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Post by Etaoin Shrdlu on Aug 20, 2023 23:05:00 GMT
A thread for those interesting discoveries. Maybe others have been equally ignorant, and will be grateful for the enlightenment. Or perhaps they've known it for ages, and now think that you must have been on another planet. This is the place to find out.
The President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe since 2022 has been Martinus Josephus Maria Cox, known as Tiny Cox.
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Post by kizolk on Aug 22, 2023 0:42:29 GMT
I find it incredible how most people (including me) know next to nothing about the people who run the EU, or about the institutions in general. In great part due to laziness, but I think not enough is done to make it more widely known. In that regard, I've always found the Franco-German channel Arte to be quite refreshing: they're sometimes comically pro-EU, but at least they're making a genuine effort at making that dream live. Their evenings news are especially well made IMO: they actually speak about what's happening in other EU countries and try to give us a feel about how life is like in those countries, and in the rest of the world too for that matter.
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Post by Pacifica on Aug 23, 2023 15:48:58 GMT
I've just found out, thanks to Etaoin liking her own post above, that you can like your own posts on here.
I had no idea about the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe or its president—and still don't have much of an idea except that I now know the guy's hilarious nickname.
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Post by Etaoin Shrdlu on Aug 23, 2023 16:16:11 GMT
I didn't mean to. I probably shouldn't post on a phone.
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Post by kizolk on Aug 24, 2023 0:15:00 GMT
I didn't mean to. I probably shouldn't post on a phone. That's what I thought. But I almost made the same reply as Pacifica did when I saw it lol |
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Post by Etaoin Shrdlu on Aug 27, 2023 13:48:04 GMT
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Post by terentiusfaber on Aug 29, 2023 22:26:17 GMT
It never occurred to me for a minute that would be a link with black people! I suppose white folk don't practise black magic either. The world's gone mad.
Anyway rant over...
... I've heard two mildly amusing takes takes on the saying.
1) He'd call a spade a primitive digging implement.
2) He'd call a spade a bloody shovel! ( a distant cousin on her somewhat uncouth husband).
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Post by Etaoin Shrdlu on Sept 9, 2023 9:21:10 GMT
I didn't get the point of LonginusNaso's nick until I googled his signature. Interesting.
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Post by Etaoin Shrdlu on Sept 21, 2023 10:56:40 GMT
Bernard Manning has covered the Smiths. It is unlikely that anyone outside the UK or Ireland knows who Bernard Manning is, but I don't see any reason for suffering alone, and this is a thread for discoveries. A problem shared is a problem multiplied. I'm sure kizolk will appreciate this. |
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Post by kizolk on Sept 21, 2023 11:45:56 GMT
Bernard Manning has covered the Smiths. It is unlikely that anyone outside the UK or Ireland knows who Bernard Manning is, but I don't see any reason for suffering alone, and this is a thread for discoveries. A problem shared is a problem multiplied. I'm sure kizolk will appreciate this. Thank you. I am "grateful for the enlightnement", as per this thread's stated purpose. By the way, I discovered the Smiths through a cover by Placebo. Not quite the same type as Manning's though. |
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Post by kizolk on Sept 21, 2023 11:46:21 GMT
(and as you suspected, I'd never heard of him before)
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Post by kizolk on Sept 21, 2023 11:58:31 GMT
There is a certain charm to his covers, though. I may be wrong but it seems to me he's actually trying, as opposed to what most comedians would've done, i.e. go for over the top terrible singing.
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Post by terentiusfaber on Sept 21, 2023 22:15:53 GMT
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Post by terentiusfaber on Sept 21, 2023 22:19:29 GMT
Bernard Manning has covered the Smiths. It is unlikely that anyone outside the UK or Ireland knows who Bernard Manning is, but I don't see any reason for suffering alone, and this is a thread for discoveries. A problem shared is a problem multiplied. I'm sure kizolk will appreciate this. This might be overstretching your imagination and your trust in me, but I once knew a parish priest who both looked and sounded like Bernard Manning. I'd say Bernard Manning was probably easier to live with, however, and had better manners. |
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Post by kizolk on Sept 22, 2023 7:10:07 GMT
This might be overstretching your imagination and your trust in me, but I once knew a parish priest who both looked and sounded like Bernard Manning. I'd say Bernard Manning was probably easier to live with, however, and had better manners. Did he have a peculiar taste in clothing? |
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