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- Thu May 30, 2024 12:08 am
- Forum: World
- Topic: What are you reading?
- Replies: 234
- Views: 276570
Re: What are you reading?
The Remains of the Day, masterpiece.
- Wed May 22, 2024 8:31 pm
- Forum: Meta
- Topic: Apologies for downtime
- Replies: 16
- Views: 13120
Re: Apologies for downtime
I just took ages to log in. I don't think Utisz has checked in recently, I'm going to ask him about this.
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 11:22 pm
- Forum: World
- Topic: Run-up to WW3
- Replies: 423
- Views: 277610
Re: Run-up to WW3
American media hyping up possibility of Iranian retaliation for Israeli attack on their embassy in Syria. https://nypost.com/2024/04/11/world-news/israel-bracing-for-iran-to-attack-within-the-next-two-days-report/ Yeeeeep. I thought maybe they could just blow up an embassy somewhere but it looks li...
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 1:14 am
- Forum: World
- Topic: What's going on in your city/country/region?
- Replies: 281
- Views: 295077
Re: What's going on in your city/country/region?
I got vaccinated for dengue yesterday (QDenga, the Japanese vaccine). There's a historic dengue outbreak in Argentina right now, 180,000 confirmed cases since the start of the year and 129 deaths. But since we have a libertarian govt, they're not doing anything, just letting the free market take car...
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 1:08 am
- Forum: World
- Topic: What are you listening to?
- Replies: 1004
- Views: 391818
Re: What are you listening to?
So yeah I had to be this old before I understood this song.
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 11:04 pm
- Forum: World
- Topic: What are you reading?
- Replies: 234
- Views: 276570
Re: What are you reading?
I'm close to finishing You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue. It's an imagined encounter between Hernán Cortés and Moctezuma. Slow narrative but I don't think it's trying to be anything other than that. Been reading Antarctica by Claire Keegan. Will read more short stories of hers, as I'm in a sh...
- Sun Jan 07, 2024 2:11 pm
- Forum: World
- Topic: The food and drink thread
- Replies: 141
- Views: 212227
Re: The food and drink thread
So the last one I made from 1970s Joy of Cooking was Beef Bourgignon and it was nice, however, I had to use a substitution. It requires salted ham, which I'm not going to get in this country in any shape or form, so I used bacon instead (removing some excess fat from the bacon for health reasons). T...
- Fri Jan 05, 2024 11:17 pm
- Forum: World
- Topic: What are you watching?
- Replies: 1006
- Views: 457275
Re: What are you watching?
Honeyjubu's addictive. Of course, could be the ASMR.
- Fri Jan 05, 2024 10:42 pm
- Forum: World
- Topic: What are you listening to?
- Replies: 1004
- Views: 391818
Re: What are you listening to?
I'm not just getting old, I'm acting it. I would never have listened to Adamo unironically ten years ago.
- Fri Jan 05, 2024 10:11 pm
- Forum: World
- Topic: What are you reading?
- Replies: 234
- Views: 276570
Re: What are you reading?
Very little time, but I read A Christmas Carol by Dickens, why not.