G’wan, admit it: you’re throwing darts at a dictionary, right?
Maybe Pat Buchanan has a new hobby.
Perchance thrusting flechettes at a Thesaurus…
I think he’s using Google translate 5 times: English-Icelandic-Swedish-Gaelic-English or something. Maybe 10.
I’m supposed to spend an hour and a half watching something just for the purpose of arguing with someone on the Internet?
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I like saying “Occident” and “Orient.”
Goes back to when I was a kid and read Richard Halliburton’s Book of Marvels. He separated the Marvels of the world into two parts that way. Guess it made more sense than doing “Northern Hemisphere” and “Southern Hemisphere.”
No man is an Iland, intire of itselfe; every man
is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine;
if a Clod bee washed away by the Sea, Europe
is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as
well as if a Manor of thy friends or of thine
owne were; any mans death diminishes me,
because I am involved in Mankinde;
And therefore never send to know for whom
the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.
Occident would be Western Hemisphere, and Orient the Eastern, but point taken. I think it’s just an old fashioned usage.
(emphasis mine, nitpickery also) Silver, akshully.
Gold was for making baubles for European consumption, and incidentally fucking up their own currency in the process. But it only made up some 15ish% of the New World loot, all told (at least until the first American gold rush - but that came centuries later). In 1535 alone for example, Spain imported 1.6 tons of gold and 27.2 tons of silver from the Americas (factoring in shipwrecks, piracy and so forth). Silver was where it *really *was at - everybody else wanted it, because China wanted moar of it always and also because the Spanish silver *real *was the dependable international currency of the time, much like the dollar is today. But really, China was **the **hot topic of the 16th century. 75% of all the silver brought to Europe from the Americas found its way there eventually. Almost every metal exchange in the Indian ocean by Europeans involved silver - either giving it away for local goods “because you can sell it to the Chinese later” (local goods themselves to be further exchanged in convoluted supply chains for what Europeans really craved - spices and Indian cloth), or exchanging it for Chinese goods directly.
Hence the nightmare that was Potosi. Look it up sometime - the Nazis *wish *they’d worked people to death that efficiently - and profitably.
The other hot topic was the Maluku Islands - but that got traded with lead, not silver.
I meant Halliburton went for the vertical slice rather than the horizontal.
Just was watching a Phoenix Wright LP, and it reminded me of this guy. Redd White, why not go back to Bluecorp?
I’ll take Paul Lynde to block … oh wait, that’s not what you meant.
‘What an anfractuous web of avarice weaved,
By those yoked in profligacy’s terminal disease.’
U.S. Army fudged its accounts by trillions of dollars, auditor finds (Reuters)
Purporting to not know what is otherwise known - ‘the unknown’ - yet professing to be in full knowledge of what is indeed known to know that which is unknown, is not a known or recognised field of knowledge – i.e., the realm of the 'known unknown knowledge of knowing '.
Planting one’s head beneath the parched, arid, Californian desert sands - irrespective of how resoundingly hollow one’s dull dome may be or how much hot, flatulent air distends it - will inevitably lead to eventual suffocation.
Moral: Subsisting upon the hydrogen-sulphide highs the bucket bongs of one’s own fetid farts of foolishness elicit, will only sustain a burger for so long, before its gnarled knee joints buckle, its rectitudinous retardation is rocked and finally it topples – tumbling down, like a three-score-and-ten-year tall pile of excreta; layer upon layer of Ponzi poo-poo–dewlaps of dopey degeneracy cascading–avalanche of arrogant adiposity–finally coming to rest in a septic pool of effervescing excrement. Forever to serve as didactic deterrent to the disastrous destiny dictated by dissolute decadence.
‘The Burger; concentred all in self.
Lurching, shall forfeit fair renowned.
And triply engorged, shall fall down
Into the vice and lust from whence it spawned –
Uwept, unhonoured and forever unmourned.’
-Sir Wilted Snot
Not bad when read in Booji Boy’s voice.
Well, SOMETHING apparently did. I can’t even FIND it on a map…
Troll or off his meds. Or both.
You’re right. I thought I just had to orient it correctly…