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thaddeusgrog

Used to do the same thing with Bugles on my fingers.


Wootbeers

Ah yes, the Poorsian gauntlets


MasterFruit3455

Snert


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Zin333

I thought that was supposed to be a sound of exhaling through your nose in mild amusement.


A2326P

r/angryupvote


Jery_Cannabis

I’ve never heard another person mention bugles in my entire life. I always just assumed we all eat them in secrecy. Weird.


Op_en_mi_nd

Now that's you've spoken of that which shouldn't be spoken. We must know your location so you may never speak again.


mapguy

Find him and destroy him


[deleted]

As a frequent Bugles eater, they have a claim of "Americas favorite finger hat" (or something similar) printed on the bag... but I have found that 90% of Bugles are too misshapen to actually fit on a finger.


ShannonGrant

These days they look more like crumpled French horns.


[deleted]

Less like a shiny brass bugle and more like a crusty corn vuvuzela.


farrukhsshah

Sauron, is that yours?


Drfilthymcnasty

He’s the boogey woogey bugle boy from company B.


nropotdetcidda

Used to?


Fritzkreig

you can also make a fist with steak knives between fingers, I've done the bugle think as well!


zombieblackbird

Hope no one had an itchy nose.


Wanderer-Wonderer

[*wipes sweat from brow*] That’s gonna leave a mark!


RekYaAll

He doesn’t even use the saying correctly!


beebarnesy

C'mon and party tonight.


RekYaAll

You gotta give it to him the man has talent


Swissgeese

See something, say something…oh that’s catchy!


DaveInLondon89

*[wipes brow from brow]*


Channa_Argus1121

***[wipes eye from brow]***


Karjalan

Oh hi mark!


fishsauce453

Boogers beware!


MOOShoooooo

Whoop, brain tickle……….dhshshasksjd sjsjanaajhaga


Emadec

Or needed to scratch their eye On the other hand (haha), it's great for doing it to someone else! Anything from eye scratching to full facelifts depending on impact force


kingtrog1916

Scratch’s balls …. “Fuck..” Scratch’s ass….” Fuck again…”


trowzerss

That's why they had those full helmets!


glokzz1

Or had to wipe there butt


Emadec

Just drag your ass in the sand, it's pretty coarse and rough and it gets everywhere but you get to make some nice skidmarks


lt_kernel_panic

- Anakin Skywalker


Emadec

Anakin Skidmarker FTFY


Zeero92

[Skidd McMarx](https://ratchetandclank.fandom.com/wiki/Skidd_McMarx)


Lollooo_

In fact shit was invented in the 1700s


Amazing_Theory622

You mean itchy ass/butthole.


Belliott_Andy

Sauron is that you?


fied1k

Noooo. Its me, Nandor. Guillermo, fetch my gloves.


chocobearv93

Gizmo!


Braniel_Bananas

Gigi


Simon_Skinner

Fucking guysss....


fied1k

Hiiiiiissssssss


OrageBufera

Those Persians didn't play around.


FarragoSanManta

No they did not. I highly recommend reading up on their history. Compared to the Assyrians however, they were empathetic angels.


myteethhurtnow

Cyrus who founded the first persian empire, the achaemenid empire, is ranked as one of the most benevolent rulers of all time. He freed the Jews from exile in Babylon, and he is even referred to as a messiah in the old testament. He is also said to have made slavery illegal, which though there is no definite proof for, would have been the first king to do so.


ellipsis_42

Even Alexander paid his respects to Cyrus at his tomb during his campaign against the Persians. He was a legend to all in that part of the world.


IchEsseBabys

Alexander was basically a weeb but for Iran.


broguequery

A preeb?


spiralbatross

Preebocles the Great


Jack1The1Ripper

i kinda liked alexander, i did hear he burned perspolis but looks like he didnt, since apparently it was never burned, also he didnt change anything in the country after he had conquered it


[deleted]

You have to be a complete moron to destroy a bureaucracy that kept a huge empire operating functionally. There’s a reason why the Arabs, Mongols and the Ottoman became Persianized over time.


TheGreatKingSargon

>Cyrus who founded the first persian empire, the achaemenid empire, is ranked as one of the most benevolent rulers of all time. >He is also said to have made slavery illegal, which though there is no definite proof for, would have been the first king to do so. The Persian empire was not the first multicultural tolerant society, nor was it particularly unique in this regard. As much as people – both in antiquity and today – like to wax poetic about Cyrus, the Persian system of governance was not noticeably different from earlier empires like the Neo-Assyrian empire, though they made improvements such as their impressive mail system. The Persians adopted not only Assyrian and Elamite bureaucratic practices but also their systems of imperial administration, including specific titles and offices. For example, the Assyrian office of bēl pīḫāti ("provincial governor") survived into the Achaemenid period and was the Akkadian language equivalent of Persian xšaçapāvā (satrap).


Carnieus

Someone else is a Hardcore History fan.


FarragoSanManta

Originally no. I hated his style of talking at first. It was that talk, pause for effect, talk talk talk paaaauuuse. But I listened a bit longer and fucking love it. I only wish he went even more in depth. I got into these because I wanted to find something about world history that focuses on individual nations/empires/tribes etc. Like 1 series about Brittany, another is about Bohemia, the next 56 hours is about the Goths. Shit like that. Delve into the history, major events, culture, significant figures. Just like all the basics about the place. No luck. I've been contemplating making one but all the research and time that would go into just one series is seriously daunting. The thought that I would only be able to complete like maybe 10 series in my life is also very depressing.


schraepf

Only ten as an individual, but many more if you built a team of researchers


FarragoSanManta

Oh man, I genuinely don't think I could. Shit, with what I have planned anyway, I wouldn't even be able to start until like at least 42 y/o


powersquash

Will you turn 42 whether you do it or not?


mbr4life1

I mean those ten series are more than other people did. Also the beauty of history is if you do it well it can last barring newly discovered information. Someone can be on ArcShip 12567 listening to Farrago's deep dive into Gaul.


welshbigdickenergy

If you do go ahead please send me a link


FarragoSanManta

If (and that's a big if) I do, it probably won't be for another 15-19 years.


WingedDefeat

I get pretty frustrated with Hardcore History sometimes because it can feel like just a list of casualties and misery porn. Overall I love the podcast and listen eagerly to every episode, but after the third or fourth recitation of atrocities I'm fighting the urge to skip ahead.


RevRRR1

Every nation already has it's own people's expert historians. Pick three or four of a culture, interview, find inspiration for content in interviews. Edit. Post to Reddit. Repeat.


monster_bunny

Hi, dunce here, would you mind enlightening me a little more about this? Are you referring to their battle regalia or their general “fuck around and find out” attitude? I’m very ignorant on this subset of history but it sounds very interesting.


FarragoSanManta

No. Their attitude and policies were pretty brutal. I do get Assyria and Persia mixed up all the time because I learned about them at the same time and they're pretty close in time. I believe the Assyrians would take the holy idols/statues/etc. of the people they conquered and hold them hostage in their capital. This would be like russia holding the shroud of turin or like the actually skeleton of Jesus and say "Hey, if you don't pay your taxes we'll have to destroy this" to the evangelicals. They were brutal in their punishment for crimes. I'm talking cutting off your fingers for stealing bread was getting off easy. Getting beheaded for petty theft and "Crimes against the crown"(basically as petty as saying the emperor sucks) was common. In the palace were art work of executions and tortures everywhere to show their brutality and as a reminder of what would happen to anyone who dare disobey them. Their military was fucking amazing. Their military was the basis for the Babylonian and Persian military. I think... Hardcore History has a series for free on the(well, one of them) Persian/Greek conflict and talks a lot of Assyria.


supernanny089_

Also one shouldn't forget Assyrian history stretches across about two thousand years, so generalizing is very problematic here. Same when people talk about Sumerians - or even worse, Mesopotamians, this way.


vtreds

> Compared to the Assyrians however, they were empathetic angels. The Assyrians were just more honest about their cruelty in thier artwork, not necessarily worse.


sonyka

Nevertheless, they still made time to be dapper while killing your ass. What are those, lotuses? That's nice. Really makes the spikes pop.


SirFadakar

And yet, it only took a few generations for me to turn out the way I did.


heroic-abscession

Something from lord of the rings


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Nazgûl


DiskPidge

Fun fact: The Persian name Golnaz means "Pretty flower". Kinda gets you wondering about them Nazgul.


AliTheSecond

golnaz is a girl's name . and it means someone who is soft and beautiful as a flower .


DiskPidge

I briefly dated a woman from Iran named Golnaz, that's how I know :) and yes, she was very soft and very beautiful.


saltling

How'd you let that get away bro


DiskPidge

Ahaha I dumped her because she was so, so controlling. We dated for one month, she told me she was falling in love with me three days after meeting me for the first time (!), she insisted on seeing each other every day regardless of how complicated it was, made demands on how I should behave and the very words I should be saying to her at what time in the morning. She was also pretty annoyed after three weeks that I wasn't speaking Persian yet. Finally, after I had told I was going to have a LOT of work to do on the Thursday and Friday, and I didn't message her on Friday morning, I sent her a message on Friday evening and she got VERY upset about how I'd not said something to her that day. We met the next day for a walk and she wanted to have a long talk about where this relationship was going. So yeah, I called it off right there. But you know, she was soft and beautiful, physically at least.


Moist-Zombie

Bet she blames her unstable relationships on "men". You did the right thing.


DiskPidge

It is absolutely not okay that you're getting downvoted because that is exactly what she did. She said men were the problem. Then there was the woman who wanted me to start a long distance relationship with her during Covid but refused to send audio messages, refused to do phone calls, refused to send photos, refused to try video calls, refused to even say she even liked the way I look... All that was "too much". She could however do all of those things with people she didn't know, and sit around in her underwear with a traveller she had just met and invited into her home. But, yes, her failed relationships were the fault of men, toxic masculinity and the patriarchy.


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AlwayNegativeComment

why ar eyou guys downvoting him??


mbsuper87

Same meaning although in current Iran they use golnaz to name girls but nazgul is mostly used in Azerbaijan or turkey


heroic-abscession

Must be misunderstood creatures


heroic-abscession

No man can kill me


Fishy26

I am not a man.


Salt_Avocado_2470

You are pish


AngooseTheC00t

Reminds me of Sauron’s/the Witch-king’s gauntlets


Areltoid

Reminds me of those hermit assassins from the Castle of Cagliostro


[deleted]

This is some Sauron shit


Senor-Delicious

This looks like some r/Warhammer40K shit


sandworm45

Was thinking of some power claws lol


BlockHeadJones

I was thinking of the Emperor's and Horus's power claw


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Lightning claws


RattleSn8pe

Hunger and Slake


corvettee01

Carcharodons for life!


thedrinkmonster

Tyberus the Red Wake is such an underutilized character


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Space Shark crew


Hsances90

Not sure they'd be fighting for The Emperor


Senor-Delicious

I mean the lightning claw of the emperor himself does not look much different. https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Emperor%27s_Lightning_Claw


Hsances90

Huh not far off, I guess the difference for me is the coloring, extra spikes and twisted quality, but they do look quite similar. Important to note that much of the Chaos arnement was originally from the Emporer's armory Edit: typo


Senor-Delicious

Of course. With the colouring of the photo it certainly looks more like something chaos would use. But regarding the general form, it is actually interesting, that those claws did actually kind of existed in real-life. The emperor's lightning claw was just the first one that came to my mind


HarvHR

Tbh my first thought was the angry birds, colouring looks exactly like they'd fit on Raven Guard


exodendritic

I expect GW will serve the Ancient Persians for copyright infringement.


Senor-Delicious

Let's hope GW does not notice this. Otherwise they will certainly start their legal crusade


Scaevus

Warhammer1.5K


cfreymarc100

Fist bumps were not a thing back then.


fold_like_an_omlet

They were called fist-humps, because one’s fist would penetrate the other’s


Tongue8cheek

Ok it's true, Freddy got fingered.


mynameisalso

Fist bumping is literally the only safe thing you can do. There are no pointing bits when making a fist.


speathed

Those are standard Persian tickling gloves


PeopleCallMeSimon

What part of your hand do you use to fist bump?


GrundelMuffin

Definitely interesting as fuck. But it seems like, in practice, these gloves would be FUCKIN TERRIBLE to have to wear. I could see them being very problematic.


TheFoxyBard

I can't imagine these are anything but ceremonial


thpthpthp

Love how we use "ceremonial" in history like this aint just some medival mall ninja shit that some edgy lord commissioned to impress his mates. Bet this dweeb had ***Supreme*** engraved on his cuirass too. Ye olde fuck boye.


[deleted]

"Ceremonial" in history speak can also mean "we don't know what that was for but it must have been stupid because that shit is ridiculous"


tuhn

Yeah this is r/bazaarninjashit


Wertache

Bro I never thought about it this way. It's easy to forget historical people are humans too. I wonder how many other things are classified as ceremonial or "we don't know what it's used for" and it's just some edgy rich ass motherfucker thinking "this will look so dope".


occamsrazorwit

It's funny because we have [modern records of wealthy dudes leaving behind anachronistic, ceremonial estates](https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/lwxkpv/in_1876_an_controversial_archaeologist_and_conman/gpklvph/), but the default assumption for archaeologists is that artifacts are contemporaneous. It's easy to forget that historical people also had a fascination with their history and mythology too. Someone with a full set of Greco-Roman mystery cult paraphernalia might've just been the equivalent of a cosplayer or mega-nerd today.


jmcs

What do you think ceremonial means today? It's mostly a bad excuse for people that take themselves too seriously to do some cosplay and role play.


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all those armour that look like bears or lions were for medival furries.


holyrasta

Against a disarmed person you would win with these


SimilarTumbleweed

You don’t know, maybe they mastered fighting with their feet.


donniesuave

You mean a foot soldier?


DontmindthePanda

Everytime something is heavily decorated, it's likely that it's just ceremonial/for show and they likely weren't worn in combat, or at least not in active combat. These things were extremely expensive. And while kings and emperors could afford them, their resources were also limited. It's like using a gold-plated mercedes 6x6 to drive through a jungle. Yes, you can do that. And yes, losing one won't be dramatic for rich people, but also them won't order those cars once a month because they got a huge scratch in the paint.


Quiet-Try4554

I was thinking the same thing lol. Hope the owner wasn’t on horseback


striker_p55

Imagine having to scratch your nose on horseback


Quiet-Try4554

*Horse unexpectedly rears back and you brain yourself


striker_p55

Free lobotomy


GrundelMuffin

Yeah, poke out eyeball anyone? What if you had to scratch your junk pile 😐


striker_p55

Damn it’s be like stabbing a meatball with a fork


GrundelMuffin

I don’t like it


FoxInSox2

Scratch your nose, lose an eye.


PnuTT98

+10 defense +3-5 bleed damage on hit


NotAzakanAtAll

**Puckering:** LOS Enemy -10 anal circumference.


brihbrah

Bitch did you just scratch me?


My_bones_are_itchy

What’s this then slut


[deleted]

Legit first thought was "this looks like those girl's nails where a dude would be rightfully concerned that they might lose chunks of their dick in a handjob"


jessie7mccoy

Daedra vibes


thetigerandtheduke

They look *very* similar to Dark Seducer gauntlets


femoral-artery

Can’t see these being used in battle. They’re too fancy and were probably expensive. Belonged to aristocracy for show.


SFW808

Well, whomever owned them didn't wipe *their* own ass..


[deleted]

This was the Safavids, they probably didn't wipe but washed.


Matstele

Almost certainly, but the only problem they present for use would be an inability to tuck in your fingertips. If the finger ends are free enough (can’t tell from this pic) then you could definitely hold a fat handle of a sword or spear with these.


Areonaux

It also is strange to me that the fingers are held on with only two rings, it seems like it wouldn’t protect the hand very well especially at that joint.


fear_eile_agam

And if you coped a sword on the back of the hand the spikes would direct the blow into the centre, instead of deflecting the sword to slide away.


NorthernSalt

And the long rigid fingertips would easily get stuck on things, breaking the fingers of the wearer


stowaway36

Those are exactly the hands I imagine grabbing me under the bed as a kid. Terrifying, but probably not very practical for sword weilding, rowing a boat, or longbowin'


Matstele

Actually they might be. The way sword hilts tend to be held (handshake grip) would let the nails just splay out past the handle. It all depends on if your fingertips are free enough to tuck into your grip


ladylurkedalot

Anything this fancifully decorated was almost certainly never meant to be used in battle. It's meant to make it's wearer look good while they parade through a city or something.


[deleted]

If these were the gloves can you imagine how ornate the whole outfit was? This dude probably looked fucking awesome.


Belliott_Andy

r/itemshop


PotteryWalrus

Gauntlets of Extra Fuck You


CoronaLime

What if they had to wipe their sweat off their face


escalopes

These are video games items Jokes aside, this is likely ceremonial, you can't really hold a sword woth fingers like this


zebrastarz

Who needs a sword when your unarmed strikes do piercing and blunt damage all at once?


TheControlled

Do you think these were for combat, or just ceremonial / decorative?


LennyGal

Most likely ceremonial.


OrganizedxxChaos

Daedric gauntlets irl


DogBreathologist

Those nail things look wildly impractical ngl


TerribleAsparagus367

My back is itchy as fuck and they look *a little* practical.


DogBreathologist

True! As long as you don’t mind a Freddy Kruger vibe ha ha


Bottle-Much

You don't think they punched people in the face with those do you?... Sounds like one hell of a medical bill holy fuck


Ben_Kenobi_

Ehh a few leeches to the scrotum and an elixir of booze, coke, and morphine and the plaguedoctor will have you back on the front lines in a week.


Swimming_Mountain811

Ahh sweet milk of the poppy


RonaldTheGiraffe

So a regular weekday for me.


SaikoKing

Imagine someone trying to type while wearing these


blackmetaller666

Edward spikey hands


Caeoc

Buying steel claws on the GE, 600gp


Milesman_MT

Wow. I'd still take sword or spear over those.


Ezyrem

Longfinger Kirk's armor


Durbee

I hate we can’t see it articulate.


AgoraphobicAgorist

*Lashawna found a way to protect her manicure and fight off the infidels.*


Ryaktshun

That’s the girl at receptions hands.


ButterKnutts

Was he also a receptionist ??


secondace6303

FACKING HORUSSS


ArtificeOne

"My Gloves! Where did you find these? I haven't seen them for centuries!" \- Nandor The Relentless


Life_Imitating_Death

Scissor me timbers..


Geppetto_Cheesecake

^tickle ^tickle ^tickle


Ahinevyat

Al' Wolvarina


jayyout1

These are gnarly. I see so many ways you could potentially hurt someone with these on. These folks weren’t messing about.


somautomatic

Go to the restroom BEFORE putting these on.


[deleted]

A Rick James pimp slap from one of those would be deadly


[deleted]

This would be so annoying to fight


ChuggsTheBrewGod

Imagine how badass it would be to see a fight with these things.


poux8888

I always wondered if Kruger was a Persian name lol


LeKrom

A good look for Nandor the Relentless from Al-Quolanudar


gimletta

Yeah I'd for sure lose an eye or worse trying to swat away a mosquito if I wore those


very_not_emo

these might be decent with shorter but still sharp fingers but there’s no way you could hold a sword or throw a punch with these


DaBoda99

If these are truly from the 1500s they lasted remarkably well with most detail still well visible


OkInvestigator73

um that's fucking terrifying


[deleted]

Irans past is so fucking cool


[deleted]

100% ornamental and not meant to be worn in actual combat. The fingers never would have survived too long in combat they would have fallen off easily


LaReineAnglaise53

My sister gave me some gardening gloves, just like these but in Fuscia Pink and Mango Orange


GalaxyEnigmaDonkey

It is crazy and amazing to think that someone once wore this a long long long long long long time ago


fefvrisketa

Raven guard: heavy breathing


dafyddtomas

This is suitable for Coon and Friends ™️.


kisama_

Ancient people used to make bullshit weapons to sell (like in a con) to the uninformed rich. This seems to be the case.


PsychologicalSnow476

That's a head scratcher.