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oh yeah, agreed that season 6 was a mess. i do think that it was the only season since the first one that made jack seem like a person that people would actually follow.

Canadians wanting to claim Alexander Graham Bell and his invention of the telephone as ours are more ridiculous than Americans who want to do the same, insofar as i) he was born in Scotland and lived in the UK into his early 20s, getting his education there ii) there was no such thing as Canadian citizenship in the 1870s iii) he spent most of the year in the US at the time of the invention and iv) he first patented it in the US.

I hope no-one in Scotland gets to hear of this.

There is nothing surprising about the fact that Nirvana's Nevermind is older now than the Beatles' Ed Sullivan Show appearance was when it was released or whatever similar evidence of the passage of time.

I'm sure they're both subject to the Mandela effect.

Ha

Kidding aside, I'm with you, re: AGB, but I think I've been brainwashed into making the association anyway due to the ubiquitousness of Bell Canada, as though one couldn't exist without the other.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHYROtxdL90

so what IS the argument for a Canadian Bell?

I'd say it boils to 'we'll take whatever/whoever we can get'.

the canadian claim basically amounts to "he lived a lot of the time in his later life on an estate in nova scotia where he died".

in scotland competing claims to bell are basically unheard of, alas i think that in favour of the american case he was an american citizen living in america when he made the invention?

whit’s this pish noo

get tae fuck canada

Gie them a break, they need all the interesting people they can get over there.

they’ve got alanis, what more do they need

My favourite argument, repeated straight-faced by respected journalists, is that he got the idea for the telephone when looking at the currents in an Ontario river.

He did live in Canada for a year before moving to the US and still spent his summers here. Iirc, he was not yet a U.S. citizen at the time of the invention so, as a British subject living in North America, he was arguably as Canadian as anyone else was in the 1870s? It's not a v strong claim, though.

in favour of the scottish claim: he summered in basically the most scottish place in north america

LA delis > NYC delis

Russell Brand is one of the UK's better public figures and is, on balance, a force for good.

jesus christ no

too controversial, I mean fucking hell he's obv one of Murdoch's evil minions - he almost made me vote Con in 2015.

the correct response to 95% of the things the internet is complaining about on any given day is either a shrug or a "pity about ye" and to carry on with your day

Just bought a box of 15 Secret Seven books for a pound in a charity shop, so I have to repeat m childhood opinions - Secret Seven are much better than the Famous Five. Firstly, there's more of them. And if you want to solve mysteries being secret is much more advantageous than being famous.

And the Secret Seven are all people, though that might count against them. Why isn’t Scamper included?

seven is just a better number than five or indeed eight

(but this isn't at all controversial)

Sisters, Samurai and Dwarves.

also

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seven is a very fine number but it is no nine which is one of the most sacred numbers in the world. I always feel like the universe god is looking favourably at me when my total at the shop is made of individual numbers that add up to units of 9 - like 9.27 or 15.30.

five - quincunx, pentagram, THE QUINTESSENCE

All of the significant numbers in my life are 9s or resolve to 9 - a vision I once had during a psychotic break was of a world ‘breathing’ in 9s. It was very odd.

I've had a lifelong obsession with 9 myself and do all sorts of daft superstitious rituals based around it.

five is bad and ledge shd feel bad

nine is better than eight but it is no seven

used to be a seven partisan but i seem to have moved to nine

it's true five is kind of a garbage number

11 is tight though

hmm

11 is just two ones, who gives a shit

the letter k = 11, which is why crowley spelled magick like that

I would think twice before making fun of a number like 11

xi

1132 guys, 11=eternal return and 32=feet per sec per sec

Menninger’s Number Words and Number Symbols is U&K.

i remember liking the number 7 a lot as a child, being glad to turn 7 - this was partially because aesthetically i liked 7s, i definitely found 6s very bland.

3 is the best number

490

No one actually cares about when Bernie Sanders conceded in 2016. 100% of the people who blame him for hurting Hillary Clinton's chances would still blame him if he had withdrawn three months earlier.

yep

For all the criticisms of Bernie, that one was always the most toothless

If he'd withdrawn three months earlier it would have been before the Russian Bear infiltrated the DNC, which means no leaks during the convention. So no, I think insiders really do care when he conceded. That it miiiiiight be unfair to think Sanders should have thought of Russian ratfuckers in his planning is another thing.

Iow, it's scapegoating, but the trauma is real

To Fred B

Thanx for Danesplaining

Sincerely yours,

Julie Newmar

Hi Neanderthal

We have twitter in Denmark, and I probably follow more neoliberal Dem insider scum than you do

Sincerely yours

Someone in the 21st Century