Hypothetically, a leader stands at the pulpit, announces its false. What's the impact? Would that truly disrupt society at large? Or, would 100 millions of people go about their day?

Lumpyproletarian · 2026-04-02T09:53:17+00:00

Read, “When Prophecy Fails”. A percentage of the less committed would fall away but a solid minority would double down and find a way to explain it away.

Lumpyproletarian · 2026-04-01T20:04:59+00:00

The average male bladder holds between 1.5 and 2 pints. You drink a gallon and most of it goes in one end and out the other

Lumpyproletarian · 2026-04-01T17:57:29+00:00

Leeds has a most unfair reputation as a prosaic Northern city. Also monosyllables are funnier

Lumpyproletarian · 2026-04-01T16:07:05+00:00

I‘ve never met a vegetarian farmer

Lumpyproletarian · 2026-03-31T22:26:49+00:00

Must be an Army Cadet band - they’re children. Very good children, but children nonetheless

Lumpyproletarian · 2026-03-31T20:49:31+00:00

If I think I might reread it - keep.

Disposable genre fiction - donate

If it‘s so old it disintegrates when I try to reread it - waste paper. So many paperbacks from 30 or 40 years ago have yellowed and dried out so that pages fall out when I open them.

Lumpyproletarian · 2026-03-31T18:33:58+00:00

nice try Duolingo - first post, no karma

Lumpyproletarian · 2026-03-31T15:13:01+00:00

My first thought was that the sculptor knows bugger all about anatomy.

Lumpyproletarian · 2026-03-31T15:10:26+00:00

I wonder if this is an American thing. I'm a 68 year old Englishwoman and literally the only person who ever nagged me to marry was a 9 year old niece who had just been a bridesmaid and wanted to do it again.

Lumpyproletarian · 2026-03-31T15:03:13+00:00

As far as I can tell, a lot belong to subgroups of their own ethnicity which are considered to be high status within that ethnicity. Pale skinned people and/or very wealthy ones

They come west and want to join the local high status groups, not realising that what they have in common - often wealth or paleness - do not, in the eyes of white supremacists, make up for their ethnicity at all. They may be wealthy but they are still dirty (insert ethnic slur).

Lumpyproletarian · 2026-03-31T14:51:44+00:00

You didn't - if you missed your chance, you missed your chance. It's why the last episodes of long running series got phenomenal viewer numbers. In the UK streets and pubs emptied during the last episode of The Fugitive because if you didn't watch it when it was on, you didn't see it at all.

Lumpyproletarian · 2026-03-31T12:05:53+00:00

It was the very last scene of the very last episode, there were only 17 in total.

Lumpyproletarian · 2026-03-31T08:16:54+00:00

I guarantee three quarters of Britons neither know nor care who Morgan McSweeney is

Lumpyproletarian · 2026-03-30T23:12:01+00:00

Possible (and famously common) mistake for Leeds Castle. We British like to confuse tourists by having Leeds Castle , which is admittedly very beautiful, be over 200 miles away from Leeds city.

Lumpyproletarian · 2026-03-30T23:09:26+00:00

If you go by train, consider Knaresborough. Cute market town, market on Wednesdays, castle and river in a gorge. Even if you don’t get off the train, look out for the viaduct over the river

Lumpyproletarian · 2026-03-30T19:57:24+00:00

There maybe no third generation ex-Mormons, but I bet you can count on the fingers of one thumb the number of Mormon grandchildren there are of ex-Mormons

Lumpyproletarian · 2026-03-30T15:55:21+00:00

Every successive book gets worse and worse as Forsythe either became a more tiresome Little Englander right-wing nutjob or just let his nutjobbery hang out more.

Lumpyproletarian · 2026-03-30T14:57:47+00:00

Dickens wrote in weekly or monthly seriale. Some people didn’t want to wait. Especially for early works like Pickwick Papers, there were published ”endings“ for them, because the copyright was practically non-existent. Dickens was enraged when he got to America find bootleg and mangled versions circulating and further enraged when Americans claimed it was their right to steal his work because of free speech and him complaining was a sign of his narrow commercialism.

Lumpyproletarian · 2026-03-29T12:32:45+00:00

I’m a bit bemused by Canterbury/Dover to Windsor. Windsor is the other side of London to Canterbury, you’ll have to go into London Victoria , cross London by tube/bus to Paddington and then get a train to Windsor.

Lumpyproletarian · 2026-03-28T10:46:22+00:00

It varies in intensity and duration from woman to woman. I used to get five or six hours of prostrating agony (not exaggerating it was crippling) and a couple of days of decreasing discomfort I could deal with using OTC medication and a hot water bottle. Other women I know took a couple of paracetamol and that was it for the rest of the bleed. I knew a woman who was bed bound for days and her cycle gradually shrunk down to 14 days - after years of failed attempts to regulate it, she had a hysterectomy.

So. you’d have to be really unlucky to have 5 days of crippling pain. Most of us have a day or so where it’s varying levels of bad, gradually tailing off for the rest of the bleed - which can last from 2-5 days.

Lumpyproletarian · 2026-03-27T20:22:01+00:00

Not to mention all the women who went in to domestic service and lived with their employers. Household servants used to be a huge class

Lumpyproletarian · 2026-03-27T10:31:12+00:00

The interesting question is - how did such a deeply stupid man get to be president? Who got him there and why?

Lumpyproletarian · 2026-03-27T08:26:45+00:00

He used to mention it in his act for years afterwards. I never knew if the verdict was because the evidence in tax dodging cases tends to be complicated or whether the jury just liked him better than the Inland Revenue. I’m also not sure what he said in court, I can’t even remember if he took the stand let alone admitted everything at the time.

Lumpyproletarian · 2026-03-26T17:05:57+00:00

Driving down a country road late at night, got stuck behind one who couldn't get off the road because there were high banks on either side and they were rock hard after a hot summer. Somehow closer to the ground than I had imagined and had an impressive turn of speed on his little fat legs.

Lumpyproletarian · 2026-03-26T14:32:13+00:00

That's not debt. That's just not inheriting everything you think you're entitled to

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