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Norgy

Quote from: Valmy on May 19, 2014, 12:55:04 PM
I got the Spanish People's Party which sounds like a Trotskyite group  :ph34r:

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

Quote from: Admiral Yi on May 19, 2014, 01:03:29 PM
Quote from: Norgy on May 19, 2014, 12:59:39 PM
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

Quote from: garbon on May 19, 2014, 01:00:06 PM
:D

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. :yuk:
Maybe all humanities courses should come with trigger warnings, 'The past: not the present', 'Art: occasionally challenging' :bleeding:
Let's bomb Russia!

Ed Anger

Quote from: Norgy on May 19, 2014, 01:05:32 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on May 19, 2014, 01:03:29 PM
Quote from: Norgy on May 19, 2014, 12:59:39 PM
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
Stay Alive...Let the Man Drive

Admiral Yi

Quote from: Norgy on May 19, 2014, 01:05:32 PM
Megrel, I think.

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

How the hell did you know that?

Valmy

Quote from: Sheilbh on May 19, 2014, 12:57:25 PM
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 :bleeding: :weep:

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

Quote"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.
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

The Larch

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

Ed Anger

Quote from: Valmy on May 19, 2014, 01:11:08 PM
Quote from: Sheilbh on May 19, 2014, 12:57:25 PM
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 :bleeding: :weep:

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

Quote"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
Stay Alive...Let the Man Drive

garbon

Quote from: Sheilbh on May 19, 2014, 01:06:15 PM
Quote from: garbon on May 19, 2014, 01:00:06 PM
:D

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. :yuk:
Maybe all humanities courses should come with trigger warnings, 'The past: not the present', 'Art: occasionally challenging' :bleeding:
:lol:
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Valmy

Quote from: The Larch on May 19, 2014, 01:17:17 PM
If you support PP you restrain yourself when debating with women so you don't overwhelm them and look mean.

Charming.
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

Razgovory

Quote from: Savonarola on May 19, 2014, 12:53:33 PM
Quote from: Sheilbh on May 19, 2014, 12:09:15 PM
QuoteYour ideal party is Syriza, a Greek party of the left led by Alexis Tsipras.
:lol:
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-interactive/2014/may/19/who-should-you-vote-for-in-the-european-elections

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

:bowler:

That saucy French socialist party.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Razgovory

I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Norgy

Quote from: Admiral Yi on May 19, 2014, 01:09:33 PM
Quote from: Norgy on May 19, 2014, 01:05:32 PM
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.  :cry:


Norgy

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