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  1. AmazonQueen

    Glenda Jackson RIP

    Glenda Jackson, actress, Oscar winner, and labour MP has died :sad:
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    Things that make you feel old.

    Really liked Paris Paloma's recent single, Labour, and its quite rare for a current artist to make an impression on me so I listened to some of her other stuff, liked it, thought maybe I'll get the CD, but her work is only available on MP3 :old:
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    Future of Gaming or Choo Choo Its the Hype Train? Settlers of Catan to get VR version.

    https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/the-settlers-of-catan-will-become-a-holographic-ar-board-game-in-early-2023/ar-AA110r1r?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=9b4ad5d4e50446e48f6a425a581d16dd Have to say I consider SoC a mediocre entry level boardgame 1 step above Risk but if this is successful...
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    Mass Shooting in Chicago

    6 people have been killed at a 4th July Parade in Chicago. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/six-dead-after-gunman-opens-fire-on-fourth-of-july-parade-from-rooftop-suspect-still-at-large/ar-AAZbHgA?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=44abf6d61a8e47e5be26e6be91d81bc1 I don't have the words for this.
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    Something Rotten in the Met

    https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/oct/03/metropolitan-police-officer-charged-rape-hertfordshire Another serving officer from the Met has been charged with rape. He was in the same unit as Wayne Couzens, the Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Command.
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    What Videogames have You Been Playing XX: Virtual Imperialism

    I know theres a better way to do these links, I just can't remember what it is. What Video Games have you been playing I: My Muffintop Expands! What Video Games have you been playing II: Have you finished that backlog? What Video Games have you been playing III: You're gonna need a bigger boat...
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    Navalny Jailed

    Navalny jailed on pretext of having missed parole hearings whilst he was in a coma. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/punished-for-surviving-novichok-navalny-sentenced-to-three-and-a-half-years-in-prison-colony/ar-BB1dkdVY?ocid=msedgntp
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    Clown Car VI: Hello, Goodbye. On to 2024.

    The Past Part 1: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/clown-car-2016.542743/ Part 2: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/clown-car-ii-revenge-of-the-clowns.609483/ Part 3: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/clown-car-iii-whos-laughing-now.625777/ Part 4...
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    Wierd News IV - The Twilight Zone

    My very first time to start a thread and no witty title prepared :cry: The previous threads: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/turners-news-of-the-weird.186076/ https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/abaddons-weird-news-of-the-world.383443/...
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    How Many People Will You be Sharing Christmas With

    Given that Boris has decided that in the UK restrictions will be eased over Xmas celebrations are expected to cause a spike in covid cases in early 2020.
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    RIP Tim Brooke-Taylor

    A little more of my childhood is gone :( https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/breaking-tim-brooke-taylor-dead-21854243
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    Grenfell Tower Inquiry

    No surprises really, but its becoming clear why the architects etc involved in refurbishing the Grenfell Tower were insistent that any evidence they gave should not be useable in any prosecution...
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    Your Prejudices

    Is there anything you would admit to being unfairly prejudiced against? I don't mean disagree with or disapprove of for what seem to you good reasons. I'll list a few of mine. 1. Heavy Metal: Possibly caused by having too many metalhead friends at school who played interminable songs about...
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    Brexit the black comedy (Dad's Army version)(UK centric)

    My mum said this afternoon that more and more she feels the only appropriate response is Got me thinking. Who would you cast in Dad's Brexit Army? Boris Johnson as Captain Mainwaring Phillip Hammond as Sargeant Wilson Ken Clark as Walker Jeremy Corbyn as Private Godfrey Jo Swinson as Mavis...
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    Greedfall

    Anyone interested in this? The mechanics look fairly standard (map compass like Skyrim, tactical pause like DAI etc) but the background is different, supposedly a lot of lore, character customisation, and choices with consequences.
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    21st Century Genocide

    Don't kill them, just put them in camps, separate them from their children, destroy their religion and culture. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-48825090?SThisFB
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    Women who was shot and miscarried to be prosecuted.

    https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/alabama-woman-indicted-for-manslaughter-after-being-shot-in-the-stomach-suffering-miscarriage/ar-AADv3ea?ocid=spartanntp Alabama is no place to be a women nowadays.
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    What is the US up to with regard to Iran?

    Its not just the usual suspects who are worried and puzzled by current US actions towards Iran. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/editorpicks/take-it-from-an-iraq-war-supporter—war-with-iran-would-be-a-disaster/ar-AABrwha?ocid=spartandhp...
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    Shooting at San Diego Synagogue

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/apr/27/san-diego-police-shooting-synagogue-poway-reports 1 dead, 3 injured, suspect apprehended. Another terrible crime motivated by hatred.
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    IS Bride to lose UK citizenship

    https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/isis-bride-shamima-begum-has-uk-citizenship-revoked-by-british-government/ar-BBTOLHs?ocid=spartandhp Isn't this wrong? She was a foolish teenager who made a stupid choice. Now shes to be made a stateless person. There doesn't seem to be any suggestion that...
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