I am having a drink this evening with a friend in a Chiswick pub. Two policemen have just come into the pub and asked me to step outside. I have stepped outside and they have threatened me because I tweeted about a councillor banning seating outside pubs in Chiswick. They admit on video (watch it!) that I did not break the law at all. They came to threaten me. To warn me off tweeting about councillors and the council. This is modern Britain. This is the police state. Please, please, please watch this video. It does involve me using very bad language, but this has got to be seen. Police coming out to threaten someone who hasn’t committed a crime. I’m fuming.
@ron_guytime@FLDadReborn Totally owned. I think calling me yank and a faggot will be the hardest criticisms to overcome. Such an erudite attack is devastating. All the same I think I'll keep the flag. Toodaloo friend.
@ron_guytime@FLDadReborn Thanks about the flags. I'm proud of both where I came from where I am now. I only played gridiron football (rugby and American) at the collegiate level in the United States so you're right, I couldn't possibly handle the grind of amateur association football.
@isolveproblems5@wil_da_beast630 It is simple because 4 year olds can play it in a recognizable form. 8 year olds play it in its actual form. It is simply not a complex game in either strategically, in its rules, moving parts equipment etc. That doesn't mean it's a bad game but it is almost definitionally simple
@isolveproblems5@wil_da_beast630 Lol. I genuinely love this argument that people who don't appreciate soccer are simpletons when soccer is quite literally the simplest game on earth.
@JennDinKC How were you ever expecting to pay down a $145k loan at 6.5% with a $32/month payment. I suspect you never anticipated paying it off and thought you were a "special" who deserves free things.
"We would rather lose all our slaves than be slaves to them. It may suit the purposes of the North to represent the Southern defence to the world as a war for slavery. It is no such thing. It is a war for our own liberties and independence."
-Richmond Dispatch 6/29/1864
#history
@elonmusk@NickKristof@christopherrufo@NickKristof
You just made Elon waste 10 seconds writing this. During that time he would have made $473,937 of which $163,152 would be taxes, enabling the purchase of 25,173 mosquito nets. How does it feel to have killed 25,173 kids?
@cyadra@FoundationDads Yes my dude. Not the Iliad or The Aeneid but knowledge of biblical texts is absolutely essential to understanding secular Western works. It is the air in which we breathed for ~1500-2000 years.