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[C3PO]

I was a bit surprised that the theory that he got his name from the effect of his favorite berries didn't make it to his Wikipedia page.

Btw "Viking" is the name for the raid and "Vikings" is the name for the participants. The people are called "Norse" or "Danes".

 

[Urwumpe]

Btw "Viking" is the name for the raid and "Vikings" is the name for the participants. The people are called "Norse" or "Danes".

Yes, and the best hypothesis for origin for the name of the raid relates to a Old Frisian term for "rowing in turns", which then means that Vikings had been people traveling so far over the ocean, that they needed to switch rowers there. Which then also gives an additional clue why "Viking" is a female word in old Danish.

But as we know since 2017, female Viking warriors had been really no anomaly, like previous historians assumed despite old Danish sources saying the opposite.

 

[C3PO]

But as we know since 2017, female Viking warriors had been really no anomaly, like previous historians assumed despite old Danish sources saying the opposite.

Isn't that conflation between actual Vikings and settlers?

 

[Urwumpe]

Isn't that conflation between actual Vikings and settlers?

Not that I know. The discovery of 2017 was, that a newly discovered grave of a Viking warrior king with a skeleton buried with many weapons and other typically male burial objects turned out to be a skeleton of a warrior queen.

 

[C3PO]

Being buried with weapons isn't proof that the person was using them.

The only "Viking chieftain" found buried with an actual ship turned out to be female too.

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Weapons are a symbol of power and don't indicate how adept the person was at fighting.

 

[Urwumpe]

Being buried with weapons isn't proof that the person was using them.

Being buried with weapons on the other hand is proof that people thought that this person might need them in the afterlife and knows how to use them....

 

[n72.75]

Just move on and buy a good car. "I can fix it" syndrome will drive you down a road of pain. Unless it's a hobby car like a weekend hot rod, stay away from fixer-uppers.

I went a couple of years daily driving an ancient Subaru that I was constantly "restoring".

It basically ruined my life.

 

[Thunder Chicken]

Wrong. Its the name of king Harald the first, also known as Harald "Bluetooth" Gormson. It simply means that the insurance fee to the Danish monarchy had been already paid and you are protected from viking raids. Always make sure your Bluetooth beacon is active on your smartphone, if you don't want to be kidnapped or robbed by a gang of seafaring Scandinavian privateers.

You know, the test drive *was* remarkably Viking-free. :hmm:

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I went a couple of years daily driving an ancient Subaru that I was constantly "restoring".

It basically ruined my life.

I was fortunate that I live in a northern climate where they salt the roads so my old Subies rotted into dust before I had any thought of doing anything heroic to keep it on the road. Built-in Seppuku feature.

 

[Urwumpe]

You know, the test drive *was* remarkably Viking-free. :hmm:

Sure that you did not get tailgated by a Volvo at a time? :lol:

 

[jedidia]

"No, you don't get any more bread until you eat your sausage!"

Kids with down syndrome are weird!

 

[Urwumpe]

"No, you don't get any more bread until you eat your sausage!"

Kids with down syndrome are weird!

Fixed it for you. We already started collecting the best quotes of our daughter, its pretty surprising what goes though her head and is said completely unfiltered... no adult could criticize that way.

 

[jedidia]

Well yeah, but you kind of expect that from kids. You do not expect them to fight with all the means at their disposal to avoid eating their sausage and get more bread instead.
(In case of confusion, the above was not a quote from the kid. He's still getting acuainted with two-word sentences. It's something I had to tell him, by now repeatedly.)

 

[Thunder Chicken]

There's entirely too much blinky crap in this car. :dry:

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"No, you don't get any more bread until you eat your sausage!"

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR5ApYxkU-U"]How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?[/ame]

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Sure that you did not get tailgated by a Volvo at a time? :lol:

No, but there was a Saab dealership next door. No raiding occurred.

 

[Linguofreak]

Well yeah, but you kind of expect that from kids. You do not expect them to fight with all the means at their disposal to avoid eating their sausage and get more bread instead.

You don't? Sausage is often fairly strongly flavored, and bread is fairly neutral. If a kid is going to hate sausage, he'll likely *hate* it, and I certainly remember that I went to physics-defying and otherwise illogical measures to avoid foods I hated.

 

[MaverickSawyer]

There's entirely too much blinky crap in this car. :dry:

Aha. You've encounter the Nannymobile trend. :lol:

Honestly, the best cars were made in the late '80s and early '90s. They've got just enough computer systems aboard to allow them to get respectable fuel economy, but not so much that they require several years of education to understand what's wrong, let alone to fix it.

 

[jedidia]

You don't? Sausage is often fairly strongly flavored, and bread is fairly neutral.

Well, I didn't. He's literally the only kid I know that doesn't like sausage, and one of only a few I know that actually likes bread.

 

[Urwumpe]

Aha. You've encounter the Nannymobile trend. :lol:

I don't want to miss the simple electronic stuff in my car - what can be described by a simple "if - then" is fine for me.

Like: When it gets dark, automatically turn on the lights.
Or: When it rains, turn on the wipers.
Or: If I drive faster than 130 km/h in Denmark, tell me before the police does.

if it is so simple, its a waste of a good human brain to not let a bit of silicium do that... No need for a Butlerian Jihad.

 

[jedidia]

No need for a Butlerian Jihad.

:rofl:

 

[Andy44]

Butlerian Jihad.

You know you're geek when you know what this means without looking it up...

 

[Thunder Chicken]

Aha. You've encounter the Nannymobile trend. :lol:

Honestly, the best cars were made in the late '80s and early '90s. They've got just enough computer systems aboard to allow them to get respectable fuel economy, but not so much that they require several years of education to understand what's wrong, let alone to fix it.

It's not even Nannymobile, more like the Distractor Tractor - some of the stuff is downright distracting and dumb. I figured out the Bluetooth is to basically get my phone to talk to the car so I could take and receive calls while driving. Uhh...how about we NOT introduce blinky random distractions like calls and texts to the cockpit and just focus on driving the car, hmm? The thing has a back-up camera, but I rarely see it because I turn my head and shoulders to put my eyeballs out the back window. I read that all new cars from 2018 need to have these cameras. Great...a safety related item that will probably cost a few kilobucks to fix for inspection.

I'm tempted to look through the fuse box to pull the ones related to the touchscreen/Bluetooth crap but that would probably brick the car or lock the doors and drive me automatically to the dealership for a $1000 fuse box "service" or "re-education". Maybe I should cover everything with lots of black electrical tape.

I still drive my 2005 Civic to work and local trips and now I really want to keep her for a while. It's going to take a *long* time to get cozy with the new blinky car.