I can’t remember exactly but it was something like compulsory enlistment in military or national service

also, testosterone & muscle mass. lol. exercise for weight loss? hahahahah

I do not care about Nigella Lawson in the slightest. So here I am, commenting on an article about her. Shit, I must have *something* more interesting to do.

hey, as long as she isn’t wearing mixed fibres it’s probably all cool

Nigella would probably say, hey, it’s ok, have this line of coke instead.

Oh I went and looked it up too! Funny how we can interpret words individually.

To wikipedia!

“The United Kingdom introduced conscription to full-time military service for the first time in January 1916 (the eighteenth month of World War I) and abolished it in 1920. Ireland, then part of the United Kingdom, was excepted from the original 1916 military service legislation, and although further…

I’m sure you’re right. I just think of conscription as going off to fight in a war without a choice.

When did it require military service?

is this part of a new #whitepeopleproblems series

I don’t think there was ever conscription in Ireland, once independence was achieved. The country was militarily neutral for a very long time.

Do you mean conscription or national service? I wouldn’t view them as the same thing at all.

somewhere in that lemonade stand analogy there’s a parallel with bank bailouts

oops sorry someone already made my point only better

well it’s actually completes true cos the little girl did not manufacture those plastic bricks, now did she? hmm?

Which parts of Europe? Curious.

her eye makeup is fab too

Santorum got his terminology mixed up. Village elders are totes in favour of traditional families, where grandma stays home and minds the kids and mom goes out and milks the cows, feeds the chickens, gathers the wool for carding and so on. It’s 1950s nuclear families that Santorum wants more of - none of this women…

Fuck traditional roles, they aren’t even traditional

I think we can all get behind this one