Oh I didn’t think you were, it’s just a great story.
The Lord high chancellor, technically. It was a way to petition the king, through the chancellor, when the common law courts were taking too long.
Edit: I am sure you can appreciate the pedantry, as a fellow law graduate. It’s what we were trained to do!
Well, this is the stupid thread, try this one on for size:
This church, deep in Christian farming land in the southwestern part of the Canadian province of Ontario, has been in the news a few times about this issue.
The town was the scene of anti masker protests over the last year, and they seem ‘heaven’ bent on flouting the Covid-19 restrictions.
If there is a God, maybe he works in strange ways some times and isn’t going to miraculously make this not have any chance of being a serious spreader event.
Like the great Sir Robert Morton, I very much appreciate exactitude in matters.
Wait… that was a character from The Winslow Boy. I think I read it for my O levels since I don’t read unless I really have to. Shit, that was in the 90s. Can’t be A levels since I still have PTSD from multiple viewings of Mel Gibson playing Hamlet because I didn’t want to read the fucking textbook lol.
Every cell in my body winced.
Here’s an interesting tidbit - even the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War had to acknowledge the literary genius of the Bard, filming lavishly produced - and surprisingly good - versions of King Lear and Othello, just to name a few.
The USSR did a lot of “surprisingly good” stuff
Part of me wants to attribute it to the USSR, but the other part makes me wonder whether it’s because my expectations for the USSR are so low such that a lot of things are “surprisingly good” simply due to my low bar 
When I find the time I’ll write a post in the movies thread about the short life, movie career and death (murdered by a Buddhist cult/pyramid scheme in what was then the Lithuanian SSR) of the Soviet Bruce Lee, Talgat Nigmatulin.
I’m sure @dt79 will find it interesting.
Most definitely lol.
I wonder how he stacks up against Turkish Rambo…
I hated literature anyway but I didn’t want to take history but I needed to take at least one art subject. At least I could pull stuff out of my ass without too much studying and still get good grades for literature.
What the fuck was the UK thinking at that time? They made us choose books the equivalent of chick flicks like The Wide Sargasso Sea and Jane Eyre along with Shakespeare. You guys were already woke in the late 90s lol.
I mean… It’s pretty self evident to people who understood how aerosol droplets spread lol (unmasked). The “six foot rule” and masks were never meant to stop the spread entirely because that would be impossible. They were just meant to reduce risk and slow spread to a manageable rate, while hopefully allowing people to do some amount of business publicly. It’s a very interesting mathematical modeling study though. Thorough.
I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
I had no idea actually. That is actually incredible… True genius transcends time, space, and political ideology.
I will have to look into these versions and watch them. Not that I’ll be able to understand the dialogue itself, but at least I can follow along from my knowledge of the plays.
If you make that movie post I’ll be very interested to read it
The “Alas, poor Yorick…” scene…
The horror. The horror.
No matter which Kurtz it is, he’s awesome
Ah, to have the intelligence to just follow simple commands:
The shooting happened after officers responding to a call were cut off by a car in front of their vehicle, Los Angeles Police Department Detective Meghan Aguilar told reporters.
The driver hit his brakes and then backed into the police cruiser, Aguilar said. The man then exited his car wearing body and holding his right hand behind his back, she said.
“The officers gave him commands, which he did not follow, and he started counting down, saying ‘3… 2… 1’ as he started to pull his hand from his back to the front," Aguilar said.
Officers opened fire and the man was struck by gunfire, police said. No weapon was found.
The dark-colored sedan the man had been driving was covered in decals spelling out messages such as “new world order,” “governments of deception” and “women rule,” along with the numbers 333 and 666, according to video from local TV station KTLA.
Since I have seen no public outcry about the police shooting an unarmed black man, I am guessing this guy was white. White and stupid.
For those not in the LE profession, this is why we always yell, “show me your hands, show me your hands”
I blame LEO for not calling in a social worker before this stop escalated into the citizen having to shoot his way to safety.
See what l did there, Bizarro World lefties?
He is a conspiracy nut, probably Qanon, so he doesn’t get any sympathy.
Not too far from where I grew up. Of course being a Kansas Republican this will probably increase his odds of re-election.
