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>> No. 5942 Anonymous
18th February 2015
Wednesday 11:03 pm
5942 Philosophy Politics Economics
I require a list of core texts that one may be expected to read as part of a PPE undergrad degree.

Preferrably for each of the years with texts for each year indicated. Bonus points if broken down into classes.

Like, what books to the reptillian ruling elite read at uni n that?
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>> No. 5944 Anonymous
18th February 2015
Wednesday 11:13 pm
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>>5942
>Like, what books to the reptillian ruling elite read at uni n that?
Doesn't matter m8, any pleb can get into Oxford, they probably get their training at Eton.
>> No. 5945 Anonymous
18th February 2015
Wednesday 11:16 pm
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>>5942
>Like, what books to the reptillian ruling elite read at uni n that?

Atlas Shrugged?
>> No. 5946 Anonymous
18th February 2015
Wednesday 11:20 pm
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>>/uni/1728

Might find something useful in there.
>> No. 5947 Anonymous
18th February 2015
Wednesday 11:30 pm
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>>5946

Cheers m'ladmate, but most of the philo links are dead.
>> No. 5948 Anonymous
18th February 2015
Wednesday 11:46 pm
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I wonder if all the boys each year in the Bullingdon club draw straws and the loser has to enter into politics, helping the rest of them from within the system.

It just seems like a massive ordeal for a sliver of power. The public hate you, the media will swarm on you for the slightest thing and the wage probably pales in comparison to the private sector.

Who would pick this life for themselves?

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>> No. 5875 Anonymous
5th January 2015
Monday 3:26 pm
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Interesting words and phrases that you like to use in conversation to polish your intellectualist cock.

I'll start with 'cognoscenti' - meaning an expert in some field. Twice I have used it so far and received looks not unlike that you would give a chimpanzee that recited the Lord's Prayer.

I usually don't mention the fact that I first learnt of it from GTA IV
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>> No. 5921 Anonymous
8th January 2015
Thursday 2:07 am
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>>5918
I'd pretty much agree with all that, I think my issue is more to do with people assuming they can apply what I'd regard as quite a "narrow" theory to all human behaviour.

>>5919
To be honest I don't really know enough about transactional analysis to make any sort of argument. Out of curiosity though, do you think that you're able to make sense of human behaviour with a combination of the two theories?
>> No. 5922 Anonymous
8th January 2015
Thursday 2:09 am
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>>5921
That second reply is to >>5920 now obviously.
>> No. 5923 Anonymous
8th January 2015
Thursday 2:29 am
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>>5921

A good chunk of it, yes. Obviously there is no theory that will explain away the entirety of human endeavour, but a good chunk of what we spend our lives doing between cradle and grave is covered. Humans are habitual, ritualistic creatures by nature and the "games" defined when studying behaviour are often ingrained parts of the socialisation process- We sometimes call it politeness or manners, that sort of thing. We are talking about the expected ways for people to behave in social environments, for which there are rewards and punishments if a person (player) plays by the book, or breaks the rules.

Consider if you will Gemma from HR. She always moans about her partner and how controlling and restricting he is- He won't let her go out and take up a night class, for example. She surrounds herself with acquaintances who are happy to gather in the canteen on their morning break and whinge about their respective partners. The object here is not, as it would superficially seem, to console or advise one another about how to improve or remedy the situation. Consider Jen, who has just transferred from Accounts, joins the group one morning and dispenses honest advice about how Gemma and her partner could seek counselling- Jen will soon find herself ostracised from the Morning Canteen Coffee Club, because she does not play by the rules.

The true purpose of the game is to seek reassurance for the shrewd decision Gemma's child ego state has made, to seek a domineering partner who shields her from fear of failure, by holding her back from trying in the first place.

And so it proceeds- Most human activity can be looked at through this lens on a bigger or smaller scale. Things like rape, violence, and addiction can all be seen as forms of a "game" for which the objective is satisfaction for one of the various ego states, between players of the same game, whether winners or losers.
>> No. 5924 Anonymous
8th January 2015
Thursday 12:48 pm
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>>5921
>I'd pretty much agree with all that, I think my issue is more to do with people assuming they can apply what I'd regard as quite a "narrow" theory to all human behaviour.

Yes, but in the end, how else are you going to grasp and understand reality... humans have very limited perception of reality, because we can only process so much information at any given time. That's the basic reason why we need models in the first place; because we can't process the deluge of information that is constantly present in the real world.

And models that concern themselves with human behaviour almost always implicitly rely on the law of large numbers; of course a behavioural model cannot predict with absolute certainty how one single person will behave, because there just is no telling; but a good behavioural model will posit likelihoods of human behaviour, and will often go with what's most likely.

So even if a model seems quite narrow, it can in fact be true nonetheless when you compare it with reality. For example, if you say that an economic subject, like a person or a household, tends to want to maximise utility, then that can still mean that many people in reality will do fuck all to "maximise utility", they will spend too much money on overpriced needless things and not give utility much thought at all. But by and large, when you look at all individuals or all households put together, a pattern emerges that the majority will in one way or another try to maximise utility for itself under given circumstances.

"Transaction" models can be equally narrow and can prove equally wrong when applied to a single person; you can be dead wrong if you expect somebody to behave in a certain way just because that's how most people would react. But again, in the end, the greater the number of people that you observe, the greater the likelihood that you will see most transaction models validated.
>> No. 5941 Anonymous
18th February 2015
Wednesday 10:37 pm
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Schnapsidee - A German word meaning a very stupid idea (as in: “that’s totally stupid, were you drunk when you came up with it?”)

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>> No. 5315 Anonymous
5th September 2013
Thursday 9:04 pm
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Evening, lads.

I'm looking to buy a collection of short stories as a present, so I'm looking for recommendations. The recipient likes tales with a tweest - she used to read Archer a few years ago, but I know she has gone off him. She has a fair few by Lawrence Block, Roald Dahl and things along the lines of collections selected by Hitchcock.
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>> No. 5854 Anonymous
7th December 2014
Sunday 4:19 pm
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>>5853

I've almost did this a few times, only to realise that the post I was disagreeing with was my own.
>> No. 5855 Anonymous
7th December 2014
Sunday 4:39 pm
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I just went back to find an old post of mine, found one, and was appalled by my writing.
>> No. 5925 Anonymous
14th January 2015
Wednesday 6:19 am
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>>5854
>I've almost did
You've broken my brain, ladmate.
>> No. 5926 Anonymous
14th January 2015
Wednesday 6:58 am
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>>5852

I've seen some people foam at the mouth about necrobumping at other forums so I add "sorry for necrobumping" in case I upset one of those weirdos.
>> No. 5927 Anonymous
14th January 2015
Wednesday 8:02 pm
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>>5926
Fortunately, .gs is the kind of place where we don't have any foaming at the mouth, easily offended weirdos.

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>> No. 4462 Anonymous
27th April 2012
Friday 10:10 pm
4462 Poetry club
I can't sing, I can't draw and I can't fucking dance without looking like an overexcited string of spaghetti. But anyone can write a poem, right?
For better or worse I consider this to be a good enough place for my forays into using language creatively, (and I couldn't find an existing thread in recent history) so here goes...

Pigeons flap through archways
then totter circuitously like so many shoppers,
square eyeing for their next point of pleasure.
This search is divided,
one glancer stays tight with fear of a hidden truth
whilst one beaks downward.

The rustling change of barometer pressure piques the
interest of the feathered workers.
They stop, certain that they don't know what happens next.
Neither the chase nor the escape continue in that blink,
for what seems like an age they are human.
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>> No. 5870 Anonymous
18th December 2014
Thursday 11:22 pm
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>>5869

Oh lad you misused
that apostrophe, oh dear
now you will be banned
>> No. 5871 Anonymous
19th December 2014
Friday 3:53 am
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>>5870
As if that wasn't
already severe enough,
his middle's one short.
>> No. 5872 Anonymous
19th December 2014
Friday 5:04 am
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Poetry's for nobs,
But we're all just prole slobs,
So just shake a fuckin' rhyme about
In lieu of proper jobs
>> No. 5873 Anonymous
19th December 2014
Friday 5:26 am
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>>5872

It's almost like ARE BRAND is right here among us.
>> No. 5874 Anonymous
19th December 2014
Friday 7:19 pm
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>>5869>>5870>>5871>>5872

"BAN BAN BAN, BAN BAN
BAN BAN BAN BAN BAN, BAN BAN
BAN BAN BAN BAN, BAN"

S. Baldrick

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>> No. 5856 Anonymous
11th December 2014
Thursday 4:02 pm
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How hard is it to learn shorthand and become proficient at it?

Is it something I could do in an afternoon? Obviously I wouldn't be an expert but I'd want to be at least faster than longhand.
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>> No. 5858 Anonymous
12th December 2014
Friday 1:03 am
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It's one of those things that's easy to learn but hard to master. If you put your mind to it you can learn the motions in an afternoon, but to become proficient at it requires a lot of practice. As >>5857 says, a couple of months of proper practice is enough, but any less and you'll be no faster and prone to error. It's a mechanical skill, really, and that requires muscle memory; if you're good at that maybe you need less time but please please please be aware of the difference when it comes to knowing how to do something and being able to do something.
>> No. 5859 Anonymous
12th December 2014
Friday 1:48 am
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If I wake up and don't have to get up properly for a while, I daub the shapes of song lyrics in teeline. It's just a weird habit I picked up but it got me a lot better at sight-reading it (rather than having to decipher it).

My mum said her shorthand tutor advised her to practice all the time, e.g. every time she sees a sign, to visualise it in shorthand.
>> No. 5860 Anonymous
12th December 2014
Friday 4:03 pm
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How useful do you you guys find knowing shorthand?

I'm in my final year of Uni now, so I don't think it'll be beneficial for me, as I specifically wanted it for note taking during lectures.
>> No. 5861 Anonymous
12th December 2014
Friday 10:05 pm
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>>5860

I don't find it a bit useful. It's just fun.

I'm only very slightly faster at shorthand than writing normally. Can't you take lecture notes on a laptop? I'm sure it would be a ton faster.

I only find it useful for writing things I wouldn't want someone else reading, like an embarrassing item on a shopping list or something.
>> No. 5862 Anonymous
12th December 2014
Friday 11:45 pm
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>>5861
>lecture notes on a laptop

Heathen.

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>> No. 5449 Anonymous
12th March 2014
Wednesday 7:20 pm
5449 Required Reading, UK Gov?
I realised very recently that I've basically no idea how the government of the United Kingdom works, and that as long as I have no idea, it's slightly disingenuous of me to rail against it. Or at least that's how I feel.

What are some books that would teach me the workings of that most insidious of machines?
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>> No. 5453 Anonymous
16th March 2014
Sunday 2:11 am
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The Governance of Britain by Harold Wilson is an interesting look at how government works "under the hood".

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-governance-Britain-HAROLD-WILSON/dp/B0006CVM6I
>> No. 5559 Anonymous
7th June 2014
Saturday 9:50 am
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a textbook?

My basis was UK Politics Fifth Edition (Revised for New Labour!) from 2004. The judiciary stuff is a bit outdated since a lot of constitutional law has since been revised.

Any textbook will do. Only when you have a working knowledge of the political science will reading assessments and insider memoirs have much value.
>> No. 5848 Anonymous
6th December 2014
Saturday 10:10 pm
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The British constitution is uncodified, and constitutional precedent comes from a variety of sources including statute law and common law. The bit you'll be most interested in, though, are the "works of authority" - books which people have written about how Britain works that are so good we've just kind of accepted them as gospel. All of these works are pretty antiquated, but by far the most accessible is Bagehot's "The English Constitution".

In it, you get a strong sense of the importance of separation of powers - each organ of government fulfilling a deliberate and distinct function; and contributing to a sort of equillibrium. Use that as your starting point, then clue yourself up on how the system works now. Maybe try reading a serious political journal semi regularly - even Private Eye would do, and that comes with the added benefit of being bloody funny. You get a genuine sense of how the "ideal" system posited by Bagehot has evolved and adapted to changing historical circumstances.

It would also be worth studying some British political thought in the abstract - Hobbes, Locke, Halifax. Also, memoirs from British political leaders like Thatcher, Disraeli and even fringe elements like John Tyndall and Enoch Powell.

If all of this seems thoroughly muddled, subjective, slightly antiquarian and relying over-much on personal initiative and guesswork; then congrats! You're starting to get a real idea of British politics.
>> No. 5849 Anonymous
7th December 2014
Sunday 12:12 am
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>>5848

This thread-noncery just has to stop.
>> No. 5850 Anonymous
7th December 2014
Sunday 8:59 am
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>>5849
Why?

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>> No. 5835 Anonymous
20th November 2014
Thursday 7:23 pm
5835 Stahs...
Without recommending that I go to a library or use Google, what entry level physics books are there? I know far less physics than I'd like to, I don't have zero knowledge of the subject but I don't really know where to start in terms of literature. I'd like something more readable than a textbook... Brief-history-of-everything-esque pop science books.
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>> No. 5840 Anonymous
20th November 2014
Thursday 11:40 pm
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>>5839

Here's one: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/0789489236?pc_redir=1414105257&robot_redir=1

When you say Physics, do you mean the glamorous stuff or like waves and optics and basic stuff like that?
>> No. 5841 Anonymous
20th November 2014
Thursday 11:44 pm
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I want stuff on time, spacetime, origins of the universe, things like that... I'm not interested in classical physics unless it's relevant to those things really.

>>5838
Yes, but it pretty much all to do with the structure of the atom, wave-particle duality and molecular orbital theory. I want the exciting things.
>> No. 5842 Anonymous
21st November 2014
Friday 12:32 am
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>>5841
That sounds like you want a book on astrophysics.
>> No. 5843 Anonymous
21st November 2014
Friday 12:27 pm
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>>5842
Or cosmology.

I was doing an open at my old university and got talking to a young lad who was entirely disinterest in coming, but his mam was asking all sorts of questions about the course which I [del]was forced to[/del] gladly answered. In the middle of my description of the topics we covered over the three and four year programmes he interrupted to say "I'm only interested in particle physics".

The seventeen year old boy was the most arrogant person I've ever met.
>> No. 5844 Anonymous
21st November 2014
Friday 6:51 pm
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>>5841
>spacetime

To truly understand this, as well as related things like black-hole physics, requires a knowledge of tensor calculus and deferential geometry. They're not impossible to learn - not much harder than vector calculus really - but without it you can only do very hand-wavey descriptions.

As a chemist you'd probably find more utility reading up on advanced quantum and solid state physics, but far be it from me to discourage you.

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>> No. 5460 Anonymous
24th April 2014
Thursday 12:20 am
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9/11/53 NEVER FORGET

Let's start with the one everyone knows:
https://www.youtube.com/v/g2cgcx-GJTQ
Then one less well-known on the same subject:
https://www.youtube.com/v/tgN1TmGkY2M

Anyone have a particular favourite outside the half-dozen best-known?

On a related note, would it be heresy to suggest that Burton reading both Voices possibly doesn't yield the intended effect? (Not that this idiot on the Internet knows the intentions of a man now sixty years dead.)
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>> No. 5807 Anonymous
27th October 2014
Monday 11:36 pm
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>>5460
Happy birthday, old chap. Anyone west of the Dyke is probably going to see this in the news quite a bit over the next fortnight.

Here's one of his less appreciated works:

There was an old bugger called God
Who put a young virgin in pod
This disgraceful behaviour
Produced Christ our saviour
Who died on a cross, poor old sod.
>> No. 5827 Anonymous
12th November 2014
Wednesday 9:23 pm
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>>5807

Excellent.

Another quote of his you don't find put up much around my parts is the fact he called his hometown 'the graveyard of ambition'. You don't see that quote alongside the poor bastards face when it's plastered along the sides of Swansea buses.
>> No. 5828 Anonymous
12th November 2014
Wednesday 9:57 pm
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>>5827
>the fact he called his hometown 'the graveyard of ambition'.
Apparently he didn't. Plaid Cymru were quite publicly bollocked when they pinned both that, and the punning "ambition is critical" (to be found outside the station) on him. The writer of the latter is both known and still alive. On a similar note, Stephen Fry ended QI with the legend of "eighteen straight whiskies" - while he did say it, it was a full two days before being hospitalised. On thing he did say of his heritage was "Wales: Land of my fathers; my fathers can keep it."

I was tempted to adorn his statue in the marina with a sash, a balloon, a birthday card and a party hat. I'm sure some would think it vandalism, but I couldn't help but think it the sort of gesture that he'd have appreciated.
>> No. 5829 Anonymous
12th November 2014
Wednesday 10:07 pm
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>>5828

Bugger. Had a feeling that might be the case. Thank you for the correction.

I still get uncomfortable with how his image is handled given his ambivalent feelings about the place, though.

I'd have giggled at the party hat.

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>> No. 5796 Anonymous
22nd October 2014
Wednesday 12:53 pm
5796 World Of Crap
I don't normally like blogs or indeed bother to look at them but this website is rather good if you like 80s-90s nostalgia, semi-ironic adulation of the pieface that is Ross Kemp and sarcastic reviews of shit daytime telly, which I am certain one of the two of you will.

http://www.worldofcrap.co.uk/
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>> No. 5802 Anonymous
22nd October 2014
Wednesday 5:18 pm
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>>5797
>booked market
Lad.
>> No. 5803 Anonymous
22nd October 2014
Wednesday 6:00 pm
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>>5802
Don't fret lad. It's probably just phonelads predictive text.
>> No. 5804 Anonymous
22nd October 2014
Wednesday 6:46 pm
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>>5803
> phonelads
Lad!
>> No. 5805 Anonymous
22nd October 2014
Wednesday 10:10 pm
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http://yackmagazine.com/2014/07/02/the-adventures-of-ross-kemp/ mirth
>> No. 5806 Anonymous
22nd October 2014
Wednesday 10:11 pm
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>>5802>>5803

I wish I could claim to have been on my phone.

I had just woken up.

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>> No. 5742 Anonymous
23rd September 2014
Tuesday 5:58 pm
5742 how to lose friends and alienate people in less than a week
On the request from a couple from /shed/ I'm going to post the CorriganLad continuing adventures from uni. The real kicker is the third night

For ease of recognizing people I’ll give prominent people I’ve met in a cast list under the form of nicknames I’ll use exclusively for this story.
Cast:
• Me (CorriganLad)
• Goatee (Roommate)
• Young One (male flat mate downstairs)
• Curly (female flat mate downstairs)
• Ringo (Organiser of parties)
• Racist Chap (a drunken fellow who appears at odd times)
• The Turks (My Turkish roommates)
• Sparkles (A girl I met at one of the parties)
• Dealer (someone who turns up at parties and deals, I’m not even sure he’s a student)
• Blonde Girl (a blonde girl who is often at parties)

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>> No. 5753 Anonymous
24th September 2014
Wednesday 2:55 pm
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>>5750

..alternatively, start the conversation "Now - about that fanny of yours"....and see where things go.
>> No. 5754 Anonymous
24th September 2014
Wednesday 4:59 pm
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>>5753

Who's e.flake?
>> No. 5755 Anonymous
24th September 2014
Wednesday 5:44 pm
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>>5754

http://www.emilyflake.com/other/
>> No. 5756 Anonymous
25th September 2014
Thursday 7:50 am
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>>5755

Cheers.
>> No. 5788 Anonymous
10th October 2014
Friday 4:06 pm
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>>5742

Any update uniCorriganlad? It's a slow Friday afternoon at work....

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>> No. 5670 Anonymous
21st August 2014
Thursday 11:32 pm
5670 The Legacy of Totalitarianism in a Tundra
The other place's /lit/ wrote a book
http://www.litwritesabook.com

It's surprisingly not all that puerile, for them. Here's the table of contents.

Chapter 0ne
1.1 - Does cum eating have any long term benefits?
1.2 - Who are the lizardmen and what do they want?
1.3 - How Jessie broke the mortal plan & Other Short stories -
1.3.1 - Dakota Fanning and the Lizardmen Grooming Project
1.3.2 - Of Joyce and Jen
1.3.3 - How Anon discovered the drinking water hoax
1.4 - The origins of Anon (or how to cope with tfw no gf)
1.4.1 - Tao Lin's Mysterium Temendum
1.4.2 - Scooby Doo and the case of the missing meaning of existence, so why not just kill yourself eh?
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>> No. 5741 Anonymous
23rd September 2014
Tuesday 3:15 pm
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Wow.

Time to give the sanctity of the printed word a rethink.
>> No. 5748 Anonymous
23rd September 2014
Tuesday 7:44 pm
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This is still a work in progress, right? Where is the print copy from?
>> No. 5752 Anonymous
23rd September 2014
Tuesday 11:14 pm
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>>5748
It was termed officially finished and there are a handful of copies up on lulu of varying stages of edited.
>> No. 5758 Anonymous
28th September 2014
Sunday 3:18 pm
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The other place's /pol/ is now trying to write a book

https://docs.google.com/document/d/17QL8I3Rrsav0pFvJVN-_blW9PtrSkvk_Kc28mSWG8kE/edit?pli=1

>Did you know that /lit/ wrote a book?
>Similarly we can write a white paper.

>The white paper would be designed for mass consumption so that we can make a difference in this sick world. While being persuasive, it would avoid topics and language that most find objectionable.

>Once finished, can publish it everywhere online and do a viral campaign for it.

>Me and a couple other anons spearheaded the concept yesterday.

>I started a project in Gingko for writing a /pol/ white paper.
>> No. 5759 Anonymous
28th September 2014
Sunday 3:31 pm
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>>5758
>it would avoid topics and language that most find objectionable.
That precludes anything that /pol/ would ever want to talk about then, surely? Or are they not neo-nazi loons any more?

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>> No. 5679 Anonymous
22nd August 2014
Friday 6:51 pm
5679 the Culture
So I have only read 'Use of Weapons' from the Culture series. Which one should I read next?
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>> No. 5681 Anonymous
22nd August 2014
Friday 7:00 pm
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>>5679
If you want to stay within his sci-fi books, try Player of Games (also Culture series). If you want to branch out into his general fiction, try The Wasp Factory or Complicity.

If anyone can tell me where that photo of him was taken I'd appreciate it.
>> No. 5682 Anonymous
22nd August 2014
Friday 7:13 pm
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I've read a rake of the non Sci-Fi stuff. The Crow Road being a particular favourite.

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>> No. 5673 Anonymous
22nd August 2014
Friday 6:15 am
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I
need
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I could explain the context here, but it's better if you just go over there and get acquainted with the context yourself.
I guess I just want to get a confirmation from one of you guys...
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>> No. 5674 Anonymous
22nd August 2014
Friday 7:15 am
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>>5673
"A moment later she had appeared" and "a moment later she appeared" would both make sense, but the former sounds more natural. Just the way it is, I'm afraid. In English the rulebook is poorly written and even more poorly adhered to.
>> No. 5676 Anonymous
22nd August 2014
Friday 8:43 am
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>>5674
>but the former sounds more natural
But why?!?
let's take our conversation there (I think you're already there).
It's better if it's discussed in one place only.

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>> No. 5122 Anonymous
9th May 2013
Thursday 6:18 pm
5122 Useful things
Google search for "choose a category to browse by" with quotes.

http://ebookbrowse.com/
http://gen.lib.rus.ec
http://forum.mobilism.org/portal.php?mode=articles&block=ebook
http://bibliotik.org
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>> No. 5136 Anonymous
11th May 2013
Saturday 7:48 pm
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The first part, in particular, is a really nice tip.

Does any of the stuff on these Calibre servers still have the DRM intact? I don't suppose they're servers of 17,383 legally purchased ebooks but I just wondered.

A lot of them have many of the same books as each other too. I wonder if they raid each other's servers or are all avid fans of Mobilism or download big packs of NYT bestsellers or something.
>> No. 5284 Anonymous
8th August 2013
Thursday 10:38 am
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Let's start with free Zinio magazines:
1) Go to http://www.rbdigital.com/poudreriverco/service/zinio/landing
2) Click Create Account
3) Enter in a 14 digit number beginning with 23052. e.g. 23052000059859
4) Register using a Zinio account email address. I recommend you create a new Zinio account just for this. You must use the same email address for both accounts.
5) Check out magazines to your Zinio library. Go back each month for the latest issues.

And here's where it gets even more fun:
https://www.rbdigital.com/charlestoncountysc/service/zinio/landing? D200000001 etc.
https://www.rbdigital.com/fountaindaleil/service/zinio/landing? 20401500000001 etc.
http://www.rbdigital.com/edmontonab/service/zinio/landing 21221000000001 etc.

Remember to enter random numbers but keep the first digits the same.

If people would post their library's name with the first digits of their library card and the length of the number, it would help to expand this list and help other purposes.
>> No. 5285 Anonymous
8th August 2013
Thursday 10:39 am
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Databases are a bit more scattered. Here's some of the better ones.

http://www.londonpubliclibrary.ca/informationdatabases
Offers Gales, World Book, EBSCOhost, EBSCOhost's Consumer Reports, Newsstand, and others. The funny part is when you click to go a database, it gives you a sample card number (22104123456789). You can just copy and paste the sample card number to access the database.

Here's another funny one:
http://gclibrary.com/research.php
Funk & Wagnall's Encyclopedia, EBSCOhost (many)
I just looked up the address of one of their branches and used that: city: Little Rock zip: 72201 phone: 5016822053

Here's a generous one. They have great access to the Consumer Reports website, Oxford English Dictionary (!), National Geographic (!), World Book, Mango languages, EBSCOhost, Gale, Grolier, and others.
They let you register for a temporary card on their site for free. You can then use the temp for 30 days to access their databases. Sign up with postal code (T5X 3Y7) or just use my temp.
http://www.epl.ca/licensed-databases/
Card number: 964308
Pin: 34268
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>> No. 5428 Anonymous
4th February 2014
Tuesday 2:08 pm
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I'm going to bump this thread because it's useful.
>> No. 5642 Anonymous
16th August 2014
Saturday 3:37 pm
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http://www.textbooknova.com/
http://www.reddit.com/r/eebooks+mathbooks+csbooks+physicsbooks+econbooks/new/?sort=new http://bookboon.com/en/textbooks-ebooks
http://textbookrevolution.org/index.php/Main_Page
http://people.math.gatech.edu/~cain/textbooks/onlinebooks.html
http://ebookee.org/ http://www.freebookspot.es/
http://www.free-ebooks.net/
http://www.getfreeebooks.com/
http://en.bookfi.org/
http://oerconsortium.org/discipline-specific/
http://www.gutenberg.org/
http://bigwords.com
http://textsurf.com
http://abebooks.com
another handy trick is to google the name of your book followed by "pdf download". A lot of times a link will come up for a random website where you can view the book, but not download. Just bookmark those pages.

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