Outhouses for all the damned hippies?
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to be fair, all they were given was a cocktail napkin with some notes scribbled by a musician.
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The imperial vs metric hassle is older than I thought!
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Well, Durrington Walls was where people gathered for feasting and celebrating, so I reckon these pits were where all the debris and detritus was dumped; I mean, has anyone seen the amount of trash left after a major festival like Glastonbury?
But I could be wrong…
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Any word from Quatermass yet?
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While the pits would have been impressive in their day, its been pointed out to me that the Egyptians were building pyramids around the same time.
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Absolutely. Though it has to be said they were a much older civilisation and much more populous.
People are clever and ingenious and hard working and want a better life for themselves everywhere. The places that are wealthier and more advanced at one time or another are beneficiaries of particular advantages, I’m wary of believing they are intrinsically smarter or something. When Europeans invaded the americas they took the weight of African and Asian history and science with them, the Americas were younger and more isolated from cultural exchange (and sadly, diseasees over millenia rather than all at once, particularly those that jumped from domesticated animals they lacked).
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Yes, I am a Jew; and while the ancestors of the right honourable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon.
— Benjamin Disraeli responding to antisemitic taunts in the House of Commons.
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There’s also the thing that we celebrate and record some histories and achievements more than others. Some of this is pure accident, some stuff survives and other stuff doesn’t. But some of this is racism and bias and in particular it effects the great achievements of sub saharan African civilisations and technology e.g. Sudan.
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Probably a portal to the 18th century, inexplicably filled with dreamy scotsmen.
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