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It's completely obvious; of course people in the early part of the 20th century called the 1890s "the Nineties", why wouldn't they? But it always throws me for a loop a little when I see it.
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I love how it's hard to judge by the fashion if this was published in the early 20th century or the 21st
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Byzantine posted:It's completely obvious; of course people in the early part of the 20th century called the 1890s "the Nineties", why wouldn't they? But it always throws me for a loop a little when I see it. These articles also keep referring to the 1850's as "The 50's" and remarking on it as a "simpler time" which also throws me when it's about some Civil War vet's youth.
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nineties gay so what
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barbecue at the folks posted:I love how it's hard to judge by the fashion if this was published in the early 20th century or the 21st Gay fashion is eternally cool
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If it's not annoying to ask in this thread: I was possibly interested in starting a thread where I post intriguing bits of trivia and historical anecdotes about my home city of Rochester, NY that I dig out of the archives. I've come across a lot of compelling characters, interesting tales, and cool buildings long-demolished that I think would be cool. Only thing is I'm not sure what would be the most appropriate forum for it. Where should I post something like that?
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Brawnfire posted:If it's not annoying to ask in this thread: I was possibly interested in starting a thread where I post intriguing bits of trivia and historical anecdotes about my home city of Rochester, NY that I dig out of the archives. I've come across a lot of compelling characters, interesting tales, and cool buildings long-demolished that I think would be cool. Only thing is I'm not sure what would be the most appropriate forum for it. Where should I post something like that? Make a pyf thread and post your favorite Rochester pictures. I'll read it. All I know about Rochester is Kodak and the university.
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DeadlyMuffin posted:Make a pyf thread and post your favorite Rochester pictures. I'll read it. All I know about Rochester is Kodak and the university. ...and another university 
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Brawnfire posted:If it's not annoying to ask in this thread: I was possibly interested in starting a thread where I post intriguing bits of trivia and historical anecdotes about my home city of Rochester, NY that I dig out of the archives. I've come across a lot of compelling characters, interesting tales, and cool buildings long-demolished that I think would be cool. Only thing is I'm not sure what would be the most appropriate forum for it. Where should I post something like that? imo its fine to post about a local weirdo, but posting about why a street got its name is bad (unless its named after the weirdo) heres bad: i was in rochester like 20 years ago for a wedding, but before the night some of us went out to get hosed up, which turned out to be hard when im the only one over 21 and walmart wouldnt accept a danish drivers license. i was like "do you see the 19xx on there? what could it possibly mean other than my birth year" but dude was liek nope. thats my rochester story. hope yall name a street after me
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A fair number of the city streets around here are, in fact, named for the important figures of the city's history, from founding families to tycoons to mayors, but I'm usually a bit bored by the "important" folks. Many other streets are named for whatever guy owned the land the street was cut through; while often they were a rich businessman, sometimes they were just some freak with a shack on a huge plot. So while interesting stories can come from street names, usually on their own they're not very interesting. Oh wow, Front Street was Market Street, which was itself Mason Street prior to that? My gosh! I tend to be most interested in old buildings that have served numerous purposes, and the stories from newspaper archives about the strange events that happened in them. Walking past an edifice and thinking "wow, that looks old" then discovering an horrific event that happened there in 1889 is a mind-blow every time.
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DACK FAYDEN posted:Xerox too! I had no idea about Xerox! I only know about Kodak because I wondered why so many of the optical engineers I met came from the University of Rochester.
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In my hometown a friend of mine emancipated herself in the middle of the JNCO and edgelord industrial pase everybody went through and moved into a house in a new development. Turns out the first person to move on to a street gets to name it and that's why there's a Katana Drive in Maine
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DACK FAYDEN posted:...and another university This vile South Henrietta Institute of Technology erasure won't stand!  Yeah, I attended RIT. 
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Trabant posted:This vile South Henrietta Institute of Technology erasure won't stand! Hey, fellow Tiger *sultry roar*
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go for it brawnfire ps my cousins father in law worked for kodak
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I am working on a [hopefully] decent OP and will drop a link in here when I'm done. I'm gonna open it up to anyone who has weird info about their hometown/town of choice. Thanks for letting me bend your ear about this serious and important issue. Edit: thread is up: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4017351 Brawnfire has a new favorite as of 07:18 on Nov 12, 2022 |
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I came across a Swedish poem from 1660 that was surprisingly vulgar, especially as it was written by a dude with the impossibly aristocratic name George Stiernhielm. Rough translation by me: The king's prick we must praise As it brought us peace and comfort The queen's pussy we should also honor As it brought us beloved peace Were the king without balls There'd still be shooting from our walls Now he has tools and wit Every man looks towards the peace A French cock and a Spanish oval office Taught us best how to come to peace God gave us peace in our time gently caress may he who wishes Here is the original Swedish if someone want to look at it or attempt a better translation, mine was quick and dirty. I can't make much sense of the first line of the second paragraph in Swedish, so there's definitely room for improvement. Kungens basse bör vi prisa som oss bragte frid och lisa, drottningens mus bör och ära, som oss bragte freden kära. Vore kungar utan ballar skötes än från våra vallar. Nu han redskap har och råder var man sig åt freden gläder, en fransk kuk och en spansk fitta, lärd' oss bäst på freden hitta. Gud gav fred i våra dagar, knulla må som den behagar.
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I forgot to mention, the poem was written in celebration of the end of the Franco-Spanish war. The peace treaty depended on a marriage between King Louis XIV of France and princess Maria Theresa of Spain - the French cock and the Spanish oval office in the poem.
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I propose that we also adopt Fransk and Spansk as the adjectives for those countries.
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Spansk sounds like a slur against people who like being spanked.
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girl dick energy posted:Spansk sounds like a slur against people who like being spanked. Which is weird, because the French are the other word!
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girl dick energy posted:Spansk sounds like a slur against people who like being spanked. In Norway teachers used a stick made out of bamboo called spanskrøret (the spanish tube) for corporal punishment.
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girl dick energy posted:Spansk sounds like a slur against people who like being spanked. Don’t give the moderators of CD any ideas.
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Offler posted:I came across a Swedish poem from 1660 that was surprisingly vulgar, especially as it was written by a dude with the impossibly aristocratic name George Stiernhielm. Makes sense - a lot of the poetry of the era was remarkably vulgar. He’s no Bellman, but ol’ Stiernhielm could get nice and bawdy when he felt like it. Side note: all of Stiernhielm’s fancy portraits depict him with his left hand forward or his right concealed. The reason? He lost his right hand in a bar fight, and we can date his writings based on the handwriting changes. His major notable work is Hercules at the Crossroads, which is baroque as gently caress. Had a great seminar in grad school that spent a few weeks going through his work, and always enjoyed it.
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here's some cool underwater 3d scans of sunken 300 year old merchant vessels that were just discovered by the Sea War Museum Jutland 
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Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy was the prime minister of the Dutch government in exile during World War 2. He was a member of the Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP). The party leadership adhered to a weird neo-Calvinism that somehow led them to the conclusion that Nazi Germany wouldn't have conquered The Netherlands if God didn't allow it. As such, they believed that Gerbrandy, and other ARP politicians who chose to flee rather than stay behind, had gone against the prevalent theology of the party. So they wanted to boot Gerbrandy from the party. However, being the second most visible member of the government in exile after Queen Wilhelmina, they were worried about a popular backlash if they removed him for not just taking the German invasion like the party wanted him to. In the end, they found an acceptable excuse in the party bylaws - Gerbrandy was expelled from the party for moving without filing a proper notification of change of address with the party secretary.
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In an alternate, some would say better, timeline the cycloped (a train powered by horses) from 1829 beat trains powered by steam:
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Where do the poops go
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Off the end of the treadmill and onto the tracks.
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ArcMage posted:Off the end of the treadmill and onto the tracks. yea p much like regular trains or planes
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Alhazred posted:In an alternate, some would say better, timeline the cycloped (a train powered by horses) from 1829 beat trains powered by steam: I always loved the horse trolleys my city had before 1890 (fond memories from my pre-vampirism days) so I'd be 100% on board with this. The Equus Express 
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the old train carts from iirc the 1960s that were still in use from my hometown to my high school had toilets that opened onto the tracks like planes or dave matthews tour buses. i dont remember exactly when they started locking the toilet doors, but it was in the 1990s, and since then its a new set of carts without toilets at all
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Carthag Tuek posted:the old train carts from iirc the 1960s that were still in use from my hometown to my high school had toilets that opened onto the tracks like planes or dave matthews tour buses. i dont remember exactly when they started locking the toilet doors, but it was in the 1990s, and since then its a new set of carts without toilets at all so you just poo poo where ever you please?
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There was a horse car line in Denver where the horse got to ride in the back on the downhill part of the line
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ChubbyChecker posted:so you just poo poo where ever you please? there are irl public toilets in denmark but back in 00 or 01 i was taking the last train to a new years eve party, about 10-10:30pm and i really had to piss, like 5 min emergency. the train toilets were locked off since the 90s & i didnt feel right about pissing on the floor so i went up to the engine and asked the guy if he could hold up for a minute so i could step out and take a leak. he was like "no way im stopping, im going home after. you can step out and watch me leave or piss out the door" so alright, i slid open a door and held it with my shoulder while i drunkenly pissed out into the forest at 50 mph. cold air and sleet made me feel sober for a minute but i absolutely wasnt. for some reason i did not fall out the train & get cut in half by a tree, so i got back to the engine & thanked the man. ten minutes later we were at our destination, fresh and energized except the friend who invited me had gone to bed
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Carthag Tuek posted:there are irl public toilets in denmark but back in 00 or 01 i was taking the last train to a new years eve party, about 10-10:30pm and i really had to piss, like 5 min emergency. the train toilets were locked off since the 90s & i didnt feel right about pissing on the floor so i went up to the engine and asked the guy if he could hold up for a minute so i could step out and take a leak. he was like "no way im stopping, im going home after. you can step out and watch me leave or piss out the door" so alright, i slid open a door and held it with my shoulder while i drunkenly pissed out into the forest at 50 mph. cold air and sleet made me feel sober for a minute but i absolutely wasnt. for some reason i did not fall out the train & get cut in half by a tree, so i got back to the engine & thanked the man. ten minutes later we were at our destination, fresh and energized except the friend who invited me had gone to bed lmao
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Carthag Tuek posted:the last train to a new years eve party, about 10-10:30pm lmao
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