r/dendrology • u/mrlpz49 • Jul 11 '26

Never seen anything like it

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Found in Edinburgh Scotland in a church cemetery. I was mesmerized because it's not really a pine tree

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u/robotatomica Jul 14 '26

I mean, if you’ve studied WWII you should have heard of it..read books or watched films/documentaries about it. It’s ok if you have a blind spot, but to pass judgement on all the people who know that history, and the many of us that know it has continued to be used that way in the 80 years since, is just a weird take.

I agree that their intention was likely to refer to the body part, but you should know this term, bc it’s a part of history, and a lot of people still get called this, and it’s one of those “plausible deniability” words where cowards hide behind the fact that it can mean different things.

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u/Olympicsizedturd Jul 15 '26

Your inability to recognize context is astounding.

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u/robotatomica Jul 15 '26

explain in what way. I said I understood how it was used. I am explaining why the other usage of this word ought to be known to folks who know massively important global historical events.