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On the horse thing my understanding is the opposition to horse arose a few times in Europe, mostly as an objection to pagan excess cause it got linked to that somehow. So whenever the Catholics cycled into a crackdown on overt decadence it became taboo. And of course when protestantism came about it became part of the puritan poo poo. Hence it being standard in the US. Australia also inherited it cause it was in vogue in England when we were colonised.
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Forceholy posted:To be fair, the book ends with the buildings not blowing up because he hosed up the explosive mixture and he does end up in an insane asylum; most of the orderlies, however, are part of project mayhem and are waiting for Tyler to come back. The movie, which is massively superior, is canon though
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The way to win the Winter Olympics is by quarantining all the non china athletes!
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/art/artists/ai-weiwei-obvious-covid-not-natural-disease-something-leaked/ 5000 years of
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Austen Tassletine posted:I seem to recall a few years ago some minor celebrity decided to do a little publicity stunt by serving horse meat outside the grand national, or Ascot, or one of those. I think the police moved her on very quickly, which I remember thinking at the time was a bit harsh and an abuse of police power. Especially as horse meat is lovely. In the UK, a while back horse meat end up in the supply chain of a number of ready meal manufacturers - there was something of a fracas and places were tested for horse meat. One person, maybe a member of the House of Lords or otherwise part of our weird Gentry that give commands in our country, said that folks ought to eat more horse in order to impress a higher value in horses in the public as there had been a growing problem of horses being abandoned by previous owners unwilling or unable to keep with the costs of owning a horse. One theory I read was that an European country, or two, had passed laws against horse ownership or something, or otherwise passed laws so that Roma didn't find it viable to keep the horses they used, so a bunch of local Roma and other travellers had to sell off their horses. Eventually the cheap horse meat ended up in microwave meals in the UK.
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Paper Lion posted:https://www.telegraph.co.uk/art/artists/ai-weiwei-obvious-covid-not-natural-disease-something-leaked/ Man my respect for Ai Weiwei has just plummeted these last few years. Really shown himself to be a dumbass
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I am not an Ai Weiwei, so I cannot comment.
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In Olympics news China apparently just nationalized the entire Kunlun Red Star hockey team of the KHL to represent China in ice hockey: https://twitter.com/KRSchina/status/1486734379372089345?s=20&t=OLDKUjnUEXYWp01RofW7jQ Kunlun is dead last in the KHL
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I was gonna say that roster doesn't look as foreign as I was expecting, but there's some name trickery going on there where they're listing canadian dudes by their chinese name
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https://twitter.com/ehundman/status/1487166131811012612?s=21 This Mao guy seems like a real jerk
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Champion of the working class and personal icon of C-SPAM and R Guyovich, everyone.
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One of Mao's most unsung accomplishments was making Kissinger seem like a good and reasonable man.
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Mao was a good troll. Shame about the deaths.
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Happy Year of the Water Tiger China Thread people! May it's roar bring only joy, happiness and fun times for all.
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thetoughestbean posted:https://twitter.com/ehundman/status/1487166131811012612?s=21 From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs
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Devils Affricate posted:From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs What if my primary ability is shitposting?
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Atopian posted:What if my primary ability is shitposting? then speak friend and enter
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Achmed Jones posted:then speak friend and enter *farts*
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gong hei fat choi may you all have prosperous and lovely posts
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Booty Pageant posted:gong hei fat choi Speaking of posting lovely things, in celebration of CNY everyone post your poon choi
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it's a lunar new year miracle! noted piece of poo poo, Shintaro Ishihara, has died https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/shintaro-ishihara-japanese-politician-who-set-off-row-with-china-dies-89-nhk-2022-02-01/ rest in piss
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Smeef posted:Speaking of posting lovely things, in celebration of CNY everyone post your poon choi Image didn't attach -- here's the Boschian nightmare I chowed down on last night. I actually like a lot of the delicacies that most people find awful, but something about cramming it all in one pot and makes it less appetizing.
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I hope everyone got their sweet tiger hong baos!
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tried to put down some century egg out of politeness last night, actually it was alright smothered in chilis though
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Nenonen posted:In the Chinese version of Planet of the Apes, Charlton Heston still finds the ruins of the Statue of Liberty. Then a caption explains that PRC navy noticed the lone man while patrolling the coast of the Destroyed Continent, and took him to safety. If it isn't real it should be.
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Strategic Tea posted:I love you, Doctor Xius Please mods, make this the thread title.
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Smeef posted:Image didn't attach -- here's the Boschian nightmare I chowed down on last night. I actually like a lot of the delicacies that most people find awful, but something about cramming it all in one pot and makes it less appetizing. It looks exactly like an open manhole on a street in a chinese restaurant district. I had a very slight gag reflex looking at the picture.
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Blistex posted:It looks exactly like an open manhole on a street in a chinese restaurant district. I had a very slight gag reflex looking at the picture. 
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Mr. Fix It posted:it's a lunar new year miracle! noted piece of poo poo, Shintaro Ishihara, has died Who says good things never happen
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quote:One of his more notorious remarks came after the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami that killed nearly 20,000 people, when he said the disaster was "divine punishment" for Japanese "egoism". I mean if that was divine punishment for Japanese egoism the gods must have been sleeping because it came like 80 years too late
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crosspost
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Mr. Fix It posted:crosspost Is there even a pattern here? It just seems random.
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Devils Affricate posted:Is there even a pattern here? It just seems random. I took me a minute they vaguely look like the Latin letters
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eSports Chaebol posted:I took me a minute Oh my god
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It's not wrong though. It's technically an alphabet in Chinese, using Chinese graphs as symbols for phonemes.
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Lmao
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Rabelais D posted:It's not wrong though. It's technically an alphabet in Chinese, using Chinese graphs as symbols for phonemes. 下臼匹水 了口臼
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Mr. Fix It posted:下臼匹水 了口臼 Woah, I can read Chinese!
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Mr. Fix It posted:crosspost almost as good as wade-giles
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