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I use 90% rubbing alcohol on a Brillo pad to remove every last drop of disgusting oil from my skin each night before tucking in
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# ? Feb 1, 2023 01:07 |
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# ? Jun 10, 2024 12:31 |
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Antonymous posted:I use 90% rubbing alcohol on a Brillo pad to remove every last drop of disgusting oil from my skin each night before tucking in Can I turn you on to MEK? you get a nice white kind of frosted look that lets you know an area is dry before moving on.
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# ? Feb 1, 2023 01:31 |
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Antonymous posted:I use 90% rubbing alcohol on a Brillo pad to remove every last drop of disgusting oil from my skin each night before tucking in Bro do you even deoleanate? 50:50 acetone:ethyl acetate mix applied by a power washer is the only way to degrease after a long day.
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# ? Feb 2, 2023 04:02 |
Stop being weird as gently caress about your body imo
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# ? Feb 2, 2023 04:13 |
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never
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# ? Feb 2, 2023 04:15 |
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I wash my body with water and soap :^)
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# ? Feb 2, 2023 05:18 |
Why would you wash your body that's just stripping away the natural protective coating of sweat and grime that makes you waterproof, like an otter or sloth
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# ? Feb 2, 2023 06:08 |
Bathe at a normal rate and dont scour yourself in some vain and impossible attempt at purification,
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# ? Feb 2, 2023 06:11 |
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Endman posted:I wash myself with a rag on a stick :^)
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# ? Feb 2, 2023 06:12 |
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Slavvy posted:Why would you wash your body that's just stripping away the natural protective coating of sweat and grime that makes you waterproof, like an otter or sloth I have a healthy coat of algae
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# ? Feb 2, 2023 10:33 |
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Endman posted:I wash my body with water and soap :^) ban this sick filth
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# ? Feb 2, 2023 10:34 |
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Riot Bimbo posted:Stop being weird as gently caress about your body imo That's what I think too but everybody else thinks I'm weird about my body.
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# ? Feb 2, 2023 11:30 |
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Slavvy posted:Why would you wash your body that's just stripping away the natural protective coating of sweat and grime that makes you waterproof, like an otter or sloth this is why strigillation is the only correct way, and the greeks are the most superior culture
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# ? Feb 2, 2023 12:35 |
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100% chance they stole it from Egyptians Phoenicians and/or Scythians like the rest of their so-called culture
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# ? Feb 2, 2023 14:57 |
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That's Persian erasure!
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# ? Feb 3, 2023 04:51 |
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weren't Scythians Persians I get the swana ethnicities and empires mixed up all the time I need to study a map or something. looking one up on Wikipedia every 6 weeks and going "oh yeah" hasn't made it cross into long term memory
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# ? Feb 3, 2023 16:53 |
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indigi posted:weren't Scythians Persians no, the Scythians were settled north of the black sea in modern ukraine, russia, and romania. they were related to the Parthians, the people that moved south and displaced the Persians as the rulers of the former Persian empire.
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# ? Feb 3, 2023 17:05 |
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WoodrowSkillson posted:no, the Scythians were settled north of the black sea in modern ukraine, russia, and romania. they were related to the Parthians, the people that moved south and displaced the Persians as the rulers of the former Persian empire.
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# ? Feb 3, 2023 17:11 |
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A Buttery Pastry posted:but all of them were iranian peoples, right? yes but im fairly certain either one would punch you if you claimed they were the same in 500BC
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# ? Feb 3, 2023 17:12 |
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WoodrowSkillson posted:yes but im fairly certain either one would punch you if you claimed they were the same in 500BC
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# ? Feb 3, 2023 17:24 |
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A Buttery Pastry posted:i imagine it's kinda similar to scandinavians going to england except more successful? persians and scythians are of the same broad iranian ethnic group but had an entirely separate cultures. Different languages, gods, traditions, one is settles and one is nomadic, etc. The Parni were a smaller tribe similar to or directly related to the Scythians from somewhere around modern Turkmenistan/kazakstan. They took over a breakaway Seleucid kingdom in the place called Parthia, took its name, and then eventually dominated the rest of the former persian empire. They adopted most of the local persian/hellenic customs and such and are similar in that respect to the Yuan dynasty in China where the mongols won the war but essentially just assimilated into chinese culture. So its kinda like if the Vikings were more permanent in their takeover, though the religious difference between Christianity and "paganism" was a significantly larger barrier at that time than when parthians were a'conquering . It really is wild how back then people just kind of assumed all the thousands of other gods were either the same as their by other names, or simply co existed. Its a pretty stark difference to the far more polarized world of the middle ages and beyond in Europe and the Mediterranean where Christianity, Islam, and paganism were almost entirely diametrically opposed and conquering people of the other religion meant either forced assimilation/genocide or very uneasy arrangements that flared up constantly.
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# ? Feb 3, 2023 17:41 |
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indigi posted:weren't Scythians Persians Scythians were as far as I recall just the name the Greek world gave to the multiethnic tribal confederations of mostly Indo-European speakers that roamed the pontic steppe around 500 BC. The persians were another group of related Indo-Europeans that were settled south east of this steppe. It's a bit like saying the cossacks of 1850s were St Petersburg Russians. They could definitely have a common language, share cultural aspects, serve the same rulers and have the same genetics. But at the same time have a very different way of life and social organization. And if you could ask them they would probably identify themselves much more with those other groups of seminomadic steppe people with whom they share their lifestyles and frequently intermarry with.
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# ? Feb 3, 2023 17:45 |
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riding all day on a saddle made of meat to tenderize it for dinner. trying hard not to fart. #scythianlife
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# ? Feb 3, 2023 18:02 |
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spending the afternoon hotboxing a whole yurt with some random greek #scythianlife
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# ? Feb 3, 2023 18:07 |
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Agean90 posted:spending the afternoon hotboxing a whole yurt with some random greek #scythianlife
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# ? Feb 3, 2023 19:56 |
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Scythians also are one of the few documented ancient people to truly have female warriors that fought with the men. They also had dope tattoos that both men and women wore. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/tomb-containing-three-generations-amazon-warrior-women-unearthed-russia-180973877/ (not technically Scythian proper but all of the Steppe peoples shared a lot of culture and traditions and roamed back and forth from Greece to China.) https://siberiantimes.com/culture/others/features/siberian-princess-reveals-her-2500-year-old-tattoos/
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# ? Feb 3, 2023 20:22 |
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Supposedly the amazons were based on the scythians, someone more knowledgeable than me probably knows the full scoop but the greeks had this legend of the Amazonomachy - amazon battle, that they would sculpt and draw constantly. big battle scenes of female amazon warriors fighting greeks. I like to think of the artists who just really liked drawing women on horses stepping on soldiers.
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# ? Feb 4, 2023 00:56 |
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Communist Thoughts posted:Supposedly the amazons were based on the scythians, someone more knowledgeable than me probably knows the full scoop but the greeks had this legend of the According to Herodotus... the amazons were a race of warrior women that were beaten by the Scythians who then absorbed them and started following their tradition of letting women fight.
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# ? Feb 4, 2023 02:09 |
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Royal Scythia had cool cataphracts
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# ? Feb 4, 2023 04:53 |
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Has there ever been a nomadic warrior society where women didn't know their way around a battlefield at least a lil bit?
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# ? Feb 5, 2023 02:50 |
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War and Pieces posted:Has there ever been a nomadic warrior society where women didn't know their way around a battlefield at least a lil bit? Frankly settled agrarian societies had women who knew their way around battlefields at least a little bit. Maybe not during the thick of fighting but looting and burying and such would often include women.
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# ? Feb 5, 2023 03:03 |
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Tulip posted:Frankly settled agrarian societies had women who knew their way around battlefields at least a little bit. Maybe not during the thick of fighting but looting and burying and such would often include women.
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# ? Feb 5, 2023 04:53 |
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After firearms is a whole different situation, they're the great equalizer as far as women are concerned. In a melee a woman will almost always lose against a man, at sniping they're statistically slightly superior iirc. Yeah there's bows and stuff but you still need a lot of physical strength for those. Not sure where crossbows fit in here, I think depending on the model you still need to be strong to load them.
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# ? Feb 5, 2023 07:44 |
I'd argue edged weapons and spears make your strength irrelevant compared to skill, tactics and equipment. That being said maybe endurance comes into effect when it comes to large bodies of men/women in a pitched battle. Also didn't crossbows have windlasses so just about anyone could load just about anything
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# ? Feb 5, 2023 08:31 |
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I just remember I read this novel about the 100 years war and the one dude was a crossbowman and had this complaint about how all the dudes in his unit would become hunchbacks from how hard the loading mechanism was to operate. It does make some sense because you'd need to put at least as much energy into loading it as the bolt will have going into the enemy. Of course there might be light crossbows for home defense or something that wouldn't take much strength to load.
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# ? Feb 5, 2023 08:39 |
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home defense crossbow
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# ? Feb 5, 2023 08:40 |
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I.e. small number of opponents, without armor, at a short distance. Anyway this all ties back to the Scythians because maybe at the time riding a horse into battle was itself the wonder weapon that made strength differences irrelevant.
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# ? Feb 5, 2023 08:47 |
pidan posted:I just remember I read this novel about the 100 years war and the one dude was a crossbowman and had this complaint about how all the dudes in his unit would become hunchbacks from how hard the loading mechanism was to operate. You just do it with a crank. The magic of pulleys mean anyone can load anything if the builder could be bothered, it would be slower than just hucking it though
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# ? Feb 5, 2023 08:53 |
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I think you're looking at it wrong. One man and one woman will more often beat one man. It's not a series of individual combats. Women could make a difference in combat even if for the sake of argument they were worse at it for whatever reason.
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# ? Feb 5, 2023 09:06 |
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# ? Jun 10, 2024 12:31 |
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i'm p sure that the average peasant woman back in the day could take most goons real easy given that she'd have a lifetime of hard labor behind her as opposed to one of lumbering to the kitchen in search of more doritos and mountain dew
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