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You can't measure monarchs in metric because it's an inherently republican system of measurement. Similarly nothing anti imperialist can be measured in the imperial system.
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The Queen is the longest, that's why they say "long live the Queen"
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QR Code Geass posted:I'm going to freestyle here and say the state of Virginia, uh wait This later resulted in the Scramble for Africa, or as it is sometimes called, Virgin Vs. Chad ScreenDoorThrillr has a new favorite as of 04:23 on May 14, 2024 |
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FreudianSlippers posted:You can't measure monarchs in metric because it's an inherently republican system of measurement. Are you saying Republicans use metric?
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May 14, 2024 07:46
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Some funny viking nicknames: Øystein "The Little Maiden" Øysteinsson Ragnvald oval office Semen-Bjalfi Kolbein Butterpenis Herjolf Shrunken Testicles Torolf the Sexslave Skage Dung Advisor rear end-Bård
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Alhazred posted:Some funny viking nicknames: Dudes rock
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Butterpenis is an amazing insult, I think.
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May 14, 2024 14:59
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Marcade posted:Butterpenis is an amazing compliment, I think.
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you need to wash your dick
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:People couldn't agree if she was 4 foot 10, 4 11¼, or 5 feet +, and were apperently still debating it to this day, and I got furious about imprecise god daAMN IMPERIAL MEASUREMENTS ITS SO BLOODY STUPID AND ITS SOMEONES FAULT!! Fun stuff. You'd think ruling over the era when mass produced measuring tapes became common would help with that. Vs say George Washington, who was anywhere from six feet to 6'3" depending on what you go off of.
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Blue Footed Booby posted:Fun stuff. You'd think ruling over the era when mass produced measuring tapes became common would help with that. It's a good thing a president wouldn't lie about that kind of thing today.
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Alhazred posted:Some funny viking nicknames: Ivar the Boneless Thorir the Whining Turd
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venus de lmao posted:Ivar the Boneless And his dad, Ragnar Hairy-pants
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Blue Footed Booby posted:Fun stuff. You'd think ruling over the era when mass produced measuring tapes became common would help with that. Washington was a land surveyor. He could have measured his height if he’d wanted to.
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He was 12 storys high and made of radiation.
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Fun fact: The supposed wooden teeth were mostly human teeth forcibly pulled from his slaves.
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Gaius Marius posted:He was 12 storys high and made of radiation. Opponents beware
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FreudianSlippers posted:Fun fact: The worst part is that that's not something that made Washington particularly cruel—supposedly he was less cruel than many others, although you do not have to hand it to him because owning human beings is a moral evil regardless of how nice you are to the human beings you own and exploit for their labor—it's basically just how dentures were made in the 18th century: teeth would be taken from cadavers or purchased from poor people (or taken by force from enslaved people), and false teeth would sometimes also be made from ivory. Washington is recorded as having paid enslaved persons for several teeth, and had four full sets of dentures made over the course of his life.
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Platystemon posted:Washington was a land surveyor. He could have measured his height if he’d wanted to. Surveying at the time was done in chains, ten to a fathom, 80 to a mile. Not really helpful for feet and inches.
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Platystemon posted:Washington was a land surveyor. He could have measured his height if he’d wanted to. People are complaining about feet and inches, you want to bring rods and chains into it? e:fb
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Blue Footed Booby posted:Surveying at the time was done in chains, ten to a fathom, 80 to a mile. Not really helpful for feet and inches. Their rods and chains were in ~8" links, 100 links per 66 feet
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Ok so he was about 2 chainz tall
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Blue Footed Booby posted:Fun stuff. You'd think ruling over the era when mass produced measuring tapes became common would help with that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foqOtlrPCN4
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I think you'll find that George Washington was twelve stories high, made of radiation.
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Platystemon posted:Washington was a land surveyor. He could have measured his height if he’d wanted to. My grandparents' house was built on a lot surveyed by Washington. It had a plaque on the side, and part of the house predates the Revolutionary War.
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Blue Footed Booby posted:Fun stuff. You'd think ruling over the era when mass produced measuring tapes became common would help with that. My sources indicated that he was 6'8" and weighed a loving ton; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv6OOuPI5c0
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Any of you remember that old flash animation about George Washington being tall?
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Soul Dentist posted:Any of you remember that old flash animation about George Washington being tall? Got you fam https://youtu.be/K7y2xPucnAo?si=rrQo6E55S-GmsNgs
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Soul Dentist posted:Any of you remember that old flash animation about George Washington being tall? No how tall did they say he was? Edit: And also did they say how much he weighed?
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How many penises on that washington
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Has anyone mentioned that George Washington was made of radiation?
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I think many of us may have heard of the disastrous command of the Baltic Fleet under Admiral Zinovy Rozhestvensky, and how he led said Fleet all the way from Northern Europe to Korea, only for them all to be sunk at Tsushima in a matter of moments. One of the many, many misadventures involved them thinking a bunch of British fishing boats in the North Sea were somehow Japanese torpedo boats and fired upon them. However, this is NOT the worst naval response to a fleet of fishing vessels. The crown for that has to go to 16th century Korean Admiral Won Kyun, during the Imjin war At the time, Japan was seeking to invade Korea (and China) and had amassed a pretty big invasion fleet. Note, not a fleet for naval battle, but for landing. One of the places they struck was Busan and the neighbouring fortress of Dongnae (or Tongnae) where they managed to win handily, and inflict horrible massacres upon the defenders and civilians there. This was witnessed by an Admiral Pak Hong who, seeing this defeat decided... To scuttle his entire fleet and flee on foot from the disaster. A substantial fraction of the Korean fleet had just been destroyed not in battle, but by one of Korea's own commanders. Won Kyun, upon hearing about the loss of Busan and the neighbouring fortress, and subsequent destruction of Hong's fleet, took HIS fleet from its base and sailed so as to escape an anticipated Japanese attack. Maybe a bit cowardly, but better than Hong, at least. ...until he encountered a bunch of fishing vessels and mistook them for a Japanese fleet. Now, when confronted with this, Kyun then executed an order which makes him surpass Zinovy's maladministration. He, too, ordered his fleet he scuttled. Some of his subordinates managed to convince him to stop the order before it had been executed in it's entirety, but by then, an several hundred-strong fleet had been reduced to single digits. And all because they mistook some fishermen minding their own business as an invading force.
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Now, that's obediency. A fleet full of sailors and captains, and everbody scuttles their ships after seeing some fishermen because the Admiral says so.
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Those fishermen got awards from the japanese for MVP
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HelloIAmYourHeart posted:My grandparents' house was built on a lot surveyed by Washington. It had a plaque on the side, and part of the house predates the Revolutionary War. Was this in the FT Hunt area of Virginia by chance? I grew up in a house on a similar lot.
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Mercury Ballistic posted:Was this in the FT Hunt area of Virginia by chance? That's better than what we have around here. "George Washington
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Have you guyes seen the new Shogun? It apparently is pretty faithful to the period, which watching it seemed nuts, considering how many people commit seppuku, or how forcing your enemy to lose face is a tactic in war. It also does not paint that kind of feudalism in a good light, the samurai are not good people but rather slaves too, which I appreciated. The noble lords too are slaves to their rules. The peasants are so irrelevant they only appear to be murdered at whim.
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Mercury Ballistic posted:Was this in the FT Hunt area of Virginia by chance? It was in Washington, VA. As for Shogun, it is extremely good, but apparently a lot of the seppuku/killing stuff is exaggerated. The TV IV thread has a lot of good historical discussion.
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So, I am sure many of us have heard about how Orson Welles made a radio adaptation of War of the Worlds which caused mass panic in the U.S., except not really, it was more of a storm in a teacup. Well, how many of us have heard of the '49 Quito Incident? You see, back in those days, the capital of Ecuador was city of around quarter-million people. Leading up to the days to February the 12th, some people claimed that the local media outlets were reporting unknown objects spotted in the sky around the area, but I'm unsure how much of that is post-facto. What is known is this: The director of Radio Quito, Leonardo Páez was wanting to release a smash-hit radio drama, had heard of Orson Welles' rendition back in the late 30's and was inspired. After arranging the Spanish language adaptation and actors and all that jazz, the day of broadcast came about. In he middle of a scheduled musical interlude by Luis Alberto 'Potolo' Valencia and Gonzalo Benítez, an interruption; a vessel, seemingly alien in origin, had landed not twenty miles outside of Quito. Crowds of onlookers had been reported to have gone to the site in question, but contact had been lost, and at the time of this broadcast, a nearby military base had also gone dark. As the reporter continued, his voice became choked and then gasping, saw the aliens with his own eyes, a wave of poison gas advancing before them - then the feed cut off. Pandemonium reigned. Some secular powers begged for calm, others recommended woman and children flee the cities. Churches opened their doors for sanctuary. Some claimed this was a sneak attack by Peru. All in all, the populace of Quito were most unhappy. News of what was happening reached Radio Quito. The staff, realizing this had gone catastrophically wrong, broadcast an immediate admission and an appeal for calm. But this, in turn, did not go as they would have wanted, either. The people stopped being scared, and started being angry. The radio station (which was owned by and resided in the same location as a major newspaper publisher) was surrounded by the duped mob, and burning papers set up outside the building, which then itself started to burn. Allegedly, services that tried to stop the fire were also attacked by the mob. People in the building tried to evacuate, but the mob outside made it more difficult than usual. At least 6 people died because of the fire. The mob had to be dispersed by the army deploying tear gas. Later rumours stated that Páez had locked the doors himself because he was deliberately wanting to cause such chaos, which is almost certainly false, but didn't stop such heresay running rampant. To conclude, after over a quarter of a million dollars of damage and multiple deaths, Páez was brought up in front of a court. Thankfully, rationality reigned in the justice system of Ecuador, if not it's streets - Páez had documentation between him and the radio station, showing that he had planned this in full cooperation with the people in charge, and that this was not some kind of malicious plot by either him or them to cause anarchy. He was released, but as one can understand, entered a self-imposed exile to Venezuela where he ended up dying in the 90s.
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HelloIAmYourHeart posted:It was in Washington, VA.
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