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[Smaug's Smokey Hole 2]

Why don't they just make that shit for humans then?

Sort of like this:
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People buy and use this for themselves. Why not just market it to humans too?

I've seen it marketed and sold to women. I even know one that uses horse schampoo from time to time, for its curative properties. She refuses to leave home until she washes her hair the next day because it smells kind of strong. Don't think it's that brand though.

 

[Raging Capybara]

In the Italian version, Eli Wallach is the Bad and Lee Van Cleef is the Ugly.

 

[demicolon]

@gamerweeb1 Not the same type of Aboriginals, but er, what do I know? I'm not a Kiwi, or Convict- Sorry, Aussie. All I really know is, there's loads more Aboriginal sub-societies or tribes, than Maori ones.

But if my paternal grandad's biological old man was at least half some kind of Aboriginal or Maori type, I'd understand why he was such a mardy, responsibility dodging fuck-up, who liked to drink:
JACK THE FURY BEATS HIS WIFE (480p).mp4

Jesus Christ how horryfing. What movie is it so I can watch the rest?

Fun fact: in 1895, the entire state of Ohio had only 2 cars. Both cars still managed to smash into each other.

 

[Wot Zit Too Yah0996]

Jesus Christ how horryfing. What movie is it so I can watch the rest?

Fun fact: in 1895, the entire state of Ohio had only 2 cars. Both cars still managed to smash into each other.

It's Once Were Warriors. This Kiwi show made a reference to it: https://youtu.be/_fqg4zal230?si=F42rDmL7XxqqyY7t

And that Ohio factoid of yours reminds me of a somewhat similar thing around a similar time, that involved someone getting a speeding ticket for going, at most, 4 miles an hour.

Scratch that, it was 8 miles an hour, in a horseless carriage, not a car. Here's a story about it though, if you want to have a gander: https://blog.britishnewspaperarchiv...-first-speeding-fine-for-travelling-at-8-mph/

@Meat Target "Name's Bond. James Bond. Bastard."

 

[Wot Zit Too Yah0996]

King Cnut didn't believe he could command the tide to go back, but his followers did. He kept shouting "Go back!", to prove to them that he wasn't a sea-controlling God-king, because nothing happened, no matter how many times he bellowed those words.

 

[Meat Target]

Allegedly, Softball was not invented as a new spin on baseball.

The legend goes that in 1887, after Yale beat Harvard in football, a Yale fan threw a boxing glove at a Harvard fan, who parried it with a broomstick he happened to be holding.

This caught the attention of reporter George Hancock who witnessed the incident, and later suggested they have a game of "indoor baseball". They tied the glove pair together to make a ball.

The game gained traction at the turn of the 20th Century, when a Minneapolis Fire Department lieutenant had his firemen play it as a way to stay in shape during off-time.

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

The guy who played Jek Porkins in Star Wars was investigated by the FBI in connection to the JFK assassination. He was obviously found innocent.

 

[Wot Zit Too Yah0996]

In the 1500s, and possibly to 1600s, or even early 1700s, most of Mexico's slaves weren't African, but East Asian (Chinese and Filipino). So, if you look at a Mexican and think they look like a "Chink" on some level, then there's extremely likely to be multiple, multiple generations removed East Asian ancestry in their gene pool.

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

The word Nazi is commonly used as slur for the National Socialists but did you know that in Ancient Kassite Babylon noblemen had titles that sounded like how it's spelled in our written language? Two of the Kassite Babylonian rulers held the title "Nazi", Nazi-Maruttash and Nazi-Bugaš. Nazi-Maruttaš and Nazi-Bugaš are theophoric names (containing the name of a god), like most Mesopotamian names. Maruttaš and Bugaš are assumed to be Kassite deities about whom little is known. The element "Nazi" roughly translates as "(under the) protection of", which we know because such names are often written as Akkadian calques in the form of Ṣilli-[Mesopotamian god equivalent], such as the common substitution of Ṣilli-Ninurta for Nazi-Maruttaš. Akkadian ṣillu literally means "shadow" or "shade," with the sense that the person is under the protective umbrella of a god.

 

[Get the rope Macaulay!]

"indoor baseball"

when did they stop playing it indoors? that sounds like an amazing improvement on the game.

In the 1500s, and possibly to 1600s, or even early 1700s, most of Mexico's slaves weren't African, but East Asian

how? i thought the spanish never figured out how to make asia to america travel worth it?

 

[McMitch]

when did they stop playing it indoors? that sounds like an amazing improvement on the game.

Presumably it is easier to appropriate already-existing baseball diamonds than it is to source, set-up, and break-down an indoor venue.

 

[Get the rope Macaulay!]

it is to source, set-up, and break-down an indoor venue.

ok, i mean they do that for basketball/hockey stadiums and it would be sort of cool to have indoor basketball. indoor football was cool. not being able to rely on homeruns would have really fucked the moneyball aspects too.

 

[McMitch]

ok, i mean they do that for basketball/hockey stadiums and it would be sort of cool to have indoor basketball.

There’s still money to be made in the former two. The latermost barely makes money even when played outside.

Fun fact: Like most aquatic ambush predators, larval dragonfly mouth parts will extend forward from the body in order to counteract the turbulent forces of the water. While most animals are content with having the mouth flex forward when biting (like with sharks), larval dragonflies got the extra mile and add an entire literal elbow to their mouths.



This was a direct inspiration for the secondary mouth of the xenomorph in Alien.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

The scientific name for the American robin is turdus migratorius. I have no idea what turdus means, so I'll pretend this means flying turd.

 

[Skeletron Prime]

Rats are ticklish and enjoy being tickled, to the point that they will chase the hand that tickled them and jump for joy.

 

[Meat Target]

Vin Mariani, a mixture of wine and cocaine, was a popular tonic wine in the late 1800s. Among those who sang its praise were Jules Verne, Thomas Edison, Ulysses S. Grant, and Popes Leo XIII and St. Pius X.

John S. Pemberton made his own version of it until Georgia enacted prohibition. He then reformulated it into a non-alcoholic version: the original Coca-Cola.

 

[Wot Zit Too Yah0996]

when did they stop playing it indoors? that sounds like an amazing improvement on the game.


how? i thought the spanish never figured out how to make asia to america travel worth it?

I dunno, but they ended up in the Philippines not that long after they settled permanently in Mexico, I think, so they figured it out somehow.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

Vin Mariani, a mixture of wine and cocaine, was a popular tonic wine in the late 1800s. Among those who sang its praise were Jules Verne, Thomas Edison, Ulysses S. Grant, and Popes Leo XIII and St. Pius X.

John S. Pemberton made his own version of it until Georgia enacted prohibition. He then reformulated it into a non-alcoholic version: the original Coca-Cola.

You could also, in olden times (1870s), walk into any pharmacy and buy "Indian cigarettes" made of belladonna, henbane, datura and cannabis soaked in an opium extract and cherry laurel schnapps.

 

[AnOminous]

You could also, in olden times (1870s), walk into any pharmacy and buy "Indian cigarettes" made of belladonna, henbane, datura and cannabis soaked in an opium extract and cherry laurel schnapps.

Just remove the datura and this sounds like a tasty smoke.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

In the 1500s, and possibly to 1600s, or even early 1700s, most of Mexico's slaves weren't African, but East Asian (Chinese and Filipino). So, if you look at a Mexican and think they look like a "Chink" on some level, then there's extremely likely to be multiple, multiple generations removed East Asian ancestry in their gene pool.

It's always blown my mind that Filipinos and Chinese existed in the New World before Englishmen did.

You could also argue that, in some fashion, the Philippines was a Mexican colony (if you accept New Spain as being Mexico+).