matt1066.bsky.social
Historian: medieval warfare and literature. Rejoin EU.
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… an automatic system, perhaps? 🤔
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Vogon architecture?
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More correctly known as the Forest of Brocéliande.
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I remember Dom Hockey, a monk historian at Quarr Abbey, IoW, in the 1980s, complaining indignantly that his brothers fell asleep when he practised his academic papers upon them. (Originally Cistercian foundation, it was refounded in 1907 as Benedictine house.)
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‘Somebody’ must be making money out of it…
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You did - it’s bonkers!
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Infuriating, as you say…
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... and by their straw hats shall ye know them.
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Do your colleagues in the CofE know that you are setting up a competitor religion, for that’s what it looks like?
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Mostly good; but putting ‘in the’ in a different typeface and colour is a bit wonky.
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😂
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Over to you, Andrew!
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Perhaps the ‘Continuation Roman Empire’ 😉?
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I like the style of this BEV, but I’m not sure that it keeps up with modern interpretations.
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To hell with their bureaucracy! Use some the grant to pay for hired gun to take them down.
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I hope that it didn’t give you the ‘pip’.
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I was regularly traumatised by Double-Maths on a Friday afternoon…
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I see what you did there…
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A problem that I have with this, doubtlessly accurate and necessary change, is that the word Byzantium is redolent of oriental mystery, while East Roman sounds like a stop on the urban metro. 🤷🏽♂️
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I can’t help thinking that a kiss of peace from King John is only one down from Nosferatu. 🧛♂️
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Ah, thanks for that.
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… and definitely not signed with a quill pen as the Victorian reconstruction shows. Did the king even attend or did he - typically - send an underling with his seal?
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Don’t worry - I’m ‘so last century’, too!
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Oh, and BTW, the Maes Howe ‘dragon’ is actually a gryphon. 😉