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Originally posted by Mellor View PostI think best is going to be very subjective. Especially when it's a genre know for churning them out.
I enjoyed the Alex Cross books I read. But didn't finish the series. Patterson definitely churns them out. Got maybe 8 books into the series, was 10 years ago, must be over 20 now.
Patterson has another long series. Women's Murder club.
For some reason just feel you need something uber long at the rate you get through the pageturners.
Trying to think what series has 50 books?
May not have been literal"We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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Originally posted by Mellor View PostI think best is going to be very subjective. Especially when it's a genre know for churning them out.
I enjoyed the Alex Cross books I read. But didn't finish the series. Patterson definitely churns them out. Got maybe 8 books into the series, was 10 years ago, must be over 20 now.
Patterson has another long series. Women's Murder club.
For some reason just feel you need something uber long at the rate you get through the pageturners.
Trying to think what series has 50 books?
May not have been literal
After that, it's a genre i'm happy to jump in and out without feeling the need to read them in order (ie some of the connelly novels),as they make for great summer reading.
love one offs though like "i am pilgrim" but they seem to be few and far between at that standard.
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Originally posted by shrapnel View Post
definitely very subjective. The only series i read religiously is the Adamsberg series by Fred Vargas (only 11 of them so far).
After that, it's a genre i'm happy to jump in and out without feeling the need to read them in order (ie some of the connelly novels),as they make for great summer reading.
love one offs though like "i am pilgrim" but they seem to be few and far between at that standard."We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View Post
I wonder if any of those codes are actually legal. They just get written up by a committee, they're not legally tested or anything close to that."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by dinekes View Post
Front dimmer bulb a bitch to replace. Tail light/reg light handy enough to replace in my car anyway.
WD40 for the wiper stalk (great stuff altogether, sorted squeaky hinges in apartment and apartment building common entrance door which had been annoying me while I was at it)
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Originally posted by dinekes View Post
Front dimmer bulb a bitch to replace. Tail light/reg light handy enough to replace in my car anyway.
WD40 for the wiper stalk (great stuff altogether, sorted squeaky hinges in apartment and apartment building common entrance door which had been annoying me while I was at it)
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He has to drop I think. But he’s be dropping either two club lengths from where it entered, or on a line with entry point and flag?
I don’t think he can retee the ball? Trying to think of situations where Id have used that rule.
If he makes it across and it dribbles back into water he can drop on far side.This may or may not be an original thought of my own.
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I see Raoul moving goalposts again today under the flag of logical supremacy.This may or may not be an original thought of my own.
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"Brock Rimbaud?" I said.
"Don't sound like no brother," Hawk said
"Maybe he changed his name," I said. "Trying to pass."
"What you think his real name is?" Hawk said.
"Old Black Joe?" I said.
"Mostly they ain't naming us that no more," Hawk said."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View Post
I remember hearing a guy waxing lyrical about Monbalciano (sic), the Italian one. And feeling envious of his deep connection to that series. I want to find that! I feel you have that a bit to Vargas. Keane to Harry Dresden maybe. Raoul or Strew has some Norwegian or Swedish or Finnish guy - can't remember exactly. While I'm flitting between ideas and not really soaking up any one existence."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by Theresa View PostHe has to drop I think. But he’s be dropping either two club lengths from where it entered, or on a line with entry point and flag?
I don’t think he can retee the ball? Trying to think of situations where Id have used that rule.
If he makes it across and it dribbles back into water he can drop on far side.Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. ~Eleanor Roosevelt
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Originally posted by Wombatman View Post
You can re-tee if you are taking stoke and distance, and your original shot was from the teeing ground. You would have done it loads on par 3s over water with no DZ.This may or may not be an original thought of my own.
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View Post
shush child. The adults are talking.This may or may not be an original thought of my own.
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Originally posted by Theresa View Post
Oh, I see we are back with the insults too. The mask is slipping."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by Mellor View Post
Not to suggest Hungarian isn't ridiculously hard. I think the above might not be the best metric as languages are related (or unrelated) and we all have some base to start from.
When you gave portugese a go, previous experience in French or another of the Romance languages was a head start. Even english is technically part of the same indo-european language family as French/German/Spanish/Italian along with a few hundred others. Plus there's the exposure side, but I've pick up a number of words over the years from TV/Movies or whatever.
Hungarian is an entirely different family. It's not distance cousin or whatever. It's a different species. I'd wonder if a Finnish speaker would pick it up faster. As Finnish is also in that reject family.
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View Post
You get what you give. When you have an original thought of your own, then you can waddle out of the sandpit and take off your nappy with the big boys.This may or may not be an original thought of my own.
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Originally posted by Theresa View Post
Did I insult you?
e.g. your first learned contribution today:
Originally posted by Theresa View PostI see Raoul moving goalposts again today under the flag of logical supremacy.
Develop some thoughts of your own and then you can escape the creche. Maybe you're thick enough not to know what you're doing and I should give you the benefit of the doubt, but I don't feel you deserve it."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View Post
Just calling you out in that your modus operandi is to jump into a debate, not to contribute anything but to throw a dig at me for some reason
e.g. your first learned contribution today:
So as I say, childish and snippy in tone with no actual contribution to offer.
Develop some thoughts of your own and then you can escape the creche. Maybe you're thick enough not to know what you're doing and I should give you the benefit of the doubt, but I don't feel you deserve it.
Speaking of MO’s, I don’t have the arrogance to believe that all my thoughts are somehow original or unique.
And in terms of not knowing what your doing, no one was arguing whether the University had the right to enforce their code of conduct, people were making the point that their code of conduct shouldn’t include things outside the university, like street parties off the university campus.
Rightly or wrongly, I don’t have an opinion really but it’s always lovely to see you move the goalposts and then argue logical superiority.
Insult me away. Water off a ducks back.
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Originally posted by mcnugget View Post
97% on 8.55 is the score to beat"We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by Dice75 View PostI'd say if there were camera phones back in the 80s and 90s a lot of us would have been cancelled a long time ago (or else still in the slammer with concurrent sentences)
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I think it's pretty clear that a University would be within it's rights to impose serious sanctions on students for serious crimes like murder, rape etc. Having a party in it's own right doesn't fall into this bracket obviously. However..... based on the scenario we are in with Covid and the impact that a party can have i think the college would be well within its right to take sanctions. Expulsion may harsh perhaps as they are kids after all (even if technically adults) but the party has potentially far reaching and serious consequences.
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Originally posted by Degag View Post
I think it's pretty clear that a University would be within it's rights to impose serious sanctions on students for serious crimes like murder, rape etc. Having a party in it's own right doesn't fall into this bracket obviously. However..... based on the scenario we are in with Covid and the impact that a party can have i think the college would be well within its right to take sanctions. Expulsion may harsh perhaps as they are kids after all (even if technically adults) but the party has potentially far reaching and serious consequences.
But they clearly do have the right to do so - and threatening to enforce it might thwart further stupid behaviour by students.
It is not just 'students being students' (which ordinarily no-one would give two shits about); it is literally life-threatening behaviour in a pandemic and undermines all the efforts the rest of society is making. Nobody should be making excuses for that behaviour.
So, if the students could remember the simple rule of 'don't be a fucking dickhead' and act accordingly, then none of this would even be a conversation point...
Gordon Elliott could have obeyed the same rule and he'd also be in the clear.Last edited by Raoul Duke III; 04-03-21, 18:49."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Not going to embarrass myself on the Map quiz.
Are people still paying for things in cash?
I was in the Q for the NCT.
1st guy has his dopey nose showing over his mask (really irritates me, it's almost like a target that demands punching!)
2nd guy goes up and she asks him would he mind putting in his card in to pay
"Im paying by cash" he says but definitely with a bit of attitude
"We do prefer people to pay by card please"
"I'll pay by card next time" he says getting smart
"Well it's on the website that we ask people to pay by card if you dont mind"
Perhaps upon realising that getting smart with the people who can pass or fail on fairly innocuous items is probably not the brightest idea hes had that day, el thicko suddenly finds his card, pretending he hadnt realised he had it with him..ffs
Just seems like theres assholes/morons everywhere
I dont mind people paying in cash if they're genuine about it obviously but being a cunt just to satisfy your cunty ego or your need to show defiance because you're a cunt is well just cuntish behaviour.
In fact if he entered a "who's the biggest cunt competition" he would come second. Why?....because hes a cunt!
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The nosers do seem to be a special breed.
I noticed a few lads getting on at the John o Gods stop and they were wearing visors. I spent half the bus ride thinking maybe they were on day release, but eventually worked out they were just normal people who'd made shockingly bad choices.Last edited by Hitchhiker's Guide To...; 04-03-21, 21:52."We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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Originally posted by Degag View Post
I think it's pretty clear that a University would be within it's rights to impose serious sanctions on students for serious crimes like murder, rape etc. Having a party in it's own right doesn't fall into this bracket obviously. However..... based on the scenario we are in with Covid and the impact that a party can have i think the college would be well within its right to take sanctions. Expulsion may harsh perhaps as they are kids after all (even if technically adults) but the party has potentially far reaching and serious consequences.
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Originally posted by Denny Crane View Post
But surely, expulsion is not the answer.
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Read a story in the newspaper yesterday about a guy who worked in a hospital as a hospital porter.
Developed a shockingly bad coke habit. So much that he got so high at work that he "dressed up as a dinosaur and had disrupted the evening drug administration round".
Then the hospital, knowing that you should not just fire someone without giving them a chance, arranged for him to go to rehab after spending six months on paid leave while they came up with a solution. And he turned around upon receiving the offer of (paid) rehab and said 'no, I don't want to go to rehab, I want to instead keep getting high and dressing up as a dinosaur in the hospital'.
And only at that point did they fire him.
And SIPTU, his union, were so outraged, that they represented him at his Workplace Appeals Tribunal.
I just find it an interesting contrast between how the real world works and how we want to destroy student lives for being sold digs with other students in a student village, with all pubs closed, and no classes, and then expect them to not have parties. Like that - and not a hospital worker getting high on coke, dressing up as a dinosaur at work and going up to nurses trying to inject patients with drugs - thats not our line.
I say this, because it was only two days ago and it barely made the back pages of the regular news, while people enjoying themselves is what made the front pages. It suggests our anger is partially righteous and partially excessively moralistic.Last edited by Hitchhiker's Guide To...; 04-03-21, 23:15."We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostThe nosers do seem to be a special breed.
I noticed a few lads getting on at the John o Gods stop and they were wearing visors. I spent half the bus ride thinking maybe they were on day release, but eventually worked out they were just normal people who'd made shockingly bad choices.
It's this chin strap thing with a clear plastic bit in the shape of a funnel cut in half.
It maybe stops breath and spit from landing on their hands, but instead, projects and amplifies it upwards.
Just wear a fucking mask.
I hold silver in tit for tat, and I love you for that
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Originally posted by Lazare View Post
There's a couple of girls in my local Spar who wear these really weird clear plastic things that seem to me to be totally counter productive.
It's this chin strap thing with a clear plastic bit in the shape of a funnel cut in half.
It maybe stops breath and spit from landing on their hands, but instead, projects and amplifies it upwards.
Just wear a fucking mask.
She's a model and she works in Spar...
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Originally posted by Tar.Aldarion View Post
Mr Crane I'm afraid expulsion is the only answer. It's the opinion of the entire staff that Hitch is criminally insane.
"We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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Been having some really vivid dreams recently.
During early covid when the temp got worse had the most vivid sharp dream I've ever had. Very simple without too many weird moving parts like you usually have. Looking back on it it was actually a representation of the disease itself and the fever fighting it.
Great crack dreams.
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Originally posted by Tar.Aldarion View PostHowever in you example (must ask my gf) I believe even Finnish is so different to Hungarian that it is more like the difference between English and Russian, both Indo-European languages, but incredibly different, grammar may be similar I think. They are on different branches of the family but very distant. For her I think something like Japanese is much easier to learn than English, and for us, both Japanese and Hungarian are quite hard. I should ask her more, she has a languages degree.
Not saying that they are close. But wonder would a Finnish per Estonian native speaker pick Hungarian faster than a English or Spanish speaker.
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