Xavier Trapnel
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Xavier Trapnel
@XavierTrapnel
Books do furnish a room.
London, England Katılım Şubat 2015
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What is your all-time favorite Western Film?
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Charles Titchmarsh and Jack Macbryan open for MCC v West Indians, Lord's, May 26th 1923. Titchmarsh was on his way back within minutes for 0, losing both his off and leg stumps with his middle stump remaining. He never played county cricket but made 36 first-class appearances for MCC scoring 2260 runs at 41.85
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@LilywhiteLab Passion alone isn't enough. We'll also need some long throws.
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Can’t wait to see this in practice!
Strong tackles 💪
That’ll take us back to the promised land
Totnumb@THFC_Numb
@LilywhiteLab Our midfielders are lazy.. This is EXACTLY what we need. Palinha - Gallagher.. Physical and strong pivot
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@morallawwithin I'm making a judgment of taste about this.
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@ESPNcricinfo Not sure Rohan Kanhai ever played for England!
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It took Joe Root 30 innings to score his maiden Test ton in Australia ❗
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There's a kind of academic who sincerely believes that all of the world's problems would be solved if everyone were to become a disciple of their favorite philosopher
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The french bourgeoisie also died at equal or higher rates than farmers and blue-collar workers
Old communist narratives about WW1 being a cabal of the elites fought by the people have done a lot of damage
LiorLefineder@lefineder
The World Wars overwhelmingly recruited from the upper classes of society, they killed close to half of the adult men in the British nobility, a similar percentage to those who died from violence during the Hundred Years War when the nobility was an explicit military class.
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@MadocCairns Did he clarify what the correct reading was?
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One obvious example of this is when First Things asked Macintyre to review The Benedict Option and he turned them down by saying that (iirc), the only person more surprised than Macintyre by Dreher's reading of that sentence was St Benedict himself
Madoc Cairns@MadocCairns
As others have noted, Alasdair MacIntyre really believed in practicing what he preached in terms of pursuing the virtues: you start to fully appreciate this when you realise how capable he was, even at a very advanced age, of annihilating people in the space of a sentence
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@TheeBert @jessesingal I don't know, this is what British people tell me.
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Somebody explain what I'm missing here: I know Adolescence has the manosphere and incel stuff as a subplot, but I didn't think the show laid that stuff on nearly as thick as a lot of the coverage suggests? Isn't it way more about... Adolescence than anything 2025-specific?
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@nguyenhdi "We do the concentrating, the Poles do the camping."
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Watching 1942 film "To Be or Not to Be".
Fantastic dialogue.
"What he did to Shakespeare, we're now doing to Poland" hahahahahaa.
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The word "opposite" carries a strong connotation of an involution without fixed points, but taking binary relations to their converse does indeed have fixed points.
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Alright, fine. I take it back. I am not the complete opposite.
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What's the best movie you've seen that depicts a character's descent into madness?
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@jayforeman Historically, it's non-conformist Protestants being the core vote of the 19th century liberal party concentrated in the south-west, north Wales and the Highlands.
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Question for UK politics nerds…
There are bits of the UK, like SW London, the Westcountry and some of very rural Scotland, where the Lib Dems always do well.
What makes these Lib Dem territory? Do they have anything in common? Or is it just momentum that’s built up randomly?
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This reminds me, name your favourite dogs in films.
One of mine is the dog in "The Artist" (RIP). Messi in "Anatomy of a Fall" is another.
Variety@Variety
"Anatomy of a Fall" star Messi poses for photos at Cannes Film Festival. bit.ly/4bzSVym
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