@odavies9 Both my parents had them done for their 21st birthdays - normal then in working class Lancashire and elsewhere. My mum's must have been very shortly before the NHS was set up.
@janeclarejones I think that maybe they're better than most about distinguishing fake conspiracies from real ones. They're just really bad at knowing which ones are which.
@janeclarejones The replies are the new "Social Democracy and Fascism are twins" but madder. SPD high ups had been complicit with the Freikorps murder of Luxembourg and Leibnicht.
@hellothisisivan Not to mention that a Margaret Rutherford Marple instead of Poirot was the closest resemblance of the film to the book it was supposedly based on.
@InPlaceofStrife@baranskocracy Switzerland's four official languages have all been spoken in the country for centuries. So have Sinti, and the cross border tegional dialects Provencal and Lombard.
@WB_Baskerville Milanese food heavily meat based, Roman food, lots of offal. Neopolitan, veggie and seafood. Some of that goes back to the different powers which divided the country before unification, some to different levels of wealth.
@ShinMarginalScr India also has over a thousand languages.They are drawn from eight or nine different language families. All European languages are from different branches of the Indo-European family apart from Bascque, Finnish and Hungarian.
@H80Midgley Hobbes, a reputed (and maybe actual) atheist, makes repeated references to the Old Testament as one of the most reliable historical sources.
@v_j_freeman Depends where in Europe. Viennese cross the Ringstrasse at 2 am, when there's zero traffic, at traffic lights, when the lights are in their favour.
@JohnFMauldin Aristotle's Athenian example of democracy excluded not only all women and slaves, but also long term residents who were from other Greek cities.
A rather stronger example of his political correctness would be his views on slavery!