@Yusro_web3 The banks. They gave you your first mortgage, credit card, car loan. That's why our parents started junior accounts for us...banks also knew our parents.
@Ceist8@afneil I'm speaking from memory here, but didn't he buy a house in a super climate change vulnerable spot in Florida. Like the most likely place to flood in the event of a 1 inch rise of oceans.
@JoonesNorma I grew up in the 70s and 80s, I can tell you IT WAS a daily occurrence. It was so bad, and in what can only be called premonition, we faked the call with sign language. ๐ค
@PeterSweden7 "Could" is the operative word there. Most of Europe can revoke citizenship or any illegal activity to our new visitors, it just doesn't enforce it.
@JamesMelville As Socrates said, understanding me is not intelligence, challenging me is.
I made that up, but proves a point, even Socrates would agree.
As I read X I feel inspired. It gives me hope for our civilization and our outspoken ways.
We eradicated kings, overlords, war mongers, bureaucratics and fools. Brought equality, fairness, philosophy and respect to our fellow citizens and as we evolve we will shake off the fat and hangers-on in our society and create something uniquely us...we always have.
Thank you, BBC, for pulling Little Britain from iPlayer while you review Walliamsโs work, here is a few more for your list to pull.
Socrates. Executed for impiety and โcorrupting the youthโ.
Rome. For obvious reasons. Ancient Greece. Ditto.
Michelangeloโs great-nephew changed the pronouns in his love poems to make them sound as though they were written to women. A pioneer of editorial standards. Leonardo was accused of sodomy and the charges were dropped. Perhaps blur the Mona Lisa as a precaution.
Caravaggio killed a man and fled Rome. Christopher Marlowe was arrested after a fatal fight. Henry VIII had two of his wives executed. Might save time to pull the Tudors wholesale.
Byron left England amid rumours of an affair with his half-sister. The rest of the Romantics can wait in the corridor.
Ian Fleming had an affair with the married Ann Charteris. Picasso was 45 when he met 17-year-old Marie-Thรฉrรจse Walter. Van Goghโs cousin turned him down, so he went to Amsterdam to see her anyway- pull all programs on him- perv.
Tippi Hedren accused Alfred Hitchcock of sexual assault. Roald Dahlโs family apologised for his antisemitism. Michael Jackson was charged and acquitted on all counts, but he didn't face 2020s trail by media.
And then thereโs Eric Gill. His diaries revealed that he sexually abused his daughters. Last year you restored his sculpture above the entrance to Broadcasting House. You said the BBC draws โa line between the actions of Gill and the status of these artworksโ, not anymore sunshine.
And all of Monty Python, obviously, for crimes against gender norms, except Terry Jones as the hostess in The Meaning of Life gets an exemption. She looked fabulous.
Thank you for not separating the artist from the person.
@Helen_Whately Helen Whately, admire you want to fix it, but you can't. The only way to fix our current situation is to evolve from party politics to something new. Politicians are not fixers, they are the problem. Society needs new tools to fix our problems.