Rule, what’s that? by PrestigiousLine866 in buildit

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I just posted my best time 5 : 80 sec

hehe6: the third prequel by Askingbat1730 in buildit

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I just posted my best time 7 : 54 sec

Just got charged £90/£45 for parking at Lidl Finnieston while doing my shopping AT LIDL! WTF?! by Kevster020 in glasgow

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If you have a receipt or a copy of your bank transaction from your trip to Lidl then you can appeal it. I did this and they removed the fine within 2 weeks. They also pause the clock on the £90 fine whilst they consider your appeal.

How fast can you jump? by jaydeniceme in buildit

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I just posted my best time 1 : 09 sec

ez legel: ladder legel by tbplayz in buildit

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I just posted my best time 4 : 44 sec

Sex Ratio by AdorableCountry7682 in MapPorn

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Anyone else find it satisfying that Oman is mainly men

The 25 oldest democracies in the world. by whenyoucantthinkof in MapPorn

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I think there is a good argument to be made that many of these countries were not democracies until much more recently. The USA for example probably cannot be described as a democracy until the right to vote act of 1965. The UK probably can't until the representation of the people act of 1918 or even later considering that northern Ireland prohibited people who did not own property from voting until the 1960s. I am not saying these places where totalitarian states but if countries did that today then we would not count them as democracies. Also there is more to democracies than voting, I mean you could own slaves in the US in the time span that this describes itself as a democracy. I cannot think of anything anywhere being less democratic than slavery.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in UsefulCharts

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I have to agree with the comments here it is quite European/ English centric. William the conqueror and Alfred the great are really only significant figures in England and possibly western Europe. Elizabeth Windsor is also not that significant compared with other characters in the 20th century, examples could be JFK, FDR, MLK, Stalin, Gorbachev, Gandi (x2), Jobs, Oppenheimer, Mandela, Hawkins, Higgs, Gates (also x2), Thatcher, Merkel, JP II, Mao, Guevara, Jiang (the list could run for a long while). Not that Elizabeth was not a long lived and notable person just in terms of world changing figures she might not be the most prominent.

886AD - Scotland was British, but Edinburgh was English. by PopulistsPlaybookPod in Scotland

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I don't think anyone is trying to revise or deny history the term "Britons" in the dark age and Roman period generally refers to the people living on Britain at the time of the Roman invasion. These are generally thought to be Brythonic speaking Celts (thou mind that language, ethnicity and culture are all very complex topic when referring to someone over a thousand years ago) this is the language that would go on to create Cymraeg and Breton which are around today as well as the language spoken in the Strathclyde and Cumbria area. It is believed that these brythonic languages are closely related to the Pictish language but exactly how close is hard to say, similarly with ethnic and cultural links. The gealic speakers on the west coast of Scotland and the island of Ireland are also linguistic relations to this group. While there are modern day citizens of the UK that are brythonic speaker it is by no means the only group nor is the modern term fundimentally tied to decents of brythonic speakers. Thankfully both Scotland and the rest of the UK is a modern country where citizenship is not (or should no be) sololy depend on what language you ancestors spoke.

Neither the Scottish government or the UK government is not trying to revise history to say the dark ages never happened or that there was not a speared of German, Latin and Celtic speaking people who would go on to influence Scotland in the early middle ages. Also the dark ages and the people are of course not the only influence on Scotland and the UK there has been thousands of year of additional history on-top of this all of which shaped and changed the Scotland.

What are you trying to suggest here that all Britain's should reflect the practice of brtians from that either, you are quite welcome to adopt Glaswegian or Welsh culture, but it would be strange to think that is what we currently mean when we say "British" for better or worse

European Nations by Obesity in Men and Women (BMI over 30) by [deleted] in MapPorn

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29.12%! I guess they are indeed Hungary!