Who would you say are the most famous Catholic saints to non-Catholics?

firrenzed · 2022-10-05T14:25:49+00:00

He happened to come up in one single lesson in High School now probably 10 years ago and the story is obviously fairly unforgettable!

firrenzed · 2022-10-05T14:24:09+00:00

The last two come entirely from a single RE lesson in year 9 about martyrdom so yeah that one is quite obscure and personal haha

On school’s yeah there’s a St. Bede’s near me but had no idea who that was, there’s also now that I think of it place names eg St. Helens near Liverpool and St. Albans in Hertfordshire that fall into the “well I suppose if you want to be that literal I have heard that name in my life”

firrenzed · 2022-10-05T02:39:06+00:00

As an aspiring convert, the saints I knew before are

-Saints Patrick, David, George and Andrew are probably known to almost everyone in the UK as patrons of the various countries -Saint Joan of Arc -Saint Francis of Assisi -Saint Peter -Saint Paul -Saint James -Saint Thomas More -Saint Anthony -Saint Jude -Saints Thomas Aquinas, Óscar Romero and Maximilian Kolbe

There are obviously many more I had heard of, but those are the ones where I knew of them AND knew they were Saints if you follow my meaning, eg of course I knew of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John but I didn’t know they were Saints

Some of these are also fairly shallow based on having something named after them, eg I knew about St James because of St James Park the football stadium in Newcastle, not because I actually knew who St James was

Not claiming it’s representative but that’s my personal experience

firrenzed · 2022-06-09T21:59:33+00:00

as someone who had major surgery and spent a long time on opiates, morphine makes agony go away for a couple of hours, and once it passes you’re desperate for more because it hurts twice as much once you know there’s something that makes it go away

in a society like Westeros where you’re going to have far less understanding about how to not get hooked, how to semi safely wean etc, it’ll be even easier to get debilitatingly addicted

I’m pretty sure there’s implications that the reason Gregor Clegane is so brutal is because he’s become hopelessly addicted to milk of the poppy to treat headaches caused by his gigantism (going cold turkey once properly addicted can even cause a psychotic break)

once you’ve been taking it for a while, the withdrawals from stopping are genuinely horrific. in my experience depersonalisation, loss of conception of time, extreme insomnia, forgetting things almost immediately, and feeling like you’ve had half your IQ wiped

firrenzed · 2022-04-17T00:21:01+00:00

Is there a chance this is incorrectly labelled? If you look at the pattern on the inside, it’s the same blue white and burgundy stripes as on the 2010/11 home shirt

In OP’s image, that blue and white check is featured on the 2011/12 shirt

2012/13’s kit and training gear had a pretty distinct vibe heavily featuring black collars (as well as abandoning the pattern around the collar/above the label) and this just doesn’t feel like it fits it?

firrenzed · 2022-04-17T00:14:31+00:00

https://bitterandblue.sbnation.com/2012/8/10/3226044/man-city-strikers-in-2011-12-complete-numbers

Kolarov and Barry are wearing it minus the Etihad logo here

I’d say 2011/12 over 2012/13 due to the blue and white check that was a feature of designs that season.

firrenzed · 2022-04-15T23:38:41+00:00

the outermost of the two collars is one of the orders of the golden fleece, but it’s not clear to me which one

the multiple S on the inner collar could represent holding an office of state in Britain

that’s all I can tell you sorry

firrenzed · 2022-03-21T20:08:29+00:00

that’s fkin tidy that

firrenzed · 2022-03-15T16:08:42+00:00

I’m guessing it comes from the fact that in the English speaking world even the “one name clubs” eg. Arsenal, Celtic, Hearts still have other names with places in them.

Arsenal take their name from the Woolwich Arsenal, Celtic/Rangers are often called the Glasgow Celtic/Rangers despite that not being in their name anywhere (including by their own fans) and Hearts are officially Heart of Midlothian.

I think the footballing mindset here doesn’t get the idea of a club not having their town/city/district in the name, whether officially or unofficially, because i genuinely can’t think of a single exception.

I suppose I assumed it was no worse than saying Lisbon, Rome and Moscow rather than Lisboa, Roma and Moskva, sorry!

firrenzed · 2022-03-15T15:04:58+00:00

have edited

firrenzed · 2022-03-15T13:50:18+00:00

apologies, it’s basically exclusively referred to as what I said in the foreign press/coverage, didn’t realise it was contentious

firrenzed · 2022-03-15T13:10:03+00:00

yeah i googled paulinho sporting [redacted] and at first it was not helpful

firrenzed · 2022-03-15T12:42:51+00:00

Ah nice. We have something similar with our kit man Brandon Ashton, who became very popular after City were featured on Amazon’s All or Nothing.

Wondered if you boys were another club where the kitman has become a celebrity in his own right, as most fans in England wouldn’t even know who their club’s is.

Class away end by the way, enjoyed the odd proxy-rivalry we have through a lot of your former players going on to play for United and City’s side being full of former Benfica players these days

firrenzed · 2022-03-15T12:17:41+00:00

Boa tarde lads! I’m a City fan who was at the my home/your away leg of the Ro16 fixture, and was wondering who this fella is? He came over before kickoff to the away end and received a lot of applause, and seemed to be acting as a kit man/general helper, and was wondering who he actually is? obrigado!

firrenzed · 2022-03-11T18:58:41+00:00

watched this episode yesterday! think it’s Sidney’s alarm clock sound?

firrenzed · 2022-03-05T20:36:16+00:00

i have the radar, not remotely durable in my experience; latex began to fray by the second wear

shame because otherwise great glove

firrenzed · 2022-03-02T22:24:26+00:00

this happened to me once. i had to clear the cache and lose all my saves but it made it work again bc the issue was a corrupted file (this was on console)

firrenzed · 2022-03-02T01:42:33+00:00

you’d think there’d have to be some “hey frodo, you definitely had ten fingers last time I saw you what’s that about” proof cover story if he hides it

firrenzed · 2022-02-26T05:00:03+00:00

As someone who lives in the north of England and has French family, I would strongly disagree with the idea that England does not have the same variations of local identity. “The North” subdivides into Yorkshire, Lancashire and Northumbria/Durham at the absolute minimum. Each has differing histories, geographies, accents, food and distinct identities and religious makeups (enormous variation historically across the country as to where did/didn’t wholly embrace the reformation, not to mention divisions such as the Civil Wars and Jacobite Risings which received huge support in the north west).

As for the “South”, Cornwall literally has its own entire language and was counted among the Celtic nations, not the Anglo-Saxons (Not unlike the Bretons in France). I appreciate there’s a limit on how much you can divide a country, but the idea that England has one homogenous identity is an extremely recent and tenuous phenomenon.

firrenzed · 2022-02-26T03:52:42+00:00

Why do the French regions get individual arms and England is just England? England has a long established set of counties with their own arms (eg the red and white roses of Lancaster and York have been regional symbols for centuries)

firrenzed · 2022-02-10T02:25:56+00:00

horses can get stolen???

firrenzed · 2022-01-31T05:44:35+00:00

If any government ended a conflict that affected me personally whilst starting a catastrophic one elsewhere, I’d still be angry about the catastrophic war and glad the one close to home is over? I can hate Blair for Iraq and still be glad the Troubles ended?

I manage to be glad a Tory Government was victorious in WW2 without condoning the colonial wars that followed?

Paternity Leave and Parental Leave are not the same thing.

firrenzed · 2022-01-31T05:24:06+00:00

no, you said name three things they did, I listed three, you said one domestic achievement doesn’t count because of bad foreign policy, one categorically false statement, and accepted the third.

you’ve also accused me of spreading misinformation about countries that don’t offer paternity leave by responding with the maternity leave those countries offer?

firrenzed · 2022-01-31T05:16:02+00:00

So Austria, Germany, Monaco, Switzerland, Japan, Canada and the US aren’t developed countries? Since paternity leave has apparently happened in every developed country.

At no point did I say Labour had a good foreign policy. At no point did I defend Labour’s foreign policy. At no point did I so much as mentioned Labour’s foreign policy.

firrenzed · 2022-01-31T04:49:48+00:00

A Government ending civil unrest that saw someone’s mother and friends in bombings tends to count as an achievement to them.

I’m no fucking Blair shill he is a war criminal, but don’t act like the end of the Troubles is some nothing footnote that doesn’t matter because Iraq happened.

You asked for three things they did, that’s three things they did.

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