History Memes

Oh lol thanks.

B) it’s called a shitty autocorrect, we fucking hate it

Meant flag*

didn’t like the dish to begin with

Dish? Huh?

Tread on thee, not on me?

Huh, didn’t like the flag to begin with, now we have a clear answer as to why.

Edit: hate auto correct

Hey it wasn’t the, “Don’t tread on others” flag.

Always the ones you most suspect.

Everywhere these trash exist, they can’t imagine a problem without trying to be a part of it.

😢 that poor skateboard.

This is still a better attempt than this

https://youtu.be/5R_EZpyIFYc

If one took the replaced planks from the Ship of Theseus, and used them for paper to print a book of synonyms, would that book be the Thesaurus of Ship?

Great post that follows the example PugJesus set

That looks so good though! And getting the perspective right on the faces seems like it would be a non-trivial technical feat.

ಠ⁠.ಠ

Well thats certainly an artistic choice. Funny it was banned though lol. Thanks for teaching me a neat history thing ☺️

Hollywood copies itself endlessly rather than simply exploring history, where the most batshit insane nonsense of humanity can be found.

https://templarkey.com/three-faced-god-forbidden-image-holy-trinity/

The tigers were doing opium and the sheep had shrapnel artillery. It ended like you’d expect.

It’s not (sufficient) context when it ends like a TV cliffhanger.

I guess this is about the battle of Ningpo (there is no mention of tigers on the Wikipedia article)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Ningpo

Well, don’t leave us in suspence…

Certainly. Just don’t put it around your eyes or lips, for that natural look!

I thought the teeth were a shmashing shuck-shess!

Couple of puffs out for a stroll!

For anyone curious, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia S04E11 “The Gang Cracks the Liberty Bell”

So looking like clowns just like today?

Would orange face paint work? Just curious.

I thought that something like 40% of all cosmetics are bought by South Korean men.

We don’t speak of the dirty ones! Also we don’t bathe!

If the only men are rich nobles, sure.

Turns out, rich men didn’t like it being easy to identify them in an age of guillotines

Great episode

That’s a question that enough other people have asked that the Naval History and Heritage Command Detachment Boston has answered with an estimate of 85-90% of the wood has been replaced.

He totally besmirched me today, and I demand satisfaction.

I believe the period term is “Cunty Little Shoes”.

Not shown: Their high heels.

Fun fact, the heavy white face paint/"makeup”, and beauty marks of both men and women of this era in France were to cover up the rashes, pockmarks, scars and sores brought on by rampant outbreaks of Syphilis! The powdered wigs, too, covered the hair loss and lesions caused by the disease. They also wore stong perfumes to cover up the stench of open untreated syphilitic sores and skin decay! 🙃Horrifying!

All I can think of when I see that is Don Martin’s Mad Magazine cartoons.

The Great Male Unification is a pretty interesting topic about how men gave up fashion.

Coined by British psychologist John Flügel in 1930, it is considered a major turning point in the history of clothing where the male style stopped being as ornate and detailed.[2] Flügel asserted that men “abandoned their claim to be considered beautiful” and “henceforth aimed at being only useful”.[3] The Great Renunciation encouraged the establishment of the suit’s monopoly on male dress codes at the beginning of the 19th century.

Back when men dressed like that they called it the end of masculinity

And they bitched about macaronis doing it wrong, in exactly the same language as malding podcast bros today.

Unironically this. I would totally dress like this and dunk on the plebs.

Flourish the pinky!

MmmYeeeessssssSs

Reminds me of Aimo Koivunen, the first recorded Meth OD in combat

Koivunen was a Finnish soldier, assigned to a ski patrol on 15 March 1944 along with several other Finnish soldiers. Three days into their mission on 18 March, the group was attacked and surrounded by Soviet forces, from whom they were able to escape.[3] Koivunen became fatigued after skiing for a long distance but could not stop.

He was carrying his patrol’s entire supply of army-issued Pervitin, or methamphetamine, a stimulant used to remain awake while on duty.[4] He consumed the entire supply of Pervitin, and had a short burst of energy, but soon entered a state of delirium and eventually lost consciousness. Koivunen later recalled waking up the following morning, separated from his patrol and having no supplies.

In the following days, Koivunen escaped Soviet forces once again, was injured by a land mine, and stayed in a ditch for a week, waiting for help. In the week that he was gone, he subsisted only on pine buds and a single Siberian jay that he caught and ate raw.

Having skied more than 400 km (250 mi), he was later found and admitted to a nearby hospital, where his heart rate was measured at 200 beats per minute, and he weighed only 43 kg (95 lb).

Oh fuck you’re right bet there were tons of nazi butt fucking parties

How many parts have been replaced? Is it still the same ship?

In the US, there is a forest that is still actively managed for harvesting oak to repair the USS Constitution. That’s a ship launched in 1797 that is still in service (it’s the oldest floating warship in the world).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Surface_Warfare_Center_Crane_Division

I gotta be honest, the Eiffel Tower never did it for me. It looks fine I guess.

In the Landes in france there are very very tall trees all over the place planted for similar reasons. Nice to be in their shade.

I think people here are really overestimating the effects of the drug and how much of a role it played. The final pill contained 5mg oxycodone, 5mg cocaine, and 3mg meth.

For reference, Desoxyn, and FDA approved treatment for severe binge eating and ADHD, contains 5mg of methamphetamine and can be taken, I believe, up to 3x daily.

Typical oxy doses are between 5-15mg

There is no, to my immediate knowledge, medically accepted therapeutic dose of cocaine. However, we know that a recreational dose is ~200mg for a first timer and is taken in a way that delivers its effect very quickly. The pharmacokinetics of snorting vs typical ingestion is totally different, and if there ever were an established therapeutic dose for it, it’s very likely it would be around 1/50 of a starting rec dose; that’s generally consistent with other, better understood and commonly abused drugs

Not that I think anyone would, but below is an opinion on effects of higher dosing. I’m not a doctor nor a pharmacists, so this is my fat ass guessing. I could be wrong, but I don’t think I am. Don’t do drugs (at least not any of these):

Because of this, I’m very hesitant to believe the other claims in this thread. These doses, even several times them in the case a soldier would have taken 4 or 5, would have caused some euphoria for sure. But it’s extremely unlikely they would have caused addiction or dependence at such low doses taken so infrequently. It’s much more likely that most people who took it were a bit wired and less likely to notice pain from hitting the deck quickly

Love ending the night with a little coffee and a handful of pervitin ☕😪

Isn’t there also a thing where meths makes you want to bottom?

Some researchers reckon that the art style was designed to take advantage of flickering fire light to “animate” the images

In some rich bastard’s private collection.

That one dude with ADHD finally thinking clearly for the first time.

It stands to reason that that’s where the artist practiced until he achieved a desired result. In other words, that’s the guy’s draft wall. Where’s the masterpiece?

Not just that it was meth, it was getting people addicted and then putting them into consecutive life/death scenarios with infrequent resupplies…

Once prescribed dosage stopped working, or a soldier expected to die before the go-go juice would run out, they’d go over prescribed dosage.

If they lived, now they’re out of meth

Soldiers would have been looting dead compatriots for meth, gambling, robbing, stealing, killing, anything to get the next fix.

It worked great when given to regular people for a few weeks, but wasn’t sustainable.

The better plan would be giving it only to “shock troops” on the front line and having them push to exhaustion, then when they slow down, you send the next wave on fresh legs and full pockets of meth. They could have moved even faster as an army that way too, because it’s just consecutive waves sprinting at full speed, rather than gradually slowing down.

Where the blitzkrieg truly failed, was being one massive wave with everyone moving at once, because by the time they got to where they were going, you were left with one big hoarde of meth zombies.

The human rights abuses wasn’t the concern, it was that the hoarde would be completely unmanageable at the end of the road. Everyone alive is a meth addict who just walked thru a literal hell, and whether you keep giving them the dosage they’re now used to or not, you’re going to have massive problems.

Which contributed to how effective the French resistance was.

You know, I think people underestimate just how much meth might have been responsible for how fucking evil they were. Meth is a terrible fucking drug.

Oh yeah? Well, what are you going to do when I roll up with my …

Or one of like three examples that have actually been preserved for 30,000 years

That’s one of like three outliers that exist though

Forgot one:

Yup, cave drawing sure are primitive and awful:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chauvet_Cave
That drawing is 30,000 years old.

Many years ago I did an canoe trip down the Green River through Canyonlands National Park in Utah. We camped next to the river, in the canyons, and was 50+ miles from the nearest city. I was legitimately moved to tears seeing full Milky Way in all its glory.

I used to live out in the country and the constellations looked like what they said a lot more than in the burbs where I am now.

The last time I was in a reasonably dark place I looked up and saw Leo, Taurus, and a satellite passing overhead and started weeping at the beauty.

I miss stars.

If anything, this just shows how much light pollution there is today. The sky was so much more vibrant back then. It wasn’t “4 stars,” but a smattering of nebula, galaxies, our own Milk Way, and other stars that made up constellations.

But even still, the sky was a canvas that held stories and allowed humans to find their way.

Edited some autocorrects, I'd to if, etc.

Have you seen cave drawings?

Fucking constellations were better representations than humans pulled off for most of our existence as a species.

I like how memes can be educational and address historical inaccuracies.

good context, i never heard that it stayed active so long afterwards

If we could ever figure out FTL and create super-telescopes, I want them to point it at earth from 200,000 light years away and hit record.

… and their ex-colonies’ histories.

This is actually a pretty good meme! Also, Raymond Cruz needs to be in everything. That actor has range that rivals Gary Oldman. I still can’t wrap my head around that he was Tuco in Breaking Bad.

Little weird that you chose a picture of an anti-establishment welshman for the first picture.

The Akashic record is woo-woo nonsense, but FUCK it would be nice if such a thing was real.

Nothing any person put effort into deserves to be lost forever.

Or is still in the ground. Less than 1% of all clay tablets have been recovered around the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians. There’s an enormous amount of information that’s still sitting there untouched due to politics, extremists, or lack of funding.

When to use a comma, lost forever. RIP.

Inb4 you pretend it’s not your meme

you’re telling it right now

life stories of people like you and me will never be told

oh we are off to a hot start

So it’s more like 99.9%?

Worse still, how much of recorded history was subsequently lost?

Everything from the Library of Alexandria to lost episodes of Doctor Who. So much of what little WAS recorded is also gone.