Ivana Olson @hazeymarie - Tumblr Blog

I love how humans have literally not changed throughout history like the graffiti from Pompeii has people from hundreds of years ago writing stuff like “Marcus is gay” “I fucked a girl here” “Julius your mum wishes she was with me” and leonardo da vinci’s assistants drew dicks in their notebooks just for the banter and mozart created a piece called “kiss my ass” so when people wish for ‘today’s generation’ to be like ‘how people used to’ then we’re already there buddy we’ve always been

charlesoberonn

The Hagia Sophia has inscriptions that were considered sacred for centuries until they were deciphered in the 70s to be Nordic runes saying “Halfdan wrote this”

terminallydepraved

my old english prof told us that theres a cave in Scandinavia where a viking gratified some runes like 14 feet up on the wall and when they finally reached it all it translated into was “this is very high”

loremerchant

Ancient Shitposting

Now on the History Channel

self-critical-automaton

‘People have literally just always been people’ is genuinely my favorite fact about the world

skaletal-deactivated20190721

“Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.” - Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106 BC - 43 BC

super-star-destroyer

Common dog names have literally not changed in 3,000 years.

mariasgf

bloodlustritual

livingdan-gerously

Punk’s not dead; it’s got 9 lives.

teallikethecolor

I have never reblogged anything faster. I would make this my icon if I weren’t so dedicated to the teal.

dracofidus-deactivated20200523

Needless to say, I am HORRIFIED.

thecottageinthedark

‘All that you need to know about boars can be summed up in the fact that if you wish to hunt them, you must have a specially made boar spear. This spear has a crosspiece on it to prevent the boar from charging the length of the spear, driving it all the way through his own body, to savage the human holding the other end.’

-Boar and Apples, T. Kingfisher

dracofidus-deactivated20200523

fuck OFF

palindromordnilap-deactivated20

Note that pigs are also HUGE. So, yes, they ARE slightly larger pigs.

dracofidus-deactivated20200523

So I grew up in the city and have never seen a pig in real life and I just googled it and WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS

I thought they were like labrador sized, like, fat labradors, not mini-cows.

tokensouthernbelle

every time I see this post there are more people discovering how fuck off huge pigs actually are and I love it I thought this was a thing everyone knew but clearly not and I’m laughing

stillwaterseas

This is me with our Tamworth boar, a heritage breed closer to their wild cousins than the Yorkshire above. I am a fully grown, average sized human. He was a gentle sweetie who, sadly, is no longer with us. His name was Mr. Big.

dracofidus-deactivated20200523

FUCK OFF

coelasquid

Forever laffin’ at people who don’t understand how enormous, terrifying, and tenacious wild boar are.

They’re like if bears had knives protruding from their closed mouths and Didn’t Know When To Quit. Their survival instincts when they’re wounded aren’t “run away and minimize injury” it’s “take the thing that hurt you down with you” They also make sounds like someone crossed a pig with an alligator.

Their head and neck alone can be like the size of an entire human torso.

Also forever laffin’ at people who think pigs are tiny, ‘cause we designed those things can get in the neighbourhood of a thousand pounds in ideal circumstances.

It’s like when people assume Tuna must be small because they’ve only ever experienced them in hockey puck form.

obstinate-nocturna

Like seriously why the fuck y'all think everyone FREAKED THE HELL OUT when Dorothy fell into the pig pen in Wizard of Oz? It’s because pigs are HUGE and weigh a shitton and would crush her in an instant.

proserpine-in-phases

also dont they eat like, basically anything?

justabrowncoatedwench

YUP. Pigs will eat people, if given the chance. They dgaf.

wolverinequeen

That’s why boar hunters use a team of very tenacious dogs to hold the boar so they can be speared without fucking you up. The dogs wear body armour.

I’ve heard stories of people shooting boars, and if it didn’t kill them, it just pissed them off.

andthentheywilleatthestars

how the hell did we ever domesticate these things?

petermorwood

…“how the hell did we ever domesticate these things?”

Very carefully, I would imagine.

WIld boar babies are rather cute, like living humbugs…

…but the adults and their ferocity have been associated with warriors for thousands of years, from Mycenaean Greece (a helmet made from sections of boar tusk)…

…through Celtic Europe (reconstructed carnyx war-horns and standards)…

…Ancient Rome (the crest of Legion 20 “Valeria Victrix”). A couple more legions also used a boar as their crest - I wonder did they squabble over which was the “right” one the way a couple of Swiss cantons had a little war over whose bear was best…?

…then Anglo-Saxon and pre-Viking helmet crests…

…right up to the late Middle Ages (here the white boar badge of Richard Duke of Gloucester, later Richard III of England)…

…and the blue boar badge of the Earl of Oxford, more usually represented by the De Vere arms, quarterly gules and or, in the first a molet argent.

After Richard was defeated at Bosworth in 1485, there was a run on blue paint as inn-signs were changed to reflect new loyalties since Oxford was on the winning side…

And pigs will definitely eat people.

It gets mentioned in the movie “Snatch”, the book/movie “Hannibal” and the webcomic “Lackadaisy Cats”, among numerous other fictional sources, and IRL it’s suspected to be the reason why numerous missing persons have stayed missing.

More here (another comment to this same OP) and here (slightly different).

Here’s some boar-hunting armour for dogs, ancient…

…and modern…

…and the modern one looks very like a simple style of ancient…

dduane

So when Odysseus’s old nurse recognizes him by the scar he got from the boar-tusk slash that almost killed him… now you get the resonance.

bookoisseur

This post…it just really went places on me.

wilwheaton

I hope you read this entire post, and that it made your entire day so much better, even if just for a few moments, like it did mine.

notantiprincess-deactivated2016

If gender neutral clothes are only made for and marketed to the parents of little girls, it is less a sign of gender equality and more an indication of the misogyny that is so ambient in our culture. There is such a devaluing of anything traditionally feminine that we’d rather chuck it out triumphantly than ever demean our boys with it.

Audra Williams, ‘Everybody in dresses: Why does gender neutral clothing always mean ‘boy’ clothes for girls?’

I love everything about this article.

(via notantiprincess)

tigerliliesinthebathtub

GUYS. Please watch this show.

itswalky

happy columbus day

totallyfubar

Pro tip for adulting: being late isn’t a death sentence for 95% of things. All you gotta do is call the moment you realize you’re gonna be late, apologize, and then give another small apology when you get there. The thing people really don’t like about lateness is that it seems like the other person doesn’t value their time, and since calling shows that you value their time, that leaves only the mild inconvenience of waiting a bit for them to deal with

llcoolade

this is 100% true. Calling ahead to let them know you’ll be late is 100000x better than just showing up late without any notice. Everyone has been late before so most of the time they’ll understand being late. Just don’t make a habit of it

therodentqueen

This isn’t just for jobs, etc. Do this when you’re meeting with friends and family, too.

politicalprof

It’s about respect. Calling demonstrates it. It goes a long, long way, at least if it’s a once-in-a-while thing …

Has your anxiety ever made you look up symptoms of anxiety to verify that you're experiencing them properly because you're that worried that someone's going to call you out on faking it?