#take that 'great' britain

[agent-tempest]

Loving the fact that #chandrayaan3 is at 1 in trending tags right now. Makes my little Indian heart very hapy

[amis127]

"I don't see this ship at all..."

"they are such good platonic friends..."

"We don't have to make everything romantic "

Ok y'all thanks for every disclaimer and socially responsible take on this situation every time Sam and Evan have a moment. We get it. We've heard you. Please move on.

[passionate-stalker]

Updating my pronouns to 'it' cause I really can't do this human thing anymore

[5231045]

post canon epic divorce guys

[gtbutterfly]

Update on the really old GT book I've been reading,

For some reason, it keeps implying that a tiny being in a giants hands is "silly" and "babyish" and "humiliating" and I don't know if I should be offended or feel called out.

[nco05]

I find this GB GP already the more enjoyable one knowing Max has all his colleagues backing him up against the media, say they like racing him (je garde un œil sur toi, Leclerc 😏) & got a punishment for the collision weither they agree with it or not 💙💙💙

[the-busy-ghost]

Alright uninformed rant time. It kind of bugs me that, when studying the Middle Ages, specifically in western Europe, it doesn’t seem to be a pre-requisite that you have to take some kind of “Basics of Mediaeval Catholic Doctrine in Everyday Practise” class. 

Obviously you can’t cover everything- we don’t necessarily need to understand the ins and outs of obscure theological arguments (just as your average mediaeval churchgoer probably didn’t need to), or the inner workings of the Great Schism(s), nor how apparently simple theological disputes could be influenced by political and social factors, and of course the Official Line From The Vatican has changed over the centuries (which is why I’ve seen even modern Catholics getting mixed up about something that happened eight centuries ago). And naturally there are going to be misconceptions no matter how much you try to clarify things for people, and regional/class/temporal variations on how people’s actual everyday beliefs were influenced by the church’s rules. 

But it would help if historians studying the Middle Ages, especially western Christendom, were all given a broadly similar training in a) what the official doctrine was at various points on certain important issues and b) how this might translate to what the average layman believed. Because it feels like you’re supposed to pick that up as you go along and even where there are books on the subject they’re not always entirely reliable either (for example, people citing books about how things worked specifically in England to apply to the whole of Europe) and you can’t ask a book a question if you’re confused about any particular point. 

I mean I don’t expect to be spoonfed but somehow I don’t think that I’m supposed to accumulate a half-assed religious education from, say, a 15th century nobleman who was probably more interested in translating chivalric romances and rebelling against the Crown than religion; an angry 16th century Protestant; a 12th century nun from some forgotten valley in the Alps; some footnotes spread out over half a dozen modern political histories of Scotland; and an episode of ‘In Our Time’ from 2009. 

But equally if you’re not a specialist in church history or theology, I’m not sure that it’s necessary to probe the murky depths of every minor theological point ever, and once you’ve started where does it end? 

Anyway this entirely uninformed rant brought to you by my encounter with a sixteenth century bishop who was supposedly writing a completely orthodox book to re-evangelise his flock and tempt them away from Protestantism, but who described the baptismal rite in a way that sounds decidedly sketchy, if not heretical. And rather than being able to engage with the text properly and get what I needed from it, I was instead left sitting there like:

And frankly I didn’t have the time to go down the rabbit hole that would inevitably open up if I tried to find out

[locklylemybeloved]

lucy asking lockwood if he takes sugar in his tea 🤝 lockwood saying that the orange juice with pulp is lucys favorite

seeming inconsequential to the person who does it, but probably deeply hurting the other despite what they want you to think

[steamedtangerine]

I'll Take This One by pepandtim Via Flickr: The Postcard A postally unused Super Comic novelty card which states on the back that it was printed in Great Britain. The artwork was by Tik.

[seastarlily]

Sheldon Plankton as portrayed in various productions of “SpongeBob SquarePants: The Musical”.

[importunusandhomosexualis]

hhh

ID in alt

[mangled-by-disuse]

also i'm sorry but just as a heads-up: no matter how shit you're feeling or how shit your country feels

it is not a fair thing to be like "i'm either going to find a foreigner to sham-marry or kill myself" to a foreign, unmarried friend

i am not saying this to the person in question because i don't think they're kidding and also i don't think they were trying to put me on the spot, but. dude. maybe fucking don't.

[postcards-and-postcrossing]

Oxford

Postcard from Great Britain Thursday Take Me To…

[fauxintellectual]

I decided to watch Bridgerton (I love Nicola and apparently a season focuses on her so I gotta watch it) and I'm so glad to not be born into a time like that

[lorax-devito]

as an English person,I have witnessed many people go through the 5 stages of grief over a pint having a bit too much foam,football is more than grief,it’s the goddamn Great Depression,at least where I’m from

nothing sexier than that picture with the italian players on top of eachother after the win and the english ones going through the 5 stages of grief in the back

[fantastic-mr-corvid]

okay curse of the zounds + singles is my fav album but as much as i love Zounds, The Selecter are by far my favorite band, its just because i mostly listened to them through greatest hits and two tone compilation cds i never got attached to a spesific album like with other artists who i listened to mainly via albums. that being said Human Algebra is a 10/10 album and i have major respect for Pauline and Gaps for still touring and releasing great albums and evolving their music even. oh dear god. over 40 years after their peak of popularity.