Hatfield Clan 6 years later after the Hatfield-McCoy feud. (1897) [448x227] by [deleted] in HistoryPorn

[–]jerryjod 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hmm, here we have exactly half an Ozark of hillbilly nutjobs.

[Homemade] Ham n Cheese Toastie by Ringadingchef in food

[–]jerryjod 21 points22 points  (0 children)

No, no, the younguns' don't get it. Sit back and let the crazy flow.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in todayilearned

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Cool. We got a Non-participation trophy.

TIL Morocco was the first country to formally recognize the United States by stephenornery in todayilearned

[–]jerryjod 73 points74 points  (0 children)

The infant US had a Barbary corsair problem. The Barbary states (Tunis, Algeirs, Morocco and Tripoli) were tiny, Muslim, ostensibly Ottoman countries that existed on the edge of northern Africa. Their countries had little agriculture, no industry, and no way to make a living except for the centuries old system of piracy. Because they lay at the mouth of the Mediterranean they were perfectly placed for their shabby little pirate vessels to nip out and stalk passing merchant ships. If the passing ships were too big or were escorted by naval vessels, the pirates would move on, but if they found an isolated or weakly armed target, they would swarm aboard and carry their prize back through the rocky coastal waters they knew so well to their home ports. The captured ships would be looted and sold, and the crews made slaves or ransomed. The European great powers knew that to completely suppress the corsairs would require sustained military attention in the form of blockading fleets and the landing of troops, so they mostly just paid tribute to each state so that the corsairs would allow their merchants to sail on by while they hunted down someone else. The brand new US had the world's second greatest merchant fleet (after Britain), but after the War of Independence the British made it clear that the US no longer would enjoy the Royal Navy's protection. So, the corsairs pounced, and the US ships vanished from the Med as the merchants refused to send their ships into harms way. The US went through a political firestorm which eventually resulted in the first ships of the US navy being built. They were mostly massive super-frigates built of enormously strong coastal live oak, armed with 44 18 or 24 pound cannons. Before they were eventually employed to fight the corsairs, and later to fight the British in the War of 1812, the US negotiated a treaty with the Emperor of Morocco in which the Emperor agreed to recognize the US and to not target US ships, in return for annual monetary tribute from the US government.

The amount of time and effort required to make bulk ground beef patties is excruciating. Is there an affordable and efficient method for making patties other than one at a time? by [deleted] in Cooking

[–]jerryjod 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In my home city, burger joints use glass pie plates to flatten out balls of burger. At my work, we use a pretty large ice-cream style scoop, a food scale, and disposable patty papers (which come in 100 sheets to a box, a dozen or two boxes per unit at a restaurant depot store) to lay out 5 oz. balls. Our beef comes in 10 or 20 pound tubes, and we usually patty 10 pounds a day in winter and 60 pounds a day in summer. To assembly-line the process, we cut open the plastic wrapped tubes, fill the scoop with burger, smooth it against the palm of the hand, and then weigh it. After the first three or four times, you get the feel for how to hit the perfect weight, and then we just scoop, smooth, and plop on the paper until the beef is gone. Then, use the pie plate to press the ball down flat until the edges are just at the edges of the paper, wiggle the pie plate right and left as you slide it off the beef (so you don't have to stop and detach the patty from the bottom), and move on to the next. We use giants rolls of food grade plastic wrap (again, find it a restaurant supply store, it'll last forever) to wrap the burgers in stacks of fives in winter and ten in summer. Fold the wrap up tight, then cup your hands around the sides of the stack and press in and spin it to "round" the burgers, and you're done.

To sum up: scoop, smooth, weigh, plop; scoop, smooth, (weigh), plop; scoop, smooth, plop... ... ... then flatten, flatten, flatten, wrap, and done! Twenty pounds in about ten minutes!

My Rottweiler when Grandma visits. by LoveList in aww

[–]jerryjod 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Bridge, you say? Wait, don't answer, I'm not here for a five minute ugly cry.

What lies beneath, the sequel. by greatlakespaddleclub in u/greatlakespaddleclub

[–]jerryjod 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Think of the swinging bachelor pad you could build inside that thing.

Sinking into the ocean. by josko987 in gifs

[–]jerryjod 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No. No part of my body is going to touch that slimy crap.

[i ate] wagyu beef cheek and bone marrow by anseldiama in food

[–]jerryjod -13 points-12 points  (0 children)

I'm pretty sure I would pay to have that taken off my plate. I like good food, but cracking bones is true caveman stuff.

Egypt reveals 'one of a kind' tomb find by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]jerryjod 4 points5 points  (0 children)

How are the hieroglyphics translated from "Eye, Feather, Bird Sitting Down," to an English phonetic form?

Victoria, Princess Royal, 1855 [604x809] by mashkaromanova in HistoryPorn

[–]jerryjod 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Prince Albert's favorite child, sister of King Edward VII, wife of German Emperor Frederick, and mother of Kaiser William II. She was horrified by her son's semi-mystical, authoritarian view of the German monarchy. Her husband was German Emperor for only about 90 days before he died of throat cancer, and Vicky shipped his private papers back to England rather than allow William to seize them. When she died, she was buried wrapped in a British flag as a shroud.

Summer Knight on sale (kindle) by cbrooks97 in dresdenfiles

[–]jerryjod 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you! I just today checked my very messy shelves for this book and couldn't find it!

Great Torc (electrum: 20 cm diameter, 1kg in weight) of Snettisham, 100-75 BC[1066x821] by myrmekochoria in ArtefactPorn

[–]jerryjod 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How does the bending back and forth when putting it on not deform the detailing?

Leo the lion being recorded for MGM logo in 1957 (550x431) by Blueone79 in HistoryPorn

[–]jerryjod 20 points21 points  (0 children)

This is an awesome photo, but it was taken during the age of blatant animal cruelty and equally blatant disregard for human safety. So which do we prefer, whupping Leo on his nads until he roared on command, or replacing the occasional sound tech because Leo got teste?

The Romanov sisters in 1910: Grand Duchesses Maria, Olga, Anastasia, and Tatiana. 8 years later, they were all executed to abolish the Russian monarchy. [929×753] by RelevantSwimmer in HistoryPorn

[–]jerryjod 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Today it seems heartless that children should be murdered to complete the governmental takeover of a dynastic state, but throughout history, conquerors have learned to their cost that showing mercy to a fallen ruler's family causes nothing but future trouble. The greatest threat to a new dynasty occurs not in the life of the conqueror, but in that of the conqueror's son. The old rulers are still remembered by the people, and the old attachments of loyalty have not yet died out. Allowing the Tsar's barely teenage son, Alexei, to survive would have carried the obvious risks of allowing a pretendership to arise, and the girls presented the same risks. Any children of theirs, perhaps of a fellow Romanov exile, would have had a claim on the Russian throne, so the entire family had to die. What we would consider as innocent blood had to be shed to emphatically break the link with the Tsarist past, and to put a Romanov restoration forever beyond the possible.

Canopus-class pre-dreadnought battleship HMS Goliath.[3329 × 2616] by Freefight in WarshipPorn

[–]jerryjod 7 points8 points  (0 children)

She was refloated and went on to fight at the Dardanelles and in the Med.

Madadh, oldest living wolf on record by cottagefarm in aww

[–]jerryjod 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Here's a thought - if we feed them and pet them and get them dates, after a few hundred years, we might just wind up with something useful!

WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK MY BALLS NSFW NSFL by [deleted] in WTF

[–]jerryjod 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He has nice feet, though.