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Never been asked that. They have puns and word-play so it's kind of similar to ours. They lack the desolate, embracing-of-the-void style gallows humour of the Europeans though. So for instance, they have a finite number of word sounds, or syllables; English has as many as you can think of, but they're forced to combine the same sounds to make different meanings. Their verb for 'to be' is 'shi'. Shi can also (out of context) mean city, a grammatical particle, certain animals, and the number 10. Therefore, there is a Chinese poem that is made up entirely of the syllable 'shi'. It's multiple lines long, is ridiculous, but actually makes sense. The Chinese find it hilarious: Transcript (traditional Chinese): 《施氏食獅史》 石室詩士施氏，嗜獅，誓食十獅。 氏時時適市視獅。 十時，適十獅適市。 是時，適施氏適市。 氏視是十獅，恃矢勢，使是十獅逝世。 氏拾是十獅屍，適石室。 石室濕，氏使侍拭石室。 石室拭，氏始試食是十獅。 食時，始識是十獅屍，實十石獅屍。 試釋是事。 Phonetically spelled: « Shī Shì shí shī shǐ » Shíshì shīshì Shī Shì, shì shī, shì shí shí shī. Shì shíshí shì shì shì shī. Shí shí, shì shí shī shì shì. Shì shí, shì Shī Shì shì shì. Shì shì shì shí shī, shì shǐ shì, shǐ shì shí shī shìshì. Shì shí shì shí shī shī, shì shíshì. Shíshì shī, Shì shǐ shì shì shíshì. Shíshì shì, Shì shǐ shì shí shì shí shī. Shí shí, shǐ shí shì shí shī, shí shí shí shī shī. Shì shì shì shì. Translation: « Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den » In a stone den was a poet called Shi, who was a lion addict, and had resolved to eat ten lions. He often went to the market to look for lions. At ten o'clock, ten lions had just arrived at the market. At that time, Shi had just arrived at the market. He saw those ten lions, and using his trusty arrows, caused the ten lions to die. He brought the corpses of the ten lions to the stone den. The stone den was damp. He asked his servants to wipe it. After the stone den was wiped, he tried to eat those ten lions. When he ate, he realized that these ten lions were in fact ten stone lion corpses. Try to explain this matter.

Does anyone seriously believe that we aren't talking about two sides of the same coin in the New Labour/Tory discussion? http://www.academia.edu/5373503/Blair_s_New_Labour_and_the_power_of_the_neoliberal_consensus https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/dec/04/gordon-browns-legacy-rampant-neoliberalism

...? New Labour were pro austerity too, weren't they?

This is why it makes no fucking difference who you vote for in the establishment

...or maybe he wasn't less of a Neocon...

I have completely and utterly lost track of the CT references in here. Do you have to be a regular reader of the Food thread to get a lot of this?

It's a fair point - maybe the Guardian didn't release it in time for his planned speech. I can't imagine Corbyn is great at picking things up on the fly like that. I think this will run on for weeks though, so he'll have plenty of other opportunities.

I was just referring back to my other point... That you can be both Neocon and Neoliberal because one is a foreign policy strategy and the other is the prevailing ideology in all Western countries. Bill Clinton was less Neocon than many other presidents, but all recent ones have been Neoliberal.

That's Neoconservatism

There are no words...

The standard of jokes on here has been shocking recently. Worse than usual and that's saying something.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/oct/26/jeremy-corbyn-attacks-theresa-may-at-pmqs-over-lack-of-brexit-strategy Labour seem to be finally getting their act together on this, sounds like they've really gone for May in PMQs today. Nice to see the party pulling the same way.

Maybe... fair enough if I'm wrong about this. Did the US have troops on the ground?

Good analysis

Wasn't that bombing? Bombing, ridiculously, doesn't count as 'war'.

Has he been moping like? Not been paying much attention but I don't think I heard anything to suggest that.

Does sound good tbf.

Tbf, there was Chez's proposed model which looked like something you'd find while calculating derivatives in the banking sector. Simplicity won out in the end though.

It's one point for a correct 'goals conceded' and one point for a correct 'goals scored'. That's all there is to it as far as I know?

Hm. Still though, the younger generations should absolutely be making this a priority. It's hard to say they can blame the old if they didn't vote. I reserve the right to blame the old because I do vote though

I hadn't seen it, so thanks. Encouraging to read; maybe the government will move to that position. The real difficulty IMO is that I don't see what they can possibly say to the Leave crowd if they have to accept any form of immigration. How do you 'spin' that?

Fair points HF. The club needs much better management in a business sense, and many of those things you've mentioned wouldn't cost a fortune to fix so its lethargy if it's anything. We probably need an upgrade on Charnley as well. He's the Pardew of the administration side. Actually that might be generous. The John Carver of the same, perhaps...

Sounds to me like Mourinho is lining up an escape already... https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/oct/25/jose-mourinho-manchester-united-manager-disaster-hotel