How Was Your Day Thread V5

[Danafox]

Had a really good birthday yesterday, lots of friends IRL blew up my phone, they made me laugh and we hadn't talked for a while so it was nice hearing from all of them. Had a good day with hubby and he gave me presents and took me out to dinner just the two of us, and hopefully later this weekend, we will get together with family and have a small get together.

Only thing I messed up on was I was a goof and forgot to go online to get some stuff with my bday on them but that's okay I'm old now so it was bound to happen at some point right? =P

All in all, was a great birthday

Belated happy birthday to you!!

I am a sucker for birthday deals - I used to know exactly where to get free meals and treats and discounts back when I went out in the real world. Not sure I am well versed in online freebies..!

Thanks so much and yeah I know what u mean, I'd go to the movies and get free popcorn and soda or even movie tickets, and get discounts or deals somewhere. It was nice. Hopefully going to get together with the family this weekend.

[AssassinsCreed]

*watching at Melodifestivalen*

F*** DOTTER AND GO TUSSE! Come one you can win!
Or Arvingarna.If they keep the song-lyrics in Swedish..some people may hear interesting song...

TUSSE WON


EDIT: What do you get when you mix Cyberpunk 2077 and Swedish old entry "I can`t go on" (the clothing only)?
This thing:

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It`s actually not THAT bad. Sounds like hundreds of autotunes were used but meh, nice to see something that isn`t a slow ballad song for once.

[VilaWolf]

A Facebook friend asked me how Covid would be looked at in the lens of Folklore.

Short but not pleasant.

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Vampires, my friend. Vampires.

Just look at the earliest accounts of tuberculosis in North America, or cholera in Ancient Europe and the Mediterranean, and there's your playbook of how this will go.

The town blames the outbreak on the most recent death before the outbreak and go dig them up, mutilate the body and roast the heart, then scatters the remains. If your entire family has died you dig up the first person who died of the illness (in your own family) and you eat the heart to save your own life. Add panicked neighbors screaming at you to stop this before it kills them.

We've got names like Mercy Brown, Petre Toma, Jon Barber and Arnold Paole‏‎ and a great many others. In North America alone there have been just over 200 cases of "vampires". The last known case in North America was outside of Chicago in the 1930s, when a man was arrested for having dug up and eaten the heart of his own daughter. Toma, in Europe, scared the crap out of folklorists because he was dug up and mutilated and called a vampire in gawddamn 2004.

Edit for Clarity: Jon Barber is not the Chicago vampire. I don't remember that guy's name off the top of my head. Barber is better known as JB55 loosely connected to the "the Ray Family Vampires" in the 1850s.

[Solbrekt]

the impression i'm getting from this is that a lot of plagues probably went on longer than they should have because some people thought that the best way to avoid illness was to put it in their mouths

[VilaWolf]

the impression i'm getting from this is that a lot of plagues probably went on longer than they should have because some people thought that the best way to avoid illness was to put it in their mouths

Pretty much.

While I know only rough bits of actual History of Medicine, the folklore that comes from plagues is pretty nasty.

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Like, in the 1300s it was believed that puss from a european king's sores could cure syphilis. That was pretty quickly abandoned and changed to if a king touched a syphilitic it could offer a cure, which then became king's coins / tokens because so many kings were catching it and dying.

An interesting offshoot for the vampire thing is the belief that continued right up to the end of public executions; blood from an executed criminal could, in general, restore health. A lot of Executioners had a decent side gig selling rags dipped in blood after a beheading. Particularly in the USA that became patent/quack medicines like Bovinine or Dr Akers Blood Tonic. Sure, strait up drinking bull blood isn't as bad as rubbing yourself down with a rag of human blood, and they were all mixed heavily with opium and morphine, but there are all kinds of ads saying it'll cure everything from seizures to "lady's hysteria" to general "weakness".

[Real]

I'm supposed to hold some sort of a presentation about halotherapy, Himalayan salt and whatever else can be found in a salt cave/house tomorrow to a bunch of 3rd graders. But I have no clue what to tell them. It's one thing to explain the benefits to an adult and something else to talk about it with some kids that are, you know, just kids.
Why my boss decided this is going to be a good idea is beyond me. What more can I tell them than the walls are made of salt blocks and that the salt on the floor comes from the Himalayan mountains? (And hope that they won't try to lick/eat them)

[Desade]

I put an offer on a house today! Fingers and toes crossed!!

[HiddenMystic]

Spare a few clicks to help furbabies?

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[Danafox]

I'm supposed to hold some sort of a presentation about halotherapy, Himalayan salt and whatever else can be found in a salt cave/house tomorrow to a bunch of 3rd graders. But I have no clue what to tell them. It's one thing to explain the benefits to an adult and something else to talk about it with some kids that are, you know, just kids.
Why my boss decided this is going to be a good idea is beyond me. What more can I tell them than the walls are made of salt blocks and that the salt on the floor comes from the Himalayan mountains? (And hope that they won't try to lick/eat them)

Sounds to me like this is a bad idea and probably above 5 grade levels or more for them to understand. Would a cooking presentation of something simple work better maybe? idk to be honest, I've never done a presentation to kids ever so.....yeah...goodluck?

I put an offer on a house today! Fingers and toes crossed!!

Goodluck on your house bid! Hope you get it!

[pegasi1978]

That surreal feeling you get when you see something you did (painted)13 years ago in a picture of someone else's collection.