My favorite Halifax fun fact: In 1917, a munitions ship exploded in Halifax Harbor. To commemorate the event, the City Council created ‘Splodey, the Halifax explosion mascot.
In addition, each public broadcast of Shaggy’s “Mr. Boombastic” is followed by a moment of silence
IIRC that event is, to this day, the most powerful non-nuclear man-made explosion to ever happen.
'SPLODEY. I’m trageadorable!
Possible Source? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz88kJSdT6Y
Exact source, verbatim.
My favorite Twatt, Scotland fun fact is that their mascot is Mr. Sploogy.
My favorite facts about Halifax is that the first French people to get there starved to death the first year because they wouldn’t eat that weird vegetable the natives from the Mi’kmaq tribe gave them, because they didn’t like the taste. Turns out it was potatoes. Can you imagine that?
I mean, do we know how they were cooking them? Maybe the natives told them to eat them raw as a prank.
Also, they were presumably unsalted?! I may rather die too
I do think some French dudes would have tried to at least boil and salt them. While it’s true Mi’kmaq people didn’t put salt in their food as they thought it was toxic, those French settlers couldn’t care less. Salt was used as a conservant pretty much everywhere in Europe, and Nova Scotia has very long coast line (meaning salt was abundant).
My guess is that our tastes changed a lot since then. And “French” fries wasn’t possible yet, because frying grease was too costly and rare.
I can’t! Wow.
Did you know that potatoes contain all essential amino acids? They are a really good base for your diet.
No French fries for them.
Sure, I don’t like them either. Now would I rather starve then eat potatoes? Can’t say until I’ve lived through it… well or don’t
The last of Barrett’s Privateers?
Goddamn them all. I was told we’d cruise the seas for American gold.
We’d fire no guns, shed no tears!
That’s just flat wrong. Soil pH out that way is about 4 at the lowest.
On top of that bones are large, with low surface area, meaning it’ll take a long time for them to ‘dissolve’. Ok top of that, you would expect to see this in other locations
So you are not using coffins?
Somewhat interestingly, in acidic soils the minerals, bones, teeth and metal vaults dissolve more easily, but organic matter, wood, flesh, fats are more preserved.
Pickles!
Save on archeology assessments by not having any remains.
Modern problems and all that.
This isn’t a meme.
I used to see her tweets on Reddit. Is she still there? Or did she left?
I’m not sure, I left both Reddit and Shitter.
She is still active on Twitter: https://x.com/VeryBadLlama
Thanks ! And kind of sad…
I feel like if Halifax had some weird super destructive dirt like that I’d have heard about it, I may be in Manchester but I’m not that far from it haha.
Not that Halifax. This one is in Nova Scotia, Canada
Given enough time, all graveyards are like that
Now I have that song stuck in my head.
It’s truly a blessed day for all us Stanheads.
Just while I take my night shift walk while the foreman’s not around
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