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this is so good, could have been my idea.
Whomsoever made these things is historically awesome…
Epic. Awesome. Rad. Groovy. Hip. (any more historical superlatives?)
far-out?
Righteous, man… *makes peace sign*
*Whosoever. It’s really annoying when people incorrectly use whom in a futile attempt to sound smart.
Didn’t know about that, simply the way i spell it, neither do i know any synonyms for it…
To whom are you speaking?
*whoever
grammar nazis rants are an futile attempt on the internet: its like their just trying too supplant theyre own ideas on people whom do not seam to care.
Then there’s the people who purposely use the wrong words, just to piss people off
you wouldn’t use whom in that context
We’re all related to anyone who lived around the era of Ghenghis Kahn. Nothing to do with how many chicks he got it on with.
/spoilsport
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Sure, everyone’s related to someone from that time. But 8% of male Asians, from a single person that lived less than a thousand years ago? That’s not normal. That’s due to a great deal of boning, from one of the most hardcore men who ever lived.
There’s a story that when Genghis Khan was sixty, he got scared he would die before his conquest of all of Asia and Europe was complete. He approached a wise man and asked him what he had to do reach an age of eighty. The man replied: “Give up sex.”
Genghis Khan died a few years later, leaving an unfinished conquest and a whole lot of kids.
I forgot this:
http://web.unife.it/progetti/genetica/Giorgio/PDFfiles/ajhg2003.pdf
“Genetic Legacy of the Mongols.”
Genghis got around.
Guys! Can someone tell me when did Roosevelt get shot? Or am I missing the point?
I believe the assasination atempt occured when he was seeking reelection with the “Bull Mosse Party”. In 1911 or 1912.
And it happened in my hometown: Milwaukee, WI. He went into the Pabst Theater and delivered his speech there after getting shot on the street. Had he had a thinner speech, he might have been killed since the bullet went through it in his coat pocket.
There’s a 5% chance we are related to a rapist and and a rape victim! Great karma, everyone!
O.5%…
I sincerely hope you aren’t a medical professional.
glad someone finally noticed the decimal point. makes quite a difference, don’t you think? still in all, respect for raping, i guess……teddy and andrew were real guys, RESPECT.
Karma isn’t passed down like a f***ing estate, you moron. Everyone’s karma (assuming you subscribe to that philosophy, which I doubt, seeing as you don’t seem to grasp it) is their own debt, not their children’s or their children’s children’s. Great brain!
Yeah, you tell ‘em, Buddha!
Is that you, Teetee? You sound like my sister Caitlin. lol
You’re wrong, you moron. Karma is what you catch from a toilet seat. And once you catch it, it becomes hereditary.
Clearly, this person shouldn’t be commenting since their ability to correctly punctuate sentences gives him or her a false sense of intelligence. Better luck next time, person who’s perfectly chosen the username CARTMAN.
I’d say there’s pretty much a 100% chance we’re all descended from a rapist and a rape victim. Not that one necessarily, but rape happens. A lot.
It’s not that we’re related to his era, but that he slept with so many women, there’s a relatively high chance (proportionally) that someone is descended from him. That’s alotta peeps.
No, what starling is saying is that it’s been so long since Genghis Khan lived that any given person from that era, Khan included, has had so many descendents that you are pretty well guaranteed to be one of them.
We know that’s what he’s saying, we’re just pointing out that he’s wrong.
That is certainly what starling is saying, but starling is incorrect. You have to go back considerably further (at least a thousand years or more earlier than Ghenghis Kahn) before you start finding good candidates for a universal ancestor.
… I’m pretty sure the poster says “related to HIM” not to “anyone who lived around the era”
Well lets guesstimate with what probablity are you related to average male from 13th century (era of Ghenghis Kahn). There was about 300 milion (300 000 000) people than. Half of it were women so we are left with 150 000 000 males. To each and every one you can be realated with roughly same probablity so thats 6,66666667 × 10-7 percent (0.00000066667 %) That means probability of being related to Ghenghis Kahn is 1 000 000 bigger than probablility of being related to average male.
Milion times! That is quite amount of chicks (Though to be fair, his sons had quite share of chicks, too, raising the forementioned probability in favour for their father.)
That only works if you only have one male ancestor from that time. I happen to believe you have more. In fact, you have roughly 17 billion ancestors from circa 1250 (most of them not unique, of course). The chances of you not being Genghis Khan’s descendant are minuscule; it’s more like 99.999% than 5%.
It’s not 5%, it’s 0.5%
The number of male ancestors from that time period depends greatly on the generational length, and that’s somewhat indeterminant.
Likewise, the tendency of lines and groupings to recombine greatly decreases the number of ancestors. And that tendency is indeterminant as well. The 0.5% thing is based on a particular genetic marker that is widespread in central Asia, found in about 8% of the men (0.5% of the world population) that is theorized to be indicitave of descent from Temujin.
This is a much higher rate than can be found for other indicators that developed around the same time.
Right. In addition, it doesn’t take into account the relationships of future generations. Khan could have had children with 2 women, but if his son knocked up 2,000 women, all of those kids would be related to Khan.
What’s the probability of people alive seven hundred years from now being related to Wilt Chamberlain?
uh yeah that’s not at all what it says. .5% chance you’re related to HIM, not some random person who once existed. & we are not all related to “anyone” who lived then, that would mean we are related to every single person who existed then. obviously not true.
We’re all -related to- everyone from that era, although we may not be -descended from- them.
In an episode of QI much the same claim was said about the emperor Charlemagne – that every European alive today is descended from him.
One of the panellists said that in that case “Charlemagne” would make a great name for an aftershave. “Charlemagne: splash it on ….. I’m everybody’s Daddy!”
Awesome!
That is the best advertising I’ve seen in a long time .. HA!
Agreed x 1000. The only thing is that the title says ‘shopped’, so I’m not sure how much–if any–of it is a real ad.
Well of course it’s “‘shopped” … like pretty much all commercial advertising is these days. But I know what you mean, and you’re right. This isn’t a mandated advertising campaign by the Smithsonian (though it should be!), but a portfolio project by the artist (for which see the post’s accreditation).
It’s ‘Shopped’ because it’s not a real advertisement. Just made by a graphic designer for fun. The link under the pictures goes to her blog.
Aw, and here I thought the funding for more awesomesauce for the Smithsonians had finally been approved.
I like to think that my Russian ancestors were raped by Mongol hordes.
You “like” to think your ancestors were raped?
Yeah, real mature, pal. Just be glad you’re living anyway.
I get the humor. it is funny.
Teddy Roosevelt, feck yeah
Roosevelt was born WINNING
Obligatory link:
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/theodore-roosevelt-shot-in-milwaukee
Even more awesome, he *wasn’t*. TR was a very sickly, unhealthy child; he got utterly fed up with being a wimp, worked out intensely, and built himself into a powerful man.
Dude might’ve died from asthma as a kid, but grew up tough enough to take bullets!
http://www.theodoreroosevelt.org/life/biopictures1.htm
Maybe. As a child he was also emotionally dominated by his father. His asthma mostly only showed up when his dad was in the room.
You can’t overcome asthma with exercise. It’s occasionally a stress reaction, though.
We need more of these!
funny but:
50 cent got shot multiple times and had no defense
roosevelt got shot in his breast pocket, which also contained some items that helped block the shot. and it was only one bullet, from a relatively old gun.
But 50 Cent still whines alot. Teddy didn’t whine at all
It’s also important to point out that 50 cent had modern medical technolgy on his side while Roosevelt did not.
Teddy Roosevelt also blasted away bigfoot with an Ak-47 while hoisting the American flag. That guy was badass.
Thanks Chuck. Note: Roosevelt was not shot “mid-speech”. He was shot before. Some audience members doubted he’d been shot at all. He showed them the blood and told them it was no occasion for sympathy whatsoever.
And he then proceeded to give his entire 90 minute speech with a bullet lodged in his chest!! America once had real men leading it… where did it all go so wrong?
They’re not real, they’re the work of a couple of art students.
http://cargocollective.com/jennyleighb#148391/Smithsonian
The Smithsonian actually asked them remove their name from the images.. FFS.
I hate Genghis Khan….
I mean they always talk about how we are supposedly related to him since he screwed so many chicks.
Ummm im sorry, but i’m pretty sure he should be known for being the greatest RAPIST in the world. I seriously f**king doubt all those women wanted to have his babies, the Mongols were known to be merciless and terrible in battle….rape seems like their gig.
Everyone looks up to this supposed badass but in reality if anyone met him they would want to be as far away as possible, lest he friggen kills you then rapes all the women you know.
If I recall rightly…most of them would have been his concubines.
So what you’re saying is he actually DID get that many chicks.
Thus proving the point of the ad.
I like how the Smithsonian changed their image to market history to younger people with their slogan “Historically Hardcore.”
Good way to get kids interested in history from the way history should be taught: How history affects and has a profound impact on our lives.”
Apparently this was not an official Smithsonian advertising campaign, though it is pretty interesting. And as far as I can tell, the museum has no interest in being ‘hardcore’. The pursuit of knowledge is one of the most hardcore things we can do as humans, and it comes down to dirty language and getting shot for people to take note. Ahhhh, I love this country.
/sarcasm
all i gotta say is… the guy who shot “fitty” shud take shooting lessons
Seriously…I can’t stand 50 cent as an artist and I don’t think he’s exemplary in any way, but that doesn’t mean he should die. He’s a human being. Jeepers!
You have to hand it to a guy like Khane; he killed a larger percentage of people than the Black Death. Some estimates go as high as 60% of the population of Europe was killed by the Mongols. Although a hiccup in most histories, the fact is that he had a greater influence on western history than even the Romans, but you would never know of it unless you really looked for it.
The Gengis Khan poster fails to mention that “got with chicks” would be more accurately described as “raped every woman he got his hands on.”
KHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNN!!!
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Wait.
You’re linking to someone else’s work…and you put your watermark on it…?
I don’t care if it’s traditional to put your watermark on anything you post – this isn’t your work. This isn’t even just something you found on the internet – this is from someone’s online portfolio. This is something she plans on using to represent her skills and talents. This is basically her online resume…
…and you put your watermark on it?
Poor taste, Failblog, poor taste. You didn’t just take this from someone’s DeviantArt page – this is from someone’s portfolio.
ummmm.. last I knew, Failblog doesn’t troll the interwebs looking for stuff to steal. People submit things to the site for reposting and furthermore, credit is given to the person who submitted it underneath, along with a link to her blog. They append the failblog stamp to the bottom of every image *submitted*. Perhaps you should get down off that high horse to examine the site more closely some time.
I wish these were real.
Ozzy Osborne was the Gentleman of rock and roll. He doesn’t swear in any of his songs. Please check your facts, and not with wikipedia.
Other than that, they are amazing!
Who mentioned his songs? Ozzy is pretty notorious for his mouth in general speech, not in his singing (although let’s be honest – if he recorded a song today that was nothing but a recitation of his favorite swear words, how could you tell??).
You people that turned this funny and less than informational post into a genealogy debate suck…just go back to masturbating to the History channel.
as an adenddum to the first one another man from that period (i forget his name) was working in his office when a suicidal man came in and shot him and then himself. he wasn’t killed by the bullet and insisted it be taken out the without anastesia, finished his shift and went home
Zaiste wykop.
the ones with 50cent and Gengis Khan were awesome !!
Theodore Roosevelt: The New Chuck Norris.
Correction: Chuck Norris: The new Teddy Roosevelt.
Genghis Khan had over 1000 kids
There’s a rapist, in Mongolia, HE’S CLIMBIN’ IN YOUR WINDOWS…
Who cares? Then you have lonely little people on forum sites with nothing in their little lonely lives but a computer, living in a fake reality who get off putting people down and starting fights over things that are so “non-important” that it’s funny of the time and energy put into it, trying to make your point, which no one with a life in the real world would ever care about!
just plain awesome.