Zompist Bboard Again

Oh, and today is the 200th anniversary of the Peterloo Massacre.

Rank attaches to their assignment rather than to the individual themself? You can combine this with regular rank systems: a temporary promotion for a mission or brevet ranks The US used the latter a lot in the Civil War. Many people thought of as Civil War generals were not actually generals in the...

MacAnDàil wrote: ↑Thu Aug 08, 2019 10:12 am The scenario you propose seems to have some similarities with Andorra, where the French president and Spanish king are co-princes. But significantly larger and with significantly more issues.

I think it's the French president and some nearby Spanish bishop.

I tend to have my doubts about nationalism, and in other times would have doubted how an independent Scotland run by the SNP would be better than a United Kingdom governed by Labour, but in these times it seems like Scotland is best off separate from England - and Northern Ireland is best off part ...

However, annoyingly I can't right now find any evidence for this account. I'm sure I've seen old diamonds for other parties, but I can't find any right now. [unfortunately, search terms like party names, 'election', 'campaign', 'diamond', 'sign' and 'lozenge', 'history' are all way too common to gi...

After the Lib Dems won a by-election in a seat previously held by the Tories, the Government's majority now apparently stands at 1 (one). Now, don't get me wrong, if I was English, I'd probably support the Lib Dems right now, although I have my disagreements with them, because with the other two mai...

Dutch and English are the Germanic languages that loan most from Latin and Romance languages. These territories are the Germanic-speaking ones that were under Roman rule. For Dutch, I think it's more salient that much of the present territory was under Spanish rule until 1581 and the rest was only ...

So Tuesday - either today or yesterday, depending on your timezone - was the big day: my Mom "officially" handed over the keys to my family's weekend hut to the new owner. The hut had been in our family since, I think, the 1970s, but recently, it had been nothing but trouble for us: we had...

Thank you, Vijay.

Thank you, Sal, that's a fairly useful distinction. You are certainly, noticeably, a lot more... confident... here than you used to be. You mean, here? I'm not at all sure about that. When it comes to the specific context of expressing opinions I feel strongly about , I think I've always been fairly...

I've apparently become a good deal more confident than I used to be over the course of the last few years. This is a bit weird, because, if you look at how my life is going, and how it generally has gone so far, I don't really have all that much to be confident about. I guess what happened is simply...

I'm a bit unclear on the rules concerning disolutions of Parliament since fixed terms were introduced. Is it theoretically possible that there might be a successful VONC, but still no majority for new elections? No. The Fixed Term Parliaments Act means that if a VONC is passed, there is a short per...

I'm a bit unclear on the rules concerning disolutions of Parliament since fixed terms were introduced. Is it theoretically possible that there might be a successful VONC, but still no majority for new elections?

I dreamed that I was in Geneva for some kind of climate-related thing.

KathTheDragon wrote: ↑Thu Jul 25, 2019 8:02 am Good news: it's hot.
Bad news: it's really hot.

Experiencing two heat waves with a few weeks of cool and wet weather in between is a nice way to drive home the truth that the grass is always greener on the other side.

Ah, thank you!

How does someone end up with a name like "de Pfeffel", anyway? It's as if someone was named "von Richelieu" or "MacHigginbottom".

Yeah, for much of Western Europe, Poland is basically the closest country with a significantly lower standard of living, with all that this implies.

Boris has just won with two-thirds of the vote. Boris will now go on to unite the Conservative Party and the country, deliver Brexit on the 31th of October, and Make Britain Great Again.Won't he? Condolences. You forgot to mention the Really Great Deal he'll get from the EU, much much much better t...

For the record, Swinson has, now, in fact, won. Given some of Swinson's previous policy positions, that means that we have the following amazing choice between the top four parties: Pro-hard Brexit Tories under Boris Pro-hard Brexit proto-fascists under Nigel Anti-Brexit yellow Tories under Jo A La...