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!
Possible Source? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz88kJSdT6Y
Exact source, verbatim.
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.
No French fries for them.
The last of Barrett’s Privateers?
Goddamn them all. I was told we’d cruise the seas for American gold.
We’d fire no guns, shed no tears!
But I’m a broken man on a Halifax pier The last of Barrett’s Privateers
Stay shanty, Lemmy
This is something I like about the internet. Basically any platform that allows any kind of chronological comments/replies between strangers like this, you’ll quickly find people replying individual lines of songs like this. I saw this in Yahoo! Chatrooms, I saw this on Facebook, I saw this on Reddit, I see it here. Even only through text, we sing to each other.
So you are not using coffins?
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 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
So Halifax is the best place to bury a body?
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.
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
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