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So close, well done.
star man = Orion
Point = N toppled to give Z
Andy B
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So, is it me or @OriginalGriff tomorrow then?
One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know.
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Commisera Congratulations Mel! You're up tomorrow for the first correct answer.
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You beat me by three minutes - serves me right for taking time to finally get the reasoning. And unsuccessfully too.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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EVENT HORIZON?
A happening EVENT
at which an element leads H
a star man
to accept
a toppled
point. N
There's no turning back from here.
The rest I haven't fitted in at all...
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Dang! Too late...
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Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I think Orion has something to contribute and a toppled point could be a N rotated 90 degrees
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Is Macedonia a real place?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Google Maps - Macedonia
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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It would look nicer with a wall around it.
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But how are you going to make them pay for it?
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Probably in turnips, or whatever it is they grow, there.
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Fake Geography
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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Just as I expected.
It's a conspiracy between wikipedia and google, to confuse people.
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Certain "newspapers" have been doing this for a great many years. The Macedonians are, if anything, a little late to the party.
Slogans aren't solutions.
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Agreed! Every news article is biased in some way these days (I even see news storied suppressed if they don't fit in with an agenda - BBC, I'm looking at you!).
Quote: Obi Wan Kenobi Luke, you're going to find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view.
The modern day world doesn't work like that though.. nobody is allowed to have opinions that differ from the mainstream. Sad (and dangerous) times..
Ah, I see you have the machine that goes ping. This is my favorite. You see we lease it back from the company we sold it to and that way it comes under the monthly current budget and not the capital account.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Brent Jenkins wrote: The modern day world doesn't work like that though.. nobody is allowed to have opinions that differ from the mainstream.
And conversely, in many quarters, no-one's allowed to have opinions that are mainstream.
History is written by the winners and yesterday's alternative has a tendency to become tomorrow's tyranny.
It's a constant of all history, that all power groups will:
a) Exaggerate and/or invent their own achievements.
b) Vilify their rivals at every available opportunity.
c) Attempt to pervert language to their own ends.
d) Hide behind some nebulous concept (a supernatural entity, a flag or any sort of -ism that can be claimed to be self-evident).
e) Accuse anyone who doesn't accept that self-evident "truth" of apostasy.
Slogans aren't solutions.
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Brent Jenkins wrote: nobody is allowed to have opinions that differ from the mainstream. Especially "libtards", apparently.
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It's very easy to throw any names around (we see it in the UK with our "elderly, racist, bigoted, little Englander, uneducated right-wing extremist" voters who chose to leave the EU)..
It's also very easy for the mainstream media to call any news they don't want people to hear or that doesn't fit in with their agendas "fake news" (or my personal favourite right now, "post-truth", as if - by some divine miracle - they are the source of "truth" and anyone who disagrees is a liar).
Unfortunately, this kind of divisiveness can only ultimately lead to violence.
Ah, I see you have the machine that goes ping. This is my favorite. You see we lease it back from the company we sold it to and that way it comes under the monthly current budget and not the capital account.
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Brent Jenkins wrote: It's very easy to throw any names around (we see it in the UK with our "elderly, racist, bigoted, little Englander, uneducated right-wing extremist" voters who chose to leave the EU)..
I agree and that applies equally to terms like "Bremoaner", "Libtard", "Liberal Elite" etc. hurled so creatively in the other direction. Don't mistake alt-PC for non-PC, they're two very, very different things. Alt-PC is just a right-wing implementation of PC whereas non-PC is a refusal to engage in it:
PC - You can't express a negative emotion towards him! He's physically impaired!
Alt-PC - I'll yell at all the goddamn cripples I want to!
Non-PC - Why should I treat him any differently to anyone else? I called him a twat because he was being one.
Personally, I'm very much in the non-PC camp yet I'm frequently accused (wrongly and offensively) by the Alt-PC mob of being in the PC brigade simply because I'm not in the Alt-PC mob (that's precisely the sort of crap that happens when people decide what other people think without bothering to ask them).
Brent Jenkins wrote: It's also very easy for the mainstream media to call any news they don't want people to hear or that doesn't fit in with their agendas "fake news" (or my personal favourite right now, "post-truth", as if - by some divine miracle - they are the source of "truth" and anyone who disagrees is a liar).
That's precisely what the "alternative" media does with great relish. In fact, that's it's very raison d'etre.
Brent Jenkins wrote: Unfortunately, this kind of divisiveness can only ultimately lead to violence.
Let us hope not. At the very least we should seek to disassociate from all of those who advocate it, regardless of whether or not we see them as being on "our" side of the fence.
Slogans aren't solutions.
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PeejayAdams wrote: Let us hope not. At the very least we should seek to disassociate from all of those who advocate it, regardless of whether or not we see them as being on "our" side of the fence.
I hope not too, but it always happens when one group feels persecuted or pushed into a corner.
As history has proven time and time again (thank goodness we don't teach history any more in schools!) people will fight for what they believe in if they feel they have no other choice. People in the UK feel that their lifestyle, culture and identity is constantly under attack.. it can't go on forever.
Ah, I see you have the machine that goes ping. This is my favorite. You see we lease it back from the company we sold it to and that way it comes under the monthly current budget and not the capital account.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Brent Jenkins wrote: People in the UK feel that their lifestyle, culture and identity is constantly under attack.. it can't go on forever.
All generalisations are dangerous.
As a white, working-class, middle-aged male - I seem to be a prime candidate to feel this alienation that we're all meant to be feeling, but I don't feel that at all.
I'm constantly told by The Daily Mail that I'm not allowed to fly my own flag, yet the pub on the street corner flies a huge Union Flag and the nearby church proudly flies the flag of St. George. Several cars and houses display one or the other. I wear a George cross on my lapel. The Daily Mail might assure me that this cannot be the case, but it is!
I'm an English bloke, I do English things - I eat English food, I drink English beer in English pubs, dress in an English style and generally wander about England being very English. Nobody has ever tried to kibosh that. Nobody has ever tapped me on the shoulder and said "Oi! Stop being so English while you're in England." I've never had a letter of Johnny Brussels telling me to tone down on the Englishness a little. I've never being banged up by the thought police for liking fish and chips and football.
So much of this perceived oppression is in the imagination of journalists.
Slogans aren't solutions.
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It depends on where you live and where you come from. Back where I grew up in North North Wales, there's a lot of unemployed people struggling to cope with the influx of Polish workers. I don't have anything against anyone, but when a street in Wales fills up with Polish shops and cafes and the locals can't understand what people on the street are saying, you can see how resentment builds up. Multiply this across the country and we've got a real problem simmering away here (as much as the media may want to place all the blame on "racist" Brits).
Working closer to London, there is a real lack of any identity anywhere. Northern England has much stronger feelings than the South for sure.
PeejayAdams wrote: I'm an English bloke, I do English things - I eat English food, I drink English beer in English pubs, dress in an English style and generally wander about England being very English.
I get what you're saying but sometimes it's more subtle than that. What about when your area changes to a majority non-drinking community? Near where I live, there are areas where you'll struggle to find an operating pub. They're either shut down and rotting to bits or converted for other uses. Even finding an English shop can be a challenge sometimes, and in other areas it just doesn't feel safe to walk down the street at night.
Ah, I see you have the machine that goes ping. This is my favorite. You see we lease it back from the company we sold it to and that way it comes under the monthly current budget and not the capital account.
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I live in Brum (also where I'm from). Yes, there are areas here that have become dominated by other cultures and that's not a good thing. There has been a definite tendency for our city council to house people according to ethnicity and that has been a large source of the problem rather than the immigrants themselves.
Multiculturalism per se is not a problem - this country is inherently multicultural and all the better for it. Where populations broadly reflect the cultural mix, it can be a huge positive; where they don't, it becomes highly problematic and that's something that really does need to be addressed.
Slogans aren't solutions.
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