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Australian federal police say ‘officers arrested a man after he allegedly ran naked through the aircraft mid-flight and knocked a crew member to the floor’
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They used to use urine to tan animal skins, so families used to all pee in a pot & then once a day it was taken & sold to the tannery. If you had to do this to survive you were “piss poor.”
But worse than that were the really poor folk who couldn’t even afford to buy a pot; they “didn’t have a pot to piss in” & were the lowest of the low.
The next time you are washing your hands & complain because the water temperature isn’t just how you like it, think about how things used to be. Here are some facts about the 1500s.
Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May, and they still smelled pretty good by June. Since they were starting to smell, however, brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odor. Hence the custom today of carrying a bouquet when getting married.
Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water. The man of the house had the privilege of the nice clean water, then all the other sons and men, then the women, and finally the children. Last of all the babies. By then the water was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it … hence the saying, “Don’t throw the baby out with the Bath water!”
Houses had thatched roofs-thick straw-piled high, with no wood underneath. It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the cats and other small animals (mice, bugs) lived in the roof. When it rained it became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof, resulting in the idiom, “It’s raining cats and dogs.”
There was nothing to stop things from falling into the house. This posed a real problem in the bedroom where bugs and other droppings could mess up your nice clean bed, therefore, a bed with big posts and a sheet hung over the top afforded some protection. That’s how canopy beds came into existence.
The floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something other than dirt, leading folks to coin the phrase “dirt poor.”
The wealthy had slate floors that would get slippery in the winter when wet, so they spread thresh (straw) on floor to help keep their footing. As the winter wore on, they added more thresh until, when you opened the door, it would all start slipping outside. A piece of wood was placed in the entrance-way, subsequently creating a “thresh hold.”
In those old days, they cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle that always hung over the fire.. Every day they lit the fire and added things to the pot. They ate mostly vegetables and did not get much meat. They would eat the stew for dinner, leaving leftovers in the pot to get cold overnight and then start over the next day. Sometimes stew had food in it that had been there for quite a while, and thus the rhyme, “Peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot nine days old.”
Sometimes they could obtain pork, which made them feel quite special. When visitors came over, they would hang up their bacon to show off. It was a sign of wealth that a man could, “bring home the bacon.” They would cut off a little to share with guests and would all sit around and “chew the fat.”
Those with money had plates made of pewter. Food with high acid content caused some of the lead to leach onto the food, causing lead poisoning death. This happened most often with tomatoes, so for the next 400 years or so, tomatoes were considered poisonous.
Bread was divided according to status. Workers got the burnt bottom of the loaf, the family got the middle, and guests got the top, or the “upper crust.”
Lead cups were used to drink ale or whisky. The combination would sometimes knock the imbibers out for a couple of days. Someone walking along the road would take them for dead and prepare them for burial.. They were laid out on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the family would gather around and eat and drink and wait and see if they would wake up, creating the custom of holding a wake.
England is old and small and the local folks started running out of places to bury people. So they would dig up coffins and would take the bones to a bone-house, and reuse the grave. When reopening these coffins, 1 out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they realized they had been burying people alive, so they would tie a string on the wrist of the corpse, lead it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell. Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night (the graveyard shift.) to listen for the bell; thus, someone could be, saved by the bell or was considered a dead ringer.
And that’s the truth. Now, whoever said History was boring?
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“Cinco eixos”. Montenegro anuncia medidas de plano de emergência na Saúde
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De acordo com o primeiro-ministro, que falou em conferência de imprensa conjunta com a ministra da Saúde, o programa visa “dar uma resposta imediata aos problemas” no setor.
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Em Portugal, existe um distinto sotaque de classe alta?
Sim, existe! O mais conhecido é o das classes altas da zona de Lisboa, sendo o típico cliché “a tia de Cascais”. É mais associado a famílias antigas e (teoricamente) com posses, que também se caracterizam por tratarem toda a gente por “você”, incluindo filhos, irmãos e cônjuges.
No livro Absolutamente Tias, da Ana Bola, ela apresenta um glossário bastante engraçado sobre o vocabulário “das tias”, os nomes que se devem dar aos filhos, etc. Por exemplo, jamais dizer “esposa” ou “funeral” (que coisa mais possidónia, tá a ver?), mas sim “mulher” e “enterro”.
De resto, a Ana Bola e o Herman José são especialistas em imitar este dialecto muito específico, supostamente porque em crianças andaram em escolas elitistas onde conviveram de perto com esta classe social. O exemplo mais clássico é a Super Tia 🙂
Claro que há versões locais, mas esta tornou-se mais conhecida por aparecer mais na televisão. Ao ponto de os (novos) ricos de outras zonas do país começarem a imitá-la.
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O medo dos insectos era a maior fobia de Salvador Dalí e cerca de 10% do seu vasto catálogo de pinturas inclui estes animais. Desde relógios a derreter, barcos com velas feitas de borboletas gigantes ou romãs a vomitar peixes a vomitar tigres, as pinturas de Salvador Dalí incluem algumas das imagens mais bizarras e icónicas do mundo da arte. Mas, afinal, o que é que inspirava as criações do artista mais renomado do surrealismo? O fascínio de Dalí pela mente humana levou-o a descobrir as teorias de Sigmund Freud e a tentar explorar o seu próprio subconsciente em busca
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Nova reforma tributária no Brasil, vai criar o “imposto do pecado” que pode levar a um aumento significativo dos preços de vários produtos.
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Para quem estiver em S. Miguel amanhã, 29 de Maio, e se quiser juntar-se à homenagem ao escritor Dias de Melo a propósito da edição conjunta dos três romances do seu «Ciclo da Baleia», aqui fica o convite.
Para além dos textos do autor, o volume é completado com prefácios de João de Melo e de Daniel de Sá (e um meu também…), com um retrato de Dias de Melo da autoria do pintor Tomaz Borba Vieira, e com um glossário de termos relacionados com a baleação na ilha do Pico.
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SUBSÍDIO DE MOBILIDADE
O Ministro das Infraestruturas apresentou ontem, uma nova proposta de Subsídio Social de Mobilidade para os Açorianos colocando um tecto máximo de 600 euros como limite para acesso ao reembolso e uma taxa de emissão de bilhete no máximo de 35 euros.
Esta norma significa que vem retirar direitos aos passageiros residentes, pois a partir deste valor deixa de haver reembolso.
Se agora já é difícil encontrar tarifas a estes preços e muitas vezes as pessoas não conseguem viajar porque têm de pagar à cabeça preços de bilhetes exorbitantes imaginem como será a partir de agora.
Essencialmente, esta nova norma dá o direito às companhias aéreas de praticarem custos de tarifas a seu belo prazer. No momento actual já é normal encontrar-se preços de ida e volta a Lisboa superiores a 1000€ o que significa que como o máximo a ser subsidiado são 600€, um açoriano terá que pagar do seu bolso 400€, mais do dobro que os 134€ anteriormente definidos.
Gostava de saber o que dizem a este respeito os nossos Deputados na Assembleia da República e o Governo Regional dos Açores, se o PS sempre nos lixou, o PSD parece querer fazer pior.
Aguardo impacientemente que o bom senso impere e tal proposta não vá por diante, pois põe por água baixo a tão proclamada continuidade territorial.
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