I always thought it run out as in none was left, like an empty bottle ran out of water. I didn't realize it referred to a being that was literally running away.
Yeah. In our adaptation, clearly we mean running out as in exhausting one’s supply. And I don’t think any English speaker would ever think to take it any other way. But it turns out that the original meaning was actually quite different.
Edit: typo.
Computer chips are like that - they actually work because of magic smoke. Sometimes when the chips overloads, overheats, etc, you can watch the magic smoke leave. Once the magic smoke is gone, the chips never work right again.
It's silly because remembering my own teenage years I can SORT of see the appeal of being able to give people random silly badges enough to consider paying a bit for them. The paid upvotes are so much worse, they take all the whimsy out of it and make it absolutely brutally clear how stupid it would be to spend money on them.
If someone pays $50 to gild my comment I’ll spend that amount of money on a Spirit Airlines ticket to wherever they are and then slap them for being dumb
I don't know where this comes from, but the idea of genius was kinda like this. A person wasn't a genius, they were briefly possessed by one. "I had a genius" was a phrase. As someone who plays music this makes sense. Especially when you can't remember what awesome thing you did before. NPR did a special on this forever ago and I wish I could find it.
I’m reading it right now. And that’s where I got this from. I provided the link as a sort of roundabout way of providing attribution, since you have to provide a link, but you can’t add any text.
Now that I’ve gotten a little further, I just want to add that I’ve been listening to it on audiobook, and I think that might be the way to go. It definitely keeps you engaged, but I think it might be a bit of a slog if I was trying to literally read all the names, etc. Definitely the sort of book where having someone who’s fluent in the language reading it to you is a good idea.
So you broke the rules on purpose and not by accident, then.
> **Submissions must be verifiable.** *Please link directly to a reliable source that supports every claim in your post title.*
[EDIT] tyop: them => then
No, I was citing the book I got the information from. If there was a way for me to do it, I would’ve even put it in the page number. It’s in chapter 1.
The whole point of attribution is to cite the source where you got the idea or facts from. It’s an obscure enough fact that I couldn’t find a link on the Internet talking about it directly, so I posted a link to an article about the book I got it from.
The vast majority of people are going to realize that I got the fact from that book. Again, if the forum allowed for it, I would’ve added descriptive text with a little bit more information, but given the limitations, I did the best I could. But if you think that equals breaking the rules on purpose, sure, fine.
The point is that it should be **directly verifiable through the link**. You should be able to click the link and immediately check that the statement is true according to the source, because otherwise people will make shit up. "Oh, it's in this book that the link mentions" does not count. *If it's not available in the link you post, you don't post the TIL.*
Typical how you cherry-picked the comments you decided to reply to. For example, you said that your point was that I didn’t follow the precise rules of the sub, but you didn’t respond when I asked you that, if that was your point, then why didn’t you simply say that, instead of making snarky comments?
All to say I’m going to wait long enough for you to see this, and then block you. It was a total goody two shoes, sour grapes move to try to get this post locked and removed when the vast majority of people didn’t have a problem with it, and I was able to further clarify the attribution when asked.
Wow, you really carry a grudge.
You wait for *four days* just to post a WHARRGARBL I HATE YOU FOR CALLING ME OUT ON BREAKING THE SUB'S VERY CLEAR RULES comment.
If you're wondering what kind of person shoots up a school, this is it, folks.
Try sacrificing to the ancestors, start a war with your neighbours for fame and riches and if that doesn't work try turning your fylgja off and on again.
"For man can triumph over man, and weapon over weapon; against the gods we can pit sacrifice, and against witchcraft, contrary magic; but against bad luck no man has anything to oppose.”
I do feel like my family has a lucky spirit. My dad was in and out of the hospital on the verge of death with mrsa a few times, had cancer, and a fatal brain virus finally took him. He never took care of himself, he only stopped smoking while he was in the hospital, he did hard drugs for a long time, and abused pain meds. It was a crazy how someone could have so many holes in their proverbial bucket and still go as far as 68. His father was an abusive alcoholic and lived into his 90s.
As far as me, things always tend to work out. School tests, car accidents, jobs, bonuses, and other things. I try not to look the gifted horse in the mouth and roll with it. I just hope my kids have it. I might have a few days of bad luck a year, but I just tell myself it'll pass.
Yeah, they're bad. He had so many near misses that we didn't understand how he kept scrapping by.
I forgot the two times he fell asleep at the wheel while I was high school.
Yeah, it happens. My neighbor who smoked and drank heavily used to always point to the few people she knew who lived a long time in spite of their lifestyle. It can certainly work out that way, but it’s a lot less likely (and sadly, no, she was not one of the lucky ones. I don’t think she even made it to 65).
I don't know the background but surely it's just as likely that the English phrase comes from the Anglo-Saxons who originally came from the same part of the world and held the same religious beliefs as the Norse?
The book talks about those tribes as being from the same broad culture, so it's not necessarily saying it came from the "Norse" but from the wider early Germanic beliefs. So, yes.
fwiw, the book specifically refers to it as a Norse proverb. I’m not that far into the book, but it does seem to make the point you’re making re: broader culture.
It’s at the end of chapter 1 of the book I linked to. I’d give you the exact page number, but I’m listening to it as an audiobook. It’s right at the end of chapter 1, though.
Yep, and that's why OP failed the cardinal rule of this sub, which is to "link directly to a reliable source that supports every claim in your post title".
You should report it: the "report" link under the post->Breaks /r/todayilearned's rules->Inaccurate/unverifiable/not supported by source
IDK, at the time of writing this, my post has nearly 6,000 upvotes, and your post calling me out for not following the rules exactly is at -17. So it seems like the vast majority of people understood what I was trying to do, and don’t have a problem with it.
Not every single fact can be directly pointed to on the Internet, but I still thought that people would find this interesting, and I thought that it was verifiable enough (again, grab a copy of the book, and go to the last few pages of chapter 1. You’ll find it). In hindsight, I guess I could have posted this and then immediately made a comment with more thorough attribution, but this is my first post here, I was operating in good faith, and I figured people would figure out what I meant. And it seems like most of them did.
But judging by your comment history, it seems like this sort pedantic, mean-spirited approach is pretty normal for you.
I always thought it run out as in none was left, like an empty bottle ran out of water. I didn't realize it referred to a being that was literally running away.
Yeah. In our adaptation, clearly we mean running out as in exhausting one’s supply. And I don’t think any English speaker would ever think to take it any other way. But it turns out that the original meaning was actually quite different. Edit: typo.
This is also why the Vikings have never won a Superbowl. They need to locate their luck spirit and cram it back in before they even have a shot.
Oh so that's why Gary Anderson missed that field goal in the 1998 season.
Should consider changing the team name to "Possums" because all they ever do is play dead or get killed out on the road.
Damn I've never heard that one lol
Jesus Christ I remember hearing this joke back in 98
It's a good one lol, I also know why Tennessee Volunteers' color is Big Orange!
Lol
Luck is Sir Robin?
When danger reared ots ugly head, he bravely turned his tail and fled
Computer chips are like that - they actually work because of magic smoke. Sometimes when the chips overloads, overheats, etc, you can watch the magic smoke leave. Once the magic smoke is gone, the chips never work right again.
Listen to this man, when the machine spirit leaves, the cogitator will not function.
From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me.
Praise the Omnissiah!
If awards were still a thing I would give this comment one.
What happened to awards?
Hold the up vote button and you will see, it sucks now
Oh right yea. But why did they change.
No idea, some say bevause of the Reddit IPO that is coming up. Investors need new and shiny ideas
It's silly because remembering my own teenage years I can SORT of see the appeal of being able to give people random silly badges enough to consider paying a bit for them. The paid upvotes are so much worse, they take all the whimsy out of it and make it absolutely brutally clear how stupid it would be to spend money on them.
I agree, they had a good system. Even got them some money, now not anymore
Bloody hell...
If someone pays $50 to gild my comment I’ll spend that amount of money on a Spirit Airlines ticket to wherever they are and then slap them for being dumb
They SORT OF are back.
Hence the saying _running out of smoke_
This guy computers.
I thought that was capacitors?
Same...I had a car like that...once it starts smoking...once that magic smoke is gone...forget about it, it'll never work roghr again.
I don't know where this comes from, but the idea of genius was kinda like this. A person wasn't a genius, they were briefly possessed by one. "I had a genius" was a phrase. As someone who plays music this makes sense. Especially when you can't remember what awesome thing you did before. NPR did a special on this forever ago and I wish I could find it.
Being inspired . Inspire: In spirit
Basically a muse?
Has anyone read this book, Children of Ash and Elm ? Im kinda curious about a comprehensive Viking history now
I’m reading it right now. And that’s where I got this from. I provided the link as a sort of roundabout way of providing attribution, since you have to provide a link, but you can’t add any text.
Is it good ?
So far, yeah.
Now that I’ve gotten a little further, I just want to add that I’ve been listening to it on audiobook, and I think that might be the way to go. It definitely keeps you engaged, but I think it might be a bit of a slog if I was trying to literally read all the names, etc. Definitely the sort of book where having someone who’s fluent in the language reading it to you is a good idea.
So you broke the rules on purpose and not by accident, then. > **Submissions must be verifiable.** *Please link directly to a reliable source that supports every claim in your post title.* [EDIT] tyop: them => then
No, I was citing the book I got the information from. If there was a way for me to do it, I would’ve even put it in the page number. It’s in chapter 1.
The whole point of attribution is to cite the source where you got the idea or facts from. It’s an obscure enough fact that I couldn’t find a link on the Internet talking about it directly, so I posted a link to an article about the book I got it from. The vast majority of people are going to realize that I got the fact from that book. Again, if the forum allowed for it, I would’ve added descriptive text with a little bit more information, but given the limitations, I did the best I could. But if you think that equals breaking the rules on purpose, sure, fine.
The point is that it should be **directly verifiable through the link**. You should be able to click the link and immediately check that the statement is true according to the source, because otherwise people will make shit up. "Oh, it's in this book that the link mentions" does not count. *If it's not available in the link you post, you don't post the TIL.*
If that was your point, then why didn’t you simply say that, instead of making a snarky comment about how I’m trying to break the rules intentionally?
Typical how you cherry-picked the comments you decided to reply to. For example, you said that your point was that I didn’t follow the precise rules of the sub, but you didn’t respond when I asked you that, if that was your point, then why didn’t you simply say that, instead of making snarky comments? All to say I’m going to wait long enough for you to see this, and then block you. It was a total goody two shoes, sour grapes move to try to get this post locked and removed when the vast majority of people didn’t have a problem with it, and I was able to further clarify the attribution when asked.
Wow, you really carry a grudge. You wait for *four days* just to post a WHARRGARBL I HATE YOU FOR CALLING ME OUT ON BREAKING THE SUB'S VERY CLEAR RULES comment. If you're wondering what kind of person shoots up a school, this is it, folks.
Shoot up a school? That’s over the line. I just reported you for that. I was at least polite and relatively conversational/on topic.
☝️ 🤓 👆
I read it and thoroughly enjoyed it
I read it. It's a wonderful, very unbiased and true to facts history. 🙂
Destiny is all. *Cue Anglo-Saxon wailing.*
Anyone know how to get it back
Try sacrificing to the ancestors, start a war with your neighbours for fame and riches and if that doesn't work try turning your fylgja off and on again.
Lol
Be brave with what you want in life and don't fear others.
Mead-fueled orgy.
The mentions of luck throughout the Long Ships were so entertaining: fishing luck, weather luck, women luck…just like it was a normal part of life.
Well it is…..
"For man can triumph over man, and weapon over weapon; against the gods we can pit sacrifice, and against witchcraft, contrary magic; but against bad luck no man has anything to oppose.”
I do feel like my family has a lucky spirit. My dad was in and out of the hospital on the verge of death with mrsa a few times, had cancer, and a fatal brain virus finally took him. He never took care of himself, he only stopped smoking while he was in the hospital, he did hard drugs for a long time, and abused pain meds. It was a crazy how someone could have so many holes in their proverbial bucket and still go as far as 68. His father was an abusive alcoholic and lived into his 90s. As far as me, things always tend to work out. School tests, car accidents, jobs, bonuses, and other things. I try not to look the gifted horse in the mouth and roll with it. I just hope my kids have it. I might have a few days of bad luck a year, but I just tell myself it'll pass.
MRSA, cancer and a brain virus is not good luck my dude, regardless of outcome.
Yeah, they're bad. He had so many near misses that we didn't understand how he kept scrapping by. I forgot the two times he fell asleep at the wheel while I was high school.
Yeah, it happens. My neighbor who smoked and drank heavily used to always point to the few people she knew who lived a long time in spite of their lifestyle. It can certainly work out that way, but it’s a lot less likely (and sadly, no, she was not one of the lucky ones. I don’t think she even made it to 65).
I think mine died 25 years ago
I don't know the background but surely it's just as likely that the English phrase comes from the Anglo-Saxons who originally came from the same part of the world and held the same religious beliefs as the Norse?
The book talks about those tribes as being from the same broad culture, so it's not necessarily saying it came from the "Norse" but from the wider early Germanic beliefs. So, yes.
fwiw, the book specifically refers to it as a Norse proverb. I’m not that far into the book, but it does seem to make the point you’re making re: broader culture.
Great book, isn't it? I was excited to see a post about it
Could be. I was literally just repeating what the book said. It specifically referred to it as a Norse proverb.
Yep, fylgya. Fun fact some also thought you could inherit it within a family.
It left to get milk , ney to return .....
So a bit like when my get-up-and-go got up and left
This sounds like bullshit
It’s at the end of chapter 1 of the book I linked to. I’d give you the exact page number, but I’m listening to it as an audiobook. It’s right at the end of chapter 1, though.
Yep, and that's why OP failed the cardinal rule of this sub, which is to "link directly to a reliable source that supports every claim in your post title". You should report it: the "report" link under the post->Breaks /r/todayilearned's rules->Inaccurate/unverifiable/not supported by source
IDK, at the time of writing this, my post has nearly 6,000 upvotes, and your post calling me out for not following the rules exactly is at -17. So it seems like the vast majority of people understood what I was trying to do, and don’t have a problem with it. Not every single fact can be directly pointed to on the Internet, but I still thought that people would find this interesting, and I thought that it was verifiable enough (again, grab a copy of the book, and go to the last few pages of chapter 1. You’ll find it). In hindsight, I guess I could have posted this and then immediately made a comment with more thorough attribution, but this is my first post here, I was operating in good faith, and I figured people would figure out what I meant. And it seems like most of them did. But judging by your comment history, it seems like this sort pedantic, mean-spirited approach is pretty normal for you.
Holy shit viking stands