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There is a group of islands known as the British Isles. I was wondering which alternative term I could use. I was very clear about that, and whether o...

That's all irrelevant to what I was originally saying. You misunderstood. I was referring to the island: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland Call th...

A helpful Euler diagram: /uploads/resized/files/eg/kwb79xgcoe9add22.jpg Note that this uses the controversial term "British Isles", which I do not end...

Ubik, no. That's one of his maddest isn't it?

I'm Scottish too and have noticed a change. You have misunderstood. I was not talking about the United Kingdom. I was talking, as I said, about Britai...

My relationship with Dick is ... complicated. I think highly of Castle and Sheep, but after trying some others I just got fed up with the bad writing....

I like weird too, so maybe it's the forgetfulness after all.

No thoughts from me, as I can't even remember it. How much that's forgettableness, and how much forgetfulness, I'm not sure.

What did you think? I thought I was a fan of theirs but since I read this and Hard to be a God a few years ago, I've forgotten everything about them. ...

Sticking with my self-imposed 200 word maximum and minimum, and again using "Seven days ago, ... Now, nobody will talk to me.": Seven days ago, at Lad...

@"Baden" I've been having trouble with Ireland lately, finding no easy way of referring to Britain and Ireland collectively without using the problema...

The use of "fanny" to refer to vulvas has faded under the irresistible pressure of American culture, but it is still used as a mild term of abuse in s...

Last week I had a dream in which I found out that my wife was already married, to a woman, and that she visited her a couple of times each week. I dem...

Excuse me while I skip the collaborative adventures of Ray... Exactly 200 words, one sentence aside from "Now, nobody will talk to me": Seven days ago...

Great to see the return of the mature Baden style. Amazing transformation. I hadn't expected such a complete and surprising rewrite. I was a bit confu...

Sounds promising. Will try.

I saw it when I was out tonight and thought "I guess it's waxing gibbous but it's so close to full that there should be another name for it". When I w...

Agreed.

:cool: :up:

Don't worry, the plot will get going in a couple of chapters. :lol: Seriously though, I never even found it slow when I was reading it. Just totally a...

Exactly.

Ah, but that's the point. It undermines the very concept of human nature.

Tabasco has plenty enough vinegar as it is. It always comes back to food eh.

If that were true, I would be eating my hat right now.

But after all, is brevity really the soul of wit?

More permissible permutations: "Is the child the father to Man" "The child is the father to Man" "To the man child is the father"

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Exactly.

He talks too fast. The Scottish accent is actually quite mild, but his delivery is so clumsy, breathless and fast that it sounds like gibberish. I had...

I now regret my unfavourable reaction to the South East English accent and my rant about Collins, for which I blame the Georgian wine I was drinking l...

I hesitated before posting those comments because I doubted my interpretations. Glad I overcame that. With the ending, I didn't work it out by thinkin...

Makes for the best milk!

Damn. No YouTube videos on how to say banana in Scots English. So now everyone thinks we all say banaaaawna. So angry right now.

Good point actually. Oddly enough I've been Americanized by Russians, because English-speaking Russians have been taught the American words and idioms...

Collins used to be a great dictionary, and they made a point of saying that their IPA pronunciations were based on Received Pronunciation. Back then t...

:vomit: I say it more like you than like that woman. She is representing south eastern English only.

@"john27" I didn't say anything before because I couldn't get my head around this story, but I do want to say that I liked the beginning a lot. It's r...

I like that.

"The Key" @"Tobias" Wow, great work. This was the one I didn't like at first but then fell in love with. :clap:

Ooft. Controversial.

I see. But the question is, if I absolutely do not want to run any marathons, do I have to avoid bananas?

Anyway unlike the French, I prefer a salty savoury breakfast. Having said that, I won't say no to a banana.

@"180 Proof" I got that too actually, it's just that I resisted it because it made me depressed. :grin: A testament to the author's skill, no doubt ab...

The natural sweetnesses of the oats and milk are enough for me :halo:

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Thanks! It's like he wrote himself. By the way @"Baden", isn't it time to reveal all the authors? Did I miss it?

Fascinating stuff. But I had a thought about this. I've noticed that I really like writing or talking about my own story, but I'm suspicious of the im...

:lol:

I for one would like to see the result. It would be like a writing masterclass.

Thanks! Aye he was a fun character to write, the easiest to write too, maybe cos he's some kind of comic archetype, I'm not sure.