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- 2024-05-04 10:58am
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- Topic: TIL: Today I Learned... (Join in!)
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Re: TIL: Today I Learned... (Join in!)
Today I learned it takes 56 days to calligraph the King's Coronation Roll. And the only typo was a dot missing over an "i" on the whole 21meter-long roll. As a calligrapher, this is HIGHLY interesting, not just for the length of the stitched-together non-animal parchment paper, and not jus...
- 2024-05-03 10:52am
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: TIL: Today I Learned... (Join in!)
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- 2024-05-02 10:13am
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- Topic: TIL: Today I Learned... (Join in!)
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TIL The Prius I'd given to my older brother had been in an accident over the winter, which damaged the main battery and they'd not been able to fix it. Yesterday they traded it in on a brand new Toyota Corolla Hybrid. Part of me is happy they got a new car. Part of me is very upset because the Prius...
- 2024-04-21 12:06pm
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- Topic: TIL: Today I Learned... (Join in!)
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TIL that Drinking the Kool-Aid has its own Wikipedia page :lol: It's easy to forget that because we don't have it here in the UK, not everyone gets the reference :lol: Descriptions of the event often refer to the beverage not as Kool-Aid but as Flavor Aid,[4] a less-expensive product reportedly fou...
- 2024-04-19 07:09am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
- Replies: 363
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Re: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
I wager aerius is referring to the conflict in Donbas, where Ukraine fired rockets into heavily civilian areas. Was that before or after the "seperationists" in Donbas fired a missile that took out a civilian airplane? Concurrently. Odd to put separationists in quotes. Why is that? Becaus...
- 2024-04-19 06:56am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Israel orders mass 'evacuation' from Northern Gaza, humanitarian crisis certain to ensue
- Replies: 593
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Re: Israel orders mass 'evacuation' from Northern Gaza, humanitarian crisis certain to ensue
BBC NEWS Live Summary[/b[ An Israeli missile has struck Iran, two US officials have told the BBC's US partner CBS News Iranian state media cite unconfirmed reports of explosions in the central province of Isfahan, but have downplayed reports of an attack. Israel has not officially commented Video f...
- 2024-04-18 09:46am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
- Replies: 363
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Re: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
Was that before or after the "seperationists" in Donbas fired a missile that took out a civilian airplane?
- 2024-04-17 07:45pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Israel orders mass 'evacuation' from Northern Gaza, humanitarian crisis certain to ensue
- Replies: 593
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Re: Israel orders mass 'evacuation' from Northern Gaza, humanitarian crisis certain to ensue
Is Iran trying to provoke a response from Israel? :banghead: Maybe. Or maybe they think that showing off their military might is the best way to convince Israel to leave them alone. I think this is more likely. I don't think Israel will appreciate it either way. We'll just have to wait til after Pa...
- 2024-04-17 07:43pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
- Replies: 363
- Views: 25545
Re: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
So to be clear, you are saying that Putin DOES have some sort of special authority over ethnic Russians in other countries, at least as long as they're near a border with Russia? I'm saying the Ukrainians shouldn't have been stupid enough to give Putin a reason to correct Lenin's mistakes. WOW. Jus...
- 2024-04-16 08:11pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Israel orders mass 'evacuation' from Northern Gaza, humanitarian crisis certain to ensue
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Re: Israel orders mass 'evacuation' from Northern Gaza, humanitarian crisis certain to ensue
Agreed.Broomstick wrote: ↑2024-04-16 06:08pm It's getting to the point that Israel should STFU and go home.
Striking back at Iran is going to bit them badly in the ass.
- 2024-04-15 07:09am
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: TIL: Today I Learned... (Join in!)
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I assume that recipes in the book were aimed at the fairly well off or did the spices 'trickle down' to the peasantry? Peasantry? No. Minor Lords and some of the richer Guild-heads? Yes. Besides the fancier feasts, which included a whole chicken "gilded" with saffron sitting atop a whole ...
- 2024-04-14 04:25pm
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- Topic: TIL: Today I Learned... (Join in!)
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I'd always wondered why **THE BOOK** of Medieval Cookery, was called "The Forme of Cury" TIL that "Cury" is a very old term for "Cooking". BTW: There's some GREAT Recipes in this book, and several translations with good modern redactions. Medieval Cooking is far more va...
- 2024-04-14 10:49am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
- Replies: 363
- Views: 25545
Re: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
More of what should be a War Crime from Russia -- Russian 'double-tap' hitting civilians then rescuers with airstrikes On the night of 3 April, a swarm of Russian drones attacked Kharkiv, in Ukraine's northeast. The country's second-largest city has been targeted almost incessantly since the start o...
- 2024-04-13 07:39am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
- Replies: 363
- Views: 25545
- 2024-04-12 06:30am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
- Replies: 363
- Views: 25545
Re: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
That's his MO, with sources that are either located behind a paywall, do not support his position and in one case, actually undermines it . He once asked if he could be in the parting shots thread, I have the feeling he'll be the guest of honour. :mrgreen: If he asks again about Parting Shots he'll...
- 2024-04-11 10:59am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
- Replies: 363
- Views: 25545
Re: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
Do we take Sisko returning to years old, pretty laughable talking points as evidence that there's no positive news coming out of Russia? Ie this is what their 'you're interested in this, so you may like that' algorithm news feed is currently feeding them. I know for sure I'm getting tiny puff piece...
- 2024-04-11 10:53am
- Forum: Fantasy
- Topic: THE OotS Thread, Part V
- Replies: 744
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- 2024-04-10 06:24pm
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: TIL: Today I Learned... (Join in!)
- Replies: 538
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- 2024-04-10 02:34pm
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: TIL: Today I Learned... (Join in!)
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TIL that even if they tell you "Your appointment is now TELEMED", they do NOT MEAN 'stay by your home phone, we'll call you there'. Oh no. I was supposed to go to Summersville like it was a REAL appointment, and see the PA while the doctor talked to us via phone app. Would have been VERY N...
- 2024-04-10 10:43am
- Forum: Fantasy
- Topic: THE OotS Thread, Part V
- Replies: 744
- Views: 460263
Re: THE OotS Thread, Part V
Sometimes, V has just the right spell at just the right time.
- 2024-04-10 10:40am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
- Replies: 363
- Views: 25545
Re: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
TAKE THE TOPIC OF ELECTIONS AND POSSIBLE BANNED PARTIES TO A NEW THREAD. THIS IS NOT A REQUEST. ANY POSTS ABOUT THAT TOPIC POSTED IN THE NEXT 24HRS WILL BE REMOVED FROM THIS THREAD.
AGAIN, THIS IS NOT A REQUEST. Y'ALL WANNA ARGUE THE TOPIC, TAKE IT TO A NEW THREAD.
AGAIN, THIS IS NOT A REQUEST. Y'ALL WANNA ARGUE THE TOPIC, TAKE IT TO A NEW THREAD.
- 2024-04-09 05:35am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
- Replies: 363
- Views: 25545
- 2024-04-05 07:45pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Israel orders mass 'evacuation' from Northern Gaza, humanitarian crisis certain to ensue
- Replies: 593
- Views: 49345
Re: Israel orders mass 'evacuation' from Northern Gaza, humanitarian crisis certain to ensue
They found two scapegoats. "Hooray". What bullshit. It doesn't solve the problem(s) that led to this. Poland called the Israeli Ambassador in, so I guess they needed to finger someone quick to take the blame. Probably not going to help much, because I doubt they'll release the scapegoats ...
- 2024-04-05 08:18am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
- Replies: 363
- Views: 25545
Re: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
Finally, Ukraine has become a dictatorship run by Zelensky and his Military Junta, Ukrainians know this, and if they get unhappy enough with him they'll force him to flee to the West just like they drove out Viktor all those years ago so the war can end and Ukraine can get back to the business of n...
- 2024-04-05 08:14am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Israel orders mass 'evacuation' from Northern Gaza, humanitarian crisis certain to ensue
- Replies: 593
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Re: Israel orders mass 'evacuation' from Northern Gaza, humanitarian crisis certain to ensue
I trust an outsider's numbers to what we're hearing from Israeli sources. The damaged schools, religious sites, and especially the damaged hospitals are what makes my blood boil. Aren't those covered by Geneva? Aren't those supposed to be UnTouchable, and yet they've been #1 targets from the first, ...