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Trumps tummyloaf serves as a constant reminder of the health benefits from frequently playing golf.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova
Trump's existence as US President is a living reminder of why we should be grateful that we're not American.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona, Percyton
My American history lecturer is from your homeland, Con.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Naturally
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
A Canadian in the United Kingdom teaching American History
If this isn't the most BLASPHEMOUS thing I've seen today #maga
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
I don't care much either way, but engines like Gordon, James, and Donald and Douglas have much stronger opinions on the subject. They think Chuggington is just a cheap and unrealistic 'rip-off' of our show, and they're unhappy because they think our TV is starting to take influence from Chuggington (starting in our 2017 special Journey Beyond Sodor, our TV versions started 'bouncing' and moving about on their frames like Chuggington engines often do, and according to Gordon, "it won't be long before we start jumping from track-to-track just like Chuggington." Me personally, while Chuggington definitely isn't realistic, and I much prefer our TV show over Chuggington, I'm not going to judge what kids decide to watch; if some kids are really into Chuggington and enjoy watching it, then good for them! And who knows? Maybe once children see Chuggington, they'll want to watch other train-based shows like ours.
Oh dear! RIP Bax. We're going to miss you.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
THE CONFEDERACY OF FREE NATIONS
THE SECOND REPUBLIC
HESTIA PALACE
THE CHANCELLERY
Today, February the 12th of 2018, by this present decree of the Chancellery of the Confederacy, bearing the Signatures of the Chancellor and the Vice Chancellor,
The Chancellor's Medal of Freedom
is awarded to Baxten, for his longtime service to our community, and in recognition of his efforts to make it a better place
Although he has now Ceased To Exist, we believe that we can remember him and honor his memory.
Forever Live the Confederacy
Signed,
Chancellor
Vice Chancellor
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota, Yukona, Percyton, Cesorion
[spoiler=Today is February 12 and today are:]
Today is February 12 and today are:
- Carnival (Andorra, Argentina, St. Barts, Bolivia, Brazil, Curaçao, Germany, Ecuador, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela)
- Darwin Day
- Georgia Day (Georgia, US)
- Lincoln's Birthday (Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Missouri, New York)
- NAACP Day
- National Clean Out Your Computer Day (United States)
- National Freedom to Marry Day (United States)
- National Lost Penny Day (United States)
- National Plum Pudding Day (United States)
- Oatmeal Monday
- Oglethorpe Day
- Red Hand Day (United Nations)
- Rosenmontag or Rose Monday (Germany)
- Royal Hobart Regatta (Tasmania)
- Safety Pup Day
- Sexual and Reproductive Health Awareness Day (Canada)
- Union Day (Myanmar)
- Youth Day (Venezuela)
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 0881 Pope John VIII crowns Charles the Fat, the King of Italy: Holy Roman Emperor
- 1429 English forces under Sir John Fastolf defend a supply convoy carrying rations to the army besieging Orléans in the Battle of the Herrings.
- 1502 Isabella I issued an edict outlawing Islam in the Crown of Castile, forcing virtually all her Muslim subjects to convert to Christianity.
- 1502 Vasco da Gama sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal, on his second voyage to India.
- 1541 Santiago, Chile is founded by Pedro de Valdivia.
- 1554 A year after claiming the throne of England for nine days, Lady Jane Grey is beheaded for treason.
- 1593 Japanese invasion of Korea: Approximately 3,000 Joseon defenders led by general Kwon Yul successfully repel more than 30,000 Japanese forces in the Siege of Haengju.
- 1689 The Convention Parliament declares that the flight to France in 1688 by James II, the last Roman Catholic British monarch, constitutes an abdication.
- 1733 Englishman James Oglethorpe founds Georgia, the 13th colony of the Thirteen Colonies, and its first city at Savannah (known as Georgia Day).
- 1771 Gustav III becomes the King of Sweden.
- 1817 An Argentine/Chilean patriotic army, after crossing the Andes, defeats Spanish troops on the Battle of Chacabuco.
- 1818 Bernardo O'Higgins formally approves the Chilean Declaration of Independence near Concepción, Chile.
- 1825 The Creek cede the last of their lands in Georgia to the United States government by the Treaty of Indian Springs, and migrate west.
- 1832 Ecuador annexes the Galápagos Islands.
- 1851 Edward Hargraves announces he has found gold in Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia, starting the Australian gold rushes.
- 1855 Michigan State University is established.
- 1894 Anarchist Émile Henry hurls a bomb into the Cafe Terminus in Paris, killing one person and wounding 20.
- 1909 The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded.
- 1909 New Zealand's worst maritime disaster of the 20th century happens when the SS Penguin, an inter-island ferry, sinks and explodes at the entrance to Wellington Harbour.
- 1912 The Xuantong Emperor, the last Emperor of China, abdicates.The Chinese Empire ends after 2133 years of existence.
- 1915 In Washington, D.C., the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.
- 1921 Bolsheviks launch a revolt in Georgia as a preliminary to the Red Army invasion of Georgia.
- 1924 George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue received its premiere in a concert titled "An Experiment in Modern Music", in Aeolian Hall, New York, by Paul Whiteman and his band, with Gershwin playing the piano.
- 1935 USS Macon, one of the two largest helium-filled airships ever created, crashes into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California and sinks.
- 1946 World War II: Operation Deadlight ends after scuttling 121 of 154 captured U-boats.
- 1946 African American United States Army veteran Isaac Woodard is severely beaten by a South Carolina police officer to the point where he loses his vision in both eyes. The incident later galvanizes the Civil Rights Movement and partially inspires Orson Welles' film Touch of Evil.
- 1947 The largest observed iron meteorite until that time creates an impact crater in Sikhote-Alin, in the Soviet Union.
- 1947 Christian Dior unveils a "New Look", helping Paris regain its position as the capital of the fashion world.
- 1961 The Soviet Union launches Venera 1 towards Venus.
- 1963 Construction begins on the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri.
- 1965 Malcolm X visits Smethwick following the racial charged 1964 general election.
- 1968 Phong Nhị and Phong Nhất massacre.
- 1974 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970, is exiled from the Soviet Union.
- 1983 One hundred women protest in Lahore, Pakistan against military dictator Zia-ul-Haq's proposed Law of Evidence. The women were tear-gassed, baton-charged and thrown into lock-up. The women were successful in repealing the law.
- 1988 Cold War: The 1988 Black Sea bumping incident: The U.S. missile cruiser USS Yorktown (CG-48) is intentionally rammed by the Soviet frigate Bezzavetnyy in the Soviet territorial waters, while Yorktown claims innocent passage.
- 1990 Carmen Lawrence becomes the first female Premier in Australian history when she becomes Premier of Western Australia.
- 1992 The current Constitution of Mongolia comes into effect.
- 1993 Two-year-old James Bulger is abducted from New Strand Shopping Centre by two ten-year-old boys, who later torture and murder him.
- 1994 Four thieves break into the National Gallery of Norway and steal Edvard Munch's iconic painting The Scream.
- 1999 United States President Bill Clinton is acquitted by the United States Senate in his impeachment trial.
- 2001 NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touches down in the "saddle" region of 433 Eros, becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.
- 2002 The trial of Slobodan Miloević, the former President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, begins at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands. He dies four years later before its conclusion.
- 2002 An Iran Airtour Tupolev Tu-154 crashes in the mountains outside Khorramabad, Iran while descending for a landing at Khorramabad Airport, killing 119.
- 2004 The city of San Francisco begins issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in response to a directive from Mayor Gavin Newsom.
- 2009 Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashes into a house in Clarence Center, New York while on approach to Buffalo Niagara International Airport, killing all on board and one on the ground.
- 2016 Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill sign an Ecumenical Declaration in the first such meeting between leaders of the Catholic and Russian Orthodox Churches since their split in 1054.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- AD41 Britannicus, Roman son of Claudius
- 1768 Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor
- 1785 Pierre Louis Dulong, French physicist and chemist
- 1804 Heinrich Lenz, German-Italian physicist and academic
- 1809 Charles Darwin, English geologist and theorist
- 1809 Abraham Lincoln, American lawyer and politician, 16th President of the United States
- 1861 Lou Andreas-Salomé, Russian-German psychoanalyst and author
- 1870 Marie Lloyd, English actress and singer
- 1876 13th Dalai Lama
- 1877 Louis Renault, French engineer and businessman, co-founded Renault
- 1881 Anna Pavlova, Russian-English ballerina and actress
- 1884 Max Beckmann, German painter and sculptor
- 1915 Lorne Greene, Canadian-American actor
- 1918 Julian Schwinger, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1954 Phil Zimmermann, American cryptographer and programmer
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Quote of the day
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
- Buddha (Spiritual Leader, 563BC-483BC) -
Note: Penguania_And_Antarctica assumes no responsibility or guarantee for correctness of any given information. Any recourse to courts of law is excluded.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Mercunova, Percyton
Baxten is gone? Oh no... *lowers flags to half-staff* We will miss you comrade.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
I see. That does sound vaguely familiar.
E-n-g-l-a-n-d-i-s-m-y-c-i-t-y
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
I wonder what the name of the state would be after Scottish independence. The United Kingdom of England and Northern Ireland? The Kingdom of England and Northern Ireland?
Lavan Tiri, Axeldonia, Percyton
I assume they'd still use 'United Kingdom' (since that's the name everyone calls it nowadays). Maybe it'd be 'United Kingdom of England, Wales, and Northern Ireland' (can't exclude Wales, now can we?). Or perhaps 'United Kingdom of Southern Britain and Northern Ireland' (although that might be a little confusing)?
Nuremgard, Lavan Tiri, Axeldonia, Yukona, Percyton
I cant see them adding Wales to the new title. I assume they'd still use United Kingdom. People use it to refer to the union between Scotland and England but this is a misnomer. The United Kingdom actually refers to the union between Britain and Ireland. So even if Scotland left, there would still technically be a UK because Northern Ireland is still part of the state.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
I see. So as long as Northern Ireland sticks around, the UK should be good in the naming department. Although it wouldn't be too unbelievable to me if Northern Ireland eventually decides to re-unite with Ireland, so...
Nuremgard, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
I cant see that happening. And if it did, there would be bloodshed.
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
There's a bunch more CTE'd people who require medals tbh
where's Markotovia's medal?
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Yukona, Percyton
If we awarded medals all at once, it would diminish the value. We're looking at maybe one or two a week
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
Mostly getting pished and having a kebab.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova
I don't think it'll happen in the near future, but as time passes and the Troubles are farther from the public memory, there may be more reconciliation between the two sides. And of course there's also Brexit, which could lead to strained relations between Northern Ireland and Westminster, thus driving Northern Ireland closer to Ireland instead.
Nuremgard, Lavan Tiri
Brexit's hard border may reignite the Troubles.
Lavan Tiri
Let's hope not. Hopefully Northern Ireland and/or Westminster can reach a separate agreement with Ireland regarding the border before Brexit happens.
Lavan Tiri
There can be no separate agreement with Ireland. Ireland is an EU member so the UK negotiates with the EU as a whole, not individual members.
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
I see. That could be an issue then, unless the UK can reach a special border agreement with all of the EU (which might be politically complicated and could get a lot of opposition from the hard-Brexit proponents).
Lavan Tiri
IIRC an agreement was reached but it involved NI being granted a form of special status in regards to the whole Brexit deal, mandating a soft border there as well as free movement of goods but leaving the rest of the UK with a hard border. It's not ideal.
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
What makes you say it's not ideal? Seems like a reasonable deal to me: Northern Ireland and Ireland are granted special border status as is appropriate, while the Westminster government can satisfy the hard-Brexit crowd by mandating hard borders for the rest of the EU. It might not be ideal for more pro-EU people, or for British people with business and/or personal ties to the EU, but from a political standpoint, I don't think you could make a deal accommodating them without p*ssing off the hard-Brexit people.
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Coliainada
There's a lot of grumbling in Scotland about it. It's not ideal because it drives further divisions into the union. As Nurem so eloquently put it a few days ago: Why should NI get a better deal just because they're willing to shoot each other?
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
Ah. Fair point. Though, to play devil's advocate for a moment, Northern Ireland genuinely is a different situation, as it's the only country/component of the UK that shares a land border with another country (not counting any of the overseas territories). Since Northern Ireland and Ireland have a land border and a long shared history (to say the least), there's more economic and social integration than if they shared a sea border, so it would be best to keep a soft border so that both sides can maintain that mutually-beneficial integration. Correct me if I'm wrong or being overly-simplistic, though.
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
Northern Ireland is a unique situation but it's deeply unfair that they get a special deal but Britain does not. Scotland voted to remain by a stronger margin than Northern Ireland yet we're meant to just accept being taken out of the EU. Most of the urban areas in the UK voted to remain. Why cant they get deals too? Or why cant Scotland and NI stay in the single market but England and Wales leave?
It is a clusterf*ck. If the gov had any backbone, it would cancel Brexit. The harder the Brexit (and with NI getting a special deal), the more likely it is that the UK will end. But you never know, Scots might be so servile and scared to go at it alone that they will take whatever sh!t Westminster gives them. Doesn't make for a very cohesive union though.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Axeldonia
Ah. I think I understand now. And yeah, as a more pro-EU leaning person, no Brexit would have been best in my opinion. A hard-Brexit could lead to special treatment instances like Northern Ireland, and would deprive the UK of all the economic and political benefits of EU membership (such as the Common Market). A soft-Brexit would lead to the UK being in an EEA (European Economic Area) situation like Norway and Iceland: having to abide by all EU rules, but not being able to have a say on those rules due to not being an EU member. But, the people voted in a fair referendum, so short of a second referendum that votes against Brexit, they'll have to live with the consequences.
Nuremgard, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
The referendum was advisory. It can be ignored. Parliament is supreme in this matter.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
And risk losing seats in the next general election? The Conservatives or any other party in power wouldn't risk that.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
Legally speaking, yes. But the public wasn't told that beforehand (or if they were, it wasn't emphasized nearly enough), so they voted as if it was legally-binding, and will thus be appropriately outraged if Parliament tries to overrule the referendum.
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
That's politicians for you. Maintaining power is more important than the national interest.
Let them be outraged then. Brexit voters bang on about British democracy. Parliamentary sovereignty is a pillar of British democracy.
Lavan Tiri, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
It would be political suicide, though, and in the short-term, who knows what it could do to the national political environment? The longer-term benefit is of course the benefits of EU memberships, but with all the short-term consequences, it would be a very painful pill to swallow to say the least.
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
First you praised fascism, and now you're criticizing democracy. Are you in a bad mood right now?
Lavan Tiri, Yukona
*eye roll* I didn't praise fascism. I said it was not bereft of decent ideas. And yes, I criticise democracy because it's not perfect. No system is.
Ah, well. A hard Brexit may hasten the death of the UK so bring it on.
Lavan Tiri, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
I miss when Aldaur was our resident fascist...
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
Post self-deleted by Gualimole.
Or Orveleca's?
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Orv! Been a while since I've heard that name.
Lavan Tiri, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica
Get out campaigning with me when the time comes, Ill take Edinburgh, you take Glasgow.
Nuremgard, Lavan Tiri, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
he deleted me off steam he's dead to me
Lavan Tiri
You'll always be on my steam x
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Get a room. :P
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Mercunova, Yukona
Uncle Orv deserves a medal. Perhaps a temple.
Yeah guys, it's gettin' pretty. . .steamy.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Yukona, Percyton
Wait, Yukona hit 3 billion today!
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Percyton
With what?
Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova
Good morning to the confederacy of free nations
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Mercunova, Percyton
Population!
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
What happened to Baxten?
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona, Percyton
He appears to have CTE'd.
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona, Percyton
This post is mainly for Yukona but it's also for Unfallious and all Brits from other parts of the UK.
Mercunova made a joke the other day and I liked the post. I shouldn't have. Merc, you're a very dear friend but the joke about genocide and the English was unacceptable. I should not have liked it. Had it been said about any other group, the mods would have pounced on it.
I would like to personally apologise for my sometimes hostile and aggressive rhetoric when talking about British politics and Scottish independence. I bear no ill will against English people or indeed any others from the UK. I will better manage my tone and words in future.
I hope Yukona and others do not think worse of me. I have a great deal of respect for you, Yuk, and I admire how you always express your opinions in a measured, articulate fashion.
If any English posters here (or any others for that matter) have felt offended or uncomfortable by Anglophobic comments here, I am sorry.
May we continue to debate, discuss and differ but remain friends.
Nurem/Stephen
Jaslandia, Unfallious, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona, Percyton
Fvck Britain. And Scotland. Fvck everyone.
Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Yukona
As much as I don't think an apology from you was necessary, thank you none the less
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
President McMurphy's peyote-induced "let's all just be friends" speech is trending world-wide.
Reclassification
Yukona was reclassified from an Inoffensive Centrist Democracy to a Left-Leaning College State.
I see, NS...
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
The intent of the joke was that the bagpipes would irritate all Englishmen in Scotland to such an extent that they would return to England; "extermination" did not refer to genocide...
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
Ohhh, that is the comment Nurem was referring to. I took extermination to mean removal from Scottish lands, not removal from the land of the living writ large. Unless haggis and bagpipes have properties of weaponization Im hereto unaware of, in which case I expect Kal to enlighten me posthaste.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova
I mean maybe there are people who would take unrelenting bagpipe music to be a form of mass-weaponization, but that was not my intent, nor was it to suggest any other form of weaponization/harm to human beings.
The whole point of the joke was that bagpipes can be found to be irritating enough for people to leave a place where they are incessantly played XD
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
Tell that to my neighbors. I used to play bagpipes (on radio) while doing yard work and the like. They got fed up and moved.... not once did they simply come and talk to me.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, The Cross And Davids Star, Percyton
XD See it works!
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Anyone here following the winter Olympics?
Lavan Tiri, Percyton
To be fair, it may cause a mass suicide. Bagpipes are more hideous than my ex.
Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova
I like bagpipes.
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova
Did someone say steam? I make lots of steam! See! *wheeshes steam, accidentally sprays Sir Topham Hatt*
Sir Topham Hatt: Not AGAIN, Percy!?!
Percy: Oops! Sorry, sir! At least it wasn't a new hat this time! ... Oh, it was a new hat? *pause* Well, would you look at the time? Lots of job to do, gotta dash! *blows whistle and rushes off*
Good morning, Coliainada! How are you today?
I've been watching a little bit of it when I have the time. I'm rooting for Team GB, since Team Sodor's application to participate was unfortunately denied.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
Kinky ;)
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Mercunova
You always make my day. :D
The German team ist doing quite well. :)
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Percyton
https://youtu.be/tygbw5wz9-s
As the Scots would say: Gie yer min' it ay th' gutter!
Sorry to hear that. Why would they deny Percyton's application? I think a Team Sodor could do quite well in the Olympics.
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Thank you, Peng! (Driver: And this time I actually got the name right! I think...)
I'm not sure, but it sounds like there are a few reasons. It might be because we've never put a lot of money into Olympic sports, so our team isn't that good (but they try their best, and that has to count for something). It might also be because the Olympic people don't think we actually exist; this is a problem we've faced for several decades, and despite multiple visits to the Mainland, people still don't believe us or Sodor are real. And if they do think we're real, they think we're part of the UK/the Mainland and tell us to apply for Team GB (we've actually had quite a few athletes from Percyton try out for the Mainland's Olympics teams, but while we've had a bunch of finalists, none of them have made the actual team).
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
I like maple syrup.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Yukona, Percyton
And I like trappy anime. What's the point?
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
What about waffles?
https://youtu.be/eDU0CTDMk2g
Lavan Tiri, Vista Major, Percyton
They don't think you're real? Well then shame on them, that's what I say!
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
I like cheese in a can
Lavan Tiri, Percyton
https://youtu.be/DgzACnYsV8U
Lavan Tiri, Mercunova
[spoiler=Today is February 13 and today are:]
Today is February 13 and today are:
- Children's Day (Myanmar)
- Desperation Day
- Employee Legal Awareness Day
- Extraterrestrial Culture Day
- Extraterrestrial Visitor Day
- Fat Tuesday
- Galentine's Day
- Get a Different Name Day
- International Condom Day
- International Pancake Day
- Internet Friends Day
- Madly In Love With Me Day
- Maha Shivaratri (Hinduism)
- Mardi Gras
- National Sports Day (Qatar)
- National Tortellini Day (United States)
- Shrove Tuesday
- Paczki Day
- World Radio Day
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 0951 Guo Wei, a court official, leads a military coup and declares himself emperor of the new Later Zhou.
- 0962 Emperor Otto I and Pope John XII co-sign the Diploma Ottonianum, recognizing John as ruler of Rome.
- 1322 The central tower of Ely Cathedral falls on the night of 12th13th.
- 1462 The Treaty of Westminster is finalised between Edward IV of England and the Scottish Lord of the Isles.
- 1503 Challenge of Barletta: Tournament between 13 Italian and 13 French knights near Barletta.
- 1542 Catherine Howard, the fifth wife of Henry VIII of England, is executed for adultery.
- 1575 Henry III of France is crowned at Reims.
- 1633 Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition.
- 1660 With the accession of young Charles XI of Sweden, his regents begin negotiations to end the Second Northern War.
- 1689 William and Mary are proclaimed co-rulers of England.
- 1692 Massacre of Glencoe: Almost 80 Macdonalds at Glen Coe, Scotland are killed early in the morning for not promptly pledging allegiance to the new king, William of Orange.
- 1739 Battle of Karnal: The army of Iranian ruler Nader Shah defeats the forces of the Mughal emperor of India, Muhammad Shah.
- 1755 Treaty of Giyanti signed by VOC, Pakubuwono III and Prince Mangkubumi. The treaty divides the Javanese kingdom of Mataram into 2: Sunanate of Surakarta and Sultanate of Yogyakarta.
- 1849 The delegation headed by Metropolitan bishop Andrei Șaguna hands out to the Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria the General Petition of Romanian leaders in Transylvania, Banat and Bukovina, which demands that the Romanian nation be recognized.
- 1861 In Gaeta the capitulation of the fortress decreeing the end of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies is signed.
- 1867 Work begins on the covering of the Senne, burying Brussels's primary river and creating the modern central boulevards.
- 1880 Thomas Edison observes Thermionic emission.
- 1913 The 13th Dalai Lama proclaims Tibetan independence following a period of domination by Manchu Qing dynasty and initiated a period of almost four decades of independence.
- 1914 Copyright: In New York City the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers is established to protect the copyrighted musical compositions of its members.
- 1920 The Negro National League is formed.
- 1931 The British Raj completes its transfer from Calcutta to New Delhi.
- 1935 A jury in Flemington, New Jersey finds Bruno Hauptmann guilty of the 1932 kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby, the son of Charles Lindbergh.
- 1945 World War II: The siege of Budapest concludes with the unconditional surrender of German and Hungarian forces to the Red Army.
- 1945 World War II: Royal Air Force bombers are dispatched to Dresden, Germany to attack the city with a massive aerial bombardment.
- 1951 Korean War: Battle of Chipyong-ni, which represented the "high-water mark" of the Chinese incursion into South Korea, commences.
- 1954 Frank Selvy becomes the only NCAA Division I basketball player ever to score 100 points in a single game.
- 1955 Israel obtains four of the seven Dead Sea Scrolls.
- 1960 With the success of a nuclear test codenamed "Gerboise Bleue", France becomes the fourth country to possess nuclear weapons.
- 1960 Black college students stage the first of the Nashville sit-ins at three lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee.
- 1961 An allegedly 500,000-year-old rock is discovered near Olancha, California, US, that appears to anachronistically encase a spark plug.
- 1967 American researchers discover the Madrid Codices by Leonardo da Vinci in the National Library of Spain.
- 1975 Fire at the World Trade Center in New York.
- 1978 Hilton bombing: a bomb explodes in a refuse truck outside the Hilton Hotel in Sydney, Australia, killing two refuse collectors and a policeman.
- 1979 An intense windstorm strikes western Washington and sinks a 1/2-mile-long section of the Hood Canal Bridge.
- 1981 A series of sewer explosions destroys more than two miles of streets in Louisville, Kentucky.
- 1983 A cinema fire in Turin, Italy, kills 64 people.
- 1984 Konstantin Chernenko succeeds the late Yuri Andropov as general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
- 1990 German reunification: An agreement is reached on a two-stage plan to reunite Germany.
- 1991 Gulf War: Two laser-guided "smart bombs" destroy the Amiriyah shelter in Baghdad. Allied forces said the bunker was being used as a military communications outpost, but over 400 Iraqi civilians inside were killed.
- 1996 The Nepalese Civil War is initiated in the Kingdom of Nepal by the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist-Centre).
- 2001 An earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter magnitude scale hits El Salvador, killing at least 400.
- 2004 The HarvardSmithsonian Center for Astrophysics announces the discovery of the universe's largest known diamond, white dwarf star BPM 37093. Astronomers named this star "Lucy" after The Beatles' song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds".
- 2007 Taiwan opposition leader Ma Ying-jeou resigns as the chairman of the Kuomintang party after being indicted on charges of embezzlement during his tenure as the mayor of Taipei; Ma also announces his candidacy for the 2008 presidential election.
- 2008 Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd makes a historic apology to the Indigenous Australians and the Stolen Generations.
- 2010 A bomb explodes in the city of Pune, Maharashtra, India, killing 17 and injuring 60 more.
- 2011 For the first time in more than 100 years the Umatilla, an American Indian tribe, are able to hunt and harvest a bison just outside Yellowstone National Park, restoring a centuries-old tradition guaranteed by a treaty signed in 1855.
- 2012 The European Space Agency (ESA) conducted the first launch of the European Vega rocket from Europe's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.
- 2017 Kim Jong-nam, brother of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un, is assassinated at Kuala Lumpur International Airport.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 1805 Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, German mathematician and academic
- 1835 Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Indian religious leader
- 1849 Lord Randolph Churchill, English lawyer and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer
- 1910 William Shockley, English-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1918 Patty Berg, American golfer and lieutenant
- 1923 Chuck Yeager, American general and pilot; first test pilot to break the sound barrier
- 1930 Ernst Fuchs, Austrian painter, sculptor, and illustrator
- 1933 Kim Novak, American actress
- 1937 Sigmund Jähn, East German cosmonaut and pilot, first German to fly in space
- 1946 Richard Blumenthal, American sergeant and politician, 23rd Attorney General of Connecticut
- 1950 Peter Gabriel, English singer-songwriter and musician
- 1960 Pierluigi Collina, Italian footballer and referee
- 1974 Robbie Williams, English singer-songwriter
- 1979 Mena Suvari, American actress and fashion designer
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Quote of the day
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
- Voltaire (French Writer, 1694-1778) -
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Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Lex Caledonia, Mercunova, Yukona, Percyton
Alright then. For today, I do declare myself to be 'Flavius Julius Longianus Floridosius' ('Flav' for short).
Nuremgard, Lavan Tiri, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Percyton
Longianus ??
What's so long about you? ;P
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Axeldonia, Mercunova, Percyton
Happy Valentine's Day to all you lucky lovers out there. As for me, I'll be spending this V.Day with Rosie Palm and her five sisters.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Yukona, Percyton
I was referring to the name itself. Again, get your mind out of the gutter! ;P
I think I'll be joining you on that date. Metaphorically speaking, of course.
Nuremgard, Lavan Tiri, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona, Percyton
Metaphorically, physically. Either way, I'm good with it.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona, Percyton
Ok, Flav!
Rosie! I'm good friends with an engine named Rosie, and she's very nice! Hopefully this 'Rosie Palm' is nice too!
http://ttte.wikia.com/wiki/Rosie
And five sisters!?! Wow! That's very big for a human family! Good luck, since I imagine they'll be quite a bufferful... or, handful in your case!
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
Not quite what I had in mind, but the sentiment is appreciated.
Suuure, let's go with that! Thanks, Percy!
Nuremgard, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Following new legislation in Nuremgard, there's a revolutionary culture in the nation's dairies.
This is what happens when socialists are in charge.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
"Bovines of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your udders!"
Russkov Soviet, Nuremgard, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
It increased the poor's income so I'm good with it.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
I guess Nuremgard's redistribution of milk program paid off.
Although, that reminds me that there is an actual Issue where redistribution of milk (albeit breast milk instead of cow milk) is an option. NS is crazy, man...
Nuremgard, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
Capitalism definitely is sustainable.
http://www.indymedia.ie/attachments/oct2007/sustainability.jpg
Lavan Tiri, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
There are stranger issues.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
Speaking of redistributing milk, have you heard the story of Salvador Allende the Wise? He just wanted to redistribute milk to children and improve the living conditions of the poor, but that was too communist for the CIA's liking, so they helped Pinochet overthrow the government of Allende in 1973. Over three thousand Chileans would die under Pinochet's rule, and millions more were impoverished because of the economic policies his regime pursued.
Lavan Tiri, Axeldonia
Indeed. You could say there are Stranger... Things.
I'm not here to re-litigate the whole CIA-Pinochet controversy, but I will say that Pinochet was indeed a brutal dictator, so I find it out that in some circles him, he's become something of an admiring meme (namely all the jokes about helicopters or throwing people out of helicopters). Even if it is ironic admiration, making light of the murder of countless people at the hands of a dictator isn't really a joking matter.
Nuremgard, Lavan Tiri, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Gualimole
You know what Chile and Latin America needs? To be ruled over by New Salvatore again. Onward Panhispanism!
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
Lucky you. I'll be spending it with Merc.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona, Percyton
Me and Tim can't be together-together on V-day, but we will be getting together this weekend.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona, Percyton
ghey :p
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
Fair enough.
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
I hope you got the joke.
I bought myself chocolate for Valentine's.
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Percyton
Good morning everyone. How are you all doing?
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Vista Major, Yukona, Percyton
Not bad. How are you?
A headline for New Salvatore: International observers praise rising political freedoms in New Salvatore. This happened after this:
Following new legislation, the public is free to vote for whomever the government wants in office.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Percyton
http://thecoffincofn.boards.net/thread/59/chambers-reform-act
Chambers Reform Amendment Act up for four-day debate.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia
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