The Off Topic Topic

[Norgy]

I got the Spanish People's Party which sounds like a Trotskyite group 

It's a party started by former Francoists, but hardly with much of a taint from that era now.

I am apparently getting less and less sane, and ended up with Beppe Grillo's "movement".

[Norgy]

Part of Stalin's clique of prison-dwellers, rapists and murderers from Georgia, I think.

He was from Georgia, but the article I just read in Harper's mentioned a funky ethnic group that I had never heard of before.

Megrel, I think.

[Sheilbh]

That said - I don't think most of the books I had to read in school were particularly worthwhile (only really changed about starting college). Certainly not Gatsby.

Maybe all humanities courses should come with trigger warnings, 'The past: not the present', 'Art: occasionally challenging'

[Ed Anger]

Part of Stalin's clique of prison-dwellers, rapists and murderers from Georgia, I think.

He was from Georgia, but the article I just read in Harper's mentioned a funky ethnic group that I had never heard of before.

Megrel, I think.

Spellus infodump incoming

[Admiral Yi]

Megrel, I think.

My source said Mingrelian, but definitely close  enough for government work.

How the hell did you know that?

[Valmy]

My own contribution to the fall of the West.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/18/us/warning-the-literary-canon-could-make-students-squirm.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&smid=tw-nytimes&_r=0
Christ

I swear these sorts of Feminists are the Church Ladies of the left.  Censor everything even slightly offensive!  Think of the children.

"I quite object to the argument of 'Kids today need to toughen up,' " she said. "That absolutely misses the reality that we're dealing with. We have students coming to us with serious issues, and we need to deal with that respectfully and seriously."

Oh for fuck sake.

[The Larch]

If you support PP you restrain yourself when debating with women so you don't overwhelm them and look mean.

[Ed Anger]

My own contribution to the fall of the West.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/18/us/warning-the-literary-canon-could-make-students-squirm.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&smid=tw-nytimes&_r=0
Christ

I swear these sorts of Feminists are the Church Ladies of the left.  Censor everything even slightly offensive!  Think of the children.

"I quite object to the argument of 'Kids today need to toughen up,' " she said. "That absolutely misses the reality that we're dealing with. We have students coming to us with serious issues, and we need to deal with that respectfully and seriously."

Oh for fuck sake.

TRIGGER WARNINGS

[garbon]

That said - I don't think most of the books I had to read in school were particularly worthwhile (only really changed about starting college). Certainly not Gatsby.

Maybe all humanities courses should come with trigger warnings, 'The past: not the present', 'Art: occasionally challenging'

[Valmy]

If you support PP you restrain yourself when debating with women so you don't overwhelm them and look mean.

Charming.

[Razgovory]

Your ideal party is Syriza, a Greek party of the left led by Alexis Tsipras.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-interactive/2014/may/19/who-should-you-vote-for-in-the-european-elections

Your ideal party is the Conservative party, a British centre-right party led by David Cameron.

That saucy French socialist party.

[Razgovory]

My own contribution to the fall of the West.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/18/us/warning-the-literary-canon-could-make-students-squirm.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&smid=tw-nytimes&_r=0
Christ

You know, I never have read "Things fall apart".  Maybe I'll get that for my Kindle.

[Norgy]

Megrel, I think.

My source said Mingrelian, but definitely close  enough for government work.

How the hell did you know that?

Very obscure info, I know. Picked it up while researching a bit about the Soviet Georgians for an unpublished article. And it is very likely it never will be published. 

[Admiral Yi]

[Norgy]

Should you ever find yourself in dire need of online newsletters about services you can't even get outside of Norway, I have written a life's worth of soul-crushing, meaningless ones.