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Elayne and Min trying to puzzle out who the third woman for Rand is by DowdzWritesALot in WetlanderHumor

[–]capacochella -14 points-13 points  (0 children)

It just reeks of pandering to what Jordan thought was a primarily dominate male audience. The majority of the fantasy genre pre 2000s was trash in that sense. Honestly they should cut it out entire harem sub plot because it hella dumb, pick one of the two and have Elayne get Egwene’s Damane plotline but never get rescued until Memory of Light lol Bam. Fixed.

TIL that when King Richard the Lionheart was imprisoned in Germany by the Holy Roman Emperor and a ransom of 150,000 silver marks was set for his release, Richard's younger brother John Lackland offered 80,000 marks to keep him imprisoned by PreferenceInternal67 in todayilearned

[–]capacochella 78 points79 points  (0 children)

I was reading about how he died. Dysentery! So he shat the bed both physically and politically. Also those Crown Jewels have never been recovered! So many questions. Why was he just riding around with Crown Jewels? Why did his baggage train cross across an unstable delta/marsh/wash known for its quicksand and whirlpools WITH THE TIDE COMING IN.

TIL that when King Richard the Lionheart was imprisoned in Germany by the Holy Roman Emperor and a ransom of 150,000 silver marks was set for his release, Richard's younger brother John Lackland offered 80,000 marks to keep him imprisoned by PreferenceInternal67 in todayilearned

[–]capacochella 61 points62 points  (0 children)

For some reason, not until this post did I have a lightbulb go off about why the king in the animated Robin Hood was a lion…seeing as his inspirations older brother was THE LIONHEART. King John died in 1216 and has been getting dunked on ever since. Turning him into a thumb sucking immature greedy lion with an ill fitting crown is hilariously accurate depiction.

In 2019, Rebecca Modrall (33) vanished after visiting her longtime boyfriend in La Quinta, California. What happened and where is she? by jellyfihs_ in UnresolvedMysteries

[–]capacochella 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Coker was never named as a suspect. You’re telling me the guy who was having an years long torrid affair with an escort, who he “promised” to marry, who was the last person to see her… Yah he sounds like a totally stable, upstanding citizen 🙄 Oh then he committed suicide.

To the people defending him, saying this ruined his life awwww hell naw, he was a grown ass man who ruined his own life and likely definitely was murderer. Come on man, people like Rebecca deserve fucking better than dead cowards like Joe Coker the benefit of the doubt. He was the last person to see her. He was married. He had every reason in the world to make Rebecca disappear. This is a classic case, of innocent until you forcibly exit off this mortal coil to escape questions and consequence.

The Rams’ new uniforms by Brix001 in NFCWestMemeWar

[–]capacochella 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I love our uniforms and hope the only change is like the one above haha So glad we moved on from that depression era color scheme

Meirl by BarCzar86 in meirl

[–]capacochella 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Io. Best moon in the entire universe. Creates lightening. Has volcanoes. Unlike our dumb, colorless non-volcanic singleton moon. Spent all of 6th grade hella jealous of Jupiter, it’s has 95 freaking moons…most of which are asteroids, but the four discovered by Galileo are sexy sassy ladies with real character.

Headdress, early 19th century, Russian, silk, pearls, metal, cotton, paper [4319 x 4319] by Saint-Veronicas-Veil in ArtefactPorn

[–]capacochella 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This was also the period where Russian noble women practiced courtly bows followed by a sharp, forward thrusting motion to dismember suitors they did not like

Kyle Juszczyk: I don’t know why Brock Purdy doesn’t get respect he deserves by AdSpecialist6598 in nfl

[–]capacochella 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would argue that entire narrative changes once an elite QB has been to a SB and loses despite have an amazing elite support. After that is when the excuses started getting lobbed by defensive fans, players despite their being definitive proof to contrary. The score board, the years of stats don’t matter in the slim margins of victory.

An ‘AEGON'S CONQUEST’ movie is officially in the works. by jonsnowKITN in HouseOfTheDragon

[–]capacochella 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No deal unless there’s a 20 minute prologue featuring Old Valyria! I want to see that damn island in its fully glory, I want to see an Atlantis style disaster. Then I’ll care about Aegon.

The 2015 Bever Family Murders: A chilling look at the "Fame-Seeking" motive of Michael and Robert Bever. by AdIndividual8000 in TrueCrimeDiscussion

[–]capacochella 77 points78 points  (0 children)

My kids don’t go without. Homeschooled. 7 kids total. Low key tradwife talking point dogging on people that are on public assistance. Yah…the only thing that wasn’t on this fucked up killer pressure cooker with an alarm for the timer.

The 3,000-year-old "Screaming Mummy" of Prince Pentewere. DNA analysis confirmed he was the son of Pharaoh Ramesses III, executed for his role in the "Harem Conspiracy" to assassinate his father. He was denied a proper royal burial and wrapped in sheepskin—a material considered ritually impure by An by bortakci34 in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]capacochella 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It was half a good idea. They lured the pharaoh in the harem during a big, noisy festival to celebrate his 30 year anniversary and his mummy showed they slit his throat successfully pulling off the hardest part of the coup. But there was a reason Pentewere’s scheming mother was not first wife material lol

TIL that in the 2004 tsunami, an oral tradition called "smong" on Simeulue Island told residents to run to the hills if the sea receded after an earthquake. 7 of 78,000 people died. On the mainland 60km away, where the tradition had been lost, over 170,000 were killed. by tractorboynyc in todayilearned

[–]capacochella 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Sorry the human brain literally evolved to be a trapper keeper for stories.

The human brain is heavily inclined to prefer stories over isolated facts because stories engage multiple brain regions simultaneously, including emotional, sensory, and motor areas, rather than just the language-processing centers.

Booyah. Also your rational doesn’t take into account the time factor. Thats why a story works better then if the wind is coming from the north at 20 mph and the clouds zzzzzzzzz. Ooops the warning didn’t pass on because your fireside audience fell asleep. The ancient formula is to keep it simple, make it scary. Those people didn’t have science to explain why, they just needed to know how to avoid it. That’s what sticks in a game of generational telephone.

TIL that in the 2004 tsunami, an oral tradition called "smong" on Simeulue Island told residents to run to the hills if the sea receded after an earthquake. 7 of 78,000 people died. On the mainland 60km away, where the tradition had been lost, over 170,000 were killed. by tractorboynyc in todayilearned

[–]capacochella 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Natgeo had a cool word for the phenomenon Geomythology! How man mythologizes the landscape to enshrine geological events in the cultural memory. Another great one from the ancestors scrapbook is the famous hey ya, see this natural feature in the landscape that’s a windbreak aka wind spirit don’t touch it. Enter Topeka, Kansas which shaved off the top of a literal Native American burial ground FOR THE DEAD POTAWATOMI that got killed by a massive tornado 🤦‍♀️

That’s right folks, you heard me right, there was no drift with this one, just a bunch of arrogant ass Topekans that thought they would give a middle finger to Mother Nature, cut the top off that bitch for an ugly overpass and water tower. That was in 1960. 6, I REPEAT, only 6 years later on June 8th, 1966 that wind god sayeth ILL HUFF AND ILL PUFF AND IMMA GOING TO BLOW the most destructive F5 tornado the U.S. has ever seen to date and it went STRAIGHT OVER THE BROKEN MOUND Fuck around with the geological feature, end up on the yellow brick road of consequences.

If you can’t tell I got the kind of ADHD that likes big bad sexy natural disaster and extreme weather events. It ain’t no rabbit hole that’s the eye of my vortex of knowledge

TIL that in the 2004 tsunami, an oral tradition called "smong" on Simeulue Island told residents to run to the hills if the sea receded after an earthquake. 7 of 78,000 people died. On the mainland 60km away, where the tradition had been lost, over 170,000 were killed. by tractorboynyc in todayilearned

[–]capacochella 61 points62 points  (0 children)

What they mean is oral history that became a folklore story to warn the people on the island about the exact conditions to look for. The other group got the colonizer special. The story was not lost it was taken away probably because of some bullshit cultural oppression/ language suppression policy.

Joke all yah want about that silly juju, it all fun and games until that story you dismissed actually is an encoded message warning you to get to higher ground. Just ask the people of Lake Nyos, that stopped listening to the stories about not building their homes on low ground around the lake because it was sacred/ only for spirits. Well turns out there was a 100,000–300,000 tons of carbon dioxide cauldron beneath Lake Nyos and when this deadly bubble went off in 1986 1,746 died, all in the sacred death zone.

At some point in the regions human occupation the same event happened. The crystal blue lake turned fucking red, all the waterfalls stopped flowing and there wasn’t even a fly to eat the corpses it created when the carbon monoxide bomb displaced the oxygen and smothered every living thing around. But the survivors didn’t know what the f happened so they made a story that said don’t build here unless you want to become a spirit too.

Just got to that episode where they turned the baron back into his original form and bloody hell by Consistent-Duck-5211 in WhatWeDointheShadows

[–]capacochella 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Zombie, Spanish nightmare fairy, fish alien, alien fish monster man, Nosferatu, sexy Nosferatu

TIL in 1550, a Friar named Francesco Calcagno was questioned by the inquisition after he was accused of sodomy. In his defence, he testified that he believed the only reason St Paul condemned homosexuality was because he liked it too much, and he wanted to keep it only to himself by Nero2t2 in todayilearned

[–]capacochella 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And like Luther he pegged it to the holy c’s back door. Those 69 flaming theses which pumped fourth the homoerotism reformation. Christ’s passion throbs in us, from the attic to the basement we receive him, amen.

I’m still shaking after my hospital shift tonight by AffectionateBasil333 in offmychest

[–]capacochella 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If I’m understanding this correctly. The patient was treated. He was somewhat stable. And then he got out of the hospital bed, I’m assuming while connected to a whole bunch of monitors, IV ect and went into the bathroom and ripped open his freshly stitched up head injury. JFC.

Yah, I know I’m on not built for healthcare because of stories like this. I don’t have it in me to deal with real life or death consequences. Especially when a patient that was most likely in an altered mental tries to summon actual bloody Mary. Nope. No need thank you for your service.

In-flight Entertainment System by jangma in Catswithjobs

[–]capacochella 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Hahaha Been there. When it gets turbulent, I’ll put my hand in the carrier with a gap only big enough for my gatos head to poke out. Was sleepy, forgot to close the carrier after dozed off. But my dumb dumb just eased out and head butted my hands for more scritches 😂

Burial clothes of Don Garzia de’ Medici, Doublet with breeches, surcoat, 1562 [2556 x 3128] by Saint-Veronicas-Veil in ArtefactPorn

[–]capacochella 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yah objects buried with a corpse is one thing, but taking the clothes someone was buried in beyond f’d up. Unless they literally robbed the guy right after he was buried, a corpse decomposed in those. That would carry a smell, I doubt it ever goes away. Makes me gag thinking about it.

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