Ninja is not an obsolete job! They've just become so stealthy and cunning that no one realizes they're still around 🥷🫥
Ignoring the joke, it is actually obsolete. The last ninja family refuses to name a successor, pass on certain techniqies, etc. so technically, no more official ninja
I don't know... That sounds like just the sort of thing an ancient ninja clan would want you to think...
They'll change their minds one a skilled but arrogant youth appears on their doorstep. They will, of course, be later killed by his nemesis, but not before transfering their legacy onto him.
Well that sucks. If there are never goin to be ninjas again the least the family could do is write down all the secret techniques for histories sake.
How's Splinter supposed to teach his turtle boys now? We're just about getting to the good mutagen technologies!
Only a wannabe fake would claim to be a "ninja" !
Come on that's like talking about fight club...
They were not. They were talking about a much more important part of history.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_Figures_(book)
Babbage had some interesting ideas and produced one machine that was not especially useful. He didn't even really understand the idea of software. That was Ada Lovelace.
NASA's "computers" got us to the moon. They literally calculated Apollo 11's trajectory. They saved the men on Apollo 13 by plotting their directory back home. All with paper and their superior knowledge of mathematics.
They were women and they were black, which is why they were mostly forgotten for many years and why you probably don't know about them yourself.
It wasn't the same as a handyman. The title "useful man" was for a servant who'd never actually serve the master.
Today it'd be a "runner" or some kind of "assistant to the assistant"
Holy shit, is this why lowly assistants are colloquially called gophers?!? I never drew the connection. Sometime we just take weird words or phrases for granted without thinking about their etymology.
Turns out they were basically bounty hunters for Catholic priests during Elizabeth I's reign.
Which "for"?
Bounty hunters searching for Catholic priests.
Bounty hunter working for Catholic priests.
There’s a podcast called Jobsolete that covers, as the name implies, obsolete jobs! It’s inactive now but they have an ok size catalog that it’s worth going back and listening.
Is the doctor treating sick toads, or treating sick people using toads? Both? Maybe it's just a pejorative and real toads aren't involved all
That's the one that jumped out at me almost religiously. I feel like I lost out on something deeply fulfilling and tailored to my very soul.
Edit: It doesn't mention living in a toadstool or a hermit hut covered in them as I had imagined, but I'm sure it's perfectly legal to do that while still upholding your oaths and croaks.
If I had a time machine I would go and be a toad doctor and live in a little cottage in the woods and have a ton of wacky ingredients and stuff everywhere.
I wonder how much schooling someone would need for this? What's the salary and benefits like? I think I could do this.
Hey, we still have plenty of ridiculous clowns. I hear Ricky Gervais' career is still going strong
lasted three weeks until he was sacked after being discovered in a local pub
Sounds like there was no "time off".
It breaks immersion if the guy you hire as "weird hobo that dwells in your garden" to show off to your upper class friends is seen outside that context.
Professional mourners are very much still a thing. Had them at a few funerals I attended. Very awkward to see them more invested into crying for the departed than the family. Some of the family members also seemed to think so, but hey, it's tradition and respectful of the dead.