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have no idea what the canonical volume of the Lonely Mountain
I'm going to take a punt and suggest that when Tolkien wrote about Smaug sitting on a mountain of gold, it was metaphorical. Risky take for a work of epic fantasy fiction, I know.
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I'm obvs not middle class enough to be able to enjoy these things...
Says the man who keeps stingless bees.
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Sounds like some folks thought they were becoming members of the National Front
It's a logic extension of the argument about statues, but this has long been a culture war battleground. All the way back to Thatcher's National Heritage Act, if not earlier.
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Passive aggressive.
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I'm not sure that they ever really did that much. If at all.
A significant number of Europeans really did. The U.K. used to have a reputation for good sense in some areas (and nutty attitudes in others). Just to pick one example, there's long been a significant number of French people living in the U.K. and enjoying career opportunities that were harder to achieve back home.
On a bigger scale, Britain going blatantly senile has left some EU politicians who used to ally with (the saner) UK politicos more exposed.
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I remember reading that at school and enjoying it. Ofc he turned out to be an anti-democratic, petty-nationalist theocrat but you can't have everything.
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How was it fine?! How was it for and healthy?!
You get like this in the Gone but not Forgotten thread, too.
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Park Beekeeping has closed. Shame, that was a nice little company.
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On Coldharbour Lane it isn't even remotely unusual.
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As a fellow head-injury-after-cycling-incident person, I'm deeply jealous of this story. Walking home from the recovery care ward in hospital pyjamas so I could get a decent night's sleep doesn't sound half as exotic.
Bald man wearing a hat who might be Scottish