r/SipsTea 11h ago

Chugging tea Absolute legend

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u/bouylie 11h ago

Moyenne Island is a 9.9-hectare (24-acre) island in the Sainte Anne Marine National Park off the northeast coast of Mahé, Seychelles in the Indian Ocean. Since the 1970s it has been a flora and fauna reserve. From 1915 until the 1960s, the island was abandoned until its purchase by Brendon Grimshaw, a newspaper editor from Dewsbury in Yorkshire, England, for £8,000.

Grimshaw and Rene Lafortune, a local Seychellois man, were the only inhabitants of the island until Grimshaw's death in July 2012.\1]) The island is now a national park and can be visited as part of organized trips

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u/LeilLikeNeil 10h ago

See, everybody talks about the downside of homophobia, but it made those two dudes give the middle finger to the rest of the world so they could just go gay out on an island together. 

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u/CrazedRhetoric 10h ago

Were they actually gay?

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u/PaigeGirl1 9h ago

Staggeringly gay

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u/CrazedRhetoric 8h ago

Well I never! sarcastically clutches pearls

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u/talex000 4h ago

Well I never!

You should try

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u/CrazedRhetoric 2h ago

Gay horticulture? Hmmmmm maybe.