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The information here is fascinating. But the delivery... I don't even know how to describe it. Is it bro, or ?, or everything-ass-cool? At first it's fun, but then it becomes overdone. Skatergnome did this well, with a measured approach that was such that it didn't become tiresome - https://everquest.fandom.com/wiki/Skater_Gnome_Stories .

Anyway, "cool story bro".

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It’s because actually determining how often average people bathed is hard, requiring evidence from many different sources across a huge time span and geographic area.

Instead, he went for the secret knowledge approach. People tend to believe things more if you’re telling them everyone else is wrong. The f bombs make everyone else seem even more stupid for not knowing this secret knowledge.

She's a PhD that literally teaches the stuff, and you're the person who couldn't even be bothered to read the mini-bio, not to mention the references at the end.

If she starts all of her lectures with "I cannot believe I need to explain these things to you basics", she might not be very good at teaching though.

How would you know how she teaches? One of her problems as a scholar is having ignorant geniuses claim all kinds of nonsense about the medeival times that are patently false. Her tone is to some extent a reflection of having to deal with those people.

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