Paul Mc Auley

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• Commented on Fuck the Monarchy
  I can't help but feel that "Republican" carries a degree of nuance in Ireland too. Thankfully we're no longer where we were up towards the tail end of the last century, but it was definitely loaded with meaning in its...
• Commented on Roll the dice
  I'll confess that I only got halfway through the thread and apologies if I missed that someone already called it. But. Isn't a campaign about telling a story? i.e. The DM has a broad plot which they absolutely wouldn't railroad...
• Commented on So you think you can be a reality TV producer
  Accident and Emergency, ER as it would be there. One more while I'm at it: Gogglepox: Aspiring cub reporters bid for a career with a major network by reporting on a major pandemic....
• Commented on So you think you can be a reality TV producer
  Who (the f---) Do You Think You Are? An unrestrained attack on the lives of the -vict- contestants, unclear as to whether points are assigned for stamina or messiness of exit....
• Commented on So you think you can be a reality TV producer
  24 Hours To A&E Phone vote triage. Who gets a bed? Who gets judged fit to work?...
• Commented on Story time!
  Delivergru. Mind you, off the top of my head I'd say some of the structures of Rule 34 (and Halting State) were pretty gig economesque....
• Commented on Story time!
  Indeed, particularly given my ongoing contention that Tim Tams are reminiscent of the fruit of a cross between the other two....
• Commented on Story time!
  It occurs to me that the Bat-verse contains both the Penguin and (Kit) Catwoman. Is there room for an offspring called Tim-Tam?...
• Commented on Story time!
  Matrices were on the Leaving Cert (Irish second-level state exam, think A-levels or Bac) when I did it a few decades ago. Not sure it's still there though....
• Commented on Story time!
  The certain Tory who named their child Sixtus. You know, the Beano character. (Jacob Rees-Mogg to avoid dragging it out)...
• Commented on Story time!
  (Obsessing over the wrong detail) What I find intriguing is that it's Radisson Red, sorry - RED there. Here (Ireland) we get Radisson Blu (sic) plus a number of higher grade places. Plus apparently they're effectively franchises. R-SAS employs the...
• Commented on Crawling from the wreckage
  Ireland finally repealed the 8th and in two days time the legislation comes into force. Meanwhile, I was thinking that there was a time when 2016 was the bad year, and then came to realize that a chunk of the...
• Commented on Typo Hunt: The Labyrinth Index
  Somewhat subjective nits, UK 4th gen Kindle Location 273 of 5662: favor vs favour in "doing them a favor" Location 298: Previously referred to as "Peers' dining room" referred to as "Lords' dining room" Both of these are subjective and...
• Commented on That sinking feeling
  Just to add to the cheery optimism... One note on stockpiling meds: They generally don't have an unbounded shelf life, and I don't just mean the tricky ones you have to keep in the fridge. I've been known to pick...
• Commented on On hold
  It involves a payment of scales....
• Commented on Excuses
  On being middle-aged. As-ever I'd suggest it's in the mind of the beholder, I'm up towards the the dusty end of my 40s and have stated that I'm not middle-aged until I started shouting at people in the street to...
• Commented on Suspense is the key
  Hrm. Since someone has to mention it, although the height of the drama is relative... doesn't The Colour of Magic open thus? Burn a city to the ground and then wind back to the establishing events. Followed by subsequent adventures....
• Commented on The present in deep history
  (Scans thread) Yipe. (Insert tongue firmly in cheek) Bet an island on the east of the Atlantic will still be complaining about how it was invaded by an adjacent island centuries before (but the names may have changed). Otherwise, I'd...
• Commented on A product review, and some musing
  Funny thing about the off-brand chargers. Depending on the relative greyness of the market in question, stories indicate that malware should be the least of your worries. I'm pretty sure it was one of the UK consumer programmes which I...
• Commented on An exercise in futility
  I'm pretty sure that the version on Blue are the Lyrics^W^W^Wis the Colour has the non-"Radio Edit" version. Generally speaking I take Radio Edit to mean that they've substituted out explicit lyrics, although in some cases I guess it can...
• Commented on An exercise in futility
  So the software gives not one fuck, but it does take them away? It is a bit of the thin end of the wedge, it starts with vocabulary, then extends to semantic analysis for vile acts and so through to...
• Commented on The Curse of Laundry
  Regarding the curse itself, I guess then that's a case of Life intimidating Art?...
• Commented on Some thoughts on turning 50
  Happy Birthday! As for the epitaph: "I didn't get where I am today by acting my age"...
• Commented on Apology
  Carrying on in the vein of appropriating other people's names: (When) Two Tribes Go To War Multiverse Wars: A New Hope Revenge of the Family Eve of the War I'd try and do a pun on The Fourth Protocol, but...