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Forum Games - The Beer Cellar! / Re: Word Association
« on: May 01, 2024, 05:48:37 PM »
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Exilian Articles / Re: Beyond the Wall – Part Two
« on: April 30, 2024, 01:23:23 PM »I'd like to add that in writing this, I realised I was overcoming a third "wall": the gulf between what my trip was actually like and how my friends at home perceived it. I think that's why I included bits like my FOMO at the hostel in San Cristóbal and the embarrassing incident in León.Mm, that's an interesting thought. I wonder if that's something that's especially great for countries like Mexico where there are fairly heavy stereotypes coming through US media, whereas if one went to, I dunno, Uruguay maybe there would be less of a sense of expectation among people in Europe about what it's like there?
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Forum Games - The Beer Cellar! / Re: Riddles in the Dark of Exilian
« on: April 30, 2024, 01:19:08 PM »5
History, Science, and Interesting Information - The Great Library / Re: The Great Plate Debate
« on: April 30, 2024, 01:08:54 PM »
Yes, a 340 boiling points sounds like it'd make rather a lot of difference! That makes sense, thanks both.
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Poetry and Artistic Writing / Re: Jubal's poems
« on: April 30, 2024, 01:01:09 PM »
If in your eyes there are sea-monsters
Upon the shirt, blue-lined like porcelain,
Were designs of a nautical form,
Ships of bygone age and docks for them to moor at,
And somewhere there
Framed between the waves of cardigan blue
The tentacles of some colossal beast emerge from the waters
And I wonder, as you look half-smiling out the window
Drinking the city in, inviting the storm and whirlpools,
Looking up from these tram-line depths to where the details of the buildings hang like figureheads above -
I wonder
If in your eyes there are sea-monsters
Where foam and spray dance
Like stray hairs and the lightness of a step,
The endless rocky moons and winds of life pull you from side to side
So there must be something, there, anchoring the glimmer of a smile
And seeking with curious intensity the ships that crest the sky
And under the wine-dark ocean, impermeable
I wonder if I have seen just the hint
Beneath calm and storm alike
Of leviathan
As the world silently slips unmoored into your path
And you alight with a foam-spray footstep
And the waves close around you once more.
Upon the shirt, blue-lined like porcelain,
Were designs of a nautical form,
Ships of bygone age and docks for them to moor at,
And somewhere there
Framed between the waves of cardigan blue
The tentacles of some colossal beast emerge from the waters
And I wonder, as you look half-smiling out the window
Drinking the city in, inviting the storm and whirlpools,
Looking up from these tram-line depths to where the details of the buildings hang like figureheads above -
I wonder
If in your eyes there are sea-monsters
Where foam and spray dance
Like stray hairs and the lightness of a step,
The endless rocky moons and winds of life pull you from side to side
So there must be something, there, anchoring the glimmer of a smile
And seeking with curious intensity the ships that crest the sky
And under the wine-dark ocean, impermeable
I wonder if I have seen just the hint
Beneath calm and storm alike
Of leviathan
As the world silently slips unmoored into your path
And you alight with a foam-spray footstep
And the waves close around you once more.
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Discussion and Debate - The Philosopher's Plaza / Re: UK Politics 2024
« on: April 29, 2024, 07:58:43 PM »
I guess it depends considerably on whether the Scottish Greens think they can repair the fence with the right new FM, and whether they think they can do well out of an election. One thing Tuco pointed out to me earlier about this is that retaining an FM requires 50% but electing a new one requires 50%+1 (because the speaker votes with the status quo). So one thing Yousaf going has done is remove any chance of Alba having leverage or affecting things: Ash Regan's single vote is now irrelevant.
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Forum Games - The Beer Cellar! / Re: Word Association
« on: April 29, 2024, 10:25:19 AM »
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Discussion and Debate - The Philosopher's Plaza / Re: UK Politics 2024
« on: April 28, 2024, 05:47:45 PM »
I think that's a general thing with a lot of countries in Europe, though the UK is an especially stark example: on an individual basis, they're just flat wealthier than most other places and have better functioning economies. You need a certain amount of money before you can really care about the sense of national lethargy, crumbling public services, etc, because a bad NHS and weak pay is better than being in (insert country here) with death squads after you and/or nothing to eat. And the UK has a big advantage for many migrants because it's English-speaking, and there aren't really many better options for people as a result.
I think it may be of not here that of people who do have elsewhere to go, some people actually do think better of the UK as an option: there've been occasional news articles like this one over the last year or so of Ukrainian refugees considering, attempting or deciding to move back, or returning to Ukraine for medical or dental care, for example.
I think it may be of not here that of people who do have elsewhere to go, some people actually do think better of the UK as an option: there've been occasional news articles like this one over the last year or so of Ukrainian refugees considering, attempting or deciding to move back, or returning to Ukraine for medical or dental care, for example.
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Discussion and Debate - The Philosopher's Plaza / Re: UK Politics 2024
« on: April 27, 2024, 10:43:20 PM »
It now looks like Scotland could have an election sooner than the General Election, after the Scots Green/SNP coalition has exploded. The Greens and the right wing of the SNP were both pretty unhappy with the arrangement, and Humza Yousaf (who's more from the SNP's centre-left wing) decided to nuke the coalition himself rather than let the Greens potentially do it over the government failing to meet environmental targets. He doesn't however have any other options, as Alba (with their one MSP, a defector from the SNP) have produced such outrageous demands for propping him up that he's presumably going to have to refuse them.
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Food Discussion - The Jolly Boar Kitchen / Re: What have you been eating?
« on: April 27, 2024, 08:26:16 PM »
Ooh that's pretty! Is it a leavened dough, or more sweet-flatbread-y?
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Forum Games - The Beer Cellar! / Re: Word Association
« on: April 26, 2024, 04:42:15 PM »
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