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Peanut President posted:Was he a gelder? That's a bingo.
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Kanine posted:god some of the comments on the facebook feed and that video are so disgusting Tell me about it. Uh, history fact... Do you know how lots of historical documents talk about baker's who cheated their customers by cutting their bread with plaster/other inedible powders? Turns out, most of them were just heresay. How do we know? People tried to bake bread made to the specifications indicated and the loaves just fell to pieces.
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Grem posted:Marie Antoinette was curious just how hard the average life of a French citizen was. She had a little village built so she can stroll around and see what it was like to be a poo poo poor Frenchman. Instead of, say, going outside the palace walls, she walked around and observed servants pretending to bake bread with huge smiles on their faces. They were all executed for many reasons. Also, at the baptism of the last Dauphin, he managed to do as babies do and partake in a fecal explosion. Dye artists made a shade of brown based off of the incident.
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Aug 6, 2018 08:06
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There was a play written in Britain, entitled: Sodom, or the Quintessence of Debauchery, which in it's first scene sums up the plot of the play by having the King of Sodom, Bolloximian, declare: 'I do proclaim, that buggery may be used o'er all the land, so oval office be not abused.' You can find the rest of it here. I wonder why it isn't taught in schools alongside Shakespeare?
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Krankenstyle posted:Also his children are super ugly. JESUS loving CHRIST. I thought the British Royal family were bad...
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Aug 22, 2018 20:32
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On the subject of Proto-fascism/nazism, did you know that the first fascist party in Britain was founded by a lesbian? Roth Orman was an avowed anti-communist and anti-internationalist, but lost her political funding (from her Mum), because of rumours re. her sexuality and drug habits.
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Aug 28, 2018 07:01
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Peanut President posted:it was a yolk, friend Looks like the yolk's on us! We've really got egg on our faces!
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Aug 30, 2018 11:01
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Free Market Mambo posted:I speak Finland-Swedish with an American accent. When I go to Stockholm they treat me like a very special boy. That's, uh... That's not because of the accent.
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System Metternich posted:
Yowza. That's some heavy poo poo.
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Oct 9, 2018 09:53
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Edit: Nah, unfunny joke.
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Take the plunge! Okay! posted:No, it’s related to a terrible JRPG some dude tried to plug in Games that was named “Thermidor” although it took place in another month before the revolutionary regime even changed the names. Christ, that was a shitshow.
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Oct 28, 2018 12:17
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CommunityEdition posted:The only proper conclusion to the podcast would be for Mike Duncan to overthrow a government during a live episode Don't spoil the ending!!!
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Oct 31, 2018 08:48
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:That's only two and a half boxes of Peter Vella. Promachus is a lightweight. Well, in fairness to the Greeks, we don't know just how alcoholic their wine was undiluted. Or we may do, there may be come historical records indicating their proof - but I don't have it readily to hand.
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Nov 12, 2018 10:22
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bony tony posted:Semla is fuckin delicious and I'll fight anyone who says different I will be your second for any duels.
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Apr 16, 2019 11:23
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Ooh! We're talking about duelling? Than allow me to share one of my favorite incidents, the duel between William Adam and Charles James Fox; I added the wiki link to the latter for he is the more interesting of the two, and also it is needed to get an idea of his appearance - specifically, how goddamn fat he was. Anyway, around 1787, Fox accused Adam of supplying British forces in the war against the American colonies with inferior quality gunpowder. Adam, responded with a demand for a duel. Fox approached this very nonchalantly; on the day, he was advised to turn his body so he wouldn't be firing head-on against Adam, so as to provide a smaller target. Fox replied along the lines that, given his corpulence, frankly, it wouldn't matter if he was head-on or in profile. Shots were exchanged, Fox missed, but Adam hit; however, the wound was not fatal, the reason being, as Fox later asserted, because Adam was using the gunpowder he was supplying the British army with.
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PMush Perfect posted:So they were mostly cursing women and retail workers, huh? Some things never change. I remember reading a book on the folk history of vampires/revenants and one thing that jumped out was the fact that vampirism wasn't spread by being bitten, but due to a range of possibilities; if you weren't baptized, if you were a Muslim, a bandit, etc. but my particular favourite, from Bulgaria, if I recall, was if you were a 'dishonest barmaid'.
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A satisfactory picture from history: https://twitter.com/Chinchillazllla/status/1153127915669872640
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Jul 22, 2019 10:01
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Ichabod Sexbeast posted:He also managed to kill 3 people while operating on 1 person. I know of Robert Liston killing three people in one go, how did Lister manage it?
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Der Kyhe posted:
I believe that's because Atriedes is from Greece; i.e. ancestors of Atreus.
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Sep 1, 2019 09:43
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Ghost Leviathan posted:The way I figure is that they probably have pots for poopin in when necessary but sailors just find it more convenient to poop over the side when they're already out there. Yeah, just be wary of doing that if the Captain has seized mystical seashells from the Formosan travelers tho.
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Sep 16, 2019 10:09
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Alhazred posted:People were real stupid about invasive species for a shockingly long time. For example the european starling was introduced to America in 1890 because those admiring the works of Shakespeare wanted to see all the birds mentioned in his creations represented in North America. It is estimated that the starling causes damages worth 800 million dollars each year. See also rabbits in Australia.
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Sep 18, 2019 08:16
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Alhazred posted:During an excavation in London archaeologists found a bunch souvenir styluses from ancient Rome that had humorous inscriptions on them: Can I have the source for that, please? Not disbelieving you, just want to see it proper.
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Peanut Butler posted:"Johnny Bigtime" Jack 'Big Wins' Basilton.
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Carbon dioxide posted:
Absent friends [Natives]
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Nov 23, 2019 07:28
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:Reminds me of the board game Agricola, which is about being a subsistence farmer in some very vaguely-defined Middle Ages-ish period. And here I was hoping it was about making refreshing carbonated beverages for farmers.
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Rollersnake posted:Avocado looks like it should mean something in Latin by accident, and I've always been disappointed that it very nearly doesn't. The closest is avocabo (I will call away) or avocando (by means of the calling away). I always liked the name of the Brazilian stray cat adopted by an office for social help; Advogato.
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Sulla Faex posted:Even eating one barrel seems too much, mustard or no Oh, you.
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Alhazred posted:In the book De Medicina the author Aulus Cornelius Celsus described how roman doctors restored the foreskin for jews who wanted to look roman: oof
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3D Megadoodoo posted:What's with the ladles though? Eh, it ain't nobodies business but the Turks.
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Fish of hemp posted:Grim and dark reboot of the Jönssonliga mythos. Lysande, Fishan!
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Before they perfected the technique, it was a real pain in the rear end. Very good.
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Piss Meridian posted:what kind of a moron prepars game meat as steak tartare Well... ...Nazis.
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Dang it, I had something in this very thread earlier about duelling iirc. Edit: Found it: Samovar posted:Ooh! We're talking about duelling? Than allow me to share one of my favorite incidents, the duel between William Adam and Charles James Fox; I added the wiki link to the latter for he is the more interesting of the two, and also it is needed to get an idea of his appearance - specifically, how goddamn fat he was. Samovar has a new favorite as of 15:57 on Nov 28, 2020 |
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steinrokkan posted:Same thing with early TV makeup - and even after colour TV appeared, lots of shows used very garish and unrealistic makeup so details wouldn't be lost on black and white sets. It's why Frankenstein's monster is usually associated with being green in colour - 'cause that was the body paint that made him look palest with black and white.
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Carthag Tuek posted:It's a very Canadian name He was a member of some weird, Christian poly-sex-cult thing (who now make silverware, iirc), and was so disliked that his nickname was Charles 'Get-out'.
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Asterite34 posted:Man no wonder he killed a President, you gotta be a next-level incel to not be getting any in the polygamist orgy cult. The episode on him and Leon Czołgosz by the History Honeys gives a pretty good overview. Basically, he was like a real-life Ignatius J. Reilly.
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ChubbyChecker posted:it was intentional See also the idea that during the Bengal famine people in charge of the Raj thought it would be a marvelous time to illustrate how a free market would supply food to the most poverty stricken areas the most efficiently. On an entirely unrelated note, up to 35 million people potentially died from the famines in India under British rule, we can't say for certain because of a systematic, deliberate operation of the British government during the 60s and 70s to destroy all documents relating to British colonial practices - see Operation Legacy.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Ah, the old "Charles XII". Time-honoured Swedish tradition. Better than the 'Adolph Fredrick' tradition.
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Since we're on Scandinavian monarchies, shall we bring up Christian VII of Denmark, who had a mistress called 'Bootie'? Anne Cathrine Benthagen was so called because it was likely her parent/s were shoemakers, and so it might be more accurate to say her nickname is translatable to 'little boot's, but Bootie is funnier than Caligula. Samovar has a new favorite as of 14:56 on Mar 12, 2021 |
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