Apparently this happened during the Siege of Weinsberg, and the king in question was indeed Conrad III. I must admit not really knowing much (if anything) about the guy but it seems he must have had at least one decent bone in his body, judging by the outcome.
Well yes, but if you say that too loudly on this app you run the risk of having your comment deleted, so I prefer to expose their flawed thinking instead because it can’t as easily be labeled bigotry without taking an openly hostile stand to logic.
Legend has it they needed an extra casket just for his balls when they buried him, and it required twice the number of pallbearers his actual body did.
I’m also old (well, middle-aged is the right word I guess), but having lived through the adpocalypse that was the early 2000s, when the majority of sites were rushing to demonstrate their lofty stock valuations and satisfy their debtors by bringing in as much revenue as possible no matter the cost to the user base, I never really had that much patience for this business model, especially not once they discovered the concept of pop-ups (or worse, pop-unders).
I’ve also personally worked for a site whose business model was entirely based on SEO and click funneling and that has further eroded my patience to pretty zero. Pretty much none of our developer meetings were ever about “how can we make the product more useful to our users so they’ll actually WANT to come back”, it was always “our numbers are declining, how can we jam in more ads in order to meet the quarterly revenue goals?”
Yes, there are some sites that DO work hard to make actual, original content in order to earn those clicks, but for the most part, it’s an amoral, downright parasitical industry that doesn’t deserve any sympathy or goodwill.
IDK, it's kinda like being a germaphobe and avoiding the general public because they're unwashed and filthy, but still allowing certain people to visit you once you've assured yourself they practice regular hygiene, no?
getting a cold isnt going to turn you into a botnet or steal your banking information or encrypt your house and hold it for ransom.
Actually, yes, it kinda is. If you catch a virus, it basically uses your body as a host to produce more of itself to send out and infect others with, just like a botnet. And I'm no medical expert but I'm sure you could find a similar equivalency for the other example. There's a reason the term "virus" was adopted into computer science, because certain software can exhibit much of the same behavior as the real life thing. It's just art imitating life, that's all.
If you want a bodily example, Its like wearing a condom when you have random sex with strangers. Unless you are looking to catch something horrific, you use protection, every time, all the time.
Even then you might end up choosing not to use one, if you do end up meeting that special someone and get them tested for STIs.
And while I do recall that one definitely being far less popular than LotR when it was released, I think it was mainly due to taking too much liberty with the source material in order to make a little book less than half the size of a single volume of the other last for a whole trilogy, I don’t really think it deserved THAT much hate.
Yeah, that’s what I though of as well, but I don’t blame the other guy for not being able to picture something like that because honestly, when was the last time you’ve seen one of those?
In the west, they’re all electronic and have been electric since long before I was born. Occasionally, some people might have one of those old school door knockers, you know, some heavy bronze thingie mounted to the door that you can make a bit of a ruckus with.
But actual bells? Maybe in 3rd world countries you’ll see one every now and then but they’re exceedingly rare these day.
My main issue, as far as I can remember, was that it tried a BIT too hard to beat LotR in terms of drama and excitement when the original is clearly far less grandiose, but yes, the casting was definitely very solid, just like the first trilogy.
Have you tried pointing that out, or maybe asking him relevant questions about it?
You realize he's trying to share a part of his life with you, and the goal is likely to create some sort of connection. Perhaps he's not very good at it and maybe his life really is very boring, but the reason he does it is likely because he's looking for someone take an interest in him.
I'm not sure if you've ever read the gospels or not, but the people who sought Jesus's help generally didn't start out by offending him. The ones who did do that were always the scribes and the Pharisees, and the types of answers they received in return I suppose could be described in that way.
Well, then I'm sure you must be familiar with Matthew 12:33-37, as well as 5:21-26, so why don't you stop being obtuse and tell me straight up what beef you have with me?
Because I can tell you from my own experience that these words are definitely true, and you will end up paying a price for your insolence.
Speaking from my own experience, yes, it can in fact be very difficult to learn from your mistakes if others only keep watching you repeat them and never tell you what you’re doing wrong.
I know there’s this school of though that says “if you don’t have anything nice to say, say nothing it all”, but in the long run, it doesn’t really help anyone grow if you always withhold the truth from them. Just try to be diplomatic about it and offer help if at all possible.
Romans 14:11, my friend. Whether you'll come to realize it standing in church or lying in a ditch, or on a hospital bed breathing your last, there's ultimately no escape from it. You'll see.
I honestly don't know either because I still haven't been able to make sense of their initial comment.
Perhaps we've butted heads before in the past but I've long ago given up holding grudges because they just end up weighing you down. Glad you're feeling entertained, however. Username checks out I guess :)
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