quaecumque from QUORA

no i think i've heard a similar story before

The War Game only posits the devastation caused by tiny 1 or 2 megaton bombs iirc

less explanations more weird extracts from quora lol

the Danish in your thread title confused me!

What does human flesh taste like?

According to Issei Sagawa, who killed and ate a Dutch exchange student, it tastes odourless, is not at all gamey, and is delicious.

oh god wrong cannibal story to post sorry that one is very bad. I did lol recently when someone posted that Gareth Jones might have become an "accidental cannibal" whilst passing through the Ukraine during the famine.

I'm 6’1”. Will I be too short compared to American people if I go to visit New York?

"what language did ROBIN HOOD speak?"

"what sauron afraid of SMEAGOL?"

s/b "was" i guess but who cares not me

ripped from the replies: "gollum is someone sauron can respect even if he isn’t his besty"

and

"the legends of robin hood are set during the reign of richard the lionheart, which only lasted from 1189 to 1199. if robin hood had ever existed—which he did not—he would have spoken norman french to the rich whom he robbed, and an early form of middle english to the poor"

vs

"as far as we know, robin hood hailed from wakefield, so we can assume that he spoke in the west riding dialect of english"

The name "Wakefield" may derive from "Waca's field" – the open land belonging to someone named "Waca"

an ancestor of Timmy Mallet was an early founder. It's actually got pretty mad history has Wakefield going from evidence of bronze age settlements in Lupset to Roman shit to Edward the Confessor had a yard there.

"Why are the pyramids not mentioned in the Old Testament?"

"What is the point of a firing squad if they could just fire at the head once?"

"If the Queen died but then Charles died a minute later, would he still technically have been king?"

i love quora so much

so much that i just deleted 1000+ alerts from my email quora folder without reading them

how do you end up with Quora? I can't recall ever opting for it - but it has been there forever!

I'm sure there has been loads of variants of "what if the Nazis had been more sensible and stuck to a one front war - would they be good nazis now?"

i was bullied into joining it by old-skool ilxor felicity redwell, mrs. (felicity)

i do not regret it! i have learned so much (nothing)

going back to Robin Hood/Wakefield stuff. Down the road from me is a small moated island with the remains of an old building that got blown up during the English civil war, when I say remains all that is left is the scorched brick fireplace. But it was lived on since about 900 ad or something and one of the earliest notable dwellers was The Sherriff of Wakefield.

his lonely motto: "i will sherriff and they will come!"

somewhere near what used to be The Three Nuns pub in Huddersfield, just around the corner from the scrapyard where The Yorkshire Ripper once stole some registration plates is one of the many dubious sites of Robin Hood's grave. It's obviously bollox but it used to frequently come up in conversation. I once told an uncle from Dublin about it while we were drinking at the Three Nuns but he was more amused at the juxtaposition of the "buy 2 get 1 free" banner next to the pub sign in the car park.

quora stops bombarding me with qs abt bitcoin, switches to qs abt tolkien

"why wasn't sauron a balrog?"

"what happens if you eat cancer cells?"

you turn into hitler

why wasnt hitler a balrog

I asked ChatGPT

Why wasn't Hitler a balrog?

Hitler was not a balrog because balrogs are fictional creatures from the fantasy world of Middle-earth, created by J.R.R. Tolkien. Hitler was a real historical figure and the leader of Nazi Germany during World War II. He had no supernatural powers or abilities and was not a mythical creature.
James Errington

Why wasn't Sauron a balrog?

Sauron was not a balrog either because, like Hitler, Sauron is a fictional character from the fantasy world of Middle-earth created by J.R.R. Tolkien. In the story, Sauron was a powerful dark lord and the main antagonist of the "Lord of the Rings" series. Balrogs were powerful demons that served Sauron, but Sauron himself was not a balrog. He was a Maia, a spirit of fire and magic, and took on various forms throughout the story, including that of a giant flaming eye.

Oops, my actual name seems to be in there for some reason

Not like it's a secret anyway.

nice to meet you, Sauron!

spent too long deliberating over whether to go for Tolkien or Sauron

At least I'm not a balrog or Hitler I guess

"what is the single most useless thing ever"

bit meta

I'm not touching Quora again until they get rid of the "It's OK to be White" topic.

I’m being advertised a comedy podcast called quorators where the hosts discuss a different quora q each ep — much as you don’t need to click thru from the digest emails (or even open them) to get the best from this site, I will never actually listen to this podcast but the latest ep is a good one:

Is fishing cruel to fish

Did Joseph Stalin actually try to breed chimpanzees with humans? What was the outcome?

"I Hired An Escort and my best friend’s mum turned up"

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Q: Why does Putin always keep his right arm still when he walks, only swinging the left one?
A: Putin's way of walking comes from his training with the KGB

staring at this, trying to work out the joke...

i just thought it was a weird non-sequitur but apparently it's a respected theory!: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunslinger%27s_gait

such juvenile John Wayne machismo bs. I thought the KGB were better than this!

aren't they supposed to be SECRET agents?

walking like you are concealing a bottle of booze in yr right sleeve would make you look more like Yeltsin