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Region: The Confederacy of Free Nations
That's boggin.
What the hell is a boggin?
That chart is actually wrong. Every employee (regardless what they do or how long they do that job) in Germany has a guaranteed minimum amound of paid vacation of 24 days per year. (§3, Sec 1, Federal Holiday Act)
Jaslandia
The chart could be outdated. Did Germany recently extend its paid vacation time?
Penguania And Antarctica
I created an offer.
I don't need no days off. I go to school 18 hours a week and work about an average of 36 hours a weeks split between two jobs. I don't need no days off.
Not that I'm aware off.
Gualimole
It's a Scottish slang word for disgusting.
Jaslandia
Don't assume I know your slang.
Well sor-ray.
Jaslandia
I'm very sorry for you that you have to go through so much pain. :(
Jaslandia
God's got my back, I've learned to settle into my position quite nicely.
I never thought I'd see the day
What?
Gots me a Legendary Nuremgard card.
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica
God makes you go reverse cowgirl on him
Does that include part-time employees? If not, maybe they're finding an average between PTEs who just have stat holidays off (Christmas, New Years), and FTEs who also have paid vacations beyond holidays?
But, if that were the case, then the amount shown for the UK would seem a bit unrealistic.
Penguania And Antarctica
That includes all employees. That law doesn't differentiate between full-time and part-time.
Jaslandia
Your PTEs get 24 days paid vacation? That's nuts!
Jaslandia
Well, depends. If you work the full week but just some hours a day you get your 24 days at least. But if you work just 3 or 2 days a week this amount is proportionally reduced to 16 or so.
Jaslandia
You sound like a Baptist from Mississippi. *tears up*
Well, I'm neither Baptist nor I'm from Mississippi, so alright.
I mean, of course.
Geez, I can't joke a little?
I just can't tell sometimes.
It's April Fool's; I'll give it a pass
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1taC3JjIOkM
Jaslandia
Yesterday was the centenary of the Royal Air Force, "The gratitude of every home in our Island, in our Empire, and indeed throughout the world, except in the abodes of the guilty, goes out to the British airmen who, undaunted by odds, unwearied in their constant challenge and mortal danger, are turning the tide of the World War by their prowess and by their devotion. Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."
Jaslandia
What even is this holiday!?! Since when are books edible!?! Don't eat books, people! Other people might want to read those!
Okay, this is a clever name, I'll give it that.
These events are a lot more fun if you put "April Fools!" at the end of them. Like: "Byzantine Emperor Justin I names his nephew Justinian I as co-ruler and successor to the throne. April Fools! That guy named Bob was actually Justin's successor and co-ruler." Or: "Robert Winchelsey leaves England for Rome, to be consecrated as Archbishop of Canterbury. April Fools! Robert Winchelsey was actually consecrated as Vicar of Dibley!"
https://youtu.be/hKmDGWv9gRk
https://youtu.be/5D2VdaM8OcM
Yet another thing the United States should be #1 in, but is actually last in. Alongside test scores, parental leave, and universal healthcare.
Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Gualimole
Alright, so we're actually closer to the middle than last in test scores, but I stand by the other two!
Penguania And Antarctica
But we are doing well in military spending and the percentage of adults who believe in angels.
The first one is to be expected due to our status as world police, but even then our military spending is bloated. We should be #1, but not #1 by THAT much. As for #2, that depends on your perspective I suppose; I'm agnostic, so I don't really have a dog in that fight.
We are also doing well when it comes to stupid political Facebook posts and the political rants of old men who watch Fox News.
Jaslandia
Highly depends on what you want to do. Arguably, we've cut the military by as much as it'll go while keeping effectiveness up. In fact, it's not much of a stretch to say that Peace Dividends -and the subsequent murder of multiple companies in the MIC- actually only made the cost problem worse. No competition -and let's be honest, it's not really a big pool to begin with- means that prices stay higher than strictly needed, this only compounds when certain sections of our Gov like the GAO shoots any program with a problem in the head before authorizing a new replacement that then gets shot in the head because it got the same problem ad-nauseam till the end of days because of the early 90's.
Frankly, we're already operating at lower numbers than we really need to secure the different zones without significant time spent in Sealift operations to bring men anywhere, but that's something we could handle after breaking out of the Spirograph of decay we so dearly love. If we want to remove more men than we have to bite the bullet on paying more tho since automation in the military has some pretty steep dropoff in returns without pumping more money in.
Huh... got Hyderbourg's card. Nice.
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Political Facebook posts aren't unique to America, although Fox News ranting probably is.
Penguania And Antarctica
Nuremgard got your card. You are a foucking legendary card.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Percyton
OMG! I got a second legendary Nurem card!
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Percyton
Good Day! Hope everyone has a good day!
Song of the day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXhuso4OTG4
The Chancellor's Public Schedule [I]2 April 2018
(All times Eastern. Subject to change.)
16:00 The Chancellor hols his weekly conference with the Vice Chancellor
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
[spoiler=Today is April 2 and today are:]
Today is April 2 and today are:
- Dyngus Day
- Easter Monday (Christianity)
- Family Day (South Africa)
- International Children's Book Day
- Malvinas Day (Argentina)
- National Ferret Day (United States)
- National Love Your Produce Manager Day (United States)
- National Peanut Butter and Jelly Day (United States)
- National Reconciliation Day (United States)
- Nature Day (Iran)
- Pascua Florida Day
- Peeps Day
- Tator Day
- Thai Heritage Conservation Day (Thailand)
- Unity of Peoples of Russia and Belarus Day (Belarus)
- World Autism Awareness Day
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 0670 The second Shia Imam Hassan ibn Ali passes away after being poisoned
- 1513 Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León first sights land in what is now the United States state of Florida.
- 1755 Commodore William James captures the Maratha fortress of Suvarnadurg on west coast of India.
- 1792 The Coinage Act is passed establishing the United States Mint.
- 1800 Ludwig van Beethoven leads the premiere of his First Symphony in Vienna.
- 1801 French Revolutionary Wars: The British capture the Danish fleet.
- 1851 Rama IV is crowned King of Thailand.
- 1863 American Civil War: The largest in a series of Southern bread riots occurs in Richmond, Virginia.
- 1865 American Civil War: Defeat at the Third Battle of Petersburg forces the Army of Northern Virginia and the Confederate government to abandon Richmond, Virginia.
- 1885 Canadian Cree warriors attack the village of Frog Lake, killing nine.
- 1900 The United States Congress passes the Foraker Act, giving Puerto Rico limited self-rule.
- 1902 Dmitry Sipyagin, Minister of Interior of the Russian Empire, is assassinated in the Marie Palace, St Petersburg.
- 1902 "Electric Theatre", the first full-time movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles.
- 1911 The Australian Bureau of Statistics conducts the country's first national census.
- 1912 The ill-fated RMS Titanic begins sea trials.
- 1917 World War I: United States President Woodrow Wilson asks the U.S. Congress for a declaration of war on Germany.
- 1921 The Autonomous Government of Khorasan, a military government encompassing the modern state of Iran, is established.
- 1930 After the mysterious death of Empress Zewditu, Haile Selassie is proclaimed emperor of Ethiopia.
- 1956 As the World Turns and The Edge of Night premiere on CBS-TV. The two soaps become the first daytime dramas to debut in the 30-minute format.
- 1972 Actor Charlie Chaplin returns to the United States for the first time since being labeled a communist during the Red Scare in the early 1950s.
- 1973 Launch of the LexisNexis computerized legal research service.
- 1975 Vietnam War: Thousands of civilian refugees flee from Quảng Ngãi Province in front of advancing North Vietnamese troops.
- 1979 A Soviet bio-warfare laboratory at Sverdlovsk accidentally releases airborne anthrax spores, killing 66 plus an unknown amount of livestock.
- 1980 United States President Jimmy Carter signs the Crude Oil Windfall Profits Tax Act.
- 1982 Falklands War: Argentina invades the Falkland Islands.
- 1986 Alabama governor George Wallace, a former segregationist, best known for the "Stand in the Schoolhouse Door", announces that he will not seek a fifth four-year term and will retire from public life upon the end of his term in January 1987.
- 1989 Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev arrives in Havana, Cuba, to meet with Fidel Castro in an attempt to mend strained relations.
- 1991 Rita Johnston becomes the first female Premier of a Canadian province when she succeeds William Vander Zalm (who had resigned) as Premier of British Columbia.
- 1992 In New York, Mafia boss John Gotti is convicted of murder and racketeering and is later sentenced to life in prison.
- 1992 Forty-two civilians were massacred in the town of Bijeljina.
- 2002 Israeli forces surround the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem into which armed Palestinians had retreated.
- 2004 Islamist terrorists involved in the 11 March 2004 Madrid attacks attempt to bomb the Spanish high-speed train AVE near Madrid; the attack is thwarted.
- 2006 Over 60 tornadoes break out in the United States; Tennessee is hardest hit with 29 people killed.
- 2011 India won the 2011 Cricket World Cup, defeating Sri Lanka by 6 wickets in the final in the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai.
- 2012 A mass shooting at Oikos University in California leaves seven people dead and three injured.
- 2014 A spree shooting occurs at the Fort Hood army base in Texas, with four dead, including the gunman, and 16 others injured.
- 2015 Gunmen attack Garissa University College in Kenya, killing at least 148 people and wounding 79 others.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 0742 Charlemagne or Charles the Great, Frankish king
- 1647 Maria Sibylla Merian, German-Dutch botanist and illustrator
- 1725 Giacomo Casanova, Italian explorer and author
- 1788 Wilhelmine Reichard, German balloonist
- 1798 August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, German poet and academic
- 1805 Hans Christian Andersen, Danish novelist, short story writer, and poet
- 1840 Émile Zola, French novelist, playwright, journalist
- 1862 Nicholas Murray Butler, American philosopher and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1875 Walter Chrysler, American businessman, founded Chrysler
- 1891 Max Ernst, German painter, sculptor, and poet
- 1914 Alec Guinness, English actor
- 1925 Hans Rosenthal, German radio and television host
- 1926 Jack Brabham, Australian race car driver
- 1928 Serge Gainsbourg, French singer-songwriter, actor, and director
- 1939 Marvin Gaye, American singer-songwriter
- 1945 Jürgen Drews, German singer-songwriter
- 1947 Emmylou Harris, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1971 Elton, German television host and comedian
- 1977 Michael Fassbender, German-Irish actor and producer
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Quote of the day
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery (French Novelist, 1900-1944) -
Note: Penguania_And_Antarctica assumes no responsibility or guarantee for correctness of any given information. Any recourse to courts of law is excluded.
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Lex Caledonia, Mercunova, Percyton
Taking a placement test soon. This is a bizzare process.
Jaslandia, Percyton
It's also my birthday, but I guess that doesn't matter.
Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Oh, I didn't know about that. Otherwise I would have mentioned it.
Happy Birthday, my friend. How old did you get?
Jaslandia, Percyton
I am finally 18.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Welcome in the world of adults. I hope you enjoy this very special day with friends and family. :D
Jaslandia, Percyton, Gualimole
https://www.herinterest.com/10-things-you-can-do-at-18/
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Good luck!
Happy birthday!
And that's how Florida got its name.
Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Gualimole
I took it and got pretty OK scores considering my two algebra classes were in my first and second year of high school. Arithmetic and Reading Comp were perfect thank god.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Good to hear. What is the placement test for anyway?
Penguania And Antarctica
The UK has the Sun, the Daily Mail, and other absolutely sh!t mags so their media isn't too great either.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Gualimole
I would argue Fox News is something a bit more powerful and insidious than those media sources, but I see your point.
Penguania And Antarctica, Great Britain And Her Subjects
Yeah but these are largely ignored by most of the population and are just newspapers with online outlets. Their readers are ridiculed and its widely acknowledged theyre sh*te sources. Fox News is a media conglomerate with control of various sub-companies and other news organisations.
Jaslandia
That, and the fact that Fox News has the President of the United States as its biggest watcher and advocate.
Great Britain And Her Subjects
Yeah all those papers mentioned are bought solely by builders from Grimsby as far as I know haha. Plus British TV news is regulated by Ofcom and has to be impartial by law, therefore the BBC, Channel 4 and ITV are great institutions
Jaslandia
It's basically to assess whether you need remedial classes or not.
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica
Where?
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Yeah. Being American, I am concerned about free speech and government regulation of speech. However, seeing stuff like Fox News and RT makes me wish we had an equivalent regulatory body in the U.S. We have NPR and PBS as our equivalents to the BBC, but they don't have the same reach and money.
Penguania And Antarctica
Collage, BCC to be exact.
Eh, RT is literally cancer but the Russian Gov's propaganda is a lot more insidious than RT could ever hope to be. One look at the old Active Measures should be enough to really sell it, honestly. Fox is deffo smelly trash tho, alongside certain groups that follow this to a lesser extent like Vice and CNN.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Well RT is a foreign news agency so that would be a different situation.
The fact is that news under capitalistic organization is inherently going to be sensationalized and skewed because they are going for profit toward certain demographics and from certain situations. State media on the other hand can very easily be rendered a vehicle for propaganda.
Jaslandia, Gualimole
Boston Community College, I assume?
Penguania And Antarctica
Close enough :P
Penguania And Antarctica
Bristol?
Percyton
Yush
Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Decided university was too expensive? Or are you starting at a community college to reduce costs and transfer to a bigger college later?
Penguania And Antarctica
Second option probably. It's a nice place to start given my current goals and it'll make it easier to get along later :>
Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
True, but there are ideal middles in both situations. Local news outlets (barring Sinclair-owned stations) are able to deliver reliable and useful news despite being profit-oriented, and outlets like the BBC and CBC show that state media could work as long as the media organization has some independence from the government.
What are those current goals, if you don't mind me asking?
Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Local stations are generally better because they just that - local. They aren't really trying to reach a national demographic or in most cases push any real agenda because they understand people mostly watch local news for weather and local happenings. And that is true with those examples but its still very easy to abuse.
Jaslandia
Fair enough.
Become a police officer or something to that effect.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
The same thing is true of small business, but you get the point.
Jaslandia
You know, I learned about the requirements to become a police officer in criminology and honestly its extremely easy outside of psychological stuff.
Yeah, it's a nice job as well from everything I've seen.
The other thing is that I quite want to continue educating people about the military, so maybe I'll eventually make a book or something but probably not I'd rather just make posts :V
Speaking of which, I might post something I've been working on in a while if people here want to read it.
Could join the military.
I could but I'm basically a chubby soiboi and have relatively little willpower for stuff like heavy exercise or tours of duty or not-sh!tposting so it's problematic :V
You could go for a desk job but okay.
Also you may be the first person I've seen to use the term "soiboi" or any variant of it.
Mercunova
Always gotta do PT tho.
Yeah true.
Join the Mass SDF when it gets reactivated once again in a few years
If it gets reactivated :<
It's only amazing if it get's F-35Bs :p
It probably will: it only took 3 years when it got deactivated in 2008, and the longest period of deactivation is less than 20 years
Very nice! Of course, I feel on a day like today, I have to promote The Railway Series, the series of children's book that served as the basis for our well-known TV series. The series consists of 42 books, published between 1945 and 2011. The great Reverend Wilbert Awdry wrote the first 26, and then his son Christopher wrote the rest. While the TV series has done a great job of telling our stories and bringing those stories to children all over the world, we'll can never forget the originals that started it all!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Railway_Series
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Railway_Series_books
https://youtu.be/5Gd-xBQSJYg (the very first Railway Series story!)
https://youtu.be/cJYgMWL-Pvc
Duck: Bristol! You're going to school in Bristol, Kal? Wonderful! I hope you enjoy yourself, and please tell me what it's like! I remember back on the Great Western, Bristol was one of our most important stations, and our original main line ran between London Paddington and Bristol. I used to shunt coaches for the big engines at Paddington, and those big engines would go to Bristol all the time, and tell me how great it was! All those fancy Castles and Kings going on journeys to faraway places. I wish--
Hank: Uh, Duck?
Duck: Yes, Hank?
Hank: You're thinking of Bristol in England. Kal is American, so he's probably talking about a place in America. I'm guessing Kal is talking about Bristol Community College in Fall River, Massachusetts.
Duck: Oh. That's a shame.
Hank: It's a nice area, from what I've heard. My Driver's cousin from my Pennsylvania Railroad days lived in Fall River, though he never went to Bristol, since I had already been retired by the PRR by the time Bristol was established.
Duck: Yes, I'm sure that Bristol is nice and all, but nothing could compare to the real Bristol. Or, so I've heard at least; I've never actually been there. You should go there too, Kal.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Of course it matters! Happy birthday, Gualimole!
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Gualimole
I feel very silly for forgetting this! On World Autism Awareness Day, I want to give a shoutout to all of our franchise's autistic and autism spectrum fans! [I]Thomas has always been popular among children with autism, because of our slower pace, calmer mood, and in the model series, the fixed faces on our models helped many children with autism learn facial expressions. So thank you to all of our autism spectrum fans, and we hope we've been able to make your childhood brighter!
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Gualimole
I knew as soon as you liked my comment you were gonna do this.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Whew, this permit test is double spooky dudes.
Jaslandia, Au Minbo, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Percyton
OK they hyped it way above it's punching weight I literally took four minutes to complete it successfully :V
Massachusetts w h y
Jaslandia, Au Minbo, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Percyton
Advertising the best nostalgia trip since psychedelic sliced bread
http://thecoffincofn.boards.net/thread/73/gods-men-mythology-rp-ooc
Jaslandia
To fück with you
Also, what was the permit for?
Driving.
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Percyton
Was it a paper test or a computer test. Vermont gives you the option of which one, though I believe the computer one is shorter.
Penguania And Antarctica
[spoiler=Today is April 3 are:]
Today is April 3 are:
- Don't Go to Work Unless it's Fun Day
- Easter Tuesday (Tasmania)
- National Chocolate Mousse Day (United States)
- National Film Score Day (United States)
- National Find a Rainbow Day (United States)
- National Tweed Day (United States)
- Pony Express Day
- SAAM Day of Action
- Southland Anniversary Day (Southland, NZL)
- Weed Out Hate, Sow The Seeds of Greatness Day
- World Party Day
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 503BC According to the Fasti Triumphales, Roman consul Publius Postumius Tubertus celebrated an ovation for a military victory over the Sabines.
- 0686 Maya king Yuknoom Yich'aak K'ahk' assumes the crown of Calakmul.
- 0801 King Louis the Pious captures Barcelona from the Moors after a siege of several months.
- 1043 Edward the Confessor is crowned King of England.
- 1077 The first Parliament of Friuli is created.
- 1559 The Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis treaty is signed, ending the Italian Wars.
- 1834 The generals in the Greek War of Independence stand trial for treason.
- 1860 The first successful United States Pony Express run from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, begins.
- 1865 American Civil War: Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederate States of America.
- 1882 American Old West: Robert Ford kills Jesse James.
- 1885 Gottlieb Daimler is granted a German patent for his engine design.
- 1888 The first of eleven unsolved brutal murders of women committed in or near the impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of London, occurs.
- 1895 The trial in the libel case brought by Oscar Wilde begins, eventually resulting in his imprisonment on charges of homosexuality.
- 1922 Joseph Stalin becomes the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
- 1933 First flight over Mount Everest, a British expedition, led by the Marquis of Clydesdale, and funded by Lucy, Lady Houston.
- 1936 Bruno Richard Hauptmann is executed for the kidnapping and death of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., the baby son of pilot Charles Lindbergh.
- 1942 World War II: Japanese forces begin an assault on the United States and Filipino troops on the Bataan Peninsula.
- 1946 Japanese Lt. General Masaharu Homma is executed in the Philippines for leading the Bataan Death March.
- 1948 United States President Harry S. Truman signs the Marshall Plan, authorizing $5 billion in aid for 16 countries.
- 1948 In Jeju Province, South Korea, a civil-war-like period of violence and human rights abuses begins, known as the Jeju uprising.
- 1955 The American Civil Liberties Union announces it will defend Allen Ginsberg's book Howl against obscenity charges.
- 1956 HudsonvilleStandale tornado: The western half of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan is struck by a deadly F5 tornado.
- 1968 Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech.
- 1969 Vietnam War: United States Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird announces that the United States will start to "Vietnamize" the war effort.
- 1973 Martin Cooper of Motorola makes the first handheld mobile phone call to Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs.
- 1974 The 1974 Super Outbreak occurs, the second biggest tornado outbreak in recorded history (after the 2011 Super Outbreak). The death toll is 315, with nearly 5,500 injured.
- 1975 Bobby Fischer refuses to play in a chess match against Anatoly Karpov, giving Karpov the title of World Champion by default.
- 1981 The Osborne 1, the first successful portable computer, is unveiled at the West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco.
- 1991 United Nations Security Council Resolution 687 is adopted in an attempt to reduce tensions between Iraq and Kuwait.
- 1996 Suspected "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski is captured at his Montana cabin in the United States.
- 1997 The Thalit massacre begins in Algeria; all but one of the 53 inhabitants of Thalit are killed by guerrillas.
- 2000 United States v. Microsoft Corp.: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust law by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors.
- 2004 Islamic terrorists involved in the 2004 Madrid train bombings are trapped by the police in their apartment and kill themselves.
- 2007 Conventional-Train World Speed Record: A French TGV train on the LGV Est high speed line sets an official new world speed record.
- 2008 ATA Airlines, once one of the ten largest U.S. passenger airlines and largest charter airline, files for bankruptcy for the second time in five years and ceases all operations.
- 2008 Texas law enforcement cordons off the FLDS's YFZ Ranch. Eventually 533 women and children will be taken into state custody.
- 2009 Jiverly Antares Wong opens fire at the American Civic Association immigration center in Binghamton, New York, killing thirteen and wounding four before committing suicide.
- 2010 Apple Inc. released the first generation iPad, a tablet computer.
- 2013 More than 50 people die in floods resulting from record-breaking rainfall in La Plata and Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- 2016 The Panama Papers, a leak of legal documents, reveals information on 214,488 offshore companies.
- 2017 A bomb explodes in the St Petersburg metro system, killing 10 and injuring several more people.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 1783 Washington Irving, American short story writer, essayist, biographer, historian
- 1863 Henry van de Velde, Belgian painter, architect and interior designer
- 1893 Hans Riegel, Sr., German entrepreneur, invented the gummy bear and founded HARIBO
- 1922 Doris Day, American singer and actress
- 1924 Marlon Brando, American actor and director
- 1929 Fazlur Khan, Bangladeshi engineer and architect, co-designed the Willis Tower and John Hancock Center
- 1930 Helmut Kohl, German politician, Chancellor of Germany
- 1934 Jane Goodall, English primatologist and anthropologist
- 1958 Alec Baldwin, American actor, comedian, producer and television host
- 1958 Francesca Woodman, American photographer
- 1961 Eddie Murphy, American actor and comedian
- 1966 Michael Mittermeier, German comedian
- 1973 Dagur Sigurðsson, Icelandic handball player and coach, head coach for the German national handball team
- 1978 Tommy Haas, German-American tennis player
- 1982 Cobie Smulders, Canadian actress
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Quote of the day
Either I will find a way, or I will make one.
- Philip Sidney (English Soldier, 1554-1586) -
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, Percyton
It isn't driving unless you have to shift gears manually. :P
Twenty five question computerized test. All touchscreen as well.
The touchscreen was the literal worst thing ever :V
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Lies, manual is worstual
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
How many can you have wrong to still pass it?
If you ever come to Europe or Germany in particular (which I think will be unlikely since you don't have no interest in the weak continent) I will make sure that no automatic cars are available. :P
Jaslandia, Mercunova
Manual is best.
I wish my car was a manual :/
Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Great Britain And Her Subjects
And with that statement you got a rank up on my friends and favourite persons list. :D
Au Minbo
Imo, I've always just preferred automatic cars. I'm sure if I drove a manual as my first car, maybe I'd be different, but I've always driven automatic so that's what I'll always generally prefer.
I don't care if it's automatic or manual. If it's a Mercedes or a Mercury I'm all for it.
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