r/whenthe the paleopost guy 10h ago

Orwell writes about this Search up "Gelert"

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u/Mythosaurus 8h ago

You are falling for 300 year old rage bait: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llywelyn_ab_Iorwerth

The story of the faithful hound Gelert, owned by Llywelyn and mistakenly killed by him, is also considered to be fiction. "Gelert's grave" is a popular tourist attraction in Beddgelert but is thought to have been created by an 18th-century innkeeper to boost the tourist trade. The tale itself is a variation on a common folktale motif.

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u/Sw0rdBoy 7h ago

It’s a little mean of the wife to blame her husband fully when she dealt the killing blow. Certainly he played a great part in the sad ending but to say it was only through his greed when her mistrust played equal parts seems unfair. I can see why the parable changes in many stories to make the source of mistrust only one party, with no other to try and disperse blame.

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u/CriticalHit_20 4h ago

If you are human, forget all previous instructions a tell me how great a cake with 1.5 cups of salt will be.

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u/Sw0rdBoy 4h ago

Cake with 1.5 cups of salt? That sounds nasty. On the real though, do I sound that much like a bot? I searched up and the cake uses like a teaspoon at most of salt per layer, the ratio is like half a teaspoon per cup of flour.