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This is soooo boring.

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 17:49:19 -0700

This is soooo boring.

musingmollusk: musingmollusk: Nothing is so soul-crushing as being told you can’t do something...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 16:48:46 -0700

musingmollusk:

Nothing is so soul-crushing as being told you can’t do something because you are too weak and then, after weeks of assuring people that you are stronger than you look, it turns out that they were right all along and you really are a feckless waste of space.

My dad was infuriated that they didn’t just give me a smaller orbital grinder, so when I got home we went over to his sword studio where he makes bespoke art swords and I shaped a dagger blade with a little 4" grinder with no problem.

I feel significantly better about myself now. The moral of the story is that macho guys with their big power tools are stupid and I shouldn’t have let them make me feel bad.

Go fuck yourself.

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 16:39:28 -0700

Go fuck yourself.

retrocgads: USA 1994

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 15:49:00 -0700

retrocgads:

USA 1994

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Tue, 26 Jun 2018 15:48:13 -0700

0l0x:me logging in to this shithole and seeing the newest...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 15:45:41 -0700

0l0x:

me logging in to this shithole and seeing the newest Discourse™

suzie-guru: bluebeirry: berhanes: berhanes: things my impossibly young looking Roman history...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 13:37:33 -0700

suzie-guru:

bluebeirry:

berhanes:

berhanes:

things my impossibly young looking Roman history lecturer has said

‘listen to your seminar tutors over the booklet, but only for seminars - in lectures i am king. unless you have me as a seminar tutor as well, in which case i am your king and god.’

‘has anybody played Rome: Total War? no?’

‘Cataline tried to burn the city and everyone he hated but he failed because, in short, nobody liked him.’

‘the mediterranean diet didn’t include tomatoes in the ancient world. i know. oh my god. i know.’

‘so of course when Hannibal turns up, the senate goes ‘sod it, lets kick his arse’.’

‘one man’s optimates is another man’s silver-spoon bearing prick.’

‘we don’t have much information about the 70s BC, largely because Plutarch doesn’t care.’

‘i’m not saying Rome: Total War is entirely accurate, but its battle campaigns are surprisingly historically informed.’

[hand drawing a map in chalk because the projector is broken] ‘i’ll give it a go, this is why i hate technology, and oh. well. that’s not italy.’

‘every army needs bakers and prostitutes, this is just a fact of life.’

‘Sulla. He’s a bit of a badass, but also a bit of a prick.’

‘yes, that is a slide from Spartacus. The film, not the series, which is more accurate and less like soft porn.’

‘the Romans liked Campania because its very fertile. they didn’t know this was because of its proximity to a volcano - poor buggers found THAT out later.’

‘Crassus gets given command of Syria and high fives everyone in the senate.’

‘Catullus was very pithy, very hellenistic in style. unlike the Iliad, which is 24 books of tedium.’

‘An Afternoon at Carrhae: the Romans being shot at repeatedly by Parthian cavalry because if there’s one thing the Romans aren’t good at, it’s having a cavalry.’

‘It’s good to have fast legs in war. Caesar moves very fast, not unlike Napoleon. The Usain Bolt of ancient warfare. I’m not sure why I said that, it’s an atrocious analogy.’

‘Athens is the Edinburgh of the ancient world; it has nothing to offer but education and pretty buildings.’

‘Shout out to those of you who spent your teenage years playing Rome: Total War.Which is what I did.’

‘The senate go into a panic and they decide to flee Rome at dawn, but some idiot forgets the treasury. I know. Ridiculous.’

‘Again: don’t use elephants during warfare. They’re not as cool as they look. And given they’re now endangered, it’d just be mean.’

‘I had to use this meme, I’m sorry. You’re all aware of the one does not simply walk into mordor meme right? I’m sorry, we’ll move on.’

‘I put this photo in for dramatic effect but I realise that it’s just a field. I don’t know why people bother going to see battle sites, they’re all really boring. I saw bones once, they were quite interesting. But most battle sites: boring.’

‘Caesar doesn’t tell Rome anything while he’s away in Egypt for a year, so they have no idea Pompey’s dead. All they know is that Antony is being a pain in the ass, which is, in all honesty, not unusual for Antony.’

‘Caesar is very good at one liners. You always draft a pithy one liner before a battle so you have something to say when you win. You don’t want to win and then just be like ‘whoo, thank god for that.’’

I think I’ve had this professor.

Give me Strickler saying “every army needs bakers and prostitutes, this is just a fact of life” or give me death.

thats-tea:

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 13:15:25 -0700

thats-tea:

10knotes:is this how rich people are born?????

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 13:14:51 -0700

10knotes:

is this how rich people are born?????

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Tue, 26 Jun 2018 12:59:00 -0700

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Tue, 26 Jun 2018 12:23:20 -0700

kinda-real-awkward: Midsomer Murders in a Nutshell, Part X

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 12:15:38 -0700

kinda-real-awkward:

Midsomer Murders in a Nutshell, Part X

door: One thing’s for sure.

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 12:14:43 -0700

door:

One thing’s for sure.

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Tue, 26 Jun 2018 11:57:19 -0700

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Tue, 26 Jun 2018 11:39:07 -0700

mortastic:See, I can’t be trusted to date because if I were in an intimate and vulnerable position,...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 11:37:45 -0700

mortastic:

See, I can’t be trusted to date because if I were in an intimate and vulnerable position, about to share a tender physical moment, I would 100% take the opportunity honk your boob.

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Tue, 26 Jun 2018 11:06:35 -0700

See, I can’t be trusted to date because if I were in an intimate and vulnerable position,...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 11:05:56 -0700

See, I can’t be trusted to date because if I were in an intimate and vulnerable position, about to share a tender physical moment, I would 100% take the opportunity honk your boob.

curiosamathematica: Moo-thematics.

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 11:00:07 -0700

curiosamathematica:

Moo-thematics.

dinglecharity: im losing it

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 10:56:49 -0700

dinglecharity:

im losing it