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Think this a great idea - pick an appropriate source for your culture/religion:

"Do not rebuke a scoffer, for he will hate you;
Reprove a wise man, and he will love you"

Or "Never argue on the internet, never argue on the internet, never argue on the internet"

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@FurtherOr @novussubsole feels like Italy might not be a bad choice for that?

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@IMedaber up to "...itself" is certainly a colourable argument

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@HeTows @tamritzblog "al-breaking 🚨"

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@jewndahalfmen They famously managed it

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@FurtherOr @kymeriandawn not for Jane Street (not familiar enough with Wimsey)

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@FurtherOr @kymeriandawn otoh to their credit they destroyed the stately homes that were a Petri dish for unexplained murders

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@FurtherOr @kymeriandawn That's Brexit to blame.
Though Poirot did charge as a private practice, so I think the Atlee government is to blame for eliminating that one

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@orthonormalist not medieval but the Talmud (Kes 3b) assumes that the practice existed at some point

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@ItsTaz1989 idk showing they're real soldiers does mean something (or we could have short sleeves to show the tatoos)

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@FurtherOr @kymeriandawn tbf Christie is a chronicler of change

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@FurtherOr @kymeriandawn It was not long ago that police work could be outsourced to local elderly spinsters for free.
But the Blairite (or Thatcherite, insert bogeyman here) reforms destroyed that world

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@CharlesTannock @tomhfh No - like it says in the article everyone called GB and Ireland the British Isles. The debate was whether there was a "Little Britain" and what it was

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@Hugh_might @tomhfh

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@Hugh_might @tomhfh que? I wouldn't dictate to *other* countries what they call geographic locations. If the Irish decide that they want to call it something else go for it, but no-one else has to take it seriously

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@Hugh_might @tomhfh and if the Germans want to call it the German Ocean I won't get hissy

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@Hugh_might @tomhfh So they were called "British Isles" until the 20th century? If it floats your boat go ahead

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@Hugh_might @tomhfh When did it stop being called that? Don't forget, the term predates any political entities

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@CharlesTannock @tomhfh The "Little Britain" may not have been Ireland but it seems pretty clear the ancients grouped it all as the "British Isles".
But it's irrelevant here anyway - "Britain" is short for "UK of Great Britain and NI"

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@jewndahalfmen @AmitSegal be nice if the Imperial Hegemon actually cared about itself tbh