Quotulatiousness

December 20, 2017

JourneyQuest S03E06 – “Every Breath, Every Heartbeat”

Filed under: Gaming, Humour — Tags: , — Nicholas @ 06:00

Zombie Orpheus Entertainment
Published on 19 Dec 2017

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Zim Tzu reflects on facing his former mentor

Filed under: Football — Tags: , , — Nicholas @ 05:00

After every Vikings game, head coach Mike Zimmer speaks to the local media. To some, his words are merely conveying ordinary common wisdom, but for the Daily Norseman‘s Ted Glover, Zim Tzu speaks in a secret code that only he can translate for the benefit of the unwashed masses:

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WW1 Christmas Truce: Silent Night – Extra History – #1

Filed under: Europe, History, Military, WW1 — Tags: — Nicholas @ 04:00

Extra Credits
Published on 17 Dec 2017

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On Christmas Eve in 1914, soldiers in the trenches sang together across the wastes of No Man’s Land. Some were brave enough to step out of their trenches and meet face-to-face, forming an unofficial truce that lasted (with a few blemishes) until the end of Christmas Day.

Repost – Happy holiday travels!

Filed under: Bureaucracy, Humour — Tags: , , , — Nicholas @ 03:00

H/T to Economicrot. Many many more at the link.

How to Have a British Christmas – Anglophenia Ep 20

Filed under: Britain, Randomness — Tags: , — Nicholas @ 02:00

Anglophenia
Published on 3 Dec 2014

From explosives at the dinner table to burning letters to Santa, Siobhan Thompson looks at 10 ways Christmas differs in Britain. (Notably, they don’t call them the holidays.)

QotD: Heaven

Filed under: Humour, Quotations, Religion — Tags: , , — Nicholas @ 01:00

I suspect that if people were asked to describe a heaven, they would come up with something very like an eternal cruise on one of those dreadful ships that ruin the appearance and atmosphere of everywhere they dock: five meals a day, a casino, cinema, sauna, swimming pool, dinner at the captain’s table. But such a life would soon pall. Before long there would be quarrels, divisions into factions, and possibly even a murder or two, just for variation. Man is not so much a problem-solving creature as a problem-creating one; and as for his state of mind, he likes change for its own state, even if it be change for the worse. Man will never be entirely sensible.

Theodore Dalrymple, “Dissatisfaction Guaranteed”, Taki’s Magazine, 2016-11-26.

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