My favorite Halifax fun fact: In 1917, a munitions ship exploded in Halifax Harbor. To commemorate the event, the City Council created ‘Splodey, the Halifax explosion mascot.
In addition, each public broadcast of Shaggy’s “Mr. Boombastic” is followed by a moment of silence
IIRC that event is, to this day, the most powerful non-nuclear man-made explosion to ever happen.
'SPLODEY. I'm trageadorable!
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My favorite Twatt, Scotland fun fact is that their mascot is Mr. Sploogy.
My favorite facts about Halifax is that the first French people to get there starved to death the first year because they wouldn't eat that weird vegetable the natives from the Mi'kmaq tribe gave them, because they didn't like the taste. Turns out it was potatoes. Can you imagine that?
I mean, do we know how they were cooking them? Maybe the natives told them to eat them raw as a prank.
Also, they were presumably unsalted?! I may rather die too
I do think some French dudes would have tried to at least boil and salt them. While it's true Mi'kmaq people didn't put salt in their food as they thought it was toxic, those French settlers couldn't care less. Salt was used as a conservant pretty much everywhere in Europe, and Nova Scotia has very long coast line (meaning salt was abundant).
My guess is that our tastes changed a lot since then. And "French" fries wasn't possible yet, because frying grease was too costly and rare.
I can't! Wow.
Did you know that potatoes contain all essential amino acids? They are a really good base for your diet.
No French fries for them.
Sure, I don't like them either. Now would I rather starve then eat potatoes? Can't say until I've lived through it... well or don't
I'd rather have that than be preserved for centuries. I honestly prefer cremation to burial. Heck, feed me to the birds for all I care, just let me unexist completely.
There's a sort of solace in that. That one day I'll completely cease to exist. I don't know why religious people like the idea of eternal life. I'd very much prefer not to exist after a while.
I got to tour a terramation (human composting) facility a little while back. You come out in a few burlap sacks of mulch. They even threw in some wicked t shirts.
Finally, the perfect shirt to wear to bullshit meetings.
The atoms that you are made of will not cease to exist until our sun explodes and makes them into something else.
You will either get buried and rot into sustenance for worms and bacteria or you will get cooked into carbon and calcium to be spread out and become intermixed with the soil.
So will everyone that currently exists barring nuclear annihilation. I find solace that my atoms will maybe be a tree or a bird or even just grass.
I won't exist. That's enough lol.
Well, no, but we're all made out of atoms but I don't think anyone would say that a human and an equivalent pile of raw material are the same.
feed me to the birds for all I care
They accidentally poisoned all the birds. Sorry about that.
No super advanced aliens/robots reincarnating you!
I do like the idea of eternal life, but I also like the idea of my earthly remains -- be that all that exist sof me or not -- being absorbed back into the earth when I'm gone. That doesn't seem so bad.
That's just flat wrong. Soil pH out that way is about 4 at the lowest.
On top of that bones are large, with low surface area, meaning it'll take a long time for them to 'dissolve'. Ok top of that, you would expect to see this in other locations
Sooo just like any regular graveyard?
Most graveyards are more basic.
This isn't your every day graveyard. This is A D V A N C E D G R A V E Y A R D
Then how is it we often times find the skeletons of our ancestors deep in the soil?
(Don’t want to sound sour though)
This isn't true. They are always reporting on old unclaimed bodies that got lost due to building over graveyards.
There is no soil in Halifax or Nova Scotia with a PH low enough to disolve bone.
So you are not using coffins?
Somewhat interestingly, in acidic soils the minerals, bones, teeth and metal vaults dissolve more easily, but organic matter, wood, flesh, fats are more preserved.
Pickles!
Wait, I though all buried bodies worldwide are supposed to disintegrate at some point?
I feel like if Halifax had some weird super destructive dirt like that I'd have heard about it, I may be in Manchester but I'm not that far from it haha.
Not that Halifax. This one is in Nova Scotia, Canada
Wrong Halifax. If it was that Halifax they'd probably had an exhibit about it at EUREKA and I'd definitely know about it.
Nope, the dirt here is just dirt pal, well, mud at the moment.
Save on archeology assessments by not having any remains.
Modern problems and all that.
This isn't a meme.
So Halifax is the best place to bury a body?
There are better ways than waiting for the natural processes of Great Mother Earth.
Legitimately interesting fact. I was recently in Halifax and wandered the Old Burying Ground, really neat place. Weird to think there's nothing under those stones.
Given enough time, all graveyards are like that
I used to see her tweets on Reddit. Is she still there? Or did she left?
I'm not sure, I left both Reddit and Shitter.
She is still active on Twitter: https://x.com/VeryBadLlama
Thanks ! And kind of sad…
I guess they've got hard water in that city too.
I mean, it the same everywhere it just that someplace it take suuper long. In who much time do with happend ? Is it quicker than the famous 40 days of the calcareous sarcophages ?
Now I have that song stuck in my head.
It's truly a blessed day for all us Stanheads.
Just while I take my night shift walk while the foreman's not around
