Apparently, an English woman has been fined approximately 65,000 pounds for the crime of selling vegetables by the pound. The irony of charging "pounds sterling" (actually "pounds worthless fiat" today) for this crime apparently escaped the barristers and judges.
I'm looking forward to a new British currency called the "kilogram sterling", worth approximately (at current prices for silver) about 130 quid.
Podcast #1,088: The Classical Code of Manhood
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What does it mean to be a man? It’s a timeless question that’s been
answered in different ways across the ages. For the ancient Romans, the
word for ma...
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