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Very enticing. I'll take two!
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We wanted to stay in Montparnasse for a fee days and them walk over to the station (Hugo !!!!), take the TGV down to Bordeaux and stay there too before flying home direct! Only €59 for a spotless, quiet, relaxing trip. And first class! Love yourselves my French stars. So much you do well♡☆
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"Intensive purposes" for a start. I started a modest selection hereL bibliocrat.com/dubious-apho...
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We're not. Silence?
Like Clinton and the bond market, we're intimidated out of Leveson 2 by the ugly right media and by the pathetically moany "left-wingers" hogging the Guardian comment pages with tone-deaf attacks on Labour even before the election. Sudden silence was glorious, golden even!
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To continue what the bigger one is saying: Fuck off. They have demands. Educate yourself little fucker. I learned more on a 6 month placement on my mom's trading floor than I did in all my schooling. They want me to give them money. For them to give to you. Communism, of course.
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Yes.
The key Stoic word in there?
Correct: "accepts"
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Never did the British aristocracy any harm.
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Always a nice touch. Las Meninas by Velazquez is the ultimate expression.
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No, this is about another deliberately horrible policy thrown to us kids while he works more quietly on real evil. Family not involved should be left alone.
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I heard of the original argument but and support her 100% in saying what she allegedly said to people expressing hate for her. What do they expect, a "thank you"?
And that original argument is about musical genre? 1st world Problem. Get a life folks? Beyonce can aim for success wherever she wishes.
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The post-snap behaviour? A hyper midlife crisis. I am so powerful, why shouldn't I have a new woman? As for these "successful people", I challenge the premise briefly at bibliocrat.com/2024/10/10/t... Really successful people change the world for the good of all. Being rich is not the criterion
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Yes. And religion has zero claims to morality now. Think Religious Wars, God always on your side, the appalling treatment of children in their care, failures ad nauseam now, the strange flagellation cults like the one which has finally taken down Justin Welby.
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[Voice-over] Goodness! They survive in the wild. We must leave them there, in Circle 8.5, symbolising the empty cycle of life itself. We return, slimed, to sentences with meaning. A lawyer tells the court in a fraud case: "individual words in this transaction have meaning but together have none".
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Monty Python lives on!!
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Management Council as it Germany are a starting point,
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True but there is no escaping the overwhelming progress in, eg, health technology. Even the great John Gray, famous for debunking meliorism, excepted tech from his analysis. Sadly, all industries have problems with fraud. Sheer scale makes control close to impossible: bibliocrat.com/2024/03/25/c...
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Yes. And if you don't read fairly widely, you are unlikely to get interested - unless Hollywood takes you there(-ish) first! And if you do read good stuff Homer is everywhere.
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You should send it back. It's not supposed to be full of s..t. Have you upset the guy at the shop?
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In hospital for about 2 months of the last four, I guess 5% of doctors read fiction. Nurses are better, often asking about books I had. No mention of the Odyssey. One doctor asked about Montaigne after I had answered a question on religion by briefly touching on him, Epicurus, Epictetus and the rest
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And there standeth a man who
Needs a good ignoring.
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Excellent. Greetings from the UK where Oncology has saved me for 6 years after diagnosis: with long operations, three types of chemotherapy, regular consultations with specialist nurses and consultants where relevant (Gastro, Medical, etc). Creating the NHS was a great humanitarian act. Tax me!
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Aye, aye, can't. Lost me right eye at Trafalgar, where I decided it was time for some serious sleeping.
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To Dr Fauci
Happy birthday and for saving the world!
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Very Clockwork Orange!
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Billy says: "Stop behavin' like a bunch of bad tempered teenagers. So I misread it. It looked like Kansas City to me. Who watches films from Kazakhstan anyway? Cheer up."
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"FFS Billy. We told you we didn't want our pictures taken. Put Dad's new camera down now!"
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Yeah. It's her fault. You'll agree with me when you hear
that it was she who wanted to brush me off and suggested I run for President, because there is so much travelling involved.
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Interesting. What's the evidence that the alleged killer took this well argued position to heart? A posting? The US Constitution is unfit for purpose but it does give Congress the law-making power, so it can legalise killing those we disagree with. Circular firing squad in Congress! Duck!
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Fascinating. I didn't know that.
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I agree with you right up until the assertion that we need more killers. Quite enough of those from terrorists to school massacre merchants all the way up to those who rule countries by killing. I agree too on oligarchies: a deep curse on any country.
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In which case you work through democratic processes to get it fixed. Pressure groups have had great success in the last few decades, to good or ill. But the law is right on murder.
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It is when it comes to murder.
Whoever did, good to see they bravely shot a man in the back.
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Killing soldiers in war is lawful. Shooting an unarmed person on the street is not. There are laws of war and there are laws applicable on the street. Both try to prevent unjustified killing, with varying degrees of unsuccess. War is a mess. In society generally, law must prevent mass breakdown.
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Wow. That is true art. Great to look at and take ten seconds to understand AND then realise that it illuminates a very very serious matter of life or death.
Congratulations. This should be spread out as widely as possible.
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Only one answer: personal liability for top people. Insurance company refusals are a hot issue, especially in Health. Claimants are financially outgunned. A significant risk of prison & very big fines for improper refusal would be a start. Underpin that with a well financed, investigative regulator.
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The main achievement of the Right in the UK? The Centre-Left is now firmly in power. The Right remains (ha!) a serious threat but compared to the battles being fought by our friends in France, Germany and Spain we are relatively strong. The UK has a "far right" problem but it is not surging. Yet.
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If you're Gene Wilder it's FRONKENSTEEN
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And in his biopic, he crushed the ladies, yet they sang:
AH, SWEET MYSTERY OF LIFE AT LAST I'VE FOUND YOU...
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Everyone! Read Fiona Hill et al:"Putin: Operative in the Kremlin". It readied me for what is happening. In Brexit I urged my MP to read it because the overall aims of Putin were laid bare. I announced that Trump used Putin's Playbook until I read the Greeks. Nothing is new except eelectronic scale.
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Good to see a Lucretius fan out there still...
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I completely agree. I emailed a major historian a routine enquiry. I briefly suggested a clear anti-West plan (subject to circs changing): weaken EU (Brexit etc), weaken UK, cultivate autocrats, chaos in USA, influence all important elections. His reaction was, correctly, doubtful. Time will tell.
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Nice sentiment although the visits of my uniformly wonderful carers over 6 years don't seem to have much dissuaded Putin.
I was charmed for a moment that this was written in the pub in 1937, until I realised my error.
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I'm envious. Over here in the dark world we have to find the plants, pick and crush them into digestible form, before handing a share over. Only one dentist has died so far. Apparently, he had bite marks?!. This is England 2035, begging to rejoin like Scotand did. Can't even get a boat across.
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In fact not many do.
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Not sure but Cyrus the Great he ain't.
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Thank goodness it didn't crash unliterally... Then what...?
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Now I run screaming from the room into the street and 8 police officers training guns on me; such efficiency!
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Appalling to see, brilliantly funny.
Thank you.
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In a disgraceful decision the US Sadmeme Court also ignored the fact that as a convicted felon, Trump cannot be President either. And so... gulp