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@coolguy6t9 @worldofreel Yes it's called Braveheart

@worldofreel Do i need to watch the first one to understand this?

Mel Gibson’s RESURRECTION OF THE CHRIST has wrapped its seven month shoot in Rome. Gibson has described his $250M two-part epic as “an acid trip” featuring angelic/demonic battles set during Christ’s descent into hell. tinyurl.com/muutm69c

@AI3x78 @theuncle73 @michaelblackcab It’s the signs that matter, not the give-way line.

@theuncle73 @michaelblackcab Your tyres have crossed the lines

This is the evidence of me backing into a No Entry Woman adamant on phone it'll not be overturned. This is a piss take, surely. Challenge?

@SallyBrabble @haugejostein unevidenced conjecture from two Indian marxists

@haugejostein Where do the numbers come from?

Says someone whose nation literally looted trillions from India during colonial rule.

@snevinoj @adamtranter Roads have higher speeds, a greater variety of hazards and layouts, and put higher cognitive loads on road users than is the case with car parks. Traffic lights, various road markings and other features are deemed prudent on roads to reduce risk that is present in car parks.

@Jacob7Reid @adamtranter So? If drivers can comply with zebra crossings in car parks perfectly well, why shouldn't they at junctions to side roads? Or are you saying that licensed motorists are incapable of driving competently & legally?

What if I told you we could make crossing the road easier, more comfortable, and make walking more attractive for short journeys? What if I told you this could be done at a fraction of the cost of the usual way, by using "simplified" or "side road" zebra crossings? What if I told you the studies have shown they have high levels of compliance, even without the usual Belisha beacons? What if I told you the presence of these simplified crossings is merely reinforcing pedestrian priority already detailed within the Highway Code updates? What if I told you civil servants and Government ministers use them every day (the video shown is outside the Department for Transport offices), but only because one local authority decided to take a risk and try them out (credit Westminster City Council), despite official guidance not permitting them. What if I told you they could cost as little as £300, compared to between £50,000-£100,000 for a full zebra crossing with Belisha beacons. What if I told you they were already commonplace all across Europe? What if I told you, starting March 11, 2026, Welsh local authorities can install simplified zebra crossings at side road junctions in 20mph zones? (because: Devolution) It's about time England got a move on and permitted them through updating The Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 2016. The Government could also publish the long-awaited Manual for Streets 3, while they were at it.

@snevinoj @adamtranter Car parks and highways are very different environments

@Jacob7Reid @adamtranter No, it won't. There are zebra crossings like this in various car parks, which have neither beacons nor zigzags, yet drivers rarely ever fail to treat them like normal zebra crossings.

@el_bandito_ben @memeticsisyphus All Japanese curry came from the British Royal Navy in the Meiji era. When the Imperial Japanese Navy was created in the 1860s they didn’t know what to feed the sailors so copied the British.

@memeticsisyphus My favourite is chicken katsu curry, which is the Japanese version of the Chinese version of the Indian curry made to suit British palates in colonial India and China.

@wei_wendy_is0 @salamisel No you don’t understand Ross KNOWS he shouldn’t take the obvious gap between F and N. This is basically foah confirmation.

@salamisel Noah was gonna let Ross squeeze in, but Finn didn’t wanna be apart from Noah, so Ross ended up hugging from the other side instead

@SandyofCthulhu The last goal scored in the annual Eton Wall Game match on St Andrews Day was in 1909. Elite schools having anachronistic games with sub-optimal rules is actually a thing.

Yeah fiction writers are pretty bad at making game rules. The obvious function of the snitch is for Harry to have an elite job that makes him cool. But the way the snitch would make any sense is if the vast majority of games ended with the snitch never being caught, so the work by the rest of the team is what counts. But then catching the snitch means that 1/20 games or whatever end with some random happenstance causing the victory and all the work from most of the team being flushed. It’s not unique to Rowling. Edgar Rice Burroughs invented the game of Jetan, a sort of martian chess. But if you try to actually play it, it always ends in a draw.

@foahthinker If all these shirts and sweaters aren't the same it means they're deliberately wearing almost-identical clothing.

now i need someone to figure out if that’s the same material or if im just going insane

@frozenaesthetic The mid-1600s civil war in England was referred to in the decades after as the "unhappy confusions"

Tbf the British have "The Troubles" and over 3000 people died

Chinese lore is insane, there will be some shit called "the shanghai misunderstanding" and it'll have 53 million casualties

@JamesOl03891147 @astrodanish Every troop can, unless they’re invaders in which case oh dear nevermind.

@astrodanish Everyone on the road can read English, right?

my fellow mechanical engineers will enjoy this:

@RobertsPublish1 @Caparretto @BiancoDavinci These were certainly made with human fingers, not cat feet, so whoever fired it was probably in on the joke.

@Caparretto @BiancoDavinci And they most likely saw the prints when they either put them into the kiln or took them out. Cool!

@2D0XPS @_jacobwtaylor_ @exceeding_love This is why a 1662 BCP Evening Prayer service doesn’t permit intercessory prayers other than those set out in the book! I’m not sure when departing from this became authorised.

@_jacobwtaylor_ @exceeding_love The last time I was at Newcastle the Canon leading intercessions at Evensong was praying for transwomen to be able to use the Ladies again, so I'm going to guess it's a No (in both directions)

Honestly this post surprised me, although perhaps it shouldn’t. I subsequently calculated how many English cathedrals (according to their own websites and social media pages) have supported or currently support Pride: the answer is 22 of 42, or approximately 52%.

@KingCrawa @DrDavidPrice @choralwork @2D0XPS How about the stained glass window artists, the stone masons, the candle makers, carpenters, electricians, web developers? Maybe accept if people are contributing to worship in some way that's better than them not doing so, and may benefit their own faith at some point

@DrDavidPrice @choralwork @2D0XPS I have known multiple clergy who are deeply frustrated by the fact that bellringers turn up, ring bells and then leave. Because for them its just an art form not a faith thing. So yes we do sometimes question the veracity of other groups. Why should we not of choirs?

Why do we so often question whether a church choir is a community of faith by very dint of what they do? I don’t see many question the flower ladies, or the bell ringers or the congregation for that matter… #ChoirChurch

@gabystubbs1 @ENortonHistory There is a separate Worshipful Company of Tallow Chandlers though, I'm not sure whether they had a similar involvement.

@ENortonHistory my guess is that in those days , candles were made of tallow - animal fats - so those people maybe had experience in animal butchery - entrails removed - that experience may have crossed over in preparing bodies for funerals

Does anyone know why wax chandlers were often employed in embalm bodies and prepare them for burial in medieval and Tudor times? I’ve come upon it quite regularly and I’m actually very curious. Their role involved removing entrails and organs etc, so they’re not there just to wrap the bodies or provide candles #historian #historians

@AracerRacer @imbarty @KenCCheng There are specs for solid lines. see s3.1 of Chapter 5 of the Traffic Signs Manual: "It is important that the [double line] is not used where the appropriate criteria are not satisfied, otherwise it will be brought into disrepute and eventually lose the respect of drivers".

@DorzetRob @DailyClassicArt Yes it's correct. The one you have posted is an alternate painting by the same artist titled "Cloister in Winter". See (skd-online-collection.skd.museum/Details/Index/…) and (sothebys.com/en/buy/auction…)

@DailyClassicArt Is this right? I'm not sure it is - the top left shows some kind of reflected spire but no base to it. I found this version but don't know if it is correct either. I'd like to know for sure!

Ernst Ferdinand Oehme - "Cathedral in Winter" (1821)

@ArmchairBard @CamLibResearch @Kings_College @Cambridge_Uni Nephew of Edwin Lutyens, he died in the First World War.

@CamLibResearch @Kings_College @Cambridge_Uni Oh, and there’s a Lutyens.

I had quite forgotten I had this. Sir David Willcocks’s copy of the memoirs of a Victorian chorister @Kings_College @Cambridge_Uni. Seems like a good moment to post.

@2D0XPS @wabbey The canopy was installed for the coronation of Edward VII. It appears to have been present for the 1953 coronation, but absent by the 1960 wedding of Princess Margaret.

When did they get rid of the tent over the shrine St. Edward the Confessor? (These photos are from 1924)