@EMK1001@RosamundUrwin Yeah - what were they? Kissing ? Sniffing genital area over clothing? Groping ? All bad - worth prison time? No. And what was the nine years for?
Some people still honestly believe you can get the laws right and then the state will somehow be able finally to enable the healthy expression of human sexuality, when the fundamentals are metaphysical and cultural, not juridical or political.
The UK’s economic problems “have nothing to do with Brexit,” former Prime Minister David Cameron tells Mishal Husain.
Read more at https://t.co/E3V5jpHtsZ or watch The Mishal Husain Show at https://t.co/G9sjpSxpLX
"When MAGA feels like they've won a celebrity over, they're not willing to let that person go, even when they're convicted of heinous crimes."
Why some have been willing to "pervert their entire morality" to defend rapist Russell Brand
https://t.co/VOAEzsIZyG
Disraeli believed English culture, English traditions, and English institutions to be unsuited even to Italians:
“[W]hen we read of the sudden transplantation of institutions gradually established in the course of centuries by the phlegmatic experiences of a Saxon people, into the most southern soils of Europe, the glittering and barbaric Sicilies, and a country which is the link between Europe and Africa, and which in the fertility of its soil, the temperature of its climate, and the character of its inhabitants, resembles Morocco more than England, we seem to be perusing the mad pages of a political novel poured forth by the wild and mystic genius of some inmate of a German university.”
I doubt he would have made an exception for third-worlders.
I know for a fact that he would have regarded you as a vapid know-nothing.
@GJMarshy Turning faux Victoriana into crude soullless minimalism doesn’t fix it. Proportion, stone or brick, and proper detail and ornamentation can exist in a modern form
The "decline of everything" is so profound and so thorough that the average person can not even express it in words. What we have now is nothing but a simulation. Everything from fashion to diction to public spaces to fonts to heraldry to speech to music.
We might as well say mammoths once roamed here and it would make more sense.
This is Tartarian Empire stuff.
Everything has been simplified and simplified until no meaning remains. This is what pornography is to the act of fruitful love. This is what the taped banana on the wall of the gallery is to Michelangelo.