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Vista Major wrote:You know what I miss?

Tea Time.

Yeah, I've been quite lax in my duty as Grandmaster of Tea Time. A bit late now, but I'll see about doing one tomorrow evening.

Vista Major, Oelesa, Penguania And Antarctica

Jaslandia wrote:Yeah, I've been quite lax in my duty as Grandmaster of Tea Time. A bit late now, but I'll see about doing one tomorrow evening.

Yes.

Jaslandia, Oelesa, Penguania And Antarctica

Jaslandia wrote:Yeah, I've been quite lax in my duty as Grandmaster of Tea Time. A bit late now, but I'll see about doing one tomorrow evening.

GG

Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica

So Donald Trump has a much bigger and more powerful Nuclear button than Kim Jong Un.

What's international diplomacy now? A dick measuring contest? That's a behaviour of children and immature teens.

Jaslandia, Minnesota Dakota, Yukona, Czeko Russika

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:So Donald Trump has a much bigger and more powerful Nuclear button than Kim Jong Un.

What's international diplomacy now? A dick measuring contest? That's a behaviour of children and immature teens.

It's always been a big prick waving dick fight. Ask George Carlin. Google "George Carlin bigger dick foreign policy theory"

Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Oelesa, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota

Mercunova wrote:It's always been a big prick waving dick fight. Ask George Carlin. Google "George Carlin bigger dick foreign policy theory"

LOL

Vista Major, Minnesota Dakota

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:So Donald Trump has a much bigger and more powerful Nuclear button than Kim Jong Un.

What's international diplomacy now? A dick measuring contest? That's a behaviour of children and immature teens.

Mercunova wrote:It's always been a big prick waving dick fight. Ask George Carlin. Google "George Carlin bigger dick foreign policy theory"

Why isn't he dead yet? Seriously. Far more popular presidents have been assassinated. Why hasn't tis disturbed man-child been shot yet?

Oelesa, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota

Minnesota Dakota wrote:Hope is one of the best things we can do right now. I knew someone with cancer, let's hope you don't suffer the same fate.

Aquatur wrote:OF COURSE YOU WILL! I'm rooting for you while you go through treatment.

Percyton wrote:Oh my! I'm so sorry to hear that, Fuhrmania. Like others have said, the best thing you can do right now is to stay positive, and to endure the treatment as best you can! From there, all you can do is hope that things work out.

Thank you all

Jaslandia, Oelesa, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota, Percyton

Nuremgard wrote:Why isn't he dead yet? Seriously. Far more popular presidents have been assassinated. Why hasn't tis disturbed man-child been shot yet?

Once again, do you want President Pence (hardcore Christian conservative), or possibly President Ryan or Hatch: no one wants to risk the possibility of potentially-worse Presidents, so it's best to work with the demon we know.

Oelesa, Fuhrmania, Yukona

Pirate Kingdoms wrote:Once again, do you want President Pence (hardcore Christian conservative), or possibly President Ryan or Hatch: no one wants to risk the possibility of potentially-worse Presidents, so it's best to work with the demon we know.

My husband is Trumps #1fan if i hear another one of trumps good deeds i am going to hurt somebody

Oelesa, Penguania And Antarctica

Fuhrmania wrote:My husband is Trumps #1fan if i hear another one of trumps good deeds i am going to hurt somebody

Ah, reminds me when people in real life think I'm conservative because I joke with them, then they expect me to be a "good Mexican" and say I love Trump: I promptly tell them to go f*ck themselves as he's a garbage human being.

Jaslandia, Oelesa, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota, Fuhrmania

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:So Donald Trump has a much bigger and more powerful Nuclear button than Kim Jong Un.

What's international diplomacy now? A dick measuring contest? That's a behaviour of children and immature teens.

Honestly, I kinda support how he's acting towards the Norks. If fear-mongering wasn't quite so popular in the US it would show how little fear we should have for them since for all their angry little tantrums we still haven't been nuked.

IDK, maybe I'm just tired of hearing on the news about how the "NORTH KOREAN NUKES ARE REAL (but they aren't accurate enough to hit their target if it were a literal sea board)" or News stations that previously made fun of nuclear defense programs like the SDI or the Pat-2/3 or the GBI or even THAAD that now ignore them when talking about our obvious nuclear annihilation is.

Oelesa

Pirate Kingdoms wrote:Ah, reminds me when people in real life think I'm conservative because I joke with them, then they expect me to be a "good Mexican" and say I love Trump: I promptly tell them to go f*ck themselves as he's a garbage human being.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_minority

Shoutout to all of the "libertarian" capitalists. Reminder that you cannot support liberty and hierarchy at the same time and call yourself a libertarian to sleep at night knowing that 20 million people die each year because of a lack of food, clean water, and housing, all things we have the resources to provide to everyone but are not provided because goods and services are not distributed by need in a capitalist society, thus not allowing for well being for all.

Woot!

The KGMD is a go.

http://iiwiki.com/wiki/KGMD

This is just one of the things I've been working on over these last few weeks, and more information will come out about the Expo after the election :D

Jaslandia

Vetriutan 2 wrote:Shoutout to all of the "libertarian" capitalists. Reminder that you cannot support liberty and hierarchy at the same time and call yourself a libertarian to sleep at night knowing that 20 million people die each year because of a lack of food, clean water, and housing, all things we have the resources to provide to everyone but are not provided because goods and services are not distributed by need in a capitalist society, thus not allowing for well being for all.

I get the image in my head of you sewing together old timey farmer clothing, stuffing them with straw, propping the effigy in a wooden rocking chair on a wrap-around porch, and screaming at it.

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Mercunova, Yukona

Fun fact, for all the threats Trump and the little man in the east make, none will probably ever beat the terror old Khrushchev gave when he was translated as saying "If you don't like us, don't accept our invitations, and don't invite us to come to see you. Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!" in front of twelve ambassadors from NATO member states.

Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Lex Caledonia, Minnesota Dakota

Continental Commonwealths wrote:I get the image in my head of you sewing together old timey farmer clothing, stuffing them with straw, propping the effigy in a wooden rocking chair on a wrap-around porch, and screaming at it.

>Implying that I was making a strawman of "libertarians"

Vista Major

[spoiler=Today is January 3 and today are:]

Today is January 3 and today are:

- Anniversary of the 1966 Coup d'état (Burkina Faso)

- Festival Of Sleep Day

- Ministry of Religious Affairs Day (Indonesia)

- Nakhatsenendyan toner (Armenia)

- National Chocolate Covered Cherry Day (United States)

- National Drinking Straw Day (United States)

- National Fruitcake Toss Day (United States)

- Tamaseseri Festival (Hakozaki Shrine, Fukuoka, Japan)

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[spoiler=This day in history:]

This day in history:

- 1521 – Pope Leo X excommunicates Martin Luther in the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem.

- 1653 – By the Coonan Cross Oath, the Eastern Church in India cuts itself off from colonial Portuguese tutelage.

- 1749 – Benning Wentworth issues the first of the New Hampshire Grants, leading to the establishment of Vermont.

- 1749 – The first issue of Berlingske, Denmark's oldest continually operating newspaper, is published.

- 1777 – American General George Washington defeats British General Lord Cornwallis at the Battle of Princeton.

- 1815 – Austria, the United Kingdom, and France form a secret defensive alliance against Prussia and Russia.

- 1823 – Stephen F. Austin receives a grant of land in Texas from the government of Mexico.

- 1848 – Joseph Jenkins Roberts is sworn in as the first president of Liberia.

- 1861 – American Civil War: Delaware votes not to secede from the United States.

- 1868 – Meiji Restoration in Japan: The Tokugawa shogunate is abolished; agents of Satsuma and Chōshū seize power.

- 1870 – Construction of the Brooklyn Bridge begins.

- 1871 – Battle of Bapaume, a battle in the Franco-Prussian war occurs.

- 1885 – Sino-French War: Beginning of the Battle of Núi Bop

- 1888 – The James Lick telescope at the Lick Observatory, measuring 91 cm in diameter, is used for the first time. It was the largest refracting telescope in the world at the time.

- 1911 – A magnitude 7.7 earthquake destroys the city of Almaty in Russian Turkestan.

- 1911 – A gun battle in the East End of London left two dead and sparked a political row over the involvement of then-Home Secretary Winston Churchill.

- 1913 – An Atlantic coast storm sets the lowest confirmed barometric pressure reading for a non-tropical system in the continental United States.

- 1919 – At the Paris Peace Conference, Emir Faisal I of Iraq signs an agreement with Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann on the development of a Jewish homeland in Palestine.

- 1925 – Benito Mussolini announces he is taking dictatorial powers over Italy.

- 1932 – Martial law is declared in Honduras to stop a revolt by banana workers fired by the United Fruit Company.

- 1933 – Minnie D. Craig becomes the first woman elected as Speaker of the North Dakota House of Representatives, the first woman to hold a Speaker position anywhere in the United States.

- 1938 – The March of Dimes is established as a foundation to combat infant polio by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

- 1944 – World War II: Top Ace Major Greg "Pappy" Boyington is shot down in his Vought F4U Corsair by Captain Masajiro Kawato flying a Mitsubishi A6M Zero.

- 1945 – World War II: Admiral Chester W. Nimitz is placed in command of all U.S. Naval forces in preparation for planned assaults against Iwo Jima and Okinawa in Japan.

- 1946 – Popular Canadian American jockey George Woolf dies in a freak accident during a race; the annual George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award is created to honor him.

- 1947 – Proceedings of the U.S. Congress are televised for the first time.

- 1949 – The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, the central bank of the Philippines, is established.

- 1953 – Frances P. Bolton and her son, Oliver from Ohio, become the first mother and son to serve simultaneously in the U.S. Congress.

- 1956 – A fire damages the top part of the Eiffel Tower.

- 1957 – The Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch.

- 1958 – The West Indies Federation is formed.

- 1959 – Alaska is admitted as the 49th U.S. state.

- 1961 – The United States severs diplomatic relations with Cuba over the latter's nationalization of American assets.

- 1961 – The SL-1 nuclear reactor is destroyed by a steam explosion in the only reactor incident in the United States to cause immediate fatalities.

- 1961 – A protest by agricultural workers in Baixa de Cassanje, Portuguese Angola, turns into a revolt, opening the Angolan War of Independence, the first of the Portuguese Colonial Wars.

- 1962 – Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro.

- 1976 – International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights entered into force.

- 1977 – Apple Computer is incorporated.

- 1990 – Manuel Noriega, former leader of Panama, surrenders to American forces.

- 1993 – In Moscow, Russia, George Bush and Boris Yeltsin sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START).

- 1994 – More than seven million people from the former apartheid Homelands receive South African citizenship.

- 1999 – The Mars Polar Lander is launched by NASA.

- 2000 – Final daily edition of the Peanuts comic strip.

- 2002 – Israeli forces seize the Palestinian freighter Karine A in the Red Sea, finding 50 tons of weapons.

- 2004 – Flash Airlines Flight 604 crashes into the Red Sea, resulting in 148 deaths, making it one of the deadliest aviation accidents in Egyptian history.

- 2009 – The first block of the blockchain of the decentralized payment system Bitcoin, called the Genesis block, was established by the creator of the system, Satoshi Nakamoto.

- 2015 – Boko Haram militants raze the entire town of Baga in north-east Nigeria, starting the 2015 Baga massacre and killing as many as 2,000 people.

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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]

Famous Birthdays:

- 106BC – Cicero, Roman philosopher, lawyer, and politician

- 1829 – Konrad Duden, German philologist, founded the German language dictionary Duden

- 1876 – Wilhelm Pieck, German carpenter and politician, 1st President of the German Democratic Republic

- 1883 – Clement Attlee, English soldier, lawyer, and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

- 1887 – August Macke, German-French painter

- 1892 – J.R.R. Tolkien, English writer, poet, and philologist

- 1901 – Ngo Dinh Diem, Vietnamese lawyer and politician, 1st President of the Republic of Vietnam

- 1924 – Otto Beisheim, German businessman and philanthropist, founded Metro AG

- 1926 – George Martin, English composer, conductor, and producer

- 1929 – Gordon Moore, American businessman, co-founder of Intel Corporation

- 1929 – Sergio Leone, Italian director, producer, and screenwriter

- 1946 – John Paul Jones, English bass player, songwriter, and producer

- 1956 – Mel Gibson, American-Australian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

- 1969 – Michael Schumacher, German race car driver

[/spoiler]

Quote of the day

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

- Rudyard Kipling -

Note: Penguania_And_Antarctica assumes no responsibility or guarantee for correctness of any given information. Any recourse to courts of law is excluded.

Jaslandia, Vista Major, Minnesota Dakota, Mercunova, Percyton, Cesorion, Duke The Old Engine

Just a small note/update. Tomorrow or the day after it new gov't assumes office. However till Jan. 6 I won't be much active. On Jan. 7 I plan to make an inaugural statement. Thank you

Jaslandia, Vista Major, Oelesa, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

Cesorion wrote:Just a small note/update. Tomorrow or the day after it new gov't assumes office. However till Jan. 6 I won't be much active. On Jan. 7 I plan to make an inaugural statement. Thank you

Speaking of the election, when will the results be posted and/or telegramed?

Penguania And Antarctica

Has anyone else got the "international" event issues? The ones regarding Brasilistan and kidnapped citizens etc? My country has now gone to war to save our captured and enslaved citizens... is this a new plot-driven series of issues or have they been around a while?

Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Hyderbourg, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota, Percyton

Czeko Russika wrote:Has anyone else got the "international" event issues? The ones regarding Brasilistan and kidnapped citizens etc? My country has now gone to war to save our captured and enslaved citizens... is this a new plot-driven series of issues or have they been around a while?

I got it over a year ago and I've gotten more than one before, I think they've been around for a while.

They're also a good deal of fun, haha.

Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota, Percyton, Czeko Russika

Hyderbourg wrote:I got it over a year ago and I've gotten more than one before, I think they've been around for a while.

They're also a good deal of fun, haha.

Same.

Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Hyderbourg, Oelesa, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

Minnesota Dakota wrote:Speaking of the election, when will the results be posted and/or telegramed?

The election is not over until midnight tomorrow, I live in CST, but in the past voting has been closed based on EST, so that I'll probably keep with that tradition.

There's really only one position that has not been acclaimed and I've been keeping a tally, changing it with each new vote, so I should probably be able to declare at literally 12:05 AM EST (need a few minutes to make sure Kal got the same results as myself).

Jaslandia, Oelesa, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota, Percyton

https://www.nationstates.net/nation=axeldonia/detail=factbook/id=867432

Woop woop

It's ya boi Axel back with another dose of fantasy lore

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Percyton

Axeldonia wrote:https://www.nationstates.net/nation=axeldonia/detail=factbook/id=867432

Woop woop

It's ya boi Axel back with another dose of fantasy lore

I still need to add more to the history section :p

Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Percyton

Axeldonia wrote:https://www.nationstates.net/nation=axeldonia/detail=factbook/id=867432

Woop woop

It's ya boi Axel back with another dose of fantasy lore

Awesome <3

Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Percyton

Hyderbourg wrote:The election is not over until midnight tomorrow, I live in CST, but in the past voting has been closed based on EST, so that I'll probably keep with that tradition.

There's really only one position that has not been acclaimed and I've been keeping a tally, changing it with each new vote, so I should probably be able to declare at literally 12:05 AM EST (need a few minutes to make sure Kal got the same results as myself).

Sounds good.

Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota

Axeldonia wrote:https://www.nationstates.net/nation=axeldonia/detail=factbook/id=867432

Woop woop

It's ya boi Axel back with another dose of fantasy lore

For a second, I thought you meant Axel from my English class XD

Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

As promised, Tea Time is on its way.

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:

- 106BC – Cicero, Roman philosopher, lawyer, and politician

https://youtu.be/pGd96SH57SA

Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Percyton, Duke The Old Engine

LADIES, GENTLEMEN, AND VELOCIRAPTORS, IT IS NOW TEA TIME!

OUR SNACKS: CHOCOLATE CAKE, SALTINE CRACKERS, AND CHEESEBURGERS

OUR DRINKS: WHITE WINE, BLUE TEA, AND PINK LEMONADE

OUR TOPICS: PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION, CELEBRITIES, AND THERMONUCLEAR WAR

BONUS TOPIC: WHICH TWO WORLD LEADERS WOULD YOU MOST LIKE TO SEE FIGHT EACH OTHER (PHYSICALLY), AND WHO DO YOU THINK WOULD WIN?

BONUS PROGRAMS: OPEN LETTERS, RANDOM LINKS, AND NONSENSICAL SENTENCES[/B]

Russkov Soviet, Vista Major, Oelesa, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Minnesota Dakota, Percyton, Duke The Old Engine

Snack: Chocolate Cake (delicious)

Drink: Pink Lemonade

Topic: Celebrities - I share a birthday with George Clooney, Willie Mays, and Tony Blair.

Bonus: Theresa May and Donald Trump. Winner(s): The American People and the Scottish

Will Will Smith smith?

Will Smith will smith.

Smith Will Smith Will.

Jaslandia, Oelesa, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Duke The Old Engine

Jaslandia wrote:LADIES, GENTLEMEN, AND VELOCIRAPTORS, IT IS NOW TEA TIME!

OUR SNACKS: CHOCOLATE CAKE, SALTINE CRACKERS, AND CHEESEBURGERS

OUR DRINKS: WHITE WINE, BLUE TEA, AND PINK LEMONADE

OUR TOPICS: PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION, CELEBRITIES, AND THERMONUCLEAR WAR

BONUS TOPIC: WHICH TWO WORLD LEADERS WOULD YOU MOST LIKE TO SEE FIGHT EACH OTHER (PHYSICALLY), AND WHO DO YOU THINK WOULD WIN?

BONUS PROGRAMS: OPEN LETTERS, RANDOM LINKS, AND NONSENSICAL SENTENCES[/B]

I'll have crackers and pink lemonade.

Public transportation: A good and convenient option for cities and metropolitan areas, and something more cities (*cough*Tampa*cough*) should expand and improve upon.

Celebrities: Some good (ex: Mark Hamil, Lin-Manuel Miranda), some bad (ex: Logan and Jake Paul, the Kardashians). However, even the good ones are only people, and shouldn't be hero-worshipped or anything like that.

Thermonuclear war: It's clearly a bad option, and I don't think we should do it. I just wish more people realized that (*cough*Donald Trump*cough*Kim Jong Un*cough*).

Bonus: Out of the present world leaders, I think a physical confrontation between Vladimir Putin and Nicolas Maduro would be interesting. Putin would probably win, though if we're lucky, both will be put into a coma and both of their countries' will have to get new (and hopefully better) leaders.

Random link: https://youtu.be/kMVWz55OAqo

Axeldonia, Oelesa, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota, Percyton, Duke The Old Engine

Jaslandia wrote:LADIES, GENTLEMEN, AND VELOCIRAPTORS, IT IS NOW TEA TIME!

OUR SNACKS: CHOCOLATE CAKE, SALTINE CRACKERS, AND CHEESEBURGERS

OUR DRINKS: WHITE WINE, BLUE TEA, AND PINK LEMONADE

OUR TOPICS: PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION, CELEBRITIES, AND THERMONUCLEAR WAR

BONUS TOPIC: WHICH TWO WORLD LEADERS WOULD YOU MOST LIKE TO SEE FIGHT EACH OTHER (PHYSICALLY), AND WHO DO YOU THINK WOULD WIN?

BONUS PROGRAMS: OPEN LETTERS, RANDOM LINKS, AND NONSENSICAL SENTENCES[/B]

I'll take the cheeseburgers and pink milk.

In regards to thermonuclear war, I would like to state that I support it to erase the human race from this planet that we inhabit and pollute. Become a deep-green environmentalist today.

I would like to see Merkel and May fight. Merkel would obviously win because the English are just inferior Germans.

[spoiler=Open Letter]Dear Vetriutan,

Kill you are self.

Sincerely,

Vetriutan[/spoiler]

Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Oelesa, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota, Percyton, Duke The Old Engine

Jaslandia wrote:LADIES, GENTLEMEN, AND VELOCIRAPTORS, IT IS NOW TEA TIME!

OUR SNACKS: CHOCOLATE CAKE, SALTINE CRACKERS, AND CHEESEBURGERS

OUR DRINKS: WHITE WINE, BLUE TEA, AND PINK LEMONADE

OUR TOPICS: PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION, CELEBRITIES, AND THERMONUCLEAR WAR

BONUS TOPIC: WHICH TWO WORLD LEADERS WOULD YOU MOST LIKE TO SEE FIGHT EACH OTHER (PHYSICALLY), AND WHO DO YOU THINK WOULD WIN?

BONUS PROGRAMS: OPEN LETTERS, RANDOM LINKS, AND NONSENSICAL SENTENCES[/B]

Tea Time, eh? This might be interesting. I'll just have coal and water.

Public transportation: I'm in favor of it. Maybe I'm biased, but I think narrow gauge rail provides the best option for most places: it's cheap, uses less space than standard gauge, can better accommodate curves and high elevations than standard gauge, and some people may find the smaller locomotives 'cute' (or at least that's what I and the other engines have been called by some of the tourists who come to the Skarloey Railway).

Celebrities: Back in my day, celebrities were people like Mark Twain, Frank Sinatra, and Enrico Caruso. People who actually had talent and were famous for something. What is Kim Kardashian famous for? Some dumb reality TV show? What about Justin Bieber? Singing high-pitched drivel to impressionable teenage girls? And what about Donald Trump? Only in America can a reality TV show star be elected President. I knew there was a reason I never trusted Americans.

Thermonuclear war: Something to be avoided at all costs. I still remember quite well the day the Manager told Falcon (now Sir Handel), Stuart (now Peter Sam), and I about the atomic bombing on Hiroshima, and then on Nagasaki a few days later. I heard all about the devastation and destruction in those two cities, and I've even talked with a few survivors or relatives of survivors about their experiences over the years. After hearing about all that, the last thing I want is for Hiroshima and Nagasaki to be 100 times greater and spread to a global scale.

Bonus: All fighting would accomplish is more violence, but if I had to choose, I'd pick Kim Jong Un versus 'the Rock'. I know the Rock isn't a world leader, but in this hypothetical scenario, I just want someone strong to knock some sense into that kid Nork leader and get him to back down.

Random links: https://youtu.be/rtsF0R00lh0

https://youtu.be/H8eq1Ma-Tak

https://youtu.be/wuT-_4G7LcE

https://youtu.be/AyqsYWDCjW0

Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Oelesa, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota, Percyton

Duke The Old Engine wrote: - snip -

And the award for best short story goes too... Duke, the Old Engine!

Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Oelesa, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Duke The Old Engine

Minnesota Dakota wrote:And the award for best short story goes too... Duke, the Old Engine!

For me? I'm honored! Thank you! Been here four days, and they're already giving me an award. This place isn't half-bad. You were right to recommend it to me, Percyton.

Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Oelesa, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota, Percyton

Snack: Cake me, my dude.

Drink: Blue tea I guess.

Topic; Thermonuclear war: It ain't happening. The Norks don't want it which is why they haven't fired at the Sorks yet. The US doesn't want it since the Norks are a complete waste and would probably have most of their population relocated to South Korea -destroying it- and would make plenty of world leaders shake their heads and snarl and complain about the US being a warmongering state because they didn't pull a UN and sit on their asses for another day.

Simply put? The most dangerous states with nuucs right now are probably India and Pakistan. Good luck getting them to disarm though considering the people in both hate each other and China keeps having semi-romantic moments where they tenderly fire bullets across India's borders.

Further, while we aren't safe from nuclear impacts (We'd need the SDI to do that! And as we all know, calling the program -that would have provided advanced tools to defend the Western World- is a great way to laugh off the uncomfortable existence of nuclear despots. Peace Dividends, after all, mean we should instead rely on weapons that are mostly meant for the interception of an ICBM at launch and at the moments before it lands because they just don't have the range otherwise. But hey, why hit a ICBM before it drops it's 13+ nukes and is flying a relatively slow ballistic orbit when you can hope to god that you have enough missiles to catch the 13+ Missiles as they hit Mach 10 in reentry?

Not gonna lie, I'm kinda salty about the death of the Strategic Defense Initiative and the mockery that was made of it when we still use components from it today in what people now call "Insufficient" defenses like THAAD.

Capability = Cost, it's a hard pill to swallow for pretty much everyone, but it's a valid point I promise.

BONUS TOPIC: I say Obama and Merkel.

BONUS PROGRAMS: OPEN LETTERS, RANDOM LINKS, AND NONSENSICAL SENTENCES

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0Yo1EnWXFM

Music my doods.

Jaslandia, Oelesa, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota, Percyton, Duke The Old Engine

Jaslandia wrote:LADIES, GENTLEMEN, AND VELOCIRAPTORS, IT IS NOW TEA TIME!

OUR SNACKS: CHOCOLATE CAKE, SALTINE CRACKERS, AND CHEESEBURGERS

OUR DRINKS: WHITE WINE, BLUE TEA, AND PINK LEMONADE

OUR TOPICS: PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION, CELEBRITIES, AND THERMONUCLEAR WAR

BONUS TOPIC: WHICH TWO WORLD LEADERS WOULD YOU MOST LIKE TO SEE FIGHT EACH OTHER (PHYSICALLY), AND WHO DO YOU THINK WOULD WIN?

BONUS PROGRAMS: OPEN LETTERS, RANDOM LINKS, AND NONSENSICAL SENTENCES[/B]

I'll just have coal and water.

Public transportation: I support it of course, particularly by rail. Unlike Duke, though, I prefer standard gauge public transit: It's more standardized that way, and it's easier to link up with the rest of the rail network.

Celebrities: I like some of them. Lin-Manuel Miranda seems pretty cool, and I also like Daisy Ridley and Scarlett Johansson.

Thermonuclear war: I originally didn't know what 'thermo-nuclear' meant, but then Edward explained it to me, and it sounds awful! I hope we never do it!

Bonus: None. Fighting doesn't solve anything, and the world would be a much happier place if we could resolve everything peacefully.

Duke The Old Engine wrote:For me? I'm honored! Thank you! Been here four days, and they're already giving me an award. This place isn't half-bad. You were right to recommend it to me, Percyton.

I'm glad you like it here, Duke! I knew you'd grow to enjoy this region and the people here eventually, but I didn't think 'eventually' would mean only 4 days. But either way, I'm glad you're happy here!

Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Oelesa, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota, Duke The Old Engine

Jaslandia wrote:LADIES, GENTLEMEN, AND VELOCIRAPTORS, IT IS NOW TEA TIME!

OUR SNACKS: CHOCOLATE CAKE, SALTINE CRACKERS, AND CHEESEBURGERS

OUR DRINKS: WHITE WINE, BLUE TEA, AND PINK LEMONADE

OUR TOPICS: PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION, CELEBRITIES, AND THERMONUCLEAR WAR

BONUS TOPIC: WHICH TWO WORLD LEADERS WOULD YOU MOST LIKE TO SEE FIGHT EACH OTHER (PHYSICALLY), AND WHO DO YOU THINK WOULD WIN?

BONUS PROGRAMS: OPEN LETTERS, RANDOM LINKS, AND NONSENSICAL SENTENCES[/B]

Tea time eh? *nickers* I've missed this.

Snacks: Hmm... I think I'll go with a cheeseburger. I heard that the American ones are, how did that one diplomat put it... To die for? I don't believe him.

Drinks: A glass of white wine will be lovely. I think I'll go for a Chateau '39 from Naples.

Topics: Thermonuclear War.. Didn't the Cold War teach us anything? Bloody...

Bonus Topic: I've grown tired of Trump and Kim Jon-Un acting like man-babies and shaking their rattlers at each other. Why don't you do the world a favor and go throw your temper tantrum elsewhere....like one of the American UFC rings?

Bonus Programs: Equestrian troops have reached and deployed on Sodor and the Mainland as part of the Red Crusade 2018. We are planning to construct hostels for the poor, check/repair rail lines, and generally assist where needed. Despite the large naval presence on New Years, the Scandinavian privateers decided to attack... but were intercepted before they could get close. I hope the air show and subsequent massive fireworks display was to liking. I've decided to, with Percy's permission, request to station a small garrison on a part of the island that would be relatively "out of the way". This will allow us to better monitor the threats and also ensure the welfare of our ally.

Jaslandia, Oelesa, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota, Percyton, Duke The Old Engine

Jaslandia wrote:LADIES, GENTLEMEN, AND VELOCIRAPTORS, IT IS NOW TEA TIME!

OUR SNACKS: CHOCOLATE CAKE, SALTINE CRACKERS, AND CHEESEBURGERS

OUR DRINKS: WHITE WINE, BLUE TEA, AND PINK LEMONADE

OUR TOPICS: PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION, CELEBRITIES, AND THERMONUCLEAR WAR

BONUS TOPIC: WHICH TWO WORLD LEADERS WOULD YOU MOST LIKE TO SEE FIGHT EACH OTHER (PHYSICALLY), AND WHO DO YOU THINK WOULD WIN?

BONUS PROGRAMS: OPEN LETTERS, RANDOM LINKS, AND NONSENSICAL SENTENCES[/B]

*licking chops*

I'll have the chocolate cake and the blue tea, with a side of cheeseburger and pink lemonade

I would personally tax vehicle miles travelled up the wazoo and municipalize the public transportation sector, expanding it to cover almost all Americans, the expenses be damned. We could, could make a nice profit if we charge fares high enough without being like Metro

How the fame has tainted many of them. I can almost see are that the movie cameras in Hollywood are cursed.

pls no

Hahahahahahahaha, that's a hilarious bonus question.

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

Jaslandia wrote:LADIES, GENTLEMEN, AND VELOCIRAPTORS, IT IS NOW TEA TIME!

OUR SNACKS: CHOCOLATE CAKE, SALTINE CRACKERS, AND CHEESEBURGERS

OUR DRINKS: WHITE WINE, BLUE TEA, AND PINK LEMONADE

OUR TOPICS: PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION, CELEBRITIES, AND THERMONUCLEAR WAR

BONUS TOPIC: WHICH TWO WORLD LEADERS WOULD YOU MOST LIKE TO SEE FIGHT EACH OTHER (PHYSICALLY), AND WHO DO YOU THINK WOULD WIN?

BONUS PROGRAMS: OPEN LETTERS, RANDOM LINKS, AND NONSENSICAL SENTENCES[/B]

Snacks: Been feeling hearty so its cheeseburgers for me!

Drinks: White wine is the superior wine and nobody can tell me otherwise.

Topics: Public Transportation in Edinburgh is great, we've got one of the best bus services in the world, trams, taxis and ubers and the train stations (and by extention Scotrail) are good too. Although in my opinion Scotrail should go back to being nationalised. In one of my Media modules in uni, I had to argue who was the first "celebrity" and I came down to 3 answers: Orsippus of Megara, Joshua Reynolds and Florence Lawrence. Its really all down to what your definition of a celebrity is. Thermonuclear war? More like LAMEOnuclear war, also REMOVE TRIDENT.

Bonus Topic: I'd like to see Xi Jinping and Kim Jong Un duke it out. Xi would win obviously, he might be old but that guy has been through hell and always came out on top. After my dissertation on North Korea I just want to see the DPRK get SLAMMED by China.

Bonus Program: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hxjofn2bYE8

do u kno da wey?

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

Jaslandia wrote:LADIES, GENTLEMEN, AND VELOCIRAPTORS, IT IS NOW TEA TIME!

OUR SNACKS: CHOCOLATE CAKE, SALTINE CRACKERS, AND CHEESEBURGERS

OUR DRINKS: WHITE WINE, BLUE TEA, AND PINK LEMONADE

OUR TOPICS: PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION, CELEBRITIES, AND THERMONUCLEAR WAR

BONUS TOPIC: WHICH TWO WORLD LEADERS WOULD YOU MOST LIKE TO SEE FIGHT EACH OTHER (PHYSICALLY), AND WHO DO YOU THINK WOULD WIN?

BONUS PROGRAMS: OPEN LETTERS, RANDOM LINKS, AND NONSENSICAL SENTENCES[/B]

Chocolate cake and tea please. :)

Public Tansport: Good idea. Works fine overhear. Tho it's time consuming and your aren't that flexible as you would be with a car.

Celebrities: I don't get it why we admire them. What are they doing mostly? Singing or pretending to be another person also known as acting. And they earn hell a lot of money. I wish the men and women which keep your streets clean, transport your goods from a to b, produce your food, keep your infrastructure intact or help you in case of an emergency would get as much attention and credit.

Thermonuclear war: Dats no good. No,no,no.

Bonus Topic: /// no data found ///

Jaslandia, Vista Major, Minnesota Dakota, Percyton

Apparently uct wants to get a vasectomy because the tomato is new Jerseys national flower

Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota, Mercunova

Fuhrmania wrote:Apparently uct wants to get a vasectomy because the tomato is new Jerseys national flower

Can't blame him

Tomatoes are the worst

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota, Fuhrmania, Yukona

The new King of New Salvatore visited a foreign country to improve relations and banned Jennifer Government to stop the spread of revolutionary ideas. All in a day's good work.

Russkov Soviet, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota, Mercunova

Oh my God

I actually have the highest employment rate in the region

socialism u guyz

Russkov Soviet, Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota, Percyton

Vista Major wrote:Oh my God

I actually have the highest employment rate in the region

socialism u guyz

100% of your economy comes from either state owned industry or directly from the government. Easy to get 100% employment when just being alive makes you an employee of the state, ya pinko

Russkov Soviet, Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota, Mercunova, Fuhrmania, Yukona, Cesorion

I'm 2nd in the region for Public Education? Wot m8?

Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

Continental Commonwealths wrote:100% of your economy comes from either state owned industry or directly from the government. Easy to get 100% employment when just being alive makes you an employee of the state, ya pinko

Says the red Cardinal :P

Jaslandia, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Mercunova

Continental Commonwealths wrote:100% of your economy comes from either state owned industry or directly from the government. Easy to get 100% employment when just being alive makes you an employee of the state, ya pinko

Easier than capitalism

Russkov Soviet wrote:I'm 2nd in the region for Public Education? Wot m8?

Get on my level

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:Says the red Cardinal :P

oof

Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota

Vista Major wrote:Easier than capitalism

Just let me ask

A) What kind of jobs are they?

B) Am I the only one that thinks it does good to have people earn their jobs?

Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica

Vista Major wrote:Easier than capitalism

Get on my level

oof

1v1 me scrub

Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:Says the red Cardinal :P

He’s red because he’s bathed in the lifeblood of what was once my burgeoning economy.

Or tens of thousands of years of evolutionary adaptation.

But I know it’s one of those two.

Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova

[spoiler=Today is January 4 and today are:]

Today is January 4 and today are:

- Chōna-hajimeshiki at Tsurugaoka Hachiman-gū (Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan)

- Day of King Amador (São Tomé and Príncipe)

- Day of the Fallen against the Colonial Repression (Angola)

- Day of the Martyrs (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

- Funaiwai at Koshigoe (Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan)

- Hwinukan mukee (Okinawa Islands, Japan)

- Independence Day (Myanmar)

- National Missouri Day (United States)

- National Spaghetti Day (United States)

- National Trivia Day (United States)

- Ogoni Day (Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People)

- Pop Music Chart Day

- World Braille Day

- World Hypnotism Day

[/spoiler]

[spoiler=This day in history:]

This day in history:

- 46BC – Julius Caesar fights Titus Labienus in the Battle of Ruspina.

- 0871 – Battle of Reading: Æthelred of Wessex fights, and is defeated by, a Danish invasion army.

- 1490 – Anne of Brittany announces that all those who would ally with the King of France will be considered guilty of the crime of lèse-majesté.

- 1642 – King Charles I of England attempts to arrest Five Members of Parliament, commencing England's slide into civil war.

- 1649 – English Civil War: The Rump Parliament votes to put Charles I on trial.

- 1717 – The Netherlands, Great Britain, and France sign the Triple Alliance in an attempt to maintain the Treaty of Utrecht , Britain having signed a preliminary alliance with France on November 28 (November 17, 1716).

- 1762 – Great Britain enters the Seven Years' War against Spain and Naples.

- 1798 – Constantine Hangerli arrives in Bucharest, Wallachia, as its new Prince, invested by the Ottoman Empire.

- 1847 – Samuel Colt sells his first revolver pistol to the United States government.

- 1853 – After having been kidnapped and sold into slavery in the American South, Solomon Northup regains his freedom; his memoir Twelve Years a Slave later becomes a national bestseller.

- 1854 – The McDonald Islands are discovered by Captain William McDonald aboard the Samarang.

- 1863 – The New Apostolic Church, a Christian and chiliastic church, is established in Hamburg, Germany.

- 1865 – The New York Stock Exchange opens its first permanent headquarters near Wall Street in New York City.

- 1878 – Russo-Turkish War (1877–78): Sofia is liberated from Ottoman rule and becomes capital of Liberated Bulgaria in 1879.

- 1884 – The Fabian Society is founded in London, England, United Kingdom.

- 1896 – Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state.

- 1903 – Topsy, an elephant, is electrocuted by the owners of Luna Park, Coney Island. The Edison film company shoots the film Electrocuting an Elephant of Topsy's death.

- 1912 – The Scout Association is incorporated throughout the British Empire by royal charter.

- 1918 – The Finnish Declaration of Independence is recognized by Russia, Sweden, Germany and France.

- 1944 – World War II: Operation Carpetbagger, involving the dropping of arms and supplies to resistance fighters in Europe, begins.

- 1948 – Burma gains its independence from the United Kingdom becoming an independent republic, named the Union of Burma, with Sao Shwe Thaik as its first President and U Nu its first Prime Minister.

- 1951 – Korean War: Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul.

- 1955 – The Greek National Radical Union is formed by Konstantinos Karamanlis.

- 1958 – Sputnik 1 falls to Earth from orbit.

- 1959 – Luna 1 becomes the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon.

- 1959 – Gypsy opened and closed on Broadway after 120 performances and four previews

- 1966 – A military coup takes place in Upper Volta (later Burkina Faso), dissolving the National Parliament and leading to a new national constitution.

- 1972 – Rose Heilbron becomes the first female judge to sit at the Old Bailey in London, England.

- 1974 – United States President Richard Nixon refuses to hand over materials subpoenaed by the Senate Watergate Committee.

- 1976 – The Troubles: The Ulster Volunteer Force shoots dead six Irish Catholic civilians in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. The next day, gunmen shoot dead ten Protestant civilians nearby in retaliation.

- 1987 – The Maryland train collision: An Amtrak train en route to Boston from Washington, D.C., collides with Conrail engines in Chase, Maryland, killing 16 people.

- 1989 – Second Gulf of Sidra incident: A pair of Libyan MiG-23 "Floggers" are shot down by a pair of US Navy F-14 Tomcats during an air-to-air confrontation.

- 1990 – In Pakistan's deadliest train accident an overloaded passenger train collides with an empty freight train, resulting in 307 deaths and 700 injuries.

- 1998 – Wilaya of Relizane massacres in Algeria: Over 170 are killed in three remote villages.

- 1998 – A massive ice storm hits eastern Canada and the northeastern United States, continuing through January 10 and causing widespread destruction.

- 1999 – Former professional wrestler Jesse Ventura is sworn in as governor of Minnesota.

- 2004 – Spirit, a NASA Mars rover, lands successfully on Mars at 04:35 UTC.

- 2004 – Mikheil Saakashvili is elected President of Georgia following the November 2003 Rose Revolution.

- 2006 – Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel suffers a second, apparently more serious stroke. His authority is transferred to acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.

- 2007 – The 110th United States Congress convenes, electing Nancy Pelosi as the first female Speaker of the House in U.S. history.

- 2010 - The Burj Khalifa, the current tallest building in the world, officially opens in Dubai.

- 2013 – A gunman kills eight people in a house-to-house rampage in Kawit, Cavite, Philippines.

[/spoiler]

[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]

Famous Birthdays:

- 1643 – Isaac Newton, English physicist and mathematician

- 1785 – Jacob Grimm, German philologist, mythologist, and author

- 1809 – Louis Braille, French educator, invented Braille

- 1832 – George Tryon, English admiral

- 1900 – James Bond, American ornithologist and zoologist

- 1929 – Günter Schabowski, German journalist and politician

- 1934 – Hellmuth Karasek, Czech-German journalist, author, and critic

- 1940 – Helmut Jahn, German-American architect, designed Liberty Place and Messeturm

- 1940 – Gao Xingjian, Chinese-French author, playwright, and critic, Nobel Prize laureate

- 1942 – John McLaughlin, English guitarist and songwriter

- 1960 – Michael Stipe, American singer-songwriter and producer

- 1963 – Till Lindemann, German singer-songwriter

- 1965 – Guy Forget, French tennis player

- 1990 – Toni Kroos, German footballer

[/spoiler]

Quote of the day

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.

- Isaac Newton -

Note: Penguania_And_Antarctica assumes no responsibility or guarantee for correctness of any given information. Any recourse to courts of law is excluded.

Jaslandia, Vista Major, Minnesota Dakota, Mercunova, Percyton, Duke The Old Engine

Continental Commonwealths wrote:He’s red because he’s bathed in the lifeblood of what was once my burgeoning economy.

Or tens of thousands of years of evolutionary adaptation.

But I know it’s one of those two.

Anyway. How is you doing? :)

Russkov Soviet wrote:1v1 me scrub

I did

https://www.nationstates.net/page=challenge?entity_name=russkov_soviet

Continental Commonwealths wrote:He’s red because he’s bathed in the lifeblood of what was once my burgeoning economy

Doesn't feel good, does it?

https://www.nationstates.net/nation=vista_major/detail=trend

Cesorion wrote:Just let me ask

A) What kind of jobs are they?

B) Am I the only one that thinks it does good to have people earn their jobs?

A) There are a great many kind of jobs. Most are in government (particularly in infrastructure and technology) or in the information technology sector in general

B) To the extreme that I think you're implying, maybe so.

Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia

Okay bad new yall apparently the doc made a mistake on my diagnosis.

I actually have stage 4 Breast cancer.

Minnesota Dakota, Percyton

Vista Major wrote:I did

https://www.nationstates.net/page=challenge?entity_name=russkov_soviet

Huh. I didn't know that was a thing. The link doesn't do anything.... but still.

Fuhrmania wrote:Okay bad new yall apparently the doc made a mistake on my diagnosis.

I actually have stage 4 Breast cancer.

Oh. Sorry to hear that. I hope it'll be alright.

Axeldonia, Mercunova, Fuhrmania, Percyton

Vista Major wrote:I did

https://www.nationstates.net/page=challenge?entity_name=russkov_soviet

Doesn't feel good, does it?

https://www.nationstates.net/nation=vista_major/detail=trend

A) There are a great many kind of jobs. Most are in government (particularly in infrastructure and technology) or in the information technology sector in general

B) To the extreme that I think you're implying, maybe so.

B) Sadly for you, I don't imply any extreme. I do have a public sector at around 10%. https://www.nationstates.net/nation=cesorion/detail=economy

A) your system basically is that

Work for the state

Be paid for that

Pay 100% taxes

Repeat

No thanks.

Jaslandia wrote:LADIES, GENTLEMEN, AND VELOCIRAPTORS, IT IS NOW TEA TIME!

OUR SNACKS: CHOCOLATE CAKE, SALTINE CRACKERS, AND CHEESEBURGERS

OUR DRINKS: WHITE WINE, BLUE TEA, AND PINK LEMONADE

OUR TOPICS: PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION, CELEBRITIES, AND THERMONUCLEAR WAR

BONUS TOPIC: WHICH TWO WORLD LEADERS WOULD YOU MOST LIKE TO SEE FIGHT EACH OTHER (PHYSICALLY), AND WHO DO YOU THINK WOULD WIN?

BONUS PROGRAMS: OPEN LETTERS, RANDOM LINKS, AND NONSENSICAL SENTENCES[/B]

I'll take the cake and lemonade

Public transport: I'd imagine that we could receive a good amount of benefits of, especially since Arlington actually lacks any organized public transport aside from the school buses and HandiTran (helps the elderly and the handicapped)

Celebrities: Nicolas Cage is also the universal constant which unites us all. After all, that was the plan: to give us all a boner. And we got one. Congratulations, we're human. Jokes aside, the levels to which we hold celebrities to is pretty uncomfortable (the intense amount of scrutiny can serve as the death knell for their careers if a scandal breaks, but the more personable ones are also being watched almost all the time) and the amount of idolization is rather creepy. On the other hand, scrutiny is a necessity when a scandal does break out (Weinstein, celebrity murders, Logan Paul recording a dead body).

Thermonuclear war: Let's all go to the Rapture, everyone: end the Earth and its ability to rebuild its ecosystems.

Bonus topic: I initially would've answered this with Robert Mugabe and José Eduardo dos Santos, but both of them stepped down: I'd say Salman of Saudi Arabia and Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo: if one dies from their wounds, then a dictator falls (though Saudi Arabia would easily just replace Salman with someone else from the House of Saud :p)

Bonus programs: When the Danish kid in the class comes in with a wolf pelt and broadsword - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNu6FmaUIB0

Fuhrmania wrote:Apparently uct wants to get a vasectomy because the tomato is new Jerseys national flower

That and all the other paskapuhe that was in general last night

Nuremgard wrote:The new King of New Salvatore visited a foreign country to improve relations and banned Jennifer Government to stop the spread of revolutionary ideas. All in a day's good work.

Should probably overthrow the monarchy: just make New Salvatore the right-wing equivalent of Democratic Kampuchea :p

Jaslandia, Percyton

Pirate Kingdoms wrote:I'll take the cake and lemonade

Public transport: I'd imagine that we could receive a good amount of benefits of, especially since Arlington actually lacks any organized public transport aside from the school buses and HandiTran (helps the elderly and the handicapped)

Celebrities: Nicolas Cage is also the universal constant which unites us all. After all, that was the plan: to give us all a boner. And we got one. Congratulations, we're human. Jokes aside, the levels to which we hold celebrities to is pretty uncomfortable (the intense amount of scrutiny can serve as the death knell for their careers if a scandal breaks, but the more personable ones are also being watched almost all the time) and the amount of idolization is rather creepy. On the other hand, scrutiny is a necessity when a scandal does break out (Weinstein, celebrity murders, Logan Paul recording a dead body).

Thermonuclear war: Let's all go to the Rapture, everyone: end the Earth and its ability to rebuild its ecosystems.

Bonus topic: I initially would've answered this with Robert Mugabe and José Eduardo dos Santos, but both of them stepped down: I'd say Salman of Saudi Arabia and Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo: if one dies from their wounds, then a dictator falls (though Saudi Arabia would easily just replace Salman with someone else from the House of Saud :p)

Bonus programs: When the Danish kid in the class comes in with a wolf pelt and broadsword - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNu6FmaUIB0

That and all the other paskapuhe that was in general last night

Should probably overthrow the monarchy: just make New Salvatore the right-wing equivalent of Democratic Kampuchea :p

Democratic what? lol

Penguania And Antarctica

Nuremgard wrote:Democratic what? lol

Italian dish. Similar to a bolognese.

Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona, Percyton

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:Anyway. How is you doing? :)

Hey Peng! :) Thing are well. How’re you?

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

Continental Commonwealths wrote:Hey Peng! :) Thing are well. How’re you?

Doing alright. Still have holidays/vacation. So I'm enjoying my free time. Up to much rn? :D

Jaslandia, Percyton

Continental Commonwealths wrote:Italian dish. Similar to a bolognese.

Okay...

Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova

Nuremgard wrote:Democratic what? lol

Pol Pot's Cambodia, ya dingus :p

Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona

Cesorion wrote:B) Sadly for you, I don't imply any extreme. I do have a public sector at around 10%. https://www.nationstates.net/nation=cesorion/detail=economy

A) your system basically is that

Work for the state

Be paid for that

Pay 100% taxes

Repeat

No thanks.

You will find that such a system supplies superior education, healthcare, welfare, transportation systems, as a higher economy and much better income equality

Our citizens are well provided for

Apparently Saor Scotland has enforced atheism.

Mercunova

Nuremgard wrote:Apparently Saor Scotland has enforced atheism.

That blue Saltire is slowly turning red

Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Axeldonia

Jaslandia wrote:LADIES, GENTLEMEN, AND VELOCIRAPTORS, IT IS NOW TEA TIME!

OUR SNACKS: CHOCOLATE CAKE, SALTINE CRACKERS, AND CHEESEBURGERS

OUR DRINKS: WHITE WINE, BLUE TEA, AND PINK LEMONADE

OUR TOPICS: PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION, CELEBRITIES, AND THERMONUCLEAR WAR

BONUS TOPIC: WHICH TWO WORLD LEADERS WOULD YOU MOST LIKE TO SEE FIGHT EACH OTHER (PHYSICALLY), AND WHO DO YOU THINK WOULD WIN?

BONUS PROGRAMS: OPEN LETTERS, RANDOM LINKS, AND NONSENSICAL SENTENCES[/B]

Cake and lemonade too, please.

Publice transportation: Good! Expand and democratize it and you have the best transport system ever.

Celebrities: I can sort of get why actors get famous (They're everywhere in our movies, game etc.) but they don't deserve the amounts of money and luxury they get. Honestly, I think people like janitors and garbagemen deserve that. They do the jobs no one else want to do. They're pals.

Thermonuclear war:

Cons: Global Death etc.

Pros: I don't have to think about ending my life anymore

Bonus topic: I've been trying to make alternate union flags and associated ensigns. Any tips?

Jaslandia, Percyton

Mercunova wrote:That blue Saltire is slowly turning red

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U06jlgpMtQs

Nuremgard wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U06jlgpMtQs

Skotland Stronk

I think I'd like to expand on my response to the Teatime from yesterday (I was a bit dazed from Stellaris, admittedly) and a few other military comments over the weak. Topics will be bolded.

[Spoiler]Thermonuclear wars, attacks and defense probability:

Since the topic of other nations obtaining nuclear weapons began, it has been an increasingly popular notion to gain a "Defense" from it. Whether this is a technological defense, geographical, military or otherwise political and economical defense has varied but the consistent factor throughout it all these past seventy something years has been the unwillingness of either side to fire the first shot. It doesn't take a very smart man to figure out that MAD precludes the launch of nuclear weapons in most circumstances, nor does it take an exceptionally smart man to see that the nuclear weapon has helped to lower the danger of wars between the major powers of the world. However, what must also be seen is that this doesn't make other states -nuclear capable or not- our friends. The reasoning behind many of the conflicts of the twentieth century is beyond the extent of this comment so I will instead focus on what was quite possibly the best chance for a somewhat more-open world, how Peace Dividends and Soviet propaganda ruined it -alongside the mockery of sciences that is so often clung to when a proper retort is outside a political faction's grasp- and what could be done in the modern day to attempt to fix this colossal peace-time mistake that like so many down-scaling efforts has robbed us of significant capabilities that we must now stretch to gain back.

The SDI: What was it?

In 1984 the Strategic Defense Initiative was unveiled to the public. It was a program that sought to reduce -and potentially eliminate- MAD as a doctrine, to be replaced with the capability of the United States -and much of the Western World- to protect themselves from most nuclear weapons. This was focused on SSBN and land based ICBMs and depending on the version would also tackle some higher altitude missiles as well, but the effect on a significant portion of the Soviet Union's nuclear weaponry was minimal, to be covered by other programs and weapons like SM-3 and PAT-3 if at all. Though it didn't leave the Soviet Union defenseless, it did largely reduce their effective ability to strike at the US and was the perfect point for an arms reduction on both sides of the Iron Curtain.

Unfortunately, the Soviet Union had other ideas. They already knew that countering the SDI was impossible economically for them, the strain of matching the West in terms of military spending was already rupturing their economy and a further expense such as the a Russian SDI would only spell further problems for an already poor USSR. So, like they always had a prosperity for, they began a subversive campaign of misinformation and fear mongering to turn the public against the idea beginning with the notion that it made nuclear war an inevitable event (Though no one in the Kremlin actually believed that, that it was the lead-up to a Western first strike -Which was never on the table for the US or the USSR, there were never First Strike plans in the later cold war- and that it placed Europe into a worse condition because it was the start of the US no longer caring for their European Allies. They were aided by peace-politicians, that is, Politicians who ran on the notion that Peace Dividends could be secured to help the economy and that diplomacy was an eternal answer who mocked the SDI as being "Star Wars" or essentially a piece of science fiction. The march of -relatively defunded- has of course proven them mostly wrong on that front, however.

The culmination of this was a push to defund and stop the SDI despite it's phenomenal possibilities, and thanks to an overwhelming amount of Soviet Propaganda and support for diplomacy, it has succeeded in quite a few ways. The more expensive forms of the SDI's work have been struck and we've been left -thankfully, even. It has been on the chopping block at times- with the THAAD system. We thoroughly defunded NASA and would now need an entirely new rocket to place SDI style satellites in orbit, though we must now also spend massive amounts of money to continue or repeat the construction of said systems if records have degraded.

Catching up to where we could have gotten is, in my opinion, nearly impossible. As Nurem exemplified a few days ago a large number of people are convinced that what is degrading the nation is not the petty and backroom politics of the nation -though they certainly play a part in their minds, I presume- but instead the "Colossal" defense spending of the nation. Though it might behoove people to know that defense spending as a percentage of GDP still remains lower than it was in the Cold War or during the start of the War on Terror, hanging steady at about 3.4 percent and still remains lower than I would recommend to support the present state of the military's acquisition programs but also to support future programs inside of the Military like the ADVAP round. Though we can certainly attempt it, Fear-Mongering over the supposed destruction of our nation would drive voters to whichever candidate promised to shepard them to to a peaceful existence free of the imminent threat of "destruction" and instead to the supposedly less dangerous delayed threat. And if it were not the result of the Citizen beguiled in the Fear Mongering we see every time North Korea opens it's mouth and is hailed as some kind of great destroryer by the Media -Promptly followed by a substantial raise in their ratings, I'm sure- then the death of a program would probably come from the GAO or the petty congressmen who sit behind them, content to take second best in the defense of the nation due to the cost of upgrading.

A European Continental Army & Leaving NATO: This is the single most interesting quesiton I talked about in these last few days, I will not lie. Making a Continental Army for the Europeans would be painfully expensive but could result in a large, well equipped fighting force that was able to truly defend it's own boarders with less of a US presence, potentially even without the need for a US presence if they were lucky as all hell. Unfortunately, this potential is only achievable if European countries across the board all collectively raised their defense spending for a number of very expensive reasons.

Though I only elaborated as to two costs inside of an army, the reality of the situation is staggering in both political and economical terms. If we took just Britain, France and Germany to forge this Army in a fully optimized way, we would likely see the replacement of 426 French Tanks and recovery vehicles as well as 510 IFVs, 227 British Tanks and heavy vehicles alongside hundreds of their own Infantry Fighting Vehicle if we presume that they standardized on a German Template. The cost of this mass standardization would likely exceed a billion dollars, potentially reaching upwards into the tens of billions or even to a trillion dollars if we wish to scrub the militaries down into their lowest level as a standard army. We would also have to choose between merging the soldiers from each army into this force or if we would force some soldiers to depart to form a -still larger- but somewhat smaller army, regardless of how it's handled, this would cost a very large amount of money due to the need to pay each soldier, or to pay some soldiers and give others a severance package.

There are other factors, of course but my point is proven. Raising the defense spending in Europe is a forgone conclusion to reach this standard before the technology has a chance to become outdateded enough by a new version of the vehicles.

Leaving NATO meanwhile is a terrible idea for a number of reasons, but the largest is that it practically demands you raise defense spending due to the loss of the collective defense you previously enjoyed. The amount is dependent on whether you want to tell yourself peer-warfare is dead or not, of course, but I personally find it remarkably shortsighted to declare war as being "dead".

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I was gonna go on about how capability equals cost but I got lazy.

Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova

Nuremgard wrote:Apparently Saor Scotland has enforced atheism.

Mercunova wrote:That blue Saltire is slowly turning red

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bch7iFJ0PXQ

Mercunova

I hate when that happens 😅

Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Percyton

The Russian Federations wrote:I hate when that happens 😅

ayy, my boy Rus

Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

The Russian Federations wrote:I hate when that happens 😅

RF! Good to see you again!

Russkov Soviet, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

Well.... this just got awkward.

Penguania And Antarctica

Russkov Soviet wrote:Well.... this just got awkward.

How come?

Russkov Soviet, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

Jaslandia wrote:How come?

...

Penguania And Antarctica

Jaslandia wrote:How come?

Not only did Rus Fed come back (and thus nullifying my nations lore "existence", since I only got this powerful upon Russia's collapse in 2012-2013), but I just found out that my step-mom is trying to "hook me up" with a girl from Russia... (she's pretty "good looking", but I'm sure she already has a BF). So strange...

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica

Russkov Soviet wrote:Not only did Rus Fed come back (and thus nullifying my nations lore "existence", since I only got this powerful upon Russia's collapse in 2012-2013), but I just found out that my step-mom is trying to "hook me up" with a girl from Russia... (she's pretty "good looking", but I'm sure she already has a BF). So strange...

Oh. Yeah, I can see why that could be pretty awkward.

Russkov Soviet, Penguania And Antarctica

Kalaron Hyderbourg

Will the results and the rest of the new government be finalised soon?

Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Cesorion

Oelesa wrote:Kalaron Hyderbourg

Will the results and the rest of the new government be finalised soon?

I've fully analysed my results, however, I'm waiting on Hyder to come online so I can verify with him that he received the same telegrams I did.

Oelesa, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Cesorion

Russkov Soviet wrote:Not only did Rus Fed come back (and thus nullifying my nations lore "existence", since I only got this powerful upon Russia's collapse in 2012-2013), but I just found out that my step-mom is trying to "hook me up" with a girl from Russia... (she's pretty "good looking", but I'm sure she already has a BF). So strange...

Well, Rus doesn't usually RP and he doesn't have a map spot (and that's primarily due to Tse not being active, which is, I assume, possibly due to his kid coming earlier than the due date expected), plus it's probably not going change anything in the current world.

Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Aquatur, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Duke The Old Engine

Pirate Kingdoms wrote:Well, Rus doesn't usually RP and he doesn't have a map spot (and that's primarily due to Tse not being active, which is, I assume, possibly due to his kid coming earlier than the due date expected), plus it's probably not going change anything in the current world.

Tse (or, technically his wife, I suppose) is having a kid? That's great! Next time you talk to him, tell him I said 'congratulations'!

Aquatur, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Duke The Old Engine

Jaslandia wrote:Tse (or, technically his wife, I suppose) is having a kid? That's great! Next time you talk to him, tell him I said 'congratulations'!

He mentioned it to me back in July via telegram: later on in Discord (the Concord channel), I ask him about the due date and he gave an estimate of three months at that time (October) give it was already around 6 months in the womb. Odds are that the reason Tse dropped off the map (lawl map puns) is possibly due to the baby coming earlier than expected

Jaslandia, Aquatur, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Duke The Old Engine

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:

- 1987 – The Maryland train collision: An Amtrak train en route to Boston from Washington, D.C., collides with Conrail engines in Chase, Maryland, killing 16 people.

- 1990 – In Pakistan's deadliest train accident an overloaded passenger train collides with an empty freight train, resulting in 307 deaths and 700 injuries.

Two serious train accidents in one day? Oh dear! Not a good day for railways.

Fuhrmania wrote:Okay bad new yall apparently the doc made a mistake on my diagnosis.

I actually have stage 4 Breast cancer.

Oh dear! How awful! Here's hoping the doctors can do something about it and you'll get better soon! Just stay positive in the meantime!

Pirate Kingdoms wrote:He mentioned it to me back in July via telegram: later on in Discord (the Concord channel), I ask him about the due date and he gave an estimate of three months at that time (October) give it was already around 6 months in the womb. Odds are that the reason Tse dropped off the map (lawl map puns) is possibly due to the baby coming earlier than expected

Congrats, Tse! I'm glad Tse is going to be a dad; he's going to be a great one. Do we know if it's a boy or a girl?

Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota, Duke The Old Engine

Percyton wrote:Two serious train accidents in one day? Oh dear! Not a good day for railways.

It's simple carelessness, I tell you. People don't put enough attention and care into their work nowadays. I guarantee you, if those engines and/or their crew had been more careful, those accidents wouldn't have happened. And I bet they were young engines too, and they were being overconfident and cheeky like young engines tend to be! It's absurd! Such accidents would never suit His Grace!

Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica

Duke The Old Engine wrote:It's simple carelessness, I tell you. People don't put enough attention and care into their work nowadays. I guarantee you, if those engines and/or their crew had been more careful, those accidents wouldn't have happened. And I bet they were young engines too, and they were being overconfident and cheeky like young engines tend to be! It's absurd! Such accidents would never suit His Grace!

I'm not sure you're one to talk about accidents and engines nowadays, considering how many accidents Sodor has had throughout the years.

https://youtu.be/APg6WgcAnMc

Penguania And Antarctica, Duke The Old Engine

Jaslandia wrote:I'm not sure you're one to talk about accidents and engines nowadays, considering how many accidents Sodor has had throughout the years.

https://youtu.be/APg6WgcAnMc

Don't look at me; I'm a narrow gauge engine, and almost all of the crashes and incidents in that video are of standard gauge engines. And most of the few that actually were narrow gauge happened through no fault of the engine or their crew. Yes, there were one or two that were caused by young narrow gauge engines' recklessness or carelessness (I'm looking at you, Peter Sam and Sir Handel), but at least back then such engines had people like me and their crews that checked them before they caused serious engines. Engines nowadays likely don't have such controls, otherwise serious accidents like the Maryland and Pakistan collisions wouldn't have happened. That's the real tragedy of it all: the young engines of today don't have any guidance, no one to teach them better! It's a shame; these young engines are throwing their lives away because no one is around to show them the right direction. So sad.

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica

So I'm a few hours late, but I tallied my votes and just sent them to Kal.

If he confirms what I got, we'll release ASAP.

Jaslandia, Oelesa, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota

ELECTION RESULTS (Confirmed by Justice Kalaron)

Chancellor - Cesorion (ACCLAIMED)

Vice Chancellor - Vista Major (ACCLAIMED)

Speaker - Mercunova (ACCLAIMED)

Minister of Foreign Affairs - Oelesa (7-6)

Minister of the Interior - Lex Caledonia (ACCLAIMED)

Minister of Justice - Penguania And Antarctica (ACCLAIMED)

Jaslandia, Vista Major, Oelesa, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Minnesota Dakota, Mercunova

Hyderbourg wrote:ELECTION RESULTS (Confirmed by Justice Kalaron)

Chancellor - Cesorion (ACCLAIMED)

Vice Chancellor - Vista Major (ACCLAIMED)

Speaker - Mercunova (ACCLAIMED)

Minister of Foreign Affairs - Oelesa (7-6)

Minister of the Interior - Lex Caledonia (ACCLAIMED)

Minister of Justice - Penguania And Antarctica (ACCLAIMED)

Congratulation to Oelesa! I wish you the best of luck in your term. (To be honest, I was not expecting for it to be this close)

Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia

Hyderbourg wrote:ELECTION RESULTS (Confirmed by Justice Kalaron)

Chancellor - Cesorion (ACCLAIMED)

Vice Chancellor - Vista Major (ACCLAIMED)

Speaker - Mercunova (ACCLAIMED)

Minister of Foreign Affairs - Oelesa (7-6)

Minister of the Interior - Lex Caledonia (ACCLAIMED)

Minister of Justice - Penguania And Antarctica (ACCLAIMED)

Congrats to all the election winners! I think this'll be a great term.

Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota, Mercunova

Jaslandia wrote:Congrats to all the election winners! I think this'll be a great term.

It'll be great just as soon as the new officers get formally appointed to their roles in the WFE, which tbh may or may not ever happen

Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota

Mercunova wrote:It'll be great just as soon as the new officers get formally appointed to their roles in the WFE, which tbh may or may not ever happen

Well then whoever has WFE officer powers need to get on that quick!

Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota

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