I can't even put into words how disgusting I find this.
"I can see the Labour Party coming to power in the next election - maybe, maybe not - who knows? But it doesn't really make a difference who's in power - the State remains the same, the structure is still there, they just tinker with it a little here and there." - Oi Polloi
All those hours of Helldiving, and it was just boot camp all along.
For Managed Democracy!™
Scottish Tories getting an awful lot of coverage in that story, somebody at BBC Scotland appears to be a fan.
"A group of four of us around level 80"
Level 50 was the original maximum. You've completed the game. Presumably by now you've unlocked everything, of course it's easier. Try starting from level 1 again and see how you feel.
As a modern Brit, this list is just fucking weird. It's only a very specific type of middle class English that would relate to this.
What's your alternative to democracy after this "peaceful revolution"? Who's in charge? You?
Is this revolution anarchist, communist, fascist, or something else?
And what kind of democracy are you talking about? There are many varieties, with some being far better than others.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble_Act
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Sea_Company
It seems to be some reference to this, although I can't find anything about sacks and snakes. As stated by u/stovetop only the rich were in parliament, so if this did happen it was just one group of rich greedy people turning on another group of rich greedy people. Nothing to get excited about.
Yeah, nobody is ever able to complete university level study without sitting in lecture halls listening to egotistical professors ramble on, that's not possible...
I thought it was the 51st?
Christians regularly ignore the 10 commandments, the most basic of rules in their religion. Of course they'll ignore the stuff that means they can't eat tasty pork
"28g of poop for each 5.4 kg of their body weight" for the metrically inclined
Does it matter? Ultimately, these are estimates. Educated, data backed estimates, but still estimates.
One larger than expected volcanic eruption, coral reefs dying faster than expected, whatever, all it takes is one or two things to not go the way they're expected and everything speeds up.
20 years or 25 years, the point is we're all kinda fucked unless we do something about it.
What we need to do has been and will continue to be debated ad nauseam, but we know we must do something.