Some people don't want to use the term girlfriend or boyfriend because they want a shorter word or they find it problematic or whatever
But I have heard a lot of (mostly younger than me) people try and look for other terms specifically to connote a different kind of relationship. They want to granularly express that it isn't x level of serious or committed, or that it isn't exclusive, or whatever.
I don't like boyfriend/girlfriend because it sounds very high school.
But "significant other" is too wordy, and there'll be hell to pay if I mention "my partner" in conservative rural upstate New York!
Oh, I often call Girl "my partner"
Sometimes "my business partner", with business bracketed by plenty of :winky:
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A North Carolina man ripped off a Muslim woman’s hijab and screamed “This is America!” during a Southwest Airlines flight late last year, court documents revealed Friday.
To be fair, he's not wrong.
i mean, really, maybe he meant it as a metaphor
Was he then saying that the hijab was metaphorically America?
Again, not necessarily wrong.
can you feel the struggle within?
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A North Carolina man ripped off a Muslim woman’s hijab and screamed “This is America!” during a Southwest Airlines flight late last year, court documents revealed Friday.
To be fair, he's not wrong.
i mean, really, maybe he meant it as a metaphor
A man forcefully pressing his views on a woman is still pretty American
I'm siting in a waiting room. A man and a woman are arguing over who built the pyramids. She insists they had no tech that could allow them to lift those stones and stack them so perfectly. She insists we don't have this tech today, even our cranes today can't do it!
Um. Pulleys? Preeeeetty sure it was possible. Since they did it. I think she thinks it was aliens.
they didn't have pulleys. Simple pulleys were a mid bronze age thing (like 1000 years later than the big pyramids).
You really just need a lot of people working together.
Hell, in NW Europe they built megaliths of comparable mass around the same time (eg: Silbury Hill) and had even more primitive technology and government than the Egyptians.
edit: and complex block and tackle systems for construction are more like Renaissance time
A whole lot of people can't lift a giant stone that high without SOME sort of system.
"Although some of the blocks weighed more than two tons (4,000 pounds), the Egyptian engineers devised a pulley and sled system to move the blocks from the limestone cliffs to the site of the Pyramids at Giza and other places along the west bank of the Nile River," said James L. Phillips, curator of the "Inside Ancient Egypt" exhibit at Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History.
This is from 2012, but seems accurate?
The Memphis pyramid is now a Bass Pro Shop with a fucking lake inside of it. It's insane.
I think that might be a misquote? They probably pulled the stones on sleds with ropes. But I don't think they had pulleys.
People also still mistakenly believe that the pyramids was primarily built with slave labor instead of the skilled labor paid labor they were constructed with.
paid is a bit of a misnomer as this is like 2000 years before the invention of currency. People would be fed and supplied (the three essentials are food, beer and makeup) while working on the project. And labor on the project meant a major reduction on the tax burden on the farmers.
the old kingdom definitely had slaves (they were constantly raiding their neighbors in all directions for loot and slaves) but they were more likely to be growing and processing flax or possibly growing food.
Well wages man, no need to go all semantics.
I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
I'm siting in a waiting room. A man and a woman are arguing over who built the pyramids. She insists they had no tech that could allow them to lift those stones and stack them so perfectly. She insists we don't have this tech today, even our cranes today can't do it!
Um. Pulleys? Preeeeetty sure it was possible. Since they did it. I think she thinks it was aliens.
they didn't have pulleys. Simple pulleys were a mid bronze age thing (like 1000 years later than the big pyramids).
You really just need a lot of people working together.
Hell, in NW Europe they built megaliths of comparable mass around the same time (eg: Silbury Hill) and had even more primitive technology and government than the Egyptians.
edit: and complex block and tackle systems for construction are more like Renaissance time
A whole lot of people can't lift a giant stone that high without SOME sort of system.
"Although some of the blocks weighed more than two tons (4,000 pounds), the Egyptian engineers devised a pulley and sled system to move the blocks from the limestone cliffs to the site of the Pyramids at Giza and other places along the west bank of the Nile River," said James L. Phillips, curator of the "Inside Ancient Egypt" exhibit at Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History.
This is from 2012, but seems accurate?
The Memphis pyramid is now a Bass Pro Shop with a fucking lake inside of it. It's insane.
That seems more likely than that same thing but with a shitload of dudes trying to push and a less steep ramp.
I'm sticking with pulleys until proven otherwise or aliens.
If you're going this far... why not attach a counter weight on the other side so you barely even need man power to do it?
not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
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I'm siting in a waiting room. A man and a woman are arguing over who built the pyramids. She insists they had no tech that could allow them to lift those stones and stack them so perfectly. She insists we don't have this tech today, even our cranes today can't do it!
Um. Pulleys? Preeeeetty sure it was possible. Since they did it. I think she thinks it was aliens.
they didn't have pulleys. Simple pulleys were a mid bronze age thing (like 1000 years later than the big pyramids).
You really just need a lot of people working together.
Hell, in NW Europe they built megaliths of comparable mass around the same time (eg: Silbury Hill) and had even more primitive technology and government than the Egyptians.
edit: and complex block and tackle systems for construction are more like Renaissance time
A whole lot of people can't lift a giant stone that high without SOME sort of system.
"Although some of the blocks weighed more than two tons (4,000 pounds), the Egyptian engineers devised a pulley and sled system to move the blocks from the limestone cliffs to the site of the Pyramids at Giza and other places along the west bank of the Nile River," said James L. Phillips, curator of the "Inside Ancient Egypt" exhibit at Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History.
This is from 2012, but seems accurate?
The Memphis pyramid is now a Bass Pro Shop with a fucking lake inside of it. It's insane.
Ramps work.
...Well, not for the pyramids, no. A sufficient ramp would be a project eclipsing the scale the pyramid itself.
People also still mistakenly believe that the pyramids was primarily built with slave labor instead of the skilled labor paid labor they were constructed with.
paid is a bit of a misnomer as this is like 2000 years before the invention of currency. People would be fed and supplied (the three essentials are food, beer and makeup) while working on the project. And labor on the project meant a major reduction on the tax burden on the farmers.
the old kingdom definitely had slaves (they were constantly raiding their neighbors in all directions for loot and slaves) but they were more likely to be growing and processing flax or possibly growing food.
Well wages man, no need to go all semantics.
sorry, pet peeve of mine
games like Pharoah or whatever where you have system of currency and tax collection from the Roman era
there is some good stuff in the egyptian history podcast about building the pyramids and how they were able to get all the labor
Some people don't want to use the term girlfriend or boyfriend because they want a shorter word or they find it problematic or whatever
But I have heard a lot of (mostly younger than me) people try and look for other terms specifically to connote a different kind of relationship. They want to granularly express that it isn't x level of serious or committed, or that it isn't exclusive, or whatever.
I don't like boyfriend/girlfriend because it sounds very high school.
But "significant other" is too wordy, and there'll be hell to pay if I mention "my partner" in conservative rural upstate New York!
My fucktaker
I still think we should make 'esso' into a work
like 'okay'
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
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I like the word "lover." The perfect whiff of bohemian pretension, a touch of freewheeling noncommitment, a soupçon of bold-yet-oblique reference to the sexual nature of the relationship
maybe he'll put my niece on the phone she's totes adorbs
My brother does this with nephew
He's really bad about maintaining a phone conversation
Eventually he just puts you down in a houseplant
yeah bro had the niece facetime me to let me know she was going to be a big sister soon and after like 30 seconds she just was like OK BYE and put the phone down
Allegedly a voice of reason.
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Okay I actually have to go some of those listed items are time critical be back lager
"Blameless Cleric" Right now we just tell other people that we're each other's "person". I think she stole it from Grey's Anatomy. She seems to like it, though.
One time early in our relationship, Pinecone's landlady asked me who I was as I was coming in through the back door and I was like "Oh, I'm BC" and she kept staring and me and I stammered, "Pinecone's.. um.. his.. um.. p-person?" And she went. "His.. person." And I just said
"YUP NICE TO MEET YOU BYE" and went inside
later that evening we were making dinner and she walked into the kitchen and said, "Hello, Pinecone, and hello, Pinecone's person."
I like the word "lover." The perfect whiff of bohemian pretension, a touch of freewheeling noncommitment, a soupçon of bold-yet-oblique reference to the sexual nature of the relationship
lover always makes me think of those SNL sketches with will ferrell and rachel dratch
Allegedly a voice of reason.
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People also still mistakenly believe that the pyramids was primarily built with slave labor instead of the skilled labor paid labor they were constructed with.
paid is a bit of a misnomer as this is like 2000 years before the invention of currency. People would be fed and supplied (the three essentials are food, beer and makeup) while working on the project. And labor on the project meant a major reduction on the tax burden on the farmers.
the old kingdom definitely had slaves (they were constantly raiding their neighbors in all directions for loot and slaves) but they were more likely to be growing and processing flax or possibly growing food.
They had slaves, but working on the pyramids was a good job. It paid a high grain and salt ration.
Working in the mines/quarries to get the rock and lye and metals on the other hand was a terrible job. A lot of slaves were used in mines and quarries. They also used them for the shitty farm jobs too.
I like the word "lover." The perfect whiff of bohemian pretension, a touch of freewheeling noncommitment, a soupçon of bold-yet-oblique reference to the sexual nature of the relationship
lover always makes me think of those SNL sketches with will ferrell and rachel dratch
People also still mistakenly believe that the pyramids was primarily built with slave labor instead of the skilled labor paid labor they were constructed with.
paid is a bit of a misnomer as this is like 2000 years before the invention of currency. People would be fed and supplied (the three essentials are food, beer and makeup) while working on the project. And labor on the project meant a major reduction on the tax burden on the farmers.
the old kingdom definitely had slaves (they were constantly raiding their neighbors in all directions for loot and slaves) but they were more likely to be growing and processing flax or possibly growing food.
Building pyramids was comparatively high status work
I like the word "lover." The perfect whiff of bohemian pretension, a touch of freewheeling noncommitment, a soupçon of bold-yet-oblique reference to the sexual nature of the relationship
lover always makes me think of those SNL sketches with will ferrell and rachel dratch
Once you get 50 or 100 people pulling on a rope you have a lot more power than you'd think
Now I kind of want to organize a group of 50-100 people to all drag a boulder around.
Sounds fun.
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
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Oh, I often call Girl "my partner"
Sometimes "my business partner", with business bracketed by plenty of :winky:
Was he then saying that the hijab was metaphorically America?
Again, not necessarily wrong.
A man forcefully pressing his views on a woman is still pretty American
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OLcAGbXhWIVcl5IziVpG0eKFJS3xi_Sac9kYMkRFvD8/edit?usp=sharing
Bad news, you drew 2.
I think that might be a misquote? They probably pulled the stones on sleds with ropes. But I don't think they had pulleys.
Well wages man, no need to go all semantics.
pleasepaypreacher.net
If you're going this far... why not attach a counter weight on the other side so you barely even need man power to do it?
We are definitely done with that yes.
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Fuck Joe Manchin
not so bad
maybe he'll put my niece on the phone she's totes adorbs
Between this cocktail of meds and jerking it once every blue moon, my tainted seed is well accounted for.
...Well, not for the pyramids, no. A sufficient ramp would be a project eclipsing the scale the pyramid itself.
Start this video at abut the ~25 minute mark:
sorry, pet peeve of mine
games like Pharoah or whatever where you have system of currency and tax collection from the Roman era
there is some good stuff in the egyptian history podcast about building the pyramids and how they were able to get all the labor
http://egyptianhistory.libsyn.com/
I still think we should make 'esso' into a work
like 'okay'
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
Twin? Clone?
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or did he
My brother does this with nephew
He's really bad about maintaining a phone conversation
Eventually he just puts you down in a houseplant
I forgot how good Beatles mash up albums are.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OLcAGbXhWIVcl5IziVpG0eKFJS3xi_Sac9kYMkRFvD8/edit?usp=sharing
https://what-if.xkcd.com/127/
Once you get 50 or 100 people pulling on a rope you have a lot more power than you'd think
yeah bro had the niece facetime me to let me know she was going to be a big sister soon and after like 30 seconds she just was like OK BYE and put the phone down
I like that typo, II'm keeping it
That one too
Wall painting found in the tomb of Djehutihotep.
I want to know who got to be the guy on the sledge who dumped the water to prevent sand berms.
One time early in our relationship, Pinecone's landlady asked me who I was as I was coming in through the back door and I was like "Oh, I'm BC" and she kept staring and me and I stammered, "Pinecone's.. um.. his.. um.. p-person?" And she went. "His.. person." And I just said
"YUP NICE TO MEET YOU BYE" and went inside
later that evening we were making dinner and she walked into the kitchen and said, "Hello, Pinecone, and hello, Pinecone's person."
#rekt
I'd love it if you took a look at my art and my PATREON!
lover always makes me think of those SNL sketches with will ferrell and rachel dratch
Working in the mines/quarries to get the rock and lye and metals on the other hand was a terrible job. A lot of slaves were used in mines and quarries. They also used them for the shitty farm jobs too.
It amuses me they kill Will Smith off screen and bring Brent Spiner back.
pleasepaypreacher.net
well no wonder it took so long to build the pyramids why did they use such tiny workers
I'm too young for this reference, sorry.
Maybe @preacher will get it.
Building pyramids was comparatively high status work
Glad I backed that project.
I admit this is childish so please go into this comment knowing that.
I hope Suicide Squad bombs just because Will Smith refused to do the sequel.
Like, I hope it's a good movie.
But I hope it is a financial failure.
For him.
Personally.
Because he wasn't in ID4-2
this was only like 6
10
fuck like 15 years ago
turns out photoshop had a memory leak for the past couple weeks
lol
Now I kind of want to organize a group of 50-100 people to all drag a boulder around.
Sounds fun.
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies