matthewplant05.bsky.social
Born in London and living in God's own Country.
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"God, that new PM's dim."
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I think it's time for a British pope, more specifically a Yorkshire pope.
One of the English cardinals under 80-years-old, Arthur Roche is from Batley. St Peter's Square as a cricket pitch would be ace!
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I lie! The Pope died on 1 February, meaning both Sees were vacant for a couple of months, which is a lot less fun.
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Sancroft's successor, John Tillotson, was consecrated as Archbishop of Canterbury on 31 May 1691, less than. A day after Alexander VIII's death, meaning that both the Sees of Rome and of Canterbury were vacant for less than 24 hours.
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30 May 1691, the date of Alexander VIII's death. The See of Canterbury was vacant due to the forces resignation of William Sancroft, who had refused to pay allegiance to William III & Mary II in 1690.
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JD Vance will go down in the history books as being to the Pope what Liz Truss was to the late Queen.
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Methodist takeover!
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Is this the one next to the Armouries? At least it's not full of Americans like the one in Belfast!
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Can't be. It's that weird pickle gherkin lift thing at Xscape near Castleford.
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This would be a cracking way to open the state banquet toast when Charles and Camilla visit the Vatican next month.
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There's something so wholesome about vicars of quaint little parishes getting up to some sort of eccentricities.
Love that they're all from the '60s, too.
youtu.be/4yryJMsSerk?...
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And in today's edition of 'Vicars doing things which vicars don't usually do'...
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There's a simple way to fix the attendance crisis in Britain's churches.
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I like this way of selecting them.
SINGLE MAN, REVEAL YOURSELF!
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It's been 870 years since we last had a pope from the British Isles. Let's bring that back.
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There's a great series from the 1970s on BBC iPlayer called 'In The Highest Tradition', showing the hilariously random traditions various regiments accumulated over the years, including drinking from Emperor Napoleon III's chamberpot.
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I don't think the Americans have cracked that to have a full dressnuniform, it must include a silly bit of headgear and random details like belts, feathers, bags, aiguliettes and weapons which either commemorate battles centuries ago, antecedent regiments or just the sake of looking different.
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You'd be wrong to presume it's dative as it's actually an accusative, forming 'domum', finally forming, 'ROMANI ITE DOMVM'
Now correct your mistake. If it's not done by sunrise, I'll cut your balls off.
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"Romans they go the house"?
Come on, that doesn't make sense. If you conjugate the verb 'to go', you get 'eunt'. However, it's an order, so you must use the imperative, which is 'I'. It's a plural, though, so it's 'ite'.
Now, 'Romans go home' is a motion towards so you wouldn't use 'domus'.
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Niche lessons about European heraldry is what really gets me going when watching an action spy film. 10/10.
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There were three nuclear warheads detonated that day.
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At least on Hero they can open a window. I assume the reason why submariners' pay is higher than everyone else in the fleet is because they have to put up with the smell of their fellow crew.
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Schrodinger's Cupboard - the food has both fallen out and not fallen out. You will only find out until you open it.
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Of course, and the less said about King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden the better.
There's a funny section of Swedish meme sub-culture dedicated to photoshopping pictures The King wearing funny pieces of headgear.
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Makes you proud to be British. King Willhem-Alexander of the Netherlands could never surpass this.
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"And now, His Majesty The King's Christmas Message for 2024."
*drum and bass remix of the national anthem begins*
His Majesty, reminissing about days gone by, starts breakdancing wearing the Imperial Crown wrapped with tinsel.
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Absolutely digging the Warship t-shirt - where can I get one?
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This royal throne of kings,
This scepter’d isle,
This earth of majesty,
This seat of Mars,
This other Eden, demi-paradise,
This half-billion-year-old wrinkled sack with no anus,
This precious stone set in the silver sea,
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this penis worm.
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Absolute banger of a show. If you want to watch every series, you can find the links here; just put "Navy" in as the code.
www.navy-net.co.uk/community/th...
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This is probably one of my favourite photographs from the war. Colonel Churchill is on the right, broadsword in hand.
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The Duke of Edinburgh accused me of stalking him.
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I never said they couldn't be dropped out of a Lancaster Bomber! They can give it a go but would never do it with the style and panache of Sir Winston.
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So powerful that those in the immediate blast radius were reduced to mere shadows on the pavement. The weapon's yield could be changed depending on what sort of curry the president had that night. It ranges from a korma (nicknamed 'little boy') to a vindaloo (nicknamed 'fat man').
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Not particularly silent but extremely deadly.
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'Nuclear Roosevelt' sounds like something FDR would say when leaving the lavatory after a particularly smelly poo.
"I'd give it a few minutes if I were you. I had a right nuclear Roosevelt in there."
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Naturally. An absolutely sloshed Prime Minister being dropped from a Lancaster Bomber, cigar in mouth and brandy in hand, endlessly repeating speeches made to the House of Commons is what we should expect from our wartime leaders.
Qualities Thatcher or Johnson couldn't ever even dream of having.
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"Never *bump* in the field of human conflict *bump* was so *bump* much owed *bump* by so many *bump* to so few." *crash*.
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Absolute top-tier comedy gold.