Zompist Bboard Again

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...

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

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...

Oh shit.

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

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?

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

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.

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...

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...

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.

[ God, I wish! It's interesting in the worst way. (One of the big US political stories yesterday was how Republican state representatives in North Carolina waited until their Democratic counterparts were at a 9/11 observance to hold a surprise vote in order to force through a state budget that the ...

Thank you, Salmoneus. ------------------------------------------------------------ Just got off the phone with my local bookstore. A lot of the books I order there are English-language, and perhaps some of those get ordered from abroad, so after I placed the order for the next book I plan to buy, I ...

And, the map Pabappa posted shows itself that first, the Pope drew a line, and then, the Spanish and Portuguese governments moved that line.

If this stands, would that mean that Parliament is prorogued in England and not prorogued in Scotland?

dhok wrote: ↑Wed Sep 11, 2019 7:40 am imagine not having judicial review

What's currently happening IS judicial review.

Question: most people who aren't Leavers seem to agree that a no-deal Brexit would have all kinds of bad consequences, but - how long would it probably take until those bad consequences would kick in? Sure, some of the bad consequences have almost certainly already kicked in - the British economy is...

Ok, I'm in!

I just had a completely absurd idea about something Boris Johnson might do to get around the no-hard-Brexit law. I am, however, worried about posting it here - I worry that if I post it here, some Leaver might read it and pass it on to someone else, and eventually it might reach Johnson's desk, and...

And the latest Government motion for an early election failed to get the necessary votes.

I just had a completely absurd idea about something Boris Johnson might do to get around the no-hard-Brexit law. I am, however, worried about posting it here - I worry that if I post it here, some Leaver might read it and pass it on to someone else, and eventually it might reach Johnson's desk, and ...