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[mongers]

I live!

Here's to a speedy recovery, Raz.

[Jacob]

I live!

[Maladict]

[The Brain]

[Tamas]

Glad to hear it Raz.

[Razgovory]

I live!

Super powers?

Kind of

[garbon]

Not now rare case of avian-to-human transmission of bird flu in the South-West of England!
https://twitter.com/skynews/status/1479087294225305602?s=21

He was apparently keeping 20 ducks in his home...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/07/first-uk-person-to-catch-h5n1-bird-flu-strain-is-named

[Sheilbh]

Incredible.

Edit: Oh FFS just got to the bit where the daughter is pleading with DEFRA not to kill the ducks. Geronimo 2.0 - this time it's 20 Muscovy sucks

Edit: Also is his surname really Gosling?

[garbon]

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-hardy-tree-london-england

Just learned about this today, where it looks like they moved all the gravestones together as they reduced size of the churchyard when building St Pancras. I'll have to see this bizarre site the next time I'm there.

This might be my fave image: https://goo.gl/maps/kPHy5Ew447wviD36A

[Josquius]

At a glance it looks like a weird funky above ground root system.
Beats breaking them or using them as flags I guess.

[Admiral Yi]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4oPrFOzqwU

Arbery murderers sentenced.  2 guys get life + 20 no parole and 1 guy gets life with chance of parole.

[Sheilbh]

Another weirdly historically specific political compass quiz - just to follow up on the Queen Anne edition. What we've all been waiting for, the Edwardian political compass:
https://www.gotoquiz.com/political_compass_edwardian_edition

Labour - Patriotic Trade Unionist 93% result

Out, brothers out! You believe that working men must combine to improve their wages, strike for better conditions, and abandon the Liberals, who are just middle-class dilettantes and class enemies. You want victory for the Triple Alliance and enough wages to keep you in beer, bets and baccy. You strongly support reversing Taff Vale, old age pensions and the foundation of the Labour Party. You would just abolish the bloody House of Lords, who are they to block reform?However, socially you're pretty conservative and you have no time for these willy woofter pacifists and the suffragettes. Fight the Hun! Merrie England! Victory for the Workers! Examples: Jimmy Thomas, Ben Tillett

82% Labour - Radical/ILP
76% Irish Nationalist (Irish Parliamentary Party)
34% Suffragist
31% Suffragette
28% Lloyd George Liberal
24% Chamberlainite Tory Tariff Reformer
0% Tory Die-Hard/Ulster Unionist
0% Establishment Balfourite Tory

I was expecting Labour Radical/ILP, so I can only blame my STRONG pro-dreadnought stance

[Josquius]

The triple alliance?
Germany-Italy-Austria is the triple alliance... Hmm.

[The Larch]

The triple alliance?
Germany-Italy-Austria is the triple alliance... Hmm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_Alliance_(1914)

The Triple Alliance was an alliance of British trade unions: the Miners Federation of Great Britain, the National Union of Railwaymen and the National Transport Workers' Federation (an association of dockers, seamen, tramwaymen and road vehicle workers' unions).

I was expecting Labour Radical/ILP, so I can only blame my STRONG pro-dreadnought stance

I got that, even after halfheartedly supporting the war.

Political Compass: Edwardian Edition
Your Result: Labour - Radical/ILP

You're a socialist who believes that only a co-operative brotherhood of men and women, abolishing competition, markets and private enterprise, can save us. You also support pretty much every radical cause going - you're anti-war, you're pro-female suffrage, you're pro-Home Rule, and you're probably a teetotaller who doesn't smoke and you may even be a vegetarian. You make yourself very unpopular when you oppose the First World War, arguing against 'a worker on each end of a bayonet'. You're a member of the Independent Labour Party, you support militant trade unionism, and you're probably a Dissenter who is all in favour of temperance reform. You almost inevitably have a beard.Examples: Keir Hardie, Victor Grayson

59% Irish Nationalist (Irish Parliamentary Party)
58% Lloyd George Liberal
55% Labour - Patriotic Trade Unionist
28% Suffragette
28% Suffragist
6%   Establishment Balfourite Tory
0%   Tory Die-Hard/Ulster Unionist
0%   Chamberlainite Tory Tariff Reformer

[grumbler]

I was expecting Labour Radical/ILP, so I can only blame my STRONG pro-dreadnought stance

You want eight and you won't wait!