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  • Swaye
    Swaye Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 41,741 Founders Club
    Or did you mean *Reaming?

    Either way, it fits.
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  • sarktastic
    sarktastic Member Posts: 9,208
    *Steaming
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  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,855
    @Swaye Day, erryday
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  • Hippopeteamus
    Hippopeteamus Member Posts: 1,958
    edited October 2015
    greenblood said:

    I'd rather just get rid of Columbus Day than changing the name. Either way it's celebrating the destruction of a race of people. Even if you defend that it doesn't, it's still celebrating some bonehead who until his death thought he landed in India.

    He was too stupid to realize that he had miscalculated the circumference of the earth. Anyone one who was slightly educated at the time knew that, and realized that if he attempted to sail to India he would die (fortunately for him there was a large continent in the way). It was only when people started to advocate science (and in particular science over religion) that they started making up shit about people in Europe at the time believing the earth was flat (which not any educated person believed).
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  • Alexis
    Alexis Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 3,444 Founders Club
    In the loving words of Bruce Dickenson: Raping the women and wasting the men, the only good injuns are tame.
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  • ThomasFremont
    ThomasFremont Member Posts: 13,325
    Hippopeteamus said:

    greenblood said:

    I'd rather just get rid of Columbus Day than changing the name. Either way it's celebrating the destruction of a race of people. Even if you defend that it doesn't, it's still celebrating some bonehead who until his death thought he landed in India.

    He was too stupid to realize that he had miscalculated the circumference of the earth. Anyone one who was slightly educated at the time knew that, and realized that if he attempted to sail to India he would die (fortunately for him there was a large continent in the way). It was only when people started to advocate science (and in particular science over religion) that they started making up shit about people in Europe at the time believing the earth was flat (which not any educated person believed).
    I still remember them teaching us in elementary school that Columbus "discovered" that the world was round by observing a butterfly walk on an orange, and comparing it to the sails of a ship returning from the horizon.

    Seriously, this was a MAJOR part of the curriculum. And it was complete bullshit.
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  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,855
    ThomasFremont said:

    Hippopeteamus said:

    greenblood said:

    I'd rather just get rid of Columbus Day than changing the name. Either way it's celebrating the destruction of a race of people. Even if you defend that it doesn't, it's still celebrating some bonehead who until his death thought he landed in India.

    He was too stupid to realize that he had miscalculated the circumference of the earth. Anyone one who was slightly educated at the time knew that, and realized that if he attempted to sail to India he would die (fortunately for him there was a large continent in the way). It was only when people started to advocate science (and in particular science over religion) that they started making up shit about people in Europe at the time believing the earth was flat (which not any educated person believed).
    I still remember them teaching us in elementary school that Columbus "discovered" that the world was round by observing a butterfly walk on an orange, and comparing it to the sails of a ship returning from the horizon.

    Seriously, this was a MAJOR part of the curriculum. And it was complete bullshit.
    Shitty Seattle education superiority guy
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