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Bassoe

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Honestly, if black and brown people had their illustrious history "appropriated by whites" as the Afrocentrists claim, then it begs the question of why whites got away with appropriating their history in the first place? Because if nonwhite societies commanded such power and greatness before Europeans arrived, then it shouldn't be so easy for whites shunt them aside and take credit for all the stuff nonwhite societies (supposedly) came up with. Clearly, that's not the case.
I am still greatly saddened by the absence of a horror game where you play as a conquistador who unwittingly attacked the Kangdom and must now survive and escape every horrible thing a vastly more powerful enemy is throwing at you.
 

bintananth

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I am still greatly saddened by the absence of a horror game where you play as a conquistador who unwittingly attacked the Kangdom and must now survive and escape every horrible thing a vastly more powerful enemy is throwing at you.
The conquistadors weren't stupid. They were vastly outnumbered but also had native friends who were extremely upset with and irritated by the powers that be.
 

Husky_Khan

The Dog Whistler... I mean Whisperer.
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Sotnik
Serge Gainsbourg is apparently a national icon in France for whatever reason so a Children's Choir did a tribute to him... completely with being unshaven and swilling whiskey and smoking cigarettes. The video took place in 1988.



Actually this seems pretty normal for France to me.

Love the wide variety of hats in the audience as well.
 

Husky_Khan

The Dog Whistler... I mean Whisperer.
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Sotnik
Carrie Orozco works as a bottle server at an exclusive high end Las Vegas Nightclub since 2015 where the table minimums run in the thousands of dollars per night. Lots of interesting anecdotes on what the rich and wealthy spend their fantastic amounts of monies on.

Business Insider said:
We've had guests who have gotten in a fight, left in their private jet, and then come back all in the same night to spend their minimum. Some guests are so rich that they get really creative with what they want.

In a certain niche market, some people like when we come out with the bottles taped to our hands, or they'll have us tape the bottles to their hands when they're buying really large quantities of Champagne so we have to pour it all out right away. Basically, if we need 20 servers to bring out Champagne, we can't leave until it's all poured. Obviously we don't just do that for anyone.

Sometimes we'll also have people buy out whole sections, and we can basically build out a stage. A couple years ago we had one guest who brought in a lot of professional sports players, so we put up their team in a ball pit. We had a bouncy area where you could knock people over. We had one of those money machines where you stand inside and you have to catch the money. Their minimum was probably $200,000, but customers like that will always go over. Sometimes we even do a $1 minimum because we know certain customers are going to spend regardless, so we don't hold them accountable to anything.

 

Husky_Khan

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Sotnik
Hate this.

Some freeloading Meth Head assaults a young girl on the front door of her property, doesn't take No for an answer so the Mama Bear has to come out and teach the rabid fucker what happens when you fuck around. Grabbed em by the back of the neck and avoid getting chomped hopefully.



Look at that little furball. His ratty little paws up in the air like "What did I do? What did I do? This is Ancestral Racoon Land blah blah blah!" before getting chucked to the curb.
 

Robovski

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Hate this.

Some freeloading Meth Head assaults a young girl on the front door of her property, doesn't take No for an answer so the Mama Bear has to come out and teach the rabid fucker what happens when you fuck around. Grabbed em by the back of the neck and avoid getting chomped hopefully.



Look at that little furball. His ratty little paws up in the air like "What did I do? What did I do? This is Ancestral Racoon Land blah blah blah!" before getting chucked to the curb.

Probably rabid. Raccoons don't normally attack unprovoked unless they are infected. I can understand throwing the critter away but it would have been better to contain it so you can test it so you don't have to put your kid through treatment. But I'd be hard pressed to think that through at the time too TBF.
 

PsihoKekec

Swashbuckling Accountant
Second to last person bitten by rabid animal here was our neighbour, who was attacked while walking his daughter to school. He put himself between the kid and the animal, and proceeded to bludgeon the fox to death with logging tape measure, but got bitten in the fight. So he dragged the fox carcass with him the rest of the way, carried on to the veterinary station where he delivered the carcass and then went to doctor where he was immediately given the vaccine. He developed high fever the same day and all of his teeth felt loose, but he lost none, he was well after a few days.
 

Husky_Khan

The Dog Whistler... I mean Whisperer.
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Good boy Sheepdog fought off a pack of coyotes, killing eight of them, that tried to attack the flock of sheep he was protecting on a Georgia farm.


A GoFundMe was set up for poor Casper's hospital bills.
 

Bear Ribs

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They've confirmed that the Mesha Stele contains a reference to King David.


Bit of Background: The Mesha Stele is a ~2900-year-old 2x3 foot basalt slab with the longest and most detailed inscription of any relic from that era. It details a war between the Moabites, the Israelites, and the Kingdom of Judah; along with detailing some building projects of King Mesha of Moab.

Shortly after it was discovered, the Mesha Stele was smashed by a group of Jordanian Bedouins. While archeologists pieced it back together, the cracks that remained ran through several keywords including a reference to the "House of-" the King of Judah which was thought to potentially be another archeological confirmation of David. Using modern techniques and a paper-mache pressing that predated the tablet's destruction, they've been able to confirm that, yes, the Mesha Stele says "House of David" making it the latest in a long line of archeological discoveries that confirm bible chronology and the historicity of figures atheists like to claim were mythical.
 

Jormungandr

The Midgard Wyrm
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[...]historicity of figures atheists like to claim were mythical.
Some atheists. Some.

Don't lump us all into one camp.

Did figures like Jesus the Carpenter and King David of Judah exist? Most likely they did, yes, and the evidence points that way; just like how ancient Egyptian relics points to the existence of numerous pharaohs written down as having existed.

Did events like battles and wars occur, as described in the Bible? Yep, most likely!

Were they fantastical, divine-empowered beings? Did deities rain fire and brimstone down from the sky? Did giants and devils and angels interfere? Haha, no.

Just because they existed doesn't mean the Bible and its fantastical accounts of history are true -- just as if someone wrote a fantastical interpretation of World Wars 1 and 2 after an apocalyptic event, using angels, devils, and divine shit straight from a fantasy novel to spin on events.
 

Captain X

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Osaul
It's also entirely possible that the Mesha Stele is itself a religious relic, which I suspect is the reason it was smashed. I must confess that I'm way more shocked to see a Biblical Archeology site use the lame-ass "BCE" label, though. After all, even though I'm an agnostic secularist, I still see it as foolish to not acknowledge the Church's influence in our dating system, particularly since we are still using it. "Common Era"? :rolleyes: That's the best someone could think up? Really? Get outta here with that lame shit. :cautious:
 

Cherico

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It's also entirely possible that the Mesha Stele is itself a religious relic, which I suspect is the reason it was smashed. I must confess that I'm way more shocked to see a Biblical Archeology site use the lame-ass "BCE" label, though. After all, even though I'm an agnostic secularist, I still see it as foolish to not acknowledge the Church's influence in our dating system, particularly since we are still using it. "Common Era"? :rolleyes: That's the best someone could think up? Really? Get outta here with that lame shit. :cautious:

Modernity is a pain in the Ass, and this will most likely not last when it ends.
 

Skallagrim

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They've confirmed that the Mesha Stele contains a reference to King David.


Bit of Background: The Mesha Stele is a ~2900-year-old 2x3 foot basalt slab with the longest and most detailed inscription of any relic from that era. It details a war between the Moabites, the Israelites, and the Kingdom of Judah; along with detailing some building projects of King Mesha of Moab.

Shortly after it was discovered, the Mesha Stele was smashed by a group of Jordanian Bedouins. While archeologists pieced it back together, the cracks that remained ran through several keywords including a reference to the "House of-" the King of Judah which was thought to potentially be another archeological confirmation of David. Using modern techniques and a paper-mache pressing that predated the tablet's destruction, they've been able to confirm that, yes, the Mesha Stele says "House of David" making it the latest in a long line of archeological discoveries that confirm bible chronology and the historicity of figures atheists like to claim were mythical.
I can hear the biblical minimalists gnashing their teeth in hatred, all the way to here from Copenhagen!

Puts a smile on my face.
 

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