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76236 No. 76236
Let's educate other users by posting interesting facts!

Children, let me teach you about the wonderful art of uromancy. Medieval uromancy was derived from uroscopy, the practice of diagnosing patients by examining their urine.

"The practice of uroscopy—using urine to analyse a patient’s health—soon turned into uromancy, which was something altogether different. Uromancy is the art of divination using urine. Piss prophets (as they were known) each had a different method for predicting the future. Some took omens from the urine’s colour; others from its taste. Most commonly, piss prophets ‘read the bubbles’ seconds after it hit the divination bowl. The presence of large bubbles spread far apart signified that the urinator was about to come into a lot of money. Conversely, the presence of small bubbles packed tightly together signified illness, loss or the death of a loved one."

http://thechirurgeonsapprentice.com/2013/12/06/piss-prophets-the-wheel-of-urine/
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>> No. 76239
Imagine someone today paying you money so they could piss in front of you and you could claim to tell their future. As long as you find a way around the medical regulation bullshit you can operate the same way palm readers run their business.

That sounds like a golden business opportunity.
>> No. 76240
The oldest company still in existence today is Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan, a hot spring hotel in Japan that has been around 705 AD. It used to be Kongou Gumi, another Japanese company and construction company specializing in Buddhist temples, but they folded in 2006 after 1400 years of continuous operation. Many of the world's oldest companies are in Japan due to the way they have run their economy since the middle ages and since a company's lineage is very important there.

The oldest company in Europe is Stiftskeller St. Peter, a restaurant within a monastery in Salzburg, Austria that has been in continuous operation since 803, albeit owned by different parties over that time.
>> No. 76247
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>>76239
Yeah. "Telling the future" would be a great excuse to see people's genitals and taste their pee.
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76248
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proboscis_monkey

Proboscis monkeys also go by the Indonesian name monyet belanda ("Dutch monkey"), or even orang belanda ("Dutchman") because Indonesians remarked that Dutch colonisers often had similarly large bellies and noses.
>> No. 76249
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>>76240
Nishiyama onsen seems like a hellza chill place. Stiftskeller St. Peter does too. It's great how in Europe, businesses within old churches or monasteries aren't too uncommon.

America needs to build prettier churches. American churches look like gay bullshit.
>> No. 76251
>>76249
>American churches look like gay bullshit.
Blame Protestantism. Catholic cathedrals are rad.
>> No. 76252
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>>76251
Catholicism is the coolest form of Christianity. Catholics have saints with bizarre stories, beautiful churches, a leader who's a honorary member of the Harlem Globetrotters and they burn candles that smell hellza ballza. Protestantism is gay caca. The pope released a pop-rock album.
>> No. 76255
>>76252
>Catholicism is the coolest form of Christianity.
Yeah, if you have a basketballamericanese definition of cool.
>> No. 76260
>>76255
You mean the definition of cool that produced blues music, r&b, rap music, and wicked ass gospel music? Yes, that's pretty cool so yes.
>> No. 76271
>>76260
There's only one cool thing on that list and you owe it directly to the ivory coast (the region not the present country)


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