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Let me put it this way then... all of us are f*cked up in our own way. I've grown tired of society and humanity to the point that I'm embracing my ALT. I feel happier, to an extent, being Premier Coltsov.
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
My philosophy is: as long as everyone is over the age of consent and consenting, do whatever the hell you like.
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
I don't know, I like to see the good side in humans. I've become friends with a lot of them, and I'd say they're generally very nice people. Plus, if it wasn't for humans, engines like me wouldn't be here: Not only did humans build all of us, but for older engines like me, nice humans chose to preserve us when other, less-nice humans wanted to scrap us for being useless. Trust me, humans are generally very nice, and their niceness can have big effects!
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Spanelsko, Duke The Old Engine
*sigh*
Not to kill the mood but if you mean by human niceness things like: WW1, WW2, 100 years war, 30 years war, crusades, colonisation times, rise of communism in China, Stalinist regime in USSR etc. yep humans are very nice.... is it surprising that i am generally a pessimist?
I admire your optimism, Percy. We need more of it nowadays.
Penguania And Antarctica, Duke The Old Engine
http://thecoffincofn.boards.net/thread/57/medieval-rp-ic?page=1&scrollTo=477
Lex Caledonia
Good evening, everyone! How are we all today? I can tell you Skarloey is doing quite well today; he just found out that the Thomas fandom on Twitter (yes, that is a thing) is having a 'Skarloey Appreciation Day' today, and he's been beaming with pride and joy ever since. Considering how useful he is, and how he's worked on the Skarloey Railway for over 100 years, I'd say that old engine very much deserves it. Happy Skarloey Appreciation Day, old boy!
https://twitter.com/hashtag/SkarloeyAppreciationDay?src=hash
https://youtu.be/c5QYxq9bUmM
https://youtu.be/KK3k68SQODE
Skarloey: Thank you, Duke! And hopefully someday you'll get your own appreciation day!
Duke: You're too kind, really.
Some people are just plain sickos. Nothing can be done about that except to lock them up when they do wrong.
While I can understand your pessimism, I don't think completely turning away from reality is the answer. Sometimes the best way to deal with this kind of stuff is to face, and then figure out how to cope with it, or at least how to understand it. It'll make it easier to deal with life in the long-term.
I'll concede that humans have far from a perfect record, and I sometimes wonder if the world would be a better place if we engines ran things. But, in defense of Percy's point, many of the things you described were perpetrated by leaders rather than the people. Leaders can sometimes be short-sighted and ignorant, and it's easy for them not to see the consequences of things like wars when they don't have to fight in it. We can only hope that people now and in the future will hold their leaders accountable and show them the consequences of their leaders' actions, so that such atrocities can be prevented in the future.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
I'm glad to hear Skarloey is in a good mood; he certainly does deserve it. And you bring up some interesting points about leaders. But I ask you, Duke: Aren't leaders people too? The two groups aren't mutually exclusive.
Penguania And Antarctica, Duke The Old Engine
Aye, but power can change people for the worse. As much as I do condemn the people of Germany -during the second world war- for the holocaust, even I admit that they were influenced by the monster at the nation's heart rather than being true monsters themselves.
To put it another way, a leader is a person and that category can field any number of traits thrown together. Good, bad, ugly, handsome, charismatic or clueless a person can be many things. The people that follow them though are a crowd, and as we've learned crowds can be extremely stupid.
A good example is the hullabaloo about "Autonomous" weapons that got blown up because Steven Hawking -A physicist with no experience in the military- and the owner of Apple -a businessman for Christ sake- put out a paper saying the military "could" develop them in the next few years rather than the next few decades. Plenty of people fell to the storm from two influential people using their names in an unrelated topic and got panicky about terminators and the like when the reality of such weapons is that they're....underwhelming....at best.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Duke The Old Engine
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That's true too. A charismatic and influential figure can get large groups of people to do crazy things to say the least.
Penguania And Antarctica, Duke The Old Engine
I am watching the State of the Union right now. There have already been about 50 standing ovations in less than 30 minutes. Our president digusts me. I can feel the authoritarianism.
Nuremgard, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
I don't feel such digest
I feel the cringe an English teacher feels when a student uses the wrong "your/you're", but on a slighter level
Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota, Spanelsko
Tbh, so long as he reacts negatively to Turkish aggression towards our deployed soldiers, I won't care that much.
Spanelsko
Assuming he cares about that stuff. He probably still thinks Turkey is a bird eaten on Thanksgiving.
Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
I was half-paying attention to Trump's State of the Union speech earlier, and I heard him mention 'clean coal'. As a steam engine who uses coal, I feel I have the authority to say that 'clean coal' is kinda a myth. I have a bit of a complicated relationship with coal, but regardless, I'd much rather Trump stick to the facts.
https://www.snopes.com/can-clean-coal-actually-reduce-carbon-emissions
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
Maybe, was hard to miss Turkey's pretty choice threats IMO.
http://www.newsweek.com/us-military-will-not-leave-city-about-be-attacked-turkey-syria-794134
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
You'd be surprised. Either way, the speech is over, and he never mentioned it.
Penguania And Antarctica
Oh, I wasn't planning on him addressing it during the speech, sorry if it seemed that way. I moreover meant during the next few weeks.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Ah. Fair enough. We'll have to wait and see on that.
Penguania And Antarctica
Yas bee, my Political Freedom is Widely Abused again. I'm #1 in here!
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
I haven't seen it. But that many standing ovations in a short amount of time? They are stroking his ego. It's pure sycophancy.
People like to compare Trump to Hitler but the two are really chalk and cheese. Watch Hitler's speeches. He was a monster but damn he was a brilliant orator. He spoke with passion, conviction and vigour. He could rouse a crowd into chanting and saluting. He could hypnotise them.
Trump can barely string a sentence together. The only reason people chant and clap for him is because they're as thick as he is. They see someone as stupid and bigoted as they are is now in charge and they feel vindicated and validated.
Axeldonia, Minnesota Dakota, Spanelsko
[Spoiler=Newcomers]Kingsman Republic, Republic Of Meldia, Merexis & The Buccaneer Junta[/spoiler]
You have all recently joined our region. On behalf of the Confederacy, I welcome you, and I hope you enjoy your stay. You will find out that we are a pretty active community.
If you haven't already done so, contact Minister of the Interior Lex Caledonia, to gain citizenship or residency status. If you have any questions, my inbox is open.
Chancellor
[I]~[nation=noflag]Cesorion[/nation]
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova
Hallo :)
How's everyone today?
Jaslandia, Minnesota Dakota, Mercunova
Sh!tty.
Quite literally. There was a cat turd outside my door this morning. :P
ffs
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota
A little sick and also upset with the SOTU, but I am fine.
Penguania And Antarctica
Sorry to hear that. What is SOTU?
Naughty cats you have.
Jaslandia, Minnesota Dakota, Mercunova
State of the Union address
Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota
Its when the US political elite come together to applaud near-incessantly, occassionally interspersed with the Presidents rude interruptions.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota
Ah ok.
Damn Americans and their abbreviations for everything.
Hmm. Seems logical.
Minnesota Dakota
*shrug* We don't want to wear the public down by stating full titles
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota
Yup, I don't know why the complaints about the constant applause are being levelled so heavily this year when it happens literally every year. It's not a speech, it's a self-congratulating ego-booster for the dominant party and a sulk-fest for the opposition.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica
So cringey though when the Republicans were chanting "USA, USA!"
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota
Full title?
[spoiler=Take this :P]Wilhelm by the Grace of God, King of Prussia,
Markgraf of Brandenburg, Burggraf of Nuremberg, Count of Hohenzollern,
Sovereign and supreme Duke of Silesia, as well as the County of Glatz,
Grand Duke of Lower Rhine and Posen,
Duke of Saxony, Westphalia and Engers, Pomerania, Lüneburg, Holstein and Schlewsig, Magdeburg, Bremen, Geldern, Cleve, Julich and Berg, as well as the Wenden and Kashubas, Krossen, Lauenburg, Mecklenburg
Landgrave of Hesse and Thuringia,
Markgraf of Upper and Lower Lusatia,
Prince of Orange,
Prince of Rügen, Ostfriesland, Paderborn and Pyrmont, Halberstadt, Münster, Mindne, Osnabrück, Hildesheim, Verden, Kammin, Fulda, Nassau and Mörs,
Princely Count of Henneberg,
Count of the Mark and Ravensberg, Hohenstein, Tecklenburg and Lingen, Mansfield, Sigmaringen and Veringen,
Lord of Frankfurt
Tupu Sili of Samoa
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Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Percyton, Cesorion
I bet he had a small penis.
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Cesorion
Thanks for that image in my head. Thank you very much /s. >:(
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Axeldonia
Oh yeah? How about this?
[spoiler=I WAS CHOSEN BY HEAVEN]We Charles, by the Grace of God King of Sweden, the Goths and the Vends, Grand Prince of Finland, Duke of Scania, Estonia, Livonia and Karelia, Lord of Ingria, Duke of Bremen, Verden and Pomerania, Prince of Rügen and Lord of Wismar, and also Count Palatine by the Rhine, Duke in Bavaria, Count of ZweibrückenKleeburg, as well as Duke of Jülich, Cleve and Berg, Count of Veldenz, Spanheim and Ravensberg and Lord of Ravenstein[/spoiler]
Yes, that's all in one sentence.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona, Percyton, Cesorion
Pippilotta Viktualia Rullgardina Krusmynta Efraimsdotter Långstrump
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Percyton
How about this?
Charles, by the grace of God, Holy Roman Emperor, forever August, King of Germany, King of Italy, King of all Spains, of Castile, Aragon, León, of Hungary, of Dalmatia, of Croatia, Navarra, Grenada, Toledo, Valencia, Galicia, Majorca, Sevilla, Cordova, Murcia, Jaén, Algarves, Algeciras, Gibraltar, the Canary Islands, King of Two Sicilies, of Sardinia, Corsica, King of Jerusalem, King of the Western and Eastern Indies, of the Islands and Mainland of the Ocean Sea, Archduke of Austria, Duke of Burgundy, Brabant, Lorraine, Styria, Carinthia, Carniola, Limburg, Luxembourg, Gelderland, Neopatria, Württemberg, Landgrave of Alsace, Prince of Swabia, Asturia and Catalonia, Count of Flanders, Habsburg, Tyrol, Gorizia, Barcelona, Artois, Burgundy Palatine, Hainaut, Holland, Seeland, Ferrette, Kyburg, Namur, Roussillon, Cerdagne, Drenthe, Zutphen, Margrave of the Holy Roman Empire, Burgau, Oristano and Gociano, Lord of Frisia, the Wendish March, Pordenone, Biscay, Molin, Salins, Tripoli and Mechelen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_V,_Holy_Roman_Emperor#Titles
Vista Major, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Percyton, Spanelsko
Bloody.... Boy am I glad that my "Official" title is short.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Spanelsko
Or this one, from Assyria?
[spoiler=Overcompensating much?]Palace of Ashurnasirpal, priest of Ashur, favorite of Enlil and Ninurta, beloved of Anu and Dagan, the weapon of the great gods, the mighty king, king of the world, king of Assyria; son of Tukulti-Ninurta, the great king, the mighty king, king of Assyria, the son of Adad-nirari, the great king, the mighty king of Assyria; the valiant man, who acts with the support of Ashur, his lord, and has no equal among the princes of the four quarters of the world; the wonderful shepherd who is not afraid of battle; the great flood which none can oppose; the king who makes those who are not subject to him submissive; who has subjugated all mankind; the mighty warrior who treads on the neck of his enemies, tramples down all foes, and shatters the forces of the proud; the king who acts with the support of the great gods, and whose hand has conquered all lands, who has subjugated all the mountains and received their tribute, taking hostages and establishing his power over all countries.
I am Ashurnasirpal, the celebrated prince, who reveres the great gods, the fierce dragon, conqueror of the cities and mountains to their furthest extent, king of rulers who has tamed the stiff-necked peoples, who is crowned with splendor, who is not afraid of battle, the merciless champion who shakes resistance, the glorious king, the shepherd, the protection of the whole world, the king, the word of whose mouth destroys mountains and seas, who by his lordly attack has forced fierce and merciless kings from the rising to the setting sun to acknowledge one rule.[/spoiler]
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Percyton
[spoiler=Today is January 31 and today are:]
Today is January 31 and today are:
- Adhi Duruthu Full Moon Poya Day (Sri Lanka)
- Amartithi (Meherabad, India)
- Appreciate Your Social Security Check Day
- Brandy Alexander Day
- Gorilla Suit Day
- Guru Ravidas Jayanti (India)
- Independence Day (Nauru)
- Magha Purnima (Bangladesh)
- Meak Bochea Day (Cambodia)
- National Backward Day (United States)
- National Inspire Your Heart With Art Day (United States)
- Street Children's Day (Austria)
- Thaipoosam Cavadee (Mauritius)
- Thaipusam (Malaysia)
- Tu B'Shevat (Judaism)
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 0314 Pope Sylvester I succeeds Pope Miltiades.
- 1208 Battle of Lena takes place.
- 1504 The Treaty of Lyon ends the Italian War, confirming French domination of northern Italy, while Spain receives the Kingdom of Naples.
- 1578 The Battle of Gembloux takes place.
- 1606 Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes is executed for plotting against Parliament and King James.
- 1747 The first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Lock Hospital.
- 1801 John Marshall is appointed the Chief Justice of the United States.
- 1814 Gervasio Antonio de Posadas becomes Supreme Director of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata (present-day Argentina).
- 1846 After the Milwaukee Bridge War, Juneautown and Kilbourntown unify as the City of Milwaukee.
- 1848 John C. Frémont is court-martialed for mutiny and disobeying orders.
- 1862 Alvan Graham Clark discovers the white dwarf star Sirius B, a companion of Sirius, through an 18.5-inch (47 cm) telescope now located at Northwestern University.
- 1865 American Civil War: The United States Congress passes the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, abolishing slavery and submits it to the states for ratification.
- 1865 American Civil War: Confederate General Robert E. Lee becomes general-in-chief.
- 1891 History of Portugal: The first attempt at a Portuguese republican revolution breaks out in the northern city of Porto.
- 1897 Czechoslav Trade Union Association is founded in Prague.
- 1900 Datu Muhammad Salleh is killed in Kampung Teboh, Tambunan, ending the Mat Salleh Rebellion.
- 1915 World War I: Germany is the first to make large-scale use of poison gas in warfare in the Battle of Bolimów against Russia.
- 1917 World War I: Germany announces that its U-boats will resume unrestricted submarine warfare after a two-year hiatus.
- 1918 A series of accidental collisions on a misty Scottish night leads to the loss of two Royal Navy submarines with over a hundred lives, and damage to another five British warships.
- 1919 The Battle of George Square takes place in Glasgow, Scotland, during a campaign for shorter working hours.
- 1929 The Soviet Union exiles Leon Trotsky.
- 1930 3M begins marketing Scotch Tape.
- 1942 World War II: Allied forces are defeated by the Japanese at the Battle of Malaya and retreat to Singapore.
- 1943 World War II: German Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus surrenders to the Soviets at Stalingrad, followed 2 days later by the remainder of his Sixth Army, ending one of the war's fiercest battles.
- 1944 World War II: American forces land on Kwajalein Atoll and other islands in the Japanese-held Marshall Islands.
- 1944 World War II: During the Anzio campaign the 1st Ranger Battalion (Darby's Rangers) is destroyed behind enemy lines in a heavily outnumbered encounter at Battle of Cisterna, Italy.
- 1945 US Army private Eddie Slovik is executed for desertion, the first such execution of an American soldier since the Civil War.
- 1945 World War II: About 3,000 inmates from the Stutthof concentration camp are forcibly marched into the Baltic Sea at Palmnicken (now Yantarny, Russia) and executed.
- 1945 World War II: The end of fighting in the Battle of Hill 170 during the Burma Campaign, in which the British 3 Commando Brigade repulsed a Japanese counterattack on their positions and precipitated a general retirement from the Arakan Peninsula.
- 1946 Yugoslavia's new constitution, modeling that of the Soviet Union, establishes six constituent republics (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia).
- 1946 The Democratic Republic of Vietnam introduces the đồng to replace the French Indochinese piastre at par.
- 1949 These Are My Children, the first television daytime soap opera, is broadcast by the NBC station in Chicago.
- 1950 United States President Harry S. Truman announces a program to develop the hydrogen bomb.
- 1951 United Nations Security Council Resolution 90 relating to Korean War is adopted.
- 1953 A North Sea flood causes over 1,800 deaths in the Netherlands and over 300 in the United Kingdom
- 1957 Eight people (5 total crew from 2 aircraft and 3 on the ground) in Pacoima, California are killed following the mid-air collision between a Douglas DC-7 airliner and a Northrop F-89 Scorpion fighter jet.
- 1958 The first successful American satellite detects the Van Allen radiation belt.
- 1961 Project Mercury: Mercury-Redstone 2: Ham the Chimp travels into outer space.
- 1966 The Soviet Union launches the unmanned Luna 9 spacecraft as part of the Luna program.
- 1968 Vietnam War: Viet Cong guerrillas attack the United States embassy in Saigon, and other attacks, in the early morning hours, later grouped together as the Tet Offensive.
- 1968 Nauru gains independence from Australia.
- 1971 Apollo program: Apollo 14: Astronauts Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa, and Edgar Mitchell, aboard a Saturn V, lift off for a mission to the Fra Mauro Highlands on the Moon.
- 1971 The Winter Soldier Investigation, organized by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War to publicize war crimes and atrocities by Americans and allies in Vietnam, begins in Detroit.
- 1996 An explosives-filled truck rams into the gates of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka in Colombo, killing at least 86 people and injuring 1,400.
- 2000 Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crash: An MD-83, experiencing horizontal stabilizer problems, crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Point Mugu, California, killing all 88 aboard.
- 2001 In the Netherlands, a Scottish court convicts Libyan Abdelbaset al-Megrahi and acquits another Libyan citizen for their part in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988.
- 2009 In Kenya, at least 113 people are killed and over 200 injured following an oil spillage ignition in Molo, days after a massive fire at a Nakumatt supermarket in Nairobi killed at least 25 people.
- 2012 The Toyota Corolla is known as the best-selling car of all time. Selling over 37.5 million units.
- 2018 Blue moon and total lunar eclipse
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 1512 Henry, King of Portugal
- 1797 Franz Schubert, Austrian pianist and composer
- 1835 Lunalilo, King of Hawaii
- 1865 Henri Desgrange, French cyclist and journalist
- 1868 Theodore William Richards, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1873 Melitta Bentz, German entrepreneur, invented the coffee filter
- 1881 Irving Langmuir, American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1884 Theodor Heuss, German journalist and politician, 1st President of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1902 Alva Myrdal, Swedish sociologist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1919 Jackie Robinson, American baseball player and sportscaster
- 1923 Norman Mailer, American journalist and author
- 1929 Rudolf Mössbauer, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1935 Kenzaburō Ōe, Japanese author and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1937 Philip Glass, American composer
- 1938 Beatrix of the Netherlands
- 1981 Justin Timberlake, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor
- 1982 Helena Paparizou, Greek-Swedish singer
- 1990 Cro, German rapper, singer, producer and designer
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Quote of the day
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
- Oscar Wilde (Irish Dramatist, 1854-1900) -
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, Axeldonia, Mercunova, Percyton, Cesorion
*sigh*
What have I done? :(
Minnesota Dakota, Percyton, Spanelsko
You have angered Axeldonia, the lord protector of the Balkans, the delegate of delegates chosen above all others by the transnational congress of trade unions, the destroyer of monarchs, the...
Nah :P
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota, Percyton, Spanelsko
Nothing wrong?
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota, Percyton
I dont know if its me being tired, or if i have something with my eyes but i read the delegate as degenerate ..... I should go sleep.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota, Percyton, Cesorion
My Official title, not that it matters is:
Supreme Ruler of the Russian Motherland, Heir to the Equestrian Throne, Premier of the Union Aleksander Dimitri Coltsov of Siberia.
Most of my fellow Equestrians simply refer to me as Aleksander or Premier Coltsov, depending on who they are.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota, Percyton
Eh, chanting "USA" isn't that bad in my mind. It's a bipartisan one if nothing else.
https://nypost.com/2018/01/29/people-who-practice-yoga-contribute-to-white-supremacy-professor-claims/
Whew lads.
The title of Nuremgard's monarch:
His Imperial Majesty Stefan, by the Grace of God, the Most August Tsar of Nuremgard, Co-Protector of Diondega, Custodian of the Commonwealth and Constitution, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Fount of All Honour, Provenance of Justice, Supreme Advocate of the Orthodox Church & Defender of the Christian Faith.
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Aquatur, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota, Percyton
Good god, that's a mouthful! Or rather, good Ashur (head of the Assyrian mythological pantheon).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashur_(god)
Everything alright, Peng?
Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota, Percyton
The Tidmouth Times has just posted a new news article, recapping the first day of Prime Minister George Kirkman of Jaslandia's state visit to Percyton. Check it out! It's a good article!
https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=964389
https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=421225&p=33386985#p33386985
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
George Kirkman: It is indeed an excellent article, Your Majesty. Thank you for your hospitality, and I'm looking forward to the rest of my stay in Percyton!
Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Please, just call me Percy. We're thrilled to have you here, and we're glad you're enjoying what Percyton has to offer!
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
[spoiler=Today is February 1 and today are:]
Today is February 1 and today are:
- Abolition of Slavery Day (Mauritius)
- Air Force Day (Nicaragua)
- Car Insurance Day
- Change Your Password Day
- Day of Remembrance and Respect to Victims of the Communist Regime (Bulgaria)
- Decorating With Candy Day
- Federal Territory Day (Kuala Lumpur, Labuan and Putrajaya, Malaysia)
- G.I. Joe Day
- Heroes Day (Rwanda)
- Hula in the Coola Day
- Imbolc (Ireland, Scotland, Isle of Man, and some Neopagan groups)
- International Face & Body Art Day
- Memorial Day of the Republic (Hungary)
- National Baked Alaska Day (United States)
- National Freedom Day (United States)
- National Get Up Day (United States)
- National Serpent Day (United States)
- National Texas Day (United States)
- Robinson Crusoe Day
- Spunky Old Broads Day
- Work Naked Day
- World Hijab Day
- World Read Aloud Day
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[spoiler=February is observed as:]
February is observed as:
- Adopt a Rescued Rabbit Month
- African American History Month
- AMD / Low Vision Awareness Month
- American Heart Month
- American History Month
- Avocado and Banana Month
- Bake for Family Fun Month
- Beans Month
- Beat the Heat Month
- Berry Fresh Month
- Canned Food Month
- Celebration of Chocolate Month
- Cholangiocarcinoma Awareness Month
- Dog Training Education Month
- Exotic Vegetables and Star Fruit Month
- February is Fabulous Florida Strawberry Month
- "From Africa to Virginia" Month
- Great American Pies Month
- International Boost Self Esteem Month
- International Expect Success Month
- International Friendship Month
- International Hoof Care Month
- International Prenatal Infection Prevention Month
- Jobs in Golf Month
- Library Lovers Month
- Love the Bus Month
- Marfan Syndrome Awareness Month
- Marijuana Awareness Month
- National Bird Feeding Month
- National Black History Month
- National Cancer Prevention Month
- National Care About Your Indoor Air Month
- National Cat Health Month
- National Cherry Month
- National Children's Dental Health Month
- National Condom Month
- National Embroidery Month
- National Fiber Focus Month
- National Fondue Month
- National Grapefruit Month
- National Heart Healthy Month
- National Hot Breakfast Month
- National Laugh-Friendly Month
- National Mend a Broken Heart Month
- National Parent Leadership Month
- National Patient Recognition Month
- National Pet Dental Health Care Month
- National Prevent a Litter Month
- National Senior Independence Month
- National Snack Food Month
- National Sweet Potato Month
- National Therapeutic Recreation Month
- National Time Management Month
- National Weddings Month
- National Wild Bird-Feeding Month
- National Wise Health Consumer Month
- Pet Dental Health Month
- Plant the Seeds of Greatness Month
- Potato Lovers Month
- Pull Your Sofa Off the Wall Month
- Relationship Wellness Month
- Responsible Animal Guardian Month
- Responsible Pet Owner Month
- Return Shopping Carts to the Supermarket Month
- Spay/Neuter Awareness Month
- Spunky Old Broads Month
- Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month
- Unchain a Dog Month
- Wise Health Care Consumer Month
- Worldwide Renaissance of the Heart Month
- Youth Leadership Month
Note: All month observances with "National" are observances of the United States of America.
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 0481 Vandal king Huneric organises a conference between Catholic and Arian bishops at Carthage.
- 1327 The teenaged Edward III is crowned King of England, but the country is ruled by his mother Queen Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer.
- 1329 King John of Bohemia captures Medvėgalis, an important fortress of the pagan Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and baptizes 6,000 of its defenders
- 1411 The First Peace of Thorn is signed in Thorn (Toruń), Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights (Prussia).
- 1662 The Chinese general Koxinga seizes the island of Taiwan after a nine-month siege.
- 1713 The Kalabalik or Tumult in Bendery results from the Ottoman sultan's order that his unwelcome guest, King Charles XII of Sweden, be seized.
- 1793 French Revolutionary Wars: France declares war on the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.
- 1796 The capital of Upper Canada is moved from Newark to York.
- 1814 Mayon in the Philippines erupts, killing around 1,200 people, the most devastating eruption of the volcano.
- 1835 Slavery is abolished in Mauritius.
- 1861 American Civil War: Texas secedes from the United States.
- 1864 Second Schleswig War: Prussian forces crossed the border into Schleswig, starting the war.
- 1865 President Abraham Lincoln signs the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
- 1884 The first volume (A to Ant) of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
- 1893 Thomas A. Edison finishes construction of the first motion picture studio, the Black Maria in West Orange, New Jersey.
- 1895 Fountains Valley, Pretoria, the oldest nature reserve in Africa, is proclaimed by President Paul Kruger.
- 1896 La bohème premieres in Turin at the Teatro Regio (Turin), conducted by the young Arturo Toscanini.
- 1897 Shinhan Bank, the oldest bank in South Korea, opens in Seoul.
- 1908 Lisbon Regicide: King Carlos I of Portugal and Infante Luis Filipe are shot dead in Lisbon.
- 1918 Russia adopts the Gregorian calendar.
- 1924 The United Kingdom recognizes the USSR.
- 1942 World War II: Josef Terboven, Reichskommissar of German-occupied Norway, appoints Vidkun Quisling the Minister President of the National Government.
- 1942 World War II: U.S. Navy conducts MarshallsGilberts raids, the first offensive action by the United States against Japanese forces in the Pacific Theater.
- 1942 Voice of America, the official external radio and television service of the United States government, begins broadcasting with programs aimed at areas controlled by the Axis powers.
- 1942 Mao Zedong makes a speech on "Reform in Learning, the Party and Literature", which puts into motion the Yan'an Rectification Movement.
- 1946 Trygve Lie of Norway is picked to be the first United Nations Secretary-General.
- 1946 The Parliament of Hungary abolishes the monarchy after nine centuries, and proclaims the Hungarian Republic.
- 1953 North Sea flood of 1953 is caused by a heavy storm which occurred overnight, 31 January-1 February 1953; floods strike the Netherlands, Belgium and the U.K.
- 1960 Four black students stage the first of the Greensboro sit-ins at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina.
- 1964 The Beatles have their first number one hit in the United States with "I Want to Hold Your Hand".
- 1965 The Hamilton River in Labrador, Canada is renamed the Churchill River in honour of Winston Churchill.
- 1968 Vietnam War: The execution of Viet Cong officer Nguyễn Văn Lém by South Vietnamese National Police Chief Nguyễn Ngọc Loan is recorded on motion picture film, as well as in an iconic still photograph taken by Eddie Adams.
- 1968 Canada's three military services, the Royal Canadian Navy, the Canadian Army and the Royal Canadian Air Force, are unified into the Canadian Forces.
- 1968 The New York Central Railroad and the Pennsylvania Railroad are merged to form Penn Central Transportation.
- 1972 Kuala Lumpur becomes a city by a royal charter granted by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
- 1974 A fire in the 25-story Joelma Building in São Paulo, Brazil kills 189 and injures 293.
- 1979 Iranian Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Tehran after nearly 15 years of exile.
- 1989 The Western Australian towns of Kalgoorlie and Boulder amalgamate to form the City of KalgoorlieBoulder.
- 1991 A runway collision between USAir Flight 1493 and SkyWest Flight 5569 at Los Angeles International Airport results in the deaths of 34 people, and injuries to 30 others.
- 1992 The Chief Judicial Magistrate of Bhopal court declares Warren Anderson, ex-CEO of Union Carbide, a fugitive under Indian law for failing to appear in the Bhopal disaster case.
- 1996 The Communications Decency Act is passed by the U.S. Congress.
- 1998 Rear Admiral Lillian E. Fishburne becomes the first female African American to be promoted to rear admiral.
- 2002 Daniel Pearl, American journalist and South Asia Bureau Chief of the Wall Street Journal, kidnapped January 23, 2002, is beheaded and mutilated by his captors.
- 2003 Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during the reentry of mission STS-107 into the Earth's atmosphere, killing all seven astronauts aboard.
- 2004 Hajj pilgrimage stampede: In a stampede at the Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, 251 people are trampled to death and 244 injured.
- 2005 King Gyanendra of Nepal carries out a coup d'état to capture the democracy, becoming Chairman of the Councils of ministers.
- 2009 The first cabinet of Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir was formed in Iceland, making her the country's first female prime minister and the world's first openly gay head of government.
- 2012 At least 72 people are killed and over 500 injured as a result of clashes between fans of Egyptian football teams Al-Masry and Al-Ahly in the city of Port Said.
- 2013 The Shard, the tallest building in the European Union, is opened to the public.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 1402 Eleanor of Aragon, Queen of Portugal
- 1552 Edward Coke, English lawyer, judge, and politician, Attorney General for England and Wales
- 1659 Jacob Roggeveen, Dutch explorer
- 1792 Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach, German surgeon
- 1874 Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austrian author, poet, and playwright
- 1894 John Ford, American director and producer
- 1901 Clark Gable, American actor
- 1931 Boris Yeltsin, Russian politician, 1st President of Russia
- 1946 Elisabeth Sladen, English actress
- 1971 Michael C. Hall, American actor and producer
- 1994 Harry Styles, English singer-songwriter
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Quote of the day
We are all born mad. Some remain so.
- Samuel Beckett (Irish Playwright, 1906-1989) -
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, Axeldonia, Minnesota Dakota, Mercunova, Percyton
Interesting. I didn't know today was G.I. Joe Day.
https://youtu.be/pele5vptVgc
Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota, Percyton
But now you know.
And knowing is half the battle!
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota, Percyton, Cesorion
G.I. JOOOOE!
Nuremgard, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota, Percyton
Howdy.
Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota, Mercunova, Percyton
Welcome to the region, the Bir Tawil Order of Knights! I'm Percy, King of Percyton and the #6 green engine on the Island of Sodor! I hope you like it here!
Hank: Ah, G.I. Joe. An American cartoon classic, if you ask me.
Hank: Ah yes, the Penn Central debacle, possible the worst merger in history (or at least the worst merger in railway history). I can't speak on the New York Central, but I liked the Pennsylvania Railroad: I was built for that railroad, and I worked there from the time I was built in 1923, until I was retired from service on the PRR in 1955. However, that merger was just a bad idea from the start; the theory was looked solid, but no one seemed to know what they were doing when they actually put the merger and integration into practice. Heck, it's a good thing I wasn't still on the railroad by the time that merger happened: I would have driven my crew mad with my gripping about the merger, and I'm sure the other engines would have also been annoyed by me.
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota
http://thecoffincofn.boards.net/thread/57/medieval-rp-ic?page=2&scrollTo=480
Happy Squid noises
Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Percyton
HA HA! DIPLOMACY!
Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
A new issue of mine has been added to the game. Enjoy, guys :)
Jaslandia, Aquatur, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Minnesota Dakota, Mercunova, The Cross And Davids Star, Yukona, Percyton, Cesorion
Still #1 for most armed 👍
Russkov Soviet, Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Yukona, Percyton
119th of 121 :P
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Percyton
Another one!?! Nice! Which one is it?
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
More armed than my Armed Autocracy? This will not stand!
It's about horny nobles demanding the right to sleep with beautiful newly married maidens on their land.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Spanelsko
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdSecL8Ytrg
Jaslandia, Percyton
Oh! How... interesting...
https://youtu.be/9opcAg3dJEc
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
The 4th movement is my favourite one. I love it. :D
Jaslandia, Percyton
[spoiler=Today is Feburary 2 and today are:]
Today is Feburary 2 and today are:
- Anniversary of Treaty of Tartu (Estonia)
- Ayn Rand Day
- Bonza Bottler Day
- Bubble Gum Day
- Candlemas (Liechtenstein)
- Constitution Day (Philippines)
- Crepe Day
- Day of Military Honour: Victory of the Battle of Stalingrad (Russia)
- Day of Youth (Azerbaijan)
- Feast of Candelaria (Bolivia)
- Feast of the Presentation of Jesus at the Temple or Candlemas (Western Christianity)
- Give Kids a Smile Day
- Groundhog Day (United States and Canada)
- Hedgehog Day
- Imbolic
- Inventor's Day (Thailand)
- Le Jour des Crêpes (France)
- Lung Leavin' Day
- Marmot Day (Alaska)
- National Heavenly Hash Day (United states)
- National Tater Tot Day (United states)
- National Wear Red Day (United states)
- Our Lady of Navigators (Brazil)
- Our Lady of the Candles (Filipino Catholics)
- Rheumatoid Awareness Day
- Sled Dog Day
- Virgin of Candelaria (Tenerife, Spain)
- World Play Your Ukulele Day
- World Wetlands Day
- Working Naked Day
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 0506 Alaric II, eighth king of the Visigoths promulgates the Breviary of Alaric (Breviarium Alaricianum or Lex Romana Visigothorum), a collection of "Roman law".
- 0880 Battle of Lüneburg Heath: King Louis III is defeated by the Norse Great Heathen Army at Lüneburg Heath in Saxony.
- 0962 Translatio imperii: Pope John XII crowns Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, the first Holy Roman Emperor in nearly 40 years.
- 1032 Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor becomes king of Burgundy.
- 1141 The Battle of Lincoln, at which Stephen, King of England is defeated and captured by the allies of Empress Matilda.
- 1207 Terra Mariana, eventually comprising present-day Latvia and Estonia, is established.
- 1438 Nine leaders of the Transylvanian peasant revolt are executed at Torda.
- 1461 Wars of the Roses: The Battle of Mortimer's Cross is fought in Herefordshire, England.
- 1536 Spaniard Pedro de Mendoza founds Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- 1645 Battle of Inverlochy.
- 1653 New Amsterdam (later renamed The City of New York) is incorporated.
- 1709 Alexander Selkirk is rescued after being shipwrecked on a desert island, inspiring Daniel Defoe's adventure book Robinson Crusoe.
- 1848 MexicanAmerican War: The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed.
- 1850 Brigham Young declares war on Timpanogos in the Battle at Fort Utah.
- 1868 Pro-Imperial forces captured Osaka Castle from the Tokugawa shogunate and burned it to the ground.
- 1876 The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs of Major League Baseball is formed.
- 1887 In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania the first Groundhog Day is observed.
- 1899 The Australian Premiers' Conference held in Melbourne decides to locate Australia's capital city, Canberra, between Sydney and Melbourne.
- 1901 Funeral of Queen Victoria.
- 1913 Grand Central Terminal is opened in New York City.
- 1920 The Tartu Peace Treaty is signed between Estonia and Russia.
- 1920 France occupies Memel.
- 1922 Ulysses by James Joyce is published.
- 1925 Serum run to Nome: Dog sleds reach Nome, Alaska with diphtheria serum, inspiring the Iditarod race.
- 1934 The Export-Import Bank of the United States is incorporated.
- 1935 Leonarde Keeler administers polygraph tests to two murder suspects, the first time polygraph evidence was admitted in U.S. courts.
- 1942 The Osvald Group is responsible for the first, active event of anti-Nazi resistance in Norway, to protest the inauguration of Vidkun Quisling.
- 1943 World War II: The Battle of Stalingrad comes to an end when Soviet troops accept the surrender of the last German troops in the city.
- 1959 Nine experienced ski hikers in the northern Ural Mountains in the Soviet Union die under mysterious circumstances.
- 1966 Pakistan suggests a six-point agenda with Kashmir after the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.
- 1971 Idi Amin replaces President Milton Obote as leader of Uganda.
- 1971 The international Ramsar Convention for the conservation and sustainable utilization of wetlands is signed in Ramsar, Mazandaran, Iran.
- 1980 Reports surface that the FBI is targeting allegedly corrupt Congressmen in the Abscam operation.
- 1982 Hama massacre: The government of Syria attacks the town of Hama.
- 1987 After the 1986 People Power Revolution, the Philippines enacts a new constitution.
- 1989 Soviet war in Afghanistan: The last Soviet armoured column leaves Kabul.
- 1990 Apartheid: F. W. de Klerk announces the unbanning of the African National Congress and promises to release Nelson Mandela.
- 2000 First digital cinema projection in Europe (Paris) realized by Philippe Binant with the DLP CINEMA technology developed by Texas Instruments.
- 2004 Swiss tennis player Roger Federer becomes the No. 1 ranked men's singles player, a position he will hold for a record 237 weeks.
- 2005 The Government of Canada introduces the Civil Marriage Act. This legislation would become law on July 20, 2005, legalizing same-sex marriage.
- 2007 Police officer Filippo Raciti is killed when a clash breaks out in the Sicily derby between Catania and Palermo, in the Serie A, the top flight of Italian football. This event led to major changes in stadium regulations in Italy.
- 2012 The ferry MV Rabaul Queen sinks off the coast of Papua New Guinea near the Finschhafen District, with an estimated 146-165 dead.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 0450 Justin I, Byzantine emperor
- 1208 James I of Aragon
- 1455 John, King of Denmark
- 1650 Pope Benedict XIII
- 1754 Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, French general and politician, Prime Minister of France
- 1829 Alfred Brehm, German zoologist and illustrator
- 1851 José Guadalupe Posada, Mexican illustrator and engraver
- 1873 Leo Fall, Austrian composer
- 1882 James Joyce, Irish novelist, short story writer, and poet
- 1883 Johnston McCulley, American author and screenwriter, created Zorro
- 1905 Ayn Rand, Russian-born American novelist and philosopher
- 1926 Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, French academic and politician, 20th President of France
- 1939 Dale T. Mortensen, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1959 Hella von Sinnen, German entertainer
- 1963 Eva Cassidy, American singer and guitarist
- 1977 Shakira, Colombian singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
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Quote of the day
I never said it would be easy, I only said it would be worth it.
- Mae West (American Actress, 1893-1980) -
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, Lex Caledonia, Minnesota Dakota, Mercunova, Percyton, Cesorion
Tory councils are running out of money to pay for services. Ha. Hope the Tory voters in those areas are directly affected by that and suffer for it. Would serve them right for voting how they do.
My dude, that's a little...extreme.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
What the Tories are doing to this country is extreme so any suffering they endure is payback in my opinion.
Spanelsko
It's.
Nurem.
Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
Yup. My mum sensibly instilled in me a wholesome working class hatred of Thatcher and the Tories.
Axeldonia
Hated killed the activist, as the old saying goes
http://thecoffincofn.boards.net/thread/57/medieval-rp-ic?page=2&scrollTo=484
>Tfw you spend like 20 minutes on writing about luxurious food and all you can eat afterwards is a midnight snack
FML
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Percyton
Remember Kal, in Scotland, Conservatives are seen as hellspawn and Thatcher is the spawn of Satan and Hitler
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia
If Satan and Thatcher stood in my constituency, I'd vote for the former.
Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia
Funny enough, I wore a red shirt today, and a pair of shorts with red stripes. I celebrated the holiday without even realizing it.
https://youtu.be/H_2E0RxVHH4?t=2m19s
The bad news is that this inspired a cheesy kids' movie.
https://youtu.be/ehzdhKKcgow
If the Tories are anything like American Republicans, aren't they usually against government services? Kinda ironic, no?
Nuremgard, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
hi
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Percyton
Greetings Comrade and WELCOME to the CoFN! My name is Aleksander D. Coltsov. I am the current Premier of the Equestrian Union and Ruler of Russia. Don't let us Communist anthro-equines intimidate you, we are quite friendly!
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica
Welcome to the region, Adrian Republic!
Penguania And Antarctica, The Adrian Republic
Hello!
All citizens and residents are invited to share with the government their ideas, comments and critiques regarding the Confederacy during this open town hall. Everyone has a voice!
Open Town Hall: http://thecoffincofn.boards.net/thread/58/open-town-hall-vistonian-chancellery
~VM
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
Can you give a time period for how long the floor will be open for?
I will likely close the floor around the 20th, though I am willing to shift it till the end of the month entirely.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
Please, NS, Let me bring back religious worship and my judiciary. Please?
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Percyton, Spanelsko
Sees state Atheism, screams..... falls from his chair..... runs to his phone.... calls someone.... launch the missiles on Nuremgard.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia
I didn't mean to do it lol
Jaslandia, Percyton, Spanelsko
so should i stop the missiles?
Nuremgard
That would be nice.
Percyton, Spanelsko
Does that mean you are a horse?
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Thank you
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Neigh
Russkov Soviet, Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Percyton
Could any Canadians here help me with something?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S4z-j1-ILU
Jaslandia, Percyton
https://i.imgur.com/bAv27e9.gif?noredirect
Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Who knew that by effectively disenfranchising rural communities, I'd cut corruption in New Salvatore by 83%?
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
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