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Irish museum solves mystery of Bronze Age axe heads delivered in porridge box

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Post by secondcoming »

ThaDood wrote: post #60
mandmandam wrote: post #22

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Milk is preferable, with a splash of water. I use oat milk, but water is fine in a pinch. I add such a small amount of salt that it may as well be a placebo. Here are my hard-earned porridge cooking tips, not that you asked: Start soaking the oats the night before in the pot you'll cook them in (in the fridge if you're using dairy). This softens the oats and reduces cooking time by a lot. First thing in the morning,…

Do you add milk or sugar to your tea? Or both? Or neither?! What's your favorite biscuit. Asking as a yank who likes tea and biscuits.

Both milk and sugar are to taste, and if someone offers you tea they'll ask how you like your tea.

There's no right or wrong answer here

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Post by profsummergig »

tsimionescu wrote: post #50
profsummergig wrote: post #12

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So much will never be found thanks to this law.

Generally, the later we excavate something, the greater the amount of historical information we'll be able to get from that excavation. Of course, this has to be balanced with some amount of excavation to actually improve those methods, and with enough information being gleaned today to keep us interested in actually funding the practice of archaeology for tomorrow.

Templo Mayor. Mexico. They discovered it recently next to the big famous Cathedral.

They flattened a few city blocks to excavate it.

But they will never flatten the cathedral, or other large famous buildings in the vicinity.

Point is: the longer we wait to excavate, the more the likelihood that something's been constructed on top.

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Post by tsimionescu »

profsummergig wrote: post #72
tsimionescu wrote: post #50

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Generally, the later we excavate something, the greater the amount of historical information we'll be able to get from that excavation. Of course, this has to be balanced with some amount of excavation to actually improve those methods, and with enough information being gleaned today to keep us interested in actually funding the practice of archaeology for tomorrow.

Templo Mayor. Mexico. They discovered it recently next to the big famous Cathedral. They flattened a few city blocks to excavate it. But they will never flatten the cathedral, or other large famous buildings in the vicinity. Point is: the longer we wait to excavate, the more the likelihood that something's been constructed on top.

For one thing, you can require an archeological survey before starting the build, as part of the normal permitting process. And this is especially important (and easy to enforce) if the building requires excavation anyway.

But secondly, as long as the building doesn't destroy the site (say, the ruins/remains are buried deep enough), then there is no problem, and the logic still applies: it will be found some few decades or centuries later, so chances are there will be more that can be gleaned from it then.

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Post by 082349872349872 »

defrost wrote: post #68
VagabundoP wrote: post #61

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I’ll fight you on behalf of Flahavans. Meet me. Porridge is serious business.

Ba Mhaith Liom Bruíon le d'Athair

Is cuma liom sa foc faoi aon gharda

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Post by darby_nine »

s_dev wrote: post #55
darby_nine wrote: post #7

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Idk about this specific thing, but this is much simpler than it sounds if it operates like other anthropology. Ritualistic means intentional, and supernatural means symbolically meaningful. In other words, this is less of a specific claim and more of an "idk but they were clearly up to something ".

I interpret supernatural to mean religious in this context. I don't think this find will take on an X-Files direction.

> I interpret supernatural to mean religious in this context.

TBH I have no clue what the word "religious" means outside of abrahamic faiths. Might as well be a meaningless word. Anyway, the supernatural certainly encompasses many aspects of religion without implying anything about aliens.

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Post by defrost »

082349872349872 wrote: post #74
defrost wrote: post #68

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Ba Mhaith Liom Bruíon le d'Athair

Is cuma liom sa foc faoi aon gharda

Cúis snámhphointe mé díreach cosúil le féileacán

( agus is féidir liom rith ar nós na gaoithe )

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Post by 082349872349872 »

defrost wrote: post #76
082349872349872 wrote: post #74

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Is cuma liom sa foc faoi aon gharda

Cúis snámhphointe mé díreach cosúil le féileacán ( agus is féidir liom rith ar nós na gaoithe )

> snámh cosúil le féileacán (cealg ann cosúil le beach) —MA

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082349872349872 wrote: post #77
defrost wrote: post #76

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Cúis snámhphointe mé díreach cosúil le féileacán ( agus is féidir liom rith ar nós na gaoithe )

> snámh cosúil le féileacán ( cealg ann cosúil le beach ) —MA

MA can stand his ground against the gardaí; Tá capall amuigh agam (Breathnaíonn sé cosúil le Billie Piper tar éis leath-unsa cóc)

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Post by 082349872349872 »

defrost wrote: post #78
082349872349872 wrote: post #77

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> snámh cosúil le féileacán ( cealg ann cosúil le beach ) —MA

MA can stand his ground against the gardaí; Tá capall amuigh agam (Breathnaíonn sé cosúil le Billie Piper tar éis leath-unsa cóc)

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, Horse Outside is great craic!

(between the Rubberbandits and Kneecap, it seems like fashionable irish lads are already prepared to live in a camera-full* surveillance society? After all, when you're riding a pony you can give the gait analyst one of these \/m.)

On the other hoof, the shout outs:

Tir Na Og - https://www.skysports.com/racing/form-profiles/horse/138973/...

are kind of depressing:

Shergar - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shergar

* On the white hoof, Kevin Mallon is confident enough nothing will ever link him to Shergar that his face appears all over the Sun. If something should cross my desk before the Devil calls him in, I do know someone with swine.

EDIT: at least the patrimachy was an excellent chaser; nice references both to Philly's finest and the Black "tis but a scratch" Knight.

Also, I don't know if sex ratios have anything to do with it, but rural** russian bridesmaids may be less selective than the irish lasses***; in this vid even Subaru guy pulls: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuSf1UcFRq0

** I've forgotten the details but IIRC it was Ershov visiting Dijkstra — so D takes E for a hike out in the dutch countryside, and E says "aha, you westerners do actually have a few unpaved roads, too"

*** as the irish lasses in my circles are fond of full and frank discussions with sticks, before fighting any of their do stumpa asail fathers I think I'd want "not a rock for twenty mile, not a clump of tree, but covered a man of my own men with his rifle cocked on his knee."

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Post by defrost »

082349872349872 wrote: post #79
defrost wrote: post #78

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MA can stand his ground against the gardaí; Tá capall amuigh agam (Breathnaíonn sé cosúil le Billie Piper tar éis leath-unsa cóc)

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, Horse Outside is great craic! (between the Rubberbandits and Kneecap, it seems like fashionable irish lads are already prepared to live in a camera-full* surveillance society? After all, when you're riding a pony you can give the gait analyst one of these \/m.) On the other hoof, the shout outs: Tir Na Og - https://www.skysports.com/racing/form-profiles/horse/138973/... are kind of depressing…

Does it get more rural than the Republic of Sakha, where cow shed ownership(a) is enough for cover of local edition GQ magazine(b) (no Subaru required!)

a) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95zh-Cgoutg

b) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ax0hL4WIAs

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