Yep. That link is staying blue.

If you only count the surface area resembling a boot, Italy is the largest country in the world.

Listen, it happens to all of us. You wake up in the morning, drink your cocoa, get the urge to commit crimes against humanity and abduct several hundred people to carry out your experiments, then you sit down and log in to work.

Cept for the feces in the streets

You guys have separate keyboards and toilet seats?

His statue got dropped in the drink a couple years back. I was very happy to hear that Belgium is finally starting to reasses the topic.

It was the same for many places. I learnt in Cambodia that to accept U.S. aid after the vietnam war/khmer rouge they had to adopt U.S. laws. Probably the case for India too.

Those are just numbers, nothing about the fact the different bacteria on the keyboard Vs toilet.

In/on/over ear headphones, keyboard, mouse, hats/caps, phone

These are very gross and my top 5 most gross things that you can use that aren't yours

Leopold must be one of the most evil men in history. Belgium wasn't interested in colonizing the Congo but Leopold - apparently dissatisfied with merely being a king - colonized the Congo as a private citizen anyway to extract as much rubber profit as possible. He was born impossibly rich and powerful and it still wasn't enough for him. Millions of people died.

Once upon a time Mazda was fun and cool. Now they churn out soccer mom mobiles by the millions and have no soul.

I hate these stupid ‘factoids’.

Yeah, a toilet seat, a twenty dollar note, a phone, a door knob. Whatever.

It’s not the AMOUNT of bacteria that matters; it’s the type. Shithead.

Probably starts something like this: "Oh no! I've been flooded by male and female hormones! I really should google this but I don't feel like it...Hope nothing had happens."

Embryo work is common enough for high value pedigrees in the UK that farmers can take a qualification to do it themselves

For anyone unfamiliar, the book is named for this poem excerpt, written upon his death:

>Listen to the yells of Leopold's ghost
Burning tonight for his hand-maimed host
Hear how the demons chuckle and yell
Cutting his hands off down in Hell.

King Leopold assigned Congolese natives a quota of rubber production. Failure to meet his quota was punishable by death, as was stealing from the military presence. He ordered his military units to collect the hands from those they killed, to prove they were using any spent bullets to kill Congolese and not to hunt or hoard for rebellion. Instead, military personnel would hunt (to get fresh meat instead of rations), steal and sell supplies, or just hang out instead of collecting rubber dropoffs from the locals, and then kill Congolese for their hands as explanation. This created a black market for hands, where the Belgian troops would pay Congolese raiding parties to kill villagers and collect hands, which became a sort of currency. Initially, non-lethal punishments were all about whipping. After the black market arose, punishment became about hands; if you were a man, they wouldn't want to cut off your hands (else you couldn't produce rubber), they'd cut off your children's hands, to both punish you and score more hands to sell/trade.

The most famous image of the period is Alice Seeley Harris's portrait of a man named Nsala, who sits gazing at the hand of his five-year-old daughter, severed as punishment for low rubber production.

There are more than 20 statues of Leopold in Belgium, and they are now regularly vandalized with the phrase "Hear how the demons chuckle and yell, cutting his hands off down in Hell."

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Are you implying I'm Belgian? Even if I was, I'm sure as hell not 150 years old.

Some native Africans were employed to act as the enforcement of this colonial rule. And I don't say that to shift blame onto those Africans, it was a terrible dilemma; do you A) want to break your back trying to make impossible quotas for rubber and see your children lose their hands when you fail, or do you B) want better pay and protection for your family by being the one doing the cutting? Unless you can be sure that nobody else will accept B and thus make such harsh colonial rule unenforceable, it is safer if you accept B. The manual labour of genocides is often carried out by members of the group that is being subjected to genocide; Cremations and burials in the camps of the Holocaust was usually done by camp prisoners themselves.

I just tried typing with my toilet seat and it didn’t work.

Or... 'to thine own self be true' being said by a weak sychophant who is very soon stabbed after saying it.

It was also written for Augustus, who claimed to be a descendant of Aeneas, and so character flaws in Aeneas can be seen as veiled criticisms of the current leader.

You are weird.

The USSR did collapse because of its own actions. It's dishonest to point fingers and blame capitalist nation's over the failure of the bloc, when it's clear that the USSR was never going to be sustainable, based upon the internal problems it had with economics and bureaucratic government.

> Saying the Belgian government was complicit because they gave him a loan is just idiotic.

Read again what you wrote. Then read it again, and again, and again, until you see all that blood on your hands.