A man has bizarrely claimed King Henry Vlll ‘s sandals could be Greggs steak bakes, which could make him a time traveller.
The Twitter user, Luke from Manchester, posted a picture of the former king’s portrait and pointed out his footwear – which bore a striking resemblance to a steak bake. Luke questioned if the 16th-century portrait proved the king travelled to the future to visit the British bakery.
One of the wonders of the Internet is that it amplifies stupidity.
The tweet has almost 600 retweets and more than 3,000 likes, and left many wondering whether the claims were true.
See what I mean?
Nah. Nonsense.
More believable is that in the near future some Musk like tech wizard invents the Time Machine and thinking that a man of Henry’s girth would appreciate a couple Gregg’s or Greggs’ excellent comestibles. Henry could not read the accompanying modern English message. However he found that their hard wearing resilience made them ideal footware capable of carrying his great mass.
The most amusing aspect of all this is that a few years back, I wrote a short story about a time travelling Anne Boleyn. Spooky or what?
I don’t know about a time traveler, more like a tan traveler!
LR, not sure you should mention Anne Boleyn and “spooky” in the same sentence, what with the Beeb recently portraying her as black in one of their crappy series 🙂
Just looking out for your reputation mate
I think you win this thread.
I saw on a recent trailer that we now have a black Doctor Who, the Beeb are nothing if not predictable. Also caught the last few minutes of Planet Earth III which was just wall to wall climate propaganda.
On the time travel thing, I don’t think too many people take it seriously, I think for most it’s just a bit of fun.
Yes. I can imagine somebody posting that as a joke. I can also imagine many other people going along with the joke. And finally, I can imagine the oh so intelligent Mirror reporters failing to get the joke and laughing at all the “stupid” people..
I expect they will claim that King Henry VIII was all in favour of Popexit and therefore a gammon and thick.
Isn’t the new Doctor a twofer: a homosexualist as well as being a person of colour?
Curses … Hal8 was finally found out.
Can Greggs now claim that they are “By Royal Appointment” for the last 600 years? Surely the 25 year rule of supplying Royalty has been exceeded by a good margin to make the claim?
The Bonkers Broadcasting Company increasingly resembles a pint of Guinness. The main body is slowly going black but the head remains a gleaming white…