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Calikula's Imperial Weekly Thread: Roundabout Edition

'ello govn'a. I've been culturally burninated. There still exists thatch roofed cottages unburninated across the pond. Tip for driving in the UK: get a small car, you'll wish it was even smaller but simply driving will guarantee you'll have a strong sphincter. It was a good trip for me to see the places TGF and her mum talk about, and to meet the people I hear about as well. The neighbor insisted on drinking 3/4s of a bottle of Jameson in one sitting. Now they want to come out to Colorado to party with the Trog.

Last week there was a Montrose CIWT that I am jealous I didn't make the 4+ hour drive to attend. Summer time travel was discussed, and somehow Ohio was targeted. Also burger chains. The NFL HoS was skewered. RIP Pat.

And don't forget those all important and sometimes trodden on CIWT RULES:

1. Times have changed, and thus so has the thread. Cursing is now allowed, as long as it is (mostly) PG-13. If not, use our wonderful blackout feature. :)

2. Leave bad blood at the door. If you've got a beef with someone, don't continue it here.

3. Leave trolling at the door as well. Just do. Lets leave the trash talking of other teams for other threads. Gotta set the example, so we don't have to live with the consequences.

4. Certain topics that were once taboo - like politics or religion - are OK, but discuss without getting personal. Respect each other (see below), and if things get heated, then just drop it.

5. This thread is renewed on a weekly basis. Once the new thread is up, (usually Monday mornings) please unREC the previous one to retire it, and REC the new thread to promote it.

6. Respect each other.

7. (Retired for John Elway)

8. Finally, the thread was originally created to be a place to get away from the all of the pointless Broncos arguments, and remember that we're fans. There are plenty of other threads for that. If Broncos football does come up, let's keep it on the sunny side of life.

Don't follow these rules, and my Assassin Sadaraine will fart in your general direction. And DocLLV will not allow you to be in the MHR Hall of Fame. Both of these are consequences you want to avoid.

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Talking Points

  • Roundabouts
  • Hotel experiences
  • British food
  • Gardening
  • Time travel
  • Peruvian Pan Flute Bands
  • Why is it Politically Incorrect to even mention the name Jesus unless it's as a swear word?
  • Slower Traffic Keep Right also Undertaking
Imperial Quote:

"We think ourselves possessed, or at least we boast that we are so, of liberty of conscience on all subjects and of the right of free inquiry and private judgment in all cases, and yet how far are we from these exalted privileges in fact. There exists, I believe, throughout the whole Christian world, a law which makes it blasphemy to deny, or to doubt the divine inspiration of all the books of the Old and New Testaments, from Genesis to Revelations. In most countries of Europe it is punished by fire at the stake, or the rack, or the wheel. In England itself, it is punished by boring through the tongue with a red-hot poker. In America it is not much better; even in our Massachusetts, which, I believe, upon the whole, is as temperate and moderate in religious zeal as most of the States, a law was made in the latter end of the last century, repealing the cruel punishments of the former laws, but substituting fine and imprisonment upon all those blasphemies upon any book of the Old Testament or New. Now, what free inquiry, when a writer must surely encounter the risk of fine or imprisonment for adducing any arguments for investigation into the divine authority of those books? Who would run the risk of translating Volney's Recherches Nouvelles? Who would run the risk of translating Dupuis? But I cannot enlarge upon this subject, though I have it much at heart. I think such laws a great embarrassment, great obstructions to the improvement of the human mind. Books that cannot bear examination, certainly ought not to be established as divine inspiration by penal laws... but as long as they continue in force as laws, the human mind must make an awkward and clumsy progress in its investigations. I wish they were repealed.

{Letter to Thomas Jefferson, January 23, 1825}" - John Adams

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