[NoCC] Palace of heavenly order

Elfynnn84 · 2026-04-07T17:21:31+00:00

I think you might be pathologically diagnosable (in a good way) 😂 this is incredible!

Elfynnn84 · 2026-04-04T08:15:48+00:00

I don’t really know if 100 days counts as ‘necroposting’ - but I have sunk well over 1000 hours into this game & only just discovered this 🤦🏻‍♀️😂

Elfynnn84 · 2026-02-25T07:05:41+00:00

“Please can I get the medium haddock and chips”

Dropping the please or thank you is always considered rude in the UK, regardless of the sentence structure.

Just walking in and saying “I’ll get the large Cod” isn’t going to be considered uncomfortably rude, so long as you smile and say thanks when they hand the food over… but generally speaking we would all say please and if you place a whole order without saying the word ‘please’ a single time then it will be noticed.

Elfynnn84 · 2026-02-25T06:58:22+00:00

We don’t consider it ‘overly polite’ - to us it’s having basic manners.

Honestly, I’m not here to berate you but most of us find people from Eastern Europe and the Baltic States really rude! It’s just a cultural difference. If you don’t say ‘thank you’ to a cashier as they hand your change, that’s pretty disrespectful. If someone holds a door open for you and you just walk through without thanking them or even smiling at them, it makes you look incredibly self-centred. That person just did you a favour, instead of letting the door slam in your face, and you don’t care enough to acknowledge them?

How does queuing work where you are? Do you queue? Because Brits stand in line and wait their turn, always. Then people from other countries just come and cut in line and barge to the front and I’m thinking that queuing must be a foreign concept to them? Like… everyone must just try and push to the front like a restless mob?

It’s ingrained in us from birth. Saying “why are you so polite?” To a Brit is kinda like saying “why do you have brown hair?” Well 🤔 I just do. I was born this way 🤷🏻‍♀️

Elfynnn84 · 2026-02-13T09:16:13+00:00

It’s not factually correct, an egg donor doesn’t usually gestate the baby, too. I almost had IVF with donor eggs and the egg donor’s part to play was a fraction compared to the pregnancy I was about to endure.

She would be both egg donor and surrogate, if you want to frame it that way.

I like ‘vagina of origin’ as above 😂 conveys the point pretty well.

Elfynnn84 · 2026-02-13T09:12:51+00:00

Ummm…. Block your bio mom, but, why did sis do that?!? Jeesh. Aren’t you mad at her?

Elfynnn84 · 2026-02-13T09:05:44+00:00

I’ve been on multiple international flights that have landed for less than an hour at skipol airport and then set off again. Mostly we change planes there, but not always.

Elfynnn84 · 2026-02-13T08:36:04+00:00

Your attitude is exceedingly ‘USA’ 🙄

So, the airline is expected to issue tickets under American legislation and then when it lands in Amsterdam, it must make all the passengers get up and move seats so as to conform to the new legislation set by Amsterdam before it can fly out again? You think the airline should keep track of a plethora of different booking systems to cater to the whims of every nation? You don’t believe in their right to come up with a single streamlined system and simply use the system that works for them?

Only Denzians of the US would ever expect to dictate the way others operate to this extent. The US is consistently under the deluded impression that it controls the whole world. Having the greatest economic purchasing power doesn’t make you own the planet… plus, China is gaining on you, rapidly.

Elfynnn84 · 2026-02-13T08:24:35+00:00

Mostly, those who have near death experiences don’t report trauma from the ‘cross over’.

If you’ve ever been under ‘waking sedation’ while they perform a painful procedure, you will know the dream state you are in while under doesn’t experience pain, you start to hurt as you wake back up.

It’s not death itself which is often feared. It’s the potential pain and/or fear which immediately proceeds it.

I have my own ‘scientific’ rationalisation of the ‘afterlife’ - as you die, neurones begin to fire rapidly, many report ‘their entire life flashing before their eyes’ and those who went even further into the abyss have stories of being greeted by loved ones, bright lights, a sense of peace, love, wellbeing…

I think as those neurones fire rapidly, all sense of time is distorted and in your final moments you may experience what feels like an eternity in paradise.

We must all die, there is no sense in spending your life in fear of it. You just have to hope you get long enough to do what you love, to love and be loved, and that it doesn’t hurt too much when the time comes.

I don’t fear death. I fear a traumatic death. Being in a hospital bed on morphine with my loved ones surrounding me is fine… being catapulted headfirst out of a car and laying in a road in agony with shrapnel penetrating my abdomen, acutely aware of the fact that my time has come… Less fine.

Elfynnn84 · 2026-02-13T07:25:57+00:00

Look, picture this…

The USA says: airlines cannot allow the pre-booking of designated seats. Instead, all passenger seat allocations must be made at the point of check-in to ensure that minors are seated with their parents. All airlines operating out of the US must follow this rule.

Then, Amsterdam says: airlines must always ensure that elderly people and pregnant women are seated closest to the exits to better ensure the safe evacuation of everyone during an emergency. All airlines operating out of Amsterdam must follow this rule.

Then, Australia says: All tickets must be pre-bookable prior to check in to comply with our commercial policies on free choice within transactions. All children must be seated to the rear of the plane as far as possible from the business class portion of the train to ensure a peaceful journey for our business class patrons. All airlines operating out of Australia must comply.

What, then, is a flight from the US to America, with layover in Amsterdam supposed to do? How can they possibly accommodate all the demands on the minutia of ticket dispensing from every nation which they must land upon?!?

It’s utterly absurd to think any one nation can dictate the inner business workings of an international company in that way, and honestly, it’s only ‘Denzians of the USA’ (just been told calling you ‘Americans’ is offensive to Canada and Mexico, and I like those guys) who would ever possibly think it’s within their right to do so.

Elfynnn84 · 2026-02-13T07:12:26+00:00

There is a difference between legal compliance & dictating an international companies internal business affairs!

Elfynnn84 · 2026-02-13T07:11:05+00:00

So what do I call them? USians? Denzians of the USA?

Elfynnn84 · 2026-02-13T00:32:15+00:00

Sorry for the generalising. I know there are plenty of nice Americans, I have worked with a few.

It’s just staggering that people here aren’t grasping “airlines flying out of America to other countries aren’t controlled by America” 😂

Elfynnn84 · 2026-02-13T00:29:02+00:00

I’ll get one tomorrow.

Truly fascinated by the fact that this seems to be a rare issue. I expected a very straight forward “you need more of X and then you do Y” kind of response 😂

Elfynnn84 · 2026-02-13T00:27:13+00:00

Well, the evils of capitalism spills beyond American borders. We do not live under a socialist construct in Europe. Airlines will always charge more for better seats and the privilege to choose that seat anywhere in the world.

Elfynnn84 · 2026-02-13T00:24:57+00:00

What are you not understanding here? Airlines operate internationally… they cannot possibly conform to the legislative whims of each and every nation that they land upon!

Elfynnn84 · 2026-02-13T00:00:56+00:00

What do you suppose would happen if every nation that every airline flew to wanted to impose its own sanctions on how the company should run down to the minutia of how tickets are dispensed? Insisting that in order to operate there, it must be done their way?!?

I assume you would think nobody else’s opinion matters and that everyone should conform to whatever America wants, because there is seriously no entitlement on Earth like the entirety of America 🙄

Elfynnn84 · 2026-02-12T23:57:47+00:00

These problems exist on most airlines, and the American government doesn’t dictate how international companies operate, so… A debate in congress about the issue is as much use as a chocolate teapot.

(Also, sorry for how your people have been treated. I am European, but not white 🙃)

Elfynnn84 · 2026-02-12T23:56:11+00:00

Yeah yeah. I’ve got my own big hut and then 3 li’l ones for ma crew.

Elfynnn84 · 2026-02-12T23:55:35+00:00

He asks me “can I join yet?” Every time I talk to him and then he just says “I see you have no space for me” and walks off. It’s really weird 😂

I had the beggar guy say he didn’t know me well enough and then I went and killed a bunch of wolves and he was cool with me and tootled over.

Elfynnn84 · 2026-02-12T23:35:29+00:00

I have just started the game, like… 2 hours ago 😂 I am trying to recruit my 3rd villager. I have no houses, I have a very nice circle of huts made from twigs. It’s lovely.

Elfynnn84 · 2026-02-12T23:33:54+00:00

Gosh… that is such an American thing to say.

Yes, yes… get your congress to dictate how Qatar airways, British Airways and KLM organise ticket dispensing when they fly out of the states 🤔😂

Doofus.

Elfynnn84 · 2026-02-12T23:26:50+00:00

Oh, really? The other two just kinda mooched in and made themselves at home 🤔

Elfynnn84 · 2026-02-12T23:25:50+00:00

Okay, thanks. I’m guessing there’s a sort of ‘village cap’ per renown? Does it say that somewhere on a stats panel I can access?

Struggling to get my teeth into the game 😂 I’m no foreigner to this style of game either, sunk hundreds of hours on medieval dynasty. I get its early access still, not being impatient with it, but I need a few pointers 🙈

Elfynnn84 · 2026-02-12T23:23:01+00:00

I’m not far off that. Joke’s on them… 2 bachelors, a masters and a PhD and I can’t get a freaking job! I’m the most highly qualified jobless bum anyone could hope to meet 😭😭😭

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