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by nephihaha 2mo ago
I tried a couple of locations in Scotland, and couldn't get one of them work at all. It says there is no bus service in Sleat in the Isle of Skye, even though there is one linking the ferry terminal with other parts of the island, and
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I was glad I travelled in the 80s and even the 90s. I got to see different places. Now mamy of them feel like variants of the same place. Even the rebellious subcultures are the same. I use to run into bores obsessed with Jim Morrison and
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Got to say I agree with this. Contrarians can be an annoyance, but someone's got to point out the Emperor's got no clothes on.
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By analogy with another type of football, i.e. rugby football which was nicknamed rugger in the old days. Soccer was always a nickname, and association football the formal name.
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Laziness. There's another one.
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I'm not a veggie, but I do think bomb fishing is a horrific idea. Let alone commercially.
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For me, I'm surprised to see people proposing conformist views and trying to push whatever the establishment is pushing.
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He would love the image editing though.
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The UK public didn't trust G4S, but they kept getting contracts.
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It's declined fast over the last twenty years under Labour and Tories alike. Social media has played its part too.
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The more I travel the less I experience different places and cultures. We're being turned into the same place and same culture, and it is sad.
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Up to a point. Hostels are very irritating now in that there is always someone on their phone at all hours lighting up the entire room. Also some noise issues. I find quieter hostels much better. When I was over in Ireland, the ones in Belf
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by nephihaha 2mo ago
Throughout the developed world, small towns and the countryside are developed. It seems clear that cities are preferred (probably because it's easy to control people in concentrated areas.) People like Bill Gates would prefer the count
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Many of them won't care about Spanish culture or care about the locals. I agree with your assessment.
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Scots law is actually a separate issue from the current Scottish Parliament, in fact it was used as one of the arguments for having one. I remember it being set up: I voted for it. The UK constitution, if it can be called such, is made up o
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by nephihaha 2mo ago
The French never took over all of Europe. Though they came as close as anyone did. France was a large state, but within easy reach of a number of much smaller ones such as the German and Italian states. The Russian and the British Empires m
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by nephihaha 2mo ago
The UK is a state, but arguable as a nation from certain points of view. It is not a federal system as some think it is. In fact, even the relatively recent UK supreme court may very well be unconstitutional. France has been more heavy-hand
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by nephihaha 2mo ago
You are confusing two separate issues here. Apart from the fact Scotland has its own legal system within the UK, we are talking about whether it is a nation. In terms of people's identity, it is not really a full nation state. The Scot
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by nephihaha 2mo ago
The UN runs UNESCO, UNHCR, UNICEF and the WHO who have all influenced the direction of countries. The 2020 lockdown across the world was on WHO advice.
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Put it this way. I am Scottish, and when people say somewhere like the UK is a "nation state", I'm sceptical. Scottish attitudes towards the UK range from total attachment to total alienation, but with the majority maintainin
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See what I mean?
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All of Thailand's neighbours to the north fell to Communism. There was a major attempt to make Malaya (as was) Communist as well, which failed. However, I'm sceptical of the term nation state. I don't consider France to be a
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by nephihaha 2mo ago
It depends whether one considers Thailand to have been part of informal empire or not, much like the British influence over Portugal, Chile and Argentina. Either way, Thailand was also a Cold War hold out. It bordered Cambodia, Laos and Bur
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by nephihaha 2mo ago
J.G. Ballard was not an American. He grew up in China and spent most of his life in the UK. He has a very subtle British sensibility to a lot of his work.
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Touch of Phillip K. Dick.
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Careful. The last time I mentioned this issue I got told off for it!!!
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Some of them put knowledge ahead of wisdom, but certainly intelligence also allows you to see the faults of the world and can create a pessimistic outlook.
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Opposite of Wetherspoons then.
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The jury is out on quipu. There are very primitive tribes which use some forms of writing, which I would not count as having a civilisation.
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That is my experience too. I am constantly being recommended ragebait, which is designed to take me into some form of extremism or another. The one small mercy is that most of it is so unsubtle I see it for what it is. The other stuff it re

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