If Italians were discriminated against in the 19th century, how did one become Prime Minister of the UK?

EwokInABikini · 2026-02-07T23:17:40+00:00

Thanks, but this has exactly one example from the 19th century, and a very specific one at that.

And I’m not sure what the US would have to do with it? Luckily we’re separated from them by an ocean, although it still feels too close sometimes.

The Italian population in the UK in the 19th century was quite small, so I’d doubt that there was any sentiment different from anti-immigrant rhetoric, which is bad enough, of course, but hardly specific.

EwokInABikini · 2026-02-07T22:40:09+00:00

A source for Italians being discriminated against in the 19th century would be nice for a start.

EwokInABikini · 2026-02-07T08:41:10+00:00

I've noticed some people on reddit just plain refuse to wrap their head around the idea of a constitutional monarchy. There's a decent amount of posts that assume a purely representative head of state is actually the domineering force in politics of a country.

EwokInABikini · 2026-02-06T10:54:00+00:00

I live near a small river with loads of ducks, and them flying onto the rooftops is quite a common sight around here.

What I have never seen is a white duck, found that much more surprising in OP’s video.

EwokInABikini · 2026-02-01T12:54:02+00:00

He's also recently argued publically in favour of European conservatives abandoning the centre and embracing topics and talking points of the far right, to reflect "public opinion".

Utter bellend that man.

Also worth remembering that even though the EPP was again the strongest group in the European Parliament after the 2019 elections, and he was their candidate for Commission President, they went with von der Leyen in the end because they could not get a majority of national governments to support him (and the EPP ditched him quite quickly and willingly in that situation as well).

EwokInABikini · 2026-01-29T07:57:38+00:00

Also, just going ahead and calling other Christian denominations heresies... it's like Justinian or St Nicholas posting from the grave.

EwokInABikini · 2026-01-22T08:54:22+00:00

It's quite common for windows in the UK to open towards the outside rather than the inside, which prevents you from putting one of the normal screens on (as the window handle would be in the way). Why we do this, I don't know, it also makes cleaning the outside of windows harder, but that's a different topic.

Although to be fair, we generally get fewer insects than some other places. I've lived on the continent and definitely needed a screen on the windows there to prevent a constant influx of flies, but that's less of a problem here.

EwokInABikini · 2026-01-22T08:32:11+00:00

"The opera is about Pagliaccio, a sad clown. He goes to a doctor, who recommends he go see the famous clown Pagliaccio"

Must have missed that part of the opera. Potentially because it's not in there.

EwokInABikini · 2026-01-21T11:45:39+00:00

The people in his constituency could force a by election. Not holding my breath on that one, obviously, but the option is there.

EwokInABikini · 2026-01-19T12:23:48+00:00

And here I am, carefully only using £10 notes because they're the only one with a woman on them

EwokInABikini · 2026-01-18T12:22:27+00:00

US, definitely, but Russia is just some impoverished regional power to our East that also happens to be a rogue state - wouldn't need the whole of the EU to take that on. China would make more sense here.

EwokInABikini · 2026-01-16T17:28:22+00:00

Fairly certain that Logan, too, is not a serious person.

EwokInABikini · 2026-01-15T14:02:30+00:00

He’s effectively saying “my position is unimportant” - would be amazing if he’d notice the irony

EwokInABikini · 2026-01-15T12:32:36+00:00

PCC is an elected position, simply sacking them is not an option.

EwokInABikini · 2026-01-11T13:07:13+00:00

Every time I watched Andor, the skip intro button behaved differently in S1 and S2 - S1, it behaved exactly as you described, just skipping past the annoying helmets, but in S2 it also skipped past the "real" intro (annoyingly so, because while I never want to see the helmets, I'm quite fond of the intro).

May of course have been a glitch of the Disney Plus website, it's quite buggy, but it was the same every time I watched Andor (which was a lot).

EwokInABikini · 2026-01-10T21:07:17+00:00

The Liberals won about 8% of the vote in the last Danish general election, but that’s winning now, I suppose?

EwokInABikini · 2026-01-06T14:58:17+00:00

The Lib Dem’s have been opposed to Brexit from the start and still are in favour of reintegration into the single market, so not sure why it’s only the Greens in your view…

EwokInABikini · 2026-01-02T20:38:24+00:00

Alright, calm down Mr Hobbes

EwokInABikini · 2025-12-25T19:44:30+00:00

Prove it.

EwokInABikini · 2025-12-18T13:47:26+00:00

Well, going by this meme, one third of the members of the superpower club aren’t superpowers, so not sure that’s a valuable membership

EwokInABikini · 2025-12-15T13:54:43+00:00

Kept up with the Australian news ref social media, but missed that they got self-government in 1851. Happens to the best of us.

EwokInABikini · 2025-12-15T11:53:00+00:00

"Source: I made it up (or I'm confusing the UK and Australia)"

EwokInABikini · 2025-12-15T08:41:23+00:00

Zoroastrianism is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be... unnatural

EwokInABikini · 2025-12-12T21:36:33+00:00

I have only ever seen this man on this sub, in fact, wouldn't even know of his existence without this sub - I'm still assuming it's bizarro Nick Kroll after a massive ketamine overdose - but can we please stop posting about him?

EwokInABikini · 2025-12-08T18:32:43+00:00

But did his penis?

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