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2021-07-06 at 7:27 PM UTC in male birth control
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2021-07-02 at 12:46 AM UTC in how do i open glass ampules?
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2021-06-24 at 2:14 PM UTC in John McAfee Found Dead in Prison
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2021-06-22 at 7:19 PM UTC in The Delta Strain will shut us in once againThe government will shut us in once again due to the delta strain. Let's not blame the poor virus for the actions taken by our governments.
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2021-06-22 at 3:45 AM UTC in Guy who killed his wife thinks he's Johnnie Cochrane and is defending himself in courtIs it still murder if it's sanctioned by your government?
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2021-06-18 at 11:41 AM UTC in Allergies make me want to kill myselfOn the real though, OP's allergies are brutal and I feel really bad for him but IDK what to do about it. All I can do is watch him suffer through it.
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2021-06-18 at 11:40 AM UTC in Allergies make me want to kill myself
Originally posted by Sudo How funny is it that we have people with "environmental allergies" who are allergic to the outdoors? What would they have done pre 1850? Their families would have starved because they were weak and useless, they would be unable to function in society or congregate with others in outdoor spaces. You would basically either have to be very wealthy, tough it out or lay down and die
Do you honestly think pollen allergies are a new phenomenon? They had them back then too. They just toughed it out. Nothing has changed. What? -
2021-06-17 at 4:11 AM UTC in You suffer severe brain damage and repeatedly mutter the same phrase over and over again...."Go away" probably. Versatile, that one. Can refer to real people, imaginary people, reality itself, bad memories; whatever.
If not that, then probably something like "should have killed them". Whenever I remember a shitty, embarrassing, or traumatic event that involved other people, there's a little shitty gremlin in my head that takes the sentiment "go away" to its illogical extreme and insists that I wouldn't be so stressed right now if I'd just killed everyone involved. Obviously this is dumb - and if anything I'd probably be more stressed living with the weight of multiple bodies hanging over my head - but if I'm ever rocking back and forth in the fetal position muttering the same phrase over and over to myself, it's going to be that gremlin doing the muttering. -
2021-06-17 at 1:16 AM UTC in In the meadow grows a little flowerWill say it's far more romantic to imagine some ancient girl whose beauty was forever immortalized by having a pretty flower named after her though. 🥺
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2021-06-17 at 1:10 AM UTC in In the meadow grows a little flower
Originally posted by Sophie Really? I never knew.
My hypothesis is that it's cross cultural because it has it's roots no pun intended in the old religions of the Nordic and Germanic peoples, which The English are a part of and their descendants too whether they like it or not. Something about fertility festivals, and spring and then Christianity came in with Easter, and what does an egg have to do with Christ? It's weird symbology. Why? Because it's coopted symbology the eggs symbolize birth and life and fertility.
You still have fertility festivals in someparts of Germany and Scandinavia although they aren't called that any more. IDK if you have ever seen the thing with the big pole and all the ribbons and the kids walk around the pole in circles covering it with the ribbons?
It's a very, very old custom in some parts of the world. Same story with giving pretty flowers girl names i would postulate. And it has to do with fertility festivals.
A celebration of life in a way, i would argue.
I think it goes beyond that. It's not even remotely exclusive to Germanic traditions after all. C'mon, you're a fellow weeb! Sakura (cherry blossom) is a common Japanese name for girls. There might be some associations with fertility there too, but I suspect it's really as simple as both flowers and women being "delicate and beautiful". And they smell nice. Right? That's a thing. Literally any dumb lovestruck character in a story would say "she's so pretty and delicate and she smells nice" about the object of his affections. It's almost the cliché first crush response, when a boy first tries to articulate how he's starting to feel about girls. And it's a cliché because that's some primal shit. Not hard to imagine how that primal, awkward observation of the fairer sex might connect to the prevalence of flower names.
PS: I doubt people ever went out and named the flowers after pretty girls. I guess it could be a chicken and egg thing, but the flowers surely had words associated with them long before some sappy couple decided to call their daughter Erika. -
2021-06-16 at 9:52 PM UTC in In the meadow grows a little flower
Originally posted by Sophie Is there a flower called Heather in the English language? Because there is a flower called Erika in German. It's not it's scientific name, but everyone calls it that anyway.
I suppose Violet would be the English equivalent.
Yeah, Erika even refers to the same flowers we'd commonly refer to as heather.
Always found it weird that it's a given name in both languages, but I suppose naming girls after pretty flowers would be cross cultural. -
2021-06-16 at 9:20 PM UTC in In the meadow grows a little flowerWe speak English here, sir. Her name is Heather.
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2021-06-16 at 5:28 PM UTC in What kind of Space Ship would niggasin be?definitely wud be a shitty freighter, but retrofitted with some weapons because we'd constantly be doing shady illegitimate side jobs like illegal salvage and piracy.
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2021-06-16 at 5:26 PM UTC in Mining for Bitcoins is a highly unintuitive, confusing thing to me..its super easy you buy a bunch of expensive gpu's break them into little bits
tech nerds like to elaborately troll talking about encrption and block change, but its really just about destroying gpus and selling the bits for coins -
2021-06-15 at 4:42 PM UTC in Dabbing
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2021-06-14 at 1:01 PM UTC in The original name of God is Tetragrammaton
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2021-06-14 at 12:57 PM UTC in The original name of God is Tetragrammaton
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2021-06-14 at 12:52 PM UTC in The original name of God is Tetragrammaton
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2021-06-14 at 10:41 AM UTC in Memes are the sole culture of the American youth
Originally posted by rabbitweed Are you emphasising that because you think it was recent, or because it was a long time ago?
Because that happened a long time ago compared to a lot of places on earth.
A long time ago, but more specifically, longer than "the last 50 years". To demonstrate the historical multicultural challenges faced by America. A huge chunk of US history is literally just the tireless struggles surrounding how/whether it was even possible to successfully integrate an entire culture of African former slaves.
The entirety of US history is just a struggle to develop any kind of cohesive culture in a new world whose inhabitants came from fucking everywhere. Acting like the US has only been dealing with multiculturalism for the last "50 years" is fucking silly. Like, aldra out here on the retard juice claiming The Beatles released The White Album half a decade before the US had its first real challenges involving multiculturalism. The fuckkk? -
2021-06-14 at 6:38 AM UTC in Memes are the sole culture of the American youthNot to mention, you know, slavery... and the slaves being freed 150 years ago. No, no, you're totally right - American multiculturalism is an entirely new phenomenon that's only reeeeeally been a thing since the 1970s.
If anything, Russia has never dealt with multiculturalism as disparate as America's.
