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Syt

#210
October 08, 2014, 01:18:25 PM
A short video, demonstrating the flexibility of 15th century body armor, and a few combat moves from old manuscripts:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hlIUrd7d1Q
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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Habbaku

#211
October 08, 2014, 01:33:41 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtlYi1yLTVQ

Learn a lot about what not to do with electricity by a deliberately-incompetent electrical engineer!  The guy has a lot of videos along the same lines.
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.
-J. R. R. Tolkien

Malthus

#212
October 08, 2014, 02:43:33 PM
Quote from: Syt on October 08, 2014, 01:18:25 PM
A short video, demonstrating the flexibility of 15th century body armor, and a few combat moves from old manuscripts:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hlIUrd7d1Q

Heh, I had a good laugh the other day - a history book for kids (well, for my kid) repeated the old urban legend about how knights were so ungainly in armour, they had to be winched onto their horses.

I have seen several of these recreations, live and in videos, and it always amazes me how actual dismounted fighting in armour basically resembles a sort of wrestling. The point seems to be to get the other guy off his feet, then stab him in a vulnerable spot.
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius

Berkut

#213
October 16, 2014, 01:51:47 AM
"If you think this has a happy ending, then you haven't been paying attention."

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Habbaku

#214
October 17, 2014, 12:27:30 PM
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.
-J. R. R. Tolkien

Berkut

#215
October 17, 2014, 01:32:16 PM
I haven't even finished watching it and it is hilarious. That is going on facebook...
"If you think this has a happy ending, then you haven't been paying attention."

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garbon

#216
October 17, 2014, 01:54:06 PM
:lol:
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Admiral Yi

#217
October 17, 2014, 02:21:30 PM
Incredible production values.

Syt

#218
October 18, 2014, 01:34:26 AM
For the law talkers: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/28/opinion/verbatim-what-is-a-photocopier.html

QuoteIn 2012, on my Facebook feed, I stumbled across a hilarious excerpt from a legal transcript. In a deposition in Ohio, a lawyer became embroiled in an absurd argument about the definition of a photocopier.

D: When you say "photocopying machine," what do you mean?

PL: Let me be clear. The term "photocopying machine" is so ambiguous that you can't picture in your mind what a photocopying machine is in an office setting?

The dialogue was so sharp, inane and fully realized that I assumed it was fiction. I traced the deposition back to the Ohio Supreme Court and downloaded hundreds of pages of legal documents from the case. To my pleasant surprise, it was as strange as it was true.

In this short film, I sought to creatively reinterpret the original events. (I've not been able to locate any original video recordings, so I'm unsure how closely my actors' appearance and delivery resembles the original participants.) My primary rule was the performance had to be verbatim -- no words could be modified or changed from the original legal transcripts. Nor did I internally edit the document to compress time. What you see is, word for word, an excerpt from what the record shows to have actually unfolded. However, I did give the actors creative range to craft their performances. As such, this is a hybrid of documentary and fiction. We've taken creative liberties in the staging and performance to imbue the material with our own perspectives.
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.

Josquius

#220
October 18, 2014, 11:49:37 AM
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Syt

#221
October 26, 2014, 07:08:17 AM
Finnish commercial for throat pills:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYNmGHhIJ8k

^_^
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.

grumbler

#222
October 26, 2014, 07:32:10 AM
The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.   -G'Kar

Bayraktar!

CountDeMoney

#223
October 27, 2014, 02:57:04 PM

Razgovory

#224
October 27, 2014, 04:48:01 PM
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
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