Prince Myshkin

I am.

5 on cam at once must have been a record.

Bonjour.

It's physically possible for you to get drunk. just not legally. Every couple of years some horrendous parents end up on the news for filming their kids drunk or something. I remember about five years ago some parents got jailed because they were filming their toddlers smoking and making them fight, then sticking it on youtube. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2VCwBzGdPM]What a wonderful world - LOUIS ARMSTRONG. - YouTube[/ame]

Good luck. Usually takes me about 18 months after I've been dumped. It's been a while though.

I'm used to the English press so it's no real surprise for me.

Still though, you could have a right winger in... The left need to learn through experience, as badly as they are doing now.

Blue Monday: There is no such thing as ‘the most depressing day of the year’ http://www.theguardian.com/science/head-quarters/2014/jan/06/most-depressing-day-of-year-blue-monday?CMP=twt_fd

Sorry, Folks, Rich People Actually Don't 'Create The Jobs' http://www.businessinsider.com/rich-people-create-jobs-2013-11

I don't really know.

Today, I will mostly be listening to afrobeat [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOValSt7YOY]Songhoy Blues - Soubour - YouTube[/ame]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Way

Heh

Link sent. And now I sit and wait. On TC

Rekorderlig.

Newspeak.

This year I learned that (for me at least) you can't ever really know yourself. You can attempt to work out who you have been and why you have done the things you have done, but given that you are first and foremost a product of experience and life events, within the moment you don't really know how you are going to react. If you don't think or don't really do much or both then I guess it becomes easier because there's no real evolution in your character. On the other hand, if you want to experience different things and do things then you're likely not to be able to keep up. You need to constantly revise your perception of exactly who you are, otherwise you wake up and realise that you've changed without realising and it's almost impossible to see where it all stemmed from. Like each fine layer of foundation supporting you is added so quickly yet so in such a subtle manner that you couldn't retrace your steps if you tried. It means I've no idea who I'm going to be in the future since I have no control over what happens in my life. In a quarter of a century I've still not experienced the death of somebody close to me, I hope to find love again and I also have a few plans for travel that I imagine will shape me in at least some way. I guess this year I learned that if I want to experience more in life I'm likely going to change quite a bit. This isn't a problem, it's just after the depression of my adolescent years, one of the things that dragged me out was a kind of self awareness and understanding which meant I at least understood myself, even if the rest of the world didn't make sense. This past year I've come to realise that sometimes it is hard to be truly sincere in your actions and your hopes, when you don't clearly know who you are. How can you be?

The original creator.

I didn't create one.

I'm around for the next nine days as off work. Yeah, forgot about sending the link out. Sent the first one since I'd recently sent the old link to Diana a few days before the new one was made. I didn't want her to think we'd all run off or I'd given her a false one, so I made sure I sent that one first. Then I forgot the rest. Anyway, we all have it now. I think. Someone let Reilly know.

Yeah, I find it really useful for recommendations too. Don't bother with the user reviews though.

Easier to scrap together if you have a Goodreads account. My aim was to read wide ranging well respected books and specific topics that interest me (science/feminist based for example) and films I have enjoyed which came from books. Here's what I managed in 2013: Is There A God - Bertrand Russell Frankenstein - Mary Shelley Lying - Sam Harris Letters To A Young Contrarian - Christopher Hitchens Mortality - Christopher Hitchens The Doors of Perception - Aldous Huxley The Origin Of Species - Charles Darwin Pride And Prejudice - Jane Austen Discordia - Laurie Penny & Molly Crabapple The Penal Colony - Franz Kafka Shutter Island - Dennis Lehane Guns - Stephen King Politics And The English Language - George Orwell Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors & Harm Patients - Ben Goldacre Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton Meat Market: Female Flesh Under Capitalism - Laurie Penny The Burden Of Scepticism - Carl Sagan Lord Of The Flies - William Golding Homage To Catalonia - George Orwell Planet Of The Apes - Pierre Boulle The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda - Noam Chomsky Secrets, Lies and Democracy - Noam Chomsky Pale Blue Dot - Carl Sagan What Uncle Sam Really Wants - Noam Chomsky The Prosperous Few & The Restless Many - Noam Chomsky The Dice Man - Luke Rhinehart Out Of Your Mind - Alan Watts The French Revolution: A Short History - R.M.Johnston Terra Incognita - Vladimir Nabokov Drugs: Without The Hot Air - Prof. David Nutt Beyond Good & Evil - Friedrich Nietzsche The Perks of Being A Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky The Art of War - Sun Tzu The Man Who Fell To Earth - Walter Tevis Big Sur - Jack Kerouac Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche Lady Windermere's Fan - Oscar Wilde The Shining - Stephen King Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck On Writing - Stephen King How I Escaped My Certain Fate: The Life & Deaths of a Standup Comedian - Stewart Lee The House Of The Dead - Fyodor Dostoevsky Autobiography - Morrissey The Machine Stops - E.M Forster Why I Write - George Orwell Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk Misery - Stephen King A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess Cybersexism: Sex, Gender and Power on the Internet - Laurie Penny The Time Machine - H.G. Wells The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - F. Scott Fitzgerald Dr Jeckyl & Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson Death Of A Salesman - Arthur Miller The 39 Steps - John Buchan Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth and Happiness - Richard H. Thaler Goodreads also tells me that this was 11,778 pages, over 56 books (about 210 pages per book and 32 pages per day).

The term necromancer annoyed me too because I thought they were speaking of a neck romancer for half the film.

Wtf is happening with showers these days? (bad start to a standup comedy show)

I know it's easy to make such threads and we've had 2013 summary threads and things but what do you think you learned last year and has anything within that year helped you better understand who you are as a person, or indeed changed you in a notable way? I'll make my contribution later.