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sans–seraph:
systlin:
kingscrown666:
wodneswynn:
Me: “So I’m really into history.”
Bro: “Oh me too! I can’t believe a girl is into history like I am. Who’s your favorite Roman emperor?”
Me, automatically, transforming into an NPC with idle dialogue: “The Funnelbeaker Culture grew wheat, millet, and barley using ard ploughs to dig shallow scratches into the topsoil, and ard ploughs and other simple scratch ploughs or spike ploughs would remain standard in northern Europe until the invention of the mouldboard in the early Middle Ages; most of the stones used in the construction of Scandinavian megaliths, including the stone ship cemeteries from the Viking Age, bear ard scratches, indicating that they were picked out of field middens. And that’s all very interesting, but the domestication of bees dates all the way back to the Neolithic, and–”
Bro dude: No, no. I mean real history. Y'know, they important stuff
Me, with a Very Intense look in my eyes; “Oh, important stuff! Well, the oldest spun fibers ever found are in Georgia in the Causcaus region. This means that humans knew how to process flax into fiber as early at 28,000 BCE, and while we have not found woven textiles dating back that far we have evidence of woven cloth being pressed against clay to make textured pottery dating back to 25,000 bce, and that means that woven linen significantly pre-dates settled populations. Now, humans didn’t domesticate sheep until around 11,000 years ago, but I suspect that they gathered shed wool to spin and weave textiles from before that, and that the warmth of woolen garments was a significant factor in humans eventually domesticating sheep, in order to obtain a reliable supply of both fiber and meat, and….”
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sans–seraph:
systlin:
kingscrown666:
wodneswynn:
Me: “So I’m really into history.”
Bro: “Oh me too! I can’t believe a girl is into history like I am. Who’s your favorite Roman emperor?”
Me, automatically, transforming into an NPC with idle dialogue: “The Funnelbeaker Culture grew wheat, millet, and barley using ard ploughs to dig shallow scratches into the topsoil, and ard ploughs and other simple scratch ploughs or spike ploughs would remain standard in northern Europe until the invention of the mouldboard in the early Middle Ages; most of the stones used in the construction of Scandinavian megaliths, including the stone ship cemeteries from the Viking Age, bear ard scratches, indicating that they were picked out of field middens. And that’s all very interesting, but the domestication of bees dates all the way back to the Neolithic, and–”
Bro dude: No, no. I mean real history. Y'know, they important stuff
Me, with a Very Intense look in my eyes; “Oh, important stuff! Well, the oldest spun fibers ever found are in Georgia in the Causcaus region. This means that humans knew how to process flax into fiber as early at 28,000 BCE, and while we have not found woven textiles dating back that far we have evidence of woven cloth being pressed against clay to make textured pottery dating back to 25,000 bce, and that means that woven linen significantly pre-dates settled populations. Now, humans didn’t domesticate sheep until around 11,000 years ago, but I suspect that they gathered shed wool to spin and weave textiles from before that, and that the warmth of woolen garments was a significant factor in humans eventually domesticating sheep, in order to obtain a reliable supply of both fiber and meat, and….”
Reblog to piss off war fanboys
windona: taako-waititi: “your au isn’t
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windona:
taako-waititi:
“your au isn’t completely canon compliant”
canon is but the sandbox in which i strike lightning to form glass. trouble me no more with your quibblings and quorums, lest i grind you to dust beneath my heel and build stories from the remnants of your bones. avast, foul fiend
#even canon isn’t canon compliant so you think I’M going to bother?
windona:
taako-waititi:
“your au isn’t completely canon compliant”
canon is but the sandbox in which i strike lightning to form glass. trouble me no more with your quibblings and quorums, lest i grind you to dust beneath my heel and build stories from the remnants of your bones. avast, foul fiend
#even canon isn’t canon compliant so you think I’M going to bother?
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hiboudeluxe:
lesbianshepard:
i want to raise hp lovecraft from the dead for a couple of hours and show him The Shape of Water because i think it would make him really mad
that universal feeling of wanting to perform necromancy to raise hp lovecraft from his grave just to torture him with shit we know he’d hate is a big fucking mood
hiboudeluxe:
lesbianshepard:
i want to raise hp lovecraft from the dead for a couple of hours and show him The Shape of Water because i think it would make him really mad
that universal feeling of wanting to perform necromancy to raise hp lovecraft from his grave just to torture him with shit we know he’d hate is a big fucking mood
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nbtomomo:
cheggerspartyquiz:
no time for mansplaining, this place is gonna blow
actually, it’s going to collapse. the bombs are only there to break the supports and compromise the structural integrity of the building so much that it collapses on itself. you would need a much more powerful bomb to literally blow up the building from the inside out since most of the energy would just be absorbed by th
nbtomomo:
cheggerspartyquiz:
no time for mansplaining, this place is gonna blow
actually, it’s going to collapse. the bombs are only there to break the supports and compromise the structural integrity of the building so much that it collapses on itself. you would need a much more powerful bomb to literally blow up the building from the inside out since most of the energy would just be absorbed by th
quote:I’m always fascinated by the line
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quote:
I’m always fascinated by the line “we don’t want to become minorities in our own country”. Why not? Are they treated badly or something?
quote:
I’m always fascinated by the line “we don’t want to become minorities in our own country”. Why not? Are they treated badly or something?
