Darth InSidious
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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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Smug... back-scratching and wallowing in shabby consensus
Which is also true of political parties in the first place.
So Conservatives will govern again, do they need a coalition partner?
Its not a bad result, from an outsiders perspective this doesn't seem like a bad outcome. They have done a good job overall, the UK economy has recovered for example?
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 foreigners can afford them
- There are many Arabs and Russians who are now effectively buying up London
My argument to this would be
- The market determines the price of a particular property based on numerous factors like location. Is it the governments fault that a flat is that expensive in Chelsea?
- Its a global world, can you really prevent wealthy people from other countries from investing in areas like property? How would you reasonably prevent this?
Yes. It is the fault of numerous post-war governments deciding to cancel government house-building plans, while maintaining the stringent planning regulations put in place by the Attlee government, which were supposed to be offset by... government house-building. The government is very much to blame for the housing bubble. International capital was attracted to the property market in London because (a) prices were already relatively high, and (b) London is a city for **** .
As for it being a global world, yes, you can reasonably prevent the kind of tax-dodging going on with, oh, One Hyde Park, by ending the non-dom rule, introducing taxes of the variety mentioned by Monte, you could introduce regulations requiring property bought to be either lived in or rented out... the point of legislation is precisely to 'redress grievances'.
May be those are different people.The housing market is a perfect example of point one, post one. The British public are cretins.
Two fundamental issues they want resolved:
- They want to be able to buy and rent more affordably
- They don't want their houses to lose value
THESE ARE MUTUALLY ****ING EXCLUSIVE IN THE ONE MARKET.
Sadly not.
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Smug... back-scratching and wallowing in shabby consensus
Which is also true of political parties in the first place.
So Conservatives will govern again, do they need a coalition partner?
Its not a bad result, from an outsiders perspective this doesn't seem like a bad outcome. They have done a good job overall, the UK economy has recovered for example?
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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Like Monte I'm contemptuous of the choices on offer.
Perhaps like Monte I'm tempted to vote for the biggest ****hole because this is emphatically what the British public deserve for even pausing to listen to that sack of hairy oddments, Whosit Brand.
that senselessly and seductively stupid sack of hideously hirsute and olfactorily offensive oddments, forsoof.
But why so depressing, you can't put a more positive spin on things? It can't be all bad...because thats what I get from your post
We're British. We've been convinced the country is going to the dogs since the Romans landed.
The Civil War doesn't count, it really doesn't. The general consensus amongst historians, and what I am implicitly referring to, is that Britain has never had a popular grass-roots revolution of the 1848 / Napoleonic coup / Hitler / Franco / Mussolini / Stalin variety.
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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Query: if a man were born without hands, and wanted hands is that body dismorphia?
And would he still be a man?
I'm sure there's a pile of rotten planks around here somewhere...
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Google produces no results for OPs quotation, FWIW.
However, if we're going to play with ancient proof-texts...
As the roaring of a lion, so also is the dread of a king: he that provoketh him, sinneth against his own soul. -
Actually get things done. That's what.
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My take. The publicans control everything. We're all doomed.
Doomed to drunkenness?
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de Morales (c.1500-1533), Invitatorium (regem cui omnia vivunt), Officium Defunctorum.
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There is no such thing as "Western ideology", and your notion that "democracies work" is (i) implicitly tautological and (ii) dubious.
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Das Dreyblatt. W.F.E. Bach.
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Yiannopopoulous would not be fit to judge a dog on ethics, I'm sorry to say. He published the e-mails but that doesn't mean he isn't a biased journalist himself. The only reason he hitched his name to GG is to get publicity. Nobody cared who he was before this and his earlier views on Gamers aren't exactly kosher.
Bain and Kain, Ombudsmen Extraordinaire would be awesome, however, since they have proven to be men of outstanding integrity and intelligence.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/jul/08/milo-yiannopoulos-kernel-technology-interview
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/mar/01/the-kernel
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/mar/05/kernel-close-debts-unpaid-sentinel-media
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Oh for heavens sake, journalistic ethics are not optional if one wishes to call themselves a journalist, if you wish to be a blogger fine, I and I assume gamergate will not hold you to the higher ideals that journalistic integrity demands. Until such time as you declare you're a blogger, I will.
As I said earlier this is the result, for me at least, of years of journalistic practises that are unfit for purpose, it is not just about this single incident, this was the spark for years of frustration with game journalism and its corruption.
I really shouldn't have to be having to explain this so many times. I'm off to play with my little ones, goodnight.
But in the first place journalistic ethics don't exist, and the very term borders on self-contradiction, and in the second place, gaming "journalists" are just glorified advertisers.
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I really think we need to stop talking about gaming "journalists". They're not journalists. They're advert copywriters. Gaming media outlets are glorified advertising, and alwasy have been. Thus there is no conflict of interest, and no requirement for them to be neutral or to declare interests. (Of course, they never were anything but in the pocket of devs and pubishers, and the idea of journalistic ethics is in large part an impolite fiction anyway.)
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KoTOR 2 has greatly influenced how I live my life. It shouldn't be mocked.
For example, I've used "That starship won't fly" and "up her boarding ramp" as actual real life euphemisms.
[influence: Success]
I'll try to be as clear as possible:
1. There is NOTHING wrong about ranting about games
2. Making a new topic for every single rant DOES NOT MAKE ANY SENSE
As I said before, imagine if every single random news from the Random Video Game News topic would be pulled out from there and slapped on the main page as single topics, would that make any sense to you?. This and the rest of joke rant topics are a cry for help. We simply wish to keep the forum tidy. This is an awesome forum and I don't want it to turn into a dump.
That's exactly what I thought you said earlier, so I did get it
But that has nothing to do with this being a joke "rant" and that is what I was explaining to Qistina, she mustn't think this is a legitimate rant.
You mean this is not real?
Not entirely sure why you assumed she didn't get that.
Is it because she is a woman? Are you a sexist Bruce?
that's cheeky and you know itI assumed she wouldn't get it because somethings are lost in translation and English isn't her first language. She also seemed to be asking a real question. But I may be wrong, maybe she can confirm ?
It was a real question, but now i get it, thanks
But in anyway, generally i don't really understand what KotOR 2 is about
i. Kreia want to train Exile to become powerful like Revan
ii. Kreia to destroy the galaxy by destroying the Force and she hate the Force
How these two mix?
What exactly Kreia want? She sacrifice her hands for the Exile, in the end she want to destroy everything?
It's about betrayal.
And what can change the nature of a man, of course.
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Probably because it isn't true. Unless it's defined as all the most exepensive real estate down town or some such technicality, and greater New York is what we think of as New York.
The first two pages of Google search results disagrees with you.
"Lots of people believe it, so it must be true"?
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Remember kids, your only choice is between total deregulation and Soviet command economics. There are no other options. Capitalism as it is today was like totally in use everywhere for all of history until Marxism came along.
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Giving Thragon Age 1 another go. It isn't as terrible as I remember, but the sheer amount of grind is mind-numbing. The defence of Redcliff defeated me last time, and I'm beginning to run out patience with it this time, as well.
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1. A tailored black suit
Plain black/blue suits are for spivs.2. Black dress shoes
This is something worth remarking upon?
3. Brown dress shoes
Most men's 'brown' shoes are in fact orange. Orange shoes are for spivs.
4. Stocks
I am not sinking my money into something I do not understand and will therefore net me no use, profit, enjoyment or good.
5. A tool kit
I am not a mechanic.
6. A nice walletI have one. I use it as my wallet, imaginitively enough.
7. Cologne, NOT BODY SPRAY
You too can smell like the sort of arse who wanders around choking everyone else on his affectations of 'manliness'. Literally.
8. A watch
I have a phone for that, and can only read analogue watch-faces with difficulty.
9. A proper bed with proper bedding
Again, this is something exceptional to possess in what way?
10. A flashlight
Got it, never use it, and usually forget I own it.
11. Duct tape
I have no use for it, so no.
12. A weekend bagIf I am going on the sort of weekend that involves packing, I'll take a suitcase.
13. Proper glassware
I have precisely as much glassware as I need, and no more. If you want a ****tail, go and sit in a hotel foyer, and think about your mistakes in life.
14. Grooming kitI'm a man, not a poodle. Of course I don't own a ****ing grooming kit.
15. Double-hinged wine key
I'm not a waiter.
16. Multiple towels
Again, this has to be put here? As for spa towels, do I look like I run a ****ing spa?
17. A chef’s knife
For my regular masterclass on daytime TV? P*** off.
18. A passportWas this list written for effeminate troglodytes?
19. A flask
Presumably to hold the spirits I don't drink.
20. Sewing kit
Don't have one of these, though I probably should have something, I admit.
21. An umbrella
I already own a coat.
22. Buy an ironing board, and an iron.
If you own a suit and not an iron/ironing board... good luck with that.
23. Jumper cablesFor the car I don't own? Presumably I should keep them in case my guests get so bored of my incessant swanking they need to top themselves conveniently.
24. Undershirts
No, I don't own any.
25. Playing cards
Yes, I own a pack. This does not make me a seasoned mark of Monte Carlo's casino-owners.
26. A lint roller
Bought for a pound at the dry cleaner's. As yet unused.
27. A leatherman
No. I don't need to feel big by pulling out a glorified pen-knife in the street so I can nick myself in public.
28. Sunglasses
I have an old, scratched pair, yes. I bought them cheaply and I see no reason to replace them just yet.
29. A record player
I don't have one, but if I ever get one, I can keep it next to the jumper cables, and other junk of no use or value to me.
30. Football/soccer ball/basketball, etc.Yes, I'll keep materials relating to a subject of less than zero interest to me. Presumably this is "manly".
31. AFrench presscafetiereI use it to make myself coffee in the morning.
32. Good socks
I despair.
33. Good underwear
No, I buy deliberately cheap and badly made underwear. It's part of my charmlesss attempt at quirkiness. Like the record-player and the jump cables.
34. A cast-iron skillet
Since my cooking is limited at best, no.
35. Multiple sheet sets
If you don't change your sheets regularly by thirty, you need to rethink some things.
36. A bar set
Extra washing up andor useless clutter. Just what I need.
37. Matching dishesMy crockery is entirely plain, but theoretically yes.
38. A decent car
Since I don't drive, I can gaze lovingly at it, or maybe keep the record-player, jump cables, bar set and other useless rubbish in it.
39. A solid book collection
I possess a large number of books. Some I have read, some I intend to read, and some I use for reference purposes. If you think books are for impressing people, you should try opening one.
40. A decent bottle of booze
Since I scarcely drink, and mainly drink wine when I do, I have no interest in shelling out for one. If the American president comes 'round I'll tell him to **** off. I see and hear altogether too much about him as it is.-
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that's cheeky and you know it
"Robits takin' 'er jerbs."
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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.