2w ago

fliiiinnnnnggg.

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I always use a trebuchet to yeet babies.
- Really depends on the weight of the baby. A trebuchet can yeet a 300kg baby 90m, no Victorian yeet machine will come close.
  
  Chonky baby
- This would be lighter to travel with, though. No counterweights.
  
  You fill the counterweight with localy available ballast. What, have you never laid siege to a castle before?
Bring forward the baby artillery if you PLEASE sir.
- Is a cat acceptable?
This doesn’t look safe. With rungs that far apart, a baby could get its head stuck between the bars.
- I think you're supposed to line the basket. It's just unsanitary otherwise.
Old and busted: catapult
New hotness: yeet machine
I like juggling, so I'll take two.
Ye olde Yoter
- Did you know that in old English, Þ þ was a thorn, which was pronounced “th” like the word the. In Middle English, the shape of the thorn got, well, sloppy, because people are lazy as shit, and eventually took on the shape Y.
  Thus, when you see a sign in “old English” (actually Middle English at best) that says ye olde shoppe, you should read it boringly as “the old shop”.
  Off I go to ruin more days!
  
  Yeah but what vowel set were they using in ye olde timesy shoppe? The Great Vowel Movement (previously known as the Great Vowel Shift) changed things.
  
  i still feel like there's a difference between "the old shop" and "the olde shoppe"
  like it's not a big difference, it's like you're just saying it with a strange dialect
Finally, a better way to catapult sacrifices to the Volcano Gods!!!
https://youtu.be/LB5Wlv_AHpg
Lemmy feeling a bit too local now...

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