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To the world a Yankee is someone from the US. In the US it's someone from the north. In the north a Yankee is someone from New England. In New England it's someone from Vermont. In Vermont a Yankee is someone who eats pie for breakfast.
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Jun 16, 2023 11:40
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taters posted:a Yankee is someone who eats pie for breakfast. Oh God, it's me. I'm the Yankee.
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Jun 16, 2023 14:26
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sock it to me! posted:Oh God, it's me. I'm the Yankee. 
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Jun 16, 2023 16:54
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Do pop tarts count as a breakfast pie?
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Jun 16, 2023 17:05
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Brawnfire posted:Do pop tarts count as a breakfast pie? they dont count at all
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Jun 16, 2023 17:08
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Phy posted:Also I expect the 13 laeggers of freshwater are indeed barrels or drums for storing drinking water. I know "lager" in German means storage and it's likely cognate here, and in any case, when your ship is at the mercies of wind and sun, always best to top up the things you need to keep a crew alive. I was thinking about this again. The original uses "antucken" for "take on" which is decidedly not Danish (that'd be like "tage ombord"), but rather some kind of Low German (which was very common in Danish cities, crafts, trade, etc), so yeah it's likely some kind of unit. I don't see anything that fits in Wikipedia's Dutch units, afaict they're all comparable to Danish/English. A barrel would be vat/ton/fust, so that ain't it :/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_units_of_measurement That is if I'm even correct that it even means "take on board", maybe it's related to aantocht, which means approach? Which would fit with sailing a distance of 13 "legs" of fresh (maybe clear or brisk) water. Note it says "frisk" in the original, which lends itself to "brisk" rather than potable water which would be "ferskvand". Also we don't use plural -s as in "laeggers", but the genitive-s does come into play when saying like "at sea" = "til søs" (sø = sea)
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Jun 16, 2023 17:27
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Sotades, a greek poet who lived in the 3rd century BC, was all things considered not a very important poet. He is famous for his poem about Ptolemy II Philadelphus's marriage to his own sister Arsinoe II, specifically one line where he wrote "you're sticking your prick in an unholy hole." The ptolemaic pharao's measured response was to lock Sodates in a leaden chest and then throw the chest into the sea..
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Jun 18, 2023 13:49
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"Sotades nuts!" - Pharaoh
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Jun 18, 2023 14:09
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"Better the Arse u noe" - Ptolemaios II
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Jun 18, 2023 20:29
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canyoneer posted:It's also fun that in many indigenous languages the group's autonym can usually be translated as "the people" and the word for any other people is literally "not us", or "the others" when it's not a specific disparaging term like "the bird eaters" or "mud people". My favorite is the Pawnee people's autonym, translated as "Men of Men." World War I, but it's described in an alternate universe as an alliance of the Frogs, Island Monkeys, and Tschuches against the Boches, Canyon Shitters, and Saracens.
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Jun 18, 2023 22:19
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Woolie Wool posted:Canyon Shitters Not gonna lie this is a new one
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Jun 19, 2023 06:28
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Alhazred posted:Sotades, a greek poet who lived in the 3rd century BC, was all things considered not a very important poet. He is famous for his poem about Ptolemy II Philadelphus's marriage to his own sister Arsinoe II, specifically one line where he wrote "you're sticking your prick in an unholy hole." The ptolemaic pharao's measured response was to lock Sodates in a leaden chest and then throw the chest into the sea.. If anything she should have been named philadelphus
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Jun 19, 2023 07:21
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Milo and POTUS posted:If anything she should have been named philadelphus the pharao of brotherly love
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Jun 19, 2023 07:53
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Deteriorata posted:You can go ahead and call Americans Yankees. No one actually cares. Yankee or yankee doodle is fine, but don't you dare call me a dandy!
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Jun 19, 2023 08:00
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you can call me yank or yankee or doodle or dood but ya doesn't has to call me dandy
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Jun 19, 2023 08:10
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Carthag Tuek posted:you can call me yank or yankee or doodle or dood but ya doesn't has to call me dandy I'm calling you an ambulance, you're having a stroke
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Jun 19, 2023 08:21
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Carthag Tuek posted:you can call me yank or yankee or doodle or dood but ya doesn't has to call me dandy Oh, go back to the Simpsons meme megathread Cedri- Oh. Nevermind.
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Jun 19, 2023 08:22
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Alhazred posted:Sotades, a greek poet who lived in the 3rd century BC, was all things considered not a very important poet. He is famous for his poem about Ptolemy II Philadelphus's marriage to his own sister Arsinoe II, specifically one line where he wrote "you're sticking your prick in an unholy hole." The ptolemaic pharao's measured response was to lock Sodates in a leaden chest and then throw the chest into the sea.. To be fair they were trying to closely align themselves with the Egyptian gods so some kind pointing out how gross it is undermines that a lot
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Jun 19, 2023 15:05
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Milo and POTUS posted:If anything she should have been named philadelphus What I'm getting from the Wikipedia article about the dude is that Philadelphus here is used in a gender-neutral sense, "sibling-lover", so he was named that for exactly the reason you're thinking Mans whole life is a "McDonald the Bridge Builder" joke
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Jun 19, 2023 15:16
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Phy posted:What I'm getting from the Wikipedia article about the dude is that Philadelphus here is used in a gender-neutral sense, "sibling-lover", so he was named that for exactly the reason you're thinking Better than be named Philopator. The past was a horrifying country.
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Jun 19, 2023 16:11
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I thought philos means familial love not romantic love? Ironic bc Ptolemy II hosed one sister and killed several brothers. Maybe it was one of them joke names
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Jun 19, 2023 16:45
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I thought philos means familial love not romantic love? Maybe he was an Eagles fan?
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Jun 19, 2023 17:03
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Ichabod Sexbeast posted:Maybe he was an Eagles fan? Checks out, Eagles fans are known for murdering their brothers and loving their sisters.
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Jun 19, 2023 17:53
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Honneur et Patrie 
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I thought philos means familial love not romantic love? Oh that love was familial alright
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Jun 19, 2023 19:25
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Ichabod Sexbeast posted:Not gonna lie this is a new one not sure if it counts since it'a a German slur for Austrians (Schluchtenscheißer) and thus from the same side of the war but slurs for Austrians are hard to find. Basically the idea behind the slur is supposedly that Austrians live up in the mountains and poo poo down the mountainsides into the valleys.
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Jun 19, 2023 20:51
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Woolie Wool posted:not sure if it counts since it'a a German slur for Austrians (Schluchtenscheißer) and thus from the same side of the war but slurs for Austrians are hard to find. Basically the idea behind the slur is supposedly that Austrians live up in the mountains and poo poo down the mountainsides into the valleys. 
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Jun 19, 2023 20:58
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I thought philos means familial love not romantic love? Philia means love between friends, quite specifically non-sexual. ero- or -erastes meant the horny kind.
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Jun 19, 2023 21:01
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Jun 21, 2023 06:18
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Damnatio Memoriae was a punishment back in the day whereby the criminal in question did a crime so henious, that all record of them was to be destroyed from all records, up to and including their name, so that no-one would ever know they existed. An example of this is Herostratus, who was subjected to this punishment after having been found guilty of burning down the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus.
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Jun 21, 2023 07:01
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Clearly they did a lovely job
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Jun 21, 2023 07:04
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Damnatio Memoriae, so successful it gave us the term “Herostratic fame”
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Jun 21, 2023 11:29
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Samovar posted:Damnatio Memoriae was a punishment back in the day whereby the criminal in question did a crime so henious, that all record of them was to be destroyed from all records, up to and including their name, so that no-one would ever know they existed. An example of this is Herostratus, who was subjected to this punishment after having been found guilty of burning down the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus. He also outright said that he burned down one of the Wonders of the World just because it would make his name immortal.
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Jun 21, 2023 21:03
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Byzantine posted:He also outright said that he burned down one of the Wonders of the World just because it would make his name immortal. King poo poo
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Jun 21, 2023 21:16
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I mean he was correct so get owned nerds
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Jun 21, 2023 23:00
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My Mediterranean history professor had no clue who Herostratus was and at first I thought he was just doing a bit.
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Jun 21, 2023 23:16
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Alhazred posted:Sotades, a greek poet who lived in the 3rd century BC, was all things considered not a very important poet. He is famous for his poem about Ptolemy II Philadelphus's marriage to his own sister Arsinoe II, specifically one line where he wrote "you're sticking your prick in an unholy hole." The ptolemaic pharao's measured response was to lock Sodates in a leaden chest and then throw the chest into the sea.. Really goes to show how far civilization has gone : these days you can just pay a guy instead of having to anger a god king.
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Jun 22, 2023 12:40
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Kassad posted:Really goes to show how far civilization has gone : these days you can just pay a guy instead of having to anger a god king. 
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Jun 22, 2023 15:06
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I'm on a pirate kick atm, and it's incredible to me how close to real some of the legends are. I mean it is mostly bullshit with a grain of truth, but that's good enough Like Jean-David Nau, more well-known as François L'Olonnais was almost certainly not eaten by cannibals, but he really did hide in the blood of his dead compatriots in Campeche and really did send this message to the governor of Havana afterwards: quote:I shall never henceforward give quarter to any Spaniard whatsoever, and I have great hopes I shall execute on your own person the very same punishment I have done upon them you sent against me. Thus I have retaliated the kindness you designed to me and my companions. before proceeding to do just that, racking up a rep for being seriously the sickest most depraved pirate of all, up until he was either eaten by cannibals in Panama or killed during privateering the spanish main, depending which story you prefer
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Jun 23, 2023 17:30
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I'm on a pirate kick atm, and it's incredible to me how close to real some of the legends are. I mean it is mostly bullshit with a grain of truth, but that's good enough And yet he was not as brutal as Edward Low who would burn people alive, flay them and force them to eat their own body parts. In fact Low was so brutal and sadistic that his crew became so fed up that they mutinied and forced him to leave his ship in a boat without provisions. No one really knows what happened to Low after that. According to some sources he was picked up by a french ship, tried on Martinique and hanged. Other says that he was never caught and ended his days in Brazil.
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Jun 23, 2023 18:44
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I always liked Bartholomew Roberts' ABH AMH flag He was a phenomenally successful pirate, but got so pissed off at the people of Barbados and Martinique for sending ships out to get him that he started flying a flag where he was standing on two skulls labelled "ABH" and "AMH", for "A Barbadian's Head" and "A Martinician's Head" 
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