To be fair, that would probably be easier than abolishing the Treasury.
February 11, 2026 at 1:39 PM
To be fair, that would probably be easier than abolishing the Treasury.
I've never seen another RPG replicate the experience of being on the receiving end of a 30 minute historical lecture by some random guy in a tavern, all because you made the mistake of asking him a question about what guilds are nearby.
February 1, 2026 at 11:50 AM
I've never seen another RPG replicate the experience of being on the receiving end of a 30 minute historical lecture by some random guy in a tavern, all because you made the mistake of asking him a question about what guilds are nearby.
My Grandmother had 5 siblings that left post-war Glasgow for the US and Canada.
That scale of emigration is just hard to comprehend now.
That scale of emigration is just hard to comprehend now.
December 30, 2025 at 11:25 PM
My Grandmother had 5 siblings that left post-war Glasgow for the US and Canada.
That scale of emigration is just hard to comprehend now.
That scale of emigration is just hard to comprehend now.
It went both ways as well - "Scot" being a shorthand term for a peddler in parts of Central Europe in the 1500s really gives a sense of how widespread the movement of people was.
December 25, 2025 at 12:07 PM
It went both ways as well - "Scot" being a shorthand term for a peddler in parts of Central Europe in the 1500s really gives a sense of how widespread the movement of people was.
They could have saved themselves a lot of time by simply speaking to literally anyone that works for a Local Authority.
October 5, 2025 at 11:27 PM
They could have saved themselves a lot of time by simply speaking to literally anyone that works for a Local Authority.
This reads like a distant cousin of "Americans don't have accents".
October 2, 2025 at 3:51 PM
This reads like a distant cousin of "Americans don't have accents".
He does give off weapons-grade levels of divorced dad energy.
September 30, 2025 at 7:21 PM
He does give off weapons-grade levels of divorced dad energy.
Finding out there was nowhere in Berlin's swanky new airport where you could fill up an empty water bottle beyond a certain point was a bit of a shock.
August 14, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Finding out there was nowhere in Berlin's swanky new airport where you could fill up an empty water bottle beyond a certain point was a bit of a shock.
Looking at the Minsk Agreements in hindsight, if they were actually implemented in full it would have been a turbo-fucked Dayton-esque nightmare.
The Kremlin's self-sabotage of any attempt to implement it highlights just how garbage they are at political strategy.
The Kremlin's self-sabotage of any attempt to implement it highlights just how garbage they are at political strategy.
July 31, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Looking at the Minsk Agreements in hindsight, if they were actually implemented in full it would have been a turbo-fucked Dayton-esque nightmare.
The Kremlin's self-sabotage of any attempt to implement it highlights just how garbage they are at political strategy.
The Kremlin's self-sabotage of any attempt to implement it highlights just how garbage they are at political strategy.
I've now got the fear that I obtain a minor level of fame/infamy, and my MySpace account from almost 20 years ago gets discovered and people learn just how garbage my taste in music was then.
July 26, 2025 at 1:14 PM
I've now got the fear that I obtain a minor level of fame/infamy, and my MySpace account from almost 20 years ago gets discovered and people learn just how garbage my taste in music was then.
Some top-tier uphill ice-skating by Marvel execs here.
July 21, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Some top-tier uphill ice-skating by Marvel execs here.
Makes Labour crapping themselves with a GE years away and repeatedly throwing their voting base under a bus seem even more ludicrous
July 2, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Makes Labour crapping themselves with a GE years away and repeatedly throwing their voting base under a bus seem even more ludicrous
With hindsight, the first post-Soviet Russian political party being the Liberal Democratic Party (famously neither liberal or democratic) should have been a big ol' warning sign.
June 18, 2025 at 4:59 PM
With hindsight, the first post-Soviet Russian political party being the Liberal Democratic Party (famously neither liberal or democratic) should have been a big ol' warning sign.
I remember my Italian flatmate in uni halls being slightly shellshocked after he and his pals were stopped on the street and had their open beers confiscated - having not realised that the police here took a dim view on such things.
June 13, 2025 at 11:54 AM
I remember my Italian flatmate in uni halls being slightly shellshocked after he and his pals were stopped on the street and had their open beers confiscated - having not realised that the police here took a dim view on such things.
It's pretty solid, the only thing I'd really question is the term "brewery tap", I've pretty much only ever seen them referred to as taprooms.
Also, genuinely impressed to see The Laurieston in Glasgow get referenced.
Also, genuinely impressed to see The Laurieston in Glasgow get referenced.
June 13, 2025 at 8:59 AM
It's pretty solid, the only thing I'd really question is the term "brewery tap", I've pretty much only ever seen them referred to as taprooms.
Also, genuinely impressed to see The Laurieston in Glasgow get referenced.
Also, genuinely impressed to see The Laurieston in Glasgow get referenced.
Neil Oliver's descent from doing slightly theatrical (and easily parodied) but generally inoffensive Scottish history programmes to... whatever it is he's doing now is fascinating.
June 12, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Neil Oliver's descent from doing slightly theatrical (and easily parodied) but generally inoffensive Scottish history programmes to... whatever it is he's doing now is fascinating.
Bonus points for the Police HQ being in CodeBase
June 7, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Bonus points for the Police HQ being in CodeBase
*in the 90s about conflicts in what was Yugoslavia
June 3, 2025 at 9:29 AM
*in the 90s about conflicts in what was Yugoslavia
The signs were there earlier if you look at what he wrote in the 90s former Yugoslavia conflicts
June 3, 2025 at 9:28 AM
The signs were there earlier if you look at what he wrote in the 90s former Yugoslavia conflicts
The Timex factory actually played a role in that - in the 1980s they manufactured ZX Spectrums, which led to a computer club/hobbiest culture in the city. There's a good doc online about DMA Design (Rockstar's precursor) which goes into that:
youtu.be/Ev7FqNa5rD0?...
youtu.be/Ev7FqNa5rD0?...
The History of Grand Theft Auto, Lemmings & DMA Design
YouTube video by Noclip
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May 30, 2025 at 9:43 AM
The Timex factory actually played a role in that - in the 1980s they manufactured ZX Spectrums, which led to a computer club/hobbiest culture in the city. There's a good doc online about DMA Design (Rockstar's precursor) which goes into that:
youtu.be/Ev7FqNa5rD0?...
youtu.be/Ev7FqNa5rD0?...