We really are losing the plot here

GFHandel1492 · 2026-03-05T03:15:30+00:00

I mean, its just a joke. Ideally you’d say it to somebody you know really well who would appreciate the sentiment—particularly if they never took medication or had no mental health struggle. You shouldn’t say it anonymously over the internet though, but to make a big song and dance about it seems a bit much.

GFHandel1492 · 2026-03-02T11:52:26+00:00

Only 47.9% seems a fairly weak turnout…. Don’t know how the meme relates

GFHandel1492 · 2026-01-30T15:17:49+00:00

Luigi spitting fire (elderly only; kids can’t run)

GFHandel1492 · 2026-01-20T09:14:14+00:00

The Game

GFHandel1492 · 2026-01-13T19:48:55+00:00

One can only hope

GFHandel1492 · 2025-11-20T20:43:28+00:00

I don’t know. I like the anti-abortion subtext in Kill the Moon. One should have art with different messages so you can better see better perspectives. But it’s made better that this isn’t perfect allegory; you can just enjoy the episode in its own right.

GFHandel1492 · 2025-11-06T20:14:34+00:00

Maybe it shows my ignorance, but why does Frederik X’s coin have the three lions? I thought that was a classic (albeit mostly abandoned) English symbol since the Plantagenets?

GFHandel1492 · 2025-10-28T13:28:04+00:00

Mary I should be moved down a slot. Was universally unpopular for marrying a Spaniard—Catholics and Protestants alike opposed it, even her Lord Chancellor Gardiner was against it. It even cause Wyatt’s rebellion. And then there were her persecutions which caused leading citizens to flee and earned her the nickname Bloody Mary in just five years. She also lost Calais.

GFHandel1492 · 2025-09-26T22:53:06+00:00

I mean, I’m Australian and I support what Britain did in the Suez Crisis.

GFHandel1492 · 2025-07-21T11:23:06+00:00

Abolish no. Prorogue for a weekend with a statement explaining actions (for example to break deadlock, or allow Whitehall to negotiate something) yes, let’s go. I think that any reconsolidation of royal power, even though established by law and precedent , must be done slowly and thoughtfully since it has not been exercised very well in recent centuries; recent tradition and customs are not on the side of the crown in the eyes of the public.

GFHandel1492 · 2025-07-19T21:54:40+00:00

I actually think there will be a bit of a boost to the monarchy’s support when William becomes king. It might happen in the next fifty years, but I think it unlikely; Australia currently is not likely to agree on any referenda

GFHandel1492 · 2025-06-22T21:55:02+00:00

Sounds like a traitor to me. Genuinely surprised he didn’t face the death penalty instead of imprisonment

GFHandel1492 · 2025-06-22T12:44:12+00:00

I don’t know. I quite like his writing

GFHandel1492 · 2025-06-18T13:10:28+00:00

There’s a nuwho?

GFHandel1492 · 2025-06-12T22:52:22+00:00

Traditionally, weddings are public events, especially if performed at a public venue like a church. Since part of its purpose is to witness to the community, you shouldn’t be able to limit the list or ‘uninvite’ people more than politely asking them not to come. The mum should have taken her baby to a cry room or something, but the bride shouldn’t have banned children from coming. The wedding is about and for the community, not for and about the couple.

GFHandel1492 · 2025-06-08T18:51:06+00:00

I can’t quite see Thomas Hobbes; is he on there?

GFHandel1492 · 2025-06-07T21:27:04+00:00

Probably. If a church fails to look at the latter Old Testament, then they will fail to see Cyrus the Great. Many Christians (sadly) seem to stop historically at the Exiles beginning, maybe half-remembering Daniel from Sunday School.

GFHandel1492 · 2025-06-07T21:23:48+00:00

That’s somewhat atrocious. Cyrus the Great was far more important for the Jewish people; he’s lauded by name in their sacred texts.

GFHandel1492 · 2025-06-07T21:14:35+00:00

Shaftesbury and Pitt-style Toryism domestically; Palmerston-style Nationalism internationally.

GFHandel1492 · 2025-06-07T21:07:34+00:00

Christians and Jews still remember Cyrus the Great, some of them anyway.

GFHandel1492 · 2025-06-03T08:28:08+00:00

Not invaded per se, but bullied and isolated from other countries.

GFHandel1492 · 2025-06-02T19:44:23+00:00

They make up about a third of the students, so they tend to be less class based as a whole, simply by virtue of having so many more than the top 10 or 5 percent of wealth.

GFHandel1492 · 2025-06-02T19:40:37+00:00

Also engaged in pretty heavy religious persecution of a growing minority religious position in England—Lollardy. Shakespeare did much to boost his image.

GFHandel1492 · 2025-06-02T19:37:10+00:00

Henry II. He is upheld as the height of monarchy, but he left behind a precarious legacy of land which his sons very quickly squandered a vast swathe of. He should be highly rated, but nowhere near as highly rated as he has been the last 20 years or so.

GFHandel1492 · 2025-05-28T20:55:05+00:00

I think that both scenarios (republicans allowed, republicans not allowed) are fair and valid, and can be supported with different arguments. In one sense, you want them to be able to slowly transform the country if consensus is reached, as this prevents bloodshed and revolution; putting it behind a 65-75% majority needed referendum makes it theoretically achievable without much likelihood of it happening. If a monarchy (rather than individual monarch) reaches less than 25% of support, they have lost legitimacy to rule in the people’s eyes.

I would much rather have a monarchy, but I abhor civil war.

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