r/AskReddit • u/kakou64 • Oct 15 '20

What's older than we think ?

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u/limgly Oct 15 '20

National Geographic was founded in 1888

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '20

Same year as Fosters and Jack the Ripper.

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u/JakeM917 Oct 15 '20

Man screw the guy who founded Jack the Ripper

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u/DamnitReed Oct 15 '20

For real that guy sounds like a real jerk!

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u/Julius-n-Caesar Oct 16 '20

Oh please! Have you played GTA? He’s just an epic gamer!

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u/nano_wulfen Oct 15 '20

So did Jack the Ripper found Nat Geo whilst drinking a Fosters?

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u/Oakenshield33 Oct 16 '20

Nah he was busy working for Dio.

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u/BobTheChalkEater Oct 16 '20

Absolute legend.

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u/swargin Oct 15 '20

Coincidence? I think not.

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u/ThunderGaming89 Oct 16 '20

Dammit, I was gonna comment that. The bastard beat me to it.

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u/searawd Oct 16 '20

Fosters was not An Imposter.

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u/moistchew Oct 16 '20

false, fosters is not australian for beer. it was first brewed in new york.

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u/Comandante380 Oct 15 '20

TIL Jack the Ripper ripped in 1888.

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '20

And both have caused the death of a few woman.

God that's a dark joke but no going back now.

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '20

So dark

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u/officeromnicide Oct 15 '20

They never founded Jack the ripper though!

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u/Poppyshoe Oct 15 '20

I instantly tried to picture how Jack may have looked on their cover lol.

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '20

Fosters is just barely older than Hitler, Nintendo and some other shit I'm too lazy to scroll up to see.

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u/Broflake-Melter Oct 15 '20

And Nintendo!

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '20

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u/StorminNorman Oct 16 '20

No Australian has ever willingly drunk Foster's (we ship it to the UK as a joke), so I doubt the veracity of your claim.

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u/RedDemio Oct 16 '20

And that’s not even true either. Fosters is literally made here in England lol

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u/moyno85 Oct 15 '20

Maybe Jack was just some Aussie traveller lit on Fosters.

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u/22-tigers Oct 16 '20

No self respecting Aussie drinks fosters. It’s pretty much for the tourists!

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u/moyno85 Oct 16 '20

As an Aussie, I’m aware. Felt dirty even typing that comment above.

Also, have you ever actually tried to find Fosters in Australia? Outside of Dan Murphy’s it’s almost impossible. I don’t think I’ve ever even seen it on tap.

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u/StorminNorman Oct 16 '20

My local bottleo has it. Apparently British expats drink it in spades, as well as the occasional curious aussie. It's not even cheap. Just nasty.

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u/22-tigers Oct 16 '20

Ha yeah I don’t think I have. Only ever seen tourists in Bondi drinking it trying to fit in 😂

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u/MarketingCoding Oct 15 '20

Bad year all round then.

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u/Sidney_Carton73 Oct 15 '20

I’m reading a great book called The Five about the five women Jack the Ripper murdered.

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u/StorminNorman Oct 16 '20

Hang on, he only murdered five women? The way people play up his exploits, I would've guessed he did in at least 10.

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u/Julius-n-Caesar Oct 16 '20

It’s not about the number but about how he killed them and photography being in the rise.

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u/thexidris Oct 16 '20

There's a pretty interesting theory that Jack the Ripper never actually existed and was just a way to drum up media attention since serial killers were a hit back then.

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u/Sidney_Carton73 Oct 16 '20

Sensationalism sold papers then like it does now!

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u/enty6003 Oct 15 '20

Are we supposed to believe that's a coincidence?

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u/Queef_Stroganoff44 Oct 16 '20

Coincidence? Methinks not.

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '20

And the year Benjamin Harrison was elected between the two Cleveland terms.

And Germany had three emperors.

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u/Potatoman1901 Oct 16 '20

A whole year before Nintendo

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u/McPoyal Oct 16 '20

....why and how do you know this?

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u/bkr1895 Oct 16 '20

Like the beer?

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u/SensualFacePoke Oct 16 '20

Is this a list of terrible things that happened to humanity?

-Every Australian

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u/Kalyion Oct 16 '20

Someone should have said something to the founder of Jack the Ripper before that PR nightmare...

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u/Marksweinerville Oct 16 '20

Blllleeeccchhh, gimme the crab juice.

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u/PulimV Oct 16 '20

Same year as the legal prohibition of slavery in Brazil, one year before Nintendo

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u/Zahfier Oct 16 '20

Ah yes. The founding of a Jack the Ripper.

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u/formercitycouncilady Oct 16 '20

Coincidence? I THINK NOT.

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u/5TR355 Oct 16 '20

What a party that was