LopensLeftArm@sh.itjust.works to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agoTIL that a bunch of medieval manuscripts featured illustrations of knights fighting giant snails, and no one knows whywww.bbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square117fedilinkarrow-up1601arrow-down115
arrow-up1586arrow-down1external-linkTIL that a bunch of medieval manuscripts featured illustrations of knights fighting giant snails, and no one knows whywww.bbc.comLopensLeftArm@sh.itjust.works to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agomessage-square117fedilink
minus-squareInfiniteFlow@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up105·2 years agoThe ones with the rabbits are pretty messed up as well!
minus-squareLEM 1689@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up56·2 years agoAhhh…this explains the rabbit in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
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minus-squareKlear@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down1·2 years agoThat movie is shockingly historically accurate.
minus-squareHubi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23·2 years agoThat’s the kind of thing I doodle in my notepad when I’m bored during a call.
minus-squareSpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·2 years agoStop. I can only get so erect.
minus-squareThe Barto@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·2 years agoImagine getting beaten with a stick by a rabbit as his friend robs you, while your friend draws it for historical archive.
minus-squarejordanlund@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·2 years agoHe’s not robbing the guy, he’s peeling the skin off his foot(!)
minus-squareThe Barto@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·2 years ago he’s peeling the skin off his foot To which he has no ownership of, so he is still robbing him, just not for material objects.
minus-squarethanksforallthefish@literature.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 years agoHmm, any connection to the “lucky rabbit’s foot” thing, or is tgat a modern invention ?
minus-squarejordanlund@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 years agoOoh, that’s a good point! Origins apparently go back to 600 BC: https://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/12/rabbits-foot-considered-lucky/
minus-squareHerbal Gamer@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 years agoOh that’s much better.
minus-squarejaybone@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 years ago“Did you get a good look at the suspects?” “Not really. But fortunately my manuscript illustrator was there.”
minus-squarejaybone@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 years agoSo they fuck the rabbits and fight the snails?
The ones with the rabbits are pretty messed up as well!
Ahhh…this explains the rabbit in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
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That movie is shockingly historically accurate.
That’s the kind of thing I doodle in my notepad when I’m bored during a call.
I’m concerned.
I’m aroused.
I’m concerned again.
Stop. I can only get so erect.
Imagine getting beaten with a stick by a rabbit as his friend robs you, while your friend draws it for historical archive.
He’s not robbing the guy, he’s peeling the skin off his foot(!)
To which he has no ownership of, so he is still robbing him, just not for material objects.
Hmm, any connection to the “lucky rabbit’s foot” thing, or is tgat a modern invention ?
Ooh, that’s a good point!
Origins apparently go back to 600 BC:
https://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/12/rabbits-foot-considered-lucky/
Oh that’s much better.
“Did you get a good look at the suspects?”
“Not really. But fortunately my manuscript illustrator was there.”
So they fuck the rabbits and fight the snails?