Random Thoughts 3: A Little Bit of This, and a Little Bit of That...

[Timsup2nothin]

No, it means that rape and sexual assault are crimes that nobody commits only once. It's something you either don't do at all, or do/did regularly.

I don't think this is likely to be accurate. I'd say that it is one of those things that no one does twice. In that regard similar to getting puking drunk. I know a lot of people who got introduced to drinking in a peer group, experienced the drink to excess and blow chunks adventure, and were never inclined to do that again and avoided it. Other people looked at it as "the price of admission," didn't avoid it, and did it many times. But no one did it twice; either once was enough, or it wasn't and they just kept on keepin' on. I think a whole lot of things fit that pattern.

 

[EgonSpengler]

So an 8-yr-old girl pulled a 1,500-yr-old sword from the bottom of a lake. Doesn't that make her the Pendragon, or something? Sounds like the beginning of a new Marvel movie.

 

[Arakhor]

It might if said lake had been within Albion's soggy shores.

 

[Takhisis]

Links or it didn't happen, Mr. Spengler.

 

[Broken_Erika]

Links or it didn't happen, Mr. Spengler.

She who has the power to wield the sword something something chosen one...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45753455

 

[Valka D'Ur]

So an 8-yr-old girl pulled a 1,500-yr-old sword from the bottom of a lake. Doesn't that make her the Pendragon, or something? Sounds like the beginning of a new Marvel movie.

Some of the best archaeological or paleontological finds happen by accident.

In a switch, in one of the computer games I recently played, there's a part of the story where one of the main protagonists has to make a sword and put it into a stone. And no, whoever pulls it out doesn't get to be the King. Actually, the grave-robbers in that game met a pretty grisly fate.

 

[Traitorfish]

So an 8-yr-old girl pulled a 1,500-yr-old sword from the bottom of a lake. Doesn't that make her the Pendragon, or something? Sounds like the beginning of a new Marvel movie.

Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.

 

[Lemon Merchant]

Oh, but you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you!

 

[brennan]

Shut up! Bloody peasant!

 

[Dachs]

Bloody peasant!

oh what a giveaway

 

[GoodSarmatian]

Booh !
Boooh!!!
People I usually respect are digging out Monty Python references that are rustier than a murder weapon some sixth century mobster (presumably) threw into a lake.
What is this, the noughties ?

 

[peter grimes]

I heard somewhere there is a theory that says the Arthurian legend shows a metaphorical progression of the different tiers of metallurgy. Can't recall where I read it tho.

 

[Synobun]

Over two years and this is how you come back? Shoulda made a bigger splash, man.

 

[Broken_Erika]

Shut up! Bloody peasant!

Help! Help! I'm being oppressed!

 

[GoodSarmatian]

Help! Help! I'm being oppressed!

You should be !
Shame on you !

 

[Broken_Erika]

You should be !
Shame on you !

oh what a giveaway

 

[Ryika]

Shouldn't she get arrested for illegally wielding a sword in public?

 

[Traitorfish]

Shouldn't she get arrested for illegally wielding a sword in public?

Oh, now we see the violence inherent in the system.

 

[Ryika]

Oh, now we see the violence inherent in the system.

That's why she needs to be declared Queen. No system led by an 8-year old could possibly be violent. Children are so pure when it comes to morality.

She'll probably grow into a tyrant, but then we can take her head and everything's fine.

 

[Traitorfish]

Tolkien used to say that his ideal system of government was a sort of agrarian libertarianism, with a powerless monarch squatting on the symbolism of centralised authority, and thus preventing any actual central government from coalescing. An eight-year old with an enchanted bog-sword would be a good candidate for that role.