tweet. It never occurred to me until my wife was singing that to our daughter one day, playing it on her toes. I don't know how it never clicked before.
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Feb 10, 2021 11:52
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swordfish duelist posted:This is a rabbit hole I did not expect to fall down but this is really satisfying stuff to watch. That's basically why I watch it. I've put together a playlist of people making or fixing stuff while not saying anything. I watch it to help me get to sleep. Leavemywife posted:It never occurred to me until my wife was singing that to our daughter one day, playing it on her toes. I don't know how it never clicked before. I mean, no reason why it shouldn't mean that. The other one "stays home", not "isn't eaten". The next two eat or do not eat roast beef, and that's not exactly regular pig food, is it? It's totally just some anthropomorphised piggies. Possibly relatives of the ones who lived in increasingly well engineered houses. Hyperlynx has a new favorite as of 12:19 on Feb 10, 2021 |
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Feb 10, 2021 12:14
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Beachcomber posted:Kind of makes sense when the credits were at the beginning. That's how you know the makers have no confidence in it.
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Feb 10, 2021 12:39
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Hyperlynx posted:I mean, no reason why it shouldn't mean that. The other one "stays home", not "isn't eaten". The next two eat or do not eat roast beef, and that's not exactly regular pig food, is it? It's totally just some anthropomorphised piggies. Possibly relatives of the ones who lived in increasingly well engineered houses. I choose to believe this too.
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Feb 10, 2021 13:18
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Hyperlynx posted:I mean, no reason why it shouldn't mean that. The other one "stays home", not "isn't eaten". The next two eat or do not eat roast beef, and that's not exactly regular pig food, is it? It's totally just some anthropomorphised piggies. Possibly relatives of the ones who lived in increasingly well engineered houses. This nursery rhyme is at least 300 years old (the first written reference to it was from a collection printed in 1728) and was probably already an old classic at that point. Kids back then would have had a much clearer idea of what happened to pigs that went to market.
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Feb 10, 2021 14:00
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Yeah pigs don’t have any money, they only get to browse.
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Feb 10, 2021 16:04
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Hyperlynx posted:That's basically why I watch it. To be fair, piggies would be very happy to eat roast beef. Their favorite food is bacon (seems creepy , but it's true). Any scraps are good. They can eat everything.
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Feb 10, 2021 18:02
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In fact they easily eat people, according to multiple gangster legends.
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Feb 10, 2021 18:23
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Jippa posted:I didn't even think about it until I saw this tweet. loving hell, 
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Feb 10, 2021 18:39
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Pigs will eat the gently caress out of you yes
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Feb 10, 2021 18:42
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Torquemada posted:In fact they easily eat people, according to multiple gangster legends. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xUynRdzzsM
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Feb 10, 2021 18:42
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I've just realized that I've always assumed that the three little pigs in the fairytale are a subset of the little piggies in the rhyme. Like they are just this group of anthropomorphic pigs who lead comfortably domestic, but intermittently very dangerous lives.
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Feb 10, 2021 19:01
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It was going to market to buy pork for dinner 
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Feb 10, 2021 19:10
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Pookah posted:I've just realized that I've always assumed that the three little pigs in the fairytale are a subset of the little piggies in the rhyme. Ha, I always thought that too. Just seemed to make sense.
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Feb 10, 2021 19:16
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In more than one chewable book, they are illustrated as doing shopping, so I think we can all be forgiven for not questioning it further.
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Feb 10, 2021 19:55
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Torquemada posted:In fact they easily eat people, according to multiple gangster legends. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNYc-6EG1kI
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Feb 10, 2021 20:23
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Beachcomber posted:In more than one chewable book, they are illustrated as doing shopping, so I think we can all be forgiven for not questioning it further. All books are chewable imo
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Feb 10, 2021 20:26
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Beachcomber posted:In more than one chewable book, they are illustrated as doing shopping, so I think we can all be forgiven for not questioning it further. All books are at least a little chewable
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Failed Imagineer posted:All books are chewable imo Phy posted:All books are at least a little chewable I love this website.
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Feb 10, 2021 20:49
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Goons can have a little book to chew, as a treat.
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Feb 11, 2021 05:00
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Always thought "This little piggy went to market" was a pun, at least that's why I thought it was funny. I was telling someone a day or two ago that a pig will absolutely eat another pig. There's also those pig scenes from the movies Snatch and Hannibal.
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Feb 11, 2021 06:24
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I learned a little while ago that a chicken will eat another chicken, and in fact if you have one that acquires a taste for its fellow fowl, you need to separate it out because it will just keep attacking them. A friend of mine who has chickens lost a hen when one of his other hens turned nasty, and then he saw it start attacking a third one.
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Feb 11, 2021 06:36
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Memento posted:I learned a little while ago that a chicken will eat another chicken, and in fact if you have one that acquires a taste for its fellow fowl, you need to separate it out because it will just keep attacking them. A friend of mine who has chickens lost a hen when one of his other hens turned nasty, and then he saw it start attacking a third one. Yeah, there was a TLC or Discovery show where one person who raised chickens was trying to figure out which one of their chickens was pecking the delicious brains out of the other hens in the coop at night, like a murder mystery.
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Feb 11, 2021 07:19
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mostlygray posted:To be fair, piggies would be very happy to eat roast beef. Their favorite food is bacon (seems creepy , but it's true). Any scraps are good. They can eat everything. I remember hearing about how a pig happily ate its own remains after being freshly gelded.
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Feb 11, 2021 09:15
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christmas boots posted:Wasten't wantn't
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Feb 11, 2021 13:39
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I just accidentally discovered that clicking on your username on the forums main index takes you to your profile. All these years whenever I had to find it for some reason I'd go hunting for one of my posts so I could click the profile button. I thought that was a logout link
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MariusLecter posted:Always thought "This little piggy went to market" was a pun I give up. How?
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Feb 12, 2021 04:07
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Presumably as pigs are taken to market to be sold/butchered, but as the other piggies are doing things like having/not having roast beef there's the humor of it going off to market to do the daily shopping.
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Feb 12, 2021 04:10
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I just found out that this is from an Avengers movie. It is not from Gran Torino.
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Baron von Eevl posted:Presumably as pigs are taken to market to be sold/butchered, but as the other piggies are doing things like having/not having roast beef there's the humor of it going off to market to do the daily shopping. That's not a pun.
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