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- Thu Oct 04, 2018 12:12 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Confusing headlines
- Replies: 701
- Views: 551242
Re: Confusing headlines
From liberal-leaning news website Talking Points Memo: "Hundreds Of Teacher Candidates Shake Up Midterm Elections" https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/hundreds-teacher-candidates-shake-up-midterms For one moment, I thought that in addition to all the other weird offices that are directly el...
- Thu Oct 04, 2018 12:07 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: The New ZBB Quote Thread
- Replies: 317
- Views: 339229
Re: The New ZBB Quote Thread
(not that I'm much of a WSJ reader. We always have a copy in the breakroom at work, so I skim the headlines when waiting for my friends to finish making their elaborate pourover coffee. The Mansion section is the best bit because rich people spend their money in incredibly stupid ways; I enjoy read...
- Tue Oct 02, 2018 6:17 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Happy things thread!
- Replies: 1208
- Views: 715854
Re: Happy things thread!
It being October, the heating at my place has been turned on again.
- Mon Oct 01, 2018 11:13 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: British Politics Guide
- Replies: 1929
- Views: 1018177
Re: British Politics Guide
- polls suggest the Tories are now comfortably ahead of Labour again. To be fair, polls that are published now were probably taken before or early during the Tory Conference, but after the Labour Conference, which had its own share of chaos about supporting or not supporting a second Brexit referen...
- Fri Sep 28, 2018 10:58 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: British Politics Guide
- Replies: 1929
- Views: 1018177
- Fri Sep 28, 2018 8:26 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: British Politics Guide
- Replies: 1929
- Views: 1018177
Re: British Politics Guide
just in case some readers are wondering who this "Jacob Rees-Mogg" person, is I wouldn't have thought that was necessary - I thought JRM was one of the few politicians other than Treeza people outside the UK know about if only cause he's such an oddball. Most of what I know about Jacob Re...
- Wed Sep 26, 2018 8:28 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Confusing headlines
- Replies: 701
- Views: 551242
Re: Confusing headlines
From the Guardian : Air pollution fears fuel fight against new London cruise ship terminal https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/sep/26/air-pollution-fears-fuel-fight-against-huge-new-london-cruise-ship-terminal-river-thames So the air pollution in London has gotten so bad that it has actuall...
- Thu Sep 20, 2018 6:28 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Confusing headlines
- Replies: 701
- Views: 551242
Re: Confusing headlines
A tweet by the AFP news agency:
"Kim seeks second Trump summit 'at an early date': Moon"
Of course, in this context, "Moon" refers to the current President of South Korea. But for one moment I read this as Kim Jong Un proposing a summit with Trump on the Moon.
"Kim seeks second Trump summit 'at an early date': Moon"
Of course, in this context, "Moon" refers to the current President of South Korea. But for one moment I read this as Kim Jong Un proposing a summit with Trump on the Moon.
- Thu Sep 13, 2018 3:00 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Confusing headlines
- Replies: 701
- Views: 551242
- Thu Sep 13, 2018 1:01 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Confusing headlines
- Replies: 701
- Views: 551242
Re: Confusing headlines
NBC NEWS: "2020 Democratic hopefuls wage invisible primary for black voters" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/2020-democratic-hopefuls-wage-invisible-primary-black-voters-n909086 Pretty straightforward on its own, but the thing is, there are so many Democrats seemingly prepar...
- Wed Aug 22, 2018 10:55 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4676
- Views: 2058388
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
On a related note traditionally at the University of Cambridge you "read" your subject rather than "study" it (this usage is declining though as Cambridge assimilates to the majority of British universities linguistically). I always liked that usage; I'll be sorry to see it go. ...
- Sat Aug 18, 2018 9:32 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: What are you reading, watching and listening to? - All languages
- Replies: 997
- Views: 3638041
Re: What are you reading, watching and listening to? - All languages
Oh, I missed a Discworld discussion. Never mind, I'll just pretend it's still going on. So far, I've read Jingo , Night Watch , and the early books in order of publication from the start to Moving Pictures , after which I lost interest for some reason. I had fallen in love with the series when I gra...
- Tue Jul 31, 2018 8:39 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: British Politics Guide
- Replies: 1929
- Views: 1018177
Re: British Politics Guide
Thank you. Still less extreme than Sal's 83/14 ratio though. Perhaps he got his numbers from a more current source, which already shows the effects of the recent crisis?
- Tue Jul 31, 2018 8:36 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Elections in various countries
- Replies: 1096
- Views: 608359
Re: Elections in various countries
I'm not Israeli, but based on my observations of right-wing movements in various countries, I strongly suspect that it won't make a difference - or, if anything, that it will strengthen support for him and his party, by giving him even more opportunities to strike a pose as a right-wing martyr. Sigh.
- Tue Jul 31, 2018 7:15 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: British Politics Guide
- Replies: 1929
- Views: 1018177
Re: British Politics Guide
The amusing thing in this case is that Labour doesn't actually care about Jews - Being bigoted against people doesn't require seeing oneself as caring about them either way. they're an absolutely tiny share of the voting population anyway, and they all vote Tory anyway. [they don't, obviously. But ...
- Sun Jul 22, 2018 7:33 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: ZBB Census 2018
- Replies: 89
- Views: 129396
Re: ZBB Census 2018
Basics Username: Raphael Name: you can probably discover it with a bit of detective work Other nicknames (including good stories, if you have any): back when spinnwebe.com ran the AAA-1 Americaptions, I got three captions accepted as "street and rail", which I used because I was living in...