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(Herald Scotland) Interesting Old and busted: Stonehenge. Older and busteder: Orcadian temple on Orkney   (heraldscotland.com) divider line 37
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eddyatwork
2012-01-07 12:23:39 PM
I'm glad they didn't show a picture of the temple because my imagination made it way cooler than anything that could possibly exist. I praise media outlets that encourage our imaginations.
 
Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener [TotalFark]
2012-01-07 01:12:18 PM
Morkney from Orkney?

NANOO NANOO
 
Kurmudgeon
2012-01-07 02:37:42 PM
I didn't know Orcs built temples, I thought they only tore them down.
 
Arkanaut
2012-01-07 02:39:30 PM
Kurmudgeon: I didn't know Orcs built temples, I thought they only tore them down.

Maybe the humans built temples to worship the orcs?
 
Kurmudgeon
2012-01-07 02:41:22 PM
Arkanaut: Maybe the humans built temples to worship the orcs?

No matter, the Orcs would still find them tasty.
 
Because People in power are Stupid [TotalFark]
2012-01-07 02:47:44 PM
greesons.typepad.com
Don't mess with their temple.
 
Seth'n'Spectrum
2012-01-07 02:48:44 PM
Kurmudgeon: I didn't know Orcs built temples

Shrine to Malacath?
 
Annoyance
2012-01-07 02:53:32 PM
I smell a Spinal Tap reunion.
 
s2s2s2
2012-01-07 02:59:16 PM
Awesome! I love the accordion!
 
FrancoFile
2012-01-07 03:06:25 PM
Let me be the first to congratulate subby for inverting a worn-out headline meme into something that's both topical and funny.
 
VaportrailFilms
2012-01-07 03:16:44 PM
"Stonehenge" is easier to say.
 
JasonOfOrillia
2012-01-07 03:25:02 PM
Did they find the remnants of several species of small, furry animals there?
 
ecl
2012-01-07 03:32:11 PM
Band names galore.
 
CygnusDarius [TotalFark]
2012-01-07 03:49:16 PM
Kurmudgeon: I didn't know Orcs built temples, I thought they only tore them down.

Temples are not Orky. Gargants on the other hand, please Gork and Mork.

/What if you paint a Gargant red?
 
Le Grand Inquisitor
2012-01-07 04:17:19 PM
FOR THE HORDE!
 
FloydA [TotalFark]
2012-01-07 04:19:56 PM
[Click]

"THE discovery of a Stone Age temple on Orkney looks set to rewrite the archeological records..."

[click]

No it isn't, and you're a fool for suggesting that.


Every time a science journalist claims that some discovery is going to "rewrite," "overturn," "fundamentally change," or "shake the foundations of" some science, you can be 100% certain that the journalist is an idiot who has absolutely no idea what s/he is talking about.

Every time.

It's the one absolutely certain rule of science journalism.
 
Boudyro
2012-01-07 04:31:53 PM
FloydA: [Click]

"THE discovery of a Stone Age temple on Orkney looks set to rewrite the archeological records..."

[click]

No it isn't, and you're a fool for suggesting that.


Every time a science journalist claims that some discovery is going to "rewrite," "overturn," "fundamentally change," or "shake the foundations of" some science, you can be 100% certain that the journalist is an idiot who has absolutely no idea what s/he is talking about.

Every time.

It's the one absolutely certain rule of science journalism.

You forgot to biatch about the archaeologist designating the site as probably religious. That cliche is almost as bad.
 
uttertosh
2012-01-07 04:42:04 PM
Boudyro:

You forgot to biatch about the archaeologist designating the site as probably religious. That cliche is almost as bad.

Exactly!

We all know that anything above "possibly" 3.5 football pitches should be classed shopping malls.
 
Lone Stranger
2012-01-07 05:21:47 PM
Where there's a whip, there's a way.
 
INeedAName
2012-01-07 05:41:52 PM
It was built by some people from Caprica.

/Just finished BSG, wtf?
 
OhioKnight
2012-01-07 06:00:52 PM
It was built by some people from Caprica.

/Just finished BSG, wtf?


/Yeah. There's that. NO THEY DIDN'T HAVE A farkING PLAN
//and I mean the writers
 
sinanju
2012-01-07 06:23:37 PM
Orkney is one of my favorite places on the planet. I've been several times. I'd recommend it to pretty much anyone. The best time to go is during the St. Magnus Festival. Good food, good entertainment, lots of sights.
 
Purple_Jack
2012-01-07 06:51:08 PM
Orcadian temple on Orkney

Tautology.
 
Neeps
2012-01-07 07:07:16 PM
I saw a documentary on this - they really didn't provide any information that seemed to point to it being a temple rather than just a settlement where people lived (Come on - with the winds you get up there, I'd think they built the wall just as a windbreak)
 
VinnieRuption
2012-01-07 08:16:46 PM
"Orkney! Where the demons dwell; where the banshees live and and they do live well!" .......nah
 
Fano
2012-01-07 09:25:46 PM
Purple_Jack: Orcadian temple on Orkney

Tautology.

Orcadian dancing (new window)
 
DO NOT WANT Poster Girl [TotalFark]
2012-01-07 09:55:51 PM
We've actually been up to Orkney recently and Brodgar was one of our afternoons up there. There are structures and civilizations on Orkney that far predate Stonehenge anyway, so this isn't a huge surprise. I guess the fact that it's a 'temple' makes it significant.
 
DreamyAltarBoy
2012-01-07 09:58:57 PM
Purple_Jack: Orcadian temple on Orkney

Tautology.

The first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club.
 
Researcher
2012-01-07 10:17:54 PM
Zug zug?

/Came here for Orks
//Got Orks....
///Waaaaagggghhhhhh
 
Assimilate This
2012-01-07 10:26:43 PM
Orcs you say?
t1.gstatic.com
 
WordsnCollision
2012-01-07 11:58:25 PM
If one of those stones has "Magna Mater" inscribed on it, DON'T lift it...

api.ning.com
 
sotua
2012-01-08 09:53:57 AM
The only Orcadian stuff I'm interested in:

www.anybooze.com
 
Uchiha_Cycliste
2012-01-08 11:39:45 AM
Built 500 years before stonehenge... Will be years before they know the age of the discovery...
O_o
 
Romanes Eunt Domus
2012-01-08 12:08:23 PM
I wonder if they'll find some ancient graffiti in the area? "King Lot and sons were here!"
 
sinanju
2012-01-08 12:31:50 PM
Romanes Eunt Domus: I wonder if they'll find some ancient graffiti in the area? "King Lot and sons were here!"

There's a lot of Viking graffiti in the Maes Howe tomb, just down the road a bit:

"Ingebjork the fair widow - many a woman has walked stooping in here a very showy person" signed by "Erlingr"
"Thorni f*cked. Helgi carved" (the official guidebooks usually tone this inscription down)
"Ingigerth is the most beautiful of all women" (carved beside a rough drawing of a slavering dog)

Maes Howe (new window)
 
Strolpol
2012-01-08 02:18:24 PM
Better not mess with Orc ruins, or Malacath will rain Daedric pain on all of us.
 
wildstarr [TotalFark]
2012-01-09 10:56:05 AM
When it comes to the most annoying internet faux pas this is almost at the top of the list.

I see it like this.

me: Why no picture?
article: F*ck you, that's why.
 
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