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Ohh like the narrator on Patrick O'Brians Aubrey Maturin series...that's 21 books so it's my fall back. I learned a lot about the British Navy and politics of the era on a British Empire scale. He writes enough in the vernacular of the time and feels authentic...tremendously researched. https://www...

Adrian Tchaikovsky’s sci-fi novs are a romp. Children of Time series.

Ed Yong’s “An Immense World” is very good, at least on ink-stained tree slices. Don’t know about the audio book.

Ed Yong’s “An Immense World”, about the senses of different animals and shit. Umwelt and all that caper. What does it taste like to be a bat? Very good.

"The name Holland is also frequently used informally to refer to the whole of the country of the Netherlands" Wiki. Informal is good enough for me. I'm sure there's plenty of better places to be an OAP but I think I'd probably prefer somewhere a bit warmer. No its not. You are just old fashioned by...

"The name Holland is also frequently used informally to refer to the whole of the country of the Netherlands"
Wiki.

Informal is good enough for me.

I'm sure there's plenty of better places to be an OAP but I think I'd probably prefer somewhere a bit warmer.

Brian Peacock wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 12, 2021 8:15 am

Scot Dutchy wrote:My post has disappeared?

Which one?

It was the one about how Holland is excellent and the UK is terrible, if that helps.

JimC wrote: ↑

Wed Mar 10, 2021 8:28 pm

Cheers, Clinton. Keep posting, you lazy bastard!

I'm of the age now, old chap, when an intermittent dribble is to be expected. Of posts, I mean.

Just reading Kindred by Rebecca Wragg Sykes. It's jolly good, if you like Neanderthals. If you don't (like Neanderthals that is), you've picked up the wrong book (you idiot).

You don't see slime moulds fucking each other over for a God damn percentage

There's more chance of something I just made up happening than of something I'm unilaterally disregarding happening. Or whatever.

There's nothing but humanity and the Void, and my money is on the Void.

NineBerry wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 31, 2020 11:32 am

Bad people with germs can only be stopped by good people with germs.

If only we'd allowed good viruses to be more infectious, we wouldn't have this problem.

"This virus is as contagious as any other"

If only facepalms were still allowed.

GI Joe and The Raiders of the Lost Jedi is legendary.