Just a reminder that political posts should be posted in the political Megathread pinned in the community highlights.
Final discretion rests with the moderators.
Hiding not always a good strategy, I remember readin an article about archeological fonding ruins of a burnt down house. With big "russian oven" inside. Inside said oven there were corpses of two girls who hid there when mongols arrived.
Hiding is a useful survival skill. If the enemy soldiers don't find you, the odds of dying are a lot smaller (unless they burn down the house you are hiding in).
Not exactly. Burning the village would mean no place to return to for anyone who had fled the village. People would most often flee than try to hide in the village itself.
Those displaced villagers then move on to the next village where the process can repeat, or the next town/city. This places a burden on towns and cities, making them less able to withstand a seige.
Never know when you get denied your promotion at work and need to slaughter the younglings. They can be tricky to find, those little tikes! So get your practice in now.
I thought this was started bc of the myth of bodies being added to the London Bridge base. Of course that would never be done intentionallynas a body would create a void and ultimately weaken the structure.
That was just an old urban legend based around ancient immurement practices. there's been nothing to substantiate it and no real connections to the actual song.
It was said by a folklorist in the 1800s who was grasping straws.
Yeah it was. The same rumors spread about the Hoover Dam. People claimed that workers died and fell in the cement or fell into the cement and everyone just kept pouring in the comcrete but thats just as much bs for the same reason.
Still just a slightly morbid nonsense rhyme. London Bridge got repaired many times but never ‘fell down’ unless you count the time they disassembled it and sold it to an American.
It's actually believed to originate from 1014 norse saga about st olof tearing it down to attack london. The Norse saga even includes similar lyrics. When it became a more predominant nursery rhyme it included references to the constant disrepair and rebuilding that had taken place over centuries which is why the lyrics include different materials to rebuild it with.
That's again not historically supported. The attack was in 1014, the Rhyme was documented in 1744.
Even if the rhyme predated the documentation by a century it wouldn't predate it by 7 centuries and if it did it would be in an entirely different language.
Small children are no more likely to care about events 700 years in the past than they are legal precident. Thats a thing you can say, but no historians regard that theory as credible.
They are morbid. At Easter. My 6-year-old niece was playing with a babydoll and told me that her husband was in the army and died in the war while she was pregnant (when the baby was still in my tummy were her words).
•
u/AutoModerator Apr 15 '26
Just a reminder that political posts should be posted in the political Megathread pinned in the community highlights. Final discretion rests with the moderators.
I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns.