Eggbeater Jesus posted:

Are Men Idiots Who Do Stupid Things? Study Says Yes

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Tobaccrow posted:

I imagine the shame was so great, he had to notify the newspaper?

Pththya-lyi posted:

I already did. I must not, and will not, recall what I found.

E: vvv I MUST NOT, AND WILL NOT, RECALL. vvv

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El Estrago Bonito posted:

One thing you learn going to security conferences is that Feds are absolutely in love with the idea of joking about secret agent stuff. If you ever want a laugh go look at all the mission patches for really nerdy military, NSA and fed projects.

Bloody Hedgehog posted:

What is the deal with the UK making crazy shortened versions of words. Seeing "christmas presents" shortened to "crimbo pressies" is.... is ...... .

QuelleFuck posted:

Nicknames for Margaret: Peggy, Maggie, Marge, Margo, Meg, Mamie, Molly, Greta, Midge, Madge, to name a few. And Maisie.

From what I understand, it's a holdover from when everyone had saints' names and everyone named their kids after themselves (this used to be common for women as well). They just came up with a fuckton of nicknames in order to differentiate between all the kids in the village who had the same name. Like kids now referring to kids in their class as, say, Sara S. and Sarah L.

RandomFerret posted:

My favourite story about that was in an English village years ago where they still kept the practice, and they ran into the same problem, two brothers named Evan. There were nicknames and such through the years, but it wasn't until they'd grown up and found careers that the village finally had a name for each of them. One became a vicar and the other became the town mortician, so they were called Evan Above and Evan Below.

QuelleFuck posted:

Every single one of my paternal male relatives save one are named William, Robert, or Thomas. We call them Papa Bill, Bill A., Bucky, Little Billy, Bob, Rob, Tom, and TJ, respectively.

E: I almost forgot that on my mom's side, all the firstborn men are named Paul MacSomething Whatever. My granddad was called Paul, my uncle was called Mark (for "Mac," I'm told), until my uncle got married and had a son he named Paul MacSomething Whatever. Now my uncle is called Paul and my cousin is Mark. When my cousin has a son, everyone will start calling him Paul.

Birb Katter posted:

Sara -> Saw/Ray

Sarah -> Say/Aw

Weirdos

Slime posted:

I know a kid named Charlie Brown, the poor bastard.

Wheat Loaf posted:

Nobody will get a majority. The arithmetic just isn't there. Based on my awareness of the figures, it's very likely that Labour could have gotten a majority, but the SNP surge has undercut that quite drastically. Nonetheless, they still have a good chance of being the biggest party next Friday, but they're looking at a minority government with support from Plaid (if they get anyone in) and possibly the DUP.

Istari posted:

Was he Mexican ?

schadenfraud posted:

Sad times



http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/royal-welsh-regimental-goat-lance-9304070#ICID=FB-Wales-cardiff

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Christiania [now Oslo]. Last July 17 in the morning, a man hanged himself here in Agersgaden [street] in a little hay-loft, and in the afternoon thunder struck the same house in which the man hanged, whereby the thunder-ray not only split asunder several parts of both the roof and walls, but also tore off the cord in which he had hanged, so that he fell down. The occurrence is not only truthful, but also very remarkable. It is left to those knowledgeable of nature to judge further.

Zombie Boat posted:

Man killed to death - The occurrence is not only truthful, but also very remarkable. It is left to those knowledgeable of nature to judge further.

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Tardigrade posted:

Are the babies moslings?

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Lizard Wizard posted:

Could you provide an expanation? This is in German, you see.

Nckdictator posted:

There's a joke here somewhere.

Pththya-lyi posted:

What am I looking for? I can't read this language.

Tibor posted:

Its vocabulary isn't very well established. It's pretty much just "Mmmm" and "Aww yiss".

Karma Monkey posted:

Man in bear costume harasses mother bear, 2 cubs in Alaska

My favorite parts:

Karma Monkey posted:

Yea, but why dress as a bear to do suicide by bear? I want to know more about the other incidents of people dressed as bears that the rangers have encountered.

pookel posted:

Still think this is totally plausible (I'm not joking). I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be able to tell the difference, personally, anyway.

Also I made this point when the same story was on Jezebel a couple days ago, and a dude tried to mansplain vaginas to me on the basis that his wife says he knows her vagina better than she does. Um, sure. That's believable.

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Dr Paul Booth of Keele University spotted the name ‘Roger Fuckebythenavele’ in the Chester county court plea rolls beginning on December 8, 1310. The man was being named three times part of a process to be outlawed, with the final mention coming on September 28, 1311.

Dr Booth believes that “this surname is presumably a nickname. I suggest it could either mean an actual attempt at copulation by an inexperienced youth, later reported by a rejected girlfriend, or an equivalent of the word ‘dimwit’ i.e. a man who might think that that was the correct way to go about it.”