Today I learned +

[Dannyalcatraz]

 

[Gilladian]

I didn't know anyone had given a name to it, but I was vaguely aware that men's fashioned changed rather radically from more ostentatious attire into the staid, almost spartan attire we're accustomed to.

It was all the fault of Beau Brummel having a falling out with Prinny!

 

[Ryujin]

It was all the fault of Beau Brummel having a falling out with Prinny!

Even wrote a song about it.
(Not really)

 

[Gilladian]

TIL that, at least in outport Newfoundland, lobster was once considered the food of the poor, so much so that when people ate it they would close their curtains lest the shame of their poverty be exposed.

Guess the Lobster Lobby and Garlic Butter Marketing Boards should be congratulated.

In Boston at that time it was “illegal” to feed lobster to your servants more than twice a week, as it was considered so substandard.

 

[Ulfgeir]

In Boston at that time it was “illegal” to feed lobster to your servants more than twice a week, as it was considered so substandard.

We have had a similar thing here in Sweden, though with salmon.

 

[Arnie_Wan_Kenobi]

Hemant Mehta of The Friendly Atheist podcast/blog is from a Jain family. He's still a vegetarian even though he no longer shares his family's faith. He talks about it from time to time.

I've also heard some for extreme adherents would wear masks and sweep the ground in front of themselves to avoid harming insects.

Whoa. I know that dude IRL and did not know he had a podcast. That's a heck of a TIL.
Gonna need to check that out.

 

[Arnie_Wan_Kenobi]

I learned that Lowe's carries a boar spear in its online hunting supplies. Apparently they're still used more than I'd have thought.

Pick up in store by Tuesday. Nice.

 

[Mannahnin]

Pick up in store by Tuesday. Nice.

Showing delivery by Monday for me.

A 73" boar spear for under a hundred bucks seems pretty good to me, especially with an ash shaft.

 

[Arnie_Wan_Kenobi]

Showing delivery by Monday for me.

A 73" boar spear for under a hundred bucks seems pretty good to me, especially with an ash shaft.

Just in time for the new school year.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

Just in time for the new school year.

You jest but my wife met the teenage son of a friend of her mother's, and he was carrying a boar spear for some ungodly reason (live blade, ready to kill with!) and he proceeded to "playfully" thrust it at pretty much everyone in the room (mostly women aged 40-75), whilst getting mad when they seemed to think this was "not okay".

Moral of the story - spears aren't for kids! Not even teenagers! This isn't the stone age, people!