https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_...ot?wprov=sfla1

The New York Straw Hat Riot

Gangs of teenagers prowled the streets wielding large sticks, sometimes with a nail driven through the top, looking for pedestrians wearing straw hats and beating those who resisted. One man claimed that his hat was taken and the group who had taken his hat joined a mob of about 1,000 that was snatching hats all along Amsterdam Avenue. Several men were hospitalized from the beatings they received after resisting having their hats taken, and many arrests were made.

you left out the best part

I have a feeling that at least a few 2+2 posters have the written form of the disorder.

The OP was perfectly justified to call it megalithic. You seem to believe that megalths are tied to a particular time frame. If you travel to Sumba, there is a culture there that is still erecting megalithic tombs in the present day. IIRC, the largest stones at Saqsaywaman were more than 200 tons.

My favorite stone construction going on now is Guedelon Castle, where they are attempting to faithfully recreate a 13c castle using exclusively tools and materials available in that time frame. I think they've been at it for 20 years now and its starting to look like the real deal.

This article is actually a bit more interesting than the wiki:
https://www.boredpanda.com/building-...mpaign=organic

You originally called the (non-)megalith site a "sight" which is strictly not what it is and any archaeologist would be able to tell you this. If we all of a sudden conflated sight with site then all words would lose their meaning -- verbs become nouns and so forth.

this is pretty cool

I think there's another project somewhere where they're rebuilding a great Cathedral using traditional methods.

To be fair, anyone that wears a straw hat past September 15th deserves to have their ass beaten.

Calling a castle "megalithic" seems not right to me.
(Yep, i'm throwing my hat into this mess)

straw hat link is a timely reminder for me that absurd social/moral posturing has always been a thing, not a recent invention, not going away

my favorite quote was

imagine the outrage today

Those are just lithic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Le_Roux

This guy is bananas. Known as an "internet crime boss," he got his start as a programmer/hacker heavy into the encryption scene. Quickly got into moving prescription drugs online, which naturally pushed him further into the criminal world. Gun running, assassinations, Somalian piracy, diamond smuggling, meth production/distribution, stealing state secrets (such as missile launch codes), illegal logging operations, as well as all the other "normal" internet crimes (doxxing, ransomware, etc.).

He kept his organization extremely compartmentalized, most people working for him never even knew who he was. Hired most of his workers/contractors through online portals such as LinkedIn, and would then often hire other people to kill said workers. He's an expert at creating countless shell companies that barely ever touched each other, making it incredibly difficult to estimate how much money he likely has stashed away.


I'm not even done reading everything, his story is insane. Going to dig deeper soon.


Oh yeah, and he's also suspected to be Satoshi Nakamoto, the inventor of Bitcoin. Which, if true, means he has roughly one million bitcoins (11 billion USD) tucked away somewhere.

he would in my class. It's correct.

Hang on, Voltaire...

I'll have the Pancakes from the Age of Enlightenment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assass..._of_Olof_Palme

The prime minister of Sweden was murdered in downtown Stockholm and the killer has never been caught.

This one is mind blowing, been reading by parts the past couple days and it reads like a novel, surprised there is not a movie or something about him yet (maybe there is and I havent got to that part in the article ).

Uh thanks for posting this, since you did I’ve read everything easily available on the internet about him and ordered the book that I read an excerpt out of. Jesus f Christ this stuff is unbelievable, this is like Lord of War except x1000^10.

I guess it shouldn’t be surprising as there are tons of psychopaths period, but these ex US military guys who assassinated the girl in the Phils, just wow

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Wertheim

If you're wondering why the US Open is so sensitive to linesmen getting hit by balls.

That link took me to this page of awfulness: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_deaths

Some of you might recognise occasional 2p2 poster and former PokerStars staff member Hoong Leong listed near the end there.

*joke about balls being sensitive too*

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayerling_incident

Man, the Habsburgs went through a dramatic stretch. The crown prince committed suicide with his lover, then 9 years later the empress was assassinated by an anarchist, then 16 years after that the heir to the throne (Franz Ferdinand) was assassinated and WWI happened.

ETA: reading more, Rudolf's mother, Empress Elizabeth, was devastated by his death and could not bear court life any longer. She spent the rest of her life traveling without any royal procession which is how an unemployed nobody was able to walk up and stab her in the heart.

Good one, Jay. I quite liked the bit about Helmut Flatzelsteiner, who was so obsessed with the matter that he exhumed Vetsera's skeleton recently in an effort to determine if she had actually been shot.

My 'favorite':

This was an amazing read, thanks for posting. Blown away by this guy's story, have sent it to a lot of friends and they all have the same reaction. Seriously WTF.