It was apparently coined by a magistrate in the 1650s and has been used to refer to them ever since.
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At one point yes, but it's no longer the sixth century ce.
Are they not still known as quakers? They've been the society of friends since the mid-1800s
If you consider more likely wrong than right to be a safe assumption then sure.
According to reddit's own statistics, 40% of Reddit users total are from the US, and 49% of active daily users.
Unless you are in a country specific sub, or a hibby sub for something not common in the us, chances are that you are talking to an American.
Your odds are about 50/50 US to rest-of-world.
In all fairness, "real vacations" are a product being sold and advertised to you by the holiday industry. Taking time off at home and visiting friends and relatives is a perfectly fine use of vacation time.
using paper that isn't backed by actual value...
The value of fiat currencies are backed by the state. In the absence of a successful global revolution achieving communism in the next 50 years, this retirement will have to be under a state.
Things of "actual value" i.e. food, water, shelter and the means of producing them cannot be hoarded in sufficient quantities to retire on with a state backing your ownership of these things.
Planning to retire in a stateless non-communist future is idiocy.
Global warming will either cause the collapse of near all modern states, or it won't. Planning for the former eventuality is a fantasy because you can't know how such an event will actually happen, where is safe, whether you can be safe and you also have no guarantee of being nearby whatever you have stockpiled when the collapse happens.
In the event that the world's various states do survive the next 50 years, planning to retire with currency is probably fine, and it's not any less safe a bet than anything else you can do individually.
The only real functions of the house of lords are to block legislation for up to two years and to serve as a retirement home for politicians past their use-by date.
Poor little white boy can't just tell people "Chill, we don't need to murder billions of people, I actually read about the Islamic conquest of the 6th and 7th century and it turns out that we can just convert everyone by telling them they get favorable tax status and that Muslims aren't allowed to go on pillaging raids against other Muslims so they'll be safe if they convert and can even join us in raiding non-Muslims.
The Muslim conquests did still kill a very large number of people, and unlike the early Muslims, Paul doesn't have the advantage that his two largest neighbours are completely exhausted from decades of war.
What would they be pretending for?
If only we had comet sense!
It means uncle apparently (according to my poor googling ability.)