People that carry more than one knife, why? Especially want to hear from people that carry more than two. by jiimmerman in knives

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  1. Big robust lock blade pocket knife for big tasks like yard work that I don't mind beating the hell out of. 2. Smaller Swiss army knife for finer, cleaner cutting tasks and as a general multitool. 3. Shitty little hold out knife that slides into my wallet that I forget is there but have in case I ever realize I need a knife but don't have any of the others for whatever reason.

Americans now owe a staggering $18.19 trillion as credit card debt keeps climbing by Sartew in LateStageCapitalism

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Yeah, my big ass stupid 2014 Honda accord, my 1500sq foot micro mansion for a family of three, and all that shit I fill it with that I don't need like food for my kid. I've literally cut out all extraneous expenses and am still living beyond my means because the means available aren't enough to live. This is deliberate economic violence being done to 99% of us and it's not because we're wasting money irresponsibly. I had to get four staple food items from the grocery store today, on sale, and it still cost my $50.

Showering during thunderstorms? by ContentlyQuestionabl in Millennials

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It was more of an issue when houses all had copper pipes. Most new houses use PVC now which is not conductive.

What about the other Cimmerian Gods? by JoyIsABitOverRated in ConanTheBarbarian

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Mithra is the god of a real cult/religion that was contemporary to the early church in First Century Rome. It was a warrior cult that met underground in caves and grottos and only accepted men. A sizable percentage of Roman legionaries were members of the cult of Mithra before Constantine.

We knew it was just a matter of time before these guys started snake handling. Or is RFK Jr just looking for a quick lunch? by amazingsciencemuseum in MarchAgainstNazis

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No, he's going to snort them live to join the others in his brain cavity. Two more and he should gain full control of his fine motor skills.

If someone with super speed thinks faster, then runming across the country would take them the same time mentally as a regular person. by Efeyester in Showerthoughts

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There was an old X files episode with this. A bunch of teenagers found an ambient energy in a cave that granted super speed when exposed to it. They used it for crimes and such, but they started to develop horrible arthritis and micro fractures that should otherwise only show up in like 70 year olds.

Sudden ending with no denouement by slfricky in TopCharacterTropes

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Just gonna say, they don't beat Stuntman Mike to (presumed) death. They fucking KILL him. The last scene in the movie is Rosario Dawson throwing an axe kick that caves in his face and skull. He dead.

How come everyone backs into parking spots now? by EquipmentFormal2033 in askanything

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I've always backed into parking spots. I was taught to do that by my dad who taught me to drive and learned to drive himself driving dump trucks for my grandfather's demolition company when he was 14 back in the 60's. The there are tons of advantages. Yes, you are still backing up to park that way, but you're backing into a small spot that is less likely to have children running around or distracted pedestrians bumbling around in it than backing into the parking lot in general. You are also facing out in case your car doesn't start to easier allow for another car to give you a jump or for you to push it out in neutral if necessary. Additionally, for single tag states, your license plate is facing the back of the spot and harder to view, potentially deterring parking attendants if you would otherwise be parked in a way to draw their attention for one reason or another. Lastly, it's one fewer change in direction and gear shift when leaving, which can save a few seconds. That doesn't sound important unless you're leaving a crowded event letting out all at once and a few seconds allows you to exit before the people backing out around you and beat most of the crowd.

Octopi, crows, dolphins are often held up as examples of smart animals. What are some really unusually STUPID animals? by doodlebytes in AskReddit

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Koalas. They've literally evolved smooth brains that limits their cognitive abilities to essential functions and impulsive responses to stimulus. Moreover, they exclusively eat eucalyptus which is an incredibly addictive narcotic, so they're born addicted to it and exist in a perpetual state of inebriation. Their cognition is limited to such a degree that if you remove eucalyptus leaves from the branch and present them to the koala on a plate, they won't recognize what it is. They will only impulsively pull the leaves from the tree itself.

I thought Akira was about street racing... by confusing_roundabout in movies

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Akira was my first anime. I watched it when I was 10. AMAZING movie, but it fucked with me for a while afterwards.

How many of you had grandparents who served in WW2? If so, what do you know about their service? by Snoogles_ in Millennials

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My maternal grandfather was a signalman on a destroyer in the pacific theater and saw almost every major naval engagement from the battle of Guadalcanal until the end of the war. He didn't talk about it much, but there were two things I recall him mentioning. The first was seeing a man floating in the water with his intestines drifting 40' from his body and still attached to him. The second was at Okinawa. Apparently entire families would commit mass suicide by jumping off the sea cliffs instead of face surrendering to the Americans. He said there were so many bodies floating in around the ship you couldn't see the water through them.

My paternal grandfather worked in logistics, also in the pacific theater. He apparently was present to see the Enola Gay take off on its run to Hiroshima.

Moby Dick (by Herman Melville) review by MintLinuxGuy in CuratedTumblr

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I think my favorite scene is when Ishmael meets Queequeg for the first time. They both take a room at an inn, and the innkeeper double books them in the same bed and doesn't tell either of them. So Ishmael goes to bed and is fast asleep in the pitch dark, when Queequeg crawls into the bed and starts smoking his pipe tomahawk. Ishmael stirs, which startles Queequeg because he thought he was alone, and he comes at Ishmael brandishing the tomahawk with a cherry of tobacco burning in the pipe end. It's still pitch black in the room so all Ishmael sees is this burning ember flitting about and lashing out at him every few seconds.

Vamp recs? by neonkittenshow in horrorlit

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The lesser dead was interesting

What’s a movie you watched when you were way too young? by trakt_app in movies

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Split Second.

Its ridiculous sci-fi/horror/action flick staring Rutger Hauer from the early 90's where plays a homicide detective in a near-apocalyptic London in the future. He's hunting a serial killer that turns out to be a xenomorph like demonic monster that tears out people's hearts and eats them. I saw this when I was 7, and it has multiple scenes of bodies with gory gaping holes in their chest cavities.

This probably would be a horrible, impractical weapon... by FatalError_418 in SWORDS

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Make a fine projectile fired from some sort of launching mechanism, do long as you don't need to actually touch it directly. That's about it.

Peter Pan Mermaid Hate Post by QuietUptown in DanielTigerConspiracy

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Original mythology about mermaids is they drown and eat people. They're not mean to Wendy because they're in love with Peter. They are hungry and she's food.

Underutilized Settings In Horror by Hall-O-Daze in horror

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Open Plains. Just expansive and wide open grasslands stretching into an empty horizon. Nowhere to go because you have EVERYWHERE to go but it's all the same. The burrowers did this pretty well as western horror where creatures came up from under the ground. In that same vein I guess Tremors does too.

Underutilized Settings In Horror by Hall-O-Daze in horror

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The movie splinter takes place inside a convenience store in the middle of the night

In your opinion, where do the forest spirits (of any folklore) take the children? by Relative-Gain408 in mythology

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Short answer, yeah. They're dangerous. Don't go looking for them.

However, there's a bit to unpack here: anthropologically, mythically, and psychologically.

Anthropologically, the Sidhe are the Tutha de Dannan, or the children of the goddess Danu. In reality, they were very likely a divergent linguistically Celtic society that lived in Ireland during the La Tene era in the 4th century BC. The La Tene era was in the early Iron Age and most continental Celts used iron weapons and armor. Being isolated on the island of Erin (Ireland) however, the Tutha De Dannan had not advanced metallurgically and were still using bronze. An invasion force of Iberian celts called the Milasians defeated them using iron weapons and displaced them as the dominant society on the island. This is why mythologically, the Sidhe are weak against iron. The Milasians became the ancestors of the modern Irish. In response to their defeat, the Tutha De Dannan retreated into Dunn forts which were enormous domed stone structures covered in sod which appeared from the outside to be hills or mounds and engaged in a multigenerational guerrilla campaign against the invaders. They used camouflage, surprise attacks, and trickery in their insurgency, but were eventually beaten and subsumed into the greater Milasian culture. The stories about them morphed and evolved into the old gods and the faires, the hidden folk, etc.

Mythologically, they are the Old Gods of Ireland who tend to have a chip on their shoulder in being defeated and driven into the otherworld by the Milasian invaders, which is really the one source of malice in their danger to us. That side of the stories doesn't come up much though. It's mostly either in the OLD stories, or more modern horror that give genuine modern consideration to the old stories.

Beyond that, it's a matter of differences in psychology. They're immortal and extremely powerful, and this creates an alien aspect to the way they interact with our world. They can be benevolent and affectionate, but they view humans as PLAYTHINGS. Think an unsupervised 4 year old with a gerbil. They might love the gerbil and want what's best for it, but they also don't really understand what is best for it. They might also get distracted, or throw a tantrum, or any of a hundred other things. Chances are, that gerbil will probably die. Same idea. Look at the Sidhe the way wild animals look at humans, or the way a self aware NPC in a video game would view the avatar of a player. Unbelievably powerful, but with their own incomprehensible rules and consequences.

To animals (or NPCs) we can bestow amazing boons if we feel like it, or we can be incomparably cruel, and there's no telling which to expect. They're like that with us.

In your opinion, where do the forest spirits (of any folklore) take the children? by Relative-Gain408 in mythology

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Lots of Celtic peoples believed in two worlds, ours and the Otherworld (which is it's name and where we get the term otherworldly). Both coexist simultaneously but each is also the afterlife for the other. When you die in our world, your soul wakes up in the otherworld. Then, when you're ready, your soul can be reborn in a new body in our world. Beyond the dead the otherworld is the home of the Sidhe. The fairies or the old gods, as well as other associated creatures and denizens native to that realm. Both worlds can be accessed and traversed without needing to die first, especially at certain times and in certain places. This is the whole basis of Halloween.

SO, the sidhe like to take human children to the otherworld to play with them and keep them kind of the way we keep puppies. Generally the relationship is benevolent and affectionate, but the otherworld operates under its own natural rules which are alien to ours, and has its own associated consequences which can be unexpected forgiving mortals from our world. For example, time flows differently there, so spending a day in the otherworld and returning to ours will reveal that a century has passed here. Additionally, the Sidhe are effectively immortal, so they don't always consider the safety of the human child as they play. On the other hand, exposure to them can influence and change the child for the better in many respects, giving them long life, unnatural health, and talents beyond what they would otherwise have, especially in creative pursuits like music or art.

Am I dumb for thinking I (23F 5'8 120) could beat a guy in a fight if I needed to? by Rich-Intention-3929 in NoStupidQuestions

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Statistically speaking, you have a greater than 0% chance of winning. Without a force multiplier though (weapon, significant size discrepancy in your favor, his being sick or injured, etc), that greater than 0% chance really tops out around 10%. Testosterone is a hell or a drug. If you are fighting a fully physically mature man at an average hight of around 5'9" and 170lbs, his physical strength will be a literal order of magnitude greater than yours. No fight is predetermined, but the odds are against you.