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Simple Heraldry by Iain Moncreiffe and Don Pottinger

I love this book and it's a great introduction to heraldry with a humourous touch. You can read it on the Internet Archive if you're interested.

#Simple Heraldry #Iain Moncreiffe #Don Pottinger

enriquemzn262

The last two matches of the world cup in a nutshell.

beardedmrbean

enriquemzn262

Congratulations Spain!

And fuck you Argentina, you finally showed your true colors with that filthy, filthy match, with 2 red card, one after the match, and even a yellow card for the manager.

Also, fucking finally, no more Messi in the following World Cups, I have never seen such fabricated cult of personality in my life, and its only rivaled by the one of that cheating drug-using bastard Maradona.

chapbloke

#After that Falklands posturing I have no sympathy #Spain #Argentina

chapbloke

We watched the first 10 minutes of the final only for me to realise that our television was on catchup mode and that the game was in extra time IRL. I have to say it was very kind of Argentina and Spain to do bugger all for 90 minutes.

chapbloke

For those who missed it:

chapbloke

This match certainly won't disabuse the American notion that football is a turgid spectacle of divegrass and low scores, the Donald must have been bored off his tits.

#England v France on the other hand was Hastings Crecy Castillon and Waterloo rolled into one

chapbloke

We watched the first 10 minutes of the final only for me to realise that our television was on catchup mode and that the game was in extra time IRL. I have to say it was very kind of Argentina and Spain to do bugger all for 90 minutes.

chapbloke

For those who missed it:

We watched the first 10 minutes of the final only for me to realise that our television was on catchup mode and that the game was in extra time IRL. I have to say it was very obliging of Argentina and Spain to do bugger all for 90 minutes.

userfish

baseball fights are better than hockey fights because everyone expects a fight in hockey. baseball fights are some real hater shit

userfish

ABSOLUTELY COMICAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!

barbariankingdom

master-john-uk

There are not many real Butcher’s shops left in the UK.

There is only one in the Sevenoaks area, that I am aware of… and that is no longer exclusively selling fresh meat. There is also a farm shop in my nearest town of Westerham, Kent which sells locally produced meat… but it is not a butcher shop!

chapbloke

In Scotland I am fortunate to have two butchers in our nearby town. I switched to getting my sandwich ham from him and there is a marked improvement in quality.

edgar-allan-possum

King Arthur and his knights did have plate armor several centuries ahead of its actual development because Merlin could see the future and he personally equipped the Knights of the Round Table with plate. That's also why they were such powerhouses, because they were using arms and armor way more advanced than what anyone else in the area had.

irishironclad

But also because it’s cool

edgar-allan-possum

Well, yeah, that goes without saying

clowngirlpony

Pack of hamburgers enjoying the carcass of a freshly killed hashbrowns

max1461

"I would never-"

You would if you were tired enough. You would if you were hungry enough. You would if your mind and body had been worn down enough, through pain or disease or toil or violent struggle. You might if you were put on the wrong medicine, or you got the wrong kind of head injury, or you were forced to choose between someone else and yourself. You might if your livelihood was staked on it, or all your hopes and dreams. You might if you didn't know what else to do, if it's what you were taught or if nobody taught you anything else.

I have not been worn down in most of these ways. I have lived a remarkably privileged life. But I have been worn down in some ways. And they were enough to teach me that in the wrong circumstances, any of us can become someone we don't want to be. It's worth keeping that in mind.

greenleavesandwarmbreezes

No actually. Some of us would never.

History is full of people who would never. They usually died for it. But we remember them and honor them as heroes.

Some people do have those breaking points. Not everyone.

queer-as-used-by-tolkien

☝️usually it is God giving us strength to bear past our natural breaking point

greater-than-the-sword

It's not that everyone would, but that you don't know whether you would until it happens. You can't just proudly proclaim that you would never, and overconfidence is a pretty reliable indicator of failure.

1 Corinthians 10:12

[12] Therefore let anyone who thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall.

this verse was specifically written to people who thought they would never do as their ancestors did.

Luckily followed with:

1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV

[13] No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

Also:

Proverbs 16:18

[18] Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.