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Previous threads: Random Thoughts 1: Just Sayin' Random Thoughts 2: Arbitrary Speculations Random Thoughts 3: A Little Bit of This, and a Little Bit of That... --- The writing staff for the first seasons of The Simpsons really seemed convinced that "frosty chocolate milkshakes" was going to...

Am I misguided in feeling that having separate pride flags for bisexuality and pansexuality is a bit like having separate flags for America and the United States?

Is Britain about to leave the EU? Snap UK General Election Brexit Thread III - How to instantly polarise your country without even trying So, Brexit, huh? What's that all about?

So I was reading about Stan Roger's "Northwest Passage", one of the classics of Canadian folk, and I was advised that it is sometimes regarded as Canada's unofficial national anthem, presumably because "O Canada" is, charitably, a bit tepid, so far as rousing patriotic songs go. TVY8LoM47xI...

So this is a thread for talking about monthly (or weekly, or quarterly) ongoing comic series. What's good? What's bad? What should we read and what should we avoid? Currently, I'm keeping up with 2000AD, which as always generally solid. I haven't loved the line up for the last month or so, but...

Old threads: Altered Maps Altered Maps 2: Uber-Yugoslavia FTW Altered Maps 3: The rise of the Basque Empire! Altered Maps 4: Partitioning Eastern Europe Like In The Good Old Days Altered Maps V: The Molotov-Threadentropp Pact Altered Maps VI: Xorda Gene Bombs.. going from Earth to Mobius...

From International Business Times: Firstly, good for this guy, I guess, putting that bad stuff behind him. Here's hoping a life without foreskins and pork does him well. Secondly, surprising as it seems, this does make a certain kind of sense: it's often said that ultra-nationalism is a...

From "History Questions Not Worth Their Own Thread VII", Add your own, and feel free to expand on any of the above comments! For meself, Paternal grandfather's side of the family are Irish; his grandfather came over from Donegal in the 1890s, the rest I think from thereabouts...

From Phillymag.com: The cartoon: The letter: What to make of this? Are the police over-sensitive to criticism? Is this sort of knee-jerk hostility to their critics going to make it more difficult to establish or re-establish trusting relationships with civilians?

This thread might be a bad idea, but if the alternative is unspoken resentments, I'm willing to risk it. The Clique. Or, perhaps, "The Clique". The allegation that there are a certain group of posters who exercise disproportionate influence on the CFC OT board, and use this influence to...

Split from the discussion in the questions-not-worth-their-own-thread thread. Like 40%? America has never been exclusively white, and it's certainly never been excursively male. (How would that even work?) And in 1938, the latter at least was firmly reflected in the comics industry, as it was...

From The Guardian, This seems like strange behaviour from a senior politician. Presumably the event was intended to appeal to voters who might be lured to the UKIP banner, but the distastefulness and perhaps outright illegality of the stunt will surely cost him with centrist voters? Beyond the...

(All these political threads are getting me down, so let's bicker about something good and frivolous instead.) We're all familiar with the term "hipster". Most of us probably have some sense of what it means, but can we translate this into a clear definition? We can describe...

Two things are happening in Britain over the next few sixth months. The first is the European election, in which UKIP are predicted to take away the lion's share of British seats. The second is the Scottish independence referendum, in which the "Yes" vote currently polls at 39%. What does...

On July 17, 1936, officers lead by José Sanjurjo launched an uprising in Spanish Morocco against the government of Santiago Casares. Intended to overthrow the republican government in one blow, the rebels quickly seize control of Morocco, and the following day begin actions on the Spanish...

Idle curiosity; how many CFCers wear beards? Vote for one of the following, and feel free to comment on beards, their wearing, and your opinion thereof. Beard: I consistently wear a full or partial beard. Light beard: I consistently wear a thick stubble or light beard, in a full or partial...

The following is a recent university essay dealing with the "Germanness" of German history. Not sure if it's of interest to anyone, but it seemed worth adding on the off-chance you're willing to suffer through three-thousand words of my ill-considered rambling. Please pick holes in it as you...

I've been reading about 19th century Germany for school, and I found myself struck by the scale of emigration from the region during this period. I'd been aware of German migration to North American during this period, but I had vaguely assumed it resembled Swedish or English migration patterns...

A thread for asking anarchists about anarchist theory, history and ethics. Please remember that this is a question and answers thread, so although we welcome challenging questions, this is not the place for polemic or debate. Posters currently approved to answer are: Traitorfish...