Zompist Bboard Again

I'd have hoped we could all agree that genocide was a bad policy. [It's also very unlikely that the bengal famine was genocidal. It's true that the government in london failed to rush food to the region (across an ocean where shipping was being devastated by u-boat attacks) - instead, it was concent...

Hey, she didn't purposely withdraw aid to a famine ravished area that the UK is directly responsible for (Churchill and the Raj) You haven't been following the news. Priti Patel (the zionist minister sacked for carrying on secret private negotiations with the Israelis when international development...

So, my update this morning would have been: Theresa May rejects calls to delay vote. But this afternoon, my update is: Theresa May rejects calls to not delay vote. An hour is a long time in British politics (and yet two years seems to have been no time at all...) So what's changed? Well, May has sud...

If you are talking about his use of space near m-dashes, that's how Zompist likes to use them actually. You can find such usage of space as far back as the old version of the online LCK. That's how everyone uses em-dashes, unless they're a British literary publisher writing in 1920, or unless they ...

The text on the webpage is a little broken on the punctuation front. If you are talking about his use of space near m-dashes, that's how Zompist likes to use them actually. You can find such usage of space as far back as the old version of the online LCK. That's how everyone uses em-dashes, unless ...

Well, it may depend on what 'a similar body' is, and what it does. The Là (speakers of Rawàng Ata) would never accept a political confederacy with foreigners - other countries are govern by foreigners, and hence it would be absurd to confederate with them. However, they would generally agree with th...

Sort of election related: At the party convention of Germany's conservative CDU, Angela Merkel's handpicked successor, the rather dull and grey Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, was elected new party chairperson on the second ballot with 517 of 999 votes. Doesn't get much tighter than that. She narrowly ...

Raphael wrote: ↑Fri Dec 07, 2018 10:26 am I am sort of looking forward to international media people, politicians, etc. trying to pronounce "Kramp-Karrenbauer".

Is it not how it looks?

As an English speaker, my problem with with "Annegret"...

Veronica Mars season 4?!? Veronica Mars season 4!!! Or Veronica Mars season 5, if you include the film as season 4. Or Veronica Mars 2 season 1, possibly? Or just Veronica Mars season 1, I think it's currently listed as, only it's NuMars now. The New Adventures of Veronica Mars... Anyway, it's a fo...

So, the promised TV debate between May and Corbyn isn't happening after all. It always looked doomed, largely for scheduling reasons: May insisted that the government's priority was to ensure that the televised debate not clash with Strictly Come Dancing ; but Corbyn, while acknowledging the importa...

Meanwhile: I've been binge-re-watching the first season of Veronica Mars (since S4's coming out soon, with added JK Simmons and Patton Oswalt). It's... still really good. This is the third time I've watched it, and the second time I got a bit impatient in places, which I think was due to burnout wit...

It's Beowulf .... I recognize the first line... and I like the way it looks in this language,.... I've always liked macrons in particular. The downside of translating Beowulf is that then you realise you've ended up with a dozen different words that basically translate as 'fame' or 'glory' or 'hono...

(Also, so far we have four people in this thread - Zju, chriss_notts, alice and me - who have each made their own SCA. Is there some sort of list of all SCAs currently in existence? It would be really interesting to compare them all!) Alas, the list of all SCAs that have been created is longer than...

alynnidalar wrote: ↑Wed Dec 05, 2018 12:08 pm

Salmoneus wrote: ↑Wed Dec 05, 2018 9:45 am[a lot of things about George Villiers]

Did he also rule North Korea??

No, but he did discover Korea!

[N.B. he did not actually discover Korea.]

I appear to have started And Quiet Flows the Don as well... Maybe I should make that my Big Russian Novel of the Winter? I bought a copy to read along with a friend but we broke up before that could happen. Well, any novel that can by itself win its (supposed) author a Nobel Prize must be of some i...

You can certainly look at it as a populist vs. technocrat dispute! The tactics are interesting to watch. Macron and LREM, right now, are trying to bring back scared sheeps back into the fold by playing the 'reasonable people vs. populists' angle for all it's worth. I'm not sure that'll work. I susp...

To an outsider, Macron vs the protesters looks a lot like a classic liberal technocrats vs populists dispute. Which explains both why Macron campaigned with relatively little reference to left/right ideology, and why the protesters are incoherent in their left/right policies - populism appeals to bo...

I'm still trundling through Commynes, but now I appear to have started And Quiet Flows the Don as well...

Consequently, the present Christchurch seat contains one of the most elderly electorates in the country – only Eastbourne and Devon East have an older average voter age and Christchurch has the highest proportion of over-60s of all UK seats. Although, interestingly, Eastbourne is a Lib Dem seat. Ch...

Well, it's just happened... 311 to 293. Turns out I was wrong, though: it's actually been sent to the Privileges Committee, rather than the Procedures Committee. This is a smaller committee - 3 tory, 3 labour, 1 SNP (although it too, coincidentally, contains Sir Christopher Chope). They'll decide w...