That's not an erection...THIS is an erection...
Erection? That sir is clearly a paintbrush! You can clearly see the thick...bobble...on the end...Oh dear, i think i need to sit down...
The French government will agree to lend the UK its most famous memento of the Norman conquest of England after Blighty leaves the EU. President Emmanuel Macron is expected to announce the loan of the Bayeux Tapestry during his visit to the UK on Thursday, which would not be transferred before 2020. According to The Times, …
Monastery institutions of either sex were likely to be hotbeds of theoretically banned practices. By the time of Henry VIII a somewhat embroidered official survey had enough credence to justify the closing of the monasteries on various grounds of immorality.
Monastery institutions of either sex were likely to be hotbeds of theoretically banned practices.
Sure you don't mean theologically banned practices - 'theory and practice' I get - but supposedly banned would be clearer.
a somewhat embroidered official survey during the reign or Henry VIII, would likely be quite embroidered, and likely to contain not so much theory or practice so much as any fantasy that serves the kings will - No being allowed to go off an hang yourself in the woods if you got this one wrong, chop chop!!
Probably the first 'weapons of mass destruction' report incident.
To circumvent any queues of UK nationals going out of the country, or coming in to the country,
Yeah, they seemingly get very 'excited' when you do that. Really got the feeling they thought I was bringing in something I shouldn't, felt quite unwelcome.
I suppose they'd prefer it if people stayed put, paid their taxes and quietly approved of Brexit and didn't point out various policy flaws or laugh at MPs.
"[...] and plans to allow fox-hunting again, [...]"
They've dropped that one already. The blue passports is a damp squib. The EU have pointed out that Westminster chose to adopt the colour used by most EU countries - it wasn't mandatory.
Maybot has claimed the laurels for the UK abolition of credit card surcharges - until it was pointed out it is an EU initiative that Westminster has adopted.
its most famous memento of the Norman conquest of England
Napoleon put the tapestry on display in Paris in 1804, while he was planning an invasion of England.
it has not yet been decided where in the UK the tapestry will be displayed
Somewhere close to Trafalgar Square or Waterloo Station?
It was missing in an illustration made in 1730 "commissioned by a certain Bernard de Montfaucon". So were his legs. The tapestry has since been restored and the depiction of Adam with an erection was there in "the later drawings by Charles Stothard, published between 1818 and 1823, though Stothard’s version of the man’s legs are not as they appear now on the Tapestry."
The tapestry is thought to have been embroidered by nuns. Just saying.
Are you suggesting Nuns were so closeted they thought men ran around outside with a 'branching tree limb' all the time.
'wllling suspension of disbelief' maybe... cue Blackadder Goes forth willy joke in 5,3,21*
*Sorry, numerically dyslexic..
isn't that a not-so-subtle dig at Bishop Odo and the celibacy of the Catholic church.
That would be a ecumenical matter possible. Certainly the prescribed way to lampoon statesmen and the upper echelons of society (most certainly in the Napoleonic/Georgian era when porn and political satire were bedfellows 'fnarr').
But was the Bishop a Shape changer? I faith?
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If my old school desk was anything to go by then some school kid in the 18th century decided to add a penis to it, probably around the time of the revolution.
Having viewed the picture, it's not really erect, it's resting on his leg but I do note the jazz hands which makes my version of history much more plausible.
"but they had gone a bit native once they settled in Northmandy - even started speaking some funny Romance language."
They seemed to do that wherever they settled - although they loaned English some words our Viking ancestors who settled in England eventually spoke English. Likewise those who settled in Russia ended up speaking Slavic.