JamesGoblin [he/him]@hexbear.net to politics@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 year ago"Independent British Politics",from an old USSR papertopwar.ruimagemessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up1102arrow-down10
arrow-up1102arrow-down1image"Independent British Politics",from an old USSR papertopwar.ruJamesGoblin [he/him]@hexbear.net to politics@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square11fedilink
minus-squareWheaties [she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up29·1 year agoYou shouldn’t be allowed to pick an animal outside your hemisphere for a national symbol.
minus-squareusernamesaredifficul [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·1 year agoLook man the Scottish have a unicorn and the Welsh have a dragon. Clearly the UK doesn’t agree with that rule
minus-squareWheaties [she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·1 year agoImaginary creatures are fine and actually cooler. Just don’t pick a lion if there’s no lions on your island . and a premptive ‘fuck you’ to anyone who points at a zoo
minus-squareAwoo [she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·edit-21 year agoDoes the Tower of London count as a zoo? It technically wasn’t. They kept Barbary Lions (and a bunch of other exotic animals) in the Tower of London and it’s how it ended up as the symbol of England, practice started in the 1200s.
minus-squareWheaties [she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 year agooh fuck the ankh-morpork hippos were real
minus-squareSaeculum [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 year agoCounterpoint: lions are cool
You shouldn’t be allowed to pick an animal outside your hemisphere for a national symbol.
Look man the Scottish have a unicorn and the Welsh have a dragon. Clearly the UK doesn’t agree with that rule
Imaginary creatures are fine and actually cooler. Just don’t pick a lion if there’s no lions on your island
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and a premptive ‘fuck you’ to anyone who points at a zoo
Does the Tower of London count as a zoo? It technically wasn’t.
They kept Barbary Lions (and a bunch of other exotic animals) in the Tower of London and it’s how it ended up as the symbol of England, practice started in the 1200s.
oh fuck the ankh-morpork hippos were real
lmao yes
Counterpoint: lions are cool