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This decorative embroidery that creates an open seam is called... faggoting.
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Communisms almost failed to take hold in Russia due to early communists/Marxists being for prohibition/temperance. It wasn't just religion that was considered an opiate of the bourgeoisie, but so was alcohol. However....try explaining that to a bunch of people who live in a cold harsh place, and live harsh lives with only booze to help them forget their misery? yeah your ideology isn't gonna catch on. It was only after Lenin and later Stalin promised that the "seizure of the methods of production'' would include vodka distilleries and promised an equal distribution of vodka for everyone, did the idea to start a revolution catch on.
 
The Nazis considered Italians, Spaniards, of mainland Spanish Spain decent,the greeks and the french "honorary aryan/" meaning if you were any of those races and living in Germania during Dolf's reign, you might have been able to live mostly comfortable, and not get deported onto a train to the camps. Really the Nazi's shit list ran from worst to less tolerable: Jews, gypsies, Russians, Romanians and Poles. anyone Russian down was on the list to "get on board and get out." still towards the end of the war and desperate for any form of allies to aid he effort the title of "honorary" was expanded to include Spaniards in central and south America,russians of Cossack descent and blacks of east and French north African descent.
 
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horrorfan89 said:
The Nazis considered Italians, Spaniards, of mainland Spanish Spain decent,the greeks and the french "honorary aryan/" meaning if you were any of those races and living in Germania during Dolf's reign, you might have been able to live mostly comfortable, and not get deported onto a train to the camps. Really the Nazi's shit list ran from worst to less tolerable: Jews, gypsies, Russians, Romanians and Poles. anyone Russian down was on the list to "get on board and get out." still towards the end of the war and desperate for any form of allies to aid he effort the title of "honorary" was expanded to include Spaniards in central and south America and blacks of east and French north African descent.
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Related to this, after the release of Metropolis, Fritz Lang was approached by Joseph Goebbels. Evidently, he and Hitler loved the movie and said that Lang could be considered an "honorary Aryan." Lang himself was Jewish on his mother's side. Goebbels told him, "Mr Lang, we decide who is Jewish and who is not." Lang fled to Paris that night.
 
Duncan Hills Coffee said:
Related to this, after the release of Metropolis, Fritz Lang was approached by Joseph Goebbels. Evidently, he and Hitler loved the movie and said that Lang could be considered an "honorary Aryan." Lang himself was Jewish on his mother's side. Goebbels told him, "Mr Lang, we decide who is Jewish and who is not." Lang fled to Paris that night.
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just for the record. I have an EL Salvadorian father and Puerto Rican grandfather, I'm as much a candidate for being a "White Supremacist" as Ben "Jew never tumper" Shapiro or Ted Cruz is. anyways....


Art Spielman 's Maus is the only comic book to ever win the Pulitzer prize, the highest honor in literary excellence second only to the Nobel prize in literature
 
In the United States, A Clockwork Orange was rated X in its original release. Later, Kubrick voluntarily replaced approximately 30 seconds of sexually explicit footage from two scenes with less explicit action for an R rating re-release in 1973. Current releases on all major platforms from DVD, Blu-Ra and streaming, present the original edit. Reclassified with an “R” rating. Despite all this, the film was completely banned in the UK and all the British commonwealths including Australia and New Zealand until after Kubrick's death in 1999. With bootleg VHS tapes being the only way to see the film in said places until 1999.
 
horrorfan89 said:
Despite all this, the film was completely banned in the UK and all the British commonwealths including Australia and New Zealand until after Kubrick's death in 1999. With bootleg VHS tapes being the only way to see the film in said places until 1999.
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Kubrick himself banned it.
 
AnOminous said:
Kubrick himself banned it.
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oh my bad dear brother, I though I had mentioned this little tidbit in my prior post. but yes indeed Mr. Kubrick himself opted to ban the hijinks of Alex Delarge from the British Isles and her commonwealths


despite his high class and almost British appearance and outlook, Stanley Kubrick was born in Manhattan NYC. Unlike Ralph Bakshi who while also Synonymous with NYC was born in Palestine.
 
Speaking of Sparta, wanna know how they fucked?
Women were forced to have their hair shaved off prior to screwing a warrior in some hut.
 
A popular word in Chile (and maybe other places in Latin America) for drunk is "cured".
The expression's origins come from old-time wine storing habits. Back then, larger quantities of wine were kept in ceramic vases and pans of all sizes and then stored in pantries. And in order to keep both the wine and the vases' interiors relatively clean and bacteria-free, people "cured" the inside of the storing vase with a bit of the wine, so its ferments and alcohol could cleanse it.

People who got drunk from the wine ended up acquiring the same distinct smell from a "cured" wine vase, and thus came the expression.
 
Miel67 said:
Speaking of Sparta, wanna know how they fucked?
Women were forced to have their hair shaved off prior to screwing a warrior in some hut.
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This is needs some more context:
After a spartan marriage, the bride was taken away, had her head shaven and was forced to wear rags as clothing. She was then thrown in a dark room where the bridegroom would find her (and fuck her) It was meant to kindle the relationship beyond physical beauty.
In the same vein, public displays of affection were banned and it was supposed to be clandestine. Like you were supposed to sneak in a kiss or two and if you were discovered then you would get punished. Again, the idea behind this was that the couple would not sink into a comfortable love but keep that fiery, forbidden, taboo love.

Sparta is weird but it all makes sense if you look a bit closer.
 
Yuuichirou Kumada said:
A popular word in Chile (and maybe other places in Latin America) for drunk is "cured".
The expression's origins come from old-time wine storing habits. Back then, larger quantities of wine were kept in ceramic vases and pans of all sizes and then stored in pantries. And in order to keep both the wine and the vases' interiors relatively clean and bacteria-free, people "cured" the inside of the storing vase with a bit of the wine, so its ferments and alcohol could cleanse it.

People who got drunk from the wine ended up acquiring the same distinct smell from a "cured" wine vase, and thus came the expression.
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well then i must be "cured" cause im drunk as hell right now!


The empress of ireland sank so quickly, because almost every porthole was open when she sank. the open holes allowed water to seep in several times faster then normal.
 
since there hasn't been a new fact in almost a week i wanna bump this thread back to life.



Abraham Lincoln invented the choke slam and is an inductee to the wrestling hall of fame for it.

The last president who had any facial hair full term was William Howard Taft, although Harry Truman briefly grew a moustache and goatee while on vacation.
 
Contrary to popular belief elephants are not afraid of rodents. But they are afraid of bees and will avoid bee hives. They'll even emit special noises when they detect the droning of bees to signal other elephants to be alert.


Speaking of elephants, the Romans and Greeks developed an interesting countermeasure to elephants in battle. They would get a bunch of pigs, coat their backsides in pitch, then set them on fire and let them loose towards the elephants which would panic and stampede, trampling the soldiers of their own army.
 
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