[HN Gopher] Very Slight Counterfactuals: Dick Whittington Has Ch...
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       Very Slight Counterfactuals: Dick Whittington Has Children
        
       Author : benbreen
       Score  : 19 points
       Date   : 2023-10-25 14:11 UTC (1 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.thechatner.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.thechatner.com)
        
       | tedunangst wrote:
       | OT FYI: substack link, with all that entails, not obvious from
       | domain.
        
         | Georgelemental wrote:
         | What does it entail, exactly?
        
           | nine_k wrote:
           | A small bit of nagging to register, I suppose.
        
           | o11c wrote:
           | Complains that JS is required. In fact, the only thing that
           | requires JS is the nag-popup, so you have to delete its node
           | manually to actually read a few of the paragraphs.
           | 
           | If they used proper HTML this wouldn't be an issue.
        
       | JackFr wrote:
       | Amusing counterfactuals:
       | 
       | https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/sites/teacheng/files/Maug...
        
       | irrational wrote:
       | > If you are not English -- and why on earth should you be -- you
       | may only have a vague sense of Dick Whittington
       | 
       | A vague sense? I've never even heard the name in 50+ years of
       | life. LOL
       | 
       | > You may only have the dimmest sense of what a Lord Mayor of
       | London does that's distinct from the regular mayor
       | 
       | Again, today I'm one of the lucky 10,000 learning that there is a
       | Lord Mayor. So... what is the difference between a Mayor and a
       | Lord Mayor?
        
         | _dain_ wrote:
         | the mayor of london is for greater london, the lord mayor is
         | for the city of london, which is the square mile enclave feudal
         | thing where all the finance stuff lives
        
       | valyagolev wrote:
       | very charming. out of spite, because I'm sure the author would
       | hate it, i spent some time trying to convince chatgpt to
       | recursively create a tree of perversed historical facts
        
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