The chilling effect of misogynistic trolls

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479. The King Canute's of DU often get their feet wet as Vortex Kitteh circles them:

Their only escape from the impudent masses is using Ignore. This subthread is hilarious!

Although King Canute was not as mad as he's been made out to be:

But was the legendary Viking leader and 11th Century King of England so deluded to really assume he had the powers to turn back the tide?

...According to the story, the king had his chair carried down to the shore and ordered the waves not to break upon his land.

When his orders were ignored, he pronounced:

"Let all the world know that the power of kings is empty and worthless and there is no King worthy of the name save Him by whose will heaven and earth and sea obey eternal laws,"

~ Historia Anglorum (The History of the English People) by chronicler Henry of Huntingdon, who lived within 60 years of the death of Canute (1035 AD) ed D E Greenway.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-13524677



Kings order DU Kittehs. They only meow in return. Twas always so.