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Achilles, crumpled in agony: I told you fuckers, that's not the spot!
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Tulip posted:One of my strongest memories of my grandfather is him howling, tears down his face laughing, just completely losing it, over a Ziggy strip. I still have no idea how it was funny. Pobody's Nerfect
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Check out "The Edge of Memory: Ancient Stories, Oral Tradition and the Post-Glacial World" by Patrick Nunn for some interesting discussion of this; I just read it recently, quite compelling
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Deteriorata posted:The latest measurements of the flow rate of glass at room temperature indicate it flows at a rate of about 1 nm per billion years. It's still a slow-flowing liquid, just very, very slow. Can't wait for that first drop of glass to fall in a few billion years
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Hippocrass posted:What would the red things that look like either tomato or peppers be? Dormice.
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Jun 27, 2023 23:32
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cheetah7071 posted:the red thing on the flatbread does look remarkably like tomato. time to start a conspiracy theory that tomatoes are old world It was an unknown type of incredibly toxic nightshade which the Romans ate into extinction
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Deteriorata posted:I eat my peas with honey I actually tried peas with honey one time after hearing this and it was not very good. I figured since it works for corn... but no. Also maple syrup is uniquely disgusting on peas. Be wary.
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Very unevenly distributed. My piece only got six seeds! I'm truly stuck in hell.
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Where does the Holy Ghost fit this?
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Aug 11, 2023 02:43
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SlothfulCobra posted:How come nobody in the modern era does fake sea battles in coliseums? It really seems like it'd be easier than ever. You could have a flooded arena with a churning wave machine, simulate driving rain, have drone battleships with real weaponry just blasting the poo poo out of each other... You could even have carriers launching fighters and poo poo, it would be hella sweet to be up in a box seat for that nonsense.
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Aug 23, 2023 15:11
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:The problem with this survey is that if you ask someone " how often do you think about Rome?" You've just made them think about Rome Amisisti ludum!
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Tulip posted:If I were a farmer with no internet access who learned everything via word of mouth it would be very easy to convince me that dragons existed somewhere else even if I had never seen one. I'd just be like "wow that's crazy." "If dragons are real... then show me." *flashes you a highly-detailed woodcut print* "...well I'll be goddamned. That's nuts."
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Fuschia tude posted:Which year was it 1997, weirdly
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I strigil with the concept as well
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SlothfulCobra posted:I think there were bathhouses even in early America, but the only things I've found specifically seem to be swimming pools called baths. I guess it can kinda get blurry between the two. In my city of Rochester, NY there used to be a sulfer spring that a bath house was operated around in the early 19th century. The water was meant to be good for all the swamp- and mosquito-related agues and fevers and lesions and poo poo. They had both sulfer and fresh water, hot and cold.
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Not to mention a little-known and isolated tribe, the Jergens, who had mastered moisturizer.
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skasion posted:A machine was fixed on the walls of the city, consisting of a hexagon mirror of polished brass, with many smaller and movable polygons to receive and reflect the rays of the meridian sun; and a consuming flame was darted, to the distance, perhaps of two hundred feet. This sounds like the James Webb Space Telescope...
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And an excellent one
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Believe it or not, all the copper got ripped off
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Call that the long Khan
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I just pronounce C as ⟨ħ⟩, nobody never argues with me about it
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the yeti posted:Or katamari damacy if you prefer, lol Katamari deity
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FreudianSlippers posted:There's people alive today who went through compulsory schooling, have jobs, and walk around with a supercomputer in their pockets who think giants are real but trees aren't. Trees aren't real except for the giant trees whose stumps became mountains
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Jan 25, 2024 22:38
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Pretty heavy
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They were able to cook dozens of men's chicken dinners that way. Truly formidable.
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NikkolasKing posted:I mean, it depends on the samurai. 1860s would be at the very end of the Edo Period and samurai fortunes were all over the place in those 200 years. The Samurai were nominally at the apex of society but many were poor, powerless, and especially by the end other classes of people had more money and influence. I'd like to see Blackadder set in this milieu
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we have not yet left.. THE AGE OF FIRE
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Aww, Kevin Smith 
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Oh yeah there's a plethra of them
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I get it. There's some luscious Cupid's-bow kissers on those dudes and I'd be loathe to cover that up
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Orbs posted:"we should name this thing, this great complex endeavor we're doing." "This... This enterprise."
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Mad Hamish posted:Night Boat. Sounds like an 80s action show
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That's what it was! My brain works, just not for my benefit!
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It was called ENEMY PORTAL
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Tunicate posted:According to medieval legend, it was called the Giant's Dance before the British stole it I'm intrigued by this, mostly because it introduced me to the idea that parts of other stone rings and "henges" were moved to create new ones. Such as the postulated movement of stones from Waun Mawn stone circle in Wales to Stonehenge. I wonder how often stones were moved, and if it was an act of conquest, religious revivalism, or something else.
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