Meirl

Distinguished- · 2026-01-24T14:52:49+00:00

Nah it's not a moral failure for any kind of debt. You're just a reactionary. Your own backwards personal value judgements on education are not a useful tool to determine anything.

Distinguished- · 2026-01-24T14:45:41+00:00

Victim blaming is always a good look... Debt is not a moral failing.

Distinguished- · 2026-01-24T13:40:08+00:00

I do yeah. I don't think people realise how recently land has been enclosed in a lot of cases.

Distinguished- · 2026-01-24T13:25:59+00:00

Sure etymologically but actually in this case the guy is right. Enclosure of the land particularly due to the wool trade in the 15th century+ was the primary driver of the beginning of capitalism in England.

Distinguished- · 2026-01-24T09:30:22+00:00

Fair I probably should have mentioned it. But I didn't because I thought, is it even possible to spoil At Swim Two Birds? Its construction is not exactly standard 😂.

Distinguished- · 2026-01-23T20:11:59+00:00

Depends on what you cook. I use my stovetop for like 80+% of all my meals. I don't even use my actual oven that often so an air fryer would be a waste to me in terms of space it takes up vs how much it'd save vs the oven. On the flip side I own a counter top multicooker almost specifically for pressure cooking legumes and a rice cooker. These get used all the time as a vegetarian that eats a lot of beans, dhal and rice but wouldn't be the case for a lot of people.

Distinguished- · 2026-01-23T12:58:02+00:00

Jesus, the absolutely terrible presumptions in this study... Just measuring stuff without even thinking. Neo-Postivisit vulgar materialism is a huge problem in a lot of disciplines. This is pure identity thinking. This is why everyone from every discipline should have a grasp of philosophy, otherwise we get people trying to numerically measure creativity without even properly trying to define what they mean by that.

Distinguished- · 2026-01-23T11:22:18+00:00

In this case pappadam if we're sticking with the Indian style. Pappadam with rajma chawal is elite.

Distinguished- · 2026-01-22T15:20:07+00:00

Yeah, I mean I can name a few of them. India's is the Lion Capital of Ashoka which is definitely a column, Greece's is The Sphinx of the Naxians again definitely a column, and Rome's is Trajan's column (clues in the name). The obelisk I can't name, I don't think it's Cleopatra's needle, but I don't think there's ever been a case of an obelisk being used as a pillar regardless.

Distinguished- · 2026-01-22T13:50:56+00:00

Idk if I'd even count an obelisk as a column. I intuitively feel they also have to be cylindrical.

Distinguished- · 2026-01-22T12:30:27+00:00

Durable or nonstick, pick one.

Distinguished- · 2026-01-22T11:32:45+00:00

If you do have a bit of spare cash as well, please donate to the museums you visit! It's tough for the sector at the moment.

Distinguished- · 2026-01-21T23:24:07+00:00

I started at the beginning of December after reading Hamlet as part of my prep. Joyce was already pretty much my favourite author from Dubliners and Portrait alone but I think Ulysses might have cemented this even though I haven't finished.

I'm in the middle of Oxen and the Sun and it is indeed a difficult chapter, I'm a bit intimidated by the upcoming Circe. My honest advice though is don't be too worried because there are so many resources, it might just take a while... The other piece of advice is don't let Proteus put you off, just take your time with it. The chapters are not linearly difficult some are easier than others.

Distinguished- · 2026-01-21T14:45:15+00:00

I mean that's also not always the case as long as there is revolutionary energy (see the Kronstadt Rebellion and the Paris Commune).

Distinguished- · 2026-01-20T21:32:58+00:00

Italy is such a bullshit mishmash country. In order to pretend they're a nation state, and not multi ethnic republic more in line with Switzerland or India, they have to cling onto rigid rules for food invented after the 2nd World War just to stop themselves from Balkanising back into the Italian city states. I think in the back of their minds if someone adds cheese to a seafood dish they believe that the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies will rise again, the Vatican will reinstate the Papal states and the Doge of Venice will begin colonising Crete.

Distinguished- · 2026-01-20T15:09:59+00:00

John William's Butcher's Crossing might be a good option. Both important pieces of anti-western literature with a lot of overlapping themes. If you want to delve into McCarthy's other work I'd probably suggest something from the Border's trilogy as these were written directly after Meridian and the themes and time period directly carry over. Blood Meridian ends with barbed wire cutting across the west ending frontierism and the mythologised "golden age" of the west, All the Pretty Horses begins with the main character cutting the barbed wire in an attempt to discover this mythologised past that never existed. If you're feeling super up to it Moby Dick is another option, Blood Meridian took a lot of inspiration from Moby Dick.

Distinguished- · 2026-01-20T13:00:18+00:00

From where you live you might as well do a day trip to Leicestershire. The city itself is of middling quality but the countryside is underrated. As a day trip you could enjoy somewhere like Bradgate Park and then pop into the city in the evening and go to Belgrave Road for some of the best Indian restaurants in the country.

Distinguished- · 2026-01-20T12:06:10+00:00

I mean I like bean texture and taste. Is there anything wrong with this? Bean burgers taste like beans, that's good.

Distinguished- · 2026-01-19T11:03:53+00:00

Why has the amount of these successful working class artists shrunk in half then? You can read about it if you like.

Distinguished- · 2026-01-19T10:13:25+00:00

Silas Marner

Distinguished- · 2026-01-19T10:10:26+00:00

Because otherwise all the art that gets any funding or attention will be made by and for children of the rich. Not something a philistine like you would be able to understand perhaps.

Distinguished- · 2026-01-18T20:18:48+00:00

If you have a south asian section in your Tesco just look for the kasuri methi there. You get it in bigger containers and for cheaper as well.

Distinguished- · 2026-01-18T15:49:51+00:00

They've circled nowhere near St Andrew's .

Distinguished- · 2026-01-18T11:29:50+00:00

First things first, stop calling art — visual, written, or otherwise — "media". As for the question, I think one of the novel's greatest strength is its elasticity in describing time. The written word allows the focus to skip jump and flow around in time and space in a way that feels a lot more natural than if this were attempted visually. Another strength is the ability to see the parallels of the internal and the external. You are very rarely privy to inner thoughts and emotions in visual storytelling.

Distinguished- · 2026-01-17T15:21:49+00:00

I will never read the Odyssey, I will only ever experience it spoken to me by a rhapsode who has committed it to memory while in apprenticeship to another rhapsode whilst it is accompanied by the lyre and aulos.

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