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Things which are not like the Holocaust: being required to wear a mask on public transport.

Things which are not like apartheid: vaccine passports.

In other words, the Brexity anti-everything-sensible types are venting their spleen everywhere, accusing the rest of us of 'living in fear'. Marina Hyde has their measure.


Meanwhile, the entire UK has been giggling at this story that's been doing the rounds of the local newspapers. I'll let the title speak for itself: Bomb squad called to Gloucestershire Royal Hospital after man gets WWII mortar stuck up his bottom. Apologies for all the various banner and popup ads — local papers all seem to be like this. (I'm assuming the man in question is okay, otherwise I wouldn't have shared the story, no matter how childishly funny I found it.)

And that's pretty much been my Friday, from the absurd to the ... absurd in a different way.

Date: 2021-12-03 07:25 pm (UTC)
lirazel: Kpop girl group Red Velvet in summer clothes outside ([music] red flavor)
From: [personal profile] lirazel
At least it's not double awful absurd? It's only single awful absurd and single giggly absurd?

I just got Daniel Lavery's newsletter update in my email and I haven't even read it yet, but I saw the title and immediately felt the need to share it with you: What We Know For Sure About the Druids Is Nothing And Shut Up.

Date: 2021-12-03 09:42 pm (UTC)
lirazel: A white colonial-era building in the Ecuadorian city of Cuenca against a blue sky ([misc] cuenca 1)
From: [personal profile] lirazel
I have now read it and was tickled, so I'm glad it resonated with you!

she basically spends her time on social media despairing at all the nonsense that people believe about druids which she constantly has to debunk

I so, so easily believe that. I follow a medievalist on tumblr and she is constantly trying to debunk nonsense.

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