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Nuclear War posted:Didnt I read somewhere that Canadian divisions were mostly 50% british? Technically speaking Canada is 100% British.
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Dracula and Frankenstein are often seen as being a bit connected, probably only because of the Universial monster movies, but Frankenstein came out 79 years before Dracula. That's about the same time as passed between the sinking of the Titanic and the fall of the Soviet Union. Also Mary Shelley was 18 years old when she came up with the story. She, Percy Shelley, Lord Byron and his doctor John Polidori were traveling around Europe in 1816, the year without a summer, and got stuck inside during one of the many storms and decided to pass the time by having a ghost story contest. Mary would eventually develop her story into Frankenstein and Polidori built on Byron's story and created the first work of vampire fiction, the one that transformed the image of the vampire from being a bloated, red skinned Slavic revenant with a constant hard-on tormenting it's family members and neighbors into a suave nobleman with pale skin that seduces his victims. FreudianSlippers has a new favorite as of 01:59 on Jun 30, 2016 |
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It's a bit of Germany that didn't unify with the rest of the German states so it sort of fits. Kinda like how San Marino is the sole remaining Italian city state because Garibaldi owed them a favor or something and they didn't feel like being part of a unified Italy.
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Imagine how long stuff like the Football Eurocup would take if Germany and Italy were still not unififed. Just dozens of tiny fiefdoms and city states and what not.
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Jul 20, 2016 19:34
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They really should've just put Abba Kovner and his Avengers in charge of denazification. I mean sure their definition of Nazi would've been "Is German, a Goy and not a member of some sort of resistance" which was like 99% of Germans but you can't get Nazis out of an omelette without a few million dead.
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Oct 24, 2016 05:11
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Not to mention that throwing massive amounts of resources and manpower into rounding up, imprisoning, and murdering millions of civilians in the middle of a war is a very dumb move. Also quite rude.
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Shbobdb posted:They are irredentists who don't recognize France's claim to Normandy. The Queen is still Duke of Normandy. Even though it's centuries since the English had any lands there.
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Male intimacy was not seen as being "gay" in the 19th and early 20th centuries:    
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"Another genre I have no respect for is the biopic. They are just big excuses for actors to win Oscars. It’s a corrupted cinema. [...] Even the most interesting person – if you are telling their life from beginning to end, it’s going to be a loving boring movie. If you do this, you have to do a comic book version of their whole life. For instance, when you make a movie about Elvis Presley, you don’t make a movie about his whole life. Make a movie about one day. Make a movie about the day Elvis Presley walked into Sun Records. Make a movie about the whole day before he walked into Sun Records, and the movie ends when we walks through that door. That’s a movie." -Tarantino
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Dec 18, 2016 08:08
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Zero Fuchs given.
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Dec 29, 2016 15:57
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George Washington, the person, was long dead before some rando made up a fable about the idealized infaliable God-King George Washington being a perfect being that couldn't even lie as a child.
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Pick posted:Rommel wore a silly bathing suit. This is the second Naziest bathing suit I've ever seen.
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Feb 19, 2017 02:22
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Powaqoatse posted:You know you gotta post the most naziest bathing suit now.  This one would be a strong contender but it was made by an American woman from a bolt of fabric intended for producing Nazi armbands her husband brought home from the war as a souvenir. The idea being to take their poo poo and disrespect their symbol by putting your penis on it repeatedly. 
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All members of The Dwarves are actually Half-Orcs.
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Feb 19, 2017 15:09
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Physics are a false Jewish science invented by decedent Bolshevik intellectuals to subvert and corrupt völkisch ideals. The Reich does not need any nukes.
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Feb 23, 2017 14:22
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Being a huge douche was integral to being a renaissance genius.
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In Iceland alchohol was prohibited in 1915. However after a trade agreement with Spain the ban on wine was lifted, Iceland agreed to buy wines from Spain and Spain would buy salted fish from Iceland. Prohibition ended in 1935 but beer, or at least beer stronger than 2,25%, was still banned. This wasn't really a problem since Icelanders didn't have much of a beer culture, Iceland is far outside the European beer belt and most people preferred stronger spirits such as the traditional brennivín. However in the late 20th century more and more Icelanders begin studying and traveling abroad, most often in Denmark but also to Britain and Germany, where they came into contact with a very different drinking culture where drinking was more of a social activity. In these strange foreign lands people would go to a pub and have a beer or two and relax sometimes even on a weekday. The sort of behavior that would get you branded a complete wino in the old country where getting shitfaced on hard liquor every single weekend was much more acceptable. These cosmopolitan young people then returned home and began to demand beer. The bars saw an opportunity and began to offer something called "beer-like" which was usually some form of low-alcohol beer mixed with whiskey and/or vodka, it apparently tasted like absolutely foul. The beer ban was lifted on March first 1989 which has since then been celebrated as Beer Day ever since. Advertising alcohol is still illegal but the beer companies get around this by having a low-alchohol léttöl ("light-ale") version of their beers that looks almost identical so they can run ads and claim it is for the light-ale if anyone asks. The silliest result of this law was whenever a certain foreign ad for Carlsberg was broadcast on TV and they'd bleep out the word beer : "Carlsberg: Probably the best *BLEEEP* in the world." and of course it had "léttöl" in tiny letters in the corner. Here's a song about drinking beer from 1981 in which the singer laments not being able to drink beer and : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YizMSB-7fSc
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Fun fact: Saying something cool is "off the chain" originates with the Byzantines who would say things that were grand in scale or extravagant were "Της αλυσίδας" ([as if] of the chain" and first entered English in 1877 when Reginald st.John Menzies Cholmondeley, earl of Scunthorpe, used the phrase to describe his trip to Siam.
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Jun 21, 2017 15:28
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Fun fact: Making up random facts that sorta sound like they could be true is fun.
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Jun 21, 2017 20:05
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Challenge accepted.
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Getting a horse down a toilet really hard and only really possible if you've done at least a couple of weeks of prep work. Then once you get them out again, if you get them out, the smell of sewage will never go away completely no matter how often you wash them. With an ictopus on the other hand all you need is a stick, a toilet and a bit of elbow grease. And the octopus itself of course.
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Jun 30, 2017 16:30
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If his merkin was jewel encrusted and made of gold that might work but everyone knows that his most valuable merkin was only made of silver and that his favourite merkin was woven from the hairs of Arabian wild horses. So it just wouldn't work for obvious reasons.
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Jul 13, 2017 03:26
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Borders used to be a lot messier.
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The nisser/tomten are remnants of ancestor worship. They used to be the spirits of the ancient dead that need to be appeased and respected to keep the home safe and land fertile but that somehow morphed over time into Christmas gnomes.
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Jul 15, 2017 14:50
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IIRC the Persians thought cats were dog-shaped snakes and all good animals were some form of dog.
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They also thought ants were literally demons and while I don't agree with their rather unfavorable view of cats I think they might have a point on the ant front. look what I found: http://www.zoroastriankids.com/ FreudianSlippers has a new favorite as of 04:47 on Aug 5, 2017 |
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Aug 5, 2017 04:43
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Hey I mean "Land of the Aryans"
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Aug 5, 2017 05:01
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There being two, non-consecutive, Grover Cleveland heads is genuinely one of the best Futurama jokes.
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Greek and/or Turk
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Lactose tolerance is probably just a genetic mutation like blonde hair.
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"Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash." and also apparently enamel.
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"Not very well thought out and massively impractical" basically sums up the entire Nazi system of government so of course it extended to their weapons manufacturing.
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System Metternich posted:What I think is pretty interesting about past and present societies where literacy doesn't play a large role is how incredibly strong their oral tradition and culture was. It's been proven for example that members of those societies can memorise stuff way better than your average literate westerner. If we could pull a random medieval peasant into our times we would probably be amazed by the sheer amount of songs, poems and stories ha would be able to recount from memory. When they eventually did write the laws down in the law book Grágás they filled about four volumes of 250 or so pages. Obviously this wouldn't be just some rando off the street (or lack thereof) but someone already learned in the law but still that is a heck of a lot to memorize. FreudianSlippers has a new favorite as of 23:27 on Feb 4, 2018 |
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RagnarokZ posted:It actual kept meeting at Ţingvellir up until 1800, not 1262, 1262 was the Union with Norway, it lost a lot of power, but like most old assemblies, it hung around just to keep things running. Yeah but post 1260s it was primarily a court of law and not a legislative assembly or body of government. That is to say until the restoration.
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He started out as Alexander the Ok, I guess. Then once he had done a bit of conquering he was Alexander the Pretty Neat then Alexander the Bitchin' and then Alexander the Niiiiiiice. It wasn't until after he had conquered Persia that he became the Great.
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Then you have stuff like Mamluk Egypt where foreign slave warriors became the ruling class.
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Jul 3, 2018 04:12
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McKinley had it coming. sic semper tyrannis.
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Having your picture taken before the dawn of consumer cameras meant getting a professional photographer which meant it was a formal affair even after exposure times got shorter.
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Czar Ivan Grozny is usually translated as "Ivan the Terrible" but a better translation would be "Awesome John"
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I also refuse to call Charlemagne anything else than "Big Chuck"
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