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3,200-year-old Egyptian tablet records excuses for why people missed work

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Re: 3,200-year-old Egyptian tablet records excuses for why people missed work

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Post by cryptonector »

jjtheblunt wrote: post #156
reaperducer wrote: post #37

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I second the shoe-shaking ritual. Even if you keep your shoes inside. When I lived in the desert, the neighbor had work done in his yard, and every scorpion from his property moved into mine. One day I found the cat eating a scorpion in the living room. Rushed him to the emergency cat vet place, and was told that cats aren't bothered by scorpions or their stings. But don't make crunchy, meaty scorpions part of a regu…

the vets here in Arizona say that of course cats are vulnerable to stings, but people claim that cats are "immune" because they heard it from someone else, not a vet. Anyway, the veterinarian told us that cats are generally so fast to notice and slap the shit out of scorpions that they kill scorpions...without being stung. One of our feline family members got stung and let out a big OWWWWWW then was licking her paw f…

Insert cat-reading-newspaper-thinking-I-need-to-get-myself-a-cat.png meme.

Re: 3,200-year-old Egyptian tablet records excuses for why people missed work

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Post by cryptonector »

LanceJones wrote: post #12

We really are the same people. No measurable difference in IQ (as well as that can be "measured"). Only knowledge (some gained for us; some lost, too) and context are different. The tablet is a cool reminder of this.

Well, lead poisoning levels have varied by region and time, and IQ definitely does vary with lead poisoning levels.

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Post by reustle »

Hendrikto wrote: post #172
beeforpork wrote: post #162

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The exact way of getting stung by a scorpion while peeing would be most interesting -- I honestly cannot imagine the exact mechanics. A bee, a wasp, OK, I can imagine. A scorpion cannot fly, so how did it get so close?

I guess the scorpion must have been on the wall.

Who pees that close to a wall though? Yikes

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Post by wly_cdgr »

gregcrv wrote: post #250
dleslie wrote: post #237

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> (The bosses probably talked about how back in the day when their ancestors built the pyramids, workers were much tougher and dedicated) They likely didn't. The Egyptians recorded many things, including excuses for missing work, with incredible detail. They never once recorded how they built the pyramids. Either religious/spiritual/ritualistic reasons prevented them from doing so, or they didn't build them. Either w…

This is not true. https://www.history.com/news/egypts-oldest-papyri-detail-gre... There are plenty or records about the pyramid constructions, it was also proven that they were built by a paid voluntary workforce rather than slaves like most people believe.

Just cos they were technically paid don't mean they weren't de facto slaves

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Post by downrightmike »

spiralx wrote: post #223
jamesfisher wrote: post #198

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cat excuses | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn 67 ILL 49 WITH HIS BOSS 17 BREWING BEER 13 WITH AAPEHTI 8 WITH THE SCRIBE 6 MAKING REMEDIES FOR THE SCRIBE’S WIFE 5 WRAPPING (THE CORPSE OF) HIS MOTHER 5 OFFERING TO THE GOD 5 HIS WIFE WAS BLEEDING 5 FETCHING STONE FOR THE SCRIBE 4 WITH KHONS MAKING REMEDIES 4 SUFFERING WITH HIS EYE 4 OFF ABSENT 4 HIS DAUGHTER WAS BLEEDING 3 WITH HOREMWIA 3 WITH HIS BOSS DITTO 3 LIBATING TO HIS…

A lot of those are related to death: 5 WRAPPING (THE CORPSE OF) HIS MOTHER 2 WRAPPING (THE CORPSE OF) HIS SON 1 EMBALMING HORMOSE 1 EMBALMING HIS BROTHER 1 MOURNING HIS SON 3 LIBATING TO HIS FATHER 13 and I suspect most of these: 8 WITH THE SCRIBE 1 OFF ABSENT WITH THE SCRIBE 5 FETCHING STONE FOR THE SCRIBE 2 FETCHING STONE FOR QENHERKHEPSHEF 1 LIBATING FOR HIS SON 1 LIBATING FOR HIM 1 LIBATING 2 BURYING THE GOD 21 a…

Brewing beer and making remedies may may not be mutually exclusive as ancient beer had natural antibiotics like tetracycline: https://www.wired.com/2010/09/antibiotic-beer/

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Post by dylan604 »

gibspaulding wrote: post #133
dylan604 wrote: post #86

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Don't forget that the $promisedLand was already inhabited, so you have to kill every man, woman, child before you can have it. What's that? More questioning my authority? Let's see if 40 years in the desert strengthens your faith.

That time we listened to a bush and ended up wandering around the desert without a clear exit strategy..

Sounds like a Nostradamus prediction where it was written in code, so people thought about a literal bush speaking. In reality, we see what was actually foretold panned out, but nobody wants to admit it.

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Post by dennis_jeeves1 »

tigerlily wrote: post #130
ARandomerDude wrote: post #70

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Interesting that the dates are "Month 3 of Summer, Day 24" etc. The curious bit to me being the enduring use of 4 distinct seasons, when there are obviously other ways to mark a year. Is anyone aware of a culture that did/does not have exactly 4 seasons?

I once heard Canadians in Winnipeg joke there were but two seasons, Winter and Construction. I think this was in reference to road maintenance. In NZ these days I feel like we have two: Drought and Mudslide.

Actually it's 4: 1)Winter 2)More winter 3)Still winter and 4)Construction.

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Post by nickduggets »

thepasswordis wrote: post #218
jamesfisher wrote: post #198

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cat excuses | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn 67 ILL 49 WITH HIS BOSS 17 BREWING BEER 13 WITH AAPEHTI 8 WITH THE SCRIBE 6 MAKING REMEDIES FOR THE SCRIBE’S WIFE 5 WRAPPING (THE CORPSE OF) HIS MOTHER 5 OFFERING TO THE GOD 5 HIS WIFE WAS BLEEDING 5 FETCHING STONE FOR THE SCRIBE 4 WITH KHONS MAKING REMEDIES 4 SUFFERING WITH HIS EYE 4 OFF ABSENT 4 HIS DAUGHTER WAS BLEEDING 3 WITH HOREMWIA 3 WITH HIS BOSS DITTO 3 LIBATING TO HIS…

Wow this really does tell a story. His mom and his son both died.

Everyone he ever met died. Now the story is more sinister!

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Post by azuredragon »

jetbooster wrote: post #254
kogus wrote: post #217

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Cleopatra was closer to the moon landings them to the building of the pyramids!

She can't have been that far away, didn't she live in Egypt? I'm fairly sure the moon is always further away

What if you compare the coordinates in the galactic frame at their respective times?
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