Penda’s Punic Project
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Pleasant!
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Perhaps he meant a gift, and he's going Japanese.
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I think you lot have The Vapors.
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I won't bore you with the tale of me & my three Yr old boy walking into a country pub, and my boy pointing & exclaiming, "Look Daddy, it's a peasant". As the old boy in his flat cap choked on his beer & the landlord looked aghast, I pointed to the stuffed bird on the shelf above the peasant & said, "No Ben, it's a stuffed pheasant". "Oh yes, silly me" said Ben. We were allowed to stay for lunch.
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Didn't he or his brother do something similar on a (Tube?) train in London whilst passing through a not-terribly-white part of town?
Kein Plan überlebt den ersten Kontakt mit den Würfeln. (No plan survives the first contact with the dice.)
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Yes, remarking on large diggers...... We nearly died.
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A guest in our flat in London enquiring about my new Airfix civil war soldiers, I must have been 8
Which side d
o you like best
The Confederates
They had slaves
Only black ones
Which side d
o you like best
The Confederates
They had slaves
Only black ones
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It was miss whatsit's fault at school.
She was using our geography class to kick colonialism, something about emergent nation's bringing justice to all
I said that emergent burma hardl brought justice to our family business, nor Tiger Singhs business, nor Richard Thein Min's family business.
Silly muppet, says something about, maybe the Burmese people didn't empathise with you because you were foreigners
I said that although Richard was Arakanese, he'd be insulted if someone had called him a foreigner
Miss Whatsit calls conversation over
Now, I was brought up to believe that how someone looked was not an issue, but miss whatsit's comment got me thinking. If the Burmese might not empathise with foreigners, maybe that was also true of Confederates and slaves.
My mother was horrified, my father roared with laughter. Next time miss whatsit sent a note home, the matter was raised with her to much embarrassment.
She was using our geography class to kick colonialism, something about emergent nation's bringing justice to all
I said that emergent burma hardl brought justice to our family business, nor Tiger Singhs business, nor Richard Thein Min's family business.
Silly muppet, says something about, maybe the Burmese people didn't empathise with you because you were foreigners
I said that although Richard was Arakanese, he'd be insulted if someone had called him a foreigner
Miss Whatsit calls conversation over
Now, I was brought up to believe that how someone looked was not an issue, but miss whatsit's comment got me thinking. If the Burmese might not empathise with foreigners, maybe that was also true of Confederates and slaves.
My mother was horrified, my father roared with laughter. Next time miss whatsit sent a note home, the matter was raised with her to much embarrassment.