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For someone so fond of the Romans he has yet to follow "pacta sunt servanda".
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goddamnedtwisto posted:So we'll all just be living in the centuries-old remnants of a globe-spanning empire with no real knowledge of how to keep the infrastructure they left us running? So, once again, Warhammer 40k called it.
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Guavanaut posted:Wasn't the 'fall of the Roman Empire' more a bunch of Byzantines lying about how the West had fallen to barbarians as an excuse to start wars against them ...no? 'In 476 Odoacer deposed Emperor Romulus Augustulus and declared himself rex Italiae (King of Italy)'. The Romans were very big on not having kings. At that point it's no longer the Empire. The fact that the chap nominally claims to be under Byzantine suzerainty (as long as they never actually ask him to do anything) does not mean the western empire did not fall. There were no more western Emperors.
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Gyro Zeppeli posted:So, once again, Warhammer 40k called it. That reminds me of a really obscure bit if 40K lore. The Emperor is supposed to be living in Earth guiding mankind. And he was St. George for a while and slew the Void Dragon. Also he was born in Turkey and loves Kebabs.
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sinky posted:Confirmed https://www.gov.uk/government/news/extra-bank-holiday-to-mark-the-queens-platinum-jubilee-in-2022 quote:Plans for the Platinum Jubilee are being developed in conjunction with some of the UK’s leading creative minds, event organisers and world class digital design companies. Using the talents of the UK’s cultural and creative sectors, the programme will engage young people from across the Commonwealth and use new technology in exciting ways. He probably has a junior minister desperately phoning around trying to get the deposits refunded on all of this stuff. It sounds expensive.
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ah there's the hope then it's possible the fall will be quick enough that the Earth can recover and some humanity might even survive with it probably unlikely but possible
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Gyro Zeppeli posted:So, once again, Warhammer 40k called it. Well it was more a (not very effective, apparently) joke about how all the poo poo being pumped into rivers is because most of the water infrastructure in this country is basically Victorian. We've swapped steam engines for electric motors but even then a lot of them are Edwardian, and it's perfectly possible for the newest thing a water molecule passes through in its journey from reservoir to the sea to be the Queen.
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I never understood why people swam in rivers even pre-poo-dumping. When I was a child, in summer the local newspaper was always full of reports about people drowning or needing rescue from the river. In winter it switched to people being swept away rubbernecking at floodwaters. As a teenager working a Saturday job, I would eat my lunch sitting on a bench in the local urban park/former graveyard opposite the memorial to a young man who had drowned swimming in the river in the 1720s. Very strong "respect the river" vibes from all sides. Except that on glorious week when Letters to the Editor were filled with complaints about the dead cow slowly floating downstream and why weren't farmers/the fire brigade/the council dropping everything to remove it.
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Oct 30, 2021 14:24
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Earth, earthlife and probably humans will continue on for a longass time yet. The biosphere as we know it is hosed though, eat fish and chips while you can
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Lady Demelza posted:I never understood why people swam in rivers even pre-poo-dumping. Its so they can tell you they wild swim and how amazing it, and by extension, they are.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Well it was more a (not very effective, apparently) joke about how all the poo poo being pumped into rivers is because most of the water infrastructure in this country is basically Victorian. We've swapped steam engines for electric motors but even then a lot of them are Edwardian, and it's perfectly possible for the newest thing a water molecule passes through in its journey from reservoir to the sea to be the Queen. I used to work with Bazalgette's great grandson. Not the nicest of men.
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Communist Thoughts posted:Earth, earthlife and probably humans will continue on for a longass time yet. The people saying this is the end of humanity are exaggerating big time. It'll merely compress food growing regions to a band to the north of today's habitable regions. There will be enough food to feed millions of people even in the worst case scenario. Wait, there are how many humans? Oh we didn't plan this well at all.
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Lady Demelza posted:I never understood why people swam in rivers even pre-poo-dumping. When I was a child, in summer the local newspaper was always full of reports about people drowning or needing rescue from the river. In winter it switched to people being swept away rubbernecking at floodwaters. As a teenager working a Saturday job, I would eat my lunch sitting on a bench in the local urban park/former graveyard opposite the memorial to a young man who had drowned swimming in the river in the 1720s. Very strong "respect the river" vibes from all sides. Because it’s fun
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Well it was more a (not very effective, apparently) joke about how all the poo poo being pumped into rivers is because most of the water infrastructure in this country is basically Victorian. We've swapped steam engines for electric motors but even then a lot of them are Edwardian, and it's perfectly possible for the newest thing a water molecule passes through in its journey from reservoir to the sea to be the Queen. London only got its plumbing done because the stink of the Thames was so bad they had to perfume the curtains in the Houses of Parliament. If it wasn't so close to a river, you may be still making GBS threads on a London street today.
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Lady Demelza posted:I never understood why people swam in rivers even pre-poo-dumping. When I was a child, in summer the local newspaper was always full of reports about people drowning or needing rescue from the river. In winter it switched to people being swept away rubbernecking at floodwaters. As a teenager working a Saturday job, I would eat my lunch sitting on a bench in the local urban park/former graveyard opposite the memorial to a young man who had drowned swimming in the river in the 1720s. Very strong "respect the river" vibes from all sides. Swimming is fun and swimming pools (if they even exist at this point) cost money. We were dumb enough to swim in the docks, where at least (as long as you were away from the impounding locks) there were no dodgy currents but there were big jagged bits of metal, burnt-out Jags last seen rushing away from Post Offices, and most memorably of all a giant chunk of concrete just under the water that snapped both of some kid's legs when he jumped off one of the old cranes. Mind you even we weren't dumb enough to swim in the Thames itself, although I will always remember the kid who had to get pulled out of there by the old bill (who just for once *were* there when you needed them) because he was convinced this conduit:  was some kind of bridge or walkway or something and meant he could walk across the river at low tide. It wasn't (the river is 3 metres deep even at low tide at that point - the furthest downstream you can ford it is London Bridge, 4 miles upstream, and even then that's only at the very lowest of low tides). He couldn't even swim, but fortunately it was slack water so the current didn't just obliterate him.
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The Question IRL posted:That reminds me of a really obscure bit if 40K lore. The Emperor is supposed to be living in Earth guiding mankind. And he was St. George for a while and slew the Void Dragon. The Emperor loving a cheeky doner and garlic sauce is definitely old school 90s 40k before they got all po faced and serious about their fascism.
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Soylent Yellow posted:He probably has a junior minister desperately phoning around trying to get the deposits refunded on all of this stuff. It sounds expensive. Like someone else said, they'll just rebrand it and make that the coronation date. Whatever happened to that 'Festival of Brexit' anyway?
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feedmegin posted:Whatever happened to that 'Festival of Brexit' anyway? Didn't that already happen
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Counterpoint: swimming is not fun. Swimming involves wearing uncomfortably revealing clothing, either getting into cold water or climbing out of warm water into cold air, being unable to see properly without my glasses, and suffering that excrutiating toe cramp you only ever get climbing out of the water.
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I would never go wild swimming when you can get pools with wave machines and lazy rivers, whats even the point of nature at this stage?
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Bobstar posted:the article handwaves away by saying yes electricity is expensive now, but it might not be in the future thanks to falling renewable costs.
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I've been known to swim in the river near my house occasionally but it's cold as gently caress and you get muddy feet on your way out. Pool is better even though it costs a few quid.
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I'm guessing most public swimming pools are basically toilets in comparison to rivers. I'm glad I was so obvious to stuff like that as a kid.
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Lady Demelza posted:Counterpoint: swimming is not fun. Swimming involves wearing uncomfortably revealing clothing, either getting into cold water or climbing out of warm water into cold air, being unable to see properly without my glasses, and suffering that excrutiating toe cramp you only ever get climbing out of the water. TBH just go into the sea wear a t-shirt & sweatpants. Hell, last time I went in the sea (admittedly this was 2 decades or more ago) I had shoes on too, coz the beach here is awffy stony. Also live within 5 minutes walk of the beach so you can get in the shower almost as soon as you get out of the water. That's my advice. Does anyone put glasses lenses in swimming goggles? That'd be pretty useful.
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Yeah, you can get prescription goggles. I don't think they're even that expensive, definitely cheaper than an average pair of specs.
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Counterpoint: Swimming in the sea and rivers (when clean) is ace, and so much nicer than a pool due to the lack of chlorine. Wild swimming is a poo poo, pretentious term though. It's just swimming. I wear beach shoes when swimming here because the beach is very stony and shelley, and I have a thing I put over my swim suit that has midlength arms and legs, so I don't feel exposed.
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A shell suit?feedmegin posted:...no? Jippa posted:I'm guessing most public swimming pools are basically toilets in comparison to rivers.
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When I was on holiday in cornwall as a child in the 80's, I discovered a strange sea creature in a rockpool. I fished it out with my hands and excitedly carried it back to my parents. "Mum! Dad! Look at this. What is it?" "It's a human poo Stuart." There used to be a raw mainline sewage pipe in Marazion/Penzance Those nostalgic days are now back with us. In other news, I have a new tea bag thing. 
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The Poo Pirate Of Penzance
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fuctifino posted:When I was on holiday in cornwall as a child in the 80's, I discovered a strange sea creature in a rockpool. I fished it out with my hands and excitedly carried it back to my parents. You appear to have blood in your stool, go see a doctor.
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Apparently while digging on the beach looking for shells as a wee one in Cornwall I pulled up a piece of rusted sewage pipe and thinking it was the largest shell I'd ever seen I screamed "Holy krakatoa" at the top of my lungs as I didn't know any swears. I then got told off.
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The SWP are experts in sexual predators entering venues where they're not wanted.
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Mebh posted:"Holy krakatoa" drat that's a good oath
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Guavanaut posted:Surely Rome is more like a successor state than a 'fall' under Theodoric though, there's people in Rome itself just carrying on as normal, there's a bunch of bishops saying that Rome has 'risen from the ashes' into a 'new golden age', most of the internal admin side is still running in Latin through de facto the same institutions, and there's military victories around the Adriatic in the name of Rome, so there's still some aspects of continuation compared to the mess that Justinian left behind when he set half of Italy on fire? Like 'different guy at the top and some buildings get rededicated' is far less like a fall than 'decades of eating weeds and mice to survive among the ruins because some dick decided a Pyrrhic victory at your expense was worth it to save you from ???' (Climate change will be the latter type of fall.) It's a kingdom. It makes no bones about being a kingdom. A successor state is not the previous state. Continuity of some aspects of the previous state (for how long, btw? of course they keep the previous administrative setup at first but it's not going to last) is not the same thing unless you happen to think the modern Vatican City is the Western Roman Empire. The Western Roman Empire fell. There was a Kingdom of Italy that took its place, but it still fell. That the other half of the Roman Empire might want it back is not too surprising. That they ultimately failed, well, they didn't know that when they invaded.
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big scary monsters posted:Yeah, you can get prescription goggles. I don't think they're even that expensive, definitely cheaper than an average pair of specs. Prescription goggles are a pro move. Cost about £20 max.
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