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Sunday, November 1, 2020

Woman's Friend Accuses Her Of Stealing Baby Name

Um, so it's not like someone is able to have ownership over a name. Especially considering the context of this situation, and the fact that the woman's friend hasn't even had her next baby yet, and is unsure if that baby's going to be a girl or not. But no, instead she insists on making a whole drama out of something that seems like it never should've been a drama in the first place.

For some more juicy baby name drama check out this story about a woman wanting to name her baby "Alibi." Yikes.

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Text - AITA for "stealing" a baby name? Not the A-hole So, my best friend is about 5 months pregnant. When she first found out we had fun brainstorming names together for both boys and girls. When she found out she was having a boy we were thrilled and she settled on the name Josh. I'm not going to lie, as soon as we knew it was a boy all the other name options kind of evaporated from my head... maybe that makes me a shitty friend but it's the truth. Then, last month I found out l'm pregnant as

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Text - When I told my friend she was extremely upset because Ada was the girl name they wanted to use (again, I frankly forgot, it was months ago and we had talked about several other girl names that she wanted). Now she won't speak to me because she's convinced her next baby will be a girl and they're already planning on calling her Ada, so l'm "stealing" their name. I understand that it's hurtful that I forgot their hypothetical girl name choice, but does that really make me TA here?

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Text - GirlMcGirlface • 1d • Partassipant [1] 1 Award NTA She's mad at you for a ridiculous reason. My Best friend of 20 years got mad at me when I named my daughter. She wasn't even pregnant or planning on kids at the time, and my name only rhymed with the name she wanted to call her hypothetical baby. She went on to have 3 boys. If l'd caved in to her ridiculousness and changed the name, it would have been for nothing. Keep the name Ada, you probably won't even be friends with this person in f

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Text - TopaztheBigBoss • 1d • Certified Proctologist [21] NTA. You said it is a family name on both your and your husband's side. Also, people don't "call" names for their kids. What if you got a baby book and read off all the names to your friend. Does that mean she can't use one of them? Reply 220 ...

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Text - Main_Pick_4174 • 1d NTA! Honestly, how many times were there 3 girls named Katherine (or some variation of that name), Hannah, Brittany, or Kelly growing up? On top of that, the earliest she will be able to have another kid is over a year away assuming she gets pregnant right away AND it is a girl. She has PLENTY of time to find a new favorite name or still use Ada. She is just being extra. Reply 1 115 ...

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Text - GrymDraig • 1d • Pooperintendant [53] NTA. You can't "steal" a name. It's not something one person gets exclusive rights to. You said yourself it is a family name on both sides of your family, so it clearly has meaning to you. This person is being unreasonable. Reply 1 122 ...

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Text - bitchy_badger • 1d • Colo-rectal Surgeon [30] NTA- no one owns a name. You have your own reasons for wanting this name. She doesn't even know if she will ever have a girl, are you supposed to not use it because maybe one day 3 years from now she will want it. Reply 1 22 ...

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Text - togocann49 • 1d • Asshole Enthusiast [6] NTA -your friend can still use the name. And also, your friend may not have another child, let alone a girl Reply 40 ...

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Text - The_Iron_Quill • 1d NTA based on what's written here. The only way that you'd be an (unintentional) AH is if she'd specifically told you that she planned on using the name Ada, and you didn't talk to her before announcing it. (I don't mean just "I love the name Ada", I mean literally "I'm going to name my next baby Ada".) To be clear, you're not obligated to let her have dibs on the name. You still have just as much claim to the name. But if she'd told you that she'd picked that name and

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Text - wadingin3 • 1d • Asshole Aficionado [14] NTA but give her time and space to work it out. I can't speak for you or your friend, but pregnancy hormones really messed with my internal emotional regulation gauge. It was even worse with my first because I ascribed emotional importance to SO many things which, in retrospect, were not important. Once I had actually given birth (and even more so with subsequent kids) I had a much better grasp of what was worth getting upset over and what wasn't.

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Text - bust_a_moose • 1d • Partassipant [4] NTA. It's pretty clear your friend is being ridiculous Reply ...

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Text - AmazingAd2765 • 1d • Asshole Aficionado [10] NTA She doesn't have exclusive rights to a name because she considered it before learning the gender of her baby. Reply ...

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Text - newsunicorn • 1d NTA I have a close group of friends and 3 of them have Jacobs. One was named because my friend liked the name, the second was named after my friend's brother. Not sure about the third. Either way, no one cared. Reply ...

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Text - Narshalla • 20h NTA. The only way to win this game is to not play at all. Name your kids what you want to name them. Reply ...

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Text - StargazerNataku • 20h NTA. For starters, you are having a daughter. She may never. But more importantly, why on earth does it matter if the kids have the same name? My husband and I have chosen a name for a future son that means a lot to us (family name). Two of our best friends already have a son with that name. It is not the end of the world. I'm not angry they used it and they're not upset we plan to. Two different families, two different children. Who cares? Reply 1 3 ...

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Text - Joxey • 21h NTA - currently about to give birth (seriously my baby needs to come out already), and my husband and I were brainstorming name. At first he wanted to name the baby after himself, I vetoed that one real quick. And after some brainstorming, it turned out that the : names we chose were already being used by friends' baby or his nephew. I told him tough luck but sorry I am not going to name my baby some ridiculous name I don't really like because I need to tip toe around everyone

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Text - confusedhelpme22 • 19h • Partassipant [2] NTA she could have all boys. People have the right to name their kids whatever they want! Also, my husband and I are naming out next baby Ada Grace if it's a girl. Reply Vote ...

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Text - stink3rbelle • 22h • The Rear Admiral NAH. You say you don't remember the other names, which is believable enough. But baby names are a big deal to people, and it's something people invest a lot of time and care in. You definitely talked about the name "Ada" with this friend when you brainstormed baby names with her. I think it was kind of shoddy not to mention that it was a name you'd consider for your own kids, and that it was a family name for your and your husband's families. That goe

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Text - Square-Concept • 1d NTA. You mentioned it because you liked it. My mom "stole" my name from her sister, who was newly pregnant. They got over it. Reply Vote ...

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Text - LibraWoman1 • 1d NTA. For one thing she may never have a daughter. For another if you were brainstorming with your friend because it's a family name for you it's probably one that you suggested. Great she may have said she liked it but it's a family name for you ...end of story Reply Vote ...

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Text - pattystangerknowsit • 1d NTA and this woman needs to get over herself. Phulesse... she crazy Reply Vote ...

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Text - Marzipan_civil • 1d • Partassipant [2] NTA - she's not calling her baby boy by the name you chose, she might never have a girl. %3D Reply Vote ...

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Text - neutralgood079•22h • Partassipant [1] NTA you chose from a list and you like the name. She is not having a girl anytime soon so her argument makes zero sense. Unless the name has some special family ties (still thinking of that AH girl that stole the irish family name) NTA Reply Vote ...

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Text - proteamom • 22h NTA. I had a "friend" behind my back tell everyone I was stealing her girl name "Luna"... she wasn't even pregnant yet and when she did get pregnant it was a boy. I ended up on a different name... but still laugh at how ridiculous she was about it. Reply 1 Vote ...

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Text - BBQPringles420 • 21h NTA. my sister has a boy and a girl. she had names she liked but never used. i took one of the names she liked an added it to my name list because she said she "doesn't want more children" i'm not even pregnant and she's angry at me about it but i told her "if you're not gonna use it, i will. it's a nice name" and that was that. she didn't say anything else because she knew i was right Reply Vote ...

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Text - Smiley-Canadian • 21h NTA. Your friend is being ridiculous. Choose the original name you had planned. Reply Vote ...

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Text - StaceysMomPlus2more • 20h NTA... but THIS is why I didn't tell people what I was naming either of my girls whileI was pregnant. These are petty, useless arguments. Reply Vote ...

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Text - madkins007 • 19h NTA. What's the deal with calling dibs on a name? Are they afraid that the kids are going to grow up together and everyone will be confused? It's a little different in a family, or if the name is a really unusual and super cool one (my kids have had a long running mock battle over the fabulous name of Klontark) Reply Vote ...

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Text - BronwynLane • 17h NTA. This is HS level petty bullshit. It feels like two friends crushing on the same person, that person showing interest in one of them & the other acting like their friend stole them away or something. You both like it, one actually gets it. You can't claim a name unless you've already named a fetus or a human (or I suppose if it has a big personal meaning.) Like lol, time to be adults now. & by the time she has a girl (if she has a girl) her entire naming preferences

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Text - Nannamuss • 16h • Partassipant [2] NTA - Do you know how many people are called "Martin" in my country? Or Casper? I had 4 named Casper in my class. Did it bother anyone? No. I don't get this new fad about needing your child's name to be unique or special. It's a name! and lots of people have the same names. Your friend needs to get over herself and stop calling dips on stuff. What if it was a name you ALWAYS had wanted your daughter to be named, but she called "dips" before she knew this

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Text - KathAIMyPal • 15h NTA. This reminds me of the Sex and the City episode where Charlotte's friend "stole" her baby name...and Charlotte wasn't even married or pregnant yet. Does your friend think that no one else will ever use the name Ada? Guaranteed that there will be at least 1/2 dozen Josh's in his class! Just because she feels that she will have a girl next doesn't mean she's going to...and even if she did her and her husband could change their minds about names. Name your child what y

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Text - switchbladeeatworld • 13h NTA, you can't win here because any name could be on her list. Anecdotally, my friend is mad at me for my cats name because it is her hypothetical future daughter's name... and I didn't even name my cat because I adopted her as an adult so go figure, names be a touchy subject. Reply Vote ...

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Electrician Takes Technical Revenge On Nasty IT Manager

It doesn't get much more technical than this. This is the glorious story of an electrician using McGuyver-like work to undo a literal rule breaking tool. Pretty dang neat stuff.

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Text - r/ProRevenge - Posted by u/OlderSparky 4 hours ago A Sysadmin pissed me off. I just wanted to get him fired. ..a Sparkies Tale. Over the years, my job has been pretty diverse. I enjoy all| the Master Electrician and Instrumentation work, but building and maintaining networks has been a joy as well. There are so many pretty blinking lights. All the testing and commissioning tools are fun to play with as well. There are also lasers. One thing that never gets old is seeing people's faces (wh

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Text - "Tom" was a Junior Gov't System Administrator, working at a Regional IT Dept. When the position of IT Manager became available at a 2000 student Gov't High School, Tom was encouraged (finessed/manipulated/conned ?) to apply. See, Tom was a cockhead. As a wanker of the first order, in the 4 months that he'd been there after transferring in, Tom had pissed off the whole Gov't IT team. You know that person who has to comment on everything, thinks they know everything, thinks they are always

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Text - In the planning phase of the door access network, Tom made it known that he would be trained on the new door system and be in charge of it, since it was a network in his school. The Principal made it known who's school it was, and that Tom would stay right the fuck away from it, since it was standalone and had nothing to do with him. Tom was not happy about this. One Tuesday, a little over 5 weeks since the door system had been live, I was driving to a job when I got the phone call that k

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Text - At the system operator terminal PC in an admin office, I hear that there were two issues. Some teachers couldn't open some doors this morning, and some other doors that the admin staff tried to change functions on weren't responding. I suspected the regular user teething issues. (We were 5 weeks into the 10 week term at this stage.) They went on to explain that they'd looked and found the teachers door access had been changed to remove some doors. They'd re-added the doors and fixed that,

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Text - Reconnecting the patch lead and rechecking the network, I see the other hubs are responding, so I push the door changes through. There are still questions though, so I open the system log. I see that the changes to the teachers access was made by one of the admin users at 5:33pm, and the hubs went off-line soon after. Strange, because the admin staff finished at 4.30pm. The log also showed that someone who is not admin staff entered this office at 5:08pm. Tom. I sat there and thought abou

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Text - As I was thinking, the admin staff said that Tom had been in earlier and had overheard the issues they were having. He'd said something to the effect of "That's what you get when you let electricians manage a network." Ohh ok, he was being pissy about being banned from this system. My crystal ball went through a variety of scenarios, and I decided to let sleeping dogs lie for now. Three days later, on the Friday, I got another call about the high schools door system. Checking in and check

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Text - Checking that the secondary back-up on an external drive was still intact, I dumped that into my laptop and had a swivel on the chair for a few minutes. Yep, this back-up showed that the admin login had been used to do the teachers changes this time, and delete the system log. All after the admin staff had left yesterday. This operator console PC had been provided by Tom, it was one of the school assets. The Gov't image was supposed to have been wiped and a clean operating system put on,

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Text - On Monday, I timed my arrival to the school just as the admin staff were leaving. I “just wanted to check some things on the system." They left and left me to it. I placed one small camera under the desk to see the back of the PC tower, one on a shelf looking at the screen, and one on top of a corner cupboard to see the room. Happy with my work, I went home. That Thursday, same thing again. Different teachers affected, and different hubs offline, but the same thing. Admin login used to wi

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Text - What he was doing was a fucking stupid way to go about it. His ego must be a thing of wonder. The contempt he must have held for my abilities (as just a Sparky) to figure things out, even without the cameras, was boggling. I maintain systems and networks far more complex than this. Like the schools security system for example. Or a similar door access system in a much much more secure facility. Ok fucker, game on. Over the next 4 weeks, Tom andI went through these dance steps 4 more times

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Text - The next 2 week term break was here, and we began changing out light fittings. It was easy work, and I had a team of 8. Once I kicked them off, I went to work. I added a relay card to each of 6 specially selected security system expansion points, in 6 different buildings. These buildings were where the people worked who disliked Tom the most. I'd worked at the school long enough to know all about it. Relays are wonderful. Give me enough relays, timers and contactors and I can make your wi

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Text - Say you figured out a way to get one specific pair of these 8 wires into, let's say, a relay. You could then maybe interrupt the upload wires, or download wires, or power wires. Any of these would cause issues for your computers ability to communicate. If you could turn the relays on and off at opportune times, for selected people, perhaps via a security system you had remote access to, you could maybe introduce weird intermittent faults in a network. If you could do this without it looki

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Text - A critical part of all this would be if you had a job, as an electrician, to make alterations to a buildings lighting. You could then turn some power circuits off, so that the network cabinet in a building was unpowered for a while. You could then take data cables out of patch panels without it being noticed by a Sysadmin. You could run a new length of data cable and terminate it into the patch panel, and make a nice coupled join of the two cables in the ceiling, then split off some pairs

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Text - The next day, you could go to work on the Head of English in another building. Then the Head of Science in another. Having Tom out of his office, and you having a legitimate reason to be in there (lighting job), would mean you could have a real good look around and find the the USB keylogger. Standing in Tom's office, I took a picture of the keylogger among the mess on his desk. (It might have been hidden in a drawer before that) Then I called my mate, Tom's old boss, the Regional Directo

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Text - On my laptop, in the Principals office, I showed them the videos of Toms vandalism on the door system. The Director examined the keylogger. It was so much worse than I thought. They found not only my system info on it, but info from the school accounting department, Directors department and more. Tom had so much incriminating evidence on it, from all kinds of Government departments, that he was bend-over-no-lube fucked. When Tom answered the summons to the Principals office, I couldn't he

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Text - He wasn't prosecuted, because that would've caused too much of a public stink. But Tom got flagged and would never again be able to work in any Gov't job, anywhere in the country. Not as a janitor. Or as a contractor doing Gov't work. And since graduating Uni, he'd only ever worked in Gov't. Sorry private industry, he's all yours now. - I did say something stupid though. After Tom left Principals office that reveal day, Principal asked Director if they could send someone competent to look

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Text - I put the network cabling back in place and took all my toys home. Thank you for reading. (Again, Fuck you Tom.) Glossary Kindy - Kindergarten. Where you learn, as a small child, not to run with scissors. Also where a lifelong acrimonious relationship is formed with glue. Not 'Clag' glue though. That shit was tasty. Scone - a delicious flour based baked treat. Grandma scones are the best, with cream and raspberry jam. The scones you try and make yourself are excellent hockey pucks.

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Text - Secret Squirrel - a cartoon I liked when I was a kid. A squirrel secret agent who has a mole mate. They have gadgets and adventures. Nick Cave - Australian Renaissance Man. Nick Cave is mostly known as a singer/songwriter. Excellent revenge planning music. Relay Logic - was used to run elevators before there were computers. So many things have relays. Little electromechanical wonders. I love them. Ok, so, a relay has a coil in it, that you energise. This creates a tiny electromagnet and p

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Tumblr Thread: Inspired DND Campaign Is a Feels Trip

Dungeons and Dragons lets your most creative friends come up with amazing ways to send you on adventures. Sometimes dungeon masters take the story far enough that it actually draws out a real emotional response from the players. People think a lot about fantasy worlds, like how this guy proposes that wizards are a bunch of magic snobs or this thing about dwarves having intelligent super beards.

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Text - thouartathaumaturgeharry O battlecrazed-axe-mage O forgamers They should make a co- op game where you and a buddy go through many levels, leveling up and beating bosses But the final boss is each other You were my brother Player 2!

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Text - crunchthedeerstroyer I one time did a campaign in DND where the entire party woke up in a trash heap, memories wiped, when a man in shining white armor approached them. He helped them up, healed them, and helped them escape what was essentially the dump and find their way into the sunlight. He told them of the tale of a wicked king of immense power who bargained for his abilities from a demon, hoping to save his kingdom, and succumbed to the evil after his wife died. The wife had a pearl

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Text - This particular NPC was startlingly overpowered at first, right a long the levels of 6 while everyone else was just starting out, and he helped them along in the most dire situations, healing, defeating, and even resurrecting for them. There would be periods where he would be gone, and the party would have to face a crypt full of mummies together, or dive into the deepest parts of the ocean and retrieve these milky white pearls that would give them the ability to help their friend and def

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Text - After they retrieved 5 pearls (they broke the 6th one), they journied with the man to the wicked king's castle, and fought their way through endless ranks of guards, undead, demons, and even a lich, until they made their way to the sacred bed chamber of the king, that they all remembered the story of from before they had awoken in that garbage pile. They opened the doors, only to find it empty, save the usual furniture, marred by scratches and the ancient scrawl of demons. The man in the

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Text - And his armor changed from white to pitch black, and the whole party remembered suddenly. That was the face of the wicked king, the face that smiled at them whenever he healed them, the face that looked stern as they suggested stupids things to find the pearls. Apparently, in lapses of the demon's control, the king had found a way to set him self up for defeat, by bringing his wive's pearls along with brave, powerful warriors. Every absence he felt was where he had to return to the demon'

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Text - I made the party fight the final boss, and they saw the eyes of a friend. They all cried, and I am no longer allowed to DM for them. fuckyeahsnackables GLORIOUS. battlecrazed-axe-mage Excellent DMing! Source: forgamers

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Tumblr Thread: Crazy Reason People Believe In Witches

Man, this Tumblr thread shines light on the fascinating, potential reason that so many people were possessed by the notion that witches are real. If you currently believe they are, no judgment. That being said, this thread points out there was some intense fungus poisoning going on that could've contributed toward nasty convulsions and hallucinations. What a trip.

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People - WITCH JAIL THIS HOUSE GONTAINS THE FRAME AND TIMBER8 OF THE JAIL WHERE THOSE AGGUSED OF WITGHORAFT WERE IMPRISONED IN 1692 1ERGENTENAE

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Text - vintagegal Girls pose by a jail that recalls the witch trials of 1692 in Salem, Massachusetts. Photo taken in 1945. theybuildbuildings I recently learned that the water in Salem was contaminated with the fungus from which LSD is derived and a legitimate theory for the whole thing is that everyone in the town was tripping balls

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Text - megan15 This might be the greatest thing ive ever seen on the internet myjamflavouredmindtardis We did a whole massive thing on this in history. I believe the fungus in question is called Ergot and it's terrifying. It makes your muscles spasm so when they had seizures that was the reason, not because they were possessed. One woman had to be strapped to her bed, she was seizing so bad. And, like 'theybuildbuildings' said, it had the same effects as LSD; as soon as you touch it, let alone c

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Text - system. The worst thing is, you practically always had a bad trip. Many complained about bugs crawling under their skin or monsters emerging from the shadows to scratch and bite at them until they were screaming. It was a horrendous thing and the worst part is, Ergot is still around. It grows on crops and, if your wheat isn't properly treated, it can be eaten and you'll most likely experience the same as the women of Salem. applecocaine god i love history

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Text - obytheby This is hella cool and almost correct... The effects on the people of Salem were probably from consuming bread with the fungus in it, not from contaminated water. Rye is way more commonly affected than wheat. In fact, the members of the clergy were able to afford nicer bread made from wheat and thus didn't suffer from the poisoning as often. You don't go on a spasm-y trip just by touching it. You have to consume it for weeks, which results in chronic poisoning. (If you stop eatin

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Text - possessions" took refuge in churches and stopped eating low-grade rye bread they were sometimes miraculously healed.) More interesting facts: Ergot poisoning can result in convulsions & hallucinations, or it can cause gangrene, depending on which group of active alkaloids are present. (Horrifying, either way.) It killed a lot of people in Europe in the Middle Ages. In Europe, often there was a strong correlation between wet summers (which provide ideal conditions for ergot) and reports of

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Text - And I just learned right now that one author dude translated the word “Beowulf" as “barley- wolf" which could indicate a connection to ergot. The LSD-like effects could be a valid explanation for stories of Old Norse warriors going into the a sort of trancelike battle rage. (this is exactly the kind of stuff my herbology medicinal plants class is about, it's so cool. we had a lecture on ergot last week.)

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