so the most consequential foreign policy negotiations this year have been led by a real-estate developer who is a golf buddy of the president and a real-estate developer who is his son-in-law? Just checking I've got that right.
Also 'it's 4pm and its dark until 9am tomorrow and your only source of light is a few reeds. what you doing?
Massive cultural phenomowotsit here in the early 90s, just reminding mutuals (via a Call of Cthulhu RPG ref) that we are now old.
at what point did you insert the 'family' caveat when writing that post.
your honour.
I am led to believe there is quite a suprising amount of fan art of a certain character in Zootopia.
it wasn't her maiden name!
Consider the number of times Bugs Bunny fooled humans in to thinking he was a sexy lady and compare with the number of times Droopy or Pluto managed to do the same and it’s undeniable
if only someone had had some thoughts on the work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction.
(and I had read it)
Every person in Britain and Ireland over 45 take 1d10 SAN point damage tyvm.
ah, the bad-vibes twink.
i remember the guy who guy fired for saying some of his products were total crap.
The Iran war should be a lesson for Keir Starmer's Government. If you take a clear line on an issue where the public agree with you then it's your opponents who end up having to back down, not you
wait, what is the underlying thing sparking this off btw? have missed it completely
lasted remarkably late of course - the famous Hessian mercenaries, and, erm, the Gurkhas.
The Iranian girls’ school was hit by a US tomahawk cruise missile. NPR has confirmed the footage.
(though this does not include Wagner as yet... )
but what I'm finding is that I can recommend stuff to them and they assess it on its own terms without thinking of it as 'dad music'
(they specifically asked for a CD player for Christmas and then asked for Tom Lehrer, the Mountain Goats, etc for their birthday as well as modern stuff)
I can't remember if I actually knowingly heard a Philip Glass filmscore before I picked up Glassworks on a whim having fallen into the Britannia Music Club trap as a student, but was certainly well primed in advance.
Judging by the 15 year old, they've certainly got v broad chronological taste.
I see the NY Met is having trouble on this
it is sad this is not real in this reality
yeah, that's fair - the modern professional army is arguably the a very good example of a Hegelian synthesis - keeping those virtues of the militia and also making sure you have a core of professional soldiers to make sure they know how to actually fight.
and Machiavelli's wider work is very much 'people's militias based on Republican Roman models are clearly better than hiring expensive mercenaries' which is very much contingent on Renaissance Italian politics and was also quite comprehensively disproved in his lifetime, sadly.
I'm pretty sure that piece is at least a decade old (can't quite track down), and is certainly at least 6 years old (given Topshop went bust) it is biologically possible that she is herself a grandma
ever looked at how much of Benelux Philip's army temporarily took over for a year or so when it mutinied? It's a lot.
<takes notes belatedly>
though can't help but think that all of the ribald folk songs would get on your wick after a bit "can't we sing something that is actually just about gathering in the harvest or spending companiable evenings by the fire?"
The Ones Who Walk Away from Summerisle.
this feels like jazz erasure
A lot of the elite became very online for the first time in the pandemic and it’s hit them like smallpox in the Americas
