Chamale posted:

Dolphins are known for pushing stranded swimmers to shore, but they'll also sometimes push swimmers deep out into the ocean. Dolphins are assholes and like pushing people.

Marcade posted:

So you're saying we need to build ocean stairs?

Brawnfire posted:

JESUS CHRIST IT'S A SEA LION GET IN THE CAR

Edgar Allen Ho posted:

There's one person who got drowned by a leopard seal. Getting dragged down like that is terrifying to imagine.

exquisite tea posted:

Incidentally this is also why most hardcore endurance athletes are highly anxious people.

boofhead posted:

Sorry I might be too tired but could you/someone explain this please? I'm not following but I am curious

chitoryu12 posted:

Duff McKagan and Anthony Kiedis are both very ripped because they took up exercise and martial arts as an addictive substitute for stuff like heroin.

boofhead posted:

Ahh that makes sense, thank you

I got turned about on the cause/effect and thought they were saying that if you run long enough, you eventually unveil some sort of primal cosmic horror

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Jimmy Carter knew how to get an audience to pay attention. In a speech given during the US President’s 1977 visit to Poland, he appeared to express sexual desire for the then-Communist country. Or that’s what his interpreter said, anyway. It turned out Carter had said he wanted to learn about the Polish people’s ‘desires for the future’.

Earning a place in history, his interpreter also turned “I left the United States this morning” into “I left the United States, never to return”; according to Time magazine, even the innocent statement that Carter was happy to be in Poland became the claim that “he was happy to grasp at Poland's private parts”.

Unsurprisingly, the President used a different interpreter when he gave a toast at a state banquet later in the same trip – but his woes didn’t end there. After delivering his first line, Carter paused, to be met with silence. After another line, he was again followed by silence. The new interpreter, who couldn’t understand the President’s English, had decided his best policy was to keep quiet. By the time Carter’s trip ended, he had become the punchline for many a Polish joke.

Chamale posted:

Dolphins are known for pushing stranded swimmers to shore, but they'll also sometimes push swimmers deep out into the ocean. Dolphins are assholes and like pushing people.

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In the contract, the father of a wrestler named Nicantinous agrees to pay a bribe to the guarantors (likely the trainers) of another wrestler named Demetrius. Both wrestlers were set to compete in the final wrestling match of the 138th Great Antinoeia, an important series of regional games held along with a religious festival in Antinopolis, in Egypt. They were in the boys' division, which was generally reserved for teenagers.

The contract stipulates that Demetrius "when competing in the competition for the boy [wrestlers], to fall three times and yield," and in return would receive "three thousand eight hundred drachmas of silver of old coinage …"

There were no pins in this Greek style of wrestling, and the goal of the wrestlers was to throw the other to the ground three times. A wide array of holds and throws were used, a few of which look a bit like a body slam.

The contract includes a clause that Demetrius is still to be paid if the judges realize the match is fixed and refuse to reward Nicantinous the win. If "the crown is reserved as sacred, (we) are not to institute proceedings against him about these things," the contract reads. It also says that if Demetrius reneges on the deal, and wins the match anyway, then "you are of necessity to pay as penalty to my [same] son on account of wrongdoing three talents of silver of old coinage without any delay or inventive argument."

Carthag Tuek posted:

https://www.livescience.com/44867-ancient-wrestling-match-was-fixed.html

Carthag Tuek posted:

https://www.livescience.com/44867-ancient-wrestling-match-was-fixed.html

3D Megadoodoo posted:

The latest two movies produced by John Landis were called Some Guy Who Kills People and I Hate Kids

BooDooBoo posted:

Yeah, but his kid is Max Landis, so it makes sense at least.

3D Megadoodoo posted:

I don't know who that is. I was thinking of the two children he murdered.

3D Megadoodoo posted:

I don't know who that is. I was thinking of the two children he murdered.

Le Faye Morgaine posted:

Bound up into the chest or binding each individual titty?

Samovar posted:

Oh, something that I think might be of interest; primarily because I tried googling it first and it was of no help, so I had to actually write to someone on YouTube to ask about it:

In China, there was an unpleasant tradition that I suspect many people have heard of - tianzu, or the act of binding women's feet so that they were deliberately malformed and stunted.

However, there was another widespread form of socially-enforced body modification of women that isn't as well known, even though it was something early Chinese feminists fought against during the Communist years; tianru (or, as it was incorrectly written [or maybe translated from a different dialect] as: tianyou). Apparently, it was a done thing form women to have their breasts bound up very tightly as well - yet it's not something I've heard of, despite hearing of tianzu.

bulletsponge13 posted:

If you are American, Foot Binding was 36% of what public education taught you about China.

BalloonFish posted:

That was Shackleton, who had Mrs. Chippy...

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For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry.
For he is the servant of the Living God duly and daily serving him.
For at the first glance of the glory of God in the East he worships in his way.
For this is done by wreathing his body seven times round with elegant quickness.
For then he leaps up to catch the musk, which is the blessing of God upon his prayer.
For he rolls upon prank to work it in.
For having done duty and received blessing he begins to consider himself.
For this he performs in ten degrees.
For first he looks upon his forepaws to see if they are clean.
For secondly he kicks up behind to clear away there.
For thirdly he works it upon stretch with the forepaws extended.
For fourthly he sharpens his paws by wood.
For fifthly he washes himself.
For sixthly he rolls upon wash.
For seventhly he fleas himself, that he may not be interrupted upon the beat.
For eighthly he rubs himself against a post.
For ninthly he looks up for his instructions.
For tenthly he goes in quest of food.
For having consider’d God and himself he will consider his neighbour.
For if he meets another cat he will kiss her in kindness.
For when he takes his prey he plays with it to give it a chance.
For one mouse in seven escapes by his dallying.
For when his day’s work is done his business more properly begins.
For he keeps the Lord’s watch in the night against the adversary.
For he counteracts the powers of darkness by his electrical skin and glaring eyes.
For he counteracts the Devil, who is death, by brisking about the life.
For in his morning orisons he loves the sun and the sun loves him.
For he is of the tribe of Tiger.
For the Cherub Cat is a term of the Angel Tiger.
For he has the subtlety and hissing of a serpent, which in goodness he suppresses.
For he will not do destruction, if he is well-fed, neither will he spit without provocation.
For he purrs in thankfulness, when God tells him he’s a good Cat.
For he is an instrument for the children to learn benevolence upon.
For every house is incomplete without him and a blessing is lacking in the spirit.
For the Lord commanded Moses concerning the cats at the departure of the Children of Israel from Egypt.
For every family had one cat at least in the bag.
For the English Cats are the best in Europe.
For he is the cleanest in the use of his forepaws of any quadruped.
For the dexterity of his defence is an instance of the love of God to him exceedingly.
For he is the quickest to his mark of any creature.
For he is tenacious of his point.
For he is a mixture of gravity and waggery.
For he knows that God is his Saviour.
For there is nothing sweeter than his peace when at rest.
For there is nothing brisker than his life when in motion.
For he is of the Lord’s poor and so indeed is he called by benevolence perpetually–Poor Jeoffry! poor Jeoffry! the rat has bit thy throat.
For I bless the name of the Lord Jesus that Jeoffry is better.
For the divine spirit comes about his body to sustain it in complete cat.
For his tongue is exceeding pure so that it has in purity what it wants in music.
For he is docile and can learn certain things.
For he can set up with gravity which is patience upon approbation.
For he can fetch and carry, which is patience in employment.
For he can jump over a stick which is patience upon proof positive.
For he can spraggle upon waggle at the word of command.
For he can jump from an eminence into his master’s bosom.
For he can catch the cork and toss it again.
For he is hated by the hypocrite and miser.
For the former is afraid of detection.
For the latter refuses the charge.
For he camels his back to bear the first notion of business.
For he is good to think on, if a man would express himself neatly.
For he made a great figure in Egypt for his signal services.
For he killed the Ichneumon-rat very pernicious by land.
For his ears are so acute that they sting again.
For from this proceeds the passing quickness of his attention.
For by stroking of him I have found out electricity.
For I perceived God’s light about him both wax and fire.
For the Electrical fire is the spiritual substance, which God sends from heaven to sustain the bodies both of man and beast.
For God has blessed him in the variety of his movements.
For, tho he cannot fly, he is an excellent clamberer.
For his motions upon the face of the earth are more than any other quadruped.
For he can tread to all the measures upon the music.
For he can swim for life.
For he can creep.

bulletsponge13 posted:

Odd Q- I know German Armor kill numbers are totally suspect and unreliable- how accurate are the Luftwaffe kill numbers?

Carthag Tuek posted:

For he counteracts the powers of darkness by his electrical skin and glaring eyes.
(...)
For his ears are so acute that they sting again.

Ariong posted: