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Which language would a lazy Martian linguist learn?
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3 days ago
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"I watched this program and found it really interesting. I thought the guy was highlighting an important problem, and couldn't see how there could be nearly a million properties abandoned in the UK (there are only sixty million people in the UK, so..." [
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Last month
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"Pastabagel's oil explanation was interesting but doesn't sit quite right with me. Incidentally, I'm amazed we've got this far in the discussion without mentioning the Baku-Tblisi-Ceyhan Pipeline - the key to oil politics in the region.
I read..." [
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Last month
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"But what about on the Georgian side? Is the emphasis on the breakaway regions some sort of attempt by the Georgian government to stoke nationalist feelings domestically and to maintain popular support for anti-Russian politicians? Did they just..." [
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Last month
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Whither can I find such sweet drops of harmony as these?
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2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"This is a brilliant way of visualising a billion dollars. Just think, instead of the Iraq war we could have ordered 3000 of these,
(Insanely, that would probably have been the better decision)..." [
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3 months ago
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I crave age.
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4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I have to say I love this approach. These classes are hard, rise to the challenge! Like He-Man! As someone who always took the easy humanities way out, and who after graduation became really interested in maths and foreign languages, I wish I'd seen..." [
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4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Tecktonik is indeed everywhere in France, it's in no way cool though. It perhaps used to be cool half a decade ago, but now the mainstream is finally catching on in a slightly take the piss way. An anecdote to demonstrate: one of my friends who's..." [
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4 months ago
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"Hang on...what am I doing?!"
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5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"At a certain point, he decided to open the doors. He pried them apart and held them open with his foot. He was presented with a cinder-block wall on which, perfectly centered, were scrawled three “13”s—one in chalk, one in red paint, one in black...." [
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5 months ago
Ask post:
What Would History Have Done?
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5 months ago
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"'frieleux' is a lovely French adjective that means 'sensitive to the cold'.
(Great thread by the way.)" [
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7 months ago
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"I feel really sorry for all my friends who left uni last year and went to work in the city, they're so getting laid off. They'll be Bernards and Giles weeping bitter tears on the streets of London tonight...." [
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8 months ago
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"Welcome to the future: poor people suffer and die in their millions, rich people barely notice, humanity keeps plodding on.
It is very similar to the past...." [
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8 months ago
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"You're not supposed to enjoy it!
Seriously, you think all those physics graduates are just tickled pink by fluid mechanics? Reading for enjoyment and reading for academic study are distinctly different things. This is something I failed to..." [
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9 months ago
