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Mark

@markwhee.bsky.social

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Just someone who is paid to travel a lot and give an opinion on stuff.

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Mark @markwhee.bsky.social · 5d

Oh, maybe you meant British cops.

Mark @markwhee.bsky.social · 5d

I have one from a couple of hours ago. I asked a cop to let me drive along a road closed for Barcelona's game this afternoon and he said yes and moved the barrier across.

Mark @markwhee.bsky.social · 6d

I don't understand the question

Mark @markwhee.bsky.social · 6d

And we thought Theresa May was a robot.

Mark @markwhee.bsky.social · 6d

I think someone confused Gary Lineker with Ian Botham at The Star

Mark @markwhee.bsky.social · 6d

Starmer is so detached from reality he needs to resign and look after abandoned donkeys.

Mark @markwhee.bsky.social · 7d

Genius.

Mark @markwhee.bsky.social · 8d

Now that you are 'of a Certain Age' you can appreciate them. 😉

Mark @markwhee.bsky.social · 9d

It's a long time since I researched this but I seem to remember Columbus had got a figure of around 27,000km for the earth's circumference and coupled with Marco Polo's exaggeration of the size of China he calculated he would bump into China more or less where he made landfall. A lucky break.

Mark @markwhee.bsky.social · 9d

I have followed you because we had exactly the same reaction.

Mark @markwhee.bsky.social · 9d

If only ...

Mark @markwhee.bsky.social · 10d

You do realise this is fiction?

Mark @markwhee.bsky.social · 10d

Obviously. Thanks for pointing out the orthographic error.

Mark @markwhee.bsky.social · 10d

Maybe

Mark @markwhee.bsky.social · 10d

You assume I identify as a man. Dude. That's a small mind in that head

Mark @markwhee.bsky.social · 10d

No, you just proved your ignorance and inability to learn.

Mark @markwhee.bsky.social · 10d

I'm not trolling. You are just incapable of understanding. Do some fucking research and don't assume opinions on things you have never spent half of your fucking life studying. If you like an insult. You have one. Troll?

Mark @markwhee.bsky.social · 10d

Vasco De Gama was a nobleman not a navigator. Pere de Covilha was his guide. That is what distinguishes Columbus from the famous Portuguese.

Mark @markwhee.bsky.social · 10d

I only ask you read my replies. I'm not your buddy. But this apart, please read about history. Don't be angry. Columbus performed a role that could have been performed by someone else. An accident of history but don't underestimate his importance. It changed the world forever. For good or for bad.

Mark @markwhee.bsky.social · 10d

Once again try reading. It usually works

Mark @markwhee.bsky.social · 10d

So Mr. Sabio at what point in time would this have happened otherwise?

Mark @markwhee.bsky.social · 10d

Did you bother to read my reply?

Mark @markwhee.bsky.social · 10d

Moral turpitude.

Mark @markwhee.bsky.social · 10d

You don't need to celebrate but don't lessen his importance. Without his voyages Europe would never have expanded. Most Americans have European heritage.

Mark @markwhee.bsky.social · 10d

You can form opinions about everything from Facebook. We have a huge store of historical FACT in Sevilla here in Spain, the Archive of the Indies. Come visit and learn. Evidence based opinion rather than hearsay is perhaps better.