LopensLeftArm@sh.itjust.works to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agoTIL that a bunch of medieval manuscripts featured illustrations of knights fighting giant snails, and no one knows whywww.bbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square117fedilinkarrow-up1602arrow-down116
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 · 11 months agomessage-square117fedilink
minus-squareInfiniteFlow@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up105·11 months agoThe ones with the rabbits are pretty messed up as well!
minus-squarelemmy689@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up56·11 months agoAhhh…this explains the rabbit in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
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minus-squareKlear@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down1·11 months agoThat movie is shockingly historically accurate.
minus-squareHubi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23·11 months agoThat’s the kind of thing I doodle in my notepad when I’m bored during a call.
minus-squareSpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·11 months agoStop. I can only get so erect.
minus-squareThe Barto@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·11 months 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-up11·11 months agoHe’s not robbing the guy, he’s peeling the skin off his foot(!)
minus-squareThe Barto@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·11 months 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-up6·11 months agoHmm, any connection to the “lucky rabbit’s foot” thing, or is tgat a modern invention ?
minus-squarejordanlund@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·11 months 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-up6·11 months agoOh that’s much better.
minus-squarejaybone@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·11 months ago“Did you get a good look at the suspects?” “Not really. But fortunately my manuscript illustrator was there.”
minus-squarejaybone@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·11 months 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?