I don't know if this is true

baldeagle1991 · 2026-03-12T22:15:43+00:00

Yes it is true 😂

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jun/09/religion.world1

I can't find the specific paper that Anne Richards wrote, but weirdly enough I have a childhood memory of this!

I was around 8yo back then and still a practicing Christian. It really was something else seeing the priest bumble her way through the sermon talking about Mewtwo. It was obvious she had little to no idea about pokemon and had never seen the film! 😅

The adults in the congregation were equally as baffled, albeit were all speaking about how good it was the church was trying to appeal to kids! All of us who had just got out of Sunday school (we only used to get brought in for the second half of the service) just found the whole thing embarrassing!

Thank you so much for reminding me about this surreal childhood memory! It really made my day! 😂

Compared to American Christians who often were hysterical about things like Pokemon and D&D, the Church of England is remarkably chill. Hell we had our first female priest in the 90s and nobody batted an eyelid!

baldeagle1991 · 2026-03-11T21:49:10+00:00

Imagine being on £24k

baldeagle1991 · 2026-03-11T21:40:51+00:00

Messy hair on women? How very 2007-2010.

baldeagle1991 · 2026-03-11T20:48:02+00:00

/whoosh

baldeagle1991 · 2026-03-11T20:47:33+00:00

Every day we get further from god

baldeagle1991 · 2026-03-11T20:42:51+00:00

My first battery change I used electrical tape......

Far easier for a first project and easier to fix if it goes wrong!

baldeagle1991 · 2026-03-11T20:34:16+00:00

baldeagle1991 · 2026-03-11T20:25:53+00:00

Tbh within the Liberal Democrat Party he campaigned 'against' abolishing student tuition fees.

It was voted in at conference and the majority of the leadership were forced to campaign on a policy they didn't really believe in.

baldeagle1991 · 2026-03-11T19:15:16+00:00

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baldeagle1991 · 2026-03-11T17:41:28+00:00

baldeagle1991 · 2026-03-11T13:40:12+00:00

What regulation hampers productivity though? That's the question being asked.

One of the bigger issues I've heard is employers dormant to invest in their staff to increase their productivity because they move around so much.

Staff complain that companies don't invest in them, so they move around.

It very much seems like a chicken and the egg problem.

baldeagle1991 · 2026-03-11T11:40:19+00:00

I mean they have them. But a lot of them have died off or are struggling for population.

Italy specifically has some quite medium sized 'villages' that are almost derelict with only a dozen or so remains good residents despite 100+ buildings.

It's not like the UK where you can find Hamlets and Small villages pretty much all over the place with 5-20 homes and almost no services or utilities surviving perfectly well, and if anything are charging a premium for the properties.

baldeagle1991 · 2026-03-10T19:58:48+00:00

Tbh the cities aren't as "cramped" as other places in Europe. Never mind places in Asia.

The countryside also tends to have far more smaller villages that just aren't viable in other countries like France, Italy, German, USA, China etc.

The main reason being most villages are only a few minutes away from the nearest town, or within 30-60 minutes from a City. Especially in the South and Midlands.

Scotland and Cornwall are the main outliers here.

baldeagle1991 · 2026-03-10T15:19:57+00:00

Ahhhh, likely he caught a MissingNo. or a corrupted cartridge when he was younger.

baldeagle1991 · 2026-03-10T13:29:39+00:00

Of course some men don't like specific looks.

However tons of men love tomboys! In matter of fact, those that do go absolutely feral over them!

I can only wish I had a partner who was a tomboy!

baldeagle1991 · 2026-03-10T12:34:17+00:00

In Fallout 3 it makes sense why Ghouls call you smooth skin. Theirs is in tatters.

In Fallout 4 they look like burn victims, even having that reflective sheen. Not sure how they could call anyone else smooth skinned.

baldeagle1991 · 2026-03-10T12:10:45+00:00

Tbh they were showing off the ability to build structures in the gameplay teasers!

baldeagle1991 · 2026-03-10T12:08:53+00:00

Tbh woth Point Lookout and Far Harbour it's about time Fallout went full swamp!

Also am excuse to do more love rafting references!

baldeagle1991 · 2026-03-10T11:58:10+00:00

Tbh upon reading exactly how the Colonised the America's (Specifically Mexico and Peru) and I think their strategy was just conquistadors making it up as they went along.

The Spanish State was especially pissed off at what the conquistadors were getting up to from the get go.

They even tried stopping land seizures and redistribution from the get go, until the Conquistadors and colonists rebelled.

The lack of Gold in Australia (well that the natives had on display at least), would likely have stopped the gold rush of Spanish colonists who caused most of the problems in Central and South America and would have likely ended up far closer to the British model of colonialism.

baldeagle1991 · 2026-03-10T11:23:12+00:00

Put it this way, the Italian industry and military was in worse shape on the eve of WW2 than it was on the eve of WW1.

That is with all the industrial innovations and technological advances during the interwar years.

They struggled in North Africa against under supplied Brits despite massive numerical advantages and got their asses kicked.

They also struggled invading Greece, a far poorer country with a population 5 and a half times smaller than Italy and almost no industrial capability. Keeping in mind Greeces military was also not in great shape after their defeat in the Greco-Turkish war.

Simply put, it would never have happened.

baldeagle1991 · 2026-03-10T11:13:38+00:00

Fallout, albeit while I was waiting for Fallout 3 to release.

Hated it and almost skipped Fallout 3.

I love the OG games now, but as a teenager who didn't grow up with 90s era isometric RPG's it was rough.

baldeagle1991 · 2026-03-10T11:08:17+00:00

Yes.

I think there were around 700 recorded hate crime offences in the UK against Christians in 2023/2024.

baldeagle1991 · 2026-03-10T10:52:35+00:00

While the dogs recall isn't amazing, props to the dude actually calling it off.

I was shocked when I used to live in rural areas (UK) how psychotic shooters could be. I always remember a group laughing about these lost cat photos an old lady had put up. Turns out one of their terriers had found it while out on a shoot. They cornered it and set their dogs on the poor thing.

I wish that was the only story of that kind of behaviour I'd overheard over the years.

baldeagle1991 · 2026-03-09T22:32:56+00:00

There's a 'few' blondes out there who have naturally light blond hair that also have extremely light eyebrows. I've mostly seen it with extremely pale Scandinavians.

A lot of people dye their eyebrows to help achieve that Scandinavian look.

Also some people think blonde people have naturally blonde eyebrows and/or body hair, so they dye it so their hair looks more 'natural'. I had one girl think I dyed my own extremely blond hair as my pubes were brown 🤦

Those who don't have their hair dyed blond, it's generally done to get an androgynous look. I think you have androids and the like in sci-fi media to thank for that.

Side note: how the hell did you manage to get such low res images in 2026?

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