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By Ramyrez 2016-06-28 13:39:14
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Caitsith.Zahrah said: »
I don't want to derail in the Brexit thread:

Ramyrez said: »
I've gathered, actually. :3

Was it the Alice of Greece and Denmark and Mitford blurbs that gave it away?

You tell me how I'm suppose to find tales of actual cloak and dagger upheavals and nightstands adorned with pickled peni as a warning? ***is weird, man!

I don't even remember. I just recall it being a rather detailed discussion a while back.
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By Bahamut.Milamber 2016-06-28 13:45:42
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Please tell me that FIFA game image is photoshopped.
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By Bahamut.Milamber 2016-06-28 13:49:39
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Also, current ad on FFXIAH:
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By Ramyrez 2016-06-28 14:00:14
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Please tell me that FIFA game image is photoshopped.

Yeah. That's a Mass Effect dialogue wheel.
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By Caitsith.Zahrah 2016-06-28 14:00:54
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Bahamut.Milamber said: »
Caitsith.Zahrah said: »
You tell me how I'm suppose to find tales of actual cloak and dagger upheavals and nightstands adorned with pickled peni as a warning? ***is weird, man!
Here you go:
Start at 27:25

And there's one more deposit in the trivial knowledge memory bank for me.
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By Anna Ruthven 2016-06-28 14:01:41
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Why does the name Rasputin come to mind here?
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By Bahamut.Milamber 2016-06-28 14:03:00
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Ramyrez said: »
Bahamut.Milamber said: »
Please tell me that FIFA game image is photoshopped.

Yeah. That's a Mass Effect dialogue wheel.
Not sure if not knowing that is worse than knowing that.
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By Ramyrez 2016-06-28 14:03:32
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Why does the name Rasputin come to mind here?
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By Bahamut.Milamber 2016-06-28 14:06:01
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So, how many are scratching the FFXI itch right now?
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By Caitsith.Zahrah 2016-06-28 14:06:04
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Why does the name Rasputin come to mind here?

He, apparently, had a huge dong that was taken as a trophy of sorts, or so the story goes. This is another crazy Ruskie, whose name escapes me at the moment.

Russians and pickling man meat. Also, magnets.
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By Ramyrez 2016-06-28 14:09:23
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Rasputin the -- apparently -- hardest man to kill, ever.

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Grigori Rasputin, the patron saint of dying hard, was a mystic that lived with Tsar Nicholas II in the early 20th century. The tsar and his wife Alexandra believed that Rasputin had the power to heal their hemophiliac son Alexei, so they kept Rasputin around the house as sort of a turn of the century Kato Kaelin. Rasputin's influence was so heavy that anyone seeking an audience with the royal family had to consult with Rasputin first.

Rasputin, by all historical accounts, was overtly full of ***. He was a drunk and a lecher, and routinely accepted bribes from people seeking his guidance. Rasputin's dubious lifestyle arguably added to the diminishing support of the Royal family, which ultimately led to revolution (see Trotsky, above). And he was gutted by a prostitute in public in 1914, which we imagine must do wonders for your image.

After Rasputin recovered from the by-all-accounts gnarly stab wound delivered by the prostitute, a group of Russian nobles decided to finish the job by poisoning him to death with tainted wine and cake. History cannot agree whether any of the poison ever entered Rasputin's system (the poison in the cakes probably evaporated during baking), but this did little to diminish the conspirators' surprise when Rasputin didn't die.

So, Rasputin continued to hang out, eating cake, until one of the nobles finally grew impatient and shot Rasputin in the back. Content that he was dead, the murderers left the palace. One member of the party forgot his coat though, and when he returned to collect it, Rasputin sprang up from the floor like Skeet Ulrich in Scream and started strangling him.

The others arrived in time to shoot Rasputin three more times in the back, dropping him to the floor. But was he dead? *** no. He was still struggling to stand, so the conspirators clubbed the everloving ***out of him.

They wrapped Rasputin's body in a sheet and dumped him in the freezing Neva River. When they found Rasputin's body later, riddled with poison, gunshot holes and club wounds, they determined he had died... of hypothermia.

It was evident the *** had managed to partially claw his way out of his wrappings, and if he had done it a few minutes faster, he probably would have wound up on the assassins' doorstep, dripping wet and pissed off.

We're guessing the conspirators slept with the lights on every night for the rest of their lives.

Edit: Source, since Mal busted me.
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By Valefor.Sehachan 2016-06-28 14:11:12
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Caitsith.Zahrah said: »
Anna Ruthven said: »
Why does the name Rasputin come to mind here?

He, apparently, had a huge dong that was taken as a trophy of sorts, or so the story goes. This is another crazy Ruskie Czar, whose name escapes me at the moment.

Russians and pickling man meat. Also, magnets.
Reminds me of that movie with James Franco where the other guy wears a minotaur *** as trophy.
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By Bahamut.Milamber 2016-06-28 14:15:25
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Ramyrez said: »
Rasputin the -- apparently -- hardest man to kill, ever.

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Grigori Rasputin, the patron saint of dying hard, was a mystic that lived with Tsar Nicholas II in the early 20th century. The tsar and his wife Alexandra believed that Rasputin had the power to heal their hemophiliac son Alexei, so they kept Rasputin around the house as sort of a turn of the century Kato Kaelin. Rasputin's influence was so heavy that anyone seeking an audience with the royal family had to consult with Rasputin first.

Rasputin, by all historical accounts, was overtly full of ***. He was a drunk and a lecher, and routinely accepted bribes from people seeking his guidance. Rasputin's dubious lifestyle arguably added to the diminishing support of the Royal family, which ultimately led to revolution (see Trotsky, above). And he was gutted by a prostitute in public in 1914, which we imagine must do wonders for your image.

After Rasputin recovered from the by-all-accounts gnarly stab wound delivered by the prostitute, a group of Russian nobles decided to finish the job by poisoning him to death with tainted wine and cake. History cannot agree whether any of the poison ever entered Rasputin's system (the poison in the cakes probably evaporated during baking), but this did little to diminish the conspirators' surprise when Rasputin didn't die.

So, Rasputin continued to hang out, eating cake, until one of the nobles finally grew impatient and shot Rasputin in the back. Content that he was dead, the murderers left the palace. One member of the party forgot his coat though, and when he returned to collect it, Rasputin sprang up from the floor like Skeet Ulrich in Scream and started strangling him.

The others arrived in time to shoot Rasputin three more times in the back, dropping him to the floor. But was he dead? *** no. He was still struggling to stand, so the conspirators clubbed the everloving ***out of him.

They wrapped Rasputin's body in a sheet and dumped him in the freezing Neva River. When they found Rasputin's body later, riddled with poison, gunshot holes and club wounds, they determined he had died... of hypothermia.

It was evident the *** had managed to partially claw his way out of his wrappings, and if he had done it a few minutes faster, he probably would have wound up on the assassins' doorstep, dripping wet and pissed off.

We're guessing the conspirators slept with the lights on every night for the rest of their lives.
Why does that read like a Cracked article?
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By Caitsith.Zahrah 2016-06-28 14:39:46
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Okay. That was driving me nuts. Royal Babylon is a scathing read, by the way. I have no idea where my copy is.

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Although Czar Peter I was so open regarding his promiscuity that he thought nothing of fondling the breast’s of Empress Catherine’s ladies-in-waiting in front of her, and made no secret of having fathered countless *** with them and various other women besides, he was genuinely infuriated to discover that his wife was having an affair with his court chamberlain, William Mons. In general, Peter preferred that his loved ones confess their crimes to him before he had them tortured and executed. When he had the chamberlain arrested on trumped up bribery charges and executed in front of Catherine and himself, he was hoping she would make a full confession right then and there. When she didn’t, the Czar decided to take more drastic action.

According to author Karl Shaw in his book, Royal Babylon, Peter next had Catherine’s dead lover’s head cut off, pickled in a glass jar, then placed next to Catherine’s bed. In spite of weeks going by with William Mons’s head being the last thing she saw at night before falling asleep and the first thing she beheld when she awoke, Catherine still maintained her cool. Finally tiring of his wife’s intractability, Peter had the head removed from her bedroom and, outwardly at least, forgot all about the affair. It should be added that this was not the only time during their marriage that Peter subjected Catherine to his fascination with severed human body parts. Upon receiving as a gift a preserved severed human penis from the Prussian king, Peter made Catherine kiss it; threatening to have her beheaded if she didn’t comply. She granted his request. The author has been unable to determine if this happened before or after the severed head incident.

This isn't Catherine the Great, just a heads-up. I got the pickled head and penis mixed up.

Anyway, regal history is just chock full of strange.
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By Bismarck.Misao 2016-06-28 14:41:50
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Bahamut.Milamber said: »
So, how many are scratching the FFXI itch right now?
I did a few weeks ago.
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By Ramyrez 2016-06-28 14:45:39
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Bahamut.Milamber said: »
Why does that read like a Cracked article?

There's a very good reason for that.
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By Jassik 2016-06-28 14:50:51
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Bahamut.Milamber said: »
Please tell me that FIFA game image is photoshopped.

Yeah. That's a Mass Effect dialogue wheel.

EA is the publisher of both. /tinfoil
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By Ramyrez 2016-06-28 14:54:36
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Jassik said: »
Ramyrez said: »
Bahamut.Milamber said: »
Please tell me that FIFA game image is photoshopped.

Yeah. That's a Mass Effect dialogue wheel.

EA is the publisher of both. /tinfoil

I did have that thought, but I let it go.
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By Ramyrez 2016-06-28 14:57:33
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Okay. That was driving me nuts. Royal Babylon is a scathing read, by the way. I have no idea where my copy is.

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Although Czar Peter I was so open regarding his promiscuity that he thought nothing of fondling the breast’s of Empress Catherine’s ladies-in-waiting in front of her, and made no secret of having fathered countless *** with them and various other women besides, he was genuinely infuriated to discover that his wife was having an affair with his court chamberlain, William Mons. In general, Peter preferred that his loved ones confess their crimes to him before he had them tortured and executed. When he had the chamberlain arrested on trumped up bribery charges and executed in front of Catherine and himself, he was hoping she would make a full confession right then and there. When she didn’t, the Czar decided to take more drastic action.

According to author Karl Shaw in his book, Royal Babylon, Peter next had Catherine’s dead lover’s head cut off, pickled in a glass jar, then placed next to Catherine’s bed. In spite of weeks going by with William Mons’s head being the last thing she saw at night before falling asleep and the first thing she beheld when she awoke, Catherine still maintained her cool. Finally tiring of his wife’s intractability, Peter had the head removed from her bedroom and, outwardly at least, forgot all about the affair. It should be added that this was not the only time during their marriage that Peter subjected Catherine to his fascination with severed human body parts. Upon receiving as a gift a preserved severed human penis from the Prussian king, Peter made Catherine kiss it; threatening to have her beheaded if she didn’t comply. She granted his request. The author has been unable to determine if this happened before or after the severed head incident.

This isn't Catherine the Great, just a heads-up. I got the pickled head and penis mixed up.

Anyway, regal history is just chock full of strange.

Yeah, some of the historical stuff is awesome.

Modern-day royals just don't interest me much. Like you said...it's basically just celeb silliness. At least there's some history to it, not just "my rich hotel investor dad told me I could be pretty and not actually work."
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By Ragnarok.Hevans 2016-06-28 15:05:38
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plans for the fourth?
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By Caitsith.Zahrah 2016-06-28 15:21:51
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Ramyrez said: »
Caitsith.Zahrah said: »
Okay. That was driving me nuts. Royal Babylon is a scathing read, by the way. I have no idea where my copy is.

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Although Czar Peter I was so open regarding his promiscuity that he thought nothing of fondling the breast’s of Empress Catherine’s ladies-in-waiting in front of her, and made no secret of having fathered countless *** with them and various other women besides, he was genuinely infuriated to discover that his wife was having an affair with his court chamberlain, William Mons. In general, Peter preferred that his loved ones confess their crimes to him before he had them tortured and executed. When he had the chamberlain arrested on trumped up bribery charges and executed in front of Catherine and himself, he was hoping she would make a full confession right then and there. When she didn’t, the Czar decided to take more drastic action.

According to author Karl Shaw in his book, Royal Babylon, Peter next had Catherine’s dead lover’s head cut off, pickled in a glass jar, then placed next to Catherine’s bed. In spite of weeks going by with William Mons’s head being the last thing she saw at night before falling asleep and the first thing she beheld when she awoke, Catherine still maintained her cool. Finally tiring of his wife’s intractability, Peter had the head removed from her bedroom and, outwardly at least, forgot all about the affair. It should be added that this was not the only time during their marriage that Peter subjected Catherine to his fascination with severed human body parts. Upon receiving as a gift a preserved severed human penis from the Prussian king, Peter made Catherine kiss it; threatening to have her beheaded if she didn’t comply. She granted his request. The author has been unable to determine if this happened before or after the severed head incident.

This isn't Catherine the Great, just a heads-up. I got the pickled head and penis mixed up.

Anyway, regal history is just chock full of strange.

Yeah, some of the historical stuff is awesome.

Modern-day royals just don't interest me much. Like you said...it's basically just celeb silliness. At least there's some history to it, not just "my rich hotel investor dad told me I could be pretty and not actually work."

I agree with you 100%. Where the fascination comes in with monarchy as it is now is, why do people still uphold this superfluous institution and grasp at straws to legitimize it? I like the mainland European monarchies on a novel and superficial level. They're all very boring and pointless post-WWII generation.

Elizabeth's main squeeze's familial and his own history is probably one of the most interesting as far as the 20th century goes. It winds in and out of WWI, Greek independence and WWII.

A rag-tag, orphaned pauper prince whose mom went nuts, and was to be shut away in a convent and devoted the rest of her life to charitable persuits. His dad was a carousing gambler that pissed away everything in Monte Carlo and fiddled as Rome Greece burned. Two of his sisters were married off to Nazi princes, and he was shuttled among them and one who married a German prince who aided in the effort to get hastily get Jewish scholars and scientists off to the UK as tensions were mounting. Phil ends up as a naval officer for the Brits after finishing at a school established by in Scotland by one of the Jewish families that his sister and brother-in-law helped.

It's quite a ride of reads.

Brass balls ***' Phil! The only contemporary I really like.

EDIT: And when I say "pauper prince" I mean it. Holes in his shoes cycling around and going hungry some nights. Living the way he did during childhood could make anyone cynical.

DOUBLE EDIT: I always find it a bit funny when people seem to think only the British monarchy had a hand in shaping the US.
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By Jassik 2016-06-28 16:28:10
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Ramyrez said: »
Jassik said: »
Ramyrez said: »
Bahamut.Milamber said: »
Please tell me that FIFA game image is photoshopped.

Yeah. That's a Mass Effect dialogue wheel.

EA is the publisher of both. /tinfoil

I did have that thought, but I let it go.

Oh no, they got to ramy!
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By Lakshmi.Zerowone 2016-06-28 16:44:04
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Russian and Japanese history are probably the most torrid.

Catherine the Great...what...a...shag-a-holic...



Also that's not Rasputins penis that's a sea cucumber.
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By Anna Ruthven 2016-06-28 16:50:46
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sea cucumber
Considering it's pickled, it's a sea pickle. Dill or bread & butter is up for debate.
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By Caitsith.Zahrah 2016-06-28 16:57:05
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Anna Ruthven said: »
Lakshmi.Zerowone said: »
sea cucumber
Considering it's pickled, it's a sea pickle. Dill or bread & butter is up for debate.

The real question here is, is it a kosher dill?

Choo choo! All aboard the "Rasputin's Knob" hellscape of a thread! Who wants to be OP? One, two, three...Not it!
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By Bismarck.Misao 2016-06-28 16:57:36
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I sea what you did there
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By Lakshmi.Zerowone 2016-06-28 17:16:33
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Some people like staring down a barrel. Just saying.
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By Bismarck.Magnuss 2016-06-28 17:18:47
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Bread and butter pickles are the devil.




DEVIL!!!!
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By Caitsith.Zahrah 2016-06-28 17:21:02
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Bismarck.Magnuss said: »
Bread and butter pickles are the devil.

DEVIL!!!!

Then, of course, that makes Rasputin's bread and butter.

Swell job, team! Case closed.
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By Anna Ruthven 2016-06-28 17:22:49
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Caitsith.Zahrah said: »
Bismarck.Magnuss said: »
Bread and butter pickles are the devil.

DEVIL!!!!

Then, of course, that makes Rasputin's bread and butter.

Swell job, team! Case closed.
Can't be a kosher dill, I think the tip is still uncut.
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