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[King Zultan]

What's up with all the kings back then looking like giant squares with legs, also why is King Henry VIII holding a dildo in that picture?

[ChairmanPoo]

I too think it's gloves

It's nice to know that Spongebob Squarepant's had royal inspiration in his design though!

While we're sharing images of vain kings let me share my favourite one of Gustav Vasa, landsfather of Sweden (allegedly):



If it seems like the legs are a strange fit to his bulbormous upper body then you have a good eye for photoshops, because he did indeed hate how his own legs looked/turned out and had the painter use one of his soldiers as model for them instead. They weren't royal looking enough you see. Lampshades, on the other hand. Now they are fucking royal looking.

No codpiece? Pathetic

[MonkeyHead]

The lack of shoes is annoying me. Was he one of those "shoes off at the door" kings? Asshole.

[TD1]

I have no idea how we went from impending bedpocalyspse to a critique of early modern royalty's dress sense, but I'm loving it.

[Eric Blank]

The lack of shoes is annoying me. Was he one of those "shoes off at the door" kings? Asshole.

He had bad gout and diabetes(?) iirc, so it became extremely painful for him to wear shoes or walk later in his reign. Which also killed him, iirc? It's been a long time.

[King Zultan]

bad gout and diabetes

Those sounds like the traditional diseases that all kings should have.

[Il Palazzo]

Not our king! Our king has rot and weevils.

[voliol]

So it is a wise idea to wash your hands after cutting onions, even if you've done nothing else to dirty them, because some haf an hour later you may want to rub your eyes and not remember that -of course - they still have oniony residue on them.

[Frumple]

Yeah, cooking 101, always wash hands before and after. At absolute minimum rinse off. You do it always, without exception, so you're sure to never forget the time you really needed to, heh. This is also the dao of turn signals when you're driving, among myriad other things.

Hopefully this event will help you internalize that lesson and remember it going forward

[Rolan7]

Yeah I totally use turn signals when I'm alone on the road!  Manipulating levers and getting audio-visual feedback is fun, like I'm back at the science museum playing with an interactive exhibit.  It's also a good habit and stuff

Maybe if I applied that sort of thinking to washing my hands, I wouldn't have gotten that food poisoning on the weekend.  Fortunately GI trouble is particularly good at adjusting behavior, from "Oysters will be unappealing for the next 5 years" to reinforcing basic hygiene.

[dragdeler]

Me not but here is a thought that might cheer you up: some birds have been observed to have a rudimentary understanding of traffic rules... So there is a teeny tiny chance you give a very gifted crow or something more time to react... Right?!

Actually it depends. There is some places i signal religiously, but not with much thought, more like my hand is allways at the right place anyway when im there? idk

[Iduno]

So it is a wise idea to wash your hands after cutting onions, even if you've done nothing else to dirty them, because some haf an hour later you may want to rub your eyes and not remember that -of course - they still have oniony residue on them.

Yeah, onions will do that as well. And eyeballs...

[TamerVirus]

the onion residue is nothing compared to chili pepper residue.

[King Zultan]

I was never told that ginger was spicy and went to rub my eyes after grinding some up, took quite a while to figure out that it was the ginger causing my eyes to burn like that.

[Frumple]

That... so you were touching/prepping it, but never actually ate any? 'Cause you ain't gotta' be told that stuff is spicy, you just gotta' get some on your tongue, heh.