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Started by Korea, March 10, 2009, 06:24:26 AM

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11B4V

"there's a long tradition of insulting people we disagree with here, and I'll be damned if I listen to your entreaties otherwise."-OVB

"Obviously not a Berkut-commanded armored column.  They're not all brewing."- CdM

"We've reached one of our phase lines after the firefight and it smells bad—meaning it's a little bit suspicious... Could be an amb—".

Eddie Teach

To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Grey Fox

Colonel Caliga is Awesome.

mongers

My local MP, sir Desmond Swayne, hard at work in the commons earlier:

"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

Habbaku

People falling asleep in Parliament should be encouraged.
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.

-J. R. R. Tolkien

mongers

I see Aunt Malthus is in trouble with a certain crowd.
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

crazy canuck

Quote from: mongers on January 16, 2018, 05:47:15 PM
I see Aunt Malthus is in trouble with a certain crowd.

You should read her Op Ed.  It is really quite good.  :)

Eddie Teach

Quote from: mongers on January 16, 2018, 05:47:15 PM
I see Aunt Malthus is in trouble with a certain crowd.

More details please.
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Admiral Yi

QuoteHandmaid's Tale author Margaret Atwood has sparked a feminist backlash after writing an opinion piece about the #MeToo movement.

The writer asked in Canada's Globe and Mail newspaper whether she was a "bad feminist" for demanding due process for those accused of sexual harassment.

https://news.sky.com/story/handmaids-tale-author-margaret-atwood-faces-backlash-over-metoo-think-piece-11210645

Monoriu

This is why it is best for celebrities to stay away from politics. 

mongers

Quote from: crazy canuck on January 16, 2018, 06:01:38 PM
Quote from: mongers on January 16, 2018, 05:47:15 PM
I see Aunt Malthus is in trouble with a certain crowd.

You should read her Op Ed.  It is really quite good.  :)

I'm guessing the 'reaction' to it made it a self-fulfilling prophecy?
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

Josquius

2 fruits per person

Does this sign mean 30 apples and 4 oranges are OK?
Or am I misunderstanding the fruit / fruits grammar here
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Eddie Teach

I would guess it means 2 pieces total.
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Josquius

Quote from: Eddie Teach on January 17, 2018, 05:51:43 AM
I would guess it means 2 pieces total.

Clearly the intended meaning.
But the technicality of the word fruits is bugging me
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Malthus

Quote from: Monoriu on January 16, 2018, 08:07:13 PM
This is why it is best for celebrities to stay away from politics.

She's been political her entire life, though.  :lol:
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius