Mitchell and Webb did a terrific sketch on this concept.

Mitchell and Webb - Advertising

deleted by creator

There are two different things coming into play here.

First of all, hair length evolved before long hair did.

Modern humans originally evolved tightly curled hair. Basically like we still see in many African populations. It’s thought that this was an adaptation to protect against the heat of the sun. Basically like an insulated sun hat. The longer this curly hair grew, the more protection our natural hat provided.

As homo-sapiens populations moved further North, this protection was no longer needed - in fact there was the opposite problem, it was cold and rainy.

Greasy straight hair offers an advantage over curly hair in this kind of environment. It acts like a waterproof blanket, preventing the skin beneath getting wet, and it dries more quickly. Heat is lost through wet skin significantly faster than dry skin, and in situations where energy sources might be hard to come by in winter months, this can be a disadvantage.

We already had hair length sorted, so it was simply a matter of reacquiring the straight hair shape.

Europeans got a leg-up in this regard - Neanderthals appear to have had straight hair, and interbreeding definitely occurred. At this point it’s worth remembering that by the time anatomically modern humans evolved in Africa, earlier hominids were already living all over Africa, Europe and Asia. Neanderthals were very similar to modern humans and shared an extremely close common ancestor.

And this is how, and why, some homo sapiens populations have long straight hair.

I won’t touch on the points covered by the other replies because they’ve explained it perfectly. I think you’re confused about the divorce thing, though.

It was King Henry VIII who founded the church of England to allow him to get a divorce. But his version of the church was essentially identical to Catholicism but with the king instead of the pope.

His great great grandson, King James VI / I actually cared about religion and reforming the church. He supported the idea that everyone should be able to actually understand the scripture, instead of just the elites and clergy. That’s why he sponsored the King James Bible. He was also very anti-Catholic and, as a direct result, was targeted in the Gunpowder Plot.

I did not know I needed this in my life until you posted it. Thanks so much - I’m going through all the old posts now!

I sometimes wonder what became of them. I like to think they finally bought a second cup so they didn’t have to share anymore.

Putting all patriotism aside, I don’t think there’s any reality in which the US uses its potential to make the world a better place.

The big difference nowadays is that it’s become patently clear that the US government isn’t even trying to make the US a better place.

I make my bed purely because my wife likes it that way. I’m not bothered either way, but I do it because it’s important to her.

She wakes up before I do and goes to bed before I do. I make the bed nice and tidy when I eventually wake up so she has a nice neat bed to climb into at night.

The truth is that, by any normal definition, Republicans are far right and Democrats are centre right.

If you actually wanted to run a progressive platform, then running as an Independent might be your only choice.

In the UK at least, most Independent candidates run single-issue platforms. Hartlepool famously elected a guy dressed as a monkey as mayor, he ran on a platform of “free bananas for school children”. He did so well as mayor, they elected him two more times.

Another costumed independent, Count Binface (an intergalactic space warrior who wears a dustbin on his head) beat the far-right Britain First party in the London Mayoral election (although sadly didn’t win the actual mayorship).

I only buy stuff if I’ve been obsessing over it for a few days. Basically buying it just to free up that head-space.

To be fair, I think we’ve been in the midst of a political crisis for some time.

Although, I agree - I think Andy Burnham winning Makerfield would be the flashpoint for the leadership contest that has been looming for the past few months.

Maybe this is the only way things will settle down.

Next year? Hard to say. If Starmer gets ousted, which looks more and more likely, then that’ll probably mean a cabinet reshuffle. Honestly can’t say I’ve been too impressed by Rachel Reeves’ efforts, but then again I imagine it’s hard to totally insulate the economy from a mad bloke who’s seemingly trying his level best to destabilise the entire world.

If Burnham or Miliband do get elected, then I imagine we’ll do ok.

Is this just like, free money? Or are there strings attached?

What does a cantaloupe say when he sees an attractive honeydew?

“What a melon!”

Ha, it’s, er, complicated. It kind of follows on from Headmasters, but is set in a world where people don’t know about transformers. Optimus Prime seems to have never existed - there’s a robot that looks exactly like Optimus Prime, but isn’t, and nobody even bats an eyelid.

The Deceptions/Destrons are led by two powerful human sorcerers following commands from a weird glowing alien blob with tentacles called Devil Z.

The Cybertronians spend most of their time disguised as humans or monsters, and it’s the actual humans that become the heads for giant robots.

Masterforce really feels like it’s its own thing. I just think of it as an alternative universe, like TFA. Trying to make it fit in causes too many headaches!

Absolutely! I’m currently working my way through the absolutely bonkers Transformers Super-God Masterforce for the first time right now.

A lot of the stuff from the 80s is pretty hit-and-miss on revisiting, but some of it is still gold. In general, anything produced since 2000 is much higher quality.

I like the scope for world-building and story-telling possible in animation that isn’t really feasible otherwise.

I like animation for both kids and adults. I like western stuff and animé. But mostly I just love the medium - I even collected animation cels!

He needed root access.

In the UK, unless you’re self-employed, taxes are just kind of automatic. It just gets handled by your employer.

If you’re self-employed, and especially so if you’re VAT-registered, it can be a bit fiddly. For most people, however, it’s just handled invisibly.

The PS3 hit, Fat Princess.

Cool fantasy setting, much fighting, clear objectives (princess kidnapping) - perfect LARP stuff.

Plus whoever is the princess gets to be fed cake all day.

Is this a The Thirteenth Warrior reference?

If so, it’s literally the first one I’ve ever encountered in the wild!