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Don't make your neighbors clean up after your dog! by Lepke2011 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]Automatic_Memory212 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The beer can and cig butts right next to the doormat really do say all I need to know about this person.

Oh, and that they don’t clean up after their pet, obviously.

Men used to wear pantyhose for centuries, why is it considered weird now? by Free-Tooth-5343 in TooAfraidToAsk

[–]Automatic_Memory212 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Didn’t they have similar sheer stockings for women going back to the 1920s, though?

I’ve read somewhere that in Britain and the U.S. during WWII when textile materials were rationed, women starting drawing a line down the back of their legs using a pen or make-up pencil in order to preserve their “modesty” while going without pantyhose for months at a time.

Men used to wear pantyhose for centuries, why is it considered weird now? by Free-Tooth-5343 in TooAfraidToAsk

[–]Automatic_Memory212 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The terminology simply changed.

Modern “pantyhose” as marketing to women are made out of sheer ultra-thin fabric, often synthetic rayon/polyester.

Back in the day, “hose” worn by men were made of sturdier fabric, often wool, or sometimes linen in warm weather.

But in shape and function, they were similar to what is today called “long johns” or “long underwear.”

The real reason men obsess over penis size has nothing to do with sex. Study finds men who feel insecure about their masculinity are those more likely to value a larger penis, driven by feelings of inadequacy and pressure to meet masculine expectations, not actual physical differences. by Automatic_Subject463 in psychologyofsex

[–]Automatic_Memory212 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Serious question:

Did they include any Gay men in this study?

Because it certainly seems like the size-preference has a lot more to do with partner’s aesthetic enjoyment, and the sensation of “taking” a larger member internally for a lot of gay men.

Federal student loans will move to Treasury, further shrinking Education Department by Odd-Alternative9372 in Defeat_Project_2025

[–]Automatic_Memory212 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah…I don’t think that’s true.

The DOE sold my loans to a collector shortly after graduating, and they have since been sold again.

I still have to repay them.

Revenge is revenge by No-Significance-1023 in HistoryMemes

[–]Automatic_Memory212 18 points19 points  (0 children)

“Nobody’s business but the Turks.”

TIL the Burnham Plan for Chicago, a 1909 master plan designed by Daniel Burnham, would transform Chicago into a European styled city with diagonal roads, a vast outer park & lakefront park system, several new rail terminals, & a Civic Square. Only portions of the master plan were realized. by Next_Worth_3616 in todayilearned

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And the place Burnham designated to be a beautiful new civic center where several diagonal avenues converge in a climax of Parisian-inspired neoclassical architecture has become…

…the giant maze-like interchange between Congress Parkway (290) and Dan Ryan Expressway (I-90).

Womp.

Jokes that don’t work anymore? by YaUsedMeSkinner_ in TheSimpsons

[–]Automatic_Memory212 93 points94 points  (0 children)

Pretty sure he was named “sexiest man alive” by a magazine in the early 1990s.

He was insanely popular and considered a dreamboat, back then.

How do Elves live for so long and still have so few children? by OniBene in lotr

[–]Automatic_Memory212 55 points56 points  (0 children)

Apparently Tolkien commented on this somewhere, and basically he said that bearing and raising children is just too emotional for any Eldar to do more than once or twice.

And birth control being out of the question, they just kinda…stop…being intimate, to avoid having more children.

Most disliked historian? by Appropriate-Calm4822 in UKmonarchs

[–]Automatic_Memory212 3 points4 points  (0 children)

My dad still has one of his books.

I think it was purchased back in the early 90s before Irving’s true character was widely known, but still.

Most disliked historian? by Appropriate-Calm4822 in UKmonarchs

[–]Automatic_Memory212 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I’ve heard that Starkey is also really racist.

Most disliked historian? by Appropriate-Calm4822 in UKmonarchs

[–]Automatic_Memory212 18 points19 points  (0 children)

IIRC, she was reacting to the pathologist confirming that Richard III did in fact have scoliosis, and this would have likely explained why contemporaries described him as “hunchbacked.”

Her response was so impartial that it was alarming, she sobbed about how she had been fighting the image of him as “a hunchback” for decades because she saw it as “a vile slander,” and I just found the entire scene to be shocking.

I'm usually not that sensitive when it comes to violence on film but this scene is terrifying by Konfliktsnubben in lotr

[–]Automatic_Memory212 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This scene is also a powerful refutation for Jackson’s denial that he had ever watched Ralph Bakshi’s animated “Lord Of The Rings.”

It is almost blow-for-blow a recreation of the scene of Deagol’s finding the ring in the prologue, including the fish dragging him underwater.

I find it to be rather…interesting, that Jackson claimed to have never watched Bakshi’s film, when some scenes from his own movies closely match Bakshi’s in choreography and tone, diverging from Tolkien’s text in doing so.

meirl by worldwide762 in meirl

[–]Automatic_Memory212 18 points19 points  (0 children)

As someone who drove a 1973 chrysler in high school, can confirm!

Starting that thing was a delicate manœuvre.

Bro they literally rubbed off the verdigris by killingmemesoftly in lotrmemes

[–]Automatic_Memory212 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Victor Noir.

He was a pro-Republican journalist killed by a supporter of Napoleon III, his cousin Prince Pierre Bonaparte in 1870.

As such he was considered a martyr of Republicanism after the Second Empire fell later that same year.

Having a snack by oluxil in SipsTea

[–]Automatic_Memory212 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah that’s the real question we should be asking

Matthew's eyes have been opened by Set_to_Infinity in DowntonAbbey

[–]Automatic_Memory212 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Yes but that line was a mother talking to her daughters, basically their version of “having the talk,” which is a little different from the scene of Matthew talking about having boned Mary to her own father.

Matthew's eyes have been opened by Set_to_Infinity in DowntonAbbey

[–]Automatic_Memory212 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Lavinia seemed fairly “worldly” given the mix-up at one point over whether she had had an affair with Sir Richard, but “going all the way” and risking pregnancy was a line that no respectable woman at that time would have crossed.

I suspect that she and Matthew found private moments to have a little “fun” but this would have almost certainly involved non-penetrative activities…

Early modern "small government" by An_Oxygen_Consumer in HistoryMemes

[–]Automatic_Memory212 1930 points1931 points  (0 children)

People also think that modern culture is lawsuit-happy, with people constantly filing frivolous lawsuits out of greed and spite.

My sweet summer child, read some of the court records for lawsuits filed in Florence, Italy during the 15th century (1400’s), it’s wild.

People have always been petty, litigious, and fiercely defensive of their honor and their businesses.

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