Posted on 12/20/2021 6:30:40 AM PST by Red Badger
Well I saw it on “The Vikings” so OF COURSE, it was possible...LOL
Yeah, much better. I also like The Red Queen, the White Princess and my favorite...The Last Kingdom which keeps getting pushed back thanks the glow-bull scamdemic.
I enjoyed the White Queen. Haven't gotten around to watching the companion shows yet. Will soon. I might have to give Last Kingdom another try. I think I lost interest a few episodes in, but sometimes this happens when I get distracted. I gave up early on both Ozark and Better Call Saul only to give them another shot later and really enjoyed them tremendously.
In a related note, Amazon's "Wheel of Time" is a giant woke suckfest with crappy characters and cheap costumes.
No, you’re not mean, just clean, LOL!
Good hygiene is one of the reasons our life expectancy is higher than it was back then. I’m just wondering if COVID isn’t going to turn us all into Howard Hughs’s…😷
“In the sagas, the blood eagle is depicted as a way for the victim’s relatives to reclaim their lost honor.”
And this cruelty is still practiced in many parts of the world, even here in the US, in the form of “honor killings” especially of daughters who have an opinion about who they want to marry and act on it.
The thought of the fingernails alone creeps me out!
In other words, the headline is a lie. Because the "Blood Eagle," as performed on the TV show "Vikings," requires that the victim not cry out while the lungs are removed from the chest cavity and piled up on their shoulders. Which wouldn't be much of a challenge if the victim died before they got them extricated from the ribcage.
Every hillbilly who's ever processed a deer carcass knows it's possible to separate the ribs from the spine with a cutting edge and a mallet. It didn't take "a study" to figure that out. The trick is prolonging the suffering so the victims can redeem themselves by enduring silently and stoically and in that act of bravery gain admission into Valhalla.
It's equally obvious that even if you removed the lungs without killing them, they would suffocate in seconds with their lungs on their shoulders because the bronchi are pliable and would kink and/or collapse if bent to such an acute angle.
This article must be some sort of woke joke.
I think ancient social skills led to short life expectancy. :^)
The Celts and Vikings were famous for being fastidiously clean.
I think the ‘added tv crud’ is just to dehumanize them.
The Aztecs and Mayans made Vikings look like squeamish pacifists.
Goriest, most sadistic “culture” ever.
It’s not just this one show, it’s any show or movie that depicts the common people of the Medieval or Dark Ages as being dirty and filthy. Why does Hollywood think that that is necessary?..............
When I first traveled in Europe in the 60s, oh, my, how the Parisian French stunk! If you stayed in a small hotel, chances are you had to use coins to operate not only toilet stalls, but also the unreliably warm (not hot) showers (this also in Germany and Italy).
Not only the body odor and lack of deodorants, and women not shaving their armpits, but also the widespread use of unfiltered Gaulois cigarettes totally reeked. It was putrid. Add the outdoor rusting iron urinals, and when none was available, men peeing in public against any upright surface like dogs—we Amurrican college girls were appalled.
People out in the countryside were a lot cleaner, even farmers.
I have to admit I snorted with laughter reading your post...you’ve BEEN there!
Hey-just wanted to wish you and yours a very Merry Christmas, and a Happy, Healthy, and Prosperous year in 2022!
It is always nice chatting with you...:)
I think I agree. I believe the current Cartels are part of that “culture,” which is why they are so evil.
The very same good wishes and blessings to you and yours, rlmorel!!!
Probably because the “common people” remind them of us.
The scent of death, the rotting Japanese corpses and the mountains of unburied feces on Pelialu in the Pacific is said to have driven men mad. The island is hard coral in its entirety which made digging impossible so the Japanese dead just laid there where they fell until long after the fighting was done. In the hot Sun. The blo fly population exploded and that as well, drove men over the edge.
Funny...as I posted that, it was exactly what I was thinking of as I wrote, but I thought it might detract from the point I was making.
I think that was discussed in “With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa” where the author said you simply could not escape the smell.
How people went through that, I cannot imagine.
Interestingly, many of those same Marines who had to fight on that island in 110-120 degree temperatures, were recalled in Korea and had to fight the Communist Chinese around the Chosin Reservoir where the temperatures got as cold as 30-40 degrees below zero.
Those were men.
it was in all the gory details, the writters wanted to get everything as correct as possible.
Even chicken butchering leaves you fairly dirty.
But a big portion of it is the idea that people did not bathe. Which of course, if you consider bathing as soaking in a big tub or having a shower, they did not.
Water is very heavy and toting enough water for a big tub would have been reserved for the wealthy.
But a good steam followed by a plunge in cold water or even just having a couple of buckets of well water poured over you was more then possible for even the poor.
And bathing does more then just make you stink less, it keeps your skin whole and that keeps you healthy.
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