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Take the plunge! Okay! posted:It was the excessive clubbing Cirrhosis is a bad way to go
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1 posted:Huh. So very many paintings and statues totally gave me the wrong idea. Just an old Germanic tradition.
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1 posted:Huh. So very many paintings and statues totally gave me the wrong idea. Lots of women just stumbling over corpses and dragging them away.
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1 posted:Huh. So very many paintings and statues totally gave me the wrong idea. Christianity used to be way more goth.
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Zopotantor posted:Just an old Germanic tradition. There is a lot in this wiki link, recommend everyone read it.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Christianity used to be way more goth. Goths wish they could be as goth as Catholics, those people pour brackish water on babies while they wear black outfits with blood red shoes
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lmao if you dont wash your baby in piss and vinegar
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BasicLich posted:Goths wish they could be as goth as Catholics, those people pour brackish water on babies while they wear black outfits with blood red shoes I have said that sufficiently advanced Catholicism is indistinguishable from being hella goth, and vice versa.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I have said that sufficiently advanced Catholicism is indistinguishable from being hella goth, and vice versa. You know, I've been meaning to post this somewhere so here goes:  More here: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cc1RhQJLO8D
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I have said that sufficiently advanced Catholicism is indistinguishable from being hella goth, and vice versa. Weird flex when the real goths all know that Jesus was begotten some time after creation by God the Father, rather than being co-eternal with the Father. Stealing goth valour if you ask me.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Weird flex when the real goths all know that Jesus was begotten some time after creation by God the Father, rather than being co-eternal with the Father. Stealing goth valour if you ask me.
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girl dick energy posted:Humans really will go to holy war with each other over absolutely anything, won’t they? I know right, next they'll start talking about how the Spirit emanates from both the Father and the Son, rather than the Father alone.
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girl dick energy posted:Humans really will go to holy war with each other over absolutely anything, won’t they? https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/immovable-ladder-church-holy-sepulchre
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Sometimes, “people have always been people and will always be people” is more depressing than inspiring.
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Not enough people are buried upside down with a rock in their mouth these days. It's just a matter of time before we end up getting 
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Because the English used to use idiot hell money instead of decimal currency, they had "£1/19/11¾" instead of 1,99. (I.e. one farthing under two pounds sterling.) e: Or 19/11¾ instead of 0,99.
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0.99 dkk would be 2 mark 15 ¹³⁄₂₅ skilling if i did my math right (2 kroner = 1 daler = 6 mark, 1 mark = 16 skilling, so we have 1 øre = ¹²⁄₂₅ skilling less than 3 mark)
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You can't blame everything in England on the Danes. Or actually...
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English are just Island Danes.
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Wasn't British currency so notoriously nonsensical that looking at how someone handles loose change was a legitimate strategy for rooting out spies during WW2?
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Sobatchja Morda posted:Wasn't British currency so notoriously nonsensical that looking at how someone handles loose change was a legitimate strategy for rooting out spies during WW2? I think about 100% of spies just went and turned themselves in, hoping to switch sides?
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German agents were overall pretty terrible and got caught often. They'd bring in foreign products like German toiletries and sausages, drive on the wrong side of the road, try to get into a pub that's closed under wartime regulations, etc. The most infamously bad was probably Werner von Janowski. He was dropped off via submarine in Canada and was immediately noted as a spy because he was wearing a European-style suit that smelled like he had been on a submarine all day, had the wrong accent for Quebecois French, didn't know the bus schedules, and had old money and occupied Belgian matches. As soon as the police even started questioning him he just went "All right, fine, I'm a spy."
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FreudianSlippers posted:English are just Island Danes. Denmark, famous for not having any islands.
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Philippe posted:Denmark, famous for not having any islands. Like England.
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There's also Operation Pastorius and the Duquesne Spy Ring in the US. Both cases were full of german-american immigrants who had all the advantages of fitting in, except woops, multiple members immediately flipped. Not to mention Canaris himself was anti-Hitler.
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Philippe posted:Denmark, famous for not having any islands. As soon as you can drive to an Island over a bridge it stops being an Island and becomes a bespoke peninsula.
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Sobatchja Morda posted:Wasn't British currency so notoriously nonsensical that looking at how someone handles loose change was a legitimate strategy for rooting out spies during WW2? I wouldn't say "nonsensical" (the actual currency was not that complicated at all) but there was a lot of slang for the numerous coins and the usage of it could be quite subtle and i could see that as an easy way to catch people out. Sweevo has a new favorite as of 14:39 on Jul 18, 2022 |
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Some German spies got caught at the Battle of the Bulge because their military IDs spelled "Identification" correctly, while authentic American ones had a typo - "Indentification".
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Chamale posted:Some German spies got caught at the Battle of the Bulge because their military IDs spelled "Identification" correctly, while authentic American ones had a typo - "Indentification". My military passport has four consecutive Rs instead of the correct three on the official stamp of the unit. But I'm not a German spy, so it checks out.
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Sounds like exactly what a german spy would say
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Sounds like exactly what a german spy would say At last ... Welcome, comrade. Welcome. Sit down. Rest your weary elbows. You'll take a glass of vodka?
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My favorite was that german spy who was stopped by the police in the UK when bicycling on the wrong side of the road, with German sausages and Nivea hand cream in his bag.
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https://twitter.com/beijingpalmer/status/1549139124514439169?s=21&t=QUz_j1q4Hk141QZegCHOGQ
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Apparently there used to be guns made specifically for cyclists, for defence against angry dogs.
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Sobatchja Morda posted:Wasn't British currency so notoriously nonsensical that looking at how someone handles loose change was a legitimate strategy for rooting out spies during WW2? That was the case in Australia too, until we ditched the pound in favour of decimal currrency. The UK didn't make the same change until 1971. The change was welcomed by pretty much everyone. The only person I've ever met who actually preferred pre-decimal currency had such a severe case of boomer brain-spiders that she thought it was giving in to people too stupid to figure out the old system.
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Bullshit. I've seen the British Pathé videos from decimalization. The olds are mad as hell
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Gaius Marius posted:Bullshit. I've seen the British Pathé videos from decimalization. The olds are mad as hell Olds gonna old.
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Jasper Tin Neck posted:Apparently there used to be guns made specifically for cyclists, for defence against angry dogs. huh, we kind of still have those in Denmark. Little plastic guns that shoot a kind of blank, only used New Year's Eve by children too small for fireworks, but they are indeed called "hundeproppistol" (dog-cork-pistol)
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