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The thing is, dystopia is the new cyberpunk. And actually cyberpunk was dystopia as well, just nobody seemed to notice. So don't blame the 21st-century execs -- they're actually more hip with the in genres than you are! The other...
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Pigeon commented on
21st Century: a complaint
"Suck, squeeze, burn, blow" is correct for any air-breathing gas turbine or jet engine: they all have compressors. This includes ramjets: there are no moving parts, true, but there is still compression, achieved by the interaction of the moving incoming air stream with the geometry of the engine to "convert" its momentum into pressure. Greg @ 561: yes, far more civilised....
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Pigeon commented on
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OK, since I was the one who used the word that you are objecting to I guess that deserves a response. (Mods please delete if you disagree.) Basically, you have still missed the point I made in my previous reply: that its use is dictated purely by linguistic convention. For another example of this convention, see Vimes's response to Nobby shouting "Why don't you fight the bastard?" Were I posting in a language which had an equivalent word but without an equivalent convention then it seems to me that this point would never have arisen. Your comparison with insults to...
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Hugh Fisher commented on
21st Century: a complaint
I've raised my point. Thanks for responding, I'll shut up about it now....
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Greg. Tingey commented on
21st Century: a complaint
Adolf is DEAD. Oh & Ian Duncan croak takes large "state" subsidies, whilst decrying "benefit scroungers" - he owns farms, not too far from here & gets lots of lovely EU subsidies, the creep....
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Noel Maurer commented on
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Yes, that's right! Apologies....
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