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Started by viper37, August 17, 2017, 01:13:11 PM

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viper37

Long book review for the causes of the Civil War, by a Southerner (Virginian), so I thought it could be interesting to some other foreigners lurking here.

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I don't do meditation.  I drink alcohol to relax, like normal people.

If Microsoft Excel decided to stop working overnight, the world would practically end.

garbon

...tastes gross and is for trash people.
"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.

Duque de Bragança

A great Walter Hill movie. :)

Syt

I should re-read McPherson's Battlecry of Freedom.
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

The Brain

Women want me. Men want to be with me.

viper37

Quote from: garbon on August 17, 2017, 01:19:57 PM
...tastes gross and is for trash people.
Good thing I only drink the good stuff :)
I don't do meditation.  I drink alcohol to relax, like normal people.

If Microsoft Excel decided to stop working overnight, the world would practically end.

sbr

Quote from: viper37 on August 17, 2017, 07:57:35 PM
Quote from: garbon on August 17, 2017, 01:19:57 PM
...tastes gross and is for trash people.
Good thing I only drink the good stuff :)
You should try bleach :)

viper37

Quote from: sbr on August 17, 2017, 08:15:10 PM
Quote from: viper37 on August 17, 2017, 07:57:35 PM
Quote from: garbon on August 17, 2017, 01:19:57 PM
...tastes gross and is for trash people.
Good thing I only drink the good stuff :)
You should try bleach :)
nah, I'll pass.  I'll stick with my Louisbourg triple barrelled whisky.
I don't do meditation.  I drink alcohol to relax, like normal people.

If Microsoft Excel decided to stop working overnight, the world would practically end.

sbr

Quote from: viper37 on August 17, 2017, 08:54:48 PM
Quote from: sbr on August 17, 2017, 08:15:10 PM
Quote from: viper37 on August 17, 2017, 07:57:35 PM
Quote from: garbon on August 17, 2017, 01:19:57 PM
...tastes gross and is for trash people.
Good thing I only drink the good stuff :)
You should try bleach :)
nah, I'll pass.  I'll stick with my Louisbourg triple barrelled whisky.

Have a handful and go for a drive on an empty road then?

Delirium

Quote from: Duque de Bragança on August 17, 2017, 01:26:45 PM
A great Walter Hill movie. :)

Yep, that was my first thought when I read the title.
Come writers and critics who prophesize with your pen, and keep your eyes wide the chance won't come again; but don't speak too soon for the wheel's still in spin, and there's no telling who that it's naming. For the loser now will be later to win, cause the times they are a-changin'. -- B Dylan

Scipio

What I speak out of my mouth is the truth.  It burns like fire.
-Jose Canseco

There you go, giving a fuck when it ain't your turn to give a fuck.
-Every cop, The Wire

"It is always good to be known for one's Krapp."
-John Hurt

Scipio

What I speak out of my mouth is the truth.  It burns like fire.
-Jose Canseco

There you go, giving a fuck when it ain't your turn to give a fuck.
-Every cop, The Wire

"It is always good to be known for one's Krapp."
-John Hurt