to be fair its hard for me to think of another author who i hold in greater contempt than james patterson.

and thats another issue with organised religion, for far too many its a job, and/or a outright grift.

said in music some 50 years ago, you dont have to wind up god on sunday, either there is a god and by definition they are always with you, or there is no god, neither requires you to go to church and be lectured by a man very likely possessing no better understanding than you, especially not now in a time when it…

yeah oddly those who most desire to excercise such power tend to be those least suited to do so.

there is at this moment in time zero evidence he commited any crime.

while its use is almost certainly predominantly racist, its likely a holdover from common/english law where the same power has been a thing for hundreds of years, with certain limitations - you have to witness the crime happening or near enough- and you must make every effort to hand them over to lawful authority as…

thing is leaving aside the religious bias, Alfred was pretty much correct about the vikings, they werent known for sparing children, were big fans of raiding and looting and tried to extract tribute from the saxons, there is a reason why Alfred is ‘Alfred the Great’ 

the axes are all fairly fucking horrible from a historical accuracy perspective, blades are all thickish wedges, which would weigh 3-4 times as much as the thin blades the axes actually had, its a common thing but whereas warcraft can get away with it because its all fairly cartoony in its proportion it really doesnt…

I too am enraged at the historical inaccuracy of this game.

its funny, i wouldnt really call the situation in the UK ‘rising transphobia’ so much as the government/courts trying to decide precedent and apparently in this instance going with a attitude of ‘if you give birth you are a mother’ largely because the law goes often for the simplest definition to avoid future confusion

the original has been out for nearly a decade, so that figure isnt too outlandish

if you’re in the UK the Uktvplay site/app thing should have them all, and its free, albeit with a little advertising

still the best version

the british chips tend to be significantly chunkier, also fluffy inside and crisp on the outside

they didnt find any drugs, evidence suggesting drug dealing or literally anything criminal at all, largely because they appear to have raided the wrong fucking house.

the 20'000 deaths in the uk is if the social distancing etc works and we manage to keep peak coronavirus cases under NHS capacity, that number will fluctuate a little as NHS capacity for corona virus cases is going through a crash expansion, with thousands of additional ventilators ordered, and retired NHS staff…

Its probably worth noting in the case of Elizabeth and some of the other monarchs that there is more than one reason to leave london and visit the estates of various nobles in the country during summer, reasons considerably more important than avoiding the slight chance of plague.

the thing i love about midsommer is that i know the area it was originally based on, its got about 50k-75k people in the entire area at most, and has a average murder rate about 10 times the UK average, if the show is to be believed, while in reality there really arent that many murders in the area even if you stretch…

thats actually a little more complicated, ‘soccer’ is derived from ‘association football’ that is football played according to the rules of the Football Association or FA and was used to distinguish it from ‘Rugby Football’ or as its more commonly known Rugby, as can readily be guessed from the names of sundry…

the thing is the mens game does require a higher degree of skill, but the US mens team by no means possesses that level of skill.