You kinda love to see it, honestly. Though I’d feel better if I thought it meant the bird won his freedom. Same with bullfights, if the apologists want me to take them seriously, then any bull that kills the matador should be put out to pasture. Otherwise it’s not a fight, it’s just a ritualised execution.
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“Professor Lind’s study, based mainly on examples of the use of the term ‘civilian’ in old Spanish, English, Danish, Swedish, and French dictionaries,”
Which of those languages did Augustine write in? This article is why God invented toilets.
Lol there are bull fight apologists? I mean of course there are, but I’m just surprised anyone takes them seriously.
Birds are especially dangerous when you tie razor blades to their feet.
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Saw what had to be a hawk or falcon the other day on the ground that had murdered a pigeon. Was walking my dog and it picked up what was a big pigeon and took it to a rooftop nearby and gave us the stink eye.
Thought it was pretty cool.
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Also hockey players.
I hear you, brother
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I’m not a cockfight aficionado, so I have to ask. Is it standard to give the birds knives? I always just assumed that they pecked at each other or something.
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Yeah I’d also be interested to know from our resident cockfight aficionado.
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His research is about the medieval period. Augustine lived about 1,000 years earlier.
In cock fighting they attach razors or other sharp blades to the animals’ feet.
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Well, I guess I have learned something today.
My only exposure to cockfighting is that one episode of Seinfeld, and I don’t believe Little Jerry got any blades on his feet.
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So “the difference between soldier and civilian” is not so recent.
The shape of the CPAC stage is a nordic rune used by a division of the SS in the war. Nazis!
Yah, I dunno, man. I put this one in the same category as those fake tweets of Trump or Cruz or whoever that are worse than anything they ever said. Like there is already plenty of wildy offensive *#($ they plainly are saying and doing without folks having to make stuff up. Quit that crap.
All it does is give them fuel for when they find pics of the same shape used as the stage at the Democratic State convention of New Hampshire in 1954. “Look! The party that started the KKK are the ones who used that shape! They are the REAL nazis!”
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cock fighting spurs
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Grunching, but civilian/soldier thing has varied. The Romans had sorta professional soldiers. They sometimes had land/farms they had to worry about and that was an issue. Lotta feudal medieval Europe was different. You’d either be in a class that had the privilege of being “military” or just get grabbed on the way to the battle or left to do the work in the fields, whatever was necessary that day.
What is a civilian though? Is any person not in the military or government a civilian? Is a serf a civilian? I wouldn’t think so. I think it connotes at least recognition of some kind of civil rights/freedom - some kind of civil society.
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I would have guessed when undercooked.
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Way past it but I wanted to share my fighting history.
Was absurdly small, smallest dude in the grade at every school I was at. Didn’t get into too many fights.
Got into three fights. 5th grade, a kid rode his bike over to my front yard and said we had to fight over some girl. Shrug. I had moved their recently and was put into a regular class where unlike the school I had come from people didn’t like you if you answered everything. People hated me. But the cutest girl had a crush on me and this dude liked her. She used to just stare at me all day and I would avoid her. Not sure what 5th graders are supposed to do but I had no social skills then or now lol.
Anyways this dude was a lot bigger than me. Somehow I beat him up. No idea how. I guess he fucked around and found out. I guess I was supposed to get the girl? I couldn’t even talk to her.
A year later in the summer I got in a scrap with a younger kid defending my brother over some stupid argument at a neighborhood baseball game-- remember the days where you’d ride your bike around the neighborhood and knocking doors to gather up kids to play? Man I’m old.
Anyways this kid just destroyed me and wouldn’t stop punching me. It was just one-sided destruction. The area around my right eye was bruised forever and the orbital bone and cheekbones just hurt so bad. Fighting sucks.
Then there’s one that happened last year right before the pandemic. A guy at Costco was rude to me for no reason. Really inappropriately nasty over a supposed insignificant infraction that wasn’t even committed by me. I was flabbergasted and kind of stammered defending myself. Explained to him that I didn’t have anything to do with the situation and he answers, “duh…duh…duh…you’re a r***** anyways.”
I have a bad temper for one thing- when someone accuses me of agency over something that is accidental or that I didn’t do. I couldn’t let this stand (sigh). This dude was bigger and likely tougher than me.
I walked over to his cart and removed every item he had and tossed it on the ground while talking shit to him about his behavior the whole time, pure pop psychologizing. When I finished dumping his cart, I went right to him and said, “I have to go get a flu shot now, if I see you anywhere as I’m walking across the store to the exit, only one of us is going home today” plus a lot of other choice words.
This is incredibly stupid and inappropriate but this dude was shook and even though I could easily have been arrested for my behacior, the way he was acting it’s 90% he just goes around and bullies “weak” people in stores all the time and he deserves to run into a psycho.
I’ve been shoved to the ground as a soccer referee. I also got a dude red carded once when I should have been sent off. I actually clipped this guy pretty hard early in the game, it was a bad challenge but I didn’t do it on purpose. I should have been cautioned. I apologized to the dude immediately but for the entire rest of the game he took the most absurd cheap shots on me every time the ball was gone. It sucked because he was a lot better than me too so he would keep beating me and then kicking me.
About ten minutes left he went to ground and I stomped him, totally intentionally. Clueless ref didn’t see that but did see his wild kick out at me after and sent him off lol.
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