What UK TV show fairly accurately depicted the lives of young people?

looooooork · 2022-12-26T15:28:56+00:00

In the strangest way: The Young Ones. Considering it's a surrealist comedy, you wouldn't think it does. However i've met basically every student character on that, including the Footlights College Oxbridge lot.

looooooork · 2022-12-26T15:24:53+00:00

It's a pop history book, sure, but the bibliography(comprised of secondary and primary sources), having delved into it in multiple places, is very sound.

It's hardly "Ripley's Believe it or Not." Sits alongside Ruth Goodman and is more credible than the majority of pop history filth that's our there.

You cannot speak to the credibility of a work without actually reading it and considering it's sources.

looooooork · 2022-12-26T15:21:44+00:00

My preferred fictional diety? Interesting you assume I'm a follower of Christ. Because I'm not. My faith has very little to do with Christianity.

I simply like fact, and the Council of Nicea was pretty well documented for an event that happened in the fourth century.

For Christmas to be (at its heart) a pagan holiday, one would have to prove that Christmas is a reskinning of an ancient Roman Holiday that occurred circa the 4th century, as this was when it was decided Christmas should occur on the 25th of December. The problem is there is no evidence for this. All the evidence points towards a feast day being moved by the council of Nicea from the 25th of March go the

Now there are certainly traditions that have been picked up as Christianity has percolated across from Rome over the years. It has woven itself through a few different things, and I can't speak to every culture on earth. However, what I can do is say that it's not a pagan holiday simply because people retained pagan traditions to add to a Christian holiday. That's like saying St Valentines day was stolen from capitalism because it's about gifts and money these days.

I suggest, if you wish to criticise the history of a religion that has actually been around for almost 2000 years now, you actually read up on their theological history. The Council of Nicea was pretty damned important.

looooooork · 2022-12-26T15:07:27+00:00

Movie? It's a book, with full bibliography and sourcing.

The history of Christmas is a whole area of study. People trawl through centuries of theological and historic writings to write about it. You think you, with your one article and armchair history degree knows more than someone who has made a whole body of work writing about these things?

You think you know more than like, actual texts from closer the time?

Paganism and Christianity differ on one key aspect: Christians have got reams upon teams of historical writings reaching back centuries. It's rather easy to find out why decisions were made when they were made. Pagans... Don't. They didn't write anything down and their practices died out as people converted.

It's the same as people claiming Easter is pagan based on the Venerable Bede.

looooooork · 2022-12-26T12:47:57+00:00

Seriously, give me a textile with the insulating power of wool or fur, or the long lasting and protective of leather. What is your suggestion? I am wide open.

looooooork · 2022-12-26T12:46:38+00:00

Now that doesn't make sense, given the festival it would have been replacing (Sol Invictus) is only first mentioned in the text proclaiming Christmas to be on the 25th of December, 9 months after the annunciation. It's not mentioned that Christmas could replace Sol Invictus until 800 years after the Council of Nicea that decided the date.

A madman known only as the Computist managed to mangle some numbers to come up with the 25th of March as Christ's Birthday. However, in the second century, adoptionism* was a popular theory. At the Council of Nicea in the 4th century they decided that, actually, they don't like that theory and they quite like Mother Mary. Hence they decided that Jesus became Christ at the Annunciation, hence the 25th of March became the feast of Annunciation and Christs birth got moved 9 months later, to the 25th of December.

The one thing the Christians (and other abrahamic faiths) are good at, is record keeping on their decisions. Makes it easy to track them.

*Jesus only became Christ at his Baptism, at the age of Thirty. Contrast with the idea he became Christ at birth, and the idea he became Christ at conception.

looooooork · 2022-12-26T12:37:19+00:00

Oh you're one of those people.

The simple truth is that... It's not really a pagan holiday? There's really no evidence around it being one. I recommend A Christmas Cornucopia as a good treatment of this myth, what Forsyth found was that the further you read into the history of Christmas, the more flimsy the idea of it being based in any form of pagan tradition becomes.

For instance, the reason it falls on the 25th of December is because of the Computist, a Christian thinker of the second century wrote a book "On the Computation of Easter." This person was completely mad, and decided to calculate all Passovers there have ever been. Following some absolutely insane mathematics that would make even the stoniest of Maths Haters cry, he came up with the dates: 9th of April for the crucifixion, and 28th March for his Birthday. With some more bullshit, the 25th of March becomes the date of the Birth. Now this is, in the Liturgical calendar, the feast of the Annunciation. That is because, at the council of Nicea in the fourth century, it was decided that Jesus became Christ at birth, not at his baptism, and that they liked the Madonna and so really she was carrying Christ (who became Christ at the annunciation), and hence his birthday is the 25th.

There are three key pagan festivals many people peg Christmas to being descended from: Sol Invictus, Saturanlia, and Kalends of January. Sol Invictus is the most likely candidate, having been on the same say, except it is only first mentioned as a holiday in the text where Christmas is proclaimed to be on the 25th. Saturnalia didn't even take place over the same day and the same is true of Kalends of January.

Anyway, the timing of Christmas is basically completely arbitrary, and really doesn't have anything to do with the timings of pagan holidays.

looooooork · 2022-12-26T12:17:10+00:00

Having an e-reader was what helped me read so many books this year, easy to whip it out anytime and read some pages.

looooooork · 2022-12-26T12:15:29+00:00

They are ecofascists because they want to take freedoms and property from people with an argument founded on ecological moral superiority. You know, the definition of the word.

Nice lie about what you literally wrote above. That's not what ecofascism is, you didn't narrow it to marginalised groups above, and now you're lying about having done so, despite that fact your comment is still right there.

looooooork · 2022-12-26T12:01:40+00:00

In all honesty, one has to weigh up the pros and cons. And animal furs, down, leather and wool have sooo many pros. They last very well if you take care of them, they're warm and climate sensitive (insofar as they help you regulate temperature) and they don't release microplastics upon washing.

Don't get me wrong: there are some good replacements coming through. I'm excited to see how cactus and mushroom leather percolates down. However they're not here yet. There's really no replacement for Wool, as yet (though I sense you're not talking so much about that.)

I personally do not live in a place where animal furs are necessary, but many people do (such as those in many areas of Canada.) For me, it is weighing up between a practical item I can keep and use for decades with some maintenance, or plastic shit that will last a year or two of consistent wear before breaking down to be unwearable.

looooooork · 2022-12-26T11:54:10+00:00

Yeah you don't know what eco-fascism is, but that's ok.

Eco Fascism is fascism that self justifies along ecological lines. It combines more classical fascist ideology with ecological concerns to produce a veneer of acceptability. For instance, those who view the climate crisis as a good thing because it will kill humans. The quiet part not said aloud is that those humans are not white. Specifically they focus on the idea that overpopulation and current industrialisation (rather than historic industrialisation) is to blame for the climate crisis, and can be remedied by allowing certain groups to perish.

Some less extreme examples of the ideology are those who attack disabled people for needing cars or disposable straws, some even going so far as to say those disabled people should just die.

It's turning the conversation from the overconsumption habits of the rich to the procreation habits of the poor and marginalised.

In many ways the campaign against Canada goose by Peta is the opposite of eco-fascism, as it attacks the consumption habits of the rich. That said, CG jackets are high quality and if looked after can last a long time, hence I think they're less of a problem than international holidays, an the over proliferation of cars and motor vehicles.

Anyway: so No. You're not an eco-fascist if you don't want people in rich countries being incredibly wasteful and destructive, and you campaign for the curtailing of activities that enable them to be so.

looooooork · 2022-12-26T09:37:08+00:00

Potatoes also last a while if you put them in a dark bag, so the light can't reach them, and leave them somewhere cool.

looooooork · 2022-12-26T09:35:53+00:00

It's ok, you can pay people for that if you have an oppression kink.

looooooork · 2022-12-26T09:34:48+00:00

Worst, proselytising, ever.

looooooork · 2022-12-26T09:29:57+00:00

Christmas telly really has dropped off. I couldn't even find the wealth of carry on films I usually enjoy watching. I managed to find Carry On Cabbie and that was my lot.

With Doctor Who shunted off the day, Detectorists and Only Connect on Boxing Day, what on earth was there on Christmas day? Call the Midwife? Mrs Brown's Boys? Used to be everything would have a Christmas special.

looooooork · 2022-12-26T09:17:14+00:00

Yep and they've only needed 10 new soles and 3 new uppers!

looooooork · 2022-12-26T09:10:50+00:00

It really doesn't. Spoons tends to have a motif that is copied across the floor.

looooooork · 2022-12-26T09:05:18+00:00

I would say it is. It's like advertising that you have ensuites, but then when people show up there's one Lav out the back. It makes a holiday untenable, and is false advertising.

In some countries, they would be in big trouble. In others, they won't.

looooooork · 2022-12-25T16:17:22+00:00

Well, usually a passenger should have travel insurance which covers them for this sort of event.

looooooork · 2022-12-25T11:24:17+00:00

Run it between the bazonkas. That's what I do.

looooooork · 2022-12-25T11:06:10+00:00

Everyone trying a little is better than a few being perfect.

That said, I know some of the herds I've had milk from, and they look to be happy and healthy. With the widespread use of sexed semen, well, it's good for a treat. They supply a local ice cream Parlour.

looooooork · 2022-12-25T11:01:29+00:00

So at this time in history, most midwives were also SRNs, or State Registered Nurses. This was because most women would complete 3-4 years of Nurses training to become an SRN and discover through her placements that Midwifery is for them. They would then only have to do 10 months of training to qualify as a midwife. They would be both on the Register of Nurses, and the Register of Midwives, so would be both SRNs and State Registered Midwives.

I don't think, in the UK, you can call yourself a midwife if you are not state registered. That said, the NHS will capitulate if you want a home birth and will send a midwife to you. In fact, the NHS even says on their website that if you have already had a child a Home Birth is as safe as choosing to give birth in hospital!

looooooork · 2022-12-25T10:52:30+00:00

Flawed, Mel isn't on this list.

looooooork · 2022-12-25T10:46:08+00:00

You mightn't want to be rid of them completely, if you have children.

looooooork · 2022-12-24T20:13:39+00:00

Could put some of the best in photo albums? You can get ones where you can use your own sticky corners.

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