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Platystemon posted:Jesus has historically been pretty quotable. I had a discussion with a (highly religious) coworker a couple years ago and told her that Jesus must've been a horrible carpenter if he dropped the trade and went into preaching. She disagreed.
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Jastiger posted:Wasn't a carpenter just another word for day laborer back then? Like carpenters weren't experts who build scaffolding or walls or structures, but rather, folks on a work crew that happened to work with wood and brick? Lol, now I have an image of Jesus showing up on the corner of a Mesopotamian version of a Home Depot or wherever the gently caress they were and shouting the Hebrew equivalent of 'trabajo! trabajo!' except that he did shoddy work, enough to ditch the lucrative career of being a Jewish day laborer.
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Jobbo_Fett posted:Going through this thread slowly, but lol how loving wrong can you be? 
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Mister Speaker posted:
That would have been an interesting twist to The Hunt for Red October
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The 5 course dinner in Qatar airlines business class was pretty drat good. Domestic first meals pale in comparison. The biscuit with chorizo gravy breakfast is p good though
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Speaking of, Lincoln famously wore a top had and that guy was huge. Not sure about being hung. He was possibly gay. How is it that Abe was made to eat a hat, and yet nobody thought to make him eat a top hat?
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Skippy McPants posted:Not coincidently, many of the character taints which make a person very useful in war also make them absolute rubbish during peace. Wasn’t this how the duke of Wellington worked out? Fantastic in defeating Napoleon, but bad when he returned home and inevitably went into politics?
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“Wasteful imbecility” still applies to this administration
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Bertrand Hustle posted:Ignatz Semmelweis, the guy who suggested that maybe washing your hands between dissecting cadavers and helping deliver babies might be the key to cutting down on the number of mothers dying in childbirth was shamed out of the medical profession for daring to suggest that a doctor's hands might be dirty He also had a mental breakdown and spent the rest of his life in an insane asylum because nobody believed him. E: if you haven’t yet, go watch The Knick. It’s a fictional, stylized version of early 1900’s medicine in NYC and it’s loving great. Cacafuego has a new favorite as of 18:06 on Jun 9, 2019 |
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Rollersnake posted:Adorable. I hope she got home okay on the sick golihis. soldier
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PMush Perfect posted:So they were mostly cursing women and retail workers, huh? Some things never change. what did a Roman "i wanna see your manager" haircut look like?
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Alhazred posted:Yeah, that guy shows up in the Knick. Cacafuego posted:E: if you haven’t yet, go watch The Knick. It’s a fictional, stylized version of early 1900’s medicine in NYC and it’s loving great.
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Krankenstyle posted:A lighter topic, then. Behold The cold Maiden, a jerkoff-"machine"confiscated by Danish police in 1937: So, is this the 20th century gently caress machine meant to outperform the 19th century gently caress machine covered earlier ITT?
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:I have a last name that has Germanic roots but was thoroughly Anglicized and people still can't pronounce it properly. 
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C.M. Kruger posted:
Milo and POTUS posted:Now this is why I click the thread
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Alhazred posted:Then you have Maximus Thrax who was so proud of his sweat that he would collect it In small jars. That’s a good name for a proto-goon
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Nth Doctor posted:Not great if your last name is Cromwell. I still get a laugh when I think of them digging up his corpse and hanging it posthumously
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Alhazred posted:The Great Sphinx of Giza is not a sphinx. It got that name 2000 years after it was constructed. Before that it was known as Horus of the Horizon but we do not know what the people who constructed it called it. “Big”
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Phy posted:Cat big Yeah, but in like, hieroglyphics or something
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Acebuckeye13 posted:oh hey, this literally just popped up on Facebook Jfc people are goddamn savages. I hiked the narrows last year and it was beautiful. Busy, but well kept. Now I see that’s because it was monitored/regulated heavily.
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Zombiepop posted:unsolicited blow jobs. Good username, imo
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Kevin DuBrow posted:President Garfield lived for 80 days after he was shot. For much of that time, the doctors, believing that his intestine was punctured, tried to feed him food such as egg yolks and milk through his anus, along with whiskey and opium. Shoulda tried lasagna
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Yeah the fat fucks love ogling dead crows. Walt wisely chose to leave that scene out of Dumbo.
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BasicLich posted:i dont care Caligula, eh? How many buttholes has that thing been stuck in? E: and other orifices, I suppose
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Trabant posted:I was supposed to be Dušan (translates to... uh, Soulful? Soul Man?) but my dad changed his mind on the way to the registrar. My mom was beyond pissed. Definitely bully dodged as I grew up with a Dusko (pronounced douche-ko) and that poor kid was teased mercilessly (as kids do) once kids got old enough and learned what douche and douching (?) is
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I Love Loosies posted:A nurse once told me they keep beer for just such cases in the hospital. If they don't like the patient they give them only the warm once. It is prescribed and will come direct from nutrition 
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Such Fun posted:(also, lol at having just a microbiology bachelor. It’s like owning a bike without wheels)   I had to go back and get a nursing degree and that combo has worked out real well
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Tristesse posted:I've worked for 2 companies based out of Boston while I live in the Philly area. One of those companies had a weird travel policy where they preferred to book your trip by train and so I have had the direct experience of going from Philly to Boston by train and by plane. 10-15 hours from Philly to Boston by train?!? That’s nuts! It’s like 6 hours by car. I’ve driven it enough to know.
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DaysBefore posted:Dunno about that stance but I do know that actual longbowmen were like insanely jacked, though only in one arm, so it may be hard to draw those things accurately without the proper Hulk-esque right shoulder those guys had. I’m sure Rob Liefeld could take a stab at it
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Carthag Tuek posted:"To the relatives of the two year ago to Chicago emigrated bachelor Assuming this is a direct translation, is current Danish language structured like that? As opposed to something like “to the relatives of the bachelor that moved to Chicago two years ago”. I’m trying to think of a good way to ask this, but my brain no work so good, so I’ll just ask: why did languages evolve so that sentence portions are transposed? For instance, that sentence above or something like haricots vert/green beans.
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Perestroika posted:You can see the whole flow concept pretty well in the way how loanwords are treated. E.g. in German, the grammatical gender for English loanwords is assigned based pretty much purely on vibes, on what sounds "right". Take "ketchup", for example. Some people say "der Ketchup" (masculine), some say "das Ketchup" (neuter), and both generally work and are accepted. But if you were to say "die Ketchup" (feminine), you'd be considered a madman. That just sounds extremely wrong to any native speaker on an instinctive level. The same goes for just about any other loanword. When a new loanword comes into common parlance there's no formal process for assigning a grammatical gender, most of the time people will just automatically agree on which version sounds right and go with that. <Mr. Burns confused between der Ketchup and das Ketchup.jpg>
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CharlestheHammer posted:I mean in the end they are dead so judge them, don’t it honestly doesn’t matter. The Diet of Worms
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Platystemon posted:Coldwar thread It was about time to update my bookmarked threads E: actually, do you have a link? I didn’t know if it’s in A/T or PYF or wherever else Cacafuego has a new favorite as of 13:34 on Dec 28, 2023 |
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I’m glad I asked, I wouldn’t have looked there, although I suppose that’s a good place for it. Thanks!
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Platystemon posted:Many immigrants voluntarily anglicized their names. This is what my family did that came here in the beginning of the 20th century. It still confuses people, but it’s easier to pronounce than it would have been otherwise.
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InediblePenguin posted:lehigh valley? that's where the surviving relatives live now anyway. i don't know if that's where they lived previously actually I’m from Allentown and that doesn’t surprise me either.
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