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grayman wrote: ↑Mon Feb 20, 2023 1:28 pmIf Shakespeare interests you...

Shakespeare is overrated.

Yeah, I said it.

Admin wrote: ↑Mon Feb 20, 2023 6:59 am

arthwollipot wrote: ↑Mon Feb 20, 2023 12:20 am Gridlock was a great book, but have you read Blind Faith (also by Elton)?

Yep, I've read every word he's ever written.

You're probably doing better than me then.

stanky wrote: ↑Mon Feb 20, 2023 2:18 amThat's twice you've defended the Catholics.

Well yeah, the Catholic church is fucked up enough. We don't need to make up lies to discredit them - they're doing a great job of that all by themselves.

sparks wrote: ↑Mon Feb 20, 2023 4:04 amWhich book? He's only published a couple of dozen or so...

Has he? Okay. I was specifically referring to God Is Not Great.

Cite an example regarding Hitch please. Okay so I may have been mistaken about his politics. Thanks for making me actually go look. I still don't agree with the idolisation that he gets from some in the antitheist crowd - his book was one of the reasons why I left that particular cause. Not the onl...

Yes. I do swords. Gamer? No. Well, I mean yes, but not in this case. I've studied sword fighting and Historical European Martial Arts for decades. Right now most of my practice is in the Live Action Role Playing (LARP) field, where we use safe foam weapons rather than actual steel, but I have done ...

sparks wrote: ↑Sat Feb 18, 2023 2:17 amHoly fuck!

How can an individual contribute to the relief effort?

How do you eat an elephant?

One bite at a time.

Admin wrote: ↑Fri Feb 17, 2023 11:46 pmWhoa, Ben Elton was miles ahead of you there, stanky. It's over 30 years since Gridlock came out, and the aliens think exactly that. They just sit and watch, realising earth wasn't somewhere they wanted to go.

Gridlock was a great book, but have you read Blind Faith (also by Elton)?

Most poor people aren't poor because they're lazy. Most poor people are poor because the system is stacked against them, making bootstrapping themselves out of poverty almost impossible. You need money in order to make money.

Are you sure you're Greens Art? Sounding a lot saner than most of them. Well that's the thing. When you actually look into what most of them are saying, and into the party platform in general, they're not that outrageous. Sure, there's definitely a lunatic fringe, but most of the mainstream Greens ...