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At the very start you mean? That was fine, not bothered by that.
I started reading it again today (and found my old bookmark!) and apparently I got a fair bit further than that.
Today I read as far as Gurion being in the office after fighting, and I was quite enjoying it, so maybe it’ll stick this time 😁
Thank you for such detail, they sound really cool.
Also, “spaaaaace”! 😁
This is kind of a side answer, but it might be interesting.
Trump is imposing these tariffs on goods imported to the USA, and he keeps calling them reciprocal tariffs - in other words he’s only doing it because other countries are doing the same to the USA.
But this isn’t even true.
The way they have worked out which countries’ goods should have tariffs, and how much they should be, is actually based on the balance of trade between the USA and each other country. In other words the difference between how much the USA imports from a country and how much it exports to that country.
He (or rather, his goons) have looked at those numbers and applied a formula and come up with a number for what the tariffs should be for each country. So any country where they are selling more to America than they are buying from America is being “punished”.
And yet, those countries have not necessarily done anything wrong - they have made their products, and people in America have chosen to buy them. It’s not their fault that Americans like what they make, more than their own people like what America makes.
Also even countries like my own (UK) are subject to tariffs despite the fact that we actually do buy more from America than we sell to them.
It makes no sense at all, and it makes you wonder whether this notion of “punishing” countries which have supposedly done America wrong, isn’t just some bullshit he’s spreading while doing it for other reasons.
Although you probably don’t have to wonder for long. It is.
Whether that’s political gain, or undermining the world economy at Russia’s behest, or even just making a quick buck by causing the markets to crash, having previously shorted the stocks, is hard to say. But it ain’t the reason he’s saying, because reason is there none.
[The above is my understanding of the situation, but happy to be corrected as required]
John Cazale.
Only appeared in 5 films but all five were nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars:
The Godfather (1972)
The Godfather Part II (1974)
The Conversation (1974)
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
The Deer Hunter (1978)
Died of lung cancer in March 1978, aged 42 ☹️
I’m also toying with the idea that he was elected promising cheap eggs and sees Greenland on the map and thinks it kind of looks like a giant egg.
I’ve often thought the same OP, except instead of preparing for it, I’d argue they may even be deliberately hastening it. There’s a book by British comedian Ben Elton, called Stark, which explores basically this concept.
The problem with this idea comes down to soil and environment. One can’t just pick up whole crop areas and transplant them into a new one solely based on the temperature.
Agreed, but this is Trump we’re talking about. I imagine that in his addled head it absolutely is as simple as that.
Anecdote is valid when someone has employed the term “never”.
Just looked it up and someone on Reddit six days ago said BoD3 is finished and will hopefully be out this year! Woop!!
I’ve not heard of those others, will need to check them out 👍
Yeah that’s pretty much spot on.
The caravans in this case are a type known as static caravans - basically the same sort of accommodation as a mobile, towed caravan, but usually bigger and more or less permanently positioned somewhere. They even sometimes have additional casings that hide the wheels underneath to make them look more like houses.
EDIT, as I didn’t answer your main question. A caravan park is a term used both for something like a trailer park, where customers tow in their own caravan, but also, as in this case, for a holiday park with these static caravans spread around, similar to small lodges.
Behind the bar - yeah, that’s what they mean here too, the people who serve at the bar. As it’s in a holiday park, it’s likely that it’s a family friendly bar where kids are allowed to be as long as their parents are with them, and can even probably go up and order snacks or soft drinks by themselves. It’s not a bar bar in the usual adults only sense.
Tragic story :-(
Poo tee weet 👍
Yeah, I think so, but I think it was also slated for 2024, and possibly even 2023! It’ll come, and I’d rather he takes his time to get it right, but still, very impatient! 😁
A few I’ve read at least twice and will definitely read again at some point:
Adam Levin’s The Instructions
I have that on my shelf, but have only read the first chapter or so, I think, just couldn’t get into it. Bought on a whim, partly because of how huge it was!
I take it it’s worth another shot?
The other thing about this price point is that it’s a headline grabber - and then once people find out more, they will spot that if you buy a Switch with MK preinstalled, the game costs half that.
So suddenly it feels like, “oh hey, that’s a great deal, and I was obviously going to buy a Switch 2 anyway” - and Nintendo get the sales and the decreased cost of manufacturing the physical game.
Similar, I think I paid £65 for Street Fighter II: Champion Edition on MegaDrive. That’s US$84 - and that was in 1992.
I must have been mad. Although, I probably played that game more than any other, at least until some of the huge open world games of recent decades.
There are certain 12" records which despite only having one it two songs in them go for ludicrous prices, in the hundreds. I’d quite like to have those please.
It would be subjectively new to them, yes. But objectively it’s still an old game. That doesn’t mean it’s bad, irrelevant or whatever, it’s just old. And that’s fine.
Damn, you really do know this book!
Yeah, the construction barriers bit - not got to Eliza yet (or at least not this time round).