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Region: The Confederacy of Free Nations
A federal UK but with the caveat of the home nations having a veto on federal matters, like how EU member states have.
Lex Caledonia
But England is split into Northern and Southern finally giving the North a voice
Lex Caledonia
Well it's either that or we dissolve the UK. I don't want Scotland being dragged into wars because England fancies playing the imperialist.
Was there ever a no-German policy?
It should be regional, with devolved state governments for regions like East Anglia, Lancashire and Merseyside(etc), Wessex, London, Northumbria and Cumbria - and so on
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica
There is no appetite for devolution or regionalisation in England unfortunately. And the Westminster mob would never give up power.
Penguania And Antarctica
*consults law books*
No, and you continue to be fine as long as youre the only German. Should another join the region, youll both only be allowed to stay if you agree to form a musical duet. Lucky you, as the primary resident you get first choice of whether youll play the spoons or the jug.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Percyton
Good lord! If you all had your way, the UK would be about as centralized as Belgium (i.e. not at all centralized). I'm not even sure if you could call such as devolved UK 'United' anymore. More like the Confederated Kingdom than the United Kingdom.
Penguania And Antarctica, The West Country
A Confederated Kingdom sounds much better. "United" just means Westminster, i.e. English MPs control everything.
No thank you.
[spoiler=Today is April 18 and today are:]
Today is April 18 and today are:
- Adult Autism Day
- Army Day (Iran)
- Coma Patients' Day (Poland)
- Friend's Day (Brazil)
- Independence Day (Zimbabwe)
- International Amateur Radio Day
- International Day For Monuments and Sites or World Heritage Day (UNESCO)
- International Juggler's Day
- Invention Day (Japan)
- National Animal Crackers Day (United States)
- National Banana Day (United States)
- National Columnists Day (United States)
- National Lineman Appreciation Day (United States)
- National Stress Awareness Day (United States)
- Pet Owners Independence Day
- Victory over the Teutonic Knights in the Battle of the Ice (Russia)
- Yom HaZikaron or Memorial Day (Israel)
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 0796 King Æthelred I of Northumbria is murdered in Corbridge by a group led by his ealdormen, Ealdred and Wada. The patrician Osbald is crowned, but abdicates within 27 days.
- 1025 Bolesław Chrobry is crowned in Gniezno, becoming the first King of Poland.
- 1506 The cornerstone of the current St. Peter's Basilica is laid.
- 1518 Bona Sforza is crowned as queen consort of Poland.
- 1521 Trial of Martin Luther begins its second day during the assembly of the Diet of Worms. He refuses to recant his teachings despite the risk of excommunication.
- 1689 Bostonians rise up in rebellion against Sir Edmund Andros.
- 1738 Real Academia de la Historia ("Royal Academy of History") is founded in Madrid.
- 1775 American Revolution: The British advancement by sea begins; Paul Revere and other riders warn the countryside of the troop movements.
- 1831 The University of Alabama is founded in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
- 1847 American victory at the battle of Cerro Gordo opens the way for invasion of Mexico.
- 1857 "The Spirits Book" by Allan Kardec is published, marking the birth of Spiritualism in France.
- 1864 Battle of Dybbøl: A Prussian-Austrian army defeats Denmark and gains control of Schleswig. Denmark surrenders the province in the following peace settlement.
- 1897 The Greco-Turkish War is declared between Greece and the Ottoman Empire.
- 1899 The St. Andrew's Ambulance Association is granted a Royal Charter by Queen Victoria.
- 1902 The 7.5 Mw Guatemala earthquake shakes Guatemala with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing between 8002,000.
- 1906 An earthquake and fire destroy much of San Francisco, California.
- 1909 Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome.
- 1912 The Cunard liner RMS Carpathia brings 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic to New York City.
- 1915 French pilot Roland Garros is shot down and glides to a landing on the German side of the lines during World War I.
- 1923 Yankee Stadium: "The House that Ruth Built" opens.
- 1942 World War II: The Doolittle Raid on Japan: Tokyo, Yokohama, Kobe and Nagoya are bombed.
- 1942 Pierre Laval becomes Prime Minister of Vichy France.
- 1943 World War II: Operation Vengeance, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is killed when his aircraft is shot down by U.S. fighters over Bougainville Island.
- 1945 Over 1,000 bombers attack the small island of Heligoland, Germany.
- 1946 The International Court of Justice holds its inaugural meeting in The Hague, Netherlands.
- 1949 Ireland leaves the British Commonwealth and becomes the Republic of Ireland.
- 1949 The keel for the aircraft carrier USS United States is laid down at Newport News Drydock and Shipbuilding. However, construction is canceled five days later, resulting in the Revolt of the Admirals.
- 1954 Gamal Abdel Nasser seizes power in Egypt.
- 1955 Twenty-nine nations meet at Bandung, Indonesia, for the first Asian-African Conference.
- 1980 The Republic of Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) comes into being, with Canaan Banana as the country's first President. The Zimbabwean dollar replaces the Rhodesian dollar as the official currency.
- 1983 A suicide bomber in Lebanon destroys the United States embassy in Beirut, killing 63 people.
- 1988 The United States launches Operation Praying Mantis against Iranian naval forces in the largest naval battle since World War II.
- 1992 General Abdul Rashid Dostum revolts against President Mohammad Najibullah of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan and allies with Ahmad Shah Massoud to capture Kabul.
- 1996 In Lebanon, at least 106 civilians are killed when the Israel Defense Forces shell the United Nations compound at Quana where more than 800 civilians had taken refuge.
- 2007 A series of bombings, two of them being suicides, occur in Baghdad, killing 198 and injuring 251.
- 2013 A suicide bombing in a Baghdad cafe kills 27 people and injures another 65.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 1480 Lucrezia Borgia, Italian daughter of Pope Alexander VI
- 1819 Michael Phelan, Irish-born American billiards player
- 1882 Leopold Stokowski, English conductor
- 1905 George H. Hitchings, American physician and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1907 Miklós Rózsa, Hungarian-American composer and conductor
- 1928 Otto Piene, German sculptor and academic
- 1940 Joseph L. Goldstein, American biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1942 Jochen Rindt, German-Austrian race car driver
- 1953 Rick Moranis, Canadian-American actor, comedian, singer and screenwriter
- 1964 Niall Ferguson, Scottish historian and academic
- 1971 David Tennant, Scottish actor
- 1973 Haile Gebrselassie, Ethiopian runner
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Quote of the day
Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.
- Ambrose Bierce (American Journalist, 1842-1914) -
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
That's unfair treatment. We have a massive amount of Americans and Britons. I'll forward a constitutional complaint to the Supreme Court because I think the principle of equal treatment as a basis of a modern society is violated by that decision. We should limit the amount of Americans and built up a wall to protect our borders. And we'll make them pay for it. :P
/jk
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Mercunova, Percyton, Driselbian Ambassador No 1
wait what
the heck is going on
Driselbian Ambassador No 1
The Scottish and Welsh governments both passed Brexit bills to protect their powers from being taken away by Westminster. But the UK government has launched a legal challenge to these bills, asserting it does have the right to take whatever powers it pleases.
Well, there's only one option should the courts rule in the english's favour...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcA4ffFNiAk
Nuremgard
Or this.
https://youtu.be/hamKl-su8PE?t=64
Axeldonia
YES! And then we can finally do away with the hegemony of the Eastern Time Zone once and for all!
NZST! NZST!
Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Or... Well...
https://youtu.be/wCTgUq6hzUk?t=32
Nuremgard
I f:^)cked my economy by being too liberal and democratic socialist :^(
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica, Driselbian Ambassador No 1
>socialist
>economy
pick one =^)))
Continental Commonwealths, Penguania And Antarctica, The West Country
111 minutes ago: Following new legislation in The West Country, the mining industry has taken a hit from tighter environmental regulations.
112 minutes ago: Following new legislation in The West Country, businesses that prove successful are immediately broken up.
These decisions may have something to do with it. :P Don't worry. Every country goes through bad times, especially economically. You'll sort it. And if not, the electorate will just vote you out. ;)
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
This guy. This guy can stay.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, The West Country, Driselbian Ambassador No 1
>When you think that socialism is Soviet-style central planning even though it actually is an economic system in which the workers own the means of production
Bearlong, Russkov Soviet, Nuremgard, Axeldonia, Driselbian Ambassador No 1
So Shazria forces companies to pay their fair share of taxes and employment goes down, the average income decreases and taxes go up.
Typical.
Axeldonia
What's with this game's propertarian biases?
Nuremgard, Axeldonia
I know. It's a pain in the posterior.
Axeldonia, Gualimole
I think that equating socialism with the Soviet Union is widely if not almost exclusively a US phenomenon. Canadas democratic socialist party formed HMs Official Opposition on the federal level from 2011 to 2015. My province has but two parties represented in the provincial legislature, one of which is democratic socialist. Not sure making jokes at the expense of the ideology equates to unequivocal ignorance on the subject, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The West Country, Driselbian Ambassador No 1
Are you referring to the NDP? Becuase while the NDP has socialist roots through the CCF, they currently are just a social democratic party that is to the left of the Liberals.
Bearlong, Axeldonia
The NDP are arguably more socialist on the provincial level than federally.
Continental Commonwealths
Elaborate.
Oh, is that who they are?!
Actually, the NDP are a blanket party for leftists, socialists, democratic socialists, social democrats, and even communists- they literally have a self-described communist in the House of Commons belonging to their party. A large portion of those who associate with the party, and particulary those associated with their prairie-based provincial affiliate parties, prefer to distinguish themselves as democratic socialists as opposed to social democrats. I was, afterall, a member of their parties in my youth on both the federal and provincial level. Various tenets of socialism are very much embraced be many who belong to and associate with these New Democrat parties.
And you are indeed correct that they grew out of the CCF and are traditionally left of the Liberals!
I'm an American who was born in Iraq. You don't have to be so condescending.
Sure, I get that. But Im a Canadian born in Canada whose been involved in Canadian politics for years prior to my even being allowed to vote. I welcome a discussion of Canadian politics- in fact, Id love to have one- but Im also gonna be forthright with you and say that if you try to correct me by implying that socialist tenets have pretty much dispersed from the New Democrats ideology since the dissolution of the CCF in the 60s, Im probably going to go off on that a bit.
We likely aren't going to have a discussion on Canadian politics any time soon in this region. What I have seen on my time in NS is that more left-wing regions have more Britons in their premises while more right-wing regions have more Canadians in their premises.
I have no idea. I just wanted to join in and sound smart.
So you're implying that you're not smart?
Well, Ill be here under the shade of this maple tree alongside Tommy Mulcair waiting for our relevance to resurface.
Lavan Tiri
At least there are some Canadians in this regions. Do you know how it feels to be the only Iraqi here?
Lavan Tiri
That is the correct implication, yes.
I miss Tom. Jagmeet is cool and all (and hawt 0w0), but I want daddy back.
You're from Iraq?!
Lavan Tiri, Driselbian Ambassador No 1
Ask Peng, because I'm pretty sure he's the only German here. Everyone else is either American, British, or Canadian (AFAIK). We may still have a few Australians lingering around, but I doubt it.
Lavan Tiri, Percyton, Driselbian Ambassador No 1
I do not. I imagine you could connect with our resident heterosexual and discuss the dynamics that come with being an overwhelming minority within the region.
I miss Tommy boy, and Im not even remotely left!
Also, you have a thing for Jagmeet, eh? Yeah, hes foxy. Apparently he has luscious, beautiful hair. Might challenge JT to a better hair contest one day.
Bearlong, Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri
Speak of the devil.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri
I was born in Baghdad and lived there for the first five years of my life, but had to leave for Jordan because the violence of post-war Iraq and the violent sectarianism and marred its capital city, Baghdad. What happened in that city is equivalent to a religious cleansing, which was especially bad for my family, who are Assyrian Christians.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri
You called?
Lavan Tiri, Continental Commonwealths
Vista said that we now have an LGBTQ+ minority and you're saying that we have an LGBTQ+ majority. I now believe in nothing.
Lavan Tiri
Jinxed!
Lavan Tiri, Continental Commonwealths, Percyton
Cut your loses and just quit believing in Vista.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri
Lavan Tiri
Hey! No snitchin!
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri
Can you blame me?
https://youtu.be/AsJO40JOhfI?t=1m51s
He is the one that keeps doing the census. More likely to know who he's able to chase after than to keep any actual statistics.
Well sh!t, mate. I have no response, tbh.
Lavan Tiri
Living in Jordan for a few years was okay, even though Amman was pretty polluted and the weather there was either too hot or too cold.
Lavan Tiri
Lavan Tiri
When will people simply working in Excel become gay porn?
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri
You jest, but...
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Gualimole
What is more arousing, Microsoft Word or Google Docs?
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri
Former Statistics major, can confirm. Also if you can either get me a) a hookup with one of your friends or b) a job at StatsCan, that'd be grand.
LaTeX. Hands down.
In other news, I've been doing my laundry during this entire conversation. I'm proud to annouce that i am finally done.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri
Now you owe him a soda.
Jaslandia, Percyton
I remember doing an LGBTQ+ Polandball for the region about a year or two ago, and more than half of our active members were on it.
My theory for the composition of the COFN is that most of the nations here are heterosexual, while most of the active members are LGBTQ+.
I mean, statistically more than likely, but it is an oddity that our active members, historically, have been part of the LGBTQ+ Community while our region doesn't advertise itself as an LGBTQ+ Region like some others on NS.
There's also the normality of how our region is a sausage fest, like the rest of NS.
I will purchase him one (1) pop in recompense. Should he refers to the beverage as soda during the exchange, however, I will make him eat it, can and all.
Jaslandia
An amendment to the Criminal Code has been moved to a vote. Find it here:
http://thecoffincofn.boards.net/thread/86/amendment-code-criminal-behaviour-act
There are also five other proposals being voted upon that will conclude tomorrow. Make sure to check them out, too:
http://thecoffincofn.boards.net/board/21/voting-hall
Jaslandia
Beep boop toot toot :D
Jaslandia, Percyton
What about referring to it as coke? Anyone who claims otherwise is getting the Roddy Piper Special by my hands.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/19/video-of-iran-morality-police-wrestling-with-woman-sparks-outrage
Islam. What a wonderful religion.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.express.co.uk/news/uk/799925/violent-crime-scotland-concern-murder-robbery-assault/amp
Scotland. What a wonderful place. ;p
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/apr/19/very-angry-badger-causes-part-of-scottish-castle-to-be-closed-to-public
BADGERS, WHAT UTTER C*NTS
Jaslandia
Jas is a notorious Mr. Pibb junkie. Even the fact that it is manufactured by the Coca-Cola Corporation will not keep you safe from his ire should you attempt to provide him a Coke, or refer to his precious beverage as such
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-abortion_violence#United_States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Rudolph
Christianity. What a wonderful religion.
Not saying I actually agree with that sentiment, just pointing out that all religions have their kooks and extremists who do horrible stuff. It just so happens that, for the time being, the extremists hold the power in many Muslim-majority countries.
I can accept that deal. I'm willing to make a sacrifice.
That, though is a bridge too far. Not all soda is coke. It's like referring to all cheese as 'cheddar cheese'. Cheddar is great and all, and I wouldn't mind eating cheddar cheese, but there's a whole world of cheese out there beside cheddar.
Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia
Mr. Pibb is good and all, but I don't have it that often. Although, Mr. Pibb and I do share a physician: Dr Pepper.
Penguania And Antarctica
Pibb Xtra is essentially my version of crack
Penguania And Antarctica
Mr Pibb is better than Dr Pepper
Penguania And Antarctica
Blasphemy!
https://youtu.be/fnyMUpPdVqw
Call me back when Mr. Pibb gets his doctorate, 'kay?
Penguania And Antarctica
My feet are quivering with rage
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Come at me, bro.
Penguania And Antarctica
Insolent child, your product is the drink of the Shaitan Iblis, Inshallah, I will have your head, you soft drink infidel.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
[spoiler=Today is April 19 and today are:]
Today is April 19 and today are:
- Army Day (Brazil)
- Beginning of the Independence Movement (Venezuela)
- Bicycle Day
- College Student Grief Awareness Day
- Dutch-American Friendship Day (United States)
- Give OUT Day
- First Day of Summer or Sumardagurinn fyrsti (Iceland)
- Holocaust Remembrance Day (Poland)
- Humorous Day
- Indian Day (Brazil)
- John Parker Day
- King Mswati III's birthday (Swaziland)
- Landing of the 33 Patriots Day (Uruguay)
- National Amaretto Day (United States)
- National Ask An Atheist Day (United States)
- National D.A.R.E. Day (United States)
- National Garlic Day (United States)
- National Get to Know Your Customers Day (United States)
- National Hanging Out Day (United States)
- National High Five Day (United States)
- National North Dakota Day (United States)
- National Oklahoma City Bombing Commemoration Day (United States)
- National Rice Ball Day (United States)
- Poetry And The Creative Mind Day
- Primrose Day (England)
- Yom HaAtzmaut (Israel)
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- AD65 The freedman Milichus betrays Piso's plot to kill the Emperor Nero and all the conspirators are arrested.
- 0531 Battle of Callinicum: A Byzantine army under Belisarius is defeated by the Persians at Raqqa (northern Syria).
- 0797 Empress Irene organizes a conspiracy against her son, the Byzantine emperor Constantine VI. He is deposed and blinded. Shortly after, Constantine dies of his wounds; Irene proclaims herself basileus.
- 1012 Martyrdom of Ælfheah in Greenwich, England.
- 1529 Beginning of the Protestant Reformation: After the Second Diet of Speyer bans Lutheranism, a group of rulers (German: Fürst) and independent cities protests the reinstatement of the Edict of Worms.
- 1539 Treaty of Frankfurt signed
- 1608 In Ireland: O'Doherty's Rebellion is launched by the Burning of Derry
- 1677 The French army captures the town of Cambrai held by Spanish troops.
- 1713 With no living male heirs, Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 to ensure that Habsburg lands and the Austrian throne would be inherited by his daughter, Maria Theresa (not actually born until 1717).
- 1770 Captain James Cook, still holding the rank of lieutenant, sights the eastern coast of what is now Australia.
- 1770 Marie Antoinette marries Louis XVI of France in a proxy wedding.
- 1775 American Revolutionary War: The war begins with an American victory in Concord during the battles of Lexington and Concord.
- 1782 John Adams secures the Dutch Republic's recognition of the United States as an independent government. The house which he had purchased in The Hague, Netherlands becomes the first American embassy.
- 1809 An Austrian corps is defeated by the forces of the Duchy of Warsaw in the Battle of Raszyn, part of the struggles of the Fifth Coalition. On the same day the Austrian main army is defeated by a First French Empire Corps led by Louis-Nicolas Davout at the Battle of Teugen-Hausen in Bavaria, part of a four-day campaign that ended in a French victory.
- 1810 Venezuela achieves home rule: Vicente Emparán, Governor of the Captaincy General is removed by the people of Caracas and a junta is installed.
- 1839 The Treaty of London establishes Belgium as a kingdom and guarantees its neutrality.
- 1861 American Civil War: Baltimore riot of 1861: A pro-Secession mob in Baltimore attacks United States Army troops marching through the city.
- 1892 Charles Duryea claims to have driven the first automobile in the United States, in Springfield, Massachusetts.
- 1903 The Kishinev pogrom in Kishinev (Bessarabia) begins, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in Palestine and the Western world.
- 1927 Mae West is sentenced to ten days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex.
- 1942 World War II: In Poland, the Majdan-Tatarski ghetto is established, situated between the Lublin Ghetto and a Majdanek subcamp.
- 1943 World War II: In Poland, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins, after German troops enter the Warsaw Ghetto to round up the remaining Jews.
- 1954 The Constituent Assembly of Pakistan recognises Urdu and Bengali as the national languages of Pakistan.
- 1956 Actress Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier of Monaco.
- 1960 Students in South Korea hold a nationwide pro-democracy protest against president Syngman Rhee, eventually forcing him to resign.
- 1971 Sierra Leone becomes a republic, and Siaka Stevens the president.
- 1971 Launch of Salyut 1, the first space station.
- 1971 Charles Manson is sentenced to death (later commuted to life imprisonment) for conspiracy in the TateLaBianca murders.
- 1973 The Portuguese Socialist Party is founded in the German town of Bad Münstereifel.
- 1984 Advance Australia Fair is proclaimed as Australia's national anthem, and green and gold as the national colours.
- 1985 Two hundred ATF and FBI agents lay siege to the compound of the white supremacist survivalist group The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord in Arkansas; the CSA surrenders two days later.
- 1987 The Simpsons first appear as a series of shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show, first starting with Good Night.
- 1989 A gun turret explodes on the USS Iowa, killing 47 sailors.
- 1993 The 51-day FBI siege of the Branch Davidian building outside Waco, Texas, USA, ends when a fire breaks out. Eighty-one people die.
- 1995 Oklahoma City bombing: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, USA, is bombed, killing 168.
- 1997 The 1997 Red River flood overwhelms the city of Grand Forks, North Dakota. Fire breaks out and spreads in downtown Grand Forks, but high water levels hamper efforts to reach the fire, leading to the destruction of 11 buildings.
- 1999 The German Bundestag returns to Berlin.
- 2005 Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is elected to the papacy and becomes Pope Benedict XVI.
- 2011 Fidel Castro resigns as First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba after holding the title since July 1961.
- 2013 Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev is killed in a shootout with police. His brother Dzhokhar is later captured hiding in a boat inside a backyard in the suburb of Watertown.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 1793 Ferdinand I of Austria
- 1832 José Echegaray, Spanish poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1932 Fernando Botero, Colombian painter and sculptor
- 1933 Jayne Mansfield, American model and actress
- 1937 Joseph Estrada, Filipino politician, 13th President of the Philippines
- 1942 Frank Elstner, German television presenter
- 1952 Alexis Argüello, Nicaraguan boxer and politician
- 1966 Oliver Welke, German television presenter, actor, comedian and sports journalist
- 1972 Rivaldo, Brazilian footballer
- 1978 James Franco, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1981 Hayden Christensen, Canadian-American actor and producer
- 1987 Maria Sharapova, Russian tennis player
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Quote of the day
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
- A. J. Liebling (American Journalist, 1904-1963) -
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, Kalaron, Mercunova, Percyton, The British Islands Confederacy
We do not negotiate with terrorists. If I were to stop drinking Dr Pepper, then the terrorists would win.
Interesting. I wonder if it's a coincidence then that Raul Castro resigned as President of Cuba today.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/miguel-d-az-canel-becomes-cuba-s-president-ra-l-n867021
Castro is still First Secretary though, so maybe less of a coincidence than I thought.
Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
I keep increasing taxes, making more people unemployed, decreasing the size of various industries and decreasing the average income of people in Shazria - all because I dare to impose safety standards on companies, crack down on tax avoidance and put a trade embargo on a nation with environmentally harmful practices.
Well I'm very sorry for trying to look after my subjects' best interests.
Penguania And Antarctica
What about me? I'm the only tank engine here! Everyone else is either a tender engine (James, Duke, and Donald and Douglas), or isn't a steam engine at all (human, equine, penguin, etc.).
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Hey I resent that! I was a great king! It was the Supreme Council, I tell you! They always got in my way, and then voted me out before my agenda could be fully implemented.
I don't think tender vs. tank engine makes much of a difference. Either way, us steam engines are in the minority in this region, and I think THAT'S the more relevant factor.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
I guess. Still, I think even on the Internet there's something that sets us tank engines apart. Even if it's not a big difference, it's still a difference. We go through different things than tender engines, you know?
Gordon: If your 'agenda' was self-promotion, incompetent economic policies, and unpopular criminal justice, then it deserved to be blocked, and you deserved to be voted out! Be grateful you managed to land on your wheels after your debacle, and that you now get to be Minister of Justice.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Anniversary of the battle of Lexington and Concord folks. Hope y'all are having as great a day as I. :D
Russkov Soviet, Au Minbo, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova
Are any of yall participating in the walkout tomorrow? I am.
Penguania And Antarctica
Nope, I don't have classes on friday and I wouldn't anyways.
Penguania And Antarctica
My class is about 2hrs 55mins, also I'm sure my Composition teacher might talk about that
Penguania And Antarctica
Starbucks, oh you lol
Stop virtue signalling.
Happy 4/20 my dudes
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Continental Commonwealths, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Percyton, The West Country
How is everyone today?
Percyton, Midasia
Doing good: I'm guessing today's a bit of an awkward day that'll be explained in the DIP.
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
I have prepared a speech to give to the people walking out. I am nervous.
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica
What's that walkout you talk about?
Lavan Tiri
Every day is awkward. But you seem to misunderstood me. I meant you can read more about it in the DIP is that you can discover more birthdays in the DIP.
Lavan Tiri
It is for school safety and for gun safety.
Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, The West Country
Its the anniversary of the Columbine High School shooting, Peng, and I believe student leaders chose this date to stage nationwide walkouts to protest the lack of action on gun control as a result.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Midasia
But its also 4/20 and Hitlers birthday, so theres just a whole range of emotions associated with this date.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova
Well thank you Mr Kanada
Lavan Tiri
Ah ok
Lavan Tiri, Midasia
My brothers birthday
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Driselbian Ambassador No 1
It is with great pleasure that we announce the engagement of His Imperial Highness Archduke Valerian to Andrei Fedorov, the son of the esteemed ambassador to our dear friend and ally Mercunova. The two shall be wed in the summer month of June and upon their marriage, Andrei will assume all titles, styles, privileges and responsibilities that his new imperial dignity shall demand.
May they live long and prosper!
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Percyton, Midasia, Driselbian Ambassador No 1
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