“It’s an easy mistake to make. He’s effeminate and therefore we think he’s weak, but that man sits in pubs and clubs and houses and hotels, telling all the world about his homosexuality out loud, all day long. It doesn’t matter who’s listening - priests or housewives or landlords or anyone. He tells the truth and he doesn’t care. No-one else does that.”
In the 13th century, astonishing quantities of spices and silk passed from the Far East to Europe. Exact amounts are not known, but spice popularity in both cuisine and medicine reached its historical peak during the Middle Ages in Europe.
It turns out being sociable is antisocial when landlords collude with the police to get public amenities taken away from working class people to boost property values under the guise of fighting crime. There are already virtually no public toilets left in this country, now people can’t sit unless they pay to use a cafe or pub. Old people and the disabled have it bad enough already without this.
It’s like all the London bus stops where there are no benches, just thin strips of plastic set too high and too close to the stop’s wall for anyone to actually sit. Because making sure homeless people can’t sleep there is apparently more important than letting the elderly and disabled have a place to sit while they wait. But this… I mean, wow. How are you going to hostile architecture your way out of letting people have a park?
