Darth InSidious
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Fortunately, it's going to be some time before a robot can or will want to take my job. Unfortunately, that's because it is entirely surplus to requirements and I do something almost totally useless.
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Flann O'Brien - The Third Policeman. I'm about halfway through. I'm beginning to think it may be about a bicycle. I'm also in theory reading Carlyle's Sartor Resartus, but those mid-19th Century sentences which clog whole pages at a time were wearing me out.
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Which is also true of political parties in the first place. They've (re-)inflated a housing bubble, allowed most of our capital city to (continue to) be sold to Russian mobsters, and engendered the creation of a great number of zero-hours jobs. They've cut government services and failed to make savings from it. So no, not really. But no British government has done a good job since the War. We have property in London and when I visit the capital and stay there two things that most local people talk about are Property prices in London are very expensive and only foreigner
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Which is also true of political parties in the first place. They've (re-)inflated a housing bubble, allowed most of our capital city to (continue to) be sold to Russian mobsters, and engendered the creation of a great number of zero-hours jobs. They've cut government services and failed to make savings from it. So no, not really. But no British government has done a good job since the War.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaHMdDjNnZ8 Scarlatti (D.), "The Hunt".
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that senselessly and seductively stupid sack of hideously hirsute and olfactorily offensive oddments, forsoof. We're British. We've been convinced the country is going to the dogs since the Romans landed. The so-called Glorious Revolution? Still not on the scale you're talking of, I suppose. And I imagine you'd discount the Pilgrimage of Grace for being monumentally gullible. Still, I'm not sure it's a good thing that major sociopolitical changes have been imposed by a determined, highly-positioned clique rather than by a mass uprising.
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I'm just getting a loud buzzing noise in my left ear...
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Bruce Jenner "comes out" as female...
Darth InSidious replied to FaustianEchoes's topic in Way Off-Topic
And would he still be a man? I'm sure there's a pile of rotten planks around here somewhere... -
Socrates’ criticism of democracy (i.e why its BS)
Darth InSidious replied to Luj1's topic in Way Off-Topic
Google produces no results for OPs quotation, FWIW. However, if we're going to play with ancient proof-texts... -
Why does Obsidian have physical offices?
Darth InSidious replied to Malignacious's topic in Obsidian General
Actually get things done. That's what. -
Doomed to drunkenness?
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de Morales (c.1500-1533), Invitatorium (regem cui omnia vivunt), Officium Defunctorum.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pragmatics There are many different ways of greeting someone.
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Happiest Countries in the World proves Western Ideology Works
Darth InSidious replied to BruceVC's topic in Way Off-Topic
There is no such thing as "Western ideology", and your notion that "democracies work" is (i) implicitly tautological and (ii) dubious. -
Das Dreyblatt. W.F.E. Bach.
