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7 years ago @ The Toast - Two Medieval Monks Inv... · 0 replies · +1 points
7 years ago @ The Toast - How To Politely Declin... · 0 replies · +13 points
(Sadly this probably isn't true, as he was already married - in fact, she took his wife's name as her baptismal name.)
8 years ago @ The Toast - Ayn Rand's Firefly... · 0 replies · +16 points
8 years ago @ The Toast - Ayn Rand's Firefly... · 2 replies · +35 points
“And when this war is over, when you have the homeland free from humans, what do you think it’s going to be like? Do you know? Have you thought about it? Have you given it any consideration? Because you’re very close to getting what you want. What’s it going to be like? Paint me a picture! Are you going to live in houses? Do you want people to go to work? Will there be holidays? Oh! Will there be music?! Do you think people will be allowed to play violins? Who will make the violins? Well? Oh… you don’t actually know, do you? Because, just like every other tantruming child in history, Bonnie, you don’t actually know what you want! So, let me ask you a question about this brave new world of yours: when you’ve killed all the ‘bad guys’, and it’s all ‘perfect’ and ‘just’ and ‘fair’, when you have finally got it exactly the way you want it, what are you going to do with the people like you? The troublemakers. How are you going to protect your glorious revolution from the next one?”
8 years ago @ The Toast - Charlotte Brontë's Mo... · 0 replies · +32 points
This led to the opposite confusion for me (raised in Ireland as a Catholic) from what most people in this thread are saying. When my American friends described someone as "very Christian", I thought they meant she did an awful lot of charity work. It turned out they meant she prayed a lot and strongly disapproved of Dungeons and Dragons.
8 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 0 replies · +1 points
8 years ago @ The Toast - \"Face Like A Farmer\"... · 1 reply · +17 points
8 years ago @ The Toast - Unsolicited Advice For... · 0 replies · +20 points
- They had got a papal declaration when they got married that said that it wasn't incest, and she was hard-core Catholic enough to refuse to believe the Pope was infallible when speaking ex officio, and
- She didn't want Mary to have the taint of being "a child of incest". Which Mary was able to fight free of anyway, partially because Jane Seymour (who was the same age as Mary) utterly adored her and persuaded Henry and her to reconcile. Which says an awful lot about how much people liked Jane Seymour.
8 years ago @ The Toast - Auto Draft · 0 replies · +11 points
...then it immediately got vetoed by the biggest party in the assembly (the Christian fundamentalist and extremely right wing Democratic Unionist Party) in an abuse of a process designed to prevent sectarian abuses of one community by the other.
Baby steps, people. Baby steps.
8 years ago @ The Toast - Scenes From Glenga... · 1 reply · +40 points