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>> No. 18942 Anonymous
8th April 2015
Wednesday 4:20 pm
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When people attempt to explain common words and phrases with psuedo-history that they've pulled out of their arse.

>The floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something other than dirt, hence the saying "dirt poor." The wealthy had slate floors that would get slippery in the winter when wet, so they spread thresh (straw) on the floor to help keep their footing. As the winter wore on, they kept adding more thresh until when you opened the door it would all start slipping outside. A piece of wood was placed in the entranceway-hence, a "thresh hold".

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>> No. 18943 Anonymous
8th April 2015
Wednesday 5:06 pm
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>>18942
I found this article; http://blog.oup.com/2015/02/threshold-word-origin-etymology/

It alleges that 'threshold' derives for the old name for a place for threshing cereals, and has since become used (perhaps borrowed) to describe the raised bit between rooms.
>> No. 18944 Anonymous
8th April 2015
Wednesday 5:12 pm
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>>18942
Well most people don't have five minutes to verify every little factoid they hear and will happily pass on nuggets of information they read from sources whose credibility they're not well equipped to assess.

It took me that long to find this. http://www.jefflewis.net/factoids3.html Of the people who are going to click this link, I bet most will see the document's length and decline to read any of it.

I mean, you had the perfect opportunity to tell us the real etymology (it is besides the point I grant you) but instead you chose to multiply the human effort required for truth to disseminate by placing the burden on your readers. You're not alone though - it took me minutes to find a better explanation because most people who described your story as incorrect didn't bother to provide the correct explanation.

I use the words 'better' and 'correct', but all I've really done is search for people who've trodden this path before me and then taken it on faith that they're not mischievously or incompetently spreading disinformation - exactly like the people you're complaining about did.
>> No. 18945 Anonymous
8th April 2015
Wednesday 8:35 pm
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>>18944
Interesting link. Cheers.
>> No. 18946 Anonymous
9th April 2015
Thursday 12:39 am
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>>18944

>Well most people don't have five minutes to verify every little factoid they hear and will happily pass on nuggets of information they read from sources whose credibility they're not well equipped to assess.


Welcome to the world of medival knowledge and superstition where the only merit information requires is that it ticks some sort of internal emotive box. If it feels right, then it must be.
>> No. 18947 Anonymous
9th April 2015
Thursday 8:30 am
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>> No. 18948 Anonymous
9th April 2015
Thursday 8:40 am
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It's obviously not quite the same, but I've heard people bring up conspiracy theories with about the same level of knowledge. However, what's properly horrifying is the people who go "oh, yeah, that sounds about right", and just buy it. Pearl Harbor wasn't an inside job, you kooks!
>> No. 18954 Anonymous
9th April 2015
Thursday 3:59 pm
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>>18948
The FDR administration knew about the attack well in advance. The documents proving it were declassified almost 50 years aog and yet people still dismiss it out of hand because "It's a conspiracy theory".
>> No. 18955 Anonymous
9th April 2015
Thursday 4:21 pm
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>>18954

Are you making fun of the conspiracy theory or supporting it? I can't tell.

Interestingly the term 'Conspiracy Theorist' was quined by Richard Nixon to discredit the people who stated that he was bugging everybody pre-Watergate.

JET FUEL CAN'T MELT STEEL
>> No. 18956 Anonymous
9th April 2015
Thursday 4:25 pm
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>> No. 18957 Anonymous
9th April 2015
Thursday 4:37 pm
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>>18954
Let's see these documents then.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_Harbor_advance-knowledge_conspiracy_theory
>> No. 18958 Anonymous
9th April 2015
Thursday 6:13 pm
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>>18954
I thought it was just a fuck up. They got a warning through, but it was buried in a ton of other documents and wasn't seen in time.
>> No. 18959 Anonymous
9th April 2015
Thursday 6:44 pm
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10/66 was an inside job.
>> No. 18960 Anonymous
9th April 2015
Thursday 6:58 pm
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Repairing the houses of parliament was an inside job.
>> No. 18971 Anonymous
10th April 2015
Friday 3:29 pm
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>>18959
You can't pierce Anglo Saxon eyeballs with iron arrowheads.
>> No. 18972 Anonymous
10th April 2015
Friday 5:06 pm
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>>18971
The only evidence we have isn't even a tapestry! It's an embroidered cloth, which isn't the same thing at all! What else aren't they telling us? Wake up sheeple!
>> No. 18974 Anonymous
12th April 2015
Sunday 3:09 pm
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PROOF.
>> No. 18976 Anonymous
12th April 2015
Sunday 3:43 pm
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Church covering for rapists again. They succeeded in getting the verb removed here, but the cunning artist managed to sneak in a hint to let us know what's really happening.
>> No. 18980 Anonymous
13th April 2015
Monday 11:56 pm
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>>18976
You chaps can just go boil your heads.
>> No. 18998 Anonymous
15th April 2015
Wednesday 1:28 am
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>>18974
THATS WHAT THEY WANT YOU TO THINK - FALSE FLAG

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