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Ee, I even learned something new today

Penny farthings on the street, riding. Motor cars were funny things, frightening. Bow and hoops and spinning tops. Penny dreadfuls, lollipops. Comic Cuts, all different things.

That's one difference to usual.

Inevitably: https://www.theguardian.com/football/ng-interactive/2019/apr/23/david-squires-on-wayne-hennessey-and-the-nazis?CMP=share_btn_tw

If you genuinely feel I was in any way "bailed out" by acrossthepond, I think that only highlights your own inconsistency

When you keep saying you learn new things with practically every post, maybe, just maybe, it's possible you knew nothing in the first place?

Are you saying that it's preferable to parachute people - actual human beings with actual human lives - into a place in which they have literally no connection, than one in which they at least form part of the shared history in some shape or form?

Let's have a suggestion then. Marseilles? Munich? Middlesbrough?

Aaaaaand gone.

YOU RECKON?

Not looking so daft now, is he?

"Didn't he win the North Minehead by-election?"

They spent over a decade building the cathedral in Mainz, then they illuminated it with torches for the day of its consecration and it burnt down. Tough old business.

Notre Dame, by the looks of it.

Heck of a tale https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-47258619

You'd have to be pretty tragic to be impressed by any of it, I agree

Before his children get the chance to properly hate him for voting away their futures, though? That's a toughie.

Good for hay fever too.

I know, I know. I'd probably have voted Labour too if there'd been any threat to them in my constituency.

But they were a Brexit backing party and you voted for them.

It's hard to imagine a situation in which a team's supporters might be objectively excessive in their comments about their local rival.

This is absolutely spot on:

There's nothing wrong with running your country on the basis of referendums, Switzerland does it and they're all right... wait what?