The pound has fallen so much so that it is at a 30 year low
Seriously like 10%? it dropped so fucking fast guys
As a result the UK is no longer the fifth largest economy, France has overtaken us
David Cameron the Prime Minister has just resigned with a new leader to be elected in October
I say elected, I mean Tory members will vote on who from their party should be a our new Prime Minister..they have 150,000 members
That’s right 150,000 people will choose this entire country’s leader
Oh btw Scotland? ALL voted to remain so guess who is probably gonna hold another referendum on whether to leave the UK? And probably vote out? And then probably join the European Union on their own
Meanwhile Northern Ireland (who also voted to remain) are talking about possible unification of Ireland
Wales let the whole Remain side down by somehow being the country that gets the most EU support and yet also voted to leave
Nigel Farage has already backtracked saying that the £350 million (not true) we apprently sent to the EU would not in fact go to the NHS as promised and it was a mistake to give that impression
It’s looking likely that Boris Johnson (Basically Donald Trumps British cousin) is going to be our next PM
He did a shit job as London Mayor once but apparently he suddenly knows his stuff idk
A UK exit from the EU in the context of Northern Ireland voting to Remain must prompt a poll on Irish unity, Sinn Fein has demanded.
The republican party claimed the referendum will have “massive ramifications on the nature of the British state”, given Scotland also voted Remain.
However, the Democratic Unionists hailed the vote as set to deliver a bright future for Northern Ireland as part of an unshackled UK.
In Northern Ireland 440,707 (56%) people voted to Remain and 349,442 (44%) voted to Leave.
Of the region’s 18 constituencies, 11 voted Remain and seven voted Leave.
A border poll can only be called by the region’s Secretary of State in circumstances where there is clear evidence of a public opinion swing towards Irish unity.
Hey, Steam now lets you blacklist user-defined tags in your discovery queue.
Neat!
*immediately blacklists “zombies”*
(Now if only there were a well-defined tag for “obvious Terraria clone” that I could blacklist, that’d be two birds with one stone…)
also:
“obvious Minecraft clone”
“has the graphics and complexity of a 2006 Newgrounds Flash game for $15″
“contains two or more tags from: Survival, Crafting, Sandbox, Procedurally-Generated”
“fourth installment in a story-heavy series you have never touched in your life”
“has the word Simulator or Tycoon in the title and was made after 2005″
“has the word Sakura in the title…… ever”
“has one or more gameplay mechanics related to breasts”
“Pixel art graphics by somebody who does not know how to do pixel art properly”
“decent game but you will find out a month later that the creator is a constant asshole on Twitter and feel bad for supporting them”
Ooh, or how about:
“dungeon-crawler whose promo blurb uses the words ‘procedural’ and ‘revolutionary’ in the same sentence″
“box art is just a close-up of the protagonist’s breasts“
“conceals bloated price point by exploiting the fact that Steam sorts episodic titles by the price of the first episode rather than the price of the whole game”
“PS Vita port crudely upscaled to 1080p using a nearest-neighbor filter”
“has female protagonist; plot, exposition and development focus entirely on male supporting characters“
“has been in Early Access for three and a half years and still doesn’t have its menu UI figured out“
“wants to be the next Goat Simulator“
“contains nominally adult woman character who looks like a nine-year-old because of Reasons“
“GRITTY REALISM (i.e. we would like to justify being sexist as hell)”
“It’s okay because we’re spouting memes ironically”
“Advertises a varied, interesting female cast; insists on a generic, faceless male lead”
“We localised our game by running it through Google Translate”
“Episode 1 out now! Episode 2 to be released some time in the next decade”
“First review sings the game’s praises in spite of only having 5 minutes of playtime”
“next-gen breast physics”
“weird-ass Objectivist ranting”
“first hour of play consists of unskippable tutorial”
“contains cute female protagonist and and long, detailed death animations – like, concerningly detailed“
“in-game DLC store sells crafting materials for real money"
Hi there! This looks like it was a cool experience for you. However, unfortunately I have to encourage you to please not partake in this kind of thing again. Cub petting attractions are all extremely inhumane and bad for these cubs. Especially for white tiger cubs, which suffer from health issues due to extensive inbreeding; the act of breeding white tigers period is inhumane and banned in US accredited zoos. This cub alone is incredibly young and at risk of becoming very ill, just like a newborn human. They should be with their mothers at this age, and are often taken away from them for things like this. Please don’t take this as a personal attack, my #1 concern is for the cats. Here are some links as to why cub petting is so terrible.
In his exile in the Netherlands, William II cut down trees almost everyday – mostly to show his supporters back in Germany how strong he was and that he was ready to return to the throne. Perhaps he was frustrated too.
When reporters started to sneak onto the property to take pictures of the exiled Kaiser, William II started complaining – one of his servants told him, that it was his own fault. After all he had cut down all the trees that could have sheltered him from curious eyes.
@takingaspadetoasouffle how did Wilhelm take to being given this sort of reality check by the staff when in exile? Did it happen often?
@ladyaudleyssecrettumlbr As far as I know, it didn’t happen very often. I’ve read about this incident in the memoirs of a member of the household (Sigurd von Islemann I think), but he only said “well it’s your own fault” in the memoirs, not actually to wilhelm’s face. I do hope someone did in real life, though.
Exile was a strange “mini court” with a lot of the same etiquette (Wilhelm was addressed as “royal highness” instead of “imperial majesty”, and his second wife was also elevated in rank…but only in Doorn.) Most of the people would go by the old rules (particularly because a lot of visitors were people who’d known wilhelm before his exile), and not actually tell him unpleasant truths. HOWEVER, he did receive endless letters from all over the world telling him how awful he was; he had to put up with the “are we going to try him for war crimes?” debacle; he would have been aware of the ‘khaki election’ in Britain where David Lloyd George won with “Hang The Kaiser!” as one of his main slogans; and eventually he’d have realised that the monarchy wasn’t coming back in his lifetime. With all this in mind, I think he’d have been reasonably ok with people who weren’t his staff telling him things bluntly, but I think the old rules of the hohenzollern court would have remained for the staff. I have a feeling that von Islemann could get away with it sometimes (he was part of the entourage during the war, and followed wilhelm into exile), but I’m not sure how often he actually did it. I know that the exile entourage bitched about wilhelm in their memoirs, just like the pre-exile lot did too, so that may well have been a way to let off steam when all one wanted to do was shove the kaiser in a moat.
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