RIP MoC. RIP Sammy

Porn is degrading to women.

Sammy doesn't masturbate.

No love for acesflow11? He was the OG of the tattoo remember.

RIP everyone. Thanks mods and Joseph Jnr. You happy now?

BTW what happened to Mr. tbh? Tell us right meow Mr. Morph! Did you subject him to Turkish Psychedelic Kate Bush Abba?

Prolly failed to see the humor in 10 digit infarctions.

maybe he stormed the capitol

"De Vermis Mysteriis" - of Ole Worm, early modern science and the Wunderkammer


13 May 1588, Ole Worm, the Danish physician, antiquarian, scientist, Wunderkammer-proprietor and alleged translator of the infamous Necronomicon was born in Aarhus.

“In A.D. 950 the Azif, which had gained a considerable tho' surreptitious circulation amongst the philosophers of the age, was secretly translated into Greek by Theodorus Philetas of Constantinople under the title Necronomicon. For a century it impelled certain experimenters to terrible attempts, when it was suppressed and burnt by the patriarch Michael. After this it is only heard of furtively, but (1228) Olaus Wormius made a Latin translation later in the Middle Ages, and the Latin text was printed twice -- once in the fifteenth century in black-letter (evidently in Germany) and once in the seventeenth (prob. Spanish) -- both editions being without identifying marks, and located as to time and place by internal typographical evidence only. The work both Latin and Greek was banned by Pope Gregory IX in 1232, shortly after its Latin translation, which called attention to it. The Arabic original was lost as early as Wormius' time, as indicated by his prefatory note; and no sight of the Greek copy -- which was printed in Italy between 1500 and 1550 -- has been reported since the burning of a certain Salem man's library in 1692.” (H.P. Lovecraft “The History of the Necronomicon”)

It was a time when the ways of medieval passion and myth-loving and modern empirical scientific methods had been parted long since. Infallibility of the Catholic dogma was already been questioned a few decades before, first in pure theological matters, fuel enough for murderous conflict at the dawn of the Early Modern Age and scrutinising the physical image of the world almost immediately followed suit, by Copernicus, Galilei and all the other late Renaissance heroes of science. There were quite a few, however, who found their calling in sleuthing the mysteries of God’s creation with a bit more attention to detail beyond deducing global coherences. It was a second and third generation of Northern Renaissance men who concerned themselves with topics such as embryology, unicorns, runic script and Bronze Age tombs, to name but a few of their interests. And one of them became the founding fathers of Scandinavian archaeology, a well-travelled scientific jack-of-all-trades of the sort only the 17th century could produce, named Ole Worm, or latinised, as it was de rigueur back then, Olaus Wormius.

There was, however, an institution, almost developed to an art form all by itself, that bridged the gap between celestial matters and very mundane frills and furbelows, the Cabinets of Wonder, the Wunderkammer. Echoing the old “like above so below”, the maxim of Hermetic Magic, quite fashionable back in the day as well, Cabinets of Wonder were regarded as microcosms uniting all varieties of science with exhibits of natural history and geology as well as pieces of what we today would regard as belonging to the ethnographic or archaeological variety or simply as objets d’art. If a ruler like Emperor Rudolf II, Charles I of England or Peter the Great ran a Wunderkammer, allegorical perception of the late Renaissance and early Baroque saw it as a symbol of their rule encompassing the whole world, like above so below, if a scientist like Athanasius Kircher or Ole Worm established one, their command over the Tellurian spheres were regarded as something quite different. It was the equivalent of a very tangible professorial dissertation cum natural history museum with a dash of the P.T. Barnum spirit. Every so often, exhibits were intended fakes.

However profound Ole Worm’s insights into matters of time and space really were, if he actually translated the Kitab Al-Azif, better known as the Necronomicon in 1228, 360 years before his birth in Copenhagen from a Greek source, as H.P. Lovecraft made us believe, it would really be more than a little strange, Hermetic Magic or not. To adherents of weird fiction and Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos, this feat is inextricably linked with the name of Olaus Wormius though. And while the real Ole Worm tried to wrench discoveries of olden times, like the famous Golden Horns of Gallehus, from the cosy twilit of legends into a well-illuminated scientific classification and tripping over contemporary myths, he, along with Kircher and others, planted the germs of later museums with his Wunderkammer. His own Cabinet came into the hands of the King of Denmark after his death, more or less for representative reasons rather than scientific ambition and is now part of the Statens Naturhistoriske Museum in Copenhagen and Ole Worm lives on as the father of several scientific branches in Denmark.

...so Ole put his worm in the Wunderkammer?

Morph made a funny


The other idiots don't know what "kammer" means though.

Sammy just called himself an idiot.

This is the worst I ever felt winning $400.

Decided not to enter my usual tourneys because didn’t want to deal with monitoring it and enjoy the MMA slate, so decided to save money and just enter a couple of lineups in a $1 tourney just to see how I woulda done. Only 2nd time all season I took a night off.

Cost me around $30k. Almost wish I didn’t enter.

what the **** are you talking about?

American sportsball.

They have basketball in Australia but it's kangaroo-only.

Fishkings and Gentleroos,

Rejoice, for today is the 199th consecutive Sheepday! Today we recognize the continued efforts of Mr. Sheep, BBV's fluffiest Eurobro. Ewe rock. It's a very cold day in the north today and we received many pounds of powdered water all across the landscape. Cold AF for AF. F. Mr. Freeze joke here. Let us remember the efforts of those who came before us (heehee) and have left us for the time being. RIP MoC. RIP CigarDan (hardly knew yee but way to quit when I joined). RIP Mr. Bump.

Sneezed.

Why would you ask that what’s wrong with your mouse

i think i have corona virus

Shut up


No. But you can get your real name and your credit card number tattoed on my leg. Punk


Shut up


**** you sammy

**** you sammy


**** you sammy

Got a Profit Boost on a max $25 bet on Draft Kings. I chose wisely.

I'm gonna try and kill myself today. Wish I had never played this game. gl degens.

You will fail and blame Morph obv

I already blame morph

NZ has a covid case in the community. We will probably be locked down fairly soon again like the rest of the world.

One case?

Wtf is wrong with you islanders?

In Bosnia all restaurants and clubs are full... thousnds of cases daily...