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I am reading a book about politics in the Roman Republic during the first century BC. Here is a passage concerning the run-up to elections. Does it sound familiar to you?
The man putting himself up as a candidate ... mustered his last ounce of patience and prepared himself to listen to anyone and everyone who wanted to talk to him, no matter how long-winded or prolix. If he happened to find a mother and babe, he smiled at the mother and kissed the babe - no votes there, of course, but she might well persuade her husband to vote for him. He laughed loudly when it was called for, he wept copiously at tales of woe, he looked grave and serious when grave and serious subjects were broached; but he never looked bored or uninterested, and he made sure he didn't say the wrong thing to the wrong person. He shook so many hands that he had to soak his own right hand in cold water every evening. He persuaded his friends famous for their oratory to mount the rostra ... and address the forum frequenters about what a superb fellow he was, what a pillar of the establishment he was ... and what a dismal, reprehensible, dishonest, corrupt, unpatriotic, vile, sodomizing faeces-eating, child-molesting, incestuous, bestial, depraved, fish-fancying, idle, gluttonous, alcoholic lot his opponents were. He promised everything to everybody, no matter how impossible it would prove to deliver those promises.
J F R
The paradox has often been noted that the United States, founded in secularism, is now the most religiose country in Christendom, while England, with an established church headed by its constitutional monarch, is among the least. (Richard Dawkins, 2006)
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marc
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So?
What's your point?
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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timmy
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Has no life at all |
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Plus ca change, plus le meme chose. Of course it needs diacritics.
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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Did you mean "Plus ça change plus c'est la même chose"? [ducks]
JFR
The paradox has often been noted that the United States, founded in secularism, is now the most religiose country in Christendom, while England, with an established church headed by its constitutional monarch, is among the least. (Richard Dawkins, 2006)
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timmy
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I did. Though probably without the wildfowl.
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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Fingolfin
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The unofficial motto of our dear Slovak prime minister:
No one can give you what I can promise to you.
It is better to switch on a small light than to curse the darkness.
- Vincent Šikula, Slovak writer
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JimB
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You need to pay attention to what politicians are saying to understand his point.
Indeed, JFR, nothing has changed for thousands of years.
JimB
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marc
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Thats precisely MY point.
What does anyone expect from someone running for office?
What he posted was the formula for victory... And if it aint broke, then why try to fix it.
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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and what a dismal, reprehensible, dishonest, corrupt, unpatriotic, vile, sodomizing, faeces-eating, child-molesting, incestuous, bestial, depraved, fish-fancying, idle, gluttonous, alcoholic
Of the sixteen virtues of political life I'm sodomizing, depraved and fish-fancying. I'm gluttonous only when eating steamed crabs or shrimp, and gluttonous occasionally when eating ice cream. Does this mean I should rule out a political career, or are these other attributes easily learned?
Are there classes available for young men to learn bestiality?
Also, does giving your boyfriend rim jobs constitute being a feces-eater?
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The current occupant of the White House hasn't learned the difference between Slovakia and Slovenia. I guess they didn't teach geo-politics at Yale. He's probably been too busy with his coloring books and crayons.
Anyway, I have heard that Slovakia is a totally awesome country to visit and that being gay is no big thing there and is legal. The age of consent is like fifteen, can that be right? Bratislava is supposed to be a really cool modern city, yes?
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Whitewaterkid wrote:
>Also, does giving your boyfriend rim jobs constitute being a feces-eater?<
This depends entirely on how your tongue stimulates his sphincter. Perhaps this can be continued in my thread about Sexual Etiquette. Is ther an agony aunt out there who can give advice?
Hugs
N
I dream of boys with big bulges in their trousers,
Never of girls with big bulges in their blouses.
…and look forward to meeting you in Cóito.
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Fingolfin
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You seem to be quite well informed. Being gay is no such big thing, however, I am not in contact with the gay scene here. I know about several clubs, though.
Big thing or not, there are people (especially catholic, what surprise) who claim that they know how to "cure" homosexuality, but it is not remarkable amount of pricks.
Slovakia has only 5.4 million inhabitants, capital of Bratislava half a million. We call it a capital village, the city centre is pretty small, but almost fully repaired and reconstructed, and there are definitely interesting things to be seen.
F.
P.S. Age of consent is fifteen. How cool is that?
It is better to switch on a small light than to curse the darkness.
- Vincent Šikula, Slovak writer
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