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Did you go? I saw Ichibanya in Central Bangkok for....significantly less money. I actually ate at Hinoya, which had just opened its first branch in BKK.....and I don't really get it. My dish had tartare sauce on it, but that was unpiquant even by British Chippy Standards. I get that Japanese...

Been a few years ago now, but iirc Eindhoven had the bar you could smoke weed outside, basically on the town square. That was kinda nice. I got a ridiculously cheap rate on the Park Plaza Mandarin and absolutely murdered their buffet breakfast. Once I went to a nice budtender in Seattle and she...

All this talk about WTO rules, mostly nonsense-on-stilts as it might be, is nonetheless predicated on the continued existence of the WTO as a vaguely credible institution. Given the squabbles between Trump & China, that has to be in doubt. And now the Germans are getting in on it...

Yeah basically; the idea that there's some default fallback WTO Rules position is woefully inaccurate. We don't have the negotiators for this shit. http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2017/01/economist-explains-4...

The underlying trigger appears to be the creeping admission that there probably isn't a good trade deal to be done with the EU. Alexis Tsipras brought them a referendum mandate; the EU wiped their arse with it and made him eat it. That leaves 'WTO Rules', but when you take a look at the detail...

I saw the Elton John collection of Man Ray and other photography- it was good fun, but I suspect a bit more middlebrow than what you're after. I like the smaller contained collections within the extension quite a lot, though I was doing the tourist thing with my gf so didn't really get to do my...

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/cnn-confirms-network-passed-kellyanne-conway-interview-972404 CNN have had enough of Trump's 'Counselor' already, hints that MSNBC have taken a similar view. This is getting real ugly, real fast.

Late night for the Donald.

fwiw I'm not trying to excuse anything; I'm just aware that the opposition is powerful. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/jan/23/brian-eno-not-interested-in-talking-about-me-reflection

The term 'Alternative Facts' is gaining traction in the UK media pretty fast. But my Mother's partner has bought into the Trump line, fwiw.

I'm not saying it's not bleak, or that Trump can't reasonably be described as a fascist. I myself think it's pretty funny that Mr Lügenpresse got his clock cleaned, but I think it may turn out to be a pyrrhic victory.

I mean, I think you're in danger of misunderstanding my position - I'm not in love with such things, I just understand (well believe at any rate) that these conversations are inevitable. What I think the Alt-Right and such have done quite a good job of doing is that establishing is that a lot of...

Please go ahead!

You might want to consider getting over that.

Possibly, but I have a Trump sympathising acquaintance who said the same about many on the left recently. Obv I read it as a teenager, rewatched the Hurt/Burton film recently. I'm not sure exactly what a re-read would do for me tbh.

Aha. Fair enough; my bad.

I'm all for Nazis getting punched in the face, but getting bogged down in a binary argument over whether Trump is a racist or not is probably about as far from the best place to start as you can get.

Obviously he's playing with the ambiguity here, but fwiw (not much imo) you can make a good case that he is saying 'their rapists'.

Well there's a big difference between those two statements; the data you present does indeed demonstrate that 'they're all liars' is indeed true. Sanders seems not 'guilty' of 'pants on fire' but about 30% of his statements are pretty much false with another 20% being only half true. That's...

Well the line was ghostwritten, but yeah. My point is that you are doing the 'moralised account of public life' thing - people have been disrespecting the truth for ages, Trump just does it more openly. Is that really such a big difference? Fair enough if you refuse to give in, but you're the...