Zompist Bboard Again

Raphael

Salmoneus wrote: ↑Sun Sep 22, 2019 4:55 pmand if they really do just adopt a "no democracy here" platform

What, exactly, do you mean by that?

Raphael

Can the current situation as far as the House of Commons and the Government are concerned, with the current House of Commons and the current Government being what they are, really go on until 2022?

Raphael

He's sexually attracted to sentient beings? Um, it would be pretty bad if he was sexually attracted to non-sentient beings, right? The point (well, LB's point, Travis' point is, as always, about newfangled young people their newfangled ideas taking the world to hell in a handbasket) is the syntacti...

Raphael

He's sexually attracted to sentient beings? Um, it would be pretty bad if he was sexually attracted to non-sentient beings, right? At least he's not objectumsexual ! Of course, I've never heard of anyone who's described themselves as that, even though it certainly exists, with the existence of sex ...

Raphael

He's sexually attracted to sentient beings? Um, it would be pretty bad if he was sexually attracted to non-sentient beings, right?

Raphael

zompist wrote: ↑Sat Sep 21, 2019 5:29 am Some of the stuff about education (and voting) comes from the fact that people of all political opinions tend to believe their opponents are uninformed. After all, if people were well informed, they'd have our opinions!

Raphael

I do not have any details, not knowing much about Canada in general, but the Green voting intention is rising in Canada, as in Germany, Austria, France, Ireland, Norway, Finland, Switzerland, Scotland and England, and it's likely that NDP voters are often the ones switching to Green. This only acco...

Raphael

Not really confusing, but I misread it at first... BBC News: Thomas Cook told extra funds needed to seal rescue It took me a moment to parse this correctly - at first I thought "Why is a travel agency involved in rescuing endangered species? Are they doing this thing where big corporations take...

Raphael

Doesn't sound unusual at all to me.

Raphael

So I'm not sure where the Contradictory Feelings are here. Have you previously expressed some sort of antipathy to Leeds? See vampireshark's posts here from August 26th and August 27th: So, there's a position that looks like it'd be cool to apply for. It'd be a one-year postdoc position at the Univ...

Raphael

Oh, and Spain will get the fourth election in four years.

Raphael

I'm frankly a bit annoyed that no one I follow on the internet except for Vijay seems to be talking about this. Sure, there are a lot of other interesting things happening in the world right now, but none of them, not even the tense situation between the USA, Iran, and Saudi Arabia, look quite as im...

Raphael

Oh shit.

Raphael

Sorry for the delay, I had a few days when I wasn't really up to it. Will get straight to it.

Raphael

Vijay wrote: ↑Sun Sep 15, 2019 6:24 pm Modi's supporters are calling for war with Pakistan.

Is that standard background noise, or something more serious than that?

Raphael

Weird to see someone with your avatar complaining about loud music!

Raphael

Vijay wrote: ↑Fri Sep 13, 2019 3:16 pm There's no video available online?

I've already done some searching in the C-SPAN archives (the senate.gov video archives don't go that far back), but so far I haven't found her.

Raphael

North American English accents question: Long ago - to be precise, during the debates about passing Barack Obama's healthcare reform - I once watched the going-ons in the US Senate, and there was one reading clerk, who was tasked with calling the names of the Senators asking them to vote, who had a...

Raphael

North American English accents question: Long ago - to be precise, during the debates about passing Barack Obama's healthcare reform - I once watched the going-ons in the US Senate, and there was one reading clerk, who was tasked with calling the names of the Senators asking them to vote, who had an...

Raphael

I can tell a posh British accent from a non-posh British accent, but I can't really tell the different regional non-posh accents from each other.

Zompist Bboard Again

Search found 4477 matches

Re: British Politics Guide

Re: British Politics Guide

Re: Confusing headlines

Re: Confusing headlines

Re: Confusing headlines

Re: The New ZBB Quote Thread

Re: Elections in various countries

Re: Confusing headlines

Re: Innovative Usage Thread

Re: The Contradictory Feelings Thread

Re: Elections in various countries

Re: Elections in various countries

Re: Elections in various countries

Re: Language Telephone

Re: Elections in various countries

Re: Happy things thread!

Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread

Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread

Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread

Re: British Politics Guide