Did the title of this article remind anyone of that old movie about the life of a knight with the same title? A fun little satirical comedy. I found out the lead actor died at 28.
A knight's tale
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#12Did the title of this article remind anyone of that old movie about the life of a knight with the same title? A fun little satirical comedy. I found out the lead actor died at 28.
Im still salty about it. He had such a great career ahead of him. Welp, now I know what I’m doing tonight.
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#13Wait, two men jousting on sheep!? How does that even work.
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#14Supplying twelve fish pasties / moving fancy lances. Interesting that these are logistical type services. I wonder if logistics of sorts was a bigger concern then than we have now.
Although, I think carrying 12 fish pasties is not a great logistical feat. I bet the main goal is for the knight to perform a token act of service for their lord. A good-natured way to signal obedience.
I seem to remember that a big concern in feudalism was whether your underling lords would actually show up when you needed them. This kind of “bring me 12 pasties” thing is as you say most likely a token that he will show up in court and bring the pasties.
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#15Did the title of this article remind anyone of that old movie about the life of a knight with the same title? A fun little satirical comedy. I found out the lead actor died at 28.
Not sure if you're sarcastic or not, but it was Heath Ledger, and his death was all over the news when he died right after filming of his Joker role, even here in Europe.
I love that movie, my favorite. So fun how it starts with We Will Rock you to convey that this is not a historic accurate movie, but somewhat also accurately portrays how the event itself was like a rock concert at the time.
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#16Wait, two men jousting on sheep!? How does that even work.
It's just a picture, like the tiny knights fighting snails. Not something that happened.
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#17Did the title of this article remind anyone of that old movie about the life of a knight with the same title? A fun little satirical comedy. I found out the lead actor died at 28.
Not sure if you're sarcastic or not, but it was Heath Ledger, and his death was all over the news when he died right after filming of his Joker role, even here in Europe. I love that movie, my favorite. So fun how it starts with We Will Rock you to convey that this is not a historic accurate movie, but somewhat also accurately portrays how the event itself was like a rock concert at the time.
I was 8 or 9 so I wasn’t really paying much attention to news.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not sure if you're sarcastic or not, but it was Heath Ledger, and his death was all over the news when he died right after filming of his Joker role, even here in Europe. I love that movie, my favorite. So fun how it starts with We Will Rock you to convey that this is not a historic accurate movie, but somewhat also accurately portrays how the event itself was like a rock concert at the time.
I was 8 or 9 so I wasn’t really paying much attention to news.
That's fair, not sure if I had seen any of his movies when I was that age either. Maybe 10 Things I Hate About You. It was a big deal at the time and his death still makes me more sad than any other pop figure that's died in my lifetime, I think. I'm not sure if the death of River Phoenix felt the same way to his fans, but Heath Ledger made such a big impact for the short time he was with us... it's so sad that he didn't get more time to grow because he was one of the best.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Although, I think carrying 12 fish pasties is not a great logistical feat. I bet the main goal is for the knight to perform a token act of service for their lord. A good-natured way to signal obedience.
I seem to remember that a big concern in feudalism was whether your underling lords would actually show up when you needed them. This kind of “bring me 12 pasties” thing is as you say most likely a token that he will show up in court and bring the pasties.
So it's like a service health check periodically run by the load balancer :-D