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I greet you in the traditional Uguzuki manner.

"KHLFKHLSHFKHLKH"

Merlinton, The Royal Republic Of Kumania, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona, Magnatronia, Percyton

Uguzukia wrote:I greet you in the traditional Uguzuki manner.

"KHLFKHLSHFKHLKH"

That actually made me laugh XD

Merlinton, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

Oelesa wrote:Alright so my finals week is here Monday. I won't be around much that whole week, all i wanna see is happy homosexuals and tea time. No fighting please?

Yessir.

I will follow your orders, mon capitaine.

Uguzukia wrote:I greet you in the traditional Uguzuki manner.

"KHLFKHLSHFKHLKH"

*toot toot*

I greet you in the traditional penguin manner. :)

Jaslandia, Percyton, Uguzukia

Kalaron wrote:Minnesota made a post wherein he claimed ships carrying Aid got shot by Rebel "Guns" and sank. He then declared war on Sulania's Republican party and promptly got told that Aldwood would escort any ships carrying war-making supplies back to their port or destroy them, due to the fact that Minnesota just kinda...declared...that he'd bomb out any building flying republican colours.

Ald isn't going to do that though. Because if Ald blocks any efforts by Union members to help a fellow member being overridden by counter-revolution then they're in trouble. If Ald attacks a member trying to aid in combatting counter-revolution then we'll stop fighting in Sulania and turn around and walk over his ass for betraying the Union from within.

Uguzukia wrote:I greet you in the traditional Uguzuki manner.

"KHLFKHLSHFKHLKH"

Khrad Civis

Oelesa wrote:

Who else has finals coming up?

*sniff* I do

Jaslandia, Oelesa, Penguania And Antarctica

REGIONAL SONG OF THE DAY

Day 55: Toto - "Africa" (link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTQbiNvZqaY)

Thank you for reading, stay safe friend - Aghrabia does not wish to continue with SOTD, so I'm taking over for him until he wants to come back. I'll be starting a new list and a new series of songs, TG or PM on Discord for requests.

Jaslandia, Aghrabia, Andromitus, Magnatronia, Percyton

Oelesa wrote:Who else has finals coming up?

Ughhhhhh me in less than three weeks.

Jaslandia, Andromitus

Oelesa wrote:Alright so my finals week is here Monday. I won't be around much that whole week, all i wanna see is happy homosexuals and tea time. No fighting please?

Who else has finals coming up?

My college finals were weeks ago, and my high school teachers are allowing me to skip my finals.

So

Nope

Jaslandia, Oelesa, Penguania And Antarctica

Fúcking Hell, I just woke up because a lighting strike so loud that it must have been in the front yard or something. Now my dogs are freaking out (one won't even come out of the bathroom) and you've got a pissed off Fried.

You know what I gotta say about that?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LuWAtdOGfGs

Russian Fedration, The Royal Republic Of Kumania, Penguania And Antarctica

[spoiler=Today is May 20 and today are:]

Today is May 20 and today are:

- Day of Remembrance (Cambodia)

- Do Dah Day or Salute to Silliness Day

- Emancipation Day (Florida, US)

- European Maritime Day (European Council)

- Europe Day (Ukraine)

- Everybody Draw Mohammed Day

- Flower Day

- Independence Day (Cuba)

- Independence Day (East Timor)

- Josephine Baker Day (NAACP)

- National Armed Forces Day (United States)

- National Awakening Day (Indonesia)

- National Be a Millionaire Day (United States)

- National Day (Cameroon)

- National Learn to Swim Day (United States)

- National Pick Strawberries Day (United States)

- National Quiche Lorraine Day (United States)

- Weights and Measure Day

- World Autoimmune Arthritis Day

- World Fiddle Day

- World Metrology Day

- World Whisky Day

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[spoiler=This day in history:]

This day in history:

- 325 – The First Council of Nicaea is formally opened, starting the first ecumenical council of the Christian Church.

- 491 – Empress Ariadne marries Anastasius I. The widowed Augusta is able to choose her successor for the Byzantine throne, after Zeno (late emperor) dies of dysentery.

- 526 – An earthquake kills about 250,000 people in what is now Syria and Antiochia.

- 685 – The Battle of Dun Nechtain is fought between a Pictish army under King Bridei III and the invading Northumbrians under King Ecgfrith, who are decisively defeated.

- 794 – King Æthelberht II of East Anglia visits the royal Mercian court at Sutton Walls, with a view to marrying princess Ælfthryth. He is taken captive and beheaded.

- 1217 – The Second Battle of Lincoln is fought near Lincoln, England, resulting in the defeat of Prince Louis of France by William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke.

- 1293 – King Sancho IV of Castile creates the Estudio de Escuelas de Generales in Alcalá de Henares.

- 1449 – The Battle of Alfarrobeira is fought, establishing the House of Braganza as a principal royal family of Portugal.

- 1497 – John Cabot sets sail from Bristol, England, on his ship Matthew looking for a route to the west (other documents give a May 2 date).

- 1498 – Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama discovers the sea route to India when he arrives at Kozhikode (previously known as Calicut), India.

- 1520 – The massacre at the festival of Tóxcatl takes place during the Fall of Tenochtitlan, resulting in turning the Aztecs against the Spanish.

- 1521 – Ignatius of Loyola is seriously wounded in the Battle of Pampeluna.

- 1570 – Cartographer Abraham Ortelius issues Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern atlas.

- 1609 – Shakespeare's sonnets are first published in London, perhaps illicitly, by the publisher Thomas Thorpe.

- 1631 – The city of Magdeburg in Germany is seized by forces of the Holy Roman Empire and most of its inhabitants massacred, in one of the bloodiest incidents of the Thirty Years' War.

- 1645 – Yangzhou massacre: the 10-day massacre of 800,000 residents of the city of Yangzhou, part of the Transition from Ming to Qing.

- 1775 – The controversial Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence is allegedly signed in Charlotte, North Carolina.

- 1802 – By the Law of 20 May 1802, Napoleon Bonaparte reinstates slavery in the French colonies, revoking its abolition in the French Revolution.

- 1813 – Napoleon Bonaparte leads his French troops into the Battle of Bautzen in Saxony, Germany, against the combined armies of Russia and Prussia. The battle ends the next day with a French victory.

- 1840 – York Minster is badly damaged by fire.

- 1861 – American Civil War: The state of Kentucky proclaims its neutrality, which will last until September 3 when Confederate forces enter the state. Meanwhile, the State of North Carolina secedes from the Union.

- 1862 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln signs the Homestead Act into law.

- 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Ware Bottom Church: In the Virginia Bermuda Hundred Campaign, 10,000 troops fight in this Confederate victory.

- 1873 – Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a U.S. patent for blue jeans with copper rivets.

- 1875 – Signing of the Metre Convention by 17 nations leading to the establishment of the International System of Units.

- 1882 – The Triple Alliance between the German Empire, Austria-Hungary and the Kingdom of Italy is formed.

- 1883 – Krakatoa begins to erupt; the volcano explodes three months later, killing more than 36,000 people.

- 1891 – History of cinema: The first public display of Thomas Edison's prototype kinetoscope.

- 1896 – The six-ton chandelier of the Palais Garnier falls on the crowd below, killing one person and injuring many others.

- 1902 – Cuba gains independence from the United States. Tomás Estrada Palma becomes the country's first President.

- 1908 – Budi Utomo organization is founded in Dutch East Indies, beginning the Indonesian National Awakening.

- 1927 – Treaty of Jeddah: The United Kingdom recognizes the sovereignty of King Ibn Saud in the Kingdoms of Hejaz and Nejd, which later merge to become the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

- 1932 – Amelia Earhart takes off from Newfoundland to begin the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean by a female pilot, landing in Ireland the next day.

- 1940 – The Holocaust: The first prisoners arrive at a new concentration camp at Auschwitz.

- 1941 – World War II: Battle of Crete: German paratroops invade Crete.

- 1948 – Chiang Kai-shek is elected as the first President of the Republic of China.

- 1949 – In the United States, the Armed Forces Security Agency, the predecessor to the National Security Agency, is established.

- 1956 – In Operation Redwing, the first United States airborne hydrogen bomb is dropped over Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.

- 1964 – Discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation by Robert Woodrow Wilson and Arno Penzias.

- 1967 – The Popular Movement of the Revolution political party is established in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

- 1971 – In the Chuknagar massacre, Pakistani forces massacre thousands, mostly Bengali Hindus.

- 1969 – The Battle of Hamburger Hill in Vietnam ends.

- 1980 – In a referendum in Quebec, the population rejects, by 60% of the vote, a government proposal to move towards independence from Canada.

- 1983 – First publications of the discovery of the HIV virus that causes AIDS in the journal Science by Luc Montagnier.

- 1983 – Church Street bombing: A car bomb planted by Umkhonto we Sizwe explodes on Church Street in South Africa's capital, Pretoria, killing 19 people and injuring 217 others.

- 1985 – Radio Martí, part of the Voice of America service, begins broadcasting to Cuba.

- 1989 – The Chinese authorities declare martial law in the face of pro-democracy demonstrations, setting the scene for the Tiananmen Square massacre.

- 1990 – The first post-Communist presidential and parliamentary elections are held in Romania.

- 1996 – Civil rights: The Supreme Court of the United States rules in Romer v. Evans against a law that would have prevented any city, town or county in the state of Colorado from taking any legislative, executive, or judicial action to protect the rights of gays and lesbians.

- 2002 – The independence of East Timor is recognized by Portugal, formally ending 23 years of Indonesian rule and three years of provisional UN administration (Portugal itself is the former colonizer of East Timor until 1976).

- 2006 – A series of massive strikes begin involving nearly 1.8 million garment workers in Bangladesh.

- 2010 – A social media event is celebrated in response to the Muslim extremists' reaction to images of Mohammed.

- 2012 – At least 27 people are killed and 50 others injured when a 6.0-magnitude earthquake strikes northern Italy.

- 2013 – An EF5 tornado strikes the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore, killing 24 people and injuring 377 others.

- 2014 – More than 118 people are killed in two bombings in Jos, Nigeria.

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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]

Famous Birthdays:

- 1743 – Toussaint Louverture, Haitian revolutionary, Lieutenant Governor of Saint-Domingue

- 1799 – Honoré de Balzac, French novelist and playwright

- 1806 – John Stuart Mill, English economist, civil servant, and philosopher

- 1818 – William Fargo, American businessman and politician, co-founded Wells Fargo and American Express

- 1822 – Frédéric Passy, French economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

- 1851 – Emile Berliner, German-American inventor, invented the Gramophone record

- 1860 – Eduard Buchner, German chemist, zymologist, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

- 1882 – Sigrid Undset, Danish-Norwegian novelist, essayist, and translator, Nobel Prize laureate

- 1901 – Max Euwe, Dutch chess player, mathematician, and author

- 1908 – James Stewart, American actor

- 1911 – Annie M. G. Schmidt, Dutch author and playwright

- 1913 – William Redington Hewlett, American engineer, co-founded Hewlett-Packard

- 1915 – Moshe Dayan, Israeli general and politician, 5th Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs

- 1921 – Wolfgang Borchert, German author and playwright

- 1944 – Joe Cocker, English singer-songwriter

- 1946 – Cher, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress

- 1947 – Sky du Mont, German actor, German narrator of Thomas & Friends

- 1952 – Roger Milla, Cameroonian footballer and manager

- 1959 – Israel Kamakawiwoʻole, American singer-songwriter and ukulele player

- 1971 – Tony Stewart, American race car driver

- 1978 – Nils Schumann, German runner

- 1985 – Chris Froome, Kenyan-English cyclist

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Quote of the day

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

- Henry Ward Beecher -

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, Continental Commonwealths, Andromitus, Minnesota Dakota, Magnatronia, Percyton

Oelesa wrote:1. Alright so my finals week is here Monday. I won't be around much that whole week, all i wanna see is happy homosexuals and tea time. No fighting please?

2. Who else has finals coming up?

1. We'll try our best.

2. Thankfully I don't. I was able to exempt all my finals, and even if I had to take them, I would have been done with them a couple of weeks ago.

Percyton

Friedensreich wrote:Fúcking Hell, I just woke up because a lighting strike so loud that it must have been in the front yard or something. Now my dogs are freaking out (one won't even come out of the bathroom) and you've got a pissed off Fried.

You know what I gotta say about that?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LuWAtdOGfGs

Well, yesterday there was thunderstorm in our area with a lot of very bright lightnings. When I looked out of the window there was a lightning which was so bright that I thought that's how the flash of a nuclear bomb looks. I didn't see anything for a couple seconds. Never experienced so bright lightnings before.

Nuremgard, Jaslandia

Oelesa wrote:Alright so my finals week is here Monday. I won't be around much that whole week, all i wanna see is happy homosexuals and tea time. No fighting please?

Who else has finals coming up?

Non. I was officially done with the semester on May 8th, but I only had about 3 finals so I got done earlier than that.

Russian Fedration, Jaslandia

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:

[spoiler]- 526 – An earthquake kills about 250,000 people in what is now Syria and Antiochia.

- 1520 – The massacre at the festival of Tóxcatl takes place during the Fall of Tenochtitlan, resulting in turning the Aztecs against the Spanish.

- 1631 – The city of Magdeburg in Germany is seized by forces of the Holy Roman Empire and most of its inhabitants massacred, in one of the bloodiest incidents of the Thirty Years' War.

- 1645 – Yangzhou massacre: the 10-day massacre of 800,000 residents of the city of Yangzhou, part of the Transition from Ming to Qing.

- 1802 – By the Law of 20 May 1802, Napoleon Bonaparte reinstates slavery in the French colonies, revoking its abolition in the French Revolution.

- 1840 – York Minster is badly damaged by fire.

- 1883 – Krakatoa begins to erupt; the volcano explodes three months later, killing more than 36,000 people.

- 1896 – The six-ton chandelier of the Palais Garnier falls on the crowd below, killing one person and injuring many others.

- 1940 – The Holocaust: The first prisoners arrive at a new concentration camp at Auschwitz.

- 1956 – In Operation Redwing, the first United States airborne hydrogen bomb is dropped over Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.

- 1971 – In the Chuknagar massacre, Pakistani forces massacre thousands, mostly Bengali Hindus.

- 1983 – Church Street bombing: A car bomb planted by Umkhonto we Sizwe explodes on Church Street in South Africa's capital, Pretoria, killing 19 people and injuring 217 others.

- 1989 – The Chinese authorities declare martial law in the face of pro-democracy demonstrations, setting the scene for the Tiananmen Square massacre.

- 2012 – At least 27 people are killed and 50 others injured when a 6.0-magnitude earthquake strikes northern Italy.

- 2013 – An EF5 tornado strikes the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore, killing 24 people and injuring 377 others.

- 2014 – More than 118 people are killed in two bombings in Jos, Nigeria.

[/spoiler]

Seems like a lot of sh*tty things happened today. So many massacres, atrocities, and deadly accidents today.

Continental Commonwealths, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona, Percyton

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:Well, yesterday there was thunderstorm in our area with a lot of very bright lightnings. When I looked out of the window there was a lightning which was so bright that I thought that's how the flash of a nuclear bomb looks. I didn't see anything for a couple seconds. Never experienced so bright lightnings before.

I'm glad that's never happened to me. I've only ever heard thunder so loud that it must have been down the street or in the yard.

I think I can see that the lightning struck a willow tree in my neighbor's yard, which means a bunch of spiders and other critters just got killed off.

Russian Fedration, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica

Jaslandia wrote:Seems like a lot of sh*tty things happened today. So many massacres, atrocities, and deadly accidents today.

I live near Magdeburg. Was born there. :)

Jaslandia, Yukona, Percyton

Jaslandia wrote:Seems like a lot of sh*tty things happened today. So many massacres, atrocities, and deadly accidents today.

Cheer up, Jas! Some good things happened today too!

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:[spoiler]

- 1293 – King Sancho IV of Castile creates the Estudio de Escuelas de Generales in Alcalá de Henares.

- 1498 – Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama discovers the sea route to India when he arrives at Kozhikode (previously known as Calicut), India.

- 1570 – Cartographer Abraham Ortelius issues Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern atlas.

- 1609 – Shakespeare's sonnets are first published in London, perhaps illicitly, by the publisher Thomas Thorpe.

- 1873 – Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a U.S. patent for blue jeans with copper rivets.

- 1875 – Signing of the Metre Convention by 17 nations leading to the establishment of the International System of Units.

- 1891 – History of cinema: The first public display of Thomas Edison's prototype kinetoscope.

- 1902 – Cuba gains independence from the United States. Tomás Estrada Palma becomes the country's first President.

- 1932 – Amelia Earhart takes off from Newfoundland to begin the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean by a female pilot, landing in Ireland the next day.

- 1964 – Discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation by Robert Woodrow Wilson and Arno Penzias.

- 1990 – The first post-Communist presidential and parliamentary elections are held in Romania.

- 1996 – Civil rights: The Supreme Court of the United States rules in Romer v. Evans against a law that would have prevented any city, town or county in the state of Colorado from taking any legislative, executive, or judicial action to protect the rights of gays and lesbians.

- 2002 – The independence of East Timor is recognized by Portugal, formally ending 23 years of Indonesian rule and three years of provisional UN administration (Portugal itself is the former colonizer of East Timor until 1976).

- 2006 – A series of massive strikes begin involving nearly 1.8 million garment workers in Bangladesh.[/spoiler]

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:I live near Magdeburg. Was born there. :)

That's cool! What's it like living in Magdeburg?

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

Uguzukia wrote:I greet you in the traditional Uguzuki manner.

"KHLFKHLSHFKHLKH"

*whistles* Peep peep! Hello! That's me greeting you in the traditional Percytonian manner.

Merlinton, Jaslandia, Minnesota Dakota, The United Providences Of Perland, Yukona, Magnatronia

So, I'm reading the Constitution of the PRC, and it's amazing how different it is from what people are told about in school classes.

In school, we're all told about the Cultural Revolution, the Great Leap Forward, and the Tiananmen Square protests, and are lead to believe that China is some evil oppressive dictatorship, but the Chinese constitution is pretty liberal in its provisions.

Citizens are guaranteed the right to elect and be elected, to criticise their politicians in a factual way (false accusations are considered libel and slander, which are forbidden), the power of 'judicial' review is held by a standing committee in the National People's Congress, and the party is held as secondary to the constitution itself. There is also a constitutional basis for welfare and the protection of the ill, elderly, and disabled- shown in Article 45- which is something the US constitution lacks.

Such interesting Articles include #3, 4, 5, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, and 41.

Friedensreich wrote:So, I'm reading the Constitution of the PRC, and it's amazing how different it is from what people are told about in school classes.

In school, we're all told about the Cultural Revolution, the Great Leap Forward, and the Tiananmen Square protests, and are lead to believe that China is some evil oppressive dictatorship, but the Chinese constitution is pretty liberal in its provisions.

Citizens are guaranteed the right to elect and be elected, to criticise their politicians in a factual way (false accusations are considered libel and slander, which are forbidden), the power of 'judicial' review is held by a standing committee in the National People's Congress, and the party is held as secondary to the constitution itself. There is also a constitutional basis for welfare and the protection of the ill, elderly, and disabled- shown in Article 45- which is something the US constitution lacks.

Such interesting Articles include #3, 4, 5, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, and 41.

Saying something in a Constitution is all well and good. Putting it into practice is quite another matter, and that's something that China still needs a lot of improvement on.

Nuremgard, Yukona

Friedensreich wrote:So, I'm reading the Constitution of the PRC, and it's amazing how different it is from what people are told about in school classes.

In school, we're all told about the Cultural Revolution, the Great Leap Forward, and the Tiananmen Square protests, and are lead to believe that China is some evil oppressive dictatorship, but the Chinese constitution is pretty liberal in its provisions.

Citizens are guaranteed the right to elect and be elected, to criticise their politicians in a factual way (false accusations are considered libel and slander, which are forbidden), the power of 'judicial' review is held by a standing committee in the National People's Congress, and the party is held as secondary to the constitution itself. There is also a constitutional basis for welfare and the protection of the ill, elderly, and disabled- shown in Article 45- which is something the US constitution lacks.

Such interesting Articles include #3, 4, 5, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, and 41.

Ja...such a liberal constitution but try criticising the government and you'll find yourself gunned down by a state firing squad.

Jaslandia, Yukona

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:Well, yesterday there was thunderstorm in our area with a lot of very bright lightnings. When I looked out of the window there was a lightning which was so bright that I thought that's how the flash of a nuclear bomb looks. I didn't see anything for a couple seconds. Never experienced so bright lightnings before.

I'm terrified of thunderstorms.

Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona

Percyton wrote:Cheer up, Jas! Some good things happened today too!

That's cool! What's it like living in Magdeburg?

Well, it isn't a very big city. It isn't small tho. 241,134 inhabitants. It's a nice city. A lot of parks mixed with older and modern architecture. Tho most of the building aren't that old since 60% of the whole city and 90% of the city centre were destroyed during WW2 by American and British bombers. The city centre was partially reconstructed and since it was part of GDR some of Socialist Classicism buildings and a lot of prefab buildings in the outer areas. It was a big centre for heavy machinery industry before, during and after WW2. Many factories closed after German reunification. But there are still some big companies.

Well, I think it's an ordinary German city. Well, the kind of dialect is a bit unique since it's a mixture of the Saxonian dialect and the Berlinese dialect but pretty close to the standard German tho. There is a saying that the people from Magdeburg have 5 different forms of prounciation of the letter 'G' but 'G' is not among those forms. :)

Feel free to look it up on Wikipedia:

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

(Some nice picture are there )

Jaslandia, Vista Major, Continental Commonwealths, The United Providences Of Perland

Nuremgard wrote:I'm terrified of thunderstorms.

https://cdn.meme.am/cache/instances/folder331/500x/68360331.jpg

:)

Nuremgard, Jaslandia

Post self-deleted by Nuremgard.

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:Well, it isn't a very big city. It isn't small tho. 241,134 inhabitants. It's a nice city. A lot of parks mixed with older and modern architecture. Tho most of the building aren't that old since 60% of the whole city and 90% of the city centre were destroyed during WW2 by American and British bombers. The city centre was partially reconstructed and since it was part of GDR some of Socialist Classicism buildings and a lot of prefab buildings in the outer areas. It was a big centre for heavy machinery industry before, during and after WW2. Many factories closed after German reunification. But there are still some big companies.

Well, I think it's an ordinary German city. Well, the kind of dialect is a bit unique since it's a mixture of the Saxonian dialect and the Berlinese dialect but pretty close to the standard German tho. There is a saying that the people from Magdeburg have 5 different forms of prounciation of the letter 'G' but 'G' is not among those forms. :)

Feel free to look it up on Wikipedia:

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

(Some nice picture are there )

Oh, I forgot to mention it has the oldest Gothic cathedral in Germany. So it was the first one of it's kind built on German soil.

And Baron von Steuben was born in Magdeburg.

Jaslandia, Continental Commonwealths, The United Providences Of Perland

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:Oh, I forgot to mention it has the oldest Gothic cathedral in Germany. So it was the first one of it's kind built on German soil.

And Baron von Steuben was born in Magdeburg.

"Threatened with prosecution for his alleged homosexuality,"

My my, how far along we have come as a species since 1777!

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

Jaslandia wrote:Saying something in a Constitution is all well and good. Putting it into practice is quite another matter, and that's something that China still needs a lot of improvement on.

Nuremgard wrote:Ja...such a liberal constitution but try criticising the government and you'll find yourself gunned down by a state firing squad.

Unfortunately, that happens everywhere. Practice doesn't equal law everywhere and every time , but I made a point to say something about the laws themselves being liberal.

Friedensreich wrote:Unfortunately, that happens everywhere. Practice doesn't equal law everywhere and every time , but I made a point to say something about the laws themselves being liberal.

Governments flaunt their own laws constantly. They believe themselves above the law. They are laws unto themselves.

It's like North Korea calling itself the People's Democratic Republic. Just because it's in the title doesn't make it so. So a government can say any old sh!t in its constitution or manifesto or whatever and continue to do the exact opposite. Such is politics.

Jaslandia, Continental Commonwealths, Yukona

Nuremgard wrote:Governments flaunt their own laws constantly. They believe themselves above the law. They are laws unto themselves.

It's like North Korea calling itself the People's Democratic Republic. Just because it's in the title doesn't make it so. So a government can say any old sh!t in its constitution or manifesto or whatever and continue to do the exact opposite. Such is politics.

Noooooo sh!t.

Jaslandia

Friedensreich wrote:Noooooo sh!t.

China may be an economic powerhouse but it's generally a total sh!thole.

Yukona

Nuremgard wrote:China may be an economic powerhouse but it's generally a total sh!thole.

What makes you say that?

Map updated. Make sure you're a citizen before you claim

Penguania And Antarctica

Friedensreich wrote:What makes you say that?

Well many live in poverty, the government is corrupt and oppressive, the environment is being destroyed in pursuit of economic power and wealth gaps are staggering.

Jaslandia, Yukona

Well, Im going to be somewhat inactive on the world stage for a while. I'll still be here but I need to figure out how to use and make tech that will allow me to do things without Andromitus using tech that I have no clue how it works. Until then, Hungary is in Internal Developement, rebuilding the nation to the Vezeto's image.

Russian Fedration, Penguania And Antarctica

Nuremgard wrote:Well

1) many live in poverty,

2) the government is corrupt and oppressive,

3) the environment is being destroyed in pursuit of economic power and

4) wealth gaps are staggering.

1) Not as much as the US or U.K....

You're talking about a 6.5% poverty rate in China as opposed to a staggering 14.3% in the US, and an even worse 22% in the UK.

2) You wanna know why I admire President Xi Jinping? He's held a hardline stance and lead a huge campaign against corruption since taking office.

Since then, it's been the de facto emblem of his time in office, much like Obama and restarting relations with Cuba, or David Cameron and the Scottish and Brexit Referenda.

3) Funny, we didn't really care about damage done to the environment when our economies were in the industrial phase of development. If you've a problem with it, don't buy anything from China?

4) You've got me there. But the problem is worldwide, so saying it's bad in one place and ignoring the others is like taking a weed from a yard and acting like there are no more of them. *hint hint*

Friedensreich wrote:1) Not as much as the US or U.K....

You're talking about a 6.5% poverty rate in China as opposed to a staggering 14.3% in the US, and an even worse 22% in the UK.

2) You wanna know why I admire President Xi Jinping? He's held a hardline stance and lead a huge campaign against corruption since taking office.

Since then, it's been the de facto emblem of his time in office, much like Obama and restarting relations with Cuba, or David Cameron and the Scottish and Brexit Referenda.

3) Funny, we didn't really care about damage done to the environment when our economies were in the industrial phase of development. If you've a problem with it, don't buy anything from China?

4) You've got me there. But the problem is worldwide, so saying it's bad in one place and ignoring the others is like taking a weed from a yard and acting like there are no more of them. *hint hint*

You expect we knew about what long-term environmental damage we were doing in industrial age Britain, Germany and America (subsequently everywhere else)? You have a high estimation of our scientific capabilities and foresight backc then.

Nuremgard

Friedensreich wrote:1) Not as much as the US or U.K....

You're talking about a 6.5% poverty rate in China as opposed to a staggering 14.3% in the US, and an even worse 22% in the UK.

2) You wanna know why I admire President Xi Jinping? He's held a hardline stance and lead a huge campaign against corruption since taking office.

Since then, it's been the de facto emblem of his time in office, much like Obama and restarting relations with Cuba, or David Cameron and the Scottish and Brexit Referenda.

3) Funny, we didn't really care about damage done to the environment when our economies were in the industrial phase of development. If you've a problem with it, don't buy anything from China?

4) You've got me there. But the problem is worldwide, so saying it's bad in one place and ignoring the others is like taking a weed from a yard and acting like there are no more of them. *hint hint*

I wasn't ignoring the other places. China is one of the worst offenders, as are the US and UK.

Yukona wrote:You expect we knew about what long-term environmental damage we were doing in industrial age Britain, Germany and America (subsequently everywhere else)? You have a high estimation of our scientific capabilities and foresight backc then.

I suspect that if we care now about it, maybe we would help nations that are currently in their industrial phase of economic development and not just say "you need to quit using what powers your economy in order to cut emissions".

Friedensreich wrote:I suspect that if we care now about it, maybe we would help nations that are currently in their industrial phase of economic development and not just say "you need to quit using what powers your economy in order to cut emissions".

You seem to doubt globalism and international trade as well..

Yukona wrote:You seem to doubt globalism and international trade as well..

Actually, no. I love trade.

I just don't like how ineffective the UN is. If you'll recall correctly back to the discussions we had over it, I approve of the UN being disbanded if a more efficient organization took its place.

Friedensreich wrote:Actually, no. I love trade.

I just don't like how ineffective the UN is. If you'll recall correctly back to the discussions we had over it, I approve of the UN being disbanded if a more efficient organization took its place.

Such as?

Nuremgard wrote:Such as?

Bye bye easily abusive Security Council?

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Friedensreich wrote:Actually, no. I love trade.

I just don't like how ineffective the UN is. If you'll recall correctly back to the discussions we had over it, I approve of the UN being disbanded if a more efficient organization took its place.

Nope, didn't mean it like that. I meant you doubt the implications globalisation and trade has on international relations and subsequently domestic affairs.

Friedensreich wrote:Bye bye easily abusive Security Council?

Works for me. Bye bye nukes too.

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Yukona wrote:Nope, didn't mean it like that. I meant you doubt the implications globalisation and trade has on international relations and subsequently domestic affairs.

I think it's naïve to think that nations will forgo their own interests for some greater good. While it'd be all sunshine and roses if everyone worked together and cared more for their neighbors than themselves, that's not how things work.

Nations are like people, and they will always do what they think will grant them the greatest material gain. If the UN has material benefits to it, like if nations in Africa can boost their economic development by cooperating and meeting in NYC to discuss it, good on ya, UN.

Friedensreich wrote:I think it's naïve to think that nations will forgo their own interests for some greater good. While it'd be all sunshine and roses if everyone worked together and cared more for their neighbors than themselves, that's not how things work.

Nations are like people, and they will always do what they think will grant them the greatest material gain. If the UN has material benefits to it, like if nations in Africa can boost their economic development by cooperating and meeting in NYC to discuss it, good on ya, UN.

Exactly why people will continue to buy from China, so you just solidified my own point.

Yukona wrote:Exactly why people will continue to buy from China, so you just solidified my own point.

I'm sorry, what point were you making?

Friedensreich wrote:I'm sorry, what point were you making?

"I suspect that if we care now about it, maybe we would help nations that are currently in their industrial phase of economic development and not just say "you need to quit using what powers your economy in order to cut emissions"." - international trade and globalisation have too big a role in our lives for us to be able to say this, or stop buying from China just because they abuse the environment. If it was that easy, it would have been done already. It's an ideal situation to a very un-ideal problem.

Yukona wrote:"I suspect that if we care now about it, maybe we would help nations that are currently in their industrial phase of economic development and not just say "you need to quit using what powers your economy in order to cut emissions"." - international trade and globalisation have too big a role in our lives for us to be able to say this, or stop buying from China just because they abuse the environment. If it was that easy, it would have been done already. It's an ideal situation to a very un-ideal problem.

Yet we are. We haven't given China any green technologies and have been putting pressure on them to sign an international agreement to cut their emissions. That is the IR way of saying "quit using what your economy relies on in order to cut emissions." And that bit about "don't buy from China" was a joke. Keep your knickers on!

Friedensreich wrote:Yet we are. We haven't given China any green technologies and have been putting pressure on them to sign an international agreement to cut their emissions. That is the IR way of saying "quit using what your economy relies on in order to cut emissions." And that bit about "don't buy from China" was a joke. Keep your knickers on!

SirPissedRooster - Yesterday at 11:06 PM

[nation=short]Yukona[/nation] it's hard to tell over text :stuck_out_tongue:

:^) - my point still stands, China don't need green technology, I'm sure they could figure it out on their own and beside, we need the trade. Hence, why again - I'm either bad at conveying points or you're bad at receiving them - it's simply not a matter of we should help them out, we won't because of globalisation and the fact it's generally better having that manufacturing sector abroad, whilst developed countries focus on highly specialised and subsequently more comparatively advantageous labour.

Got back from lunch and nuffins happen. alrighty

Jaslandia

Yukona wrote:SirPissedRooster - Yesterday at 11:06 PM

[nation=short]Yukona[/nation] it's hard to tell over text :stuck_out_tongue:

:^) - my point still stands, China don't need green technology, I'm sure they could figure it out on their own and beside, we need the trade. Hence, why again - I'm either bad at conveying points or you're bad at receiving them - it's simply not a matter of we should help them out, we won't because of globalisation and the fact it's generally better having that manufacturing sector abroad, whilst developed countries focus on highly specialised and subsequently more comparatively advantageous labour.

"We won't because of globalization"

Uh, I think that's backwards. So, we can give aid and help countries in Africa develop, but when it comes to helping China evolve past using coal, it suddenly becomes a thing of "we won't help them because of globalization"?

"China don't need green technology"

Yes, yes it does. And international *ahem* US *ahem* help in developing China's budding green tech industry will help them get it sooner.

"It's generally better having that manufacturing sector abroad"

You're correct, and that is why I love trade and outsourcing.

"I'm either bad at conveying points or you're bad at receiving them"

I still don't understand your point at all. Because "globalization", we can force a nation to cut its emissions, but because of "globalization", we can't help the same nation evolve past technologies that produce a lot of emissions?

Russian Fedration

Russian Fedration wrote:Got back from lunch and nuffins happen. alrighty

The map got an update

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Baxten wrote:The map got an update

oh it did ?

Gotta take a lookie

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Friedensreich wrote:"We won't because of globalization"

Uh, I think that's backwards. So, we can give aid and help countries in Africa develop, but when it comes to helping China evolve past using coal, it suddenly becomes a thing of "we won't help them because of globalization"?

"China don't need green technology"

Yes, yes it does. And international *ahem* US *ahem* help in developing China's budding green tech industry will help them get it sooner.

"It's generally better having that manufacturing sector abroad"

You're correct, and that is why I love trade and outsourcing.

"I'm either bad at conveying points or you're bad at receiving them"

I still don't understand your point at all. Because "globalization", we can force a nation to cut its emissions, but because of "globalization", we can't help the same nation evolve past technologies that produce a lot of emissions?

Damn you think everything is an argument - China can easily build their own and already has a lot of green technology they've been trying to invest.

Globalisation means Western nations would rather China keep churning out cheap stuff, then cause inflation and potentially a global recession but making it fully green and whacking up ALL their prices.

Baxten wrote:The map got an update

well i think Russia could be split a bit more but other than that thought i love it

thanks for putting Yuktobonia on there

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Yukona wrote:Damn you think everything is an argument - China can easily build their own and already has a lot of green technology they've been trying to invest.

Globalisation means Western nations would rather China keep churning out cheap stuff, then cause inflation and potentially a global recession but making it fully green and whacking up ALL their prices.

Well, you're the one that chose to start it.

It has nothing to do with inflation, and a "global recession" is a hyperbolic "doomsday" prediction.

It's about cost. Green technologies are expensive to put up, but once they're up, they're pretty cheap to maintain, yeah? So costs are still pretty low after the initial spike. Maybe even lower in the long run as opposed to coal, considering coal mines will have to keep churning out the black stuff, which require humans and specialized machines.

Speaking of which, Chinese workers are still a dime a dozen (wait until they become more educated and start demanding better pay and benefits, that is when you'll see a global economic crisis), and humans account for most of any company's expenses.

So, by helping China evolve past coal, costs will be lowered from the lack of need for workers and machinery, and so too will prices.

Andromitus

Russian Fedration wrote:Got back from lunch and nuffins happen. alrighty

https://youtu.be/0tJGk4ofc18

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Jaslandia wrote:https://youtu.be/0tJGk4ofc18

LOL

LOL imma steal that too *Adds to Favorites folder*

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Russian Fedration wrote:well i think Russia could be split a bit more but other than that thought i love it

thanks for putting Yuktobonia on there

Unf has dominion over those lands. This was planned long ago.

Baxten wrote:Unf has dominion over those lands. This was planned long ago.

hmmmmm intresting.

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Friedensreich wrote:Well, you're the one that chose to start it.

It has nothing to do with inflation, and a "global recession" is a hyperbolic "doomsday" prediction.

It's about cost. Green technologies are expensive to put up, but once they're up, they're pretty cheap to maintain, yeah? So costs are still pretty low after the initial spike. Maybe even lower in the long run as opposed to coal, considering coal mines will have to keep churning out the black stuff, which require humans and specialized machines.

Speaking of which, Chinese workers are still a dime a dozen (wait until they become more educated and start demanding better pay and benefits, that is when you'll see a global economic crisis), and humans account for most of any company's expenses.

So, by helping China evolve past coal, costs will be lowered from the lack of need for workers and machinery, and so too will prices.

Sorry Yuk, but I have to side with Fried in this case; The initial jump from Coal to Ecopower is going to suck, hard, but after a few years, they're gonna start paying for themselves due to near constant power outputs and low maintenence.

And as seen with what little American factories are left, 89% automation and higher is great for lowering the cost in manufacturing.

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Andromitus wrote:Sorry Yuk, but I have to side with Fried in this case; The initial jump from Coal to Ecopower is going to suck, hard, but after a few years, they're gonna start paying for themselves due to near constant power outputs and low maintenence.

And as seen with what little American factories are left, 89% automation and higher is great for lowering the cost in manufacturing.

Maybe they'd switch after...say...they feel the deep impact of their birth rate, but cheap labor is in right now and the nation will likely continue to prioritize production over greenery.

I gotta side with Yuk here.

Friedensreich wrote:Well, you're the one that chose to start it.

It has nothing to do with inflation, and a "global recession" is a hyperbolic "doomsday" prediction.

It's about cost. Green technologies are expensive to put up, but once they're up, they're pretty cheap to maintain, yeah? So costs are still pretty low after the initial spike. Maybe even lower in the long run as opposed to coal, considering coal mines will have to keep churning out the black stuff, which require humans and specialized machines.

Speaking of which, Chinese workers are still a dime a dozen (wait until they become more educated and start demanding better pay and benefits, that is when you'll see a global economic crisis), and humans account for most of any company's expenses.

So, by helping China evolve past coal, costs will be lowered from the lack of need for workers and machinery, and so too will prices.

No, I was agreeing with ya dip

Andromitus wrote:Sorry Yuk, but I have to side with Fried in this case; The initial jump from Coal to Ecopower is going to suck, hard, but after a few years, they're gonna start paying for themselves due to near constant power outputs and low maintenence.

And as seen with what little American factories are left, 89% automation and higher is great for lowering the cost in manufacturing.

I'll scare you with my testicle again you Andromitian wench

To people who don't know, it's serious and not an in joke

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Friedensreich wrote:Well, you're the one that chose to start it.

It has nothing to do with inflation, and a "global recession" is a hyperbolic "doomsday" prediction.

It's about cost. Green technologies are expensive to put up, but once they're up, they're pretty cheap to maintain, yeah? So costs are still pretty low after the initial spike. Maybe even lower in the long run as opposed to coal, considering coal mines will have to keep churning out the black stuff, which require humans and specialized machines.

Speaking of which, Chinese workers are still a dime a dozen (wait until they become more educated and start demanding better pay and benefits, that is when you'll see a global economic crisis), and humans account for most of any company's expenses.

So, by helping China evolve past coal, costs will be lowered from the lack of need for workers and machinery, and so too will prices.

Oh and cost = prices = rising costs = rising prices = textbook definition of inflation

inflation = drop in consumer confidence = falling business performance = negative growth = recession

It absolutely could mean a global recession if China severely raises all their costs by switching, it's much easier just to exploit their huge amount of raw materials at the moment

Yukona wrote:I'll scare you with my testicle again you Andromitian wench

To people who don't know, it's serious and not an in joke

*whimpers* *Doesn't have time to give correct demonym due to whimpering* *Super Salty*

Yukona wrote:I'll scare you with my testicle again you Andromitian wench

To people who don't know, it's serious and not an in joke

Yuk has scary genitalia. Duly noted. I always thought "yuk" was a short-form for your name...

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Continental Commonwealths wrote:Yuk has scary genitalia. Duly noted. I always thought "yuk" was a short-form for your name...

:^)

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I'm bored, if anyone wants to join Discord chat I'll be here into the late hours

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Heaveria the General Secretary of ITDA currently in our Discord channel answering to our questions.

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Continental Commonwealths wrote:Yuk has scary genitalia. Duly noted. I always thought "yuk" was a short-form for your name...

Yucky....

Jaslandia, Andromitus, Yukona

So we're discussing male genitalia and I wasn't invited?

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Nuremgard wrote:So we're discussing male genitalia and I wasn't invited?

Only Yuk's ugly one :P

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Kalaron wrote:Only Yuk's ugly one :P

Every rooster is beautiful. Especially when they rise in the morning.

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Nuremgard wrote:Every rooster is beautiful. Especially when they rise in the morning.

Yeah but his is crooked and bent and stuff

And his dangly bits have arms and legs and just kinda stare while harassing Andy.

It ain't pretty.

Penguania And Antarctica

Kalaron wrote:Yeah but his is crooked and bent and stuff

And his dangly bits have arms and legs and just kinda stare while harassing Andy.

It ain't pretty.

Sounds kinky.

Kalaron, Penguania And Antarctica

Kalaron wrote:Yeah but his is crooked and bent and stuff

And his dangly bits have arms and legs and just kinda stare while harassing Andy.

It ain't pretty.

Oh, I have a phrase to describe those on gay men....

Brokedick Mountain.

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Friedensreich wrote:Oh, I have a phrase to describe those on gay men....

Brokedick Mountain.

Sounds painful.

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Nuremgard wrote:Sounds painful.

Ye.

Well, it's crooked, and Fried no likey the crooked ones. Plus, a guy I really really dislike has been rumored to have one of those, so my friends and I came up with that phrase to say in front of him.

Friedensreich wrote:Ye.

Well, it's crooked, and Fried no likey the crooked ones. Plus, a guy I really really dislike has been rumored to have one of those, so my friends and I came up with that phrase to say in front of him.

I hear quite a lot of them are crooked.

Friedensreich wrote:Fúcking Hell, I just woke up because a lighting strike so loud that it must have been in the front yard or something. Now my dogs are freaking out (one won't even come out of the bathroom) and you've got a pissed off Fried.

You know what I gotta say about that?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LuWAtdOGfGs

meanwhiling I slept for 14 hours accidentally and woke up only half an hour ago

Nuremgard wrote:I hear quite a lot of them are crooked.

[nation=short]Continental_Commonwealths[/nation], you're probably more experienced than me when it comes to that.

In my experience, I haven't come across many. Just that one guy and another guy on Le Grindr. My bf and my ginger fwb don't, I know that.

Friedensreich wrote:[nation=short]Continental_Commonwealths[/nation], you're probably more experienced than me when it comes to that.

In my experience, I haven't come across many. Just that one guy and another guy on Le Grindr. My bf and my ginger fwb don't, I know that.

I've only ever seen one in person. The rest online. The one I have seen in person was my friend's and his points straight to the sky.

Nuremgard wrote:I've only ever seen one in person. The rest online. The one I have seen in person was my friend's and his points straight to the sky.

Probably not good for the RMB, but from the one time I was with a crooked one, it hurt. His was crooked to the right a bit.

But more importantly, you have friends that are fine with being stark naked around you? That's suspect.

Friedensreich wrote:Probably not good for the RMB, but from the one time I was with a crooked one, it hurt. His was crooked to the right a bit.

But more importantly, you have friends that are fine with being stark naked around you? That's suspect.

He's my best friend. We fool around a bit.

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Nuremgard wrote:He's my best friend. We fool around a bit.

...I can uh...Relate.

Nuremgard

I've been thinking

https://strawpoll.com/ebecec8

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The Union Of Yuktobanian Republics wrote:...I can uh...Relate.

Heh. Nice.

Russian Fedration

Nuremgard wrote:Heh. Nice.

Ohhhhh yea lol.

Nuremgard

Nuremgard wrote:He's my best friend. We fool around a bit.

Seeing how 99% of my friends are female, I don't really get that opportunity. The only guys I keep around are either way more than a friend or just a fùck buddy.

The guy with the crooked rooster was my roommate in the dorm, and I really disliked him. Plus, I dropped him like egg drop soup after the semester ended.

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Friedensreich wrote:[nation=short]Continental_Commonwealths[/nation], you're probably more experienced than me when it comes to that.

In my experience, I haven't come across many. Just that one guy and another guy on Le Grindr. My bf and my ginger fwb don't, I know that.

Did you... just call me a floozy?

Nuremgard, Friedensreich

Friedensreich wrote:Seeing how 99% of my friends are female, I don't really get that opportunity. The only guys I keep around are either way more than a friend or just a fùck buddy.

The guy with the crooked rooster was my roommate in the dorm, and I really disliked him. Plus, I dropped him like egg drop soup after the semester ended.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2ZX3O1yCSc

Friedensreich

Continental Commonwealths wrote:Did you... just call me a floozy?

canadians man

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Unfallious wrote:canadians man

Babe! I told you that when we Canadians say we've been felling lumber all day, we're literally felling lumber.

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Continental Commonwealths wrote:Did you... just call me a floozy?

I said you're experienced :P

I'd never call a ginger a thot!

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Unfallious wrote:canadians man

They're always sticky, but it's not from the maple syrup..........

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Friedensreich wrote:Seeing how 99% of my friends are female, I don't really get that opportunity. The only guys I keep around are either way more than a friend or just a fùck buddy.

The guy with the crooked rooster was my roommate in the dorm, and I really disliked him. Plus, I dropped him like egg drop soup after the semester ended.

All the men I fancy most are straight. It makes me despair.

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