I am 100% on board with this. I mean, Israel even gets to be on Eurovision, or anybody that wants to join Eurovision. Eurovision proves that we continentals are really flexible when it comes to the Eurovision. I'm just on board with the original comment about bringing the liquor and making our own country. I'm just so wondering where can we go? I want to be on board. Should we create a mailing list? I want to be on my own and happy, drinking with my fellow left-wing Europeans who are ready and willing to just be free and happy and not worry about what we have to say in public about people. Like, for example, I'm from Spain. Vox is mentally retarded and nostalgic for Franco and people like them here. What the hell? Fucking Spain has been free from Franco for like over 40 years, and I have to mingle with stupid assholes that are nostalgic for him? No thank you. I'd much prefer live in another country. That I made myself with people who are not nostalgic for fascism. You'd think people might learn some shit from history or whatever the fuck. They don't seem to. Some of them get all nostalgic for Franco. Fuck my life.
Also, I did not mention force. I very much expressed my desire to take anything over passively. Andorra, shopping. Monaco, gambling. No military. Just sphere of influence influencing and boom, over time, we got them taken over gradually and peacefully.
I replay and beat Super Mario Bros once a year just to remember summer, 1989: best friend who lived down the street used to come over to my house when I was home alone to play Super Mario Bros 3 with me because he couldn't have a nintendo. We beat that one together and we were rewarded with kudos from my gamer mom. Best day ever.
I said take it over, not obey the monarchy. The comment I'm replying to suggests creating our own country that is free of fascism. I proposed these two places because they are small and easy to take over peacefully by means of shopping and gambling. Ever hear of passive territorial expansion? That was my idea. You don't seem to indicate another place for us to go to that would be better, geographically speaking. Maybe an island? Maybe Ibiza? That would be cool. I wonder if you were a boring child. No imagination. I also wonder if you didn't understand my comment. I was like suggesting territorial takeover. Last time I looked, pretty much the entire European continent is occupied. Forming a new nation within Europe involves taking over a place. I picked a couple of small, easy to take over places with shopping, drinking and or gambling. And all of this is just silly, anyway. Reality must strike. This lovely plan ain't happening. The future is quite bleak.
The poor little landlords! They have to find something else to do with their lives besides sitting on their rear ends most of the month and laughing all the way to the bank once a month.
There are no Krishna people, either. Does anyone else remember seeing them outside the Boston Public Library in Copley Square back in the early 80s?
That is so not true! My German office mate from way back would drink ANY beer. And he was super fun. As a matter of fact, one time he brought Bud Light to a party I threw. He had issues with green peppers, though. Used to say, "Did you know that green peppers are just unripened red peppers?" I don't think that's a German thing. I think it was a him thing.
I'm older (49) and suckier, but I beat Super Mario Bros 1 to 3. I played Kirby and I don't know... I don't wish it was harder. Part of the fun was that it was easy I think.
Super Mario Bros 1 to 3. I was such a platforming nerd in the 80s and 90s. Sonic was so much more fun because it was harder than Super Mario.
I loved this novel. Like I said before, I love books that play with narration. I remember being so thrown off track by all the narrative voices and especially the cat! It's not just a story to read, it's a marvelous game to play while reading!
I've just started A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers. I saw it on the shelf at the library yesterday and said, "Hmmm, I remember when this came out and I forgot to read it." So, 24 years later I'm finally reading it. So far, it's really good. I enjoy books that are playful with the reader, self-aware narrators, etc. and this one starts that way right off the bat. You're even invited to send your copy of the book back to the publisher in exchange for something else! It's truly a heartbreaking story but with a huge sense of humor. *edit: Well, I finished AHWOSG faster than expected because I couldn't put it down all weekend. I've started two more: Salem's Lot by Stephen King and About Grace by Anthony Doerr.
It will force them to sell, which will perhaps make buying a home more affordable, so less people have to pay rent and more people pay a mortgage on a home they bought.