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Quote of the Day: George III on Rebellion
A Proclamation, by The King, for Suppressing Rebellion and Sedition
King George III
August 23, 1775Whereas many of our subjects in divers parts of our Colonies and Plantations in North America, misled by dangerous and ill designing men, and forgetting the allegiance which they owe to the power that has protected and supported them; after various disorderly acts committed in disturbance of the publick peace, to the obstruction of lawful commerce, and to the oppression of our loyal subjects carrying on the same; have at length proceeded to open and avowed rebellion, by arraying themselves in a hostile manner, to withstand the execution of the law, and traitorously preparing, ordering and levying war against us: And whereas, there is reason to apprehend that such rebellion hath been much promoted and encouraged by the traitorous correspondence, counsels and comfort of divers wicked and desperate persons within this Realm: To the end therefore, that none of our subjects may neglect or violate their duty through ignorance thereof, or through any doubt of the protection which the law will afford to their loyalty and zeal, we have thought fit, by and with the advice of our Privy Council, to issue our Royal Proclamation, hereby declaring, that not only all our Officers, civil and military, are obliged to exert their utmost endeavours to suppress such rebellion, and to bring the traitors to justice, but that all our subjects of this Realm, and the dominions thereunto belonging, are bound by law to be aiding and assisting in the suppression of such rebellion, and to disclose and make known all traitorous conspiracies and attempts against us, our crown and dignity; and we do accordingly strictly charge and command all our Officers, as well civil as military, and all others our obedient and loyal subjects, to use their utmost endeavours to withstand and suppress such rebellion, and to disclose and make known all treasons and traitorous conspiracies which they shall know to be against us, our crown and dignity; and for that purpose, that they transmit to one of our principal Secretaries of State, or other proper officer, due and full information of all persons who shall be found carrying on correspondence with, or in any manner or degree aiding or abetting the persons now in open arms and rebellion against our Government, within any of our Colonies and Plantations in North America, in order to bring to condign punishment the authors, perpetrators, and abetters of such traitorous designs.
Given at our Court at St. James’s the twenty-third day of August, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five, in the fifteenth year of our reign.
GOD save the KING.
It was on this day in 1775 that King George III made his proclamation against sedition and rebellion in his colonies and authorized the use of force. What are you doing to celebrate?
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Probably your hetero-normative, patriarchal tendencies.
Point.
She included pictures in one of her posts. That’s how I figured it out.
Yes, sir, she is.
I thought I referred to myself as female fairly often, I guess not. The pics are pretty definitive, though. As @arahant can testify (and frequently corrects on my behalf), my age and gender are by far the most common misconceptions. On the inside, I’m a crotchety 90 year old man.
Yeah. Got it. Thanks for rubbing it in. My wounds so love salt.
How dare you assume that I am either chick or dude! I’ll have you know that I’m a trans-age, pansexual otherkin and being referred to by any pronouns other than “your highness” is deeply offensive.
KW’s inside/outside dichotomy, expressed as a single image:
I was when I woke up this morning, don’t know if anything has changed between then and now. Don’t feel too bad, though, you join a long and illustrious list of Ricochetti in this false assumption. And you surely won’t be the last.
Do enlighten me, though, because I’m always genuinely curious, why did you think I’m a man?
KW, dunno. Just the way you write, I figured you were a guy. <Sigh> Apparently, I still have a long way to go.
Well Judge you really stuck your foot deep into that morass.
No worries, I’ve heard that before. It’s very possible that I have quite a male leaning writing voice, especially since I have a good deal of more traditionally male hobbies (like boxing), mostly guy friends, and am in a male dominated major. As long as you get some enjoyment or education out of what I post, it wouldn’t bother me too much if you thought I was a 5,000 year old androgynous purple vampire.
I love its accuracy, and I will probably screenshot it to save for my own use. Thanks!
Don’t feel bad Boss, it took me about ten of her posts (prior to any of her pictorial reveals) to recognize KW was a she, not a he. It may have something to do with the fact she was comfortable chatting, and quite holding her own, with a bunch of old geezers on a semi cerebral social website. Not something one would expect a young, pretty, college lady to be indulging.
You’re way too nice. And you all are my favorite old (and not so old) semi cerebral geezers to chat to on the internet.
I’m sure a pretty, young kickboxer like her needs an Uncle Mongo, though.
You aren’t the first one to make that mistake. Nor the second.
Thanks, by the way, to this thread for scaring the bejesus out of me. I’ve been out since 4:30 at an early birthday celebration, and when I got back at 10 I had 8 or 9 alerts on my phone (I get emails whenever I’m @-ed). I thought there was a huge change in my school’s opening plan, or that someone had died.
And it was just some dude figuring out your were of the feminine persuasion. 😉
I don’t think he’s even the third. Maybe we’ll have to start a betting pool on how often this happens in a six month long space.
We’ll have to start it tomorrow or another date in the near future. Could wait until September 1st.
I should add that KirkianWanderer isn’t the only person I got wrong. There have been a few others that I got wrong. Maybe there’s something about Ricochet. Or maybe I’m just getting old.
Sounds good to me. Can never have enough cool uncles (I’ve only got one).
You could probably find a fair number of volunteers on Ricochet.
Dorothy’s acquaintances on the journey to the Yellow Brick Road include @GrannyDude as Glenda, the good witch, @arahant as The Wizard, @gldiii as the Titanium Man, and @judgemental as the Scarecrow, as he’s the only one of us remotely thin enough to earn the role.
Nobody seems to want to play the Cowardly Republican. “If I only had some nerve…”
It’s probably the rational arguments.
Head pre-filled with straw for your convenience.
I think maybe you did and I caught it, but other people commented after seeing the pictures in a later post.
To be clear, once we declare a sexual identity on Ricochet, we can still change it later, right?