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Post by merkavah12 on Feb 17, 2011 23:21:12 GMT
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41629787LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Ancient Britons devoured their dead and created gruesome goblets from the skulls of their remains, according to new research published on Wednesday. 
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Post by davedodo007 on Feb 18, 2011 1:20:17 GMT
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41629787LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Ancient Britons devoured their dead and created gruesome goblets from the skulls of their remains, according to new research published on Wednesday. All I had was a thunderbirds bowl to eat my cereal in.  |
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Post by merkavah12 on Feb 18, 2011 5:07:58 GMT
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41629787LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Ancient Britons devoured their dead and created gruesome goblets from the skulls of their remains, according to new research published on Wednesday. All I had was a thunderbirds bowl to eat my cereal in. Was more of a Captain Scarlett man myself... |
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Post by sandwiches on Feb 20, 2011 21:28:41 GMT
Wonder whether the skulls came from members of the community or enemies: news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/02/ancient-britons-used-skulls-as-c.html?ref=raBruno Boulestin, an archaeologist at the University of Bordeaux in France, agrees with the team's interpretation. The arguments both for cannibalism and for deliberate crafting of skull cups are "absolutely convincing," Boulestin says. He thinks that the skulls were likely those of enemies rather than friends or relatives, because in "nine out of 10" societies known from historical or ethnographic records, skulls were removed as trophies for the purpose of humiliating an enemy.
As for exactly what was put into the cups, Boulestin says they might have been used for drinking some sort of beverage. But given the risk that liquid would leak out through the skull's sutures, he says, it was equally possible that these macabre containers were used to "offer up a serving of brains." It should be noted from where these ancient Britons hailed: blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/damianthompson/100076577/ancient-britons-were-cannibals-so-now-we-can-admit-the-truth-that-other-gentle-native-peoples-ate-each-other/The most significant thing about the discoveries, arguably, is the relative sophistication of the society that committed these atrocities. These cannibals were Ice Age hunter-gatherers, not savages. They chopped up the bodies and hollowed out the skulls with meticulous culinary precision. (It’s sheer coincidence, I’m sure, that the ancestors of these Cro-Magnon people came from France.)We all know who are partial to snails and frogs legs. |
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Post by sandwiches on Mar 13, 2011 20:03:52 GMT
I guess we just haven't progressed  : www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/8379021/Burger-King-boss-insults-British-women-and-food.htmlBurger King boss insults British women and food The chief executive of Burger King has described British women as ugly and English food as “terrible”, in a gaffe likely to enrage his customers in this country.Though he has a bit of a cheek: One way for British women to make themselves more attractive might be to avoid a visit to one of Mr Hees’ fast food outlets.
Boasting 950 calories, a Burger King Double Whopper with cheese accounts for half of a woman’s recommended daily calorie intake of 1940 calories.
The burger has twice the calorie count and, with 22g of saturated fat, more than double the saturated fat count than its comparable rival, the McDonald’s Big Mac.
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Post by joel on Mar 14, 2011 2:31:21 GMT
Burger King is low-grade fast food (do they have it in Britain?), so their CEO really has no business trashing another country's food.
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Post by humphreyclarke on Mar 14, 2011 17:37:00 GMT
Burger King is low-grade fast food (do they have it in Britain?) Yeah, actually I have had it in both countries and it seems to be worse in the UK - the menu is also slightly different. |
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Post by sandwiches on Mar 14, 2011 20:29:24 GMT
Perhaps the Burger King guy has a point : www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/8380848/British-consumers-think-pigs-have-wings.htmlBritish consumers 'think pigs have wings'
An alarming 17 per cent of adults think pigs can fly. Or rather, their knowledge of butchery is so poor that they believe pork wings exist as a cut of meat.
A survey has revealed the ignorance of many people when it comes to butcher's shops, once a part of people's weekly or even daily shop.
Not only did some think pig wings existed, nearly two in ten thought tofu ribs were a cut of meat, and a leg of liver was something you could buy.
As many as 23 per cent thought a chicken chop or a lamb drumstick was a product they could pick up in a supermarket or a butcher's shop.
The survey of a 1,000 adults – all of them meat eaters – was conducted on behalf of National Butchers' Week. And The US has womanhood like Sarah Palin who can hunt, kill, skin, joint and cook bears and caribou and lions or whatever and then do goodness knows what else. And she's a Christian. I am going for a lie down. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2011 20:49:47 GMT
I consider your nickname very appropriate for this topic, Sandwiches  |
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Post by sandwiches on Mar 14, 2011 21:05:33 GMT
Loaves, fishes, wine...Jesus knew His stuff.
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