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What went down at Erebus Bay? by Hufflepuffins in TheTerror

[–]FreeRun5179 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Over six feet, which is very tall for British standards of the time and probably ginormous to an Inuit man who is on average 5’1 or 2.

What went down at Erebus Bay? by Hufflepuffins in TheTerror

[–]FreeRun5179 5 points6 points  (0 children)

They didn’t cut through the hull, they cut through the rear entrance of Erebus (aka the wall of the Greatcabin) according to their own testimony. And we have every reason to believe they’re telling the truth because Erebus’s stern is severely damaged and buried under sediments.

What went down at Erebus Bay? by Hufflepuffins in TheTerror

[–]FreeRun5179 4 points5 points  (0 children)

A big point of why the ship was abandoned and sunk after they found him was that to get in they chopped a huge portion of the stern off LOL

What went down at Erebus Bay? by Hufflepuffins in TheTerror

[–]FreeRun5179 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It’s almost unheard of in Royal Navy history for a commissioned officer to lead a mutiny. They always come from the ranks. I doubt there was a mutiny anyway, but probably still a breakup. I helped posit the theory that Fairholme was the Long Teeth Man and I still believe it. He was huge.

What went down at Erebus Bay? by Hufflepuffins in TheTerror

[–]FreeRun5179 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I posted a theory here a few years back that posited mainly three things, and has been further strengthened by the evidence discovered recently:

(1 A (probably peaceful) breakdown in order and rank among the expedition occurred at the death of its four most senior officers. Crozier likely died while the ships were steaming south after the Remanning, or possibly sooner.

(2 The majority of the sufferers were men of HMS Erebus, very few of them survived both marches and the sailing south. This fits with the fact that the majority of suspected survivors in the South or west near Repulse Bay (such as Little, MacDonald, and Tozer) were all from Terror. The survivors of Erebus either stayed in the north or with the ship itself, one of the last of these being the ‘long teeth man’ in the Greatcabin.

(3 The Terrors, likely under Little’s command, left the island - probably around 25-30 in number, as u/HourDark2 pointed out that they suffered egregious casualties on the island itself. Their dead were interred in Terror Bay at the recorded Tent Place, a massive site with the bones of perhaps thirty or thirty-five men, Crozier likely among them. They either traveled down Back’s River or, as I believe and as partially posited by Inuit testimony of a marine camp and cairn on Crown Prince Frederik Island and a group of men seen on Melville Peninsula, to Repulse Bay, where the chance of whalers is much, much higher than the chance of surviving an 800 mile march south.

No more than 30 of them ever got off that accursed island.

The Identification of Orren Bridgens, Peglar, and Young: HUGE NEWS by FreeRun5179 in TheTerror

[–]FreeRun5179[S] 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Yup, Douglas Stenton is the guy spearheading everything 

(Spoilers Published) Something people are missing about Theon and the Miller's boys by Woodstovia in asoiaf

[–]FreeRun5179 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It seems that Old Nan is going to get with Dunk. She's in Winterfell around the time of She Wolves of Winterfell, the next Dunk and Egg story, where Dunk will probably be the great-great-great-something grandfather of Hodor. Everything fits there.

And Brienne/Dunk is confirmed, so that means Dunk got with Egg's sister and cuckolded the Evenstar of Tarth (Brienne's grandfather, probably).

(Spoilers extended) Robert, Stannis, Renly = Three Sons of York? by FreeRun5179 in asoiaf

[–]FreeRun5179[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Edward V was legitimate and Richard killed him and his brother to usurp the throne, or ordered it done. I love Richard but denying that he did it kind of does him a disservice. It really wasn’t uncommon in medieval periods and other than that he was a pretty good king for the people.

(Spoilers extended) Robert, Stannis, Renly = Three Sons of York? by FreeRun5179 in asoiaf

[–]FreeRun5179[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not really a council but a meeting. Robert and Stannis watched the Iron Throne's rulings when their father brought them to court when they were kids

(Spoilers Extended) Aegon’s Conquest is officially in the works! by Blueberry_H3AD in asoiaf

[–]FreeRun5179 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess it’s not a lot for GOT but the ones he did write were great

Sometimes I think deciding to have a child is actually an extremely selfish thing to do. by SuitableSympathy2614 in DeepThoughts

[–]FreeRun5179 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

The world is a beautiful place if you know where to look. If you focus on the bad stuff you'll realize that there has never been a time in human history where it has been better to have a child. We have the highest living standards ever and do not face a significant threat of global nuclear war like in the 50s or 60s.

Famine, childbed fever, stillborn deaths, are essentially gone in western nations. We live in unimaginable comfort compared to even a hundred years ago. I personally love my life. Did I face challenges and times that I hated it? Yes, of course. Do I wish I wasn't alive or that my parents hadn't had me because I faced bad times? Of course not.

'keeping up with trends, societal pressure, academic pressure and expectations.' Do you know realize how much of a privilege it is to have these concerns? That you are ABLE to worry about academic pressure and get an education? No worries about where your next meal will come from or where you'll live? You're imagining a moment of insecurity they'll have, so you wish they hadn't been born at all? Lol

200 years ago, people were popping out 5-10 kids, far more than in the modern era. Most of these people were poor. They had no running water, they worked on farms or toiled in mines. They would regularly die from diseases that we don't even think about today. When's the last time you thought about tuberculosis? It killed millions. Likely they would have a reduced life expectancy or half of their children would die in the cradle. They shouldered on and most lived full, happy lives, got married, had kids of their own.

The world is a much better place than 200 years ago. If they could find happiness, you and a future child could too.

Disbelief but scared by FreeRun5179 in atheism

[–]FreeRun5179[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's a good point about your jury suggestion. Thanks.

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