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#41

Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by Sheilbh - Today at 03:58:33 PM

Total aside but there's a fantastic Michael Frayn play on Brandt and the spy called Democracy. Production I saw had Roger Allam as Brandt and Conleth Hill as Gunther Guillaume - it was really good (to the point that I remember it, especially Allam's Brandt, 20+ years later).

#42

Off the Record / Re: Vocal Fry, the Newest Cult...

Last post by Razgovory - Today at 03:57:30 PM

What the hell are you talking about?  Swedish language?  What kind of nonsense is this?

#43

Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by Admiral Yi - Today at 03:27:36 PM

Used to be a time politicians stepped down for stuff like that (e.g. chancellor Willy Brandt in 1974).

Willy's spies were actual spies, not might be spies.

#44

Off the Record / Re: Vocal Fry, the Newest Cult...

Last post by Legbiter - Today at 02:49:09 PM

What? Nobody is going to mention the upspeak menace?  This is intolerable, especially when done by males.

Also, since we're on the subject of intolerable speech patterns, what the hell is going on with the Swedish language and the new whimsical garden gnome sound? Like WTF, what is going on? 

#45

Off the Record / Re: The Off Topic Topic

Last post by Josquius - Today at 02:42:57 PM

Search and...... rescue?
It being Iceland I'd have thought search and devour would be more their speed?

#46

Off the Record / Re: Facebook Follies of Friend...

Last post by Razgovory - Today at 02:23:27 PM

Gen X parents failing to facilitate their kids growing up.  At some point people are going to have to accept that blaming everything on Boomers just isn't credible any more.

The Gen X parents in that meme Syt posted must have had a tough life, aging beyond their years.

That is a drawing.  Taking a drawing literally is usually a mistake.  The average Boomer is 70.  Their kids are in their forties.

So the drawing is wrong in that that the all the people depicted are too old?

#47

Off the Record / Re: The Israel-Iran War ?

Last post by Razgovory - Today at 02:18:03 PM

Raz, if you want to discuss Gaza do it it in the thread devoted to that purpose.

I am just noting that for some people famine is acceptable for some populations but not others.  The idea that some ethnic groups are more worthy of life than others.  It seems to be a fairly popular view point.  There is probably a word for that in French or Danish.  I dunno.

#48

Off the Record / Re: The Off Topic Topic

Last post by Legbiter - Today at 01:58:14 PM

Dozens of pilot whales got stranded in Ólafsfjord in the north of Iceland a couple of hours ago. Search and rescue teams are assisting them back out to sea.

#49

Off the Record / Re: The Israel-Iran War ?

Last post by Zanza - Today at 01:50:20 PM

I still believe the Morgenthau plan would have been better. 

The Mitterrand plan with the Euro worked fabulously though!

#50

Off the Record / Re: Facebook Follies of Friend...

Last post by grumbler - Today at 01:39:58 PM

Gen X parents failing to facilitate their kids growing up.  At some point people are going to have to accept that blaming everything on Boomers just isn't credible any more.

The Gen X parents in that meme Syt posted must have had a tough life, aging beyond their years.

That is a drawing.  Taking a drawing literally is usually a mistake.  The average Boomer is 70.  Their kids are in their forties.