Mark the Medieval Rat 🐀

Quick question for the married chaps out there.. If during, shall we say ' robust discussion ' with the good lady wife you drop the bomb and say "You're getting more like your mother every day" And you just get silence and passive aggressive door slamming. How screwed am I?

@JonathanSarfat2 @EmRoman74 @nonregemesse @HistoriaJack No it's nothing of the sort, the plague increased wages, it was horrid but ultimately was a good thing over several centuries with many other things. How dare you twist that into a holocaust comparison.

@medieval_rat @EmRoman74 @nonregemesse @HistoriaJack Rather like saying that the Holocaust was the best thing to happen to the Jews.

𝐄𝐝𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐈𝐈𝐈 was the greatest king of England! > Led a coup against his father’s killer to seize power at 16. > Once held a banquet and sat his prisoners, the kings of Scotland and France, on either side of him. > Descended from all the glory of Europe from Charlemagne to the emperors of the east Roman Empire. > Defeated the Scots at Hallidon Hill and created the dismounted men-at-arms & longbowmen tactics used later on. > Destroyed the French fleet in daring raids and at Sluys to ensure the war ensuing would take place in France. > Ruled for 50 years of internal peace > Defeated the French at Sluys, Crécy wnd Calais and the Spanish at Winchelsea. > Captured Calais after a year long siege and famously spared the citizens at the behest of his Queen. > When he heard the French were trying to bribe their way into Calais he and a small force snuck in disguised as ordinary knights to ‘prepare a crafty welcome for the French’. > Battered Eustace de Ribemont trying to sneak Calais and rewarded him with his freedom and a chaplet of pearls as a gift. > Chased the French out of Calais and ran into a much larger force he turned to small band of archers, lifted his visor and said ‘do your best, archers, I am Edward of Windsor!’ and then charged the enemy against impossible odds. > Created the Most Noble Order of the Garter which still exists today. > When deadly plague struck he did his best to show his people that he would not be perturbed and continued to hold tournaments. > Instituted legal reforms and under his reign the term ‘due process’ was used for the first time in legislation.

@MichalYouDoing @EmRoman74 @nonregemesse @HistoriaJack You can't turn a blind eye to locking Galileo up, and the shoulders Newton stood on were those of Robert Hooke. England as a protestant nation had more intellectual freedom than the Catholic papal states.

There was no "lack of enlightenment" in the Papal States, Galileo affair notwithstanding. The Catholic Church were funding the majority of the world's science at the time. Most of the necessary experiments towards heliocentrism were funded and ran there. Newton made no known telescopic observations of his own, very clearly "standing on the shoulders of giants". England had its own restrictions. Catholics were not allowed at universities. Academics tried to force Newton to take orders, which he got out of on a technicality of the Lucasian chair, which was fortunate, as his Theology would have otherwise got him in trouble.

@cannock666 @thesundaysport I go for "I'll pull your nightie down when I'm done"

@thesundaysport “Brace yourself, love, for the best 10 seconds of your life!” usually does the trick for me.

75k followers - none of whom will ever know a woman's touch

@EmRoman74 @nonregemesse @HistoriaJack One of the reasons for the Peasants revolt. Workers demanded more so they tried to claw it back through poll taxes. Can just see a medieval plumber shaking his head.. You've had the right Flemish in here haven't you?

@medieval_rat @nonregemesse @HistoriaJack I wonder if the tradesman after the plague were like plumbers and the like now knowing they could start charging more because the workforce was thinned out? Sucking air through their 3 teeth when pricing up a job.

@EmRoman74 @nonregemesse @HistoriaJack Clergy disproportionately affected as they stayed to help the sick. That and the printing press at the same time really loosened the grip of the church. Took a couple of hundred years ( and Henry VIII) but we had an Enlightenment whilst they were locking up Galileo.

@medieval_rat @nonregemesse @HistoriaJack Certainly good for upward mobility.

@EmRoman74 @nonregemesse @HistoriaJack Shave a chicken and strap it to the boil. Good old cure that. I still maintain the plague was the best thing to happen to England

@medieval_rat @nonregemesse @HistoriaJack You can’t let a little thing like the plague stop the show.

I guess I'll see you lot on Easter Sunday. Try not to break anything 👋

@William62569896 England's back line V Scotland?

So far this morning I’ve told 5 inanimate objects to fuck off

@EmRoman74 @nonregemesse @HistoriaJack The "Holding tourneys during plague" was maybe not the best idea with hindsight. If only his son had lived.

@nonregemesse @HistoriaJack Lad!

@chrisjonespress Based on an actual incident although it was an Israeli officer who went surfing during one of the many conflicts.

Truly iconic moment from one of my favourite films “I love the smell of napalm in the morning... Smelled like... victory"

What sort of lunatic thought lime flavoured crisps would be a good idea.

@HBrubanter Would cost about $50 dollars here so about £35

Just found a fuel receipt from 1998. 50 litres of deisel... £33.08. It would be about £71 today. We used to be a country.

🗓️ Coming soon! Don’t miss @SaracensWomen’s next game on Saturday 21 February. It’s a very rare @ThePWR Saturday evening game under the lights. 1930 GMT kick-off 🆚 Exeter Chiefs. Tough opposition so bring those loudest voices and 💯% support your #SarriesFamily.

@louderry @TheScholar44 So why did Labour submit then? Why didn't they take it to court and win?

I presume the people celebrating 2 council elections in 2 years will still be celebrating when their council tax goes up to pay for them?

@elegant_elz Oh I thought it was "bring your own beer" my bad too long in the colonies.

@medieval_rat Show everyone your bruises 😂

Would appear that i have won this Weeks bruise off. 🏆 😍

@UNKLEPaulTHX Hidden gem of a film.

@medieval_rat Both fantastic together Great movie

Do yourselves a favour. Look up "Second Hand Lions", him and Michael Caine, great little film.

@LadyL1800 @misskristinruth My doctor wife telling people to eat healthy whilst eating paczki every time the door is closed 😂

@medieval_rat @misskristinruth Delish!!!!!!

Okay I'm giving my two penneth' on pancake toppings. Lemon juice,sugar or treacle. Preferably from a tin like this... #PancakeDay

@EmRoman74 Because they see and talk about it every day they don't think anything of it. Nothing is embarrassing and they have no filter. I know more about menstruatiing and sanitary products than any man should Still at least I have 3 boys...oh fuck..

@medieval_rat “You’ll never believe what I saw at work today”🤢

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