this post was submitted on 31 May 2024
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[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 months ago (2 children)

What did the labels say before you blurred them to the point of non-readability?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ah thanks! I didn't know where to find the original meme from the Tumblr post that I had snipped from my friend's Instagram story and then uploaded to imgur so I could post it on Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No ifunny or 9gag? It's like you're not even trying.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Oh those are my next 2 stops before LinkedIn an Slack.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Reddit doesn’t let me use it anymore because I use a vpn. Anyone got a direct link?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

Finally, a decent fucking post

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Red is elephant regularly used for at least serval years. Yellow is a one off or in small numbers only.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

War elephants not deployed...yet

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

at least for at least!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I'm not saying that JPEG wasn't lacking in memes before, but it certainly does feel like the great and magical Webm and Webp have exasperated the issue.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Grey as a mouse,

Big as a house,

Nose like a snake,

I make the earth shake,

As I tramp through the grass;

Trees crack as I pass.

With horns in my mouth

I walk in the South,

Flapping big ears.

Beyond count of years

I stump round and round,

Never lie on the ground,

Not even to die.

Oliphaunt am I,

Biggest of all,

Huge, old, and tall.

If ever you'd meet me

You wouldn't forget me.

If you never do,

You won't think I'm true;

But old Oliphaunt am I,

And I never lie.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

A good time to go to the pub, have a point, and Wait for this to all blow over.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This map isn't accurate, for example elephants where used in an attack on Saudi Arabia (mecca) by aksumites, the same guys who invaded the southern bit of the Arabian peninsula

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Careful pal, I'm a mod who rules this map meme sub with an iron fist. Watch what you say or you're going to map jail, for map crimes. 😡

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

There are two accounts of Greek historians describing the usage of war elephants in Britain by the Roman empire. Cassius Dio says that Claudius used them in 43 CE, and Polyaenus says that Julius Caesar did in 54 BCE. These accounts are both very brief and have not been backed uo by any physical evidence or other accounts of the same situation. Not even Caesar, a prolific author himself, says that he used elephants in Britain

It would be fucking wild if it did happen though. That elephant would have travelled farther than nearly any human alive at the time