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St. Bernard's fire...

Not surprised. I listened to the first episode of the podcast today and it's worth a go for anyone who likes WWII history. There's a decent enough chance he's played CM even. He might even be perusing this conversation, as yet unaware he's dunking his tie in his bitter.

Al Murray the pub landlord has a history podcast?! An RSS: https://feeds.megaphone.fm/GLT8434431415

Turkey... turkey... ah. 15 minutes on STT.

It's the pope... you might as well get rid of the red shoes. Shout out to The Young Pope, great series.

Ageist & sexist heheh sipo, es verdad pero: (https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2024-03/pope-francis-swiss-tv-interview-gaza-ukraine-wars.html) suggests the interviewer may have been Italian/the interview conducted in Italian. EDIT: Sorry, somehow I thought you meant about the interview language, yes you are right my comment made it look like I thought the pope was Italian, I just didn't think hard enough about it, it was in my brain somewhere I'm sure. In any case being white only being a recent thing according to some goes for South Americans too.

Since he's speaking in Italian, I was hedging my bets, also world leaders can be somewhat "clarificative" to coin a phrase. What they really mean, their eventual position, is the clarification: EDIT: Italians barely got a generation being white in some people's eyes before succumbing to this racist meme... not that I'm overly sensitive about it here and there but on the whole it gets tiresome.

Dear oh dear the meme defense network spun up pretty quick regarding some comments the pope apparently made vis a vis Ukraine and negotiation:

I thought that was the command version?

Extremely disturbing for those who would like to avoid such things. With regard to: In case misapprehension caused his ban, I should say it's at least possible his post: ...was a sincere expression of regret on realising the other poster had tried to help Ukraine and had failed due to problems with corruption/bribery, and was not just an antagonistic internet warrior. Much can get lost between translation and the lack of context. It's right on the edge of plausibility but worth clarifying.

~Nevermind~ Edit: to clarify, I had a second look and realised I didn't see what I thought I had in a previous image.

Quote from the translation: Lol

RIP Without prejudice, out of academic interest, the flag is not a proper Union Jack, and the rifle is a Mosin.

Perhaps: "Delboyism"? Derrick "Del-boy" Trotter, British classic sitcom icon, cockney who sells stolen goods: EDIT: He even claims to support Chelsea.

Uh oh...