"What part of "quiet coach" do you not understand?"

Do they get replaced by crabs?

Black Friday traffic too much to handle?

Oh what’s broken now?

I for one welcome our new feathered overlords

Also fascinating seeing paintings of him as he aged, getting more and more dead behind the eyes. All joking aside, you can see the troubled man inside, just through his eyes. Fantastic artwork to capture it.

I saw the original in Edinburgh a few months ago, and it really does ooze "I'm surrounded by idiots"

I can’t see it with whisky, but I have seen Jaffa Cake Gin so…

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SAME I just can’t be bothered dealing with forced conversation about the weather for 2 min every half hour.

@barristersecret.bsky.social has a whole chapter on magistrates in their self-titled book, which helpfully sets out the history & context of magistrates, and how they function today.

Tl;dr, surface level looks good in theory, but is terrible in practice.

Early missionaries recommending Christmas like: "Other people who enjoyed getting drunk at the solstice also liked..."

Some good debunking of many of the annual claims can be found here (from an actual historian!) for anyone interested: historyforatheists.com/2020/12/paga...

A lot of the classic “everything is pagan” ideas come out of either Reformation propaganda (“Catholics are pagans, pass it on”) or C19th attempts to either debunk Christianity or promote emerging nationalisms - generally with no evidence beyond speculation.