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This is probably controversial but it's a neat hypothesis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EszwYNvvCjQ Short version: people (may have) really had a hey-nonny-nonny kind of walk back then.
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The story of Milunka Savic is a pretty amazing one, so here's The Great War's version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLYz6aWz1cs And .txt version: - Disguises herself as her brother, takes his place to fight in the Serbian army during Balkan wars and WWI - Wounded 9 times, decorated bunch of times, spawns all kinds of stories of skill and bravery - Gives birth to 1 daughter, adopts 3 more - Gets sent to a concentration camp during WWII for refusing to cooperate with the puppet government - Toils in obscurity and poverty for decades until she shows up at the 50th anniversary of WWI, dunking on everyone else with previously mentioned decorations, finally getting recognition she deserved
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Alhazred posted:In ancient Egypt when the pharaoh's army was victorious they would cut of the dicks off the fallen enemy soldiers and present them to the pharaoh. "So you're a soldier?" "That's right, I serve the mighty Pharaoh!" "What's your branch of service?" "... Weiner cutters"
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Ffff that's some good poo poo
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Krankenstyle posted:The above is actual true history, at least according to Hemingway. So a total lie then!
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In a bit of new-meets-old, the Voynich manuscript decoding efforts finally made a bit of progress:quote:Importantly, the researchers aren’t saying they’ve deciphered the entire Voynich manuscript. Rather, they’ve identified the language of origin (Hebrew), and a coding scheme in which letters have been arranged in a particular order (alphagram). Kondrak says the full meaning of the text won’t be known until historians of ancient Hebrew have a chance to study the deciphered text.
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If one of you tank guys turns out to be Lindybeige... ... actually, I won't be surprised in the least. He's a goon if I ever saw one.
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PMush Perfect posted:Man, tanks are so cool. But when I try to look into it with any detail, it's all Greek to me. Surely you mean Mesopotamian.
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Alhazred posted:My grandfather did this because he was prominent member of Socialistic Left and regularly received mail from North Korea (his government record was empty). My takeaway from this is that the Norwegian secret police ain't doing poo poo.
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Feb 23, 2018 19:32
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Ariong posted:You know he never corrected them. Gotta get those pennies. Those "Financial Independence / Early Retirement" people are hardcore.
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Feb 28, 2018 02:51
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TapTheForwardAssist posted:Hard to beat Tsutomu Yamaguchi: he was in Hiroshima in 1945 on a business trip, was about to leave from the train station but realized he'd forgotten his travel papers back at his office. He ended up being 3km away from Ground Zero when the nuke dropped, was wounded and spent the night in an air-raid shelter. The next day he made a dash for safety back to his hometown... which happened to be Nagasaki. So three days later he was back at work, telling his boss the crazy thing that happened, when the US dropped the second nuke, coincidentally also 3km from his office. Motherfucker, take some sick leave.
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That, and it's also a pretty lousy alarm system if it has a built-in nine-month delay.
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I'd figure cows were there to provide milk for those who'd need it most during a blockade: young children, those who couldn't handle a solid diet, etc. Of course, you could achieve the same far more effectively by storing a ton of powdered milk instead, so 
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Historical fun fact: people pronounce things differently even if they nominally speak the same language! Large immigrant communities can affect this pronunciation and even add whole new words, or contribute to one synonym over another becoming default! Even in the passage of language from one generation to the next in a small, homogenous area, words and syntax will change! Stop trying to justify your use of "quoth," Edgar.
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I'm mostly impressed by the fact that multiple people here have heard of / remember Boney M.
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Wheat Loaf posted:There's a comedy road movie to be had out of this premise. Agreed, but we'd have to time travel and abduct Richard Pryor to star.
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pidan posted:George Carlin has a whole long podcast about this. I'm gonna need you to elaborate on this, because I'm wondering whether podcast technology advanced way beyond what I thought was possible.
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re: Jefferson Starship: https://www.gq.com/story/oral-history-we-built-this-city-worst-song-of-all-time Gives us some background such as: quote:Grace Slick was the matriarch of the group, and everyone was focused on making her happy. She gave me very specific marching orders: “I want to make hits.” She told me she wanted to tour, make a lot of money, and then retire. That's how she put it.
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Biplane posted:"A map of The Somme after the battle. Each grid square is 250 square metres. The numbers written in blue are the amount of bodies found within them." You
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Since we're on WWI, this is coming out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrabKK9Bhds Could be amazing.
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thesurlyspringKAA posted:And 8 spiders a year That's true of everyone, but Einstein preferred to eat them all at once.
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Mar 20, 2019 06:13
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The Martians were sober, it's the Finns who were/are drunk.
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Krankenstyle posted:Hurdy Gurdys own https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORO1FcEqBV8
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Krankenstyle posted:These are pretty cool: Now there's a Heddels.com inspiration post. 3000 years, no washes.
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Jun 1, 2019 14:22
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Apparently the "tobacco smoke enema" is both a fantastic username and something Europeans adopted from the Native Americans, and I'm desperately hoping it was just the world's greatest joke played on the white man.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Anyone got any good Byzantine stories? I do, but they're complicated and tough to follow. I don't 
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Alhazred posted:He first went to Rus where the king, Yaroslav the Wise, advised him to make some money.  Quality advice, Yaroslav living up to his epithet.
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Krankenstyle posted:Folio 11r shows "Terra Florida" bottom left. There, signatures G & H are respectively Einfœtingeland (Onefootingland), "which is said to be inhabited by a strange people who have naught but the one leg"  
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Aug 10, 2019 00:28
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The Bavarian Pissdress sounds like it could be an experimental punk band.
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Ornamental Dingbat posted:I ended up being the result of her marrying her adopted aunt's son, and I grew up thinking that everyone's grandmothers were sisters.  I don't really mean to mock, I just can't quite parse it all.
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Alhazred posted:At one point her girth became bigger than her height. "Easier to jump over than walk around" is one verbose way of describing fat people in ex-Yugo.
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OutOfPrint posted:Berrypicker should have understood "elder" is as offensive as n-word. Neanderthal?
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ToxicFrog posted:People who learned English as a second language tend to complain about how hard it is, but that's true of just about any second language; Every person's experience is different, obviously, but to me learning English was a loving cakewalk compared to French or Russian. And that's saying something, because Russian is really close to my native 
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Meanwhile, Yugoslavia had to develop a defense plan against an invasion by either NATO or the Warsaw Pact. It probably wasn't really a "defense plan" as much as it was a "letter of formal surrender", but still.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:I know plenty of non-lactose intolerant adults who put milk in their cereal or coffee, but seeing someone just drink a glass of milk is weird. I never see that. So what do people do after they finish the cereal, throw the milk away? Or if you're dunking cookies in milk, do you just dump the milk?
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Yeah you don’t drown it in milk, you put in just enough so there’s none left Well no, of course you don't drown it, the cereal must retain some crisp. But you'll have something left over, probably. I suppose the cookie-dunking part of the question is the better example. Unless you're doing the dunking in a thimble or something.
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Helith posted:You dunk biscuits in tea you heathen. Garbage hard British biscuits, sure. But if you tell me you dunk chocolate chip cookies in tea... wtf man? And this is from someone with a crippling addiction to looseleaf tea.
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In Soviet Russia, you disappear... Stalin?
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Sulla Faex posted:Hm you mean the poor fools coerced into mass murder-suicide aren't usually the most motivated, educated, or inspired? Colour me fuckin' surprised Hold on, that's not fair. Some go willingly into that mass murder-suicide cult.
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Carthag Tuek posted:Yeah for most of human history, dyes were extremely expensive & so having dyed clothes were a way to signal wealth. Wealth, syphilis -- either one leads to madness.
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