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it looks horrible, but please someone inform me of the specifics of these horrible plants with wiki links and the history of them being used as torture or whatever...because yeah, that looks disturbing/entertaining for shocking late night reading.Imagine being stripped naked and tossed into a gigantic patch of that stuff, like the Apache and Commanche would do to prisoners. *shiver* And then the sun gets to join in.
I literally wrote that joke 5 minutes after that dude was filmed doing that. I DEMAND CREDIT.
it looks horrible, but please someone inform me of the specifics of these horrible plants with wiki links and the history of them being used as torture or whatever...because yeah, that looks disturbing/entertaining for shocking late night reading.
I cleared out the bookmarks I had on the Comanche Wars awhile back, you are on your own. Disturbing is right though. Big fans of burning people, the other one I remember is hanging people off cliffs by one leg to slowly roast in the sun. Kids weren't off the list either. You've been warned.
Apparently those cholla spines are also nearly impossible to remove 100%, there is almost always a small piece left behind.
are those legit reports or "the natives are savages!" dispatches from colonial invaders? (I don't distrust either telling, just, you know, history is rife with this kind of "look at what savages these are!" type of reporting--e.g., the long-standing "truth" that Mayan nations were blood-drinking cannibals. ...actually, they ground red berries into their hot chocolate drinks, made from harvesting their local cacao trees, so it sure looked like they were drinking blood, and living in blood (because they also painted their pyramids and cities with the same crushed berries), but not even close to what was reported...OK, the chocolate, being pure cacao extract at like 90% from the berry in beverage form was MASSIVELY hallucinogenic, so there is the further argument to be made that the Spanish invaders were god-damn doped out of their gourds, but compared to the Mayans, also doped, far more terrified by what their eyes were suddenly telling them, because they had no fricking cultural reference to what just happened to their brains...other than "they put demons in our heads because they are not with Christ! Burn them all!")
history.
That first one makes navigating to certain directions indirect, confusing, and disorienting.
Follow one sign, one exit, one merge, very straight forward.That first one makes navigating to certain directions indirect, confusing, and disorienting.
