The worst part about being alive is meeting someone and thinking “Yeah I could sink 50 of my best years into a relationship with you” and then not getting to
I had this happen 3 separate times in the just over a year for the canada revenue. I never wanted to job in the first place (who wants to be the boot? not i) but that sort of situation is part of the reason I ended up taking off on stress leave
high limits on buildings seem so bad to me: a law that says "you may only build a building so glorious". If the building outshines the mountain surrounding the city, perhaps that is a flaw with the mountains: perhaps nature should have tried harder.
Developers when you ask them to abide one (1) safety regulation.
Excuse me, professor? So, um, you paired me with Strawberry Shortcake for this assignment. Yeah so, she proofread my paper, but the only changes she made were crossing out every instance of 'very' and replacing it with 'berry'?
Loveee that illustration on the left with the chain on. Definitely worn by the sexiest bitch above the Antonine Wall circa 400 AD.
Question. Did they really not wear clothes or was that an outsider trying to make them seem subhuman creating a fake reason? (Source: Julius Caesar making impossible shit up about at least one island in the Mediterranean and two in the Atlantic)
They wore clothes but fought naked, generally speaking. They were a people of northern Scotland and they farmed sheep so I assume they dressed warmly and in a lot of wool though depictions of their clothing are scant. They made very beautiful brooches/cloak pins. Fighting naked was an intimidation tactic practiced by many Celtic cultures. The reason Picts are usually depicted as naked and painted is because that was how they went into battle and generally speaking, that was the only time outsiders saw them.
(Detail of a Pictish brooch and a recreation of the piece available on Etsy.)
Right, like Celtic tribes were viewed as barbaric and uncivilized and uncultured for fighting naked but it was genuinely a very effective intimidation tactic, especially in the late Iron Age. Even though the Celts of Anglesey weren’t the same culture as the Picts we have descriptions from Roman sources of Roman soldiers suffering heavy casualties because they were frozen in terror and unable to move at the sight of Celtic soldiers running at them naked and screaming and seemingly without fear. Because when an armed individual runs at you in a murderous frenzy wearing only jewelry, it’s scary as fuck. And it would be in the modern day too.
Clothes would also have been incredibly valuable, and this way, none of it got ruined while fighting
Yeah, I believe there is a Roman source that says the Celts abruptly and violently removed their clothes right before going into battle (instead of like. walking there with their dick out.) so it might have also been a way of keeping their clothes from being damaged and/or keeping clothing fibers from getting in their wounds. Or it could have been a “fuck this, these are getting in my way” type instinct. Many advantages to going to battle nude in the late Iron Age. And they did carry large shields so it’s not like they had absolutely zero protection on the battlefield.
If you're not wearing armour or padding, clothes in battle are not only a risk to the clothes (which are incredibly labour-intensive to produce) but also an infection risk (a wound with dirty cloth driven into it is a bigger threat than one without). Of course throughout history most people have fought clothed regardless, but it's like, it's not a bad idea not to if the climate allows for it and you're foregoing armour.
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Excellent captions. 10/10
How to catch a fish in 4 easy steps by Nindiri the jaguar (pics by Nancie Cunningham Casey)
Step 1: aAAHHH
Step 2: blorpphpphhh
Step 3: Nommmph
Step 4: Profit
I’ll be honest, I totally didn’t see the fish at first, so I thought the jaguar was just taking a drink. i was sitting here being all like “dang why is this jaguar so Extra that instead of slurping up water like a normal cat it’s gotta BITE THE WATER”