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  1. Orchid

    What made you laugh today - Fifth Edition

    ancalimon 说:
    I'm afraid of a nuclear attack in Turkey. If something happens to us, don't forget to not trust the clergy.



    Here's advertisement of Zaman newspaper which belongs to Fettullah Gülen's cult. The siren is the nuclear attack siren.

    9 months 10 days after this advertisement was shown, the coup attempt happened.

    (BTW. What kind of ****ed up advertisement is this?)
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    One of Ancalimon's last posts before his departure. (Yes, I looked up to see whether he was still around.) I hope he survived the nuke.
  2. Orchid

    Say Cheese v2

    Thank you, all! I've often thought of this wonderful place in my absence, but it wasn't until yesterday evening that I actually found myself doing so while in front of a computer at home. Speaking of a which: I just bought one! Jury's still out whether I get to hang a sign in front, dubbing it "Orchid Court". I sincerely doubt it unfortunately. Glad to see there's still so many familiar faces out here -- even though some of those faces have new names to them now. I'll order volume 12 of the TaleWorlds Chronicles off Amazon right away just to make sure I'm up-to-date.
  3. Orchid

    What TV series are you watching?

    Angelsachsen 说:
    The Last Kingdom is back on the TV.
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    Right at the top of my list. Very curious about the TV adaptation.

    Just finished watching Frontier. Complete and utter bollocks. Horrible. A-****ing-trocious. Quite a shame really, because I had very high expectations for this one. I'm a sucker for Frontier-related media and when I first heard about this show, I immediately took interest. Alas, the plot is piss poor (classic revenge story) and the acting of most of the actors and actresses involved isn't much better. And why is there so little Frontier in a show called Frontier? What a missed opportunity.
  4. Orchid

    Say Cheese v2

    Teofish 说:
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    Nice and fruity bosom to complement those buns of steel!
  5. Orchid

    Rate the above forumite's avatar v. IV

    Does what it says on the tin. It's a stone made of sacred head. With that, I rest my case.

    5/5
  6. Orchid

    Yarn of insignificant questions

    Wondered about those too. Somehow I've become a filthy pleb during my absence. Who do I need to marry for some proper social mobility?
  7. Orchid

    Kingdom Come: Deliverance

    RabbleKnight 说:
    I'm trying to upgrade my pledge to gain access to alpha but it give me an error message:
    We're sorry, but something went wrong.
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    Seems like something went wrong there, Rabble.

    Totally lost sight of this jewel. Pretty chuffed with the way it's shaping up!
  8. Orchid

    Introduction/Hello thread

    MithrellaS 说:
    I hope I can become a respected member on this forum. All the people I met here are really friendly and stuff.

    FSE on the other hand. Just left that forum. How many autists. I can't count them on my both hands.  :ohdear:


    To be clear, this is not sarcasm.
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    Welcome, friend!

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  9. Orchid

    Bande of Pike & Shotte - 'The Lucky Dogs' Mercenary Company

    Looks perfect!
  10. Orchid

    say cheese

    Leifr Eiríksson 说:
    Major success today.

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    You performed an abortion?
  11. Orchid

    World News Today, brought to you by TW

    The guts on them, eh?!
  12. Orchid

    Annual Off-Topic TW Awards Ceremony 2016! Main thread. READ THE ****ING OP!

    Austupaio 说:
    Ringwraith's a bloke alright, he just had a giant meltdown over a discussion about the car physics in GTA5, revealed himself to be dupe of, not one but, two banned users and ragequit the forum.
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    I raucously laughed out loud. Ah man, that is so typically Whingewraith - although I vowed never to call him like that again. The violent discussion about something so trivial is typical I might add, not the creation of dupes.  Rather surprised about the latter. Poor Ringwraith. He was a nice chap when he wasn't arguing about the fonts used in the credits.
  13. Orchid

    World News Today, brought to you by TW

    Politico Magazine: Michael Lind, "How the South Skews America: We’d be less violent, more mobile and in general more normal if not for Dixie." (03/07/2015)

    The comment section wars are glorious.

    As for the article itself, I find myself agreeing with the author on some points, but vehemently disagreeing about some of his premises. I feel he overemphasises "Southern violence", while utterly neglecting violence in the North. At the same time, the view of Americans as gun totin', bible thumpin' idiots that has gained credence throughout much of the West (that isn't the United States) in the last few decades is one that largely corresponds with the (Northern view of the) Southerner.
  14. Orchid

    Annual Off-Topic TW Awards Ceremony 2016! Main thread. READ THE ****ING OP!

    Sorry, it was a mere misunderstanding - that's all. But eh...
    Antonis 说:
    Orchid missed a lot. Epicrules, GERRY1, Ringwraith2.
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    1 I have no clue whatsoever who GERRY is. Doesn't ring a bell in the slightest.
    2 I hardly dare ask it, but Ringwraith's no bloke either?
  15. Orchid

    What be on yer noggin?

    RabbleKnight 说:
    Ouch.
    Applies little to no nuance?
    What do you mean?
    Highly suggestible?
    Again what do you mean?
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    Your whole understanding of the world is based on dichotomies: things are either black or they are white, rarely ever is there a grey in between. You are either radically for or against something. In order to justify your views, you generalise or refuse to acknowledge a substantial degree of variation.

    suggestible /sə'dʒes.tɪ.bl ̩/ adjective (FORMAL DISAPPROVING)
      describes someone who is easily influenced by other people's opinions
      The success of advertising proves that we are all  highly  suggestible.
  16. Orchid

    Emotions In Motion v.IV

    TheFlyingFishy 说:
    Come back home, chilling out with my coffee and candles and enjoying the early morning. Hear my mom wake up cussing and freaking the...
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    Bloody hell, quite the situation you have there at home. Is your sister addicted to to prescription drugs or is she merely taking them as a substitute for whatever she used to take?
  17. Orchid

    What be on yer noggin?

    RabbleKnight 说:
    The Mormon missionaries visited me today as they do every week (Am no longer Mormon).
    [...]
    First religion I've met in real life when i can actually have a decent conversation about its teaching without it going bad.
    Never could have this kind of conversation with my Catholic kin.
    Never could have this conversation with Muslim.

    Say what you want about Mormons but at least they are likable and friendly.
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    Of course they're going to be likeable and friendly and open towards discussion of sensitive subjects: you're an unstable, highly suggestible ex-Mormon who applies little or no nuance to his understanding of the world. When they sit down at night and evaluate the bargain bin of lost sheep to return to the fold of the church, I am confident you're pretty high up there among the most plausibly penitent apostates. I sincerely doubt they would still be paying you a visit every week if they were positively convinced you were beyond redeeming. But jolly good for you, Rabble; I am glad those two or three missionaries are capable of doing something billions of people can apparently not do.
  18. Orchid

    Annual Off-Topic TW Awards Ceremony: Nomination thread. Category list in OP.

    Gestricius 说:
    Swissky 说:
    Why'd you merge me and Epicrules together for stupid argument? She's made plenty of stupid arguments that don't involve me at all, and her initial nomination was as an individual.
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    She? Am I lagging another sex-change behind?
  19. Orchid

    Annual Off-Topic TW Awards Ceremony 2016! Main thread. READ THE ****ING OP!

    Ah, good old Pancho.  :lol:
  20. Orchid

    What made you laugh today - Fifth Edition

    An article by The Guardian, titled "'Poshness tests' block working-class applicants at top companies". It deals with the reluctance of recruiters at the UK's top law and accountancy firms to hire people whom they suspect are in fact lower class applicants. The journalist spoke to several recruiters, some of whom openly admitted that among their criteria were posh accents and manners - putting non-Oxbridge or public school applicants at a disadvantage. It was not the article itself that gave me a smirk, however.

    A reader posted the following in the comment section:
    "Then why doesn't the Guardian take a lead on this?

    Guardian Staff: (all school fees are as 2013/14)
    Katherine Viner / Ripon Grammar School (Selective) / Pembroke College, Oxford (English)
    Alan Rusbridger / Cranleigh Independent Boarding School (per term £10610) / Magdalene College, Cambridge (Eng Lit)
    Martin Kettle / Leeds Modern School (Grammar) / Balliol College, Oxford.
    George Monbiot / Stowe (fees per term Day £7500 / Boarding £10325) / Brasenose College, Oxford (Zoology)
    Jonathan Freedland / University College Independent School, Hampstead (per term £5720) - / Wadham College, Oxford
    Catherine Bennett / Lawnswood High School /Hertford College, Oxford.
    Zoe Williams / Godolphin and Latymer Girls School (per term £5760)
    / Lincoln College, Oxford (Modern History)
    Tanya Gold / Kingston Grammar School (Independent - admission by exam and interview) / Merton College, Oxford
    Marina Hyde / Downe House for Girls (per term Day: £7 910 / Boarder £10930) / Christ Church, Oxford (English)
    Bidisha Bandyopadhyay / Haberdashers' Aske's Independent School for Girls (admission by exam and interview) / St Edmund Hall, Oxford (Old and Middle English, LSE (MSc in Moral and Political Philosophy and Economic History)
    Emily Bell / ? / Christ Church College, Oxford (Jurisprudence)
    Peter Bradshaw / The Haberdashers' Aske's Independent Boys' School (admission by exam and interview) / Pembroke College, Cambridge (English)
    David Mitchell / Abingdon School Oxford est. 1100 (per term Day £5290 / Boarder £11180) / Peterhouse, Cambridge (History)
    Riazat Butt / ? / /A. N. Other College, Oxford
    David Shariatmadari / ? / King's College, Cambridge
    Timothy Garton-Ash / Sherborne School est 1550 (per term Day £8545 / Boarder £10555) / St. Antony's College, Oxford (Modern History)
    Simon Tisdall / Holland Park School (generally receives 1000 applicants for its 240 places a year) / Downing College, Cambridge (History, Politics and Philosophy)
    Jane Martinson / ? / A. N. Other College, Cambridge (English)
    John Hooper / St Benedict’s Independent School, London (per tern £4450)
    / St Catharine’s College, Cambridge
    Ian Black / ? / A.N. Other College, Cambridge
    Sam Leith / Eton College (per term £11090) / Magdalen College, Oxford
    Peter Preston / Loughborough Grammar School est 1495 (per term Day £3575 / Boarder £7705) / St John's College, Oxford
    Andrew Rawnsley / Lawrence Sheriff School (selective boy’s grammar) / Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge (History)
    Simon Jenkins / Mill Hill School est 1807 (per term Day £5948 Boarder £939:cool: / St John's College, Oxford (PPE)
    Alexander Chancellor / Eton College (per term £11090) / Trinity Hall, Cambridge
    Richard Norton-Taylor / Kings School, Canterbury (per term Day £8090 Boarder £10745) / Hertford College, Oxford
    Clare Armitstead / Bedales (per term Day £8,590 Boarder £10,930) / St Hilda's College, Oxford (English)
    Janine Gibson / Walthamstow Hall Independent School for Girls (per term £5470) / St John's College, Oxford (Eng Lit)
    Martin Wainwright / Shrewsbury School Independent School est 1552 (per term Day £7100 Boarder £10140) / Merton College, Oxford
    Victoria Coren / She attended various girls' independent schools from the ages of 5 to 18 / St. John’s College, Oxford (English)
    Nick Cohen / Altrincham Grammar School for Boys est 1912 (admission by exam and interview) / Hertford College, Oxford (PPE)
    Ben Goldacre / ? / Magdalen College, Oxford (Medicine)
    Seumas Milne / Winchester College Independent School for Boys est 1382 (per term Boarder £11250) / Balliol College, Oxford (PPE)
    Rowenna Davis / Hampstead School (Comp) est 1862 / Balliol College, Oxford (PPE)
    Hadley Freeman / She attended a “boarding school in Cambridge” / St Anne's College, Oxford (Eng Lit)
    John Harris / Wilmslow High School formerly Wilmslow County Grammar School / Queen's College, Oxford (PPE)
    Madeleine Bunting / Queen Mary’s, Yorkshire (per term Day: 5, 390 Boarding: £9,990) - Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (History)
    Jackie Ashley / Rosebery Grammar School for Girls / St Anne's College, Oxford (PPE)
    Polly Toynbee / Badminton Independent School for Girls est 1858 (per term Day £5640 Boarder £9950) then Holland Park School / St Anne's College, Oxford (with one A level, dropped out) (History)
    Geoffrey Wheatcroft / University College Independent School, Hampstead ((per term £5720) / New College, Oxford (Modern History)
    Baroness Bryony Worthington of Cambridge in the County of Cambridgeshire / ? / Queens' College, Cambridge (Eng Lit)
    Hon. Tristram Hunt / University College Independent School, Hampstead ((per term £5720) / Trinity College, Cambridge (Hist, Latin, Eng Lit)
    Michael Billington / Warwick Independent School est 914 (this is not a typo) (per term Boarding £12402) / St Catherine's College, Oxford
    Tom Clarke / ? / A. N. Other College, Oxford
    Amelia Gentleman / St. Paul’s Independent Day Girls School (?) (per term £7056) / Oxbridge (?)
    Hadley Freeman / A levels boarding at the Cambridge Centre for Sixth-form Studies (per year Two-Year A-Level course boarding £25,050 to £36,735 / St Anne's College, Oxford (Eng Lit)
    Patrick Wintour / Westminster (per term Day £7,800 Boarder £11,264) / Coprus Christi College, Oxford
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