weird medieval guys: damn this quote about london from the 1200s makes it sound so epic????

damn this quote about london from the 1200s makes it sound so epic????

When i lived in London I have to say that the amount of flattery i received was finite

If lobby journos count, this is nevertheless still a thing

Tag yourself. I'm tatterdemalions

(hangs head) Buffoon.

I'm "mimics".

lolz but also I wonder what they meant. Maybe "female impersonator"? There's like 4 or 5 different terms that could mean that, or something close, so I figure the writer had a bee in his bonnet about weird London genders

“Lewd musical girls”

Same

Nightly strollers

Used to be nightly strollers, these days [*boastful smirk*] I’m braggadocio

My wife's sculpture named Tatterdemalion: https://kirstyhall.co.uk/2016/03/12/tatterdemalion-and-shoddy/

Tatterdemalion and Shoddy | Kirsty Hallkirstyhall.co.uk

Hell yes, me too! Tatterdemalions are the best kind of lions!

Lustful person, natch.

We have a serious dearth of tatterdemalions these days.

Effeminate sodomite solidarity

I'm one of the braggadocios!

The Garamantes, pickthanks, catamites, effeminate sodomites, lewd musical girls. They all adore him. They think he's a righteous dude

Oh no! Braggadoccios! And lewd musical girls and lustful persons! Sounds like 13th century bluesky tbh

lustful person here, don't be shaming me

"those that have no hair on their bodies" ok wow twink slander has historical precedent 👀

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It’s the lack of lewd musical girls that has really let London down recently. We just aren’t producing the skills necessary for a world city anymore.

hanging out with effeminate sodomites, lewd musical girls, druggists, and lustful persons sounds like a great party

That is just Hamburg Reeperbahn, these days :)

Sherman, time to liven things up. Set the Wayback Machine controls for London, 1250.

ah Mr Peabody, I presume

That's the plot for the episode - while trying to introduce Sherman to King Edward Longshanks, Mr. Peabody is briefly dragooned into being a turnspit dog.

Medieval London wouldn’t have been the best location for a dog, just guessing

Definitely going to the pander dance tonight. Might check out the stew herds afterwards

May I join in?

tag yourself i’m a nightly stroller

The Garamantes incidentally were a lost sub-Saharan African tribe so the writer appears to be implying the presence of black people in 13thC London. Interesting.

Claiming more braggadocios than France is in itself an act of braggadocio, consistent.

Source page 60 here archive.org/details/chro...

The chronicle of Richard of Devizes concerning the deeds of Richard the First, King of England also Richard of Cirencester's Description of Britain : Richard, of Devizes, ca. 1150-ca. 1200 : Free Down...archive.org De situ Britanniae by Charles Bertram was a forgery claimed by him to have been copied from a manuscript written by Richard of Cirencester

<> There’s also another bit where he complains that immigration has ruined the city.

Exciting to find a potential Telegraph columnist who’s actually older than their readers.

I'm down for some lewd musical girls

Catamites AND sodomites? Well at least it’s a matched pair!

Mos Eisley of the Star Wars 13th century AU

"the number of flatterers is infinite" 👍

Great point!

David Hilbert: "Have I got the hotel for you!"

Every. House.

I keep coming back for the lewd musical girls.

He'd get short shrift from Samuel Johnson: "When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life."

… the suicide rate quadrupled overnight. (I miss Doug)

And that’s just Ealing.

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