Bonus Ep 56 - Current Events: Neoliberal Hell
Added 2024-02-16 14:33:06 +0000 UTCpatrons, here is your first bonus episode for February 2024 in which we complain about the awful liberal leaders of our respective countries. first, Eleanor tells us all about the many issues with Labour leader Keir Starmer, who will likely be the next PM whenever that election eventually happens. then Luke talks about the many, many glaring issues of Joe Biden, using the last two weeks as a microcosm for his problems, that should doom his candidacy but may not given how awful Republicans are. sure, the complaining won't fix anything but the catharsis it provides sure is nice
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Just inside the narthex there's an obviously out of place decorated bracing arch which was an attempt to shore up the structure, there are stone beams in the roof trying to pin the towers to eachother and the nave and if you look closely in the porches you'll notice odd little squares where the stone doesn't match the rest of the ashlar face. This is where the Victorians pumped the rubble core of the walls with cement which turned out to be a terrible idea that no one really yet knows how to solve.
Matthew Turner
2024-02-17 10:10:34 +0000 UTCJust speaking as a verger in a Church of England parish church- Ash Wednesday is pretty university observed in the CofE, even in low church evangelical usually less liturgical places (although they likely won't do the imposition of ashes in the context of mass). Lenten observance is also very common, although the more hardcore abstention from meat and fasting on Wednesdays and Fridays is an Anglo-Catholic practice you wouldn't find much more widely. You're totally right about pancake day (besides nothing in or on pancakes can't be eaten during Lent aside from fast days). You do have Collopy Monday the day before where it's tradition to eat bacon (collops) which at least makes more sense in terms of using things up ahead of Lent because meat was generally avoided (or at least theoretically at least by clergy) but I've never seen reference to this pre-dating the 18th century. Finally, with the danger of doxing myself I used to be a verger at Lincoln cathedral. The big hill between uphill and downhill Lincoln is quaintly called Steep Hill rather than Steep Street and which runs just to the east of the original Roman road which joined the settlement at the top of the hill with the natural inland harbour at the Brayford where the romans dug a canal linking to the River Trent which still exists today. The stories you told about the riots over the spire and the instability of the building are true but refer to the spires on each of the western towers which were eventually removed in 1807 due to fears about the stability of the structure. The central tower spire which made the cathedral the tallest building in the world blew down in a storm in 1548. The western towers continued to prove problematic so later in the 19th century the ring of bells in the southwest tower were lowered further down the structure, the story being that their being rung caused so much movement in the structure that a bucket of water left on the top of the tower would splash a lot of its contents out into the roof whenever a full peal was rung! You can still see loads of attempts at strengthening this end of the building in the architecture - some of which were more successful than others.
Matthew Turner
2024-02-17 10:07:53 +0000 UTCI support this revelation about Pancake Day. More information about pancake Day. For real.
Adam Kickmaier
2024-02-17 00:41:26 +0000 UTC
