Banning anyone permanently from anything is never a good idea imo :I But cheats always want “another chance” & have learned to expect it. I once warned a salesman I’d get up & leave if he lied to me during the sales pitch & that I would ask questions to which I knew the true answer. He did & I quie...

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Yep, Boris will get it done & UK will prosper anyway under renewed leadership. The whole Brexit fiasco should have been avoidable, but in truth the damage was done way before the 2016 referendum. We’ve had 30+ years of poor leadership in UK (since Maggie dragged us out of the awful 70’s). It’s a sha...

diplomat61 wrote: ↑

Wed Jul 24, 2019 10:18 am

Octavious wrote: ↑

Wed Jul 24, 2019 8:58 am

Indeed so, like when you want to say something rude about the French people on the table next to you, but there's too high a probability that they speak English.

Since when was that a problem?

Balki Bartokomous wrote: ↑

Tue Jul 23, 2019 3:53 am

Okay, okay, I’ll say it. This is rude and obnoxious.

Agreed

An excellent piece written by Stressedlines. I’m a legal immigrant to USA (from Europe) as is my wife (from Latin America). Green card in hand on arrival at LAX (as it should be) either in the 60’s in my wife’s case, or 90’s for me. Both citizens now. However aside from that, I read an excellent pie...

I don't know how to reconcile this for you. Your idea of what is fun and what isn't is yours and yours alone. My idea of fun is playing an unbroken game. 1) There will always be broken games. In one game I'm in (242303), two of the biggest countries just NMRd. One was replaced by an experienced pla...

Here’s something I can share that will reestablish faith wonderful places still exist. I left UK a disillusioned young man for Africa at 24 & lost my heart. Africa then was beyond wonderful & the nature breathtaking. I lived there for over 12 years, but politics being what it is, a return to UK, th...

Here’s something I can share that will reestablish faith wonderful places still exist. I left UK a disillusioned young man for Africa at 24 & lost my heart. Africa then was beyond wonderful & the nature breathtaking. I lived there for over 12 years, but politics being what it is, a return to UK, the...

Restitution wrote: ↑

Tue Jul 16, 2019 10:55 pm

I'm pretty sure Senlac is coming at this from a weird ideological position...

“Brilliant” (as we Brits say). I’ll leave this thread on that note. It became a tad polluted, when it had been doing so well.

The important part that we forget about the women's equality movement was that it actually gave women a choice (e.g. Margaret Sanger was one of ten children, her mother died in her eighteenth pregnancy). Some women make the wrong decisions...but they are entitled to make as many bad decisions as we...

I never said it was “just because” anything. Just that living in an expensive place is an important criteria when considering load upon an expected income. I also never criticise the priorities of others (a totally pointless exercise). My comments on this thread are limited to helping good decision ...

Wow, this thread took a turn for the worse while I wasn’t looking. Usual adversarial BS. It’s kind of interesting because it touches on the whole new ball game that is “family life” in places mentioned such as SF & NY. My father’s comments to me (& mine to Flum) were based on the audience being male...

A quick comment on the superb quality advice I’m reading here. So often I read “advise” & think the author should not be allowed to potentially damage the lives of their listeners! Here we have some great principles. Life is too short to base all your decisions on your own mistakes or successes. The...

I’ll give you my father’s advise that worked well for me. He said there are 3 things in life that require a large income; 1. Responsibility for others (ie. the family you are referring to). 2. Living in an expensive place (for us London). 3. Being in debt (for most folks their mortgage). He said try...

You might be fine with it in your one game, but playing 20 games dealing with this crap every day isn't fun. I am playing 6 games. They are just anonymous. It is precisely that I am playing lots of games that it doesn't matter if there is a slight delay. Yeah, maybe there are better implementations...

I’ll interject as a Brit, that does wish the USA Happy Birthday (2 days late, apologies). It is a wonderful country in which I had over 12 primarily happy years. Better than some I could mention anyway (including my own). Trump is a bit scary sometimes, but his presidency is a product of circumstanc...

“It’s a failure of marketing. Serena Williams would not be able to beat male players - yet she is marketed and brings in huge draws.” If this were the case, why aren’t hot shot female marketing execs taking advantage of market opportunities other than Serena? They could simultaneously prove how good...

I probably have a minority opinion here, but I’ll make it anyway. In all competitive fields of employment (such as professional sport) & hundreds of others, I’m beginning to find it hard to believe gender (or race, religion etc) have any relevance any more. If a black, Buddhist, women turned out to ...

I'm unimpressed with the RR punishment for missing orders to get out of a game, given that there is no option to leave a game other than missing two sets of orders/emailing Mods. If you wanted to find a way to totally discourage me from playing here for a year, then I think you've succeeded marvell...