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Region: The Confederacy of Free Nations
So, rural communities are the source of corruption? Is NS trying to make a political statement, or is this just some weird algorithm thing?
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica
It's NS. Of course it's the latter. Although apparently there were a lot of rotten boroughs in the countryside were only a few farmers were electing too many MPs.
Kinda' sucks though because I had intended farmers and rural residents to be part of the Nationalist base.
Jaslandia, Percyton
Congrats, Nurem!
Welcome to the region, Adrian Republic! I'm Percy, King of Percyton and the #6 engine on the Island of Sodor. I hope you like it here in the CoFN!
'Thomas the Evil Russian Runaway Train'? Interesting. It does sound pretty good, though. There are a few Russian engines on Sodor (courtesy of Russkov Soviet), so I'll have to show this to them later and see what they think.
Russkov Soviet, Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, James The Red Engine
[spoiler=Today is February 3 and today are:]
Today is February 3 and today are:
- Barber Day
- Communist Party of Vietnam Foundation Anniversary (Vietnam)
- Day of the Virgin of Suyapa (Honduras)
- Four Chaplains Day (United States)
- Heroes' Day (Mozambique)
- Ice Cream For Breakfast Day
- International Golden Retriever Day
- Lace Day
- Martyrs' Day (São Tomé and Príncipe)
- National Carrot Cake Day (United States)
- National Day the Music Died Day (United States)
- National Missing Person Day (United States)
- National Women Physicians Day (United States)
- Setsubun (Japan)
- Take Your Child to the Library Day
- Veterans' Day (Thailand)
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 1112 Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona and Douce I, Countess of Provence marry, uniting the fortunes of those two states.
- 1377 More than 2,000 people of the Italian city of Cesena are killed by the Condottieri (papal armed forces) in the "Cesena Bloodbath".
- 1451 Sultan Mehmed II inherits the throne of the Ottoman Empire.
- 1534 Irish rebel Silken Thomas (Thomas FitzGerald, 10th Earl of Kildare) is executed by the order of Henry VIII in London.
- 1690 The colony of Massachusetts issues the first paper money in the Americas.
- 1706 During the Battle of Fraustadt Swedish forces defeat a superior Saxon-Polish-Russian force by deploying a double envelopment.
- 1781 American Revolutionary War: British forces seize the Dutch-owned Caribbean island Sint Eustatius.
- 1783 American Revolutionary War: Spain recognizes United States independence
- 1787 Militia led by General Benjamin Lincoln crush the remnants of Shays' Rebellion in Petersham, Massachusetts.
- 1807 A British military force, under Brigadier-General Sir Samuel Auchmuty captures the Spanish Empire city of Montevideo, now the capital of Uruguay.
- 1809 The Territory of Illinois is created by the 10th United States Congress.
- 1830 The London Protocol of 1830 establishes the full independence and sovereignty of Greece from the Ottoman Empire as the final result of the Greek War of Independence.
- 1834 Wake Forest University is established.
- 1870 The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing voting rights to citizens regardless of race.
- 1897 The Greco-Turkish War breaks out.
- 1913 The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, authorizing the Federal government to impose and collect an income tax.
- 1916 The Centre Block of the Parliament buildings in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada burns down with the loss of 7 lives.
- 1917 World War I: The United States breaks off diplomatic relations with Germany a day after the latter announced a new policy of unrestricted submarine warfare.
- 1918 The Twin Peaks Tunnel in San Francisco, California begins service as the longest streetcar tunnel in the world at 11,920 feet (3,633 meters) long.
- 1930 Communist Party of Vietnam is founded at a "Unification Conference" held in Kowloon, British Hong Kong.
- 1933 Adolf Hitler announces that the expansion of Lebensraum into Eastern Europe, and its ruthless Germanisation, are the ultimate geopolitical objectives of Third Reich foreign policy.
- 1943 The SS Dorchester is sunk by a German U-boat. Only 230 of 902 men aboard survive. The Chapel of the Four Chaplains, dedicated by President Harry Truman, is one of many memorials established to commemorate the Four Chaplains story.
- 1944 World War II: During the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign, U.S. Army and Marine forces seize Kwajalein Atoll from the defending Japanese garrison.
- 1945 World War II: As part of Operation Thunderclap, 1,000 B-17s of the Eighth Air Force bomb Berlin, a raid which kills between 2,500 and 3,000 and dehouses another 120,000.
- 1953 The Batepá massacre occurred in São Tomé when the colonial administration and Portuguese landowners unleashed a wave of violence against the native creoles known as forros.
- 1959 Deaths of rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson, in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa.
- 1960 British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan speaks of "a wind of change", signalling that his Government was likely to support decolonisation.
- 1961 The United States Air Forces begins Operation Looking Glass, and over the next 30 years, a "Doomsday Plane" is always in the air, with the capability of taking direct control of the United States' bombers and missiles in the event of the destruction of the SAC's command post.
- 1969 In Cairo, Yasser Arafat is appointed Palestine Liberation Organization leader at the Palestinian National Congress.
- 1971 New York Police Officer Frank Serpico is shot during a drug bust in Brooklyn and survives to later testify against police corruption.
- 1972 The first day of the seven-day 1972 Iran blizzard, which would kill at least 4,000 people, making it the deadliest snowstorm in history.
- 1984 Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B is launched using Space Shuttle Challenger.
- 1989 After a stroke two weeks previously, South African President P. W. Botha resigns as leader of the National Party, but stays on as president for six more months.
- 1989 A military coup overthrows Alfredo Stroessner, dictator of Paraguay since 1954.
- 1995 Astronaut Eileen Collins becomes the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle as mission STS-63 gets underway from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
- 1998 Cavalese cable car disaster: a United States military pilot causes the death of 20 people when his low-flying plane cuts the cable of a cable-car near Trento, Italy.
- 2014 Two people are shot and killed and 29 students are taken hostage at a high school in Moscow, Russia.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 1809 Felix Mendelssohn, German pianist, composer, and conductor
- 1811 Horace Greeley, American journalist and politician
- 1830 Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- 1857 Giuseppe Moretti, Italian sculptor, designed the Vulcan statue
- 1859 Hugo Junkers, German engineer, designed the Junkers J 1
- 1874 Gertrude Stein, American author, poet, and playwright
- 1887 Georg Trakl, Austrian pharmacist and poet
- 1898 Alvar Aalto, Finnish architect, designed the Finlandia Hall and Aalto Theatre
- 1926 Hans-Jochen Vogel, German soldier and politician, 8th Mayor of Berlin
- 1927 Kenneth Anger, American actor, director, and screenwriter
- 1935 Johnny "Guitar" Watson, American blues, soul, and funk singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1939 Michael Cimino, American director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1948 Henning Mankell, Swedish author and playwright
- 1960 Joachim Löw, German footballer and manager
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Quote of the day
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
- Helen Keller (American Author, 1880-1968) -
Note: Penguania_And_Antarctica assumes no responsibility or guarantee for correctness of any given information. Any recourse to courts of law is excluded.
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Mercunova, Percyton, James The Red Engine
are you a train?
Jaslandia, Percyton, James The Red Engine
[Spoiler=Newcomer(s)]Frozen Necropolis, The Bir Tawil Order Of Knights & The Adrian Republic[/spoiler]
You have all recently joined our region. On behalf of the Confederacy, I welcome you, and I hope you enjoy your stay. You will find out that we are a pretty active community.
If you haven't already done so, contact Minister of the Interior Lex Caledonia, to gain citizenship or residency status. If you have any questions, my inbox is open.
~Cesorion
Chancellor
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Percyton
Yes. I am a humanoid horse. We are the result of a failed experiment. (See factbook)
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, James The Red Engine, Spanelsko
´´failed´´
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
The proper term is 'engine' or 'locomotive', but yes, I am. The same goes James The Red Engine, The Scottish Twins, and Duke The Old Engine.
Failed? Looks like the experiment worked out great if you ask me!
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, James The Red Engine, Duke The Old Engine
It certainly did work out in our favor. But the original reason for the experiment failed.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, James The Red Engine, Duke The Old Engine
And what was the original reason?
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, James The Red Engine, Duke The Old Engine
To enhance the abilities of soldiers.
Jaslandia, Percyton, James The Red Engine, Duke The Old Engine
So, how are y'all?
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Duke The Old Engine
We good, boo
Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Interesting. It looks the experiment had a very unusual side effect.
Hello, Kal! I'm doing good. Just doing my usual nightly mail run. How are you?
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, James The Red Engine, Duke The Old Engine
I'm good, admired BB-59 (USS Massachusetts) since it had some nice accolades in WW2. Also designed some more for my helicopter.
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
why are you all trains? was there some kind of terrible experiment gone wrong? like the horse people?
Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
No, not like that. We're engines... well, because we just are. We were built as normal, non-sentient engines, then once we were all put together, we came alive. No one knows for sure why we come alive, but there are a few theories, which you can read about here:
https://www.nationstates.net/nation=percyton/detail=factbook/id=849882
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, James The Red Engine, Duke The Old Engine
I have no mouth. And I must scream.
Penguania And Antarctica
I don't understand. We engines actually do have mouths, so we are able to scream. Though, some of us do it more than others (*cough*James The Red Engine*cough*).
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, James The Red Engine
You're one to talk, Percy. I don't need to remind you how much of a scaredy engine you are and always have been.
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
I would politely request that you refer to Percy's engines as such, [I]engines[/I] not "trains". And we are indeed "horse-people", but we prefer to be called [I]Equestrians[/I].
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, James The Red Engine, Duke The Old Engine
I may have been a scaredy engine once, James, but I'm not anymore. Gator taught me a lot about being brave, and while I am still scared sometimes, I can also be brave too.
https://youtu.be/7lRv7S66LJQ?t=6m9s
I appreciate you helping, Russ, but don't worry about it. We've been called 'trains' instead of 'engines' so many times, we've gotten used to it. We do usually correct people about it the first couple of times, but after that, I don't think correcting them will do much good.
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, James The Red Engine
Oh yeah? Boo!
https://youtu.be/kj00rC7ei18
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
Ah! Aaaaaahhh! *runs away backwards*
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, James The Red Engine
Ha ha ha! I told you you were a scaredy engine, Percy. You should have believed me.
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
James! That's not funny!
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
Ha ha! You youngsters and your teasing. Just don't let your teasing get in the way of being Really Useful! And regardless of whether or not Percy is a scaredy engine, he's an invaulable part of this railway, of this region, and of Percyton. You should show some more respect, James!
Rheneas: Like the others said, don't worry about it, Russ. Like I told Duke a while back, if I had a nickel for every time someone called us a 'train' instead of an 'engine' or 'locomotive', I'd be a very rich 'train'!
Duke: And I still refuse to accept this kind of defeatism! These people must be taught the error of there ways, one way or another!
Rheneas: Well Duke, if you want to waste your puff fighting a losing battle, be my guest.
Duke: I will, Rheneas. I will.
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
It's plenty funny to me, scaredy Percy! *continues laughing*
Rubbish! Percy may have the fancy title of 'king', but he's still a little engine who looks like a green caterpillar with red stripes.
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
You damnable rebel, you insolent traitor, how dare you make such claims against the King of Percyton - he still commands respect for his service to Sodor
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Duke The Old Engine
It's okay, Pirate. While I don't like how he said it, James is right in a way. 'King' is just a title, and it doesn't change who I really am. Besides, me and James have known each other for several decades, and we've been teasing each other almost that whole time: Do you think we're really going to stop now? As long as James doesn't try to hurt me or raise a revo... revoloo... revo-thingy against me, we're fine.
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, James The Red Engine, Duke The Old Engine
Hurt you!?! I would never do such a thing, Percy! We've had our disagreements, of course, and Percy's cheekiness can be infuriating. But at the end of the day, we're both just doing our best to be Really Useful Engines. Sometimes, on one of my better days, I'd even go so far as to say we're... friends.
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Duke The Old Engine
Oh, now I see: you're tsundere for Percy :p
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Duke The Old Engine
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Percyton, Duke The Old Engine
Awww! James, that's so sweet of you! You're my friend too!
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Duke The Old Engine
What's 'tsundere'?
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
Now don't get all sweet and lovey-dovey with me! Percy is still an annoying prat, but he's our annoying prat. And besides, we've had plenty of engines worse than Percy. *cough*Billy*cough*the Logging Locos*cough*.
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Duke The Old Engine
Hear, hear!
Reminds me of Peter Sam and Sir Handel, back when they were Stuart and Falcon of the Mid-Sodor Railway. They've matured some since them, but they still have quite a few moment of cheekiness. And as long as they're still Really Useful, a little teasing by young engines is to be expected. And for all my scolding of Peter Sam and Sir Handel, they're good engines, and they're like the grandsons I would have had if I were human. And I've known them for about 100 years now, so there's also that.
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
I'll take that.
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
Good evening friends. How are you all doing? :)
Jaslandia, Mercunova, Percyton
Good morning, Peng! I'm doing good. How are you?
Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Doing pretty good. Not much to report on my end. I just enjoy my weekend. How about you?
(PS: Do you have recommendations for a haircut? I'm overdue for one.)
Jaslandia, Percyton
[spoiler=Today is February 4 and today are:]
Today is February 4 and today are:
- Day of the Armed Struggle (Angola)
- Dump Your Significant Jerk Day
- Facebook's Birthday
- Farmer's Day (Taiwan)
- Independence Day (Sri Lanka)
- Liberace Day
- Medjoola Date Day
- National Create a Vacuum Day (United States)
- National Homemade Soup Day (United States)
- National Stuffed Mushroom Day (United States)
- National Thank a Mail Carrier Day (United States)
- Quacker Day
- Rosa Parks Day (California and Missouri, United States)
- Scout Sunday
- Super Bowl Sunday (National Football League)
- USO Day
- World Cancer Day
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 0211 Roman Emperor Septimius Severus dies at Eboracum (modern York, England) while preparing to lead a campaign against the Caledonians. He leaves the empire in the control of his two quarrelling sons.
- 0634 Battle of Dathin: Rashidun forces under Yazid ibn Abi Sufyan defeat an outnumbered Byzantine force near Gaza in Palestine.
- 0960 The coronation of Zhao Kuangyin as Emperor Taizu of Song, initiating the Song dynasty period of China that would last more than three centuries.
- 1169 A strong earthquake struck the Ionian coast of Sicily, causing tens of thousands of injuries and deaths, especially in Catania.
- 1454 In the Thirteen Years' War, the Secret Council of the Prussian Confederation sends a formal act of disobedience to the Grand Master.
- 1555 John Rogers is burned at the stake, becoming the first English Protestant martyr under Mary I of England.
- 1703 In Edo (now Tokyo), 46 of the Forty-seven Ronin commit seppuku (ritual suicide) as recompense for avenging their master's death.
- 1758 Macapá, Brazil is founded.
- 1789 George Washington is unanimously elected as the first President of the United States by the U.S. Electoral College.
- 1794 The French legislature abolishes slavery throughout all territories of the French First Republic. It will be reestablished in the French West Indies in 1802.
- 1797 The Riobamba earthquake strikes Ecuador, causing up to 40,000 casualties.
- 1801 John Marshall is sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States.
- 1810 The Royal Navy seizes Guadeloupe.
- 1820 The Chilean Navy under the command of Lord Cochrane completes the 2-day long Capture of Valdivia with just 300 men and 2 ships.
- 1825 The Ohio Legislature authorizes the construction of the Ohio and Erie Canal and the Miami and Erie Canal.
- 1846 The first Mormon pioneers make their exodus from Nauvoo, Illinois, westward towards Salt Lake Valley.
- 1859 The Codex Sinaiticus is discovered in Egypt.
- 1861 American Civil War: In Montgomery, Alabama, delegates from six break-away U.S. states meet and form the Confederate States of America.
- 1899 The PhilippineAmerican War begins with the Battle of Manila.
- 1932 Second Sino-Japanese War: Harbin, Manchuria, falls to Japan.
- 1941 The United Service Organization (USO) is created to entertain American troops.
- 1945 World War II: Santo Tomas Internment Camp is liberated from Japanese authority.
- 1945 World War II: The Yalta Conference between the "Big Three" (Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin) opens at the Livadia Palace in the Crimea.
- 1945 World War II: The British Indian Army and Imperial Japanese Army begin a series of battles known as the Battle of Pokoku and Irrawaddy River operations.
- 1948 Ceylon (later renamed Sri Lanka) becomes independent within the British Commonwealth.
- 1961 The Angolan War of Independence and the greater Portuguese Colonial War begin.
- 1966 All Nippon Airways Flight 60 plunges into Tokyo Bay, killing 133.
- 1967 Lunar Orbiter program: Lunar Orbiter 3 lifts off from Cape Canaveral's Launch Complex 13 on its mission to identify possible landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo spacecraft.
- 1969 Yasser Arafat takes over as chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
- 1974 The Symbionese Liberation Army kidnaps Patty Hearst in Berkeley, California.
- 1974 M62 coach bombing: The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) explodes a bomb on a bus carrying off-duty British Armed Forces personnel in Yorkshire, England. Nine soldiers and three civilians are killed.
- 1975 Haicheng earthquake (magnitude 7.3 on the Richter scale) occurs in Haicheng, Liaoning, China.
- 1976 In Guatemala and Honduras an earthquake kills more than 22,000.
- 1977 A Chicago Transit Authority elevated train rear-ends another and derails, killing 11 and injuring 180, the worst accident in the agency's history.
- 1992 A coup d'état is led by Hugo Chávez against Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez.
- 1997 En route to Lebanon, two Israeli Sikorsky CH-53 troop-transport helicopters collide in mid-air over northern Galilee, Israel killing 73.
- 1998 The 5.9 Mw Afghanistan earthquake shakes the Takhar Province with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong). With 2,323 killed, and 818 injured, damage is considered extreme.
- 1999 Unarmed West African immigrant Amadou Diallo is shot 41 times by four plainclothes New York City police officers on an unrelated stake-out, inflaming race relations in the city.
- 2003 The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is officially renamed Serbia and Montenegro and adopts a new constitution.
- 2004 Facebook, a mainstream online social networking site, is founded by Mark Zuckerberg.
- 2015 TransAsia Airways Flight 235 with 58 people on board, en route from the Taiwanese capital Taipei to Kinmen, crashes into the Keelung River just after take-off, killing at least 31 people.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 1682 Johann Friedrich Böttger, German alchemist
- 1871 Friedrich Ebert, German lawyer and politician, 1st President of the Weimar Republic
- 1897 Ludwig Erhard, German soldier and politician, 2nd Chancellor of West Germany
- 1902 Charles Lindbergh, American pilot and explorer
- 1906 Clyde Tombaugh, American astronomer and academic, discovered Pluto
- 1906 Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German pastor and theologian
- 1913 Rosa Parks, American civil rights activist
- 1929 Eduard Zimmermann, German journalist
- 1943 Ken Thompson, American computer scientist and programmer, co-developed the B programming language
- 1948 Alice Cooper, American singer-songwriter
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Quote of the day
Every day is a new day, and you'll never be able to find happiness if you don't move on.
- Carrie Underwood (American Musician, *1983) -
Note: Penguania_And_Antarctica assumes no responsibility or guarantee for correctness of any given information. Any recourse to courts of law is excluded.
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Lex Caledonia, Mercunova, Yukona, Percyton
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Tsundere
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
an equestrian is a human who rides a horse, not a human who is a horse. thats a centaur.
that sounds exactly like this recurring nightmare i used to ahve.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Oh dear! How awful! My thoughts go out to the victims.
Oh. That's not too bad, and I guess that does kinda describe James, and a few other engines on Sodor too. I thought it would be much worse.
Driver: You're thinking of 'yandere', Percy.
Percy: Yes, that's it! Thankfully I haven't seen any of that yand... yander... yander-thingy on Sodor.
Oh. Sorry to hear that. I imagine it's scary for you and other humans because you're used to controlling yourselves. Us engines, however, have never completely controlled ourselves: what's described in the Factbook is all we've ever known. And besides, we can still control other functions of ourselves, like whistling and letting off steam. Like this:
*Percy wheeshes steam, but accidentally sprays Sir Topham Hatt*
Oops! Sorry, sir! At least that wasn't a new top hat, though! Wait, it was a new top hat? Oh...
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
Yes... But this is not the real world. [I]*Equestrian*[/I] refers to our nationality, like American..Russian..French.. ect. And a centaur is a half-breed. They are humans who are [I]part[/I]-horse, not fully equine. We are anthropomorphic, or animals with human characteristics.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Nothing much. Just watching a bit of the Super Bowl.
I'm usually pretty vanilla when it comes to my haircuts, and my hair is pretty hard to cut and control due to being extremely curly, so I'm probably not the best person to ask for haircut recommendations. Sorry.
Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Shaved sides and a slightly longer top is always good. It's fluffy -nice for destressing-, hard to mess up in the morning aside from miner cowlicks, and it dries nicely after a long shower :>
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Where im from, we call that the hitler youth hair cut. If you get one you might want to watch out for antifa.
Uh...I don't think I'll be in danger but thanks I guess. A lot of people wear it here and I've never heard of anyone getting attacked.
Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
Then we must not be from the same place
So, I had an idea for what MSL (My Sh!t Lore) I would actually enjoy writing. I think that I'll make it so that Kalaron is the result of an attempted expansion into the solar system that resulted in disaster from an Earth war. Naturally, the resulting stories are more about various groups just trying to survive using whatever the colonies can. It lets me have an ice moon setting too so yay :>
Naturally this is just MSL so it isn't applicable for the CG-RP or the news feed.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
So in lore, Kalaron would be a MT nation?
Hallo. Wie geht's?
Jaslandia, Vista Major
In the Regional RP, Kalaron is still MT. This idea is solely something I'd like to write around for my own lore out-of-RP.
Jaslandia, Yukona
Hello Peng! How are you today?
Penguania And Antarctica
Sorry I meant within Kalaronian lore, Kalaron is PMT[/]? My bad
Trump says marches in London show universal healthcare does not work.
The marches are FOR the NHS you f*cking moron. Mind your own damn business and keep your mouth shut about Britain's best institution.
Jaslandia
Considering the controversy over Trump re-tweeting those Britain First videos a while back, Trump seems to have a habit of interfering with British affairs that he doesn't understand.
Nuremgard, Yukona
Trump understands nothing so he ought to interfere in nothing.
It would be nice if Theresa May would tell him that, but I doubt she will.
Nuremgard
She's spineless. It's her fault the English NHS is in dire straits.
Jaslandia
I mean, it's the fault of every British government since 2010
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Yukona
Doing alright. Was a relaxed day for a Monday. How about you and your day?
Jaslandia
It's the Conservative raison d'etre.
In my national lore, I guess we'd be PMT but without the greater industrial strength of a world. The most advanced tech we'd have would probably either be the FTL-D (Old world missiles that can "travel" at the speed of light through the Alcubierre drive powered by the reaction of hydrogen fuel with a smaller Anti-hydrogen reserve propelled through an ion engine. ) or some weak gravity generators I might invent due to contrivance with bone strength.
We basically suffered an environmental collapse exacerbated by emergency exodus' and a spat of nuclear war. This has left our colonies basically at the edge of what they can maintain, and inter-colony conflict isn't unknown (full war isn't done, yet.)
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjlVkWwhHbE
Starts at 24 seconds.
Glory to the state.
February Elections. Please Vote.
http://www.strawpoll.me/15010248
Russkov Soviet, Penguania And Antarctica, Cesorion
Why would I not?
Penguania And Antarctica
[spoiler=Today is February 5 and today are:]
Today is February 5 and today are:
- Adlai Stevenson Day
- Constitution Day (Mexico)
- Crown Princess Mary's birthday (Denmark)
- Did-You-Fart?-Day
- Disaster Day
- Kashmir Solidarity Day (Pakistan)
- Liberation Day or Feast of St Agatha (San Marino)
- Move Hollywood & Broadway to Lebanon, Pennsylvania Day
- National Chocolate Fondue Day (United States)
- National Shower with a Friend Day (United States)
- National Weatherperson's Day (United States)
- Runeberg's Birthday (Finland)
- Unity Day (Burundi)
- Western Monarch Day
- World Nutella Day
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- AD62 Earthquake in Pompeii, Italy.
- 0756 An Lushan, leader of a revolt against the Tang Dynasty, declares himself emperor and establishes the state of Yan.
- 1576 Henry of Navarre abjures Catholicism at Tours and rejoins the Protestant forces in the French Wars of Religion.
- 1597 A group of early Japanese Christians are killed by the new government of Japan for being seen as a threat to Japanese society.
- 1778 South Carolina becomes the second state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.
- 1782 Spanish defeat British forces and capture Menorca.
- 1783 In Calabria, a sequence of strong earthquakes begins.
- 1807 HMS Blenheim (1761) and HMS Java disappear off the coast of Rodrigues.
- 1810 Peninsular War: Siege of Cádiz begins.
- 1818 Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway.
- 1849 University of WisconsinMadison's first class meets at Madison Female Academy.
- 1852 The New Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia, one of the largest and oldest museums in the world, opens to the public.
- 1859 Wallachia and Moldavia are united under Alexandru Ioan Cuza as the United Principalities, an autonomous region within the Ottoman Empire, which ushered the birth of the modern Romanian state.
- 1869 The largest alluvial gold nugget in history, called the "Welcome Stranger", is found in Moliagul, Victoria, Australia.
- 1885 King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo as a personal possession.
- 1905 In Mexico, the General Hospital of Mexico is inaugurated, started with four basic specialties.
- 1909 Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announces the creation of Bakelite, the world's first synthetic plastic.
- 1913 Greek military aviators, Michael Moutoussis and Aristeidis Moraitinis perform the first naval air mission in history, with a Farman MF.7 hydroplane.
- 1917 The current constitution of Mexico is adopted, establishing a federal republic with powers separated into independent executive, legislative, and judicial branches.
- 1917 The Congress of the United States passes the Immigration Act of 1917 over President Woodrow Wilson's veto.
- 1918 Stephen W. Thompson shoots down a German airplane; this is the first aerial victory by the U.S. military.
- 1918 SS Tuscania is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland; it is the first ship carrying American troops to Europe to be torpedoed and sunk.
- 1919 Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D. W. Griffith launch United Artists.
- 1924 The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal.
- 1933 Mutiny on Royal Netherlands Navy warship HNLMS De Zeven Provinciën off the coast of Sumatra, Dutch East Indies.
- 1939 Generalísimo Francisco Franco becomes the 68th "Caudillo de España", or Leader of Spain.
- 1941 World War II: Allied forces begin the Battle of Keren to capture Keren, Eritrea.
- 1945 World War II: General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila.
- 1958 Gamal Abdel Nasser is nominated to be the first president of the United Arab Republic.
- 1958 A hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb is lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, never to be recovered.
- 1962 French President Charles de Gaulle calls for Algeria to be granted independence.
- 1963 The European Court of Justice's ruling in Van Gend en Loos v Nederlandse Administratie der Belastingen establishes the principle of direct effect, one of the most important, if not the most important, decisions in the development of European Union law.
- 1971 Astronauts land on the moon in the Apollo 14 mission.
- 1975 Riots break in Lima, Peru after the police forces go on strike the day before. The uprising (locally known as the Limazo) is bloodily suppressed by the military dictatorship.
- 1985 Ugo Vetere, then the mayor of Rome, and Chedli Klibi, then the mayor of Carthage meet in Tunis to sign a treaty of friendship officially ending the Third Punic War which lasted 2,131 years.
- 1988 Manuel Noriega is indicted on drug smuggling and money laundering charges.
- 1994 Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers.
- 1994 Markale massacres, more than 60 people are killed and some 200 wounded as a mortar shell explodes in a downtown marketplace in Sarajevo.
- 1997 The so-called Big Three banks in Switzerland announce the creation of a $71 million fund to aid Holocaust survivors and their families.
- 2000 Russian forces massacre at least 60 civilians in the Novye Aldi suburb of Grozny, Chechnya.
- 2004 Rebels from the Revolutionary Artibonite Resistance Front capture the city of Gonaïves, starting the 2004 Haiti rebellion.
- 2008 A major tornado outbreak across the Southern United States kills 57.
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Famous Birthdays:
- 1626 Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné, French author
- 1788 Robert Peel, English lieutenant and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- 1804 Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Finnish poet and hymn-writer
- 1808 Carl Spitzweg, German painter and poet
- 1840 John Boyd Dunlop, Scottish businessman, co-founded Dunlop Rubber
- 1878 André Citroën, French engineer and businessman, founded Citroën
- 1900 Adlai Stevenson II, American soldier, politician, and diplomat, 5th United States Ambassador to the United Nations
- 1914 William S. Burroughs, American author and painter
- 1915 Robert Hofstadter, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1921 Ken Adam, German-born English production designer and art director
- 1943 Nolan Bushnell, American engineer and businessman, founded Atari, Inc.
- 1949 Kurt Beck, German soldier and politician
- 1961 Dietmar Bär, German actor
- 1969 Michael Sheen, Welsh actor and director
- 1985 Cristiano Ronaldo, Portuguese footballer
- 1992 Neymar, Brazilian footballer
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Quote of the day
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Jaslandia, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Lex Caledonia, Minnesota Dakota, Yukona
Goodnight friends. Wish you all a nice remaining day and sweet dreams tonight. Love you all. <3
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Minnesota Dakota, Yukona
2 Freemason lodges in Westminster. Surprise, surprise.
Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
Doing good. Went out for lunch, and now I'm just relaxing at home.
Huh. Adlai Stevenson is that last person I'd expect to have a holiday. It sounds more like a punchline, or a humorous alt-history holiday, than an actual holiday.
Sounds creepy and uncomfortable, to be honest.
Goodnight, Peng!
Penguania And Antarctica
I'd expect nothing less from our resident academic.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
'Resident academic'? News to me, but thank you.
Penguania And Antarctica
I'm sorry. "Wikipedia Stalker".
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Are you trying to imply something with that? The Freemasons now are just a gentleman's club.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Aye right. They all look after one another.
Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Vetriutan 2
That's better!
Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica
It is a good day to be part of glorious Equestrian Union! Our military continues to grow, but our niceness and pacifism also rises. And thank you to all of those who decided to vacation in our Motherland! Our tourism has risen from the 40's to 7th!
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
Long live Russkov! We still have enforced atheism here. :(
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
I mean... each nation to their own?
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica
I didn't mean to do it! I was only secularising the education system. *sobs*
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
I also don't know how Nuremgard functions without its judiciary.
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
Shh..shh... It's not your fault. NS just didn't know.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Why does this game hurt me so?
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
If only I knew...
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
I just turned one of my countries into a dictatorship. This reduced ideological radicality by 35% and increased tourism.
Who knew becoming an absolute monarchy made your country less radical and more attractive to tourists?
"Oh, honey, let's go to Scotland. They just had a hostile takeover of the government."
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
If you ever bring back your English nation, just know you'll have an absolutist, monarchical, Catholic Stuart Scotland on your doorstep. ;)
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
I just realised that there is no longer an Atheism policy on Nuremgard's page. I don't remember cancelling it.
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
I definitely might you know
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
You should. It would be fun. Reignite that ancient rivalry.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
A Nord's last thoughts should be of home.
Russkov Soviet, Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
I learned today in my uni lecture about Glasgow's connection to the transatlantic slave trade. I had zero knowledge of it until now. I knew Scots partook in the slave trade but had no idea just how much slavery was responsible for the prosperity of my home city.
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota, Mercunova, Yukona
Well done to the Americans, that stock wobble on the Dow Jones had me worrying we were all in for a bad financial year(s).
Russkov Soviet, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota
Just you wait, capitalist pigs...
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota
Well you see its not always you get to see the oppressed people in a foreign dictatorship. And the risk of death is fairly popular. (Totally not lies)
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
You know this stuff better. Why did Blair have to wait until he was out of office to convert to Catholicism? Could a Catholic become PM of the UK?
Penguania And Antarctica
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