
055 A history of emotion
The British Museum Membercast
The Importance of Good Taste
i think the earliest joke there is is not a day has passed where your wife hasn't farted on your lap or something it's like one of the earliest jokes and you're just like well one give her a chair and two fart jokes really are the first jokes. i was reading a book that's basically an english translation of Italian translations of Arabic accounts of this of the crusades because that's how it works. The very first paragraph on the very first page is the king of krit saying to a messian farting to a messenger and saying that was more useful the information you just gave me nice There are ways humans stay the same to be quite frank and that's one of them
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