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[–] flathead@lemm.ee 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hardly ever use Windows myself, but I'm pretty sure you can just download it from Microsoft and refuse all the nags to register it when you are installing it.

[–] flathead@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Although the use of war elephants in the western Mediterranean is most famously associated with the wars between Carthage and Roman Republic, the introduction of war elephants there was primarily the result of an invasion by Hellenistic era Epirus across the Adriatic Sea. King Pyrrhus of Epirus brought twenty elephants to attack Roman Italy at the battle of Heraclea in 280 BC, leaving some fifty additional animals, on loan from Ptolemaic Pharaoh Ptolemy II, on the mainland. The Romans were unprepared for fighting elephants, and the Epirot forces routed the Romans. The next year, the Epirots again deployed a similar force of elephants, attacking the Romans at the battle of Asculum. This time the Romans came prepared with flammable weapons and anti-elephant devices: these were ox-drawn wagons, equipped with long spikes to wound the elephants, pots of fire to scare them, and accompanying screening troops who would hurl javelins at the elephants to drive them away. A final charge of Epirot elephants won the day again, but this time Pyrrhus had suffered very heavy casualties – a Pyrrhic victory.

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The use of war elephants over the centuries has left a deep cultural legacy in many countries. Many traditional war games incorporate war elephants. There is piece in chess called Elephant. While Englishmen call that piece bishop, it is called Gajam in Sanskrit. In Malayalam, it is called Aana (ആന), meaning elephant. In Russian, too, it is an elephant (Слон). In Bengali, the bishop is called hati, Bengali for "elephant". It is called an elephant in Chinese chess. In Arabic – and derived from it, in Spanish – the bishop piece is called al-fil, Arabic for "elephant".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_elephant

[–] flathead@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

it doesn't, but 'whinger' is a very common word in Australia to describe somebody who complains about insignificant things - especially English people when they talk about differences between England and Australia. To say this thread is 'whingy' means that it is full of petty complainers.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Whinging%20Pom

[–] flathead@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

sounds like basic Buddhism - but anyone who says they've "found the answer" makes them sound like a small child claiming they've caught the moon.

[–] flathead@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It was four wheel drive, so it may have been a manual transmission for off-roading, which would be fairly common in those parts. The fact that it was brand new suggests the possibility that they didn't realize a manual can roll on a steep incline if the handbrake isn't engaged (of course it could also have simply been left in neutral, regardless of the transmission type).

[–] flathead@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Australian for the way an English person complains about everything in Australia

[–] flathead@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

She'll promise you more than the garden of Eden

Then she'll carelessly cut you and laugh while you're bleedin'

But she'll bring out the best - and the worst - you can be

Blame it all on yourself 'cause she's always a woman to me

[–] flathead@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

all aboard! Coming soon to your local employment office.

[–] flathead@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you think it's safe to upvote this?

[–] flathead@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

true: a couple of weeks back, heard a guy telling somebody on CB that he and his friend found an antenna tower section on the side of the road and took it home on a mustang.

[–] flathead@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

it gets a bit unsettling and empty when you get into your 40s.

that's a mid life crisis. I'm glad having a kid helped you through it. Also a better option than running away with a hooker, maybe.

[–] flathead@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

and they will come with full self-driving

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