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Region: The Confederacy of Free Nations
#ICantUnderstandWhatYoureSayingBecauseThereAreJustSoManyWordsAndIUnderstandThatIAmDoingTheSameThingButIAmASpecialSnowFlakeSoYouShouldBeAbleToUnderstandMe.
#What?
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
#NowYouKnowHowIFeelWhenReadingOneOfYourPosts
Jaslandia, Aldaur, Penguania And Antarctica
#IsItThatBad?IGuessIDontRealizeIt.
Trump: I apalagize.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Turina
So last night my little sister said to me, "dont you think youve had enough?" referring to the wine i was drinking. Anonymous people over the internet, i think i might have a wee small drinking problem.
Aldaur, Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus
Hello people.
[spoiler=Today are:]
Today are:
- Day of Army and Victory (Haiti)
- El Buen Fin (Mexico)
- Independence Day (Latvia)
- Independence Day (Morocco)
- Mickey Mouse Birthday
- National Day (Oman)
- National Vichyssoise Day (United States)
- Occult Day
- Push Button Phone Day
- Remembrance Day of the Sacrifice of Vukovar in 1991 (Croatia)
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 326 - The old St. Peter's Basilica is consecrated.
- 401 - The Visigoths, led by king Alaric I, cross the Alps and invade northern Italy.
- 1095 - The Council of Clermont begins: called by Pope Urban II, it led to the First Crusade to the Holy Land.
- 1105 - Maginulfo is elected the Antipope as Sylvester IV.
- 1180 - Phillip II becomes king of France.
- 1210 - Pope Innocent III excommunicates Holy Roman Emperor Otto IV.
- 1282 - Pope Martin IV excommunicates King Peter III of Aragon.
- 1302 - Pope Boniface VIII issues the Papal bull Unam sanctam, claiming spiritual supremacy for the papacy.
- 1307 - According to legend, William Tell shoots an apple off his son's head.
- 1493 - Christopher Columbus first sights the island now known as Puerto Rico.
- 1626 - The new St. Peter's Basilica is consecrated.
- 1730 - The future Frederick II (known as Frederick the Great), King of Prussia, is granted a royal pardon and released from confinement.
- 1803 - The Battle of Vertieres, the last major battle of the Haitian Revolution, is fought, leading to the establishment of the Republic of Haiti, the first black republic in the Western Hemisphere.
- 1812 - Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Krasnoi ends in French defeat, but Marshal of France Michel Ney's leadership leads to him becoming known as "the bravest of the brave".
- 1863 - King Christian IX of Denmark signs the November constitution that declares Schleswig to be part of Denmark. This is seen by the German Confederation as a violation of the London Protocol and leads to the German-Danish war of 1864.
- 1865 - Mark Twain's short story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is published in the New York Saturday Press.
- 1878 - Soprano Marie Selika Williams became the first Black artist to perform at the White House, Washington D.C.
- 1883 - American and Canadian railroads institute five standard continental time zones, ending the confusion of thousands of local times.
- 1901 - Britain and the United States sign the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty, which nullifies the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty and withdraws British objections to an American-controlled canal in Panama.
- 1903 - The Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty is signed by the United States and Panama, giving the United States exclusive rights over the Panama Canal Zone.
- 1905 - Prince Carl of Denmark becomes King Haakon VII of Norway.
- 1916 - World War I: First Battle of the Somme: In France, British Expeditionary Force commander Douglas Haig calls off the battle which started on July 1, 1916.
- 1918 - Latvia declares its independence from Russia.
- 1928 - Release of the animated short Steamboat Willie, the first fully synchronized sound cartoon, directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, featuring the third appearances of cartoon characters Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse. This is considered by the Disney corporation to be Mickey's birthday.
- 1940 - World War II: German leader Adolf Hitler and Italian Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano meet to discuss Benito Mussolini's disastrous Italian invasion of Greece.
- 1943 - World War II: Battle of Berlin: Four hundred and forty Royal Air Force planes bomb Berlin causing only light damage and killing 131. The RAF loses nine aircraft and 53 air crew.
- 1961 - United States President John F. Kennedy sends 18,000 military advisors to South Vietnam.
- 1963 - The first push-button telephone goes into service
- 1970 - U.S. President Richard Nixon asks the U.S. Congress for $155 million in supplemental aid for the Cambodian government.
- 1978 - In Jonestown, Guyana, Jim Jones led his Peoples Temple to a mass murder-suicide that claimed 918 lives in all, 909 of them in Jonestown itself, including over 270 children. Congressman Leo Ryan is murdered by members of the Peoples Temple hours earlier.
- 1987 - King's Cross fire: In London, 31 people die in a fire at the city's busiest underground station, King's Cross St Pancras.
- 1988 - War on Drugs: U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill into law allowing the death penalty for drug traffickers.
- 1991 - After an 87-day siege, the Croatian city of Vukovar capitulates to the besieging Yugoslav People's Army and allied Serb paramilitary forces.
- 1993 - In the United States, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is approved by the House of Representatives.
- 1993 - In South Africa, 21 political parties approve a new constitution, expanding voting rights and ending white minority rule.
- 2003 - In the United Kingdom, the Local Government Act 2003, repealing Section 28, becomes effective.
- 2003 - The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court rules 4-3 in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health that the state's ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional and gives the state legislature 180 days to change the law making Massachusetts the first state in the United States to grant marriage rights to same-sex couples.
- 2012 - Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria becomes the 118th Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria.
- 2013 - NASA launches the MAVEN probe to Mars.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 1736 - Anton Graff, Swiss portrait artist
- 1786 - Carl Maria von Weber, German composer, conductor, pianist, guitarist and critic
- 1787 - Louis Daguerre, French physicist and photographer, developed the daguerreotype
- 1897 - Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1901 - George Gallup, American statistician and academic
- 1906 - Klaus Mann, German-American author, playwright, and critic
- 1909 - Johnny Mercer, American singer-songwriter and producer, co-founded Capitol Records
- 1923 - Alan Shepard, American admiral, pilot, and astronaut
- 1923 - Ted Stevens, American soldier, lawyer, and politician
- 1933 - Bruce Conner, American painter, photographer, and director
- 1939 - Margaret Atwood, Canadian author, poet, and critic
- 1940 - Qaboos bin Said al Said, Sultan of Oman
- 1942 - Linda Evans, American actress
- 1944 - Wolfgang Joop, German fashion designer, founded JOOP!
- 1953 - Alan Moore, English author and illustrator
- 1955 - Carter Burwell, American composer and conductor
- 1960 - Kim Wilde, English singer-songwriter
- 1968 - Owen Wilson, American actor, producer, comedian and screenwriter
- 1971 - Ilka Bessin, German comedian and actress
- 1974 - Chloë Sevigny, American actress and fashion designer
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Quote of the day
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
- William James -
Note: Penguania_And_Antarctica assumes no responsibility or guarantee for correctness of any given information. Any recourse to courts of law is excluded.
Jaslandia, Tserra, The United Providences Of Perland
First of all: How old are you?
Second: Do you drink constantly or just occasionally?
Third: How much do you drink ?
Fourth: Why do you drink?
Fifth: Do you drink alone or together with others ?
Sixth: What do you drink ?
Seventh: Do you feel the need to drink alcohol ?
Eighth: Do you drink till black-out ?
Ninth: Do you think your have a drinking problem?
Aldaur, Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus
#GoAmpersandYourself
Jaslandia, Au Minbo, Aldaur, Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland
Morning all.
How was your sleep?
Penguania And Antarctica, Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus
A wee small drinking problem. Two negatives make a positive. Therefore, you do not have a drinking problem. Down the hatch, lad!
Jaslandia, Kalaron, Penguania And Antarctica
The alcohol can't kill you when things have gotten so bad that your dead inside :P
Nah but really, go get help if you actually do have a drinking problem, don't confuse my memes with actual advice.
Nuremgard
I slept well. And my day has been good so far.
You ?
Not too bad, really.
Sleep was a little late to come, but I'll endure, especially since I have a few big things coming that I'm gonna do.
Legs hurt from T25, but everything should be fine soon enough.
Penguania And Antarctica
Over £300 million quid to fix up Buckingham Palace. It's nice to see Her Majesty buckling down like the rest of her subjects and tightening her belt in these austere times. By doing this, the taxpayer will foot the bill to do up the place.
God bless ya, ma'am. Happy to pay for your massive house while the government implements a benefits cap on poor families. God bless ya.
Penguania And Antarctica
What's T25 ?
Horrible exercise for twenty five minutes.
It hurts long afterwards.
Penguania And Antarctica, Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus
I love being a Doctor. *Period*
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Oh.
Kalaron
I smell Christmas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRP8d7hhpoQ :)
Your capitalization of 'Doctor' makes me think you're the main character of Doctor Who.
No no. The German influence is just strong in this one. :p
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Continental Commonwealths, Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus
That was what I liked about German. It was easy to tell which words were nouns because every noun is capitalised in German.
Penguania And Antarctica, Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus
Yep. And it's also to identify nominalizations of verbs or adjectives. Scientific studies have also shown that the speed of reading increases when you capitalise the nouns because it is a good orientation mark for the eyes. That goes for native speakers and foreign speakers and works in language which don't capitalise nouns too.
Nuremgard
Leave it to the Germans to naturally develop a written language that maximizes reading efficiency.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Turina
They definitely should be spending more for her lovely years of service.
#ResidentRoyalistToTheRescue
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
No comment.
Ludania, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Well I think that's just how we are. Quality and efficency. Would you say those are bad attitudes?
Jaslandia
Depends on who uses them for what purpose.
The 1930's and 40's, for example, would cause them to be bad. However, the language is good, and the cars are fvcking badass.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
I like Doctor Strange more. :'(
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Humpheria Major
I've been wanting to see that movie. Have you seen it?
Even older-looking: mom got her gallbladder removed yesterday so I'm spending the Thanksgiving break taking care of her
Penguania And Antarctica
Well I would happy for Thanksgiving, but I've got four different projects to work on. Not as bad as what PK is doing for his mom right now, but I've gotta complain to someone about my little problems.
Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Humpheria Major, Pirate Kingdoms
That's nice
Sorry to hear that, Bax, hope you get through it easily enough.
Penguania And Antarctica
Of course not, dear Peng.
Granted, and ideology aside, the efficiency by which Poland fell was as close to a wartime masterpiece as you're going to get in the 20th Century. All because of liiiitlle Danzig.
That's not to say that it wasn't horrible, mind you. Or that conceding Danzig would have mitigated the breakout of WWII.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus
https://www.facebook.com/sketchhistory/videos/539907186203360/
Awh, c'mon Nurem. We know better than that!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RldQJthaM-w
Nuremgard, Jaslandia
Even I gotta disagree, bud, and I ain't even Scottish.
The United Providences Of Perland
https://youtu.be/Otm4RusESNU
Continental Commonwealths
What is up people?
Waiting for Tea Time
Jaslandia, The United Providences Of Perland
We need to moutherfvcking get muthafockin Lavan Tiri up in here
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Continental Commonwealths, Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland, Humpheria Major
Hey all.
Sul is busy playing a game, so he asked me to post this poll for y'all to take.
http://www.strawpoll.me/11682670
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica
#INFP
Au Minbo, Penguania And Antarctica
INTP/INTJ
Though, that said, I see myself far more in INTP group than INTJ.
Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica
I got ENTP (Analyst - Debater)
Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica
I can do Tea Time tonight. Give me a little bit.
INTJ
Lavan Tiri, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland
*smile*
Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland
#ENTJ
LADIES, GENTLEMEN, AND HERMAPHRODITES, IT IS NOW TEA TIME!
OUR SNACKS: WHOLE GRAIN BREAD, HOT DOGS, AND BANANAS
OUR DRINKS: DIET DR PEPPER, BOTTLED WATER, AND JASMINE TEA
OUR TOPICS: FAVORITE VILLAINS, FAVORITE MOVIES, AND DREAM VACATIONS
BONUS TOPIC: WHAT IS YOUR MBTI CLASSIFICATION (SEE SUL'S POLL)?
BONUS PROGRAMS: OPEN LETTERS, RANDOM LINKS, AND NONSENSICAL SENTENCES
Continental Commonwealths, Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland
Whole grain bread and water? You can't even toast it and put some butter on it, or add a little carbonation to the water? Did our region just go through a slew of budget cuts?!
A Dr Pepper, I guess. :P
Villains: Hades, from Disney's Hercules. No explanation necessary.
Movies: Based on my favourite books- The Great Gatsby (Robert Redford version, not Leo), To Kill a Mockingbird, and Jurassic Park.
Vacation: I'd be happy with just going back to Cabo, but Australia if I could choose anywhere.
Myers-Briggs: See above.
Jaslandia
I'll have hot dogs and Diet Dr Pepper.
Favorite villains: The Joker from The Dark Knight, Azula from Avatar: The Last Airbender, Kuvira from Legend of Korra, and Zaheer from Legend of Korra.
Favorite movies: The Prince of Egypt, Lincoln (2012), Mean Girls, The Dark Knight, and Cars.
Dream vacations: I would like to go to Europe and tour London, Paris, Rome, Vienna, and St. Petersburg. Lucky for me, I'm going on a tour of Europe this summer to England, France, Switzerland, and Italy, so I'll be able to get pretty close to my dream vacation.
MBTI: As I said before, INTJ. Although, while we're on the subject, I should note that while MBTI can be interesting to know, its practical application and validity doesn't seem particularly strong.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers%E2%80%93Briggs_Type_Indicator#Criticism
Random links: https://youtu.be/BG-_ZDrypec
https://youtu.be/I2wTjWC45kA
https://youtu.be/mZk7lhXg7m0
Continental Commonwealths, Penguania And Antarctica
Psychometrics in general are a pretty contentious topic. I took an entire class in my undergrad that was devoted to examining and criticizing intelligence tests. To this day, I can't hear WISC or WAIS without immediately becoming fatigued.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
SNACKS:Whole grain me up, bud.
DRINKS: Jasmine tea, please.
TOPICS: Kriea, from KOTOR2, Don't have one, and probably in the ISS.
BONUS TOPIC: INTP/INTJ.
PROGRAMS: https://discord.gg/GbhVPkR ;P
I could write two open letters, both addressed to this community.
You want the happy one, or the kinda sad one?
It appears I'm being threatened with a DOS, SWAT, and dominos pizza delivery. What UK division/department handles cyber crimes/threats?
Um...I think it's safe to just say the police.
That said, if it's happening on NS, then first handle it through Admins.
The United Providences Of Perland
Nah, private Discord server. And I have reported it to my local police, but the person that is planning this is British is appears.
Well, in that instance, consider it "mostly" handled?
Worst comes to worst, the police can handle it I think, while reporting twice just might be bad, maybe.
Good point. I'll wait it out, as I suppose there isn't an imminent risk to my life.
Kalaron
In the meanwhile, I'd like to point back to my response to the tea time, and ask for if someone can answer my question :P
The United Providences Of Perland
Both good and bad scenarios, with each sentence alternating between the two.
The United Providences Of Perland
Citizens,
Pursuant to the Executive Establishment Amendment, it is my duty to inform you that I will be temporarily incapacitated and unable to preform my duties as President due to a situation of a personal and private nature. Therefore, Vice President Sulania shall discharge the duties of the Office until such a time when I contact you again with my admission that I am once again able.
Regards,
Humpheria Major
President
CFN
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Tserra
Hope everything is okay, Humph. Barring that, I hope all is well in the very near future.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Humpheria Major
https://67.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lw01rnPlXz1r5kg5io1_400.gif
Sorry to hear that, Humph. Hope your situation is resolved soon! But, I'm sure Sul will do a great job in your absence!
Penguania And Antarctica, Humpheria Major
INFP for lyf
Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica
Heh, sorry, mate.
[spoiler=Kinda sad, read if you want to know some important stuff to me, I guess]How should I even start this?
I guess a bit of me wants to apologize for assuming something of y'all, but I already [B]know[/B] that some people will just say "Oh, it's OK Kal" and let that be the end of it, and another part of me irrationally doesn't want that. Maybe I just want to have this out there, even, hell if I know, I guess?
I wonder if some people are just getting sick of when I talk of the NGA, but it's important to state where this is coming from, I know more than anything that it is. Frankly, the NGA wasn't a good time for me, not because of y'all, but because it was a constant balancing act between defending my friends, upholding every rule of the Discord, a loss of faith in the impartiality of the Founder, my own inherent guilt over not having at least tried more to talk Silver out of what he did in the original CFN, and trying to keep everything away from the RMB to save y'all from the arguments. I can't tell you how many times I nearly responded to any of Valt's inflammatory messages with a mouth full of anger, only to pull back in an attempt to preserve the peace there, or to avoid being put in a terrible spot (Because most of what he said wasn't itself terrible, it was knowing what was meant behind it that was horrible) while he chummed the waters, or tried to frame the next thing he'd do to the people he didn't like on Discord to y'all in the most innocuous and leading of ways, and a great example was when he made that "Bullying is bad" style comment. you can believe it or not, but he hadn't just woken up that morning with the thought lodged in his head that people shouldn't harm each other, rather, he'd actually been sending me private messages that last day talking all about how two specific members felt bullied by me (One felt nothing of the sort, and the other I sent an apology to for having hurt their feelings even if I didn't personally feel it was bullying) and how they were going to trial me for it.
If passing a narrative can influence people, then he was prepping all of you for what he hoped was my ejection (He had, after all, written the law on bullying) though one dismissed the idea as being horribly stupid as he had, once again, felt nothing like offense) and the other left before anything actually went through at all.
To some extent I'm sure I viewed the RMB as his domain, a place where he could spin whatever webs he wanted (Like insulting Sul for being inactive on the RMB, and attempting to make him leave NS on Discord) without fear of repercussion because of how long the story would be regardless of exactly what was being discussed. But throughout it all, I remembered that you all were people I once talked to without fear, and that all of you were as much my friend as I was yours, so when Valt began to lie about why Sul had left, I couldn't understand why people weren't asking questions, why people were just sitting there and continuing business as usual when a leading member of the community was actively insulting four people who'd left, and was arguing semantics when one came back to correct his lies on why they'd left.
Maybe...maybe what made it so horrible to me was that, when I left, I tried to show people what was going on. I exposed everything he'd done, from coming up with a reason to kick Peng from his party so that he could run for Premier (Valt had explicitly said he wouldn't run for premier if a member of his own party ran) to lying about why the others had left, to making a scene on the RMB so that Icarus's President could see and tell Sul and Bax to stop posting, to "warning" the people in Icarus about me and Sul, to him insulting Ru privately while talking about how Ruclax just wouldn't make peace with him in public, to kicking Vista from the Discord for a joke he made to Oel (One Oel admitted to not having felt offended by, though at the time, he'd been afraid to deny Valt when he asked Valt asked him to say he had been) and I could go on but I shouldn't.
When I left the NGA, I expected people to question what had gone on, I expected people to hold their Leader accountable...and maybe I expected a message? I know it's selfish and I shouldn't expect one, but I just sat there watching as business went on like normal, like I hadn't thrown everything he'd done to people to the RMB, and there wasn't one telegram, wasn't one request for clarification, just...business as usual.
I don't think of myself as someone who can't handle emotion, but I can't describe what I felt, seeing Valt seemingly get away with it all Scot free.
I won't lie, I actually wanted to leave NS, because I didn't want to go to a new region with new people in it...truth be told...I felt more exhausted than I had in a long time, because I had lost, and it had become clear that whatever I was to the people, it wasn't anything like a pillar.
Sometime afterwards, we all went to Montaris, and I should have been happy, I should have been ecstatic, but all I could remember when I looked on the RMB was the irrational thought that people wouldn't want me to post a reply to them, they wouldn't care or give a damn if I left Montaris, or just stopped doing anything at all, because I wasn't needed in the NGA, and it wouldn't have changed from a simple region relocation, so, whenever I went to post I'd just delete everything I had typed.
When people came out supporting forgiving Valt, or letting him join....I think that might have been the real breaking point, because everything my friends had been through was being thrown in their faces by someone who hadn't been there, by someone who didn't care what Valt had done to them...I felt that, clearly, no one cared about what we'd all gone through, so I just stayed on the Discord, and I just tried to keep my friends safe and happy.
I don't know why I writing this, maybe it's just because it's late, and I'm sad while remembering old times, but I just wanted to say...I guess I'm sorry for assuming that none of you cared, because most of you are all great people, and it would be wrong of me to say anything otherwise. [/spoiler]
[spoiler=Pretty happy go lucky]Some forty five days ago, I got into an argument with Ashur-Ishistan over what a Founder was, at it's core.
Forty five days ago, Ashur tried to press the notion that a Founder is the strongest part of a Region, possessing power unrivaled by any position, or group.
Forty five days ago, I argued that it was the people -not the founder- who were strongest, because when we leave a Region, it collapses, when we tell a founder to respect the rights of the people to assemble and choose for themselves what to do, the founder must listen or rot alone.
Some thirty days ago, we proved what I had said, when we left the Region Montaris and arrived here.
Ruclax was a friend to me, once, but he let power go to his head, and he has lost because of it, and because of our power as the people to form a government for our benefit, and I am certain that we will continue to use this power to keep our region standing, even in the face of whatever crisis might come next.
It will take work, I know, but we can make life flourish here, if we all only try![/spoiler]
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Continental Commonwealths, Penguania And Antarctica, Tserra, The United Providences Of Perland
Give me everything.
Villains: the Soviet Union
Movies: Triumph of the Will
Dream Vacations: Not so much a vacation, but it is my dream to live alone in a small cottage in northern Fennoscandia.
Myers-Briggs: INTP
Open Letter:
Dear Her Majesty;
Your house does not need £369 million for refurbishment. Move into a flat or something.
Love,
The People of Britain (except UKIP supporters, they have their own letter)
Random Link: http://people.stat.sfu.ca/~cschwarz/CourseNotes/
Nonsensical Sentences: Donald Trump will govern for the fortunes of all Americans. His reign will be prosperous and glorious. Long may he reign!
Jaslandia, Aldaur, Penguania And Antarctica
Aldauri Reporter: Aldaur is now dedicating it's resources towards space exploration and will focus on the creation of interplanetary colonies. The Imperial Space Agency (ISA) will be conducted tests this weekend before a launch on Monday, 21 Brumaire 2016 AD, at 07:45. This will be the first time any country has sent a manned mission to the moon for decades, and is truly a historic moment. The plan is to set up a science facility and launch pad on the moon to be used for refueling the ISS, studying the moon more closely and having a closer spot to launch shuttles to other planets. While the intentions are noble, it has stirred controversy from the global community, as it is in violation of an international treaty stating that no one can claim territory on the moon. Due to the global backlash, the Aldauri government has decided to send military personnel and use weaponized satellites to protect the launch. The lunar base will be called Tol Luna, which to those who do not speak Aldauri, means Fort Luna. Despite the controversy, the Imperateur issued a statement saying that nothing and no one will stop the ISA from achieving it's mission and that in celebration for the Imperium's new focus on space, they have changed the national anthem. Here it is.
https://youtu.be/WQYN2P3E06s
OOC: This is truly a beautiful song! I love the songs from Civilization! Baba Yetu is also really good. Had to sing that in choir!
I feel really guilty and bad now.
This will be my first tea time. I've never done it before, but I figured, what the hell?
Snacks: Whole grain bread
Drinks: Jasmine Tea. Should get Chinese black tea next time.
Favorite Villain: Darkon Rahl from Legend of the Seeker
Favorite Movie: Starship Troopers (the first one only)
Dream Vacation: Have a safe tour of all the ancient Mesopotamian ruins in Iraq.
Bonus Topic: I frequently switch between being an ESTJ and an ENTJ. Depends on my mood really. Some days I feel nicer, and other days not so much.
Open Letter: Dear Kim Jong Un,
Get a new barbor.
Love,
Al
Random Link: https://youtu.be/WQYN2P3E06s
Nonsensical sentence: I've discovered that I am a complete square today. I guess that isn't nonsensical, which is fitting due to my square-itude.
This was fun. *talks to self* Let's never do this again :p
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
https://www.16personalities.com/isfp-personality
#ISFP
Penguania And Antarctica
Hello people. I wish everyone a nice and peaceful day.
[spoiler=Today are:]
Today are:
- Day of Discovery of Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico)
- Day of Missile Forces and Artillery (Belarus, Russia)
- Flag Day (Brazil)
- Garifuna Settlement Day (Belize)
- Have A Bad Day Day
- International Men's Day
- Liberation Day (Mali)
- Martyrs' Day (Uttar Pradesh, India)
- National Adoption Day (United States)
- National Carbonated Beverage With Caffeine Day (United States)
- National Play Monopoly Day (United States)
- National Survivors of Suicide Day (United States)
- Prince Rainier Day (Monaco)
- Women's Entrepreneurship Day
- World Toilet Day
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 461 - Libius Severus is declared emperor of the Western Roman Empire. The real power is in the hands of the magister militum Ricimer.
- 1493 - Christopher Columbus goes ashore on an island he first saw the day before. He names it San Juan Bautista (later renamed Puerto Rico).
- 1794 - The United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain sign Jay's Treaty, which attempts to resolve some of the lingering problems left over from the American Revolutionary War.
- 1816 - Warsaw University is established.
- 1847 - The second Canadian railway line, the Montreal and Lachine Railway, is opened.
- 1863 - American Civil War: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the dedication ceremony for the military cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
- 1881 - A meteorite lands near the village of Grossliebenthal, southwest of Odessa, Ukraine.
- 1885 - Serbo-Bulgarian War: Bulgarian victory in the Battle of Slivnitsa solidifies the unification between the Principality of Bulgaria and Eastern Rumelia.
- 1912 - First Balkan War: The Serbian Army captures Bitola, ending the five-century-long Ottoman rule of Macedonia.
- 1916 - Samuel Goldwyn and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Pictures.
- 1941 - World War II: Battle between HMAS Sydney and HSK Kormoran. The two ships sink each other off the coast of Western Australia, with the loss of 645 Australians and about 77 German seamen.
- 1942 - World War II: Battle of Stalingrad: Soviet Union forces under General Georgy Zhukov launch the Operation Uranus counterattacks at Stalingrad, turning the tide of the battle in the USSR's favor.
- 1942 - Mutesa II is crowned the 35th and last Kabaka (king) of Buganda, prior to the restoration of the kingdom in 1993.
- 1943 - Holocaust: Nazis liquidate Janowska concentration camp in Lemberg (Lviv), western Ukraine, murdering at least 6,000 Jews after a failed uprising and mass escape attempt.
- 1944 - World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces the 6th War Loan Drive, aimed at selling US$14 billion in war bonds to help pay for the war effort.
- 1944 - World War II: Thirty members of the Luxembourgish resistance defend the town of Vianden against a larger Waffen-SS attack in the Battle of Vianden.
- 1946 - Afghanistan, Iceland and Sweden join the United Nations.
- 1950 - US General Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes Supreme Commander of NATO-Europe.
- 1952 - Greek Field Marshal Alexander Papagos becomes the 152nd Prime Minister of Greece.
- 1954 - Télé Monte Carlo, Europe's oldest private television channel, is launched by Prince Rainier III.
- 1955 - National Review publishes its first issue.
- 1959 - The Ford Motor Company announces the discontinuation of the unpopular Edsel.
- 1969 - Apollo program: Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean land at Oceanus Procellarum (the "Ocean of Storms") and become the third and fourth humans to walk on the Moon.
- 1969 - Association football player Pelé scores his 1,000th goal.
- 1979 - Iran hostage crisis: Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini orders the release of 13 female and black American hostages being held at the US Embassy in Tehran.
- 1984 - San Juanico disaster: A series of explosions at the Pemex petroleum storage facility at San Juan Ixhuatepec in Mexico City starts a major fire and kills about 500 people.
- 1985 - Cold War: In Geneva, U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time.
- 1985 - Pennzoil wins a US$10.53 billion judgment against Texaco, in the largest civil verdict in the history of the United States, stemming from Texaco executing a contract to buy Getty Oil after Pennzoil had entered into an unsigned, yet still binding, buyout contract with Getty.
- 1988 - Serbian communist representative and future Serbian and Yugoslav president Slobodan Miloević publicly declares that Serbia is under attack from Albanian separatists in Kosovo as well as internal treachery within Yugoslavia and a foreign conspiracy to destroy Serbia and Yugoslavia.
- 1994 - In the United Kingdom, the first National Lottery draw is held. A £1 ticket gave a one-in-14-million chance of correctly guessing the winning six out of 49 numbers.
- 1998 - Lewinsky scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee begins impeachment hearings against U.S. President Bill Clinton.
- 1998 - Vincent van Gogh's Portrait of the Artist Without Beard sells at auction for US$71.5 million.
- 1999 - Shenzhou 1: The People's Republic of China launches its first Shenzhou spacecraft.
- 2002 - The Greek oil tanker Prestige splits in half and sinks off the coast of Galicia, releasing over 20 million US gallons (76,000 m³) of oil in the largest environmental disaster in Spanish and Portuguese history.
- 2004 - The Malice at the Palace: The worst brawl in NBA history, Ron Artest suspended 86 games (rest of season), Stephen Jackson suspended 30 games
- 2010 - The first of four explosions takes place at the Pike River Mine in New Zealand; 29 people are killed in the nation's worst mining disaster since 1914.
- 2016 - Pope Francis created 17 new members of the College of Cardinals at a consistory in Vatican City.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 1464 - Emperor Go-Kashiwabara of Japan
- 1563 - Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester, English poet and politician
- 1600 - Charles I of England
- 1711 - Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian physicist, chemist, astronomer, and geographer
- 1770 - Ivan Fyodorovich Kruzenshtern, born as Adam Johann Ritter von Krusenstern, Russian admiral and explorer of Baltic German descent, led the first Russian circumnavigation of the globe
- 1799 - René Caillié, French explorer, first European returned alive from the town of Timbuktu
- 1805 - Ferdinand de Lesseps, French diplomat and engineer, developed the Suez Canal
- 1831 - James A. Garfield, American general, lawyer, and politician, 20th President of the United States
- 1875 - Mikhail Kalinin, Russian civil servant and politician, 1st Head of State of The Soviet Union
- 1875 - Hiram Bingham III, American academic, explorer and politician
- 1888 - José Raúl Capablanca, Cuban-American chess player and theologian
- 1900 - Anna Seghers, German author and politician
- 1912 - George Emil Palade, Romanian-American biologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1917 - Indira Gandhi, Indian politician, 3rd Prime Minister of India
- 1921 - Max Kruse, German writer
- 1933 - Larry King, American journalist and talk show host
- 1936 - Yuan T. Lee, Taiwanese-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1938 - Ted Turner, American businessman and philanthropist, founded Turner Broadcasting System
- 1941 - Tommy Thompson, American captain and politician, 19th United States Secretary of Health and Human Services
- 1942 - Calvin Klein, American fashion designer, founded Calvin Klein Inc.
- 1961 - Meg Ryan, American actress and producer
- 1962 - Jodie Foster, American actress, director, and producer
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Quote of the day
Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
- Albert Einstein -
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Jaslandia, Aldaur, Vista Major, Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus
I love you bro.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland, Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus
Don't be, mate.
The NGA was hell for you too, and expecting you to fight Valt to a standstill would have been unrealistic when he'd maul you over RL politics.
Heh, thanks bro.
Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland
So I'm about to start the Forum RP. I'd recommend you join, but it's your choice. It'll be interesting, and it may lead to a sort of decolonization crisis
Jaslandia, Aldaur, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland
Can't say that I was nothing short of a bad time, and the wounds can still be felt.
But, I will say thank you for sticking around, despite the unpleasurable situations.
Yassss
Aldaur
Ooo, what kind of RP? I would like to join in if possible.
Aldaur, Vista Major
http://s15.zetaboards.com/COFN/topic/10061423/2/
Aldaur, The United Providences Of Perland
I see that comment you made there, Vis.
It's been noted...
Aldaur, Vista Major
I'll try to make an app for that today.
Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland
Fun fact: Kim Jong-un is afraid of barbers, and as such cuts his own hair.
Jaslandia, Aldaur, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica
I'm serious. This is not a joke.
Jaslandia, Aldaur, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland
Obvs
Sorry, I totally said I'd post yesterday, but I am swamped with this stupid ancient egypt paper and I have no idea what I am writing lol
Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica
Take all the notes you want, Napoleon
Aldaur, The United Providences Of Perland
I would have gone with Tiro, but to each his own.
Vista Major
My app for the regional RP is posted.
Aldaur, Vista Major
[nation=short]Percyton[/nation] and [nation=short]Penguania and Antarctica[/nation] for a cuter future.
#Peng4Pres
#Percy4VicePres
- Make the region cute again! -
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Continental Commonwealths, Tserra, Percyton
I could be a Vice President? I don't think I've ever been a VP before. Do you really think I could do it, Peng?
Jaslandia, Continental Commonwealths, Penguania And Antarctica
Sure. You are the engine that can pull the train of success and cuteness. :)
Jaslandia, Continental Commonwealths, The United Providences Of Perland, Percyton
Thanks, Peng! I'll try my best to be a Really Useful Vice President!
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
To clarify something: I'm not serious about running for President. Even if I say Peng4President I don't intend to run for the office. I just have fun to do so. I'll post a political campaign too but this won't be serious. I leave regional politics to our fulltime politicians. They can do it better than I do. And it also would be a bit to much to start a political career as president. Well, Trump does but I don't want to be Trump. So, yeah, I'll wait till my time comes and someone gives me the opportunity to make a start in regional politics on a lower level.
Jaslandia, The United Providences Of Perland, Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus
While I would support you if you decided to seriously run, I respect your decision. Besides, if you did run seriously this election, the validity of it could be called into question as Percy is not a citizen, and thus wouldn't be allowed to be VP. However, I will still support you and Percy jocularly this election!
Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland
Eh, don't sweat it.
Honestly, for quite a bit, I just laughed at how fortunate I still was seeing as to how -even if the people in the RMB didn't like me (Or so I thought)- the others still had friends aplenty, and could be happy in Montaris while I nestled up in the Discord and just chatted with the people I knew still counted me as a friend.
Like I said, worst part was just arguing with people who didn't know about half of what he did, and still thought he should join (Invalidating the move to Montaris entirely)
Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica
Can we let the past be the past and don't repeat the same old stories over and over again ? I would like to look into the future and not always the past. Yes there was a conflict but bringing it up over and over again doesn't change things. You see Valt like an ultimate bad people that will destroy the world. I'm an optimist and belief in the good of all people. And I still think that Valt can be a nice guy. You might hate me for this but I'm still in contact with Valt. I still consider Valt a friend.
So my point is let the past be the past and look into the future.
Most in this region probably will hate me for this post and I'll lose all my credibility but that's what I believe and I'm not forcing you to believe the same.
Jaslandia
First, I don't hate you in a similar way to how I don't hate those who said Valt should be forgiven, the difference being that you actually went through some of the stuff, so I don't even feel annoyance.
Secondly, I don't think he can be nice in any meaningful way that doesn't lead up to him attempting to influence the other person towards his view, with my open letter bearing the reasons I believe this (Alongside that, as I said in Montaris, I gave him plenty of chances to show change, which didn't happen)
In short, you can talk to him if you want, I honestly don't think it's my business if you do, but I thought I should probably say something when I was given an open letter to say what had me down, and that I shouldn't accept a "thank you" from Vista when I was fine in Montaris.
Sorry if it seems strange, Peng, but I don't forgive the harassment of my friends easily, and it only gets harder to forgive when the person disregards those friends opinions when he tries to enter.
Considering the most recent actions, too, I see no reason to believe in his power to change either (Maybe he's different in private now, I don't know)
I'm plenty happy to talk of something else, though.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
How is everyone today ?
Vista Major, The United Providences Of Perland
Going to a movie soon
Penguania And Antarctica
Cool. Which one ?
Vista Major, The United Providences Of Perland
Birth of a Nation
At the city forum
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