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Ice-ages are caused by the Hyperboreans - they live with their herds of seals on the arctic sea-ice, and in the coldest winters they raid south & cut down all the trees, to create an endless winter & expand their icy realm. Ice ages end when the Woodland Folk gain the upper hand.
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@historyinmemes Out of interest - has anyone done follow-up studies on the effects of all those x-rays on long-term health?.
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@robertlasagna1 So true. Happened with my last six girlfriends. Hard to know how to overcome this pattern.
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@uncle_deluge @saturnine_grace They'd need to know our calendar, our clock system, the history of a war that happened thousands of miles away, and the phrase "the 11th hour". If they're missing any of that, it makes no sense. Makes you realise how much of Ancient Egypt we must be completely misinterpreting.
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@Aelthemplaer NOT ANY MORE!!!.It got repealed, in 1948 I think. So it's open season, boys. (although also it's in very poor taste, and will undoubtedly tarnish your immortal soul).
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@martianwyrdlord What makes this oddly plausible is that it happened over the Christmas break. A holiday that everyone in the West wants to be off work. but good old Rajnesh is happy to hold the fort because being Indian he doesn't even believe in Santa Claus, much less celebrate him.
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@aimeeterese What does he mean about "all of your friends" dying. is he talking about your Twitter followers?! If so I think we should take this more seriously man.
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@FazlicDamir @UpdatingOnRome That's what makes this story so incredible. How could Alexander have known that so many years later that little boy he saved would become the Saviour of Rome?.
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@BarnabyRaine @Sargon_of_Akkad This isn't true. The British rule of India was carried out in close collaboration with local Indian aristocrats and bankers from the start, who did very well out of it, and used British rule to feather their own nests.
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@arosegregory @InlandCaGuy @AriSchulman @MattZeitlin Ignore him, mate - ever since Elon Musk took over Twitter it's been flooded with these Early-Death Sacagweists, pushing their cranky theories. Funny how all the normal people you meet in real life believe she died in 1884, but then you come online, and it's a mad-house.
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@medix186 @milkthemeister @RadioGenoa I've seen comedy postcards going back to the 60s and before of this exact sort of thing.
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@astralflightpod Something that gets overlooked when comparing former immigration to current immigration is that formerly immigrants had genuinely left their home country. Now with air travel a middle-class Indian programmer in US can visit India twice a year, & can talk constantly on WhatsApp.
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@tomaspueyo Great thread, thanks. Might be interesting to talk about what a strange shape the Niger river is. Very few rivers start close to the sea then flow away from it for hundreds of miles before turning around & flowing back to the sea.
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@historyinmemes She's pretty cute. If I'd seen her coming down, I would definitely have tried the old "did it hurt. when you fell from heaven?" line on her.
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@valentinavee I pay $20 and walk into the movie theater. The director himself is there. He kicks me in the balls, then tips my popcorn over my head. Me: oww. why would you do that?. Valentina: it's okay! He can do what he wants because he's an artist and artists get to decide!.
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@physicssux1234 Once I had a physics exam & at my next tutorial my tutor (who was a thoroughly nice man) asked what it was like. I went off on a 5-minute rant about how poorly designed the exam was, ending with 'why do you ask?'.He said 'because I wrote it'. We shared an awkward silence.
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@holland_tom @ComPolicyForum @mendo5an @SAshworthHayes I understand @holland_tom has several daughters of his own. I can't help wondering if he would have been quite so loftily concerned with race relations if it had been them in the clutches of these gangs, instead of some poor Northern girls from the helot class.
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@PhilippusArabus This guy's hilarious. He goes straight from "It's not happening" to "It's good that it's happening" without missing a beat. The doublethink ability is genuinely impressive.
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@yagebuu @RevengeofCave @vedimic @uncle_deluge @saturnine_grace It'll just be Phase 1 & Phase 2 of the American Empire's conquest of Europe.
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@SperglerAcolyte I did this with an academic who got interviewed by a newspaper about the vaccine during lockdown. She said RNA couldn't change DNA, so I found the journalist's email and wrote to him to say he was wrong and ask for a correction, & cc'd the academic. She was quite rude in reply.
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@fasc1nate That's what they say. I however will continue to rely on my tried and tested tactic of not going swimming in crocodile-infested rivers to make it physically incapable for them to devour me.
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@fightwithmemes Speaking as a Brit, I feint at anything over 25 degrees C, and remain mercifully comatose until it returns to a civilised temperature. That's a normal response when you've grown up in a climate suited for humans, rather than one designed for swamp-dwelling alligators.
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@JGHCOE113 @mythanthrope People only stopped attending public executions because the government stopped holding them in public. If a paedophile were to be executed in Trafalgar Square tomorrow, the place would be packed to the rafters.
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@Howlingmutant0 Dammit, I wish you'd posted this before I enlisted in the Pakistani military to fight the Indian scourge.
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@Number10cat @DiagonalLift Yes. Always has. If I was going to be a political commentator, I would probably avoid asking questions this stupid.
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@StalinFrog Why are all the trenches shown in Ukraine so scruffy? .This is not a sensible way to make trenches, and I don't believe this is how either side is doing it. I think these photos are largely propaganda, but can't decide the purpose. For comparison: British trench from WW1
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@TowersOfSedna @AlexGodofsky @slangchain They are Catholics, which is the most Christian type of Christian. A lot of people would say it's the only real type of Christian!.
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@InsaneNerdist @NIHONGOTH @SaintGreenPact So basically the reason Europeans got their slaves from Africa is because that's where the slave-shop was?.
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@awkwardgoogle This is a jokey character (for a specific local type of noodle dish) made up specifically to be humorously over-elaborate. It is about as typical of normal Chinese as Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch is of normal place-names in Britain
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@rawgus716 Wait what? This is EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED. The Europeans traded guns for furs. The Indians with access to guns then used them to conquer & enslave other tribes, and to fight Europeans. But a gun is just one small component in a much larger system of industrial warfare.
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@BovrilG Lol I was thinking something like this just the other day. His twitter persona is a cuddly old duffer, but he didn't get to be Ambassador to a major country without being fiercely clever and ruthless in his pursuit of Japanese national interests. Incidentally, he was a close aide.
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@autumnpard Perhaps because they haven't learned to forgive properly. So over time a multitude of little resentments build up, and spoil the emotional intimacy and simple affection that give sex its savour once the thrill of novelty and conquest are gone.
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@deshazo_henry @johnnyjmils @LvivTyler Could you expand on this? From what little I know about the Ukraine situation this seemed like a reasonable parallel to me. just wondering where you think it falls short.
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@AcademicAgent_X Has this guy been taking crazy pills? He used to be an insightful poaster, but for the last month or so it's like the account has been run by a weird teenager. Then this - he's never seen the moon during the day, even though it's there roughly 50% of the time? WTF?.
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@FUDdaily Even if our aim is to be charitable towards Somalians, that can be done far more cost-effectively in Somalia. For example, the government could set up a string of hospitals in Somalia where British doctors & nurses could take a sabbatical and go treat & train the locals.
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@RomeInTheEast Whales are rare in the Med now, but Pliny describes them being plentiful. Point is, there used to be a *lot* more whales up until Roman times. If just one could wreak so much havoc - imagine what a hazard they must have been when there were whole fleets of them.
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@ZSharf What makes Borat even funnier for Kazakhstanis is that they had a dictator in the 1930s who killed 1/3 of the population. and he was Jewish. Obviously #NotAllJews. but still, its an unfortunate choice of country to make the butt of this particular joke.
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@BacoBellBoys @FoxinTwitch @poorlyhidden @SwitchGlitchmon @sponson @hum_dunkin Love this idea. I'm picturing one of the versions involving Weekend at Bernies-style antics where the Pakistani police knock on the door and the seals have to convince them he's still alive.
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@_SaveOurStatues The evil of colonisation and empire building is an oddly appropriate topic for Nottingham Castle, given it was originally a Norman Castle built in 1068, and was the base of the most famous colonial oppressor of the English people in the history of pantomimes.
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@providenceluvr You realise you just ruled out James Bond, d'Artagnan and Lancelot, as well as all fighter pilots and almost all doctors?.
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@CallsCthulhu @messagetoworld1 @Gravantus @MogTheUrbanite They have a weird track record of killing pitbulls. They are evidently a lot tougher than their rather frail appearance would lead us to believe.
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@Lhikevikk @greentexts_bot I feel like I've been taking crazy pills whenever this topic comes up. His victims were not only underage, they were also domestic servants employed by his friends who he put pressure on via their job. He so clearly deserved his punishment & yet he's a heroic martyr somehow.
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@Goodtweet_man Realistically, if he's reporting directly to the CEO then he's a senior executive, not middle management.
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@earlkwonD_rondo @GreenTextRepost That's. a perfectly valid reason to watch the news. Or follow sports. Or watch Tiger King or whatever. What the hell are we supposed to talk to random acquaintances about if we don't all watch telly?.
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@Babygravy9 That's because you're young and healthy and can see that most of them are unimpressive plodders. But when you're old or sick you really want to believe their hype.
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@SteveStuWill Left: a culture whose role models were amateur athletes doing things that normal people could reasonably aspire to emulate. Right: a culture where a few freaks are selected&trained from a young age to do things that in the past were the domain of pro circus acrobats. Progress?.
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@bucephalus424 Can't believe those primitive Russians got angry at machines that didn't work. As a sophisticated modern person I would obviously never get angry with my laptop, or threaten my printer.
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@p8stie @Mr_HadiH Baby, hook up with me & I promise you all* the economy class flying you can handle. * offer limited to short-haul flights, once per year, to a mutually agreeable destination. applicants must be willing to live in the UK, and happy to listen to improbable conspiracy theories.
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@alexfent @davidjnash If cornstarch dissolves on contact with water then why is my custard so lumpy?.
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@MikeMarugg @AuburnSouthern @morganisawizard @UsingCigarettes I think you should take this more seriously. My great-uncle was given the only life support machine in Timbuctoo because he was verified. A nurse noticed this morning he's lost his blue check, so they're going to pull the plug - they don't want to waste the machine on a nobody.
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@notquites0cial @kisstheblade_ Literally its entire selling point was that it was billed as grittily realistic. You clearly haven't been paying attention and as a result you've badly embarrassed yourself here. Hard to see how you come back from this.
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@Babygravy9 This is a fairly standard question in law/ethics. If it can be proved (somehow) that the nature of the tumour-induced urges were such that a normal person would not be able to resist them, he is innocent; otherwise, guilty. Simply having urges does not excuse acting on them.
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@Andr3jH That's heart-breaking. I've actually traced several of the people in this photo when I was doing research work for a TV miniseries of James Clavell's Whirlwind. This is what the woman standing next to your mother looks like now, after 45 years of Islamist rule.
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@quantian1 Yeah, eating turnips sounds gloomy. But change that to, you will eat a hearty stew based on a mirepoix of diced onions, celery & turnips, slowly sautéed in butter before adding fried bacon and liver and two types of mushrooms, served with mustard-infused mashed potatoes and.
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@Night_Ninja_YT @Joelgri76190429 @tipsNmotivation I admire your devotion to your craft, sir. A lesser craftsman would just have taken advantage of that unlocked door. I salute you. It is men like you who made this country great.
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@astraiaintel Two words: Bengali saltpetre. Saltpetre is the active ingredient in gunpowder. It's quite hard to come by in large amounts, but for reasons I won't go into here, Bengal is unusually suited for producing it in vast quantities. Britain got control of Bengal in late 18th C; after.
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@SimpGanassi @mikemartintweet There's also a factor that Adam Smith highlighted in Wealth of Nations: the price of the farms is inflated because people just like owning land, even if its not making any money. A lot of these "farms" are just very large gardens for the rich.
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@G0ADM Is there a link to the heroin trade, do you think? So maybe Afghan heroin sent over from Pakistan, in exchange not for money but for 'credits' the suppliers can redeem for sex with English girls when they visit England?.Payment 'in-kind' would avoid a lot of money-laundering. .
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@earlkwonD_rondo @GreenTextRepost For self-reporting being a normal person? Hmm. Have you considered that it might be you they're laughing at?. Your own gif. Even your own gif is mocking you now.
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@BenObeseJecty @MDerscher You sound like exactly the sort of chap the Ukrainian Foreign Legion is looking for.
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@earlkwonD_rondo @GreenTextRepost I'm super serious. This is really the most bog-standard possible human behaviour. It is as ubiquitous & unremarkable as sneezing. I don't understand your gif. Is the Wehrmacht uniform relevant? Is this some sort of comment on Japan's lack of contrition for WW2?.
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@kitten_beloved I wonder how long we have to go with no nuclear war before people finally accept nuclear weapons are just a propaganda hoax and never existed. It's been 80 years already, and everyone still believes. Will it take 200 years? 500? 10,000?.
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@nise_yoshimi I took some Chinese friends for their first experience of Nandos, and cautioned them about the hottest chicken sauce. They gave me a withering look, ordered it anyway, and spent the whole meal complaining they could barely taste it. 🙄.
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@BasedNorthmathr He acted as front man for a cabal of gvmt insiders who purloined the advanced rocketry technology that had been developed with gvmt funds, and started their own private company with it.
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@gloria_purvis I assume this is a reference to the episode in Galatians, where a recent convert (St Paul) disagreed with the Holy Father's (St Peter) understanding of doctrine, about whether Christians could eat with non-Jews. Remind me, who turned out to be right - the Holy Father or convert?.
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@GirardHolistic @Jbn3ex 🎯.The Iliad and Odyssey are Baltic myths given a soft reboot with a Med setting after its people migrated south to Greece, and I'm tired of pretending otherwise.
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@xamaximus If a party ran on this, they would win in a landslide. And yet no party ever does. Odd how our free & fair democratic marketplace of ideas never seems to work out the way you'd expect.
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@Hanasaku_Yuri Interesting how the King tried to soften the rejection by suggesting Marlborough, which was of course the Churchill family title (the 1st Duke of Marlborough was John Churchill, and Winston was the grandson of the 7th Duke).
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@testaccountoki @mewingjelqer @___frye So he was just sulking for most of that time. The Israelites were acting up about something, so he sat down & said "we're not going ONE STEP FURTHER until this current rubbish generation are all dead". After 40 years they were all dead, so he agreed to go on.
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@real_lord_miles You should read Simon Mann's book 'Cry Havoc' about his experiences organising coups in Africa. He explains why this isn't possible. Basically without a green light from the old colonial power, or a super-power, you can't act. Local forces often aren't a problem, but without.
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@GeorgeMonbiot @ClinchMichael I suppose some people do. I think what most of us who you would label "Climate Deniers" want is for people like you who make a living off this to be a little more honest & impartial in what you write. If they call you out, usually it's because you're lying.
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@JamesSurowiecki Now do the BLM riots through the whooooole of the preceding summer. Including the assault (insurrection?) on the White House on May 29 2020. Oh wait no you can't because you're a massive hypocrite - sorry, my bad.
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@dieworkwear Dude, does everything with you have to be politically motivated? This is the most drearily predictable take. You've basically just thought "what well-known types of brown people can I show I support?".
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@Valen10Francois For a century, basically the 15th C, the Kalmar Union united all of Scandinavia. It was always plagued by internal strife, but if they had managed to overcome that it's fascinating to think what role they would have played in European history.
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@ActualAurochs Wow, fascinating. Completely explains the Anglo-Saxon takeover of England, and why there are so few Welsh place-name relics in England - a volcanic winter could have depopulated the interior of the island (colder temps away from the seas moderating influence).
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@BristOliver Of all the things that never happened. this wasn't one of them - I can feel in my gut that this is true. Thank you for speaking your truth, sir.
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@CommieMamacita @IntolerantEagle >claims to be the best.>gets into one war (against Poland).>wins it easily.>dog-piled by the combined forces of the 4 largest Empires in the world.>outperforms their best soldiers by ~30% (Allied estimate).>Loses. Fixed it for you.
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