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  2. "Growing Pains" by Cole Parker

    in Readers Rule!

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    16 hours ago, James K said:

    And... telephone boxes are good... I've watched Dr Who!

    Sorry to disappoint, but the Tardis is a Police box. Telephone boxes are red.

     

    3 hours ago, Rutabaga said:

    We were talking about the fertile (or febrile) brain of Cole . . . 

    Yes we were, and we will. Brains are good... a zombie told me. I had one once - a brain, not a zombie. I'll go now.

  3. "Growing Pains" by Cole Parker

    in Readers Rule!

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    16 hours ago, James K said:

    I think it would be hard to write today's world for teenage protanganists unless you are young and surrounded by it.

    I'd have to agree. Write what you know - and extrapolate from it is my niche: Very 20th century. So sorry.

    Now, there is a generation that has always had smart technology, and can't conceive what it was like without it. I, for my sins, remember telephone boxes.

    16 hours ago, James K said:

    There are the British writers, obvious by the language and settings, but we (the readers) really know little about the authors.

    Why do you want to know about the authors, James? What difference does it make to the stories they tell? Either you enjoy them or you don't. It doesn't matter if they're a 300lb transvestite living in Ashby-de-la-Zouch and one finger typing, or a twink of twinks.
    The story is the thing... though (and this is a secret), I can say I'm a very cute Emu. :icon_geek:

    Fifteen Hundred Miles from the Sun by Jonny Garza Villa - Amazon UK

    Fifteen Hundred Miles from the Sun by Jonny Garza Villa - Amazon Com

     

    Apologies to Cole for this outrageous thread hijack.
    Regular service is now resumed.

     

  8. "Growing Pains" by Cole Parker

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    Trip: "I hadn’t known Slovenia and Slovakia were two different countries. But I learned that the former had been part of Yugoslavia, and Slovakia had been part of Czechoslovakia."

    What's more important is the why and when...

    The Balkan conflict, which was just as bad as the second world war, included shudderingly horrific ethnic cleansing.

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    Beginning in 1991, political upheavals in Bosnia and Herzegovina displaced about 2.7 million people by mid-1992, of which over 700,000 sought asylum in other European countries,  making it the largest exodus in Europe since World War II. It is estimated between 1.0 and 1.3 million people were uprooted in these ethnic cleansing campaigns, and that tens of thousands were killed.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yugoslav_Wars

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_cleansing_in_the_Bosnian_War

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnian_genocide

  13. "Growing Pains" by Cole Parker

    in Readers Rule!

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    1 hour ago, Nigel Gordon said:

    I don't think Camy actually wants the people, just the land. You can keep the people. We just need some land where we can put the Ulster Unionists once the reunification of Ireland takes place. The last place we want them is over here.

    You're quite right, Nigel. The land is the thing... and the banks. But no Ulster Unionists. They can, along with the entire cabinet, move to St. Helena.

    The Maryland diaspora can camp out in the grounds of Mar-a-Lago.

  14. "Growing Pains" by Cole Parker

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    10 hours ago, Cole Parker said:

    What's even more amusing than that is that the UN doesn't recognize the separate countries in the UK while the citizenry does!  It's sort of like Iowa deciding it was it's own country and asking for UN recognition. 

    Humph. You should watch 'Passport To Pimlico.' (a classic Ealing comedy) before you scoff at our eccentricity.

    Also, one of my ancestors apparently founded Maryland... and I'd like it back, if you'd be so kind.

  15. "Growing Pains" by Cole Parker

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    1 hour ago, Rutabaga said:

    So you’re going to leave us Yanks to try to figure out the difference between England and Great Britain?

    UK-map.jpg

    All four countries have their own parliaments, but they have limited power and are really run from London.

    The UK (United Kingdom / Great Britain) left the EU last year in what was termed Brexit. However, Ireland is still part of the EU, and Brexit means border controls between Ireland and Northern Ireland, which is upsetting the delicate balance achieved in the peace talks (which stopped the sectarian fighting - Catholics killing Protestants and visa versa).

    Leaving the largest trading block on the planet was plainly stupid, but that's politics for you...

  17. "Growing Pains" by Cole Parker

    in Readers Rule!

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    Sadly, the UK is four countries. And, after Brexit (which our poxy, rotten, Prime Minister stuffed up), Scotland now wants complete independence... not that it's going to get it.

    I don't mean to rain on the parade, but a 50 meter pool in the back garden... really? That's 160ish feet. HUGE! And 660.000 gallons of water. I wouldn't fancy paying to heat it.

    Other than those wee niggles, I is lurvin' it. :w00t:

     

  22. Raducana wins US Open!

    in News & Views

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    Emma Raducana, the British 18 year old, went to the US Open on spec as she wasn't ranked in the top 300. So first, she had to qualify to play...!

    During her phenomenal run to the final, where she played Canada'a 19 year old Leylah Fernandez, Raducana didn't drop a set. She won the final 6-4, 6-3.

    Thanks to Amazon Prime Video, who allowed the UK's Channel 4 to broadcast the final, I got to watch the match live.

    WOW!

     

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