Profile for Talent in a Previous Life
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| Member number | 3098 |
| Title | This Side Towards Enemy |
| Postcount | 961 |
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| Registered | Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Friday, September 24 2004 07:38
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Anything by Paradox Entertainment. That means Europa Universalis, Europa Universalis 2, Hearts of Iron, Victoria (I haven't played it, but Alec recommends it) and Crusader Kings (which I haven't played but seems to be Medieval: TW without real time combat and with a brain.) -------------------- Voice of Reasonable Morality Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
| Peaches and Ice Cream in General | |
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written Wednesday, September 22 2004 10:21
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Personally, I have no desire to spend several thousands pounds on such a device (for in Britain, it would be so) when the national health service gives me my insulin and delivery service free. Then again, if you get yours for free, good luck to you. I'm still happy to stick with injections. [ Wednesday, September 22, 2004 10:22: Message edited by: I Would Pay Your Wergild ] -------------------- Voice of Reasonable Morality Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
| Paralympics in General | |
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written Wednesday, September 22 2004 10:15
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It's a high school programming competition. I wouldn't say it's at the same level as the Paralympics or Olympics and more than an athletics competition for high school children is. -------------------- Voice of Reasonable Morality Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
| Binge Drinking in General | |
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written Wednesday, September 22 2004 10:13
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I don't like terrible European lagers like Heineken and Grolsch. I will drink them but I have no desire to drink very much, so I stick to them if I don't want to get drunk. English lagers like Carling are piss. Budweiser, Miller and all their variants aren't ever worth it. That's not to say I dislike beer. There are plenty of bitters I like and I'm very fond of real ale. I rather like wine, although I don't consume much. The occasional glass at family meals, that kind of thing. Alcopops are to be avoided, since the taste of the alcohol is hidden. I don't like sugary drinks and I can't tell how much alcohol is entering my system. So I avoid them all round. Stick to vodka and diet lemonade or just straight vodka instead. I've never heard of anything like David's Slovakian drink, although I did once have a mixture of coke and red wine which is allegedly a Serbo-Croat specialty. Treat it like a better-tasting cider, that's my advice. -------------------- Voice of Reasonable Morality Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
| Paralympics in General | |
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written Tuesday, September 21 2004 13:54
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I'm told that this year no channel in the US is showing any coverage of the Paralympics, in contrast to much of the rest of the world and in contrast to the situation in 2002, 2000 and previous years. Why exactly has this happened, what do you think about this and on a wider note, what do you think about the concept of the paralympics? -------------------- Voice of Reasonable Morality Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Tuesday, September 21 2004 13:51
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The pump? Never heard of it. Just the standard four injections a day. Besides, I would prefer and frequently do just to eat two or three helpings of my main meal than to have a dessert. A fun evening for me is eating half a saucepan of leftover chilli con carne. -------------------- Voice of Reasonable Morality Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
| Binge Drinking in General | |
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written Tuesday, September 21 2004 09:31
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Binge drinking is defined as drinking more than 3 units of alcohol in one sitting. Since the recommended maximum number of units is 21 per week and since that figure was largely devised by picking a number out of the air and halving it, there is a plausible argument that far too much is defined as binge drinking. That said, the major problem is underage drinking. In our towns and cities on Friday nights, half the drinkers will be 14 year old girls trying to make themselves insensible as fast as possible. Why are they doing this and why are their less underage male drinkers (and those usually closer to the legal drinking age?) It's most likely the desire to grow up, and there aren't so many males because a boy wearing a low cut top isn't any more likely to be served by an impressionable young barman. Except in more rareified circles. Myself, I don't go out drinking in town. I don't wish to worry about transport home, buying drinks in pubs is expensive and when I'm 6 months short of legally being able to drink there's really little point in going out and trying to do it illicitly. If I want to drink, it's far preferable to do it sensibly in my own home or self destructively at a friend's party. One other factor of heavy drinking is the early closing of our pubs and bars (last orders is usually 11.) This can lead to people trying to drink as much as possible as fast as possible rather than drinking slower in the knowledge that they have as much time as they need. Yet another is the fact that historically England has had a culture of heavy drinking. -------------------- Voice of Reasonable Morality Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
| Peaches and Ice Cream in General | |
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written Tuesday, September 21 2004 09:20
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Yes, type 1. Do I really seem like I've hit 40? I may not be allergic to sugar but eating large amounts of it is a bad idea and I much prefer just to minimise its impact on my diet than to eat as much of it as I might once have done (which was never very much) and have to try and fail to vary my insulin dosage to maintain normal levels. And I now find I do not enjoy the taste of some sweet things such as chocolate half as much as I once did. -------------------- Voice of Reasonable Morality Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Tuesday, September 21 2004 09:10
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quote:It involves drawing as many crude sketches upon a classmate's work whilst they are looking the other way as possible. For extra marks, draw on hairs afterward. -------------------- Voice of Reasonable Morality Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Monday, September 20 2004 11:50
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I don't go in for anything more artistic than the occasional game of speedknob in a boring maths lesson. -------------------- Voice of Reasonable Morality Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Monday, September 20 2004 11:48
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I'm not terribly keen on biscuits - diabetes tends to mean that your sweet tooth declines due to a less sugary diet. However, as far as desserts go I would put in a word for Greek yoghurt. It's actually eaten at breakfast, but it's undeniably got more in common with a dessert, particularly when draped in honey. And it's delicious. -------------------- Voice of Reasonable Morality Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Monday, September 20 2004 11:44
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I can't send you and ready links. I can give you some anecdotal stuff. For example, on both Friday and Saturday night, I think I was technically binge drinking. -------------------- Voice of Reasonable Morality Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Thursday, September 16 2004 09:24
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I'm happy to cut down on the images. I also think we should make an effort to getting the GCHS competition back on track. For a start, I'm proposing that we should separate the poetry and image competitions, if we even keep the former. And we should start getting the first entries up soon. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: Never Proved to Be a Contributory Factor to Stomach Cancer Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Thursday, September 16 2004 09:21
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I'm not going to link it in directly, but it is appropriate click here -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: Never Proved to Be a Contributory Factor to Stomach Cancer Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
| How Low Can You Go? Yet another 'I'm Back' topic... in General | |
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written Thursday, September 16 2004 09:08
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It's not impossible to counterfeit a twenty. It's just probably not worth the effort. Haggling isn't dead, FBM. There are places called Cash Converters. -------------------- Voice of Reasonable Morality Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Thursday, September 16 2004 09:04
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Creator is an Australian. And I think Saunders has a custom title. And I count 3 Americans (presumably 4, but I'm not certain of Icshi's nationality.) -------------------- Voice of Reasonable Morality Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
| How Low Can You Go? Yet another 'I'm Back' topic... in General | |
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written Wednesday, September 15 2004 11:20
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Granted, but for those who like lots of fancy electronic toys and designer clothes and the like, shopping in America has now started to make economic sense since the weak dollar more than makes up for the flight's cost. Imperial measurements still lurk to a surprisingly large extent in British society. They have to, since trying to make my grandparents' generation adapt to metric would drive a psychopathic killer to floods of tears. Keeping road signs in miles per hour means that pensioners don't get confused and go 110mph rather than kph. Things like furlongs only survive in horse racing and the chain (10 in a furlong, 80 in a mile) is regrettably almost entirely gone. The nautical mile or knot is still going strong, since there are few groups so reactionary as sailors. Nevertheless, everybody measures their height in feet and inches and their weight in stones. Although it now displays it on the pump in litres, people still talk of gallons of petrol and as long as milk is delivered in bottles, people will talk of the pint. -------------------- Voice of Reasonable Morality Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
| A few questions about Galactic core in Richard White Games | |
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written Saturday, September 11 2004 13:30
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written Thursday, September 9 2004 12:38
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A flame is a personal attack, no matter how serious or offensive. Your post was clearly a personal attack on Ben and his perceived lack of intelligence. Hence, you do flame. Nevertheless, you have much to learn. I recommend finding a role model. Joan of Arc and Nicholas Ridley are both names that spring to mind. -------------------- Voice of Reasonable Morality Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Thursday, September 9 2004 12:25
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I think you misunderstand me, AM. It's not that I do not wish to achieve anything, it's that beyond degree level I don't have a clue. This in itself needn't present a problem, as very large numbers of jobs do not require a specific degree. Which is a relief, as there aren't many places that my university applications (for Ancient History and various subjects relating to Dark Age Britain) lead directly on to. -------------------- Voice of Reasonable Morality Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Thursday, September 9 2004 12:19
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 Silence, mortal. -------------------- Voice of Reasonable Morality Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Thursday, September 9 2004 12:13
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I'm not a big fan of mobiles. I don't particularly care for being contacted on the move, attempting to type a text message of a reasonable length is not comfortable for your fingers (and I don't have the patience or inclination to learn how to use predictive text) and it's not as easy to ignore people as it is on an IM. I do have a mobile, since it's difficult to be a British teenager and not possess one. Nevertheless, the purchase of it was not my choice, I picked the cheapest model on sale and use it sparingly (mostly as an alarm clock and when I miss the last cheap bus.) I'd complain about the cost, but I have no idea of the average mobile to mobile tariff these days and I've only ever bought £10 of credit on it anyway (I've spent the past year and a bit working my way through £30 stuck on by my parents when they wished to use it abroad, before discovering it wasn't compatible. I think I'm down to about £22 now.) -------------------- Voice of Reasonable Morality Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Thursday, September 9 2004 10:55
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I used to go to the Tendring Show, an agricultural fair in my part of Essex. Animal shows (dogs, sheep, goats, rabbits, poultry, rats etc.,) various field sports demonstrations, particularly in the main arena (bloodhounds, carriage driving, falconing, demonstrations of how to reload a shotgun cartridge and the like,) an exhibition of work from the schools of the district, old cars, new car dealers, cheap sunglasses and camping equipment, tractors and the like. Not really my kind of thing. I haven't seen much like it anywhere else and I think its survival is mostly due to the fact that the area is rich enough that the locals haven't been priced out of the house market but we're just far enough out of the commuter belt for people to actually feel they have a connection with the land. It's still fairly small, however. It pales into insignificance compared with a major music festival. -------------------- Voice of Reasonable Morality Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Thursday, September 9 2004 10:44
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They were talking about MSN messenger, Ben. The chat client, not the website that's about as much fun as stabbing yourself in the face. -------------------- Voice of Reasonable Morality Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Saturday, September 4 2004 12:53
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Nico, I have a stutter myself. I wouldn't even consider such a career. Most specific careers require a specific degree and/or A-levels. A large proportion of those require said qualifcations to be in some form of science. I neither have nor want to have these. As to the rest, I absolutely do not want to be an accountant, an actuary or the like and if there's one thing my parents' legal work has taught me it's that I don't want a career in the law. Pretty much everything else doesn't require anything specific. This, and the fact that being aimless allows me to pick the course I want to do, not the course that would be most beneficial looking ahead, mean that I consider a lack of ambition a positive benefit. -------------------- Voice of Reasonable Morality Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
