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btw DIP much later today if anyone is awaiting it.

Jaslandia, Oelesa, Tserra, The United Providences Of Perland

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:Socialist World Republic

*Chilean helicopter blades whir in the distance*

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica

Morning, all.

Hope your Friday goes well.

Jaslandia, Oelesa, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota

Kalaron wrote:Morning, all.

Hope your Friday goes well.

It is decent so far

Jaslandia

Percyton wrote:Can steam engines run on Maglev?

I think so, ill have to do some tests tho

Jaslandia, Percyton

But Uncle Owen this droid has a bad motivator, look!

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland

Yukona wrote:But Uncle Owen this droid has a bad motivator, look!

I have a bad motivator too.

Jaslandia, Continental Commonwealths, The United Providences Of Perland, Yukona

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:WTF

278 messages during one night?!

Don't expect me to read them all.

I did: triggerfest

In the meantime, just to sum up what we should take from this:

-Al, you might want to avoid triggering the other folks here

-Everyone else, pound Al's bunghole to Hosanna and back :p

Jaslandia, Aldaur, Penguania And Antarctica

Tra-Tra-Tra TRIGGERED

Seriously +200 notifications on our RMB, dafuq guys XD

Jaslandia, Aldaur, Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland

Andromitus wrote:Tra-Tra-Tra TRIGGERED

Seriously +200 notifications on our RMB, dafuq guys XD

Ikr

Penguania And Antarctica, Freewire

684 messages..............

Time to read

Jaslandia, Aldaur, Oelesa, Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland

The Cross And Davids Star wrote:I think so, ill have to do some tests tho

Probably safer not to upgrade, Maglev is more fragile if anything.

Jaslandia, Percyton

Yukona wrote:But Uncle Owen this droid has a bad motivator, look!

But Uncle Luke, I'm your father, look!

Yukona

Kalaron wrote:Probably safer not to upgrade, Maglev is more fragile if anything.

yes, but maglev trains are far more faster and smoother than ordinary ones, and having most of your population not be able to move bc someone screwed up the railroad ties would be even worse.

Jaslandia, Percyton

Kalaron wrote:But Uncle Luke, I'm your father, look!

Aw but I was gonna go to Toschie station to pick up some power converters

Penguania And Antarctica

Yeah, could I be briefed on what basically that 200+ post discussion was about lol?

Jaslandia

The United Providences Of Perland wrote:Yeah, could I be briefed on what basically that 200+ post discussion was about lol?

Men aren't real men unless they act like men. Apparently.

Jaslandia, Aldaur, Continental Commonwealths, Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland

To make sure that we don't spend forever talking about RP instead of doing I'm announcing a general RP:

Confederacy General

http://s15.zetaboards.com/COFN/topic/10106215/1

Oelesa, Yukona

Magnatronia wrote:Men aren't real men unless they act like men. Apparently.

Ah, good. I woke up this morning profoundly worried that the patriarchy didn't have enough advocates.

God (who is definitely a man) bless Aldaur. God bless him all day long.

Aldaur, The United Providences Of Perland

Unfallious wrote:To make sure that we don't spend forever talking about RP instead of doing I'm announcing a general RP:

Confederacy General

http://s15.zetaboards.com/COFN/topic/10106215/1

I applied. It looks if I'm approved that we will likely be against each other so this will be fun indeed.

Oelesa

The United Providences Of Perland wrote:I applied. It looks if I'm approved that we will likely be against each other so this will be fun indeed.

Your military factbook isn't very miltary-ey, which is an issue. Other than that you should be good.

Unfallious wrote:Your military factbook isn't very miltary-ey, which is an issue. Other than that you should be good.

I suppose I could create one for the sole purpose of this RP.

The United Providences Of Perland wrote:I suppose I could create one for the sole purpose of this RP.

If you could, that's be great. It's just so that everyone takes the time to establish the sorta stuff they'll be using now so we don't run into problems with tech and stuff down the line that'll be a disruption.

Guys, I did a thing:

http://s15.zetaboards.com/COFN/topic/10106233/1/

Sinovet, Oelesa, Kalaron

Glad to be back, now I can hopefully respond to people without my phone glitching and breaking >:/

The Cross And Davids Star wrote:yes, but maglev trains are far more faster and smoother than ordinary ones, and having most of your population not be able to move bc someone screwed up the railroad ties would be even worse.

Well, the same exact thing would happen should they mess up the actual rail system, and as for the point on them being faster...I guess? That has no bearing on them being fragile in the context of war.

Percyton

The Sheriff of Nothing-Ham (a vegetatian) fights against Robin Hood in Sparerib Forrest.

Aldaur, Oelesa, The United Providences Of Perland

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:The Sheriff of Nothing-Ham (a vegetatian) fights against Robin Hood in Sparerib Forrest.

Okay

Well there was no flooding and no Snow either, it is truly dull here.

Vista Major, The United Providences Of Perland, Yukona

Joined the CG RP if that is what it is called

Vista Major, Oelesa

Hello people. I'm sorry for the lateness of this post. Hope you had a nice day although it's Friday the 13th.

[spoiler=Today are:]

Today are:

- Bhogi (Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, India)

- Constitution Day (Mongolia)

- Democracy Day (Cape Verde)

- International Skeptics Day

- Korean-American Day (Korean-American community, United States)

- Lee–Jackson Day (Virginia, United States)

- Liberation Day (Togo)

- Lohri (Punjab, Haryana,and Himachal Pradesh, India)

- Make Your Dream Come True Day

- Malanka (Ukraine, Russia, Belarus)

- National Blame Someone Else Day (United States)

- National Peach Melba Day (United States)

- National Rubber Ducky Day (United States)

- National Sticker Day (United States)

- Old New Year's Eve (Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Serbia, Montenegro, Republic of Srpska, Republic of Macedonia

- Public Radio Broadcasting Day

- Stephen Foster Memorial Day (United States)

- St. Knut's Day (Finland, Sweden)

- Uruka (Assam, India)

- Yennayer (Berbers)

[/spoiler]

[spoiler=This day in history:]

This day in history:

- 532 – Nika riots in Constantinople.

- 1435 – Sicut Dudum, forbidding the enslavement of the Guanche natives in Canary Islands by the Spanish, is promulgated by Pope Eugene IV.

- 1547 – Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey is sentenced to death.

- 1607 – The Bank of Genoa fails after announcement of national bankruptcy in Spain.

- 1793 – Nicolas Jean Hugon de Bassville, representative of Revolutionary France, lynched by a mob in Rome

- 1822 – The design of the Greek flag is adopted by the First National Assembly at Epidaurus.

- 1830 – The Great Fire of New Orleans begins.

- 1833 – United States President Andrew Jackson writes to Vice President Martin Van Buren expressing his opposition to South Carolina's defiance of federal authority in the Nullification Crisis.

- 1840 – The steamship Lexington burns and sinks four miles off the coast of Long Island with the loss of 139 lives.

- 1847 – The Treaty of Cahuenga ends the Mexican–American War in California.

- 1849 – Establishment of the Colony of Vancouver Island.

- 1888 – The National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C.

- 1893 – The Independent Labour Party of the United Kingdom holds its first meeting.

- 1893 – U.S. Marines land in Honolulu, Hawaii from the USS Boston to prevent the queen from abrogating the Bayonet Constitution.

- 1898 – Émile Zola's J'accuse…! exposes the Dreyfus affair.

- 1908 – The Rhoads Opera House fire in Boyertown, Pennsylvania kills 171 people.

- 1910 – The first public radio broadcast takes place; a live performance of the operas Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci are sent out over the airwaves from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York.

- 1935 – A plebiscite in Saarland shows that 90.3% of those voting wish to join Nazi Germany.

- 1939 – The Black Friday bush fires burn 20,000 square kilometers of land in Australia, claiming the lives of 71 people.

- 1942 – Henry Ford patents a plastic automobile, which is 30% lighter than a regular car.

- 1942 – World War II: First use of an aircraft ejection seat by a German test pilot in a Heinkel He 280 jet fighter.

- 1951 – First Indochina War: The Battle of Vĩnh Yên begins.

- 1958 – The Moroccan Army of Liberation ambushes a Spanish patrol in the Battle of Edchera.

- 1960 – The Gulag system of forced labor camps in the Soviet Union is officially abolished.

- 1963 – Coup d'état in Togo results in the assassination of president Sylvanus Olympio

- 1964 – Anti-Muslim riots break out in Calcutta, resulting in 100 deaths.

- 1966 – Robert C. Weaver becomes the first African American Cabinet member when he is appointed United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

- 1968 – Johnny Cash performs live at Folsom State Prison

- 1972 – Prime Minister Kofi Abrefa Busia and President Edward Akufo-Addo of Ghana are ousted in a bloodless military coup by Colonel Ignatius Kutu Acheampong.

- 1974 – Seraphim is elected Archbishop of Athens and All Greece.

- 1978 – United States Food and Drug Administration requires all blood donations to be labeled "paid" or "volunteer" donors.

- 1982 – Shortly after takeoff, Air Florida Flight 90, a Boeing 737 jet, crashes into Washington, D.C.'s 14th Street Bridge and falls into the Potomac River, killing 78 including four motorists.

- 1985 – A passenger train plunges into a ravine in Ethiopia, killing 428 in the worst railroad disaster in Africa.

- 1986 – A month-long violent struggle begins in Aden, South Yemen between supporters of Ali Nasir Muhammad and Abdul Fattah Ismail, resulting in thousands of casualties.

- 1988 – Lee Teng-hui becomes the first native Taiwanese President of the Republic of China.

- 1990 – A seven-day pogrom breaks out against the Armenian civilian population of Baku, Azerbaijan, during which Armenians were beaten, tortured, murdered, and expelled from the city.

- 1990 – Douglas Wilder becomes the first elected African American governor as he takes office in Richmond, Virginia.

- 1991 – Soviet Union troops attack Lithuanian independence supporters in Vilnius, killing 14 people and wounding around 1000 others.

- 1993 – Space Shuttle program: Endeavour heads for space for the third time as STS-54 launches from the Kennedy Space Center.

- 1993 – Chemical Weapons Convention is adopted

- 1998 – Alfredo Ormando sets himself on fire in St. Peter's Square, protesting against homophobia.

- 2001 – An earthquake hits El Salvador, killing more than 800.

- 2012 – The passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia sinks off the coast of Italy due to the captain's negligence and irresponsibility. There are 32 confirmed deaths.

[/spoiler]

[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]

Famous Birthdays:

- 5 BC – Emperor Guangwu of Han, ruler of China

- 101 – Lucius Aelius, Roman adopted son of Hadrian

- 1864 – Wilhelm Wien, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

- 1924 – Paul Feyerabend, Austrian-Swiss philosopher and academic

- 1927 – Sydney Brenner, South African biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

- 1954 – Trevor Rabin, South African-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

- 1960 – Eric Betzig, American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

- 1966 – Patrick Dempsey, American actor

- 1969 – Stephen Hendry, Scottish snooker player and journalist

- 1970 – Marco Pantani, Italian cyclist

- 1977 – Orlando Bloom, English actor and producer

- 1978 – Nate Silver, American journalist and statistician, developed PECOTA

- 1979 – Joko Winterscheidt, German actor and TV presenter

- 1990 – Liam Hemsworth, Australian actor

[/spoiler]

Quote of the day

The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself.

- Garth Brooks -

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

Jaslandia, Delionia, Aldaur, Vista Major, Oelesa, The United Providences Of Perland, Yukona

[Nation=short]Unfallious[/nation] signed up for your rp

Aldaur, Vista Major

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:Hello people. I'm sorry for the lateness of this post. Hope you had a nice day although it's Friday the 13th.

[spoiler=Today are:]

Today are:

- Bhogi (Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, India)

- Constitution Day (Mongolia)

- Democracy Day (Cape Verde)

- International Skeptics Day

- Korean-American Day (Korean-American community, United States)

- Lee–Jackson Day (Virginia, United States)

- Liberation Day (Togo)

- Lohri (Punjab, Haryana,and Himachal Pradesh, India)

- Make Your Dream Come True Day

- Malanka (Ukraine, Russia, Belarus)

- National Blame Someone Else Day (United States)

- National Peach Melba Day (United States)

- National Rubber Ducky Day (United States)

- National Sticker Day (United States)

- Old New Year's Eve (Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Serbia, Montenegro, Republic of Srpska, Republic of Macedonia

- Public Radio Broadcasting Day

- Stephen Foster Memorial Day (United States)

- St. Knut's Day (Finland, Sweden)

- Uruka (Assam, India)

- Yennayer (Berbers)

[/spoiler]

[spoiler=This day in history:]

This day in history:

- 532 – Nika riots in Constantinople.

- 1435 – Sicut Dudum, forbidding the enslavement of the Guanche natives in Canary Islands by the Spanish, is promulgated by Pope Eugene IV.

- 1547 – Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey is sentenced to death.

- 1607 – The Bank of Genoa fails after announcement of national bankruptcy in Spain.

- 1793 – Nicolas Jean Hugon de Bassville, representative of Revolutionary France, lynched by a mob in Rome

- 1822 – The design of the Greek flag is adopted by the First National Assembly at Epidaurus.

- 1830 – The Great Fire of New Orleans begins.

- 1833 – United States President Andrew Jackson writes to Vice President Martin Van Buren expressing his opposition to South Carolina's defiance of federal authority in the Nullification Crisis.

- 1840 – The steamship Lexington burns and sinks four miles off the coast of Long Island with the loss of 139 lives.

- 1847 – The Treaty of Cahuenga ends the Mexican–American War in California.

- 1849 – Establishment of the Colony of Vancouver Island.

- 1888 – The National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C.

- 1893 – The Independent Labour Party of the United Kingdom holds its first meeting.

- 1893 – U.S. Marines land in Honolulu, Hawaii from the USS Boston to prevent the queen from abrogating the Bayonet Constitution.

- 1898 – Émile Zola's J'accuse…! exposes the Dreyfus affair.

- 1908 – The Rhoads Opera House fire in Boyertown, Pennsylvania kills 171 people.

- 1910 – The first public radio broadcast takes place; a live performance of the operas Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci are sent out over the airwaves from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York.

- 1935 – A plebiscite in Saarland shows that 90.3% of those voting wish to join Nazi Germany.

- 1939 – The Black Friday bush fires burn 20,000 square kilometers of land in Australia, claiming the lives of 71 people.

- 1942 – Henry Ford patents a plastic automobile, which is 30% lighter than a regular car.

- 1942 – World War II: First use of an aircraft ejection seat by a German test pilot in a Heinkel He 280 jet fighter.

- 1951 – First Indochina War: The Battle of Vĩnh Yên begins.

- 1958 – The Moroccan Army of Liberation ambushes a Spanish patrol in the Battle of Edchera.

- 1960 – The Gulag system of forced labor camps in the Soviet Union is officially abolished.

- 1963 – Coup d'état in Togo results in the assassination of president Sylvanus Olympio

- 1964 – Anti-Muslim riots break out in Calcutta, resulting in 100 deaths.

- 1966 – Robert C. Weaver becomes the first African American Cabinet member when he is appointed United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

- 1968 – Johnny Cash performs live at Folsom State Prison

- 1972 – Prime Minister Kofi Abrefa Busia and President Edward Akufo-Addo of Ghana are ousted in a bloodless military coup by Colonel Ignatius Kutu Acheampong.

- 1974 – Seraphim is elected Archbishop of Athens and All Greece.

- 1978 – United States Food and Drug Administration requires all blood donations to be labeled "paid" or "volunteer" donors.

- 1982 – Shortly after takeoff, Air Florida Flight 90, a Boeing 737 jet, crashes into Washington, D.C.'s 14th Street Bridge and falls into the Potomac River, killing 78 including four motorists.

- 1985 – A passenger train plunges into a ravine in Ethiopia, killing 428 in the worst railroad disaster in Africa.

- 1986 – A month-long violent struggle begins in Aden, South Yemen between supporters of Ali Nasir Muhammad and Abdul Fattah Ismail, resulting in thousands of casualties.

- 1988 – Lee Teng-hui becomes the first native Taiwanese President of the Republic of China.

- 1990 – A seven-day pogrom breaks out against the Armenian civilian population of Baku, Azerbaijan, during which Armenians were beaten, tortured, murdered, and expelled from the city.

- 1990 – Douglas Wilder becomes the first elected African American governor as he takes office in Richmond, Virginia.

- 1991 – Soviet Union troops attack Lithuanian independence supporters in Vilnius, killing 14 people and wounding around 1000 others.

- 1993 – Space Shuttle program: Endeavour heads for space for the third time as STS-54 launches from the Kennedy Space Center.

- 1993 – Chemical Weapons Convention is adopted

- 1998 – Alfredo Ormando sets himself on fire in St. Peter's Square, protesting against homophobia.

- 2001 – An earthquake hits El Salvador, killing more than 800.

- 2012 – The passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia sinks off the coast of Italy due to the captain's negligence and irresponsibility. There are 32 confirmed deaths.

[/spoiler]

[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]

Famous Birthdays:

- 5 BC – Emperor Guangwu of Han, ruler of China

- 101 – Lucius Aelius, Roman adopted son of Hadrian

- 1864 – Wilhelm Wien, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

- 1924 – Paul Feyerabend, Austrian-Swiss philosopher and academic

- 1927 – Sydney Brenner, South African biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

- 1954 – Trevor Rabin, South African-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

- 1960 – Eric Betzig, American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

- 1966 – Patrick Dempsey, American actor

- 1969 – Stephen Hendry, Scottish snooker player and journalist

- 1970 – Marco Pantani, Italian cyclist

- 1977 – Orlando Bloom, English actor and producer

- 1978 – Nate Silver, American journalist and statistician, developed PECOTA

- 1979 – Joko Winterscheidt, German actor and TV presenter

- 1990 – Liam Hemsworth, Australian actor

[/spoiler]

Quote of the day

The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself.

- Garth Brooks -

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

Republic of macedonia? Huh, never heard of it. The only think of is a really pretty state in Greece, you can visit where the Greek hero Alexander lived.

Oelesa, Yukona

Aetosia wrote:Republic of macedonia? Huh, never heard of it. The only think of is a really pretty state in Greece, you can visit where the Greek hero Alexander lived.

*sees Macedonia*...*twitches* It's not the FYROM, it checks out

Oelesa, The United Providences Of Perland

The Cross And Davids Star wrote:I think so, ill have to do some tests tho

I brought your idea up to Toby, my Minister of Transportation. He says he'll consider it, but it isn't likely to be enacted: Toby said that even if steam engines could run on Maglev tracks, not only would it be very expensive to replace Percyton's expansive railway infrastructure with Maglev, but neither the engines nor the railway stuff know how to run Maglev, which would be a problem.

Jaslandia

You know guys, we fight a lot, but at least we aren't /R/Socialism right now.

Can we all take a moment to reflect on the beauty of that?

Kalaron wrote:You know guys, we fight a lot, but at least we aren't /R/Socialism right now.

Can we all take a moment to reflect on the beauty of that?

They're fighting over the bourgeois/misogynistic elements in catgirl comics.

It's the greatest political drama I've ever seen :')

Pirate Kingdoms wrote:I did: triggerfest

In the meantime, just to sum up what we should take from this:

-Al, you might want to avoid triggering the other folks here

-Everyone else, pound Al's bunghole to Hosanna and back :p

Why? Triggering others is fun :p

You can try, but you're not man enough to pound me ;)

Pirate Kingdoms

Unfallious wrote:They're fighting over the bourgeois/misogynistic elements in catgirl comics.

It's the greatest political drama I've ever seen :')

Her comics have actually gotten me to chuckle once or twice too.

I think I most like the Mod's defense of their action to her

https://i.imgur.com/VqkPKIy.jpg

It literally makes it all the better, knowing that they can't even defend their point without calling it "Weeboo Garbage"

Aldaur wrote:Why? Triggering others is fun :p

You can try, but you're not man enough to pound me ;)

Looking through 280+ posts ain't, for me :p

I got a cat plug and ears - you will become my pusi-cat

Aldaur

Vista Major wrote:Joined the CG

What is that?

Also, how do I contact you to join the university?

Vista Major wrote:Joined the CG

CG?

Pirate Kingdoms wrote:Looking through 280+ posts ain't, for me :p

I got a cat plug and ears - you will become my pusi-cat

Wut? Does not compute :p

Pirate Kingdoms

Pirate Kingdoms wrote:Looking through 280+ posts ain't, for me :p

I got a cat plug and ears - you will become my pusi-cat

Uhhhhh...

Pirate Kingdoms

Baxten wrote:CG?

Minnesota Dakota wrote:What is that?

Also, how do I contact you to join the university?

Unf's new RP. Confederacy General

And you can telegram me, Midas

Minnesota Dakota

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:Hello people. I'm sorry for the lateness of this post. Hope you had a nice day although it's Friday the 13th.

[spoiler=Today are:]

Today are:

- Bhogi (Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, India)

- Constitution Day (Mongolia)

- Democracy Day (Cape Verde)

- International Skeptics Day

- Korean-American Day (Korean-American community, United States)

- Lee–Jackson Day (Virginia, United States)

- Liberation Day (Togo)

- Lohri (Punjab, Haryana,and Himachal Pradesh, India)

- Make Your Dream Come True Day

- Malanka (Ukraine, Russia, Belarus)

- National Blame Someone Else Day (United States)

- National Peach Melba Day (United States)

- National Rubber Ducky Day (United States)

- National Sticker Day (United States)

- Old New Year's Eve (Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Serbia, Montenegro, Republic of Srpska, Republic of Macedonia

- Public Radio Broadcasting Day

- Stephen Foster Memorial Day (United States)

- St. Knut's Day (Finland, Sweden)

- Uruka (Assam, India)

- Yennayer (Berbers)

[/spoiler]

[spoiler=This day in history:]

This day in history:

- 532 – Nika riots in Constantinople.

- 1435 – Sicut Dudum, forbidding the enslavement of the Guanche natives in Canary Islands by the Spanish, is promulgated by Pope Eugene IV.

- 1547 – Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey is sentenced to death.

- 1607 – The Bank of Genoa fails after announcement of national bankruptcy in Spain.

- 1793 – Nicolas Jean Hugon de Bassville, representative of Revolutionary France, lynched by a mob in Rome

- 1822 – The design of the Greek flag is adopted by the First National Assembly at Epidaurus.

- 1830 – The Great Fire of New Orleans begins.

- 1833 – United States President Andrew Jackson writes to Vice President Martin Van Buren expressing his opposition to South Carolina's defiance of federal authority in the Nullification Crisis.

- 1840 – The steamship Lexington burns and sinks four miles off the coast of Long Island with the loss of 139 lives.

- 1847 – The Treaty of Cahuenga ends the Mexican–American War in California.

- 1849 – Establishment of the Colony of Vancouver Island.

- 1888 – The National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C.

- 1893 – The Independent Labour Party of the United Kingdom holds its first meeting.

- 1893 – U.S. Marines land in Honolulu, Hawaii from the USS Boston to prevent the queen from abrogating the Bayonet Constitution.

- 1898 – Émile Zola's J'accuse…! exposes the Dreyfus affair.

- 1908 – The Rhoads Opera House fire in Boyertown, Pennsylvania kills 171 people.

- 1910 – The first public radio broadcast takes place; a live performance of the operas Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci are sent out over the airwaves from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York.

- 1935 – A plebiscite in Saarland shows that 90.3% of those voting wish to join Nazi Germany.

- 1939 – The Black Friday bush fires burn 20,000 square kilometers of land in Australia, claiming the lives of 71 people.

- 1942 – Henry Ford patents a plastic automobile, which is 30% lighter than a regular car.

- 1942 – World War II: First use of an aircraft ejection seat by a German test pilot in a Heinkel He 280 jet fighter.

- 1951 – First Indochina War: The Battle of Vĩnh Yên begins.

- 1958 – The Moroccan Army of Liberation ambushes a Spanish patrol in the Battle of Edchera.

- 1960 – The Gulag system of forced labor camps in the Soviet Union is officially abolished.

- 1963 – Coup d'état in Togo results in the assassination of president Sylvanus Olympio

- 1964 – Anti-Muslim riots break out in Calcutta, resulting in 100 deaths.

- 1966 – Robert C. Weaver becomes the first African American Cabinet member when he is appointed United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

- 1968 – Johnny Cash performs live at Folsom State Prison

- 1972 – Prime Minister Kofi Abrefa Busia and President Edward Akufo-Addo of Ghana are ousted in a bloodless military coup by Colonel Ignatius Kutu Acheampong.

- 1974 – Seraphim is elected Archbishop of Athens and All Greece.

- 1978 – United States Food and Drug Administration requires all blood donations to be labeled "paid" or "volunteer" donors.

- 1982 – Shortly after takeoff, Air Florida Flight 90, a Boeing 737 jet, crashes into Washington, D.C.'s 14th Street Bridge and falls into the Potomac River, killing 78 including four motorists.

- 1985 – A passenger train plunges into a ravine in Ethiopia, killing 428 in the worst railroad disaster in Africa.

- 1986 – A month-long violent struggle begins in Aden, South Yemen between supporters of Ali Nasir Muhammad and Abdul Fattah Ismail, resulting in thousands of casualties.

- 1988 – Lee Teng-hui becomes the first native Taiwanese President of the Republic of China.

- 1990 – A seven-day pogrom breaks out against the Armenian civilian population of Baku, Azerbaijan, during which Armenians were beaten, tortured, murdered, and expelled from the city.

- 1990 – Douglas Wilder becomes the first elected African American governor as he takes office in Richmond, Virginia.

- 1991 – Soviet Union troops attack Lithuanian independence supporters in Vilnius, killing 14 people and wounding around 1000 others.

- 1993 – Space Shuttle program: Endeavour heads for space for the third time as STS-54 launches from the Kennedy Space Center.

- 1993 – Chemical Weapons Convention is adopted

- 1998 – Alfredo Ormando sets himself on fire in St. Peter's Square, protesting against homophobia.

- 2001 – An earthquake hits El Salvador, killing more than 800.

- 2012 – The passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia sinks off the coast of Italy due to the captain's negligence and irresponsibility. There are 32 confirmed deaths.

[/spoiler]

[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]

Famous Birthdays:

- 5 BC – Emperor Guangwu of Han, ruler of China

- 101 – Lucius Aelius, Roman adopted son of Hadrian

- 1864 – Wilhelm Wien, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

- 1924 – Paul Feyerabend, Austrian-Swiss philosopher and academic

- 1927 – Sydney Brenner, South African biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

- 1954 – Trevor Rabin, South African-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

- 1960 – Eric Betzig, American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

- 1966 – Patrick Dempsey, American actor

- 1969 – Stephen Hendry, Scottish snooker player and journalist

- 1970 – Marco Pantani, Italian cyclist

- 1977 – Orlando Bloom, English actor and producer

- 1978 – Nate Silver, American journalist and statistician, developed PECOTA

- 1979 – Joko Winterscheidt, German actor and TV presenter

- 1990 – Liam Hemsworth, Australian actor

[/spoiler]

Quote of the day

The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself.

- Garth Brooks -

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

Friday the 13th is a reminder of how the good and holy Knights Templar fell short on luck when the bastard King Phillip IV killed them all because he didn't want to pay his debts to them. May that glorious orders RIP and may it rise again in the future to protect Christendom.

Baxten wrote:CG?

http://s15.zetaboards.com/COFN/topic/10106215/1/#new

Aldaur wrote:Wut? Does not compute :p

Expect the plug in the bunghole: fake tail at the end

Aldaur

Pirate Kingdoms wrote:Looking through 280+ posts ain't, for me :p

I got a cat plug and ears - you will become my pusi-cat

...

I get that I, of all people, shouldn't judge... but... dude... What? Please tell me that's not the way I took it

Aldaur, Pirate Kingdoms

Sulania wrote:...

I get that I, of all people, shouldn't judge... but... dude... What? Please tell me that's not the way I took it

Pirate Kingdoms wrote:Expect the plug in the bunghole: fake tail at the end

Never mind, I guess it is.

...

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Aldaur, Continental Commonwealths, Pirate Kingdoms

People in this region have such abnormally large military forces. I believe I may be one of the few to maintain a small non-interventionist non-first use force not exceeding 50,000 active service personnel.

Sulania wrote:Never mind, I guess it is.

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Right?! I too was like- I must be misinterpreting this.

Good ol' eccentric PK

Aldaur, Pirate Kingdoms

Yukona wrote:People in this region have such abnormally large military forces. I believe I may be one of the few to maintain a small non-interventionist non-first use force not exceeding 50,000 active service personnel.

It certainly helps explain why some of them have 80% income tax and whatnot, at least.

Yukona

Continental Commonwealths wrote:It certainly helps explain why some of them have 80% income tax and whatnot, at least.

What's a tax?

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I'm glad to see that the Latrovian administration followed the people's will, and has cancelled the actual closing of our embassy with Genuan Rebirth.

Sorry for the triple post.

Jaslandia, Baxten, Yukona

Despite the fact that Minister Oelesa's decission to close embassies with the GR is a correct one, I feel like it is importand that our new policies not affect the people and the regions we've shared the same culture and history for years.

I am completely aware that, our future partners like to check the people we work with. And sometimes indeed they will not be satisfied of the people we choose to keep close to us. But the CFN is not a region of cowards and the CFN is not made of people who shut their eyes towards their friends.

Also the CFN is our homeland and we are it's people. We are in desperate need to reach unity. And for the sake of our regional unity I am willing to leave behind me any actual progress that we strive to achieve.

After a lengthfull (no idea if that is even an actual word) conversation with Oelesa, I informed him of my intentions to change his given order, apologising to him as well. I am happy to say that he agreed with my decission to cancel the closure of Embassies with the GR.

Long live the CFN and the GR.

Yours truly,

The President.

Jaslandia, Baxten

Yukona wrote:What's a tax?

^ This. I like this guy.

Yukona

Latrovia wrote:/snip

I think I'll still keep my motion in the House of Delegates, and still encourage people to vote on it, given the last point about consultations in the future.

Continental Commonwealths wrote:Right?! I too was like- I must be misinterpreting this.

Good ol' eccentric PK

I also carry an aneros with me: I don't use it, but I pull it out of my backpack and threaten to put it into anyone trying to fµck me over :p

Yukona wrote:People in this region have such abnormally large military forces. I believe I may be one of the few to maintain a small non-interventionist non-first use force not exceeding 50,000 active service personnel.

I know. I made forced conscription in my nation months ago, and I have just over a million

Everyone should look at the Global Firepower charts. Look at the nation that you're based on. Use something similar to those numbers.

Yukona

Pirate Kingdoms wrote:I also carry an aneros with me: I don't use it, but I pull it out of my backpack and threaten to put it into anyone trying to fµck me over :p

This is literally the funniest thing I've read on this site.

Jaslandia, Pirate Kingdoms

Latrovia wrote: And for the sake of our regional unity I am willing to leave behind me any actual progress that we strive to achieve.

Closing that embassy with GR really was going to be a huge step for progress. I'm so sorry the evil people of this region stopped you from making such huge progress in advancing this region to greatness.

Continental Commonwealths wrote:It certainly helps explain why some of them have 80% income tax and whatnot, at least.

80%?

98% GET ON MY LEVEL SON

Jaslandia, Baxten, Continental Commonwealths, Andromitus, Kalaron

Unfallious wrote:Closing that embassy with GR really was going to be a huge step for progress. I'm so sorry the evil people of this region stopped you from making such huge progress in advancing this region to greatness.80%?

98% GET ON MY LEVEL SON

It would be a step of progress. As we actually set our FA into function. Nevertheless I welcome your opinion. I respect it, but I do not agree with it.

Unfallious wrote:Closing that embassy with GR really was going to be a huge step for progress. I'm so sorry the evil people of this region stopped you from making such huge progress in advancing this region to greatness.80%?

98% GET ON MY LEVEL SON

Abandon your friendships in the name of progress!

Latrovia wrote:It would be a step of progress. As we actually set our FA into function. Nevertheless I welcome your opinion. I respect it, but I do not agree with it.

Does FA have so little to do that they need to close down GR's embassies, though?

Like, if they need to go to work, then we can start by gathering more Regions for us to have embassies with, rather than cutting off an embassy that takes no effort to maintain.

Unfallious wrote:Closing that embassy with GR really was going to be a huge step for progress. I'm so sorry the evil people of this region stopped you from making such huge progress in advancing this region to greatness.80%?

98% GET ON MY LEVEL SON

Well look on the bright side you'll have no cost push inflation

Kalaron wrote:Does FA have so little to do that they need to close down GR's embassies, though?

Like, if they need to go to work, then we can start by gathering more Regions for us to have embassies with, rather than cutting off an embassy that takes no effort to maintain.

Well the FA has actually started doing it's job about two days ago, along with the Ministry of Justice. As you all know that those Ministries have both being vacant and the delay of approving our new Ministers there has really post-poned it's work.

In my opinion, I personally like that if any actual progress is to be made, to start from it's basis. And that is by what we already have. To start with it, our government was never going to stop it's relations with the GR. Actually we have no actual governmental relations with any of the regions we have an embassy with.

GR's status would be altered from an Embassy to a Consulate. And that is all. We do not want to stop relations, we just want to set a good basis of we will be working a lot and with who we will be working less. That's all. :)

Latrovia wrote:Well the FA has actually started doing it's job about two days ago, along with the Ministry of Justice. As you all know that those Ministries have both being vacant and the delay of approving our new Ministers there has really post-poned it's work.

In my opinion, I personally like that if any actual progress is to be made, to start from it's basis. And that is by what we already have. To start with it, our government was never going to stop it's relations with the GR. Actually we have no actual governmental relations with any of the regions we have an embassy with.

GR's status would be altered from an Embassy to a Consulate. And that is all. We do not want to stop relations, we just want to set a good basis of we will be working a lot and with who we will be working less. That's all. :)

Ohhhh. Basis. :)

Latrovia wrote:Well the FA has actually started doing it's job about two days ago, along with the Ministry of Justice. As you all know that those Ministries have both being vacant and the delay of approving our new Ministers there has really post-poned it's work.

In my opinion, I personally like that if any actual progress is to be made, to start from it's basis. And that is by what we already have. To start with it, our government was never going to stop it's relations with the GR. Actually we have no actual governmental relations with any of the regions we have an embassy with.

GR's status would be altered from an Embassy to a Consulate. And that is all. We do not want to stop relations, we just want to set a good basis of we will be working a lot and with who we will be working less. That's all. :)

Except a Consulate can't post through the RMB onto our Region, meaning that Al would have to zip here and back each time if he wanted to post, which is both dangerous and time consuming.

It seems like there are far more important issues -if you call GR an issue- for FA to handle, and I am excited to see how they do handle them.

ALSOOOOOO:

A consulate application has been sent by us to New Hyperion. We have been in contact with them for several days and we had a really positive interaction with their representatives. We will be discussing soon the possibillity of opening in-game embassies as well. :)

Jaslandia, Oelesa

Baxten wrote:I know. I made forced conscription in my nation months ago, and I have just over a million

Everyone should look at the Global Firepower charts. Look at the nation that you're based on. Use something similar to those numbers.

Just because we have those lands though doesn't mean we would at all be like the nations that reside in them now. Bax, you're one of the most powerful militaries, but the Benelux countries are a joke in rl. Our nations are completely different, with different histories, cultures, policies, etc. Basing it off that chart makes no sense.

Confederacy Of Free Nations

I have become noticeably more conservative, as most of you agree. I need a brave liberal to telegram me and liberalize me so I can be moderate again. Please, be a smart liberal that can counter my arguments. Ik there aren't very many out there ;)

Humpheria Major

Kalaron wrote:Except a Consulate can't post through the RMB onto our Region, meaning that Al would have to zip here and back each time if he wanted to post, which is both dangerous and time consuming.

It seems like there are far more important issues -if you call GR an issue- for FA to handle, and I am excited to see how they do handle them.

I could never call GR an issue. And yes they would have to contact us through our Discord Channel or their Embassy in our forums.

Every region now days operates through their embassies and consulates that exist in their partners forums.

So as we are expected to reach out to our partners via our consulates and embassies in their forums, I think that we should expect the same by our partners as well.

Aldaur wrote:I have become noticeably more conservative, as most of you agree. I need a brave liberal to telegram me and liberalize me so I can be moderate again. Please, be a smart liberal that can counter my arguments. Ik there aren't very many out there ;)

If logic won't work, there's always... http://bbsimg.ngfiles.com/1/7089000/ngbbs43814f6b88b2c.jpg

Aldaur, Magnatronia

Also do you guys think that having a regional Twitter or Facebook account would be a cool thing to have around. As a way to reach out to the masses and possibly attract new citizens?

Latrovia wrote:Also do you guys think that having a regional Twitter or Facebook account would be a cool thing to have around. As a way to reach out to the masses and possibly attract new citizens?

Maybe? I don't know, I don't use Facebook or Twitter.

Oelesa

Sulania wrote:Maybe? I don't know, I don't use Facebook or Twitter.

Well many regions use Twitter and thats where they get most of their new citizens, of course they have a good team that posts quite a lot.

Oelesa

Aldaur wrote:Just because we have those lands though doesn't mean we would at all be like the nations that reside in them now. Bax, you're one of the most powerful militaries, but the Benelux countries are a joke in rl. Our nations are completely different, with different histories, cultures, policies, etc. Basing it off that chart makes no sense.

But it provides a basis for population and such. The main this is that people need to limit themselves. Vista has 1.5 million people, for God' sake. It's your choice, ?but please limit yourselves.

Aldaur

Aldaur wrote:Yay! School is canceled! :p I'm glad, but also mad becauseI have to pay for this sh!t :p

I believe superior people should help inferior people become superior.

I am absolutely a social darwinist. I would save the able bodied man because he is worth more to society. The disabled man is a burden. It is terrible to say, but is true. This of course leaves out oddities like Stephen Hawking, who are much more valuable for another reason.

Let's hope you don't become disabled and a "burden" on society then. If you do, I expect you will end your life to save the taxpayer money.

Aldaur

Aldaur wrote:I have become noticeably more conservative, as most of you agree. I need a brave liberal to telegram me and liberalize me so I can be moderate again. Please, be a smart liberal that can counter my arguments. Ik there aren't very many out there ;)

Be whatever the f**k you want my dude, too many liberals out here that get hurt too easily anyway. In all honesty, fascism gets such a bad rep - I by no means like it but it makes me cringe every time the left uses it as a by-word for stuff they don't like

Aldaur, The United Providences Of Perland

Sulania wrote:If logic won't work, there's always... http://bbsimg.ngfiles.com/1/7089000/ngbbs43814f6b88b2c.jpg

Only logic works.

Baxten wrote:But it provides a basis for population and such. The main this is that people need to limit themselves. Vista has 1.5 million people, for God' sake. It's your choice, ?but please limit yourselves.

As long as it is a recommended guide and not forced, I'm cool with it. Aldaur, for example, would have a much higher population than Australia because because we would have been there from the beginning rather than being a colonized country.

Latrovia wrote:Well many regions use Twitter and thats where they get most of their new citizens, of course they have a good team that posts quite a lot.

I believe we should stick with NS for now. We, as a region, can find smaller regions to integrate. If we go outside of NS we may not find as many new citizens.

Continental Commonwealths, Oelesa, Yukona

THE CONFEDERACY OF FREE NATIONS and THE WEST PACIFIC

Have now open forum Embassies! :D

Andromitus, Oelesa, The United Providences Of Perland, Yukona

Nuremgard wrote:Let's hope you don't become disabled and a "burden" on society then. If you do, I expect you will end your life to save the taxpayer money.

If I was mentally disabled, yea just toss me. If I am only physically disabled, I am still quite valuable for other reasons.

Yukona wrote:Be whatever the f**k you want my dude, too many liberals out here that get hurt too easily anyway. In all honesty, fascism gets such a bad rep - I by no means like it but it makes me cringe every time the left uses it as a by-word for stuff they don't like

True, but I also like hearing other people's opinions. I've been hanging out with conservatives a lot lately, so I'd like to balance myself so I don't become too radical.

Yukona

What is happening with the GR embassy?

The United Providences Of Perland

Minnesota Dakota wrote:What is happening with the GR embassy?

It's not closing! :)

Oelesa, Minnesota Dakota, The United Providences Of Perland

Minnesota Dakota wrote:What is happening with the GR embassy?

Closing was cancelled after everyone mentioned how it was a horrid idea, thankfully.

Aldaur wrote:If I was mentally disabled, yea just toss me. If I am only physically disabled, I am still quite valuable for other reasons.

True, but I also like hearing other people's opinions. I've been hanging out with conservatives a lot lately, so I'd like to balance myself so I don't become too radical.

GG.

"I'm worth a lot to society, so you can't throw me away but anyone else is fair game"

Latrovia wrote:THE CONFEDERACY OF FREE NATIONS and THE WEST PACIFIC

Have now open forum Embassies! :D

The Pacifics frighten me for a few reasons, but this should be good.

Oelesa

Kalaron wrote:Closing was cancelled after everyone mentioned how it was a horrid idea, thankfully.GG.

"I'm worth a lot to society, so you can't throw me away but anyone else is fair game"

I already said that people are worth more for different things. I wouldn't throw away Stephen Hawking even though he is disabled. He is worth more because of his mind. Also, we are just killing these people off, we are just making a choice between people of varying worth. If there is someone who is smart and able and I am smart but disabled, by all means, take them instead of me. I am worth less.

Minnesota Dakota wrote:What is happening with the GR embassy?

Latrovia wrote:It's not closing! :)

It was decided not to be closed after I had quite a conversation with the Minister of Foreign Affairs. :)

Oelesa, Minnesota Dakota

Latrovia wrote:Also do you guys think that having a regional Twitter or Facebook account would be a cool thing to have around. As a way to reach out to the masses and possibly attract new citizens?

I think people enjoy the certain degree of anonymity that NS provides.

I mean, can you imagine if there was access to people's personal facebook or twitter accounts when Valt was around? He'd probably message my Mom when I stopped responding to him.

Oelesa, Humpheria Major, Yukona

When is next election?

Aldaur, Oelesa

Minnesota Dakota wrote:When is next election?

I believe it's in a few months

Aldaur, Minnesota Dakota

Continental Commonwealths wrote:I think people enjoy the certain degree of anonymity that NS provides.

I mean, can you imagine if there was access to people's personal facebook or twitter accounts when Valt was around? He'd probably message my Mom when I stopped responding to him.

Well if we would actually open a Twitter Account, it would have our region's name on it, not any of our citizens name. So I am not sure if we are speaking about the same thing. :P

Latrovia wrote:Well if we would actually open a Twitter Account, it would have our region's name on it, not any of our citizens name. So I am not sure if we are speaking about the same thing. :P

And it would be followed by nothing but bots, it seems.

Latrovia, Oelesa, The United Providences Of Perland, Yukona

Continental Commonwealths wrote:And it would be followed by nothing but bots, it seems.

You never know, if you don't try. :P

Oelesa, The United Providences Of Perland

Andromitus wrote:I believe it's in a few months

February

Jaslandia, Minnesota Dakota, The United Providences Of Perland

Latrovia wrote:THE CONFEDERACY OF FREE NATIONS and THE WEST PACIFIC

Have now open forum Embassies! :D

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