Deems otm.
― On a Raqqa tip (ShariVari), Wednesday, 11 May 2016 11:50 (seven years ago) link
maybe the worst carbon footprint on ilx ;)
― And the cry rang out all o'er the town / Good Heavens! Tay is down (imago), Wednesday, 11 May 2016 11:55 (seven years ago) link
Firstly, sorry
We'll have ya.
Secondly, should i go to the north to buy a laptop today or might there be an advantage in waiting
Thx, sympathies again
― Daithi Bowsie (darraghmac), Friday, 24 June 2016 09:50 (seven years ago) link
I was looking in to this earlier. I'd have to live with ye for a year which, though attractive, isn't viable at the moment. We'll see how it goes though.
You might as well go now, i think. I don't know how quickly it's going to fall further. I'm not really an expert though.
― On a Raqqa tip (ShariVari), Friday, 24 June 2016 09:53 (seven years ago) link
Youre the closest i have next to boards.ie but youre a good deal more palatable
― Daithi Bowsie (darraghmac), Friday, 24 June 2016 09:54 (seven years ago) link
do you know of anything worth reading about other prosperous eu countries with regions containing large inflows of migration from eastern europe, and how government spending/provision has been treated?
― nakhchivan, Friday, 24 June 2016 19:36 (seven years ago) link
Not really. Most of the pieces I have seen recently have been about refugees from the Balkans rather than Visegrad, Bulgarians and Romanians, etc. Would be interesting to see something comparing treatment of ex-Yugoslavs working in Germany in the late 90s with Poles and Czechs today if you do come across something though.
― On a Raqqa tip (ShariVari), Friday, 24 June 2016 20:01 (seven years ago) link
hey so my daughter is thinking of university in some sort of diplomacy/international affairs connection, and the counsellor at school suggested she try learning either German, Russian, or Chinese to supplement her fluent English and French and partial Spanish (and ancient Greek but w/e). Chinese seems too difficult to learn in her spare off-time, German doesn't seem worth the effort, but I don't know about Russian. Looking forward, is knowledge of Russian worth it? I'm thinking of Russia's continued decline but also of central Asian states.
― droit au butt (Euler), Monday, 17 October 2016 09:51 (seven years ago) link
German is at a premium in business - if that's a direction she might want to go in later on.
Russian would be useful imo. It's not as powerful as it used to be but MGIMO pumps out a lot of future diplomats / leaders - not just in the direct sphere of influence but for places like Viet Nam. Russian language skills are still part of a lot of domestic diplomatic training programmes iirc.
Central Asia will be lively over the next twenty years whatever happens so either Russian or Turkish (which is pretty similar to about a dozen other regional languages) would be worth considering if that might be an area of particular interest.
I did consider taking International Relations at degree level and, had i gone down that path, would have been interested in doing my undergraduate study at the LSE and post-grad international relations and Russian at MGIMO.
I'm pretty sure another Ilxor works for the UN and would be better placed to advise though!
― Bubba H.O.T.A.P.E (ShariVari), Monday, 17 October 2016 11:09 (seven years ago) link
I appreciate it looks like i'm trying to recruit your daughter to Russian intelligence but SciencesPo does a joint MA with MGIMO fwiw:
http://www.sciencespo.fr/psia/content/dual-degree-mgimo-moscow
― Bubba H.O.T.A.P.E (ShariVari), Monday, 17 October 2016 11:27 (seven years ago) link
ok thanks!
to reach this other ILXor where would I post?
Turkish is a great idea, I hadn't considered that.
I'm looking to soak up as much advice as I can get. we're in Paris, not London, so the options are different (think SciencesPo rather than the LSE) but not dissimilar.
― droit au butt (Euler), Monday, 17 October 2016 11:29 (seven years ago) link
oh & xp nice!
― droit au butt (Euler), Monday, 17 October 2016 11:30 (seven years ago) link
I may have either misremembered or misinterpreted but i think if you posted something asking for advice on how useful Russian / Turkish are for people who want a career in the diplomatic service on this thread, you might be in luck:
Kyrgyzstan, anyone?
― Bubba H.O.T.A.P.E (ShariVari), Monday, 17 October 2016 11:36 (seven years ago) link
ok today one of my idle 'what if...' ilx thoughts has leapt to 'confirmed', took me long enough to work it out lol
― imago, Monday, 14 January 2019 12:02 (five years ago) link
It took you that long to work out he was a Russian plant?
― gyac, Monday, 14 January 2019 12:05 (five years ago) link
:D exackly
― imago, Monday, 14 January 2019 12:06 (five years ago) link
What was your theory though
― gyac, Monday, 14 January 2019 12:07 (five years ago) link
obviously i am a big proponent of ilx couplehood
ur own admission of living somewhere just outside london + sv's mention of irish s.o. rung faint alarm bells a few months ago. not ashamed to say that subsequent namesearch corroboration via the perfume thread and stout defence from a particularly ugly slur by twu have pushed this one into 'gotcha' territory. u had a good run tho. move over jaymc there's a new sherlock in town etc. obviously everyone else had worked this one out already
― imago, Monday, 14 January 2019 12:11 (five years ago) link
Idk that anyone knew or cared! It’s a good guess though but the truth is that I’m his much less polite sock he uses for his dodgy political opinions.
― gyac, Monday, 14 January 2019 12:15 (five years ago) link
right ok we'll go with that no further qns
― imago, Monday, 14 January 2019 12:16 (five years ago) link
ffs dmac out
― topical mlady (darraghmac), Monday, 14 January 2019 12:49 (five years ago) link
this is true, you had alluded to this in your trademark obtuse way some time ago
― gyac, Monday, 14 January 2019 12:59 (five years ago) link
srsly idnr twigging this so ive either forgotten or simple gibberish is being misattributed as obtuseness (latter is v common tbf)
― topical mlady (darraghmac), Monday, 14 January 2019 13:49 (five years ago) link
lol I knew I didn’t imagine thisIrish politics discussion thread
But when I was searching for this I found posts of mine far more recent I didn’t even recall making, so.
― gyac, Monday, 14 January 2019 14:13 (five years ago) link
ha
listen
idnr the post but its entirely likely the opportunity to have a dig at peter crouch eclipsed any other info processing at the time
― topical mlady (darraghmac), Monday, 14 January 2019 14:14 (five years ago) link
lol for all my sleuthing he straight up said it
― imago, Monday, 14 January 2019 14:17 (five years ago) link
I don’t recall writing that either, tbh, and I’m not sure what made me presume I had won over her mammy - which is a 20-30 year project with no real guarantee of success at the end of it.
― ShariVari, Monday, 14 January 2019 15:56 (five years ago) link
well i wasn't going to say but
― topical mlady (darraghmac), Monday, 14 January 2019 16:54 (five years ago) link
Well this is a nice to-do.
― Never Turn Your Back On Virginia Woolf (Tom D.), Monday, 14 January 2019 16:57 (five years ago) link
Remember, even if it seems you've been a creeper for no reason, creeping is its own reason.
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 14 January 2019 18:12 (five years ago) link
lol I have to say I was impressed by the perfume thread bit, I wouldn’t have remembered whatever tipped off imago there.
― gyac, Monday, 14 January 2019 18:37 (five years ago) link
What’s the worst mixed metaphor you’ve ever used?
― caută tu singur (gyac), Friday, 14 August 2020 15:11 (three years ago) link
happy birthday for yesterday!
― Chip-vill-A (imago), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 16:01 (three years ago) link
you have left the cohort and graduated to better things. hope you had a blast
― Chip-vill-A (imago), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 16:02 (three years ago) link
Thank you. Feels good to be in the Pravin Tambe age bracket at last.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 16:11 (three years ago) link
our idol and beacon
― Chip-vill-A (imago), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 16:12 (three years ago) link
A mutual acquaintance of ours has likely passed it on by now, but an encore can't hurt:
Happy (belated) birthday!
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 14 October 2020 16:34 (three years ago) link
Mulţumesc!
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 16:36 (three years ago) link
happy birthday sv!
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 17:31 (three years ago) link
a belated hb to you sv!
― calzino, Wednesday, 14 October 2020 17:35 (three years ago) link
Thank you!
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 17:50 (three years ago) link
hbsv.
― Fizzles, Wednesday, 14 October 2020 18:53 (three years ago) link
🎂🎉🎂
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 14 October 2020 18:54 (three years ago) link
La mulți ani!
― Garu’s Got a Rona (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 18:55 (three years ago) link
ty, ty
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 19:43 (three years ago) link
Back to the original point of the thread? Who is your favorite soprano these days? Favorite tenor? What are your favorite languages?
― Garu’s Got a Rona (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 21:39 (three years ago) link
(Please ignore extra '?)
Thinking just about the ones I’ve seen live in the last few years, Yoncheva stands out as a genuinely exceptional talent. I’ve been impressed by Lisette Oropesa every time I’ve seen her as well. It was unfortunate Grigolo turned out to be such a menace as I’d always thought he was very good. Calleja, probably, of those currently employable by the Royal Opera House.
Otherwise, predictably, Netrebko and Kaufmann.
Russian and French are probably my favourite languages, despite being poor at both.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 22:14 (three years ago) link
Cool. No love for Piotr B?
― Garu’s Got a Rona (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 22:21 (three years ago) link
I’m racking my brain trying to remember whether I’ve seen him perform but I suspect not. He’s always good value on screen, though.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 22:28 (three years ago) link