The Very-Many-Questions-Not-Worth-Their-Own-Thread Thread XLI

[r16]

my plan is to play full 540 turns as the Mori , based in "Hiroshima" , by achieving something just around 30% to prevent a win by domination and turn every newly captured towns to Tokugawa because their capital is by the sea and like every army will be amphibious at the final turn . Takeda are always a nominee to win until ı get to crush them and Yamabushi should be limited to autproduction by a great or small wonder , because they are like impossible to kill and utter devastators of the land . Am supposed to be on guard against ninjas , not anti-ninjas ! And ninjas of course do nothing but steal workers and then kill them off hand .

 

[thetrooper]

What is sparkling foil?

 

[shadowplay]

What is sparkling foil?

Colourful foil paper for crafts and things?

 

[Kyriakos]

What is sparkling foil?

Festive aluminium?

You use sparkling foil to cover presents.
You use regular foil to cover a sandwich.

 

[thetrooper]

That's right, now how to interpret this piece of lyrics:

a long time ago
a certain sparkling foil
oh they just believed
and they conceived

Could be a hidden reference for all I know.

 

[Kyriakos]

That's right, now how to interpret this piece of lyrics:

a long time ago
a certain sparkling foil
oh they just believed
and they conceived

Could be a hidden reference for all I know.

He bought her a present (or specifically the customary ring), and later on they got married and/or had a kid?

 

[Takhisis]

sending Ninja to assassinate the enemy Daimyo is the whole point of the Sengoku conquest!

No. Ranging about with an unescorted Daimyo and picking off half a dozen nearby daimyos is the whole point of the Sengoku conquest.

 

[r16]

the game loves to shame me . Tonight my shogun , safely back to Japanese robes and a sword , recovering in a town was attacked from the sea by a ninja . Another attacked my cannons in a town on a single tile island , killing two , ı had to sink all 4 ships to get rid of it .

 

[Cutlass]

Can I rent a car in Canada and drop it off in the US?

 

[hobbsyoyo]

How did humans deal with infant waste before clothes (or even animal skins)?
We're parents just pooped and peed on all day long?


I'm not even sure chimps and gorillas are a good comparison as their infants are not nearly so helpless and immobile for as long as ours are.

 

[The_J]

Can I rent a car in Canada and drop it off in the US?

Should depend on if the chain has offices in either place. At least that's how it works in Europe, but then you normally also have to pay more.

 

[Birdjaguar]

How did humans deal with infant waste before clothes (or even animal skins)?
We're parents just pooped and peed on all day long?


I'm not even sure chimps and gorillas are a good comparison as their infants are not nearly so helpless and immobile for as long as ours are.

Rags and swaddling clothes. Playing naked on the floor or ground.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Can I rent a car in Canada and drop it off in the US?

This is hypothetical for your next holiday here in 2022, right? 'Cause I can't honestly see the border being open to tourists until everyone's been vaccinated. And given the current vaccine plan, that won't be until late fall.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Rags and swaddling clothes. Playing naked on the floor or ground.

There was a point in our history when we did not yet have rags of any kind, or even animal skins. I'm asking what we did way back then

 

[Birdjaguar]

There was a point in our history when we did not yet have rags of any kind, or even animal skins. I'm asking what we did way back then

Oh; OK. I would then guess that things were mostly messy for a few years. I wonder when people began to use streams and lakes to wash themselves?

 

[hobbsyoyo]

....
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But they poop so much
....
...

I don't understand the logistics of how we survived that

 

[Birdjaguar]

Poop doesn't kill you; neither does urine; they are just messy. Other mammals deal with it daily.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Poop doesn't kill you; neither does urine; they are just messy. Other mammals deal with it daily.

Yeah but they can walk after birth. Someone has to carry human babies for most of he time, particularly if you haven't invented cribs yet.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

....
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But they poop so much
....
...

I don't understand the logistics of how we survived that

Now do you understand why I've said that I'd rather muck out a dozen litter boxes than change one human baby's diaper? The cat boxes are much less smelly and nausea-inducing.

Here's a thought: Have a stern talk with your son and say, "Now listen here, Sputnikyoyo: You are a cat. Cats poop in the litter box. Therefore, you will poop in the litter box and cover it up with your front paws. Then you will lick yourself clean."

Time enough to tell him the truth in about 2.5 years. In the meantime, you'll spend more on cat litter but much less on diapers.





Early on when I started babysitting I decided to make a rule: Any kids I babysat had to be housebroken and able to communicate any problems to me (hungry, thirsty, house is on fire, etc.). So basically no younger than age 4, preferably 5.

Somewhere, there is now an adult man in his early 40s who may or may not remember that his 4-year-old self used to ask me for a "skeez skiz skammich" for lunch every day one summer when I babysat him and his two brothers.

 

[The_J]

Poop doesn't kill you

Well... that really depends on your hygiene...

Quick check: The internet says we began to wear cloths 170.000 years ago https://news.ufl.edu/archive/2011/0...mans-first-wore-clothes-170000-years-ago.html , and it says modern humans appeared 200.000 years ago.
My initial take would have been that maybe at that time point babies were not that helpless, which could maybe be, but I think rather not.
I good guess would be that they kept their toddlers in baskets with some plant cushioning/leaves, and regularly threw that one out.
... Okay, google says baskets are 12.000 years old, the oldest known ones https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basket_weaving#Middle_East .
Well, some other kind of ... thing to hold? After all, monkey already prepare their own "nest" with leaves n stuff.