|
Koramei posted:I have a dumb question: what would you all rate as the most popular (explicitly not our favorite) premodern historical periods/regions in the west today? Looks like you just make a list of Assassin's Creed games.
|
#
¿
Jul 4, 2021 02:02
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ May 12, 2024 15:42 |
|
|
Mister Olympus posted:So if you're dragooned into land armies but shanghaied into a navy, what's the term for being forced into flying a plane? Or being made a space marine while drunk? Just SKY CRIIIIIME https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCOc2eGGJvY
|
|
#
¿
Jul 18, 2021 08:38
|
|
|
you can hear the post before you click on it for content: was their alot written about the early west african good trade? Is there a definite date we can say trade began across the Sahara or no one really knows?
|
|
#
¿
Aug 7, 2021 11:16
|
|
|
The dinosaur could get you when you're hiding in the toilet.
|
|
#
¿
Oct 6, 2021 23:23
|
|
|
The Lone Badger posted:If your village is small enough then one guy yelling really loudly counts as mass-media. I think they call them a muezzin.
|
|
#
¿
Nov 5, 2021 05:31
|
|
|
romans would have loved their "aguafresca" toothpaste
|
|
#
¿
Dec 1, 2021 02:26
|
|
|
Koramei posted:
Gotta make Lyndon Johnson an honorary Korean
|
|
#
¿
Dec 22, 2021 05:43
|
|
|
Crab Dad posted:Sit around all day eating oysters and loving. What a life. Of course they would be loving, what do you think the oysters are for?
|
|
#
¿
Sep 7, 2022 01:30
|
|
|
CrypticFox posted:One might expect this, but in the 4 examples from Mari of a substitute being used, that's not really what is seen. The 4 examples we have of this phenomenon are: three "townspeople," 2 women and one old man, swimming for their prince (it's unclear why there were three swimmers, this case seems to have been complicated), and also three cases with a one-to-one replacement, a lady-in-waiting swimming for a queen, a wife swimming for her husband, and a mother swimming for her daughter. Interestingly, 5 of the 6 attested substitute swimmers are women, and the one man recorded as a substitute swimmer is described as being old, so they don't seem to have been picking strong young men for this job. Are they picking people they think will fail or think they will succeed?
|
|
#
¿
Mar 15, 2023 03:01
|
|
|
Grand Fromage posted:It really depends on the humor. There are some things that are universal, like farts. But a lot of humor is very cultural and doesn't translate well--even today, go watch a Japanese comedy show and it's mostly mystifying, not funny. We have preserved ancient jokes and some of them work, but a lot are just confusing. See also: the death of the American comedy movie when international box office became alot more important
|
|
#
¿
Apr 10, 2023 05:30
|
|
|
cheetah7071 posted:Anybody here have any opinions on which ruins within day trip distance of Athens are the coolest? I'm going there soon, and after accounting for time in the city proper, I have time for two day trips. I'm pretty set on going to Mycanae unless I hear it sucks, but the options for my second day are a little harder--Delphi, the temple of Poseidon, and doing a mini-cruise of the nearby islands all sound cool. I figure this thread is more likely to have similar tastes to me in travel than other threads. If you start early enough you could hit Mycanae and then Olympia and back but it would be like 3 hours in a car there and back.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 9, 2023 05:01
|
|
|
Koramei posted:In a certain sense, what’s the difference between a philosopher and a priest? Depends on the third guy who walks into a bar. For this thread we could say... Julius Caesar
|
|
#
¿
Jul 13, 2023 22:43
|
|
|
barbecue at the folks posted:A German museum dressed a recreation of a Neantherdal guy in business casual and honestly, if you saw this dude in the metro here you wouldn't bat an eye: unfrozen caveman lawyer reboot looking pretty good right now
|
|
#
¿
Aug 6, 2023 23:05
|
|
|
zoux posted:
well now they're never gonna get the marbles back
|
|
#
¿
Aug 24, 2023 07:21
|
|
|
skasion posted:From loving Corsica though. This is by far the most insane part of Napoleon’s life story. For a decade this guy ruled half of Europe among and against its own divinely anointed crowned heads, when he was a semi-assimilated “notable” from an irrelevant island mostly known to other Europeans for poverty and crime. It’s completely baffling that it occurred. It’s like if the Galactic Emperor turned out to be from Scranton, PA. Don't give joe ideas
|
|
#
¿
Nov 15, 2023 06:08
|
|
|
skasion posted:You don’t just leave the oil on. You go to the baths, take your clothes off, get oiled up, work out a bit, scrape the gross oil-sweat-grime off with your strigil, then wash in the hot water, then the cold, dry off, get oiled up again (by massage), then clean up, get dressed and go home. There’s reference to perfumes and scented oils being used for the last bit. People probably smelled a bit oily by and large, but if everyone’s doing it then you’re gonna be used to it—and in a largely unsoaped world, a bit of oil smell is probably more palatable than the alternative. Surely this must have been brought up somewhere when the poison bath water articles happened
|
|
#
¿
Nov 30, 2023 00:07
|
|
|
PittTheElder posted:Now this is a conspiracy theory I need to hear more about. the better one is Ted Cruz's dad
|
|
#
¿
Feb 26, 2024 12:02
|
|
|
Brawnfire posted:Sounds like an 80s action show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoV1-fsFCmw
|
|
#
¿
Mar 27, 2024 03:41
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ May 12, 2024 15:42 |
|
|
Nessus posted:I am definitely not in favor of state execution of anyone ever, lol, just to be clear. It is a view I like to make in my class when we talk about it in a big debate about human sacrifice every year. and then all the kids get mad at me
|
|
#
¿
May 9, 2024 13:18
|
|