@Number10cat@JohnCleese You might want to check your 13th century history. He's referring to the de Montfort parliament not magna carta.
Other objections may still stand.
@mathematicsprof Practically every weekly seminar (given by visiting speakers) when I was a PhD student.
If you got through the first 10 minutes you were doing well. We used to joke that in last 10 minutes not even the speaker knew what he was talking about.
@guardian My 5x great grandfather in 1784. Along with his elder sister whose fate is unknown, sent from St Clement Danes London to Backbarrow, then in Lancashire