Abdul's official "The past is a foreign country" thread.

shemp · Post by **shemp** » Tue Dec 08, 2020 12:24 am

Fid wrote: ↑Mon Dec 07, 2020 9:34 pm
Witness wrote: ↑Mon Dec 07, 2020 2:01 am

October 1887 – March 1889.
What was once deemed an eyesore has become the de facto symbol of a nation.

Yeah, just like Trump.

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Tue Dec 08, 2020 2:50 am

Fid wrote: ↑Mon Dec 07, 2020 9:34 pm What was once deemed an eyesore has become the de facto symbol of a nation.

I read a comment from one of his contemporaries saying that Eiffel was quite ambivalent about his tower, nearly apologizing for having built it.

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Tue Dec 08, 2020 2:53 am

Concentrated syrup. But now everything has to be ready to consume.

Anaxagoras · Post by **Anaxagoras** » Fri Dec 11, 2020 5:48 am

robinson wrote: ↑Sat Dec 05, 2020 2:02 am Meth was available over the counter until 1964

The Nazis gave it to their soldiers so they didn't need to sleep. Made them more aggressive too.

Anaxagoras · Post by **Anaxagoras** » Fri Dec 11, 2020 5:50 am

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Sun Dec 13, 2020 11:58 am

Hotarubi · Post by **Hotarubi** » Sun Dec 13, 2020 12:05 pm

ed · Post by ed » Sun Dec 13, 2020 12:07 pm

The past indeed.

ed · Post by ed » Sun Dec 13, 2020 12:08 pm

Anaxagoras wrote: ↑Fri Dec 11, 2020 5:48 am
robinson wrote: ↑Sat Dec 05, 2020 2:02 am Meth was available over the counter until 1964
The Nazis gave it to their soldiers so they didn't need to sleep. Made them more aggressive too.

not just nazis

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Sun Dec 13, 2020 5:43 pm

Link: https://twitter.com/ValaAfshar/status/1338160587520536580

Giz · Post by **Giz** » Sun Dec 13, 2020 5:46 pm

Pyrrho wrote: ↑Sun Dec 13, 2020 11:58 am

Should have released that one as soon as you’d seen what you’d hooked.

The fish too.

robinson · Post by **robinson** » Sun Dec 13, 2020 5:58 pm

Jewfish

robinson · Post by **robinson** » Sun Dec 13, 2020 5:58 pm

No longer called that

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Mon Dec 14, 2020 2:43 am

Giz · Post by **Giz** » Mon Dec 14, 2020 1:59 pm

Damn, had to check that wasn’t 1884

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Mon Dec 14, 2020 8:31 pm

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Tue Dec 15, 2020 1:55 am

robinson · Post by **robinson** » Tue Dec 15, 2020 12:56 pm

Giz · Post by **Giz** » Wed Dec 16, 2020 2:12 pm

Witness wrote: ↑Tue Dec 15, 2020 1:55 am

Jeez Australia, couldn’t you find any venomous critters to play with?

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Wed Dec 16, 2020 10:53 pm

A salesman has his motorized roller skates refueled at a gas station, 1961

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Sat Dec 19, 2020 3:33 pm

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Sat Dec 19, 2020 3:51 pm

Fid · Post by **Fid** » Sun Dec 20, 2020 12:41 am

"Table knives of all kinds."

No fools the Chinese.

Fid · Post by **Fid** » Sun Dec 20, 2020 12:51 am

Flatirons? Holy fuck there are two within eyesight using as door stops.
The door stops near as I can tell pre-date the (not so) Civil War.

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Sun Dec 20, 2020 1:18 am

Women sit for a portrait in Salzburg, Austria, 1929. Photograph by Hans Hildenbrand, National Geographic Creative

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Sun Dec 20, 2020 12:47 pm

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Sun Dec 20, 2020 2:59 pm

robinson · Post by **robinson** » Sun Dec 20, 2020 4:53 pm

They made us read that shit in school

robinson2 · Post by **robinson2** » Sun Dec 20, 2020 5:18 pm

http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/~banchoff/Flatland/

Fid · Post by **Fid** » Sun Dec 20, 2020 5:56 pm

Pyrrho wrote: ↑Sun Dec 20, 2020 12:47 pm

That is in fact my grandpa. And yes he's playing with it. It was the hat though that got him banned from family gatherings.

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Mon Dec 21, 2020 12:00 am

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Mon Dec 21, 2020 4:16 am

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Tue Dec 22, 2020 4:34 am

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Wed Dec 23, 2020 12:06 pm

Ahem, Slick.

ed · Post by ed » Wed Dec 23, 2020 12:21 pm

Pyrrho wrote: ↑Wed Dec 23, 2020 12:06 pm Ahem, Slick.

Sure, try out some dangerous honkey invention on the black guy. Typical.

robinson2 · Post by **robinson2** » Wed Dec 23, 2020 6:25 pm

shuize · Post by **shuize** » Wed Dec 23, 2020 11:42 pm

robinson2 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 23, 2020 6:25 pm

I thought those things looked interesting so a while back, maybe two years ago, I foolishly clicked on one of the ads.

First of all, holy shit, I thought paraglider wings were expensive. No thanks.

Second, whatever algorithm they're using is worse than an STD. I'm still getting ads for them.

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Thu Dec 24, 2020 1:34 am

Mother and baby of family of nine living in field on U.S. Route 70 near the Tennessee River, March 1936.

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Thu Dec 24, 2020 5:28 pm

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Fri Dec 25, 2020 1:20 am