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Explosions in the Sky in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

This is definitely Numberwang!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

You have to find Kenneth to answer that question.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I was absolutely expecting this song. I'm always expecting this song, but especially when I am fast asleep. The cries of the carrots...

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The Spring and the Plum (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've spent most of my free time in the last day attempting to track down more information about the stained glass I shared yesterday. There isn't very much out there other than sites trying to sell reproductions in all sorts of forms, but it seems that the work is a collaboration between Mucha and the Mauméjean brothers, who were a family of stained glass makers in Spain. The stained glass seems to be referred to as "The Spring and the Plum," while Mucha's work it is based upon is called "Primrose and Feather."

So glad so many enjoyed my previous post, and I hope you enjoy this one too!

Look at his little helmet in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

He is clearly engaged in the great ritual dance known as....

The Macarena!!

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Stained glass detail, Mucha, Barcelona (lemmy.world)

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Edited to a better link.

The "one bad apple" claims always ignore the many many many bad apples that exist in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Yes, my comment was an oversimplification in light of the topic. The adage is supposed to teach you to get rid of the bad apple to save the barrel.

What do I give my bad dad for father's day? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I think something like 15 would be the perfect "fuck you" amount for something beyond Starbucks and fast food. Enough to make it worth going, but only really enough for an appetizer.

Or be really horrible and just take one of the 50 or 100 ones for a decent restaurant, and just don't get it activated. He won't find out until they try to run it, I think.

This might be the most horrible idea I've ever had.

The "one bad apple" claims always ignore the many many many bad apples that exist in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 53 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)

The phrase is "One bad apple spoils the barrel."

Literally means all are bad if one is bad.

Edit: verb simplification.

Cursedsicles in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Red bean anything is awesome.

But those are clearly baked beans.

1200s London ruled 🔥 in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

There were curfews in walled towns like London: all citizens were expected to be home with their fires out once the church bells tolled nine. Or maybe it was eight. Anyway, to walk at night then was nefarious in itself, as there was absolutely nothing worth doing that wasn't nefarious after curfew.

1200s London ruled 🔥 in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

What a crazy context for this excerpt. Clear example of the depth of anti-semitism during this time period.

It is "A Jew" telling a Christian boy where to go in England once he gets there. While the boy thinks the Jew is looking out for him, he is actually sending him to be butchered by the Jews in Winchester, which he characterizes as the most moral place in England after he goes on and on about the wretchedness of all the other places in England the boy might come upon. He gives the boy a note to show to the Jews in Winchester, "written in Hebrew" so the boy doesn't actually know what it says. Boy gets to Winchester and does as told, then soon disappears. Clearly he's been killed by the Jews, but why they had to go to so much trouble to get him to Winchester is unclear.