3147 pts · December 14, 2012
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All European Eels breed in the same place: the Sargasso. This wasn't discovered until the 20th century, when an eel-obsessed fanatic trawled half the ocean searching for progressively smaller and more neotenous eels.
Kinda feels like that guy is the punchline.
It's not literally a death cult. That's a specific image of (and outlook on) judgment day which is particularly common to evangelical American Christians, but it's not a foundational teaching of Christ.
This is a myth about Anne Bonny and Mary Read, and to my knowledge, there has never been a reliable source for it. Accounts from their trial just said that it was obvious they were women from their physical appearance; unless I misremember, no killings are attributed to them at all.
I'd also bet quite a lot of money it's not true. It's not mentioned in their court deposition that they killed anybody at all, and it only appears in a very unreliable source that came out later.
I feel like she said "yassified," which is a thing, and the caption got it wrong.
It's physically possible for them to, and they will in lab conditions, but it's not how they roll in the wild. It's sort of like asking "how many jellybeans can a person eat in an hour," finding out it's 100, calculating the calorie value, and then saying "the average person eats 6-12k jellybeans a day."
But by the time there were any high-seas pirates at all, even well before the Golden Age in the Caribbean, I think you wouldn't see any crossbows.
You see bows in naval warfare for longer than you'd think, but they'd still be crossbows. As an overgeneralization, loading and shooting early hand firearms on a rolling wet deck didn't become more practical than using string-powered shots until nearly the 17th century.
To be clear, and as far as I'm aware, the Golden Age of piracy transpired about a hundred years after even a crossbow would be seen as a practical or appropriate weapon at sea.
An ancient pirate, attacking coastal shipping, would use whatever weapons worked. By the time sailing ships became predominant crossbows would have been more likely, though these became less and less practical as tactics changed and handheld firearms improved. So a Caribbean pirate in the golden age of 1670-1720ish would probably have no use for a bow or pirate-related experience with one.
Blues Brothers, Dumb and Dumber, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Hot Fuzz, Terminator 2, Mission Impossible, Dark Knight (Brief Appearance of Tumbler), Baby Driver, Cool Runnings, Dickbutt (Easter Egg).
The time, skill, and technique are interesting. But outside of that, the result isn't. It's just an unseasoned grilled steak. 2/2
It's more like cooking a steak by precisely throwing 10,000 matches onto it, thus cooking it identically. 1/2
TL;DR, it's like if "Kevin" from that reddit post was turned into a mascot and cast as the protagonist of a hundred other reddit stories.
...for a campaign that grabbed a lot of frontier tall tales that were lying around and cast him as the lead in all of them.
A theory I find credible is that he came into prominence when he was co-opted as an advertising mascot in the early 20th century...
Unclear. He appeared as early as 1900ish as a recognizable, recorded character in a few disconnected printed anecdotes.
Apparently they only work in a pretty limited radius, so in theory this would be one solution for purifying a larger zone I guess.
At least in the US, they've been red for well over a decade at this point.
The "transition lenses" joke is a non sequitur. The punchline is that JK Rowling is bigoted towards trans people.
It's deeply dangerous that all he needs to do is not pull out his dick on TV and it takes him off the hook for effecting necessary policy.
"How is he as a president?" "Oh, he sucks"
...and try to figure out how long it would take for someone to smash your hand with a singlestick.
It goes the other way around. Effective nunchuck use requires your hands to be mostly stationary. Watch a vid...
Even if you've mastered the chucks, if your life actually is shoved into the balance, you will wish like *fuck* you packed anything else.
The amazing thing about nunchucks is that if you master them, they function like a weapon. That is far from the bare minimum self def crit.
If you wield any weapon in self-defense that is not GUARANTEED to save your life, it puts you in worse danger. *Much* worse.
"Self-defense" does not mean learning ways to make artful use of traditional but inefficient implements. It is raw pragmatism, life & death.
All European Eels breed in the same place: the Sargasso. This wasn't discovered until the 20th century, when an eel-obsessed fanatic trawled half the ocean searching for progressively smaller and more neotenous eels.
Kinda feels like that guy is the punchline.
It's not literally a death cult. That's a specific image of (and outlook on) judgment day which is particularly common to evangelical American Christians, but it's not a foundational teaching of Christ.
This is a myth about Anne Bonny and Mary Read, and to my knowledge, there has never been a reliable source for it. Accounts from their trial just said that it was obvious they were women from their physical appearance; unless I misremember, no killings are attributed to them at all.
I'd also bet quite a lot of money it's not true. It's not mentioned in their court deposition that they killed anybody at all, and it only appears in a very unreliable source that came out later.
I feel like she said "yassified," which is a thing, and the caption got it wrong.
It's physically possible for them to, and they will in lab conditions, but it's not how they roll in the wild. It's sort of like asking "how many jellybeans can a person eat in an hour," finding out it's 100, calculating the calorie value, and then saying "the average person eats 6-12k jellybeans a day."
But by the time there were any high-seas pirates at all, even well before the Golden Age in the Caribbean, I think you wouldn't see any crossbows.
You see bows in naval warfare for longer than you'd think, but they'd still be crossbows. As an overgeneralization, loading and shooting early hand firearms on a rolling wet deck didn't become more practical than using string-powered shots until nearly the 17th century.
To be clear, and as far as I'm aware, the Golden Age of piracy transpired about a hundred years after even a crossbow would be seen as a practical or appropriate weapon at sea.
An ancient pirate, attacking coastal shipping, would use whatever weapons worked. By the time sailing ships became predominant crossbows would have been more likely, though these became less and less practical as tactics changed and handheld firearms improved. So a Caribbean pirate in the golden age of 1670-1720ish would probably have no use for a bow or pirate-related experience with one.
Blues Brothers, Dumb and Dumber, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Hot Fuzz, Terminator 2, Mission Impossible, Dark Knight (Brief Appearance of Tumbler), Baby Driver, Cool Runnings, Dickbutt (Easter Egg).
The time, skill, and technique are interesting. But outside of that, the result isn't. It's just an unseasoned grilled steak. 2/2
It's more like cooking a steak by precisely throwing 10,000 matches onto it, thus cooking it identically. 1/2
TL;DR, it's like if "Kevin" from that reddit post was turned into a mascot and cast as the protagonist of a hundred other reddit stories.
...for a campaign that grabbed a lot of frontier tall tales that were lying around and cast him as the lead in all of them.
A theory I find credible is that he came into prominence when he was co-opted as an advertising mascot in the early 20th century...
Unclear. He appeared as early as 1900ish as a recognizable, recorded character in a few disconnected printed anecdotes.
Apparently they only work in a pretty limited radius, so in theory this would be one solution for purifying a larger zone I guess.
At least in the US, they've been red for well over a decade at this point.
The "transition lenses" joke is a non sequitur. The punchline is that JK Rowling is bigoted towards trans people.
It's deeply dangerous that all he needs to do is not pull out his dick on TV and it takes him off the hook for effecting necessary policy.
"How is he as a president?" "Oh, he sucks"
...and try to figure out how long it would take for someone to smash your hand with a singlestick.
It goes the other way around. Effective nunchuck use requires your hands to be mostly stationary. Watch a vid...
Even if you've mastered the chucks, if your life actually is shoved into the balance, you will wish like *fuck* you packed anything else.
The amazing thing about nunchucks is that if you master them, they function like a weapon. That is far from the bare minimum self def crit.
If you wield any weapon in self-defense that is not GUARANTEED to save your life, it puts you in worse danger. *Much* worse.
"Self-defense" does not mean learning ways to make artful use of traditional but inefficient implements. It is raw pragmatism, life & death.