I read every book in the house I grew up in, except for Charles Dickens' "Hard Times". What was wrong with Hard Times? You got something against Dickens or just that book? I think the book smelt bad. I found that one in the garage. I also read the cheap encyclopaedia. It's an oft-quoted fact(?) abo...

HighlyIrregular II wrote: ↑

Thu Jun 02, 2022 10:04 pm

24 fucking minutes?

Isn't there a shorter version conveniently nailed to a church door somewhere?

I read every book in the house I grew up in, except for Charles Dickens' "Hard Times". It was a house built in the sixties I guess, and I combed every crevice of it. Some subset of my older seven siblings borrowed books from the nearest town's library that they never returned, and since that moment,...

I was a bird's eye observer to a military attack on a checkpoint manned by a soldier. Firing began and my view zoomed in on the defender's face. He was hit, was unable to move, more shots, then from his facial expressions, hit again, and he started to die, struggling for breath. I woke up. Very unp...

Used to read a lot but cannot remember the last book I read.

How about y'all? Ye read more or less these days? Fiction or non-fiction?

Madrigal wrote: ↑

Thu May 05, 2022 12:24 am

meat inflation

Madrigal wrote: ↑

Thu May 05, 2022 12:24 am

Things that have no business inflating are inflating.

Will the school shooting continue at the same rate for the foreseeable future?
Or will something substantial change?

Christian funeral of a U.S. citizen and journalist shot by them according to AFP amongst other sources.
Surely they done fucked up this time, the fucking twats.
Surely.

I went to high school in Spain, and from memory the syllabus was quite broad across different civilizations and eras. My biggest educational gap is probably never having read Shakespeare, as Spain of course prioritised Cervantes and their own literature. Keenly interested in the psychology of Shake...

C.J.Woolf wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 21, 2022 12:10 am

If I was Lee R I'd be a bit spooked.

But doesn't that make it more likely it was a turd?

(My theory is that it's like a joke turd or something.)