Claire Lumb

Dutch TV’s take on Disney trashing the First Amendment — by pulling Jimmy Kimmel to appease a thin-skinned autocrat — is something to behold.

🎬Arjen Lubach

19.09.2025 16:37 — 👍 126    🔁 50    💬 3    📌 10

The Middle Ages were a plunge into the superstitious after the rational culture of Antiquity!

Romans: So hear me out, have you tried asking chickens what to do?

09.12.2024 12:50 — 👍 466    🔁 110    💬 17    📌 9

Obviously appreciate Bernard Hill passed away before filming The Mirror and the Light

09.12.2024 19:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

As much I love Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light, I'm missing some of the actors who were in the first series who were recast. Bernard Hill as the Duke of Norkfolk was so magnificent. Jessica Raine as Jane Rochford and Tom Holland as Gregory Cromwell.

09.12.2024 19:26 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Ha, I was reminded of that as well.

09.12.2024 13:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I rotate subscriptions apart from Prime but that's just for the free delivery. Thinking of giving Apple TV go, late to the party with Slow Horses but everyone seems to think it's worth watching.

30.11.2024 21:17 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

When I lived in Japan we read this as our book group and we all loved it. Forgot there was a film!

23.11.2024 01:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

picture of Glasgow at night

Glasgow is so beautiful.

23.11.2024 01:07 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Glasgow at night

Glasgow looking beautiful 😍

22.11.2024 19:28 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Tissot painting entitled Jael smote Sisera and slew him; Woman crouched next to a reclining man in a tent on a floral rug; woman has hammer in hand and mallet at his temple

"The whole purpose of the postmenopausal female" is to provide hospitality.

15.08.2024 00:04 — 👍 689    🔁 94    💬 9    📌 4

judith beheading holofernes painting

The purpose of the postmenopausal female is to provide for the family

15.08.2024 00:43 — 👍 1491    🔁 199    💬 27    📌 12

According to one story, Leon Trotsky was said to have been particularly fond of a Jewish dairy restaurant called Triangle Dairy in the Bronx, whose waiters were Russian emigrés. Trotsky refused to tip after eating as a matter of principle, insisting that "tipping was demeaning to the dignity of a workingman, and that a person should get a regular salary, enough to live on, and not have to depend on tips". For the same reason, he tried to persuade other customers to refuse to tip as well. This led to verbal abuse, poor service, and one incident where waiters intentionally spilled hot soup on him.

Just found out Leon Trotsky was one of *those* guys

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