• A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Stupid sexy Danes. This’ll show em for not wallowing in filth.

    Note: many accounts from Native Americans circa 1500CE describe Europeans as being absolutely disgusting, stinky, pockmarked, dirty savages.

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      One of the dismissals from natives to Portuguese colonizers was “go bathe”. It’s still used to this day in Brazil when you’re fed up with someone’s antics.

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      The Aztecs, it’s said, would follow Cortés and his soldiers with burning incense to mask their smell (though that might be hearsay).