A Rachel for all seasons

I do love the otters

Dragons on EVERYTHING. We have suffered too many years of dragonless currency. It is time to redress the balance.

Mid-C19th five-pound banknote including a coat of arms with dragons.

Since we appear to be arguing about whether there should be animals on banknotes, and if so which animals, I'm going to point out that this is the five-pound note issued by the Dundee Banking Company in 1845, and it had dragons on it.

bromantasy: romantasy, for men

Malta gonna Malta

Another thing ruined by woke/H*tler

I have a solution that will please both sides

I use Gemini when I'm bored — and it's better than doomscrolling It became my ultimate distraction

WHAT IF YOU JUST READ A FUCKING BOOK

Josephus screaming, crying, throwing up

That’s a narrative journey and a half!

WHY IS HE NOT CLIMBING OUT OF A PAPIER MACHE BADGER THO

Don’t think that was on balance likely to complimentary

That’s a great Gothic font you’ve got there at the start (RETVRN)

I'm opposed because it ruins the one 'interesting' fact I know about the banknotes, which is that everyone on them either died at 41 (Austen, Turing) or has been played by Timothy Spall (Churchill, Turner).

we dare you to find a museum more ready

Reaching net zero by 2050 ‘cheaper for UK than one fossil fuel crisis’ Climate change committee finds move to renewable energy would also bring health, economic and security benefits

Everyone say 'Thank you, Mr Miliband'

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

If you don't believe there's a unique English culture, try working in another country and then making the mistake of starting an important and urgent email like "Well, if you wouldn't mind I suppose ideally we could maybe..."

Anyway, thanks to all this and the rabbit hole (lols!) it has sent me down, I have today learned that a) Andorra issues its own euro coins and that b) the bronze ones feature a very handsome Pyrenean chamois. static.wikia.nocookie.net/currencies/i...

PUT GERONIMO THE ALPACA ON THE TENNER, YOU COWARDS

idk if he counts as a celebrity but Douglas Carswell blocked me for repeatedly retweeting his invite to play Hello Kitty World with him

Compromise: keep Churchill on the notes but it's the dog version from the advert

DEEECARBONISE! DEEEEE-CARRRR-BONNN-IIISSEE!

She really has a talent for choosing unpopular opinions. Has she MET the British people? They fucking love animals

80s singer Thomas Dolby on raising queer kids: "the eldest is trans, the middle is a lesbian, and the youngest is a drummer"

The 3 genders

“Eddies,” said Ford, “in the space-time continuum.”

“Ah,” nodded Arthur, “is he. Is he.”

"The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't."

THE best linguistic joke IMO

"I'm up to here with cool, okay? I am so amazingly cool you could keep a side of meat in me for a month. I am so hip I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis."

So many good quotes in this thread….