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Syt

#43020
September 22, 2014, 01:23:12 PM
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

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Valmy

#43021
September 22, 2014, 03:04:27 PM
Man beer costs a ton in Georgia.
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Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

derspiess

#43022
September 22, 2014, 03:11:37 PM
Quote from: Valmy on September 22, 2014, 03:04:27 PM
Man beer costs a ton in Georgia.

More reason to brew your own.  Or hell, brew commercially and become stinkin' rich.
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Razgovory

#43023
September 22, 2014, 03:21:37 PM
I didn't even know they drank beer in Kuwait.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

derspiess

#43024
September 22, 2014, 03:26:25 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on September 22, 2014, 03:21:37 PM
I didn't even know they drank beer in Kuwait.

It may include non-alcoholic beer, which is becoming popular in the middle east.
"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall

Sheilbh

#43025
September 22, 2014, 05:08:27 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on September 22, 2014, 05:38:38 AM
:yeahright: I thought the population of the empire fell because of plague and endemic warfare. Hard for me to believe that life expectancy increased.
Isn't a huge driver of low life expectancy infants dying, even now?
Let's bomb Russia!

Ideologue

#43026
September 22, 2014, 05:34:23 PM
In Pharaoh-centric cultures, sure.
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mongers

#43027
September 22, 2014, 06:09:29 PM
Damn, missed this evening's flypast over the house.  :glare:
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

mongers

#43028
September 22, 2014, 08:27:39 PM
Happy Birthday Frodo Baggins - 22nd September.  :bowler:
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Capetan Mihali

#43029
September 22, 2014, 08:35:14 PM
Quote from: Ideologue on September 22, 2014, 05:34:23 PM
In Pharaoh-centric cultures, sure.

ror ^_^
Be funnier if you knew your Derrida, though. :contract: :frog:
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garbon

#43030
September 22, 2014, 08:41:19 PM
Quote from: Valmy on September 22, 2014, 11:48:15 AM
Pretty sure Historians have all agreed for centuries on the opposite Jake.  God I hate articles like that. 

Well it is just a random blog post.
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Syt

#43031
September 22, 2014, 11:10:21 PM
Krampus Christmas sweater. :w00t:

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

jimmy olsen

#43032
September 22, 2014, 11:32:14 PM
Quote from: Jacob on September 22, 2014, 11:37:27 AM
Quote from: Valmy on September 22, 2014, 11:14:10 AM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on September 22, 2014, 05:38:38 AM
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    For centuries historians paid little attention to ancient accounts of plants possessing birth control properties, referring them as "ineffectual potions." Modern laboratory analyses however suggest that the  plants used in these potions were effective and ancient women probably had more control over their reproductive lives than previously thought.

'For centuries?'  Translation: they found a singular quote from Gibbon and decided that was a consensus.  I mean never mind that Historians are not chemists.  Also: Romans bitched all the time about low birthrates so I have a hard time believing historians really thought Roman women were just pumping out babies against their will.

I thought it was well known that the ancient Romans had a plant based contraceptive, and that the plant went extinct due to overuse?

He mentions that one as well as several others in the rest of the article
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Ideologue

#43033
September 23, 2014, 12:04:20 AM
Quote from: Syt on September 22, 2014, 11:10:21 PM
Krampus Christmas sweater. :w00t:

You were a Venture Bros. fan, right? :)
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Syt

#43034
September 23, 2014, 12:13:47 AM
Quote from: Ideologue on September 23, 2014, 12:04:20 AM
Quote from: Syt on September 22, 2014, 11:10:21 PM
Krampus Christmas sweater. :w00t:

You were a Venture Bros. fan, right? :)

I don't know what that is.
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.
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