Truthnuke Merchant
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Truthnuke Merchant
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Esoteric Gentryman | Laudian Episcopalian ⚓️ | Jolly Good Fellow | SKCM | Falstaffian | Southern Cavalier | Really Useful Engine | Pint Fiend 🍺

Elegy for the Royal Navy, by Peter Hitchens (@ClarkeMicah) The Navy was beautiful. Great warships, which we no longer possess, are beautiful, as such engines of destruction should probably not be. The boxy, enclosed modern vessels of today’s piddling navies lack this magic, as do the two giant car parks we call aircraft carriers. But in the early Sixties, I couldn’t get from my home in the village of Alverstoke to Portsmouth without crossing the harbour by ferry, under the immense 15-inch guns of the last British battleship, HMS Vanguard. There is something uplifting and thrilling about great guns, and the swooping lines of the ship itself, 814 feet long, that expressed power as few other works of man can do. It made our hearts swell a bit, to know we possessed such an instrument. And many hearts, including my own, have shrivelled, as that lovely fleet has melted away. Read more below ⬇️ buff.ly/aLC4jxo

Derbys are a casual outdoors shoe. Please do not wear them with a suit to Mass. These shoes are basically superfluous now, they’re not formal enough to wear to anything serious, and we have better informal options. Just delete them from your wardrobe.

China literally has trees in Xi Jinping’s garden that are older than the United States! 🤣

Well Chris 15 of 23 on one roster is higher than normal. It is context. Also Game 60 doesn’t matter. You can’t assume viewers have watched before. TV 101





Why did the Australians design their Parliament building like this? They could have taken their inspiration from their Canadian brethren

Miller Lite is the thinking man’s beverage of choice





Why did the Australians design their Parliament building like this? They could have taken their inspiration from their Canadian brethren

























