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Reading about the second tallest flagpole in Kijŏng-dong I
realized that this sort of thing is perfect for making another
country look silly. Here's how it works:
Country A starts a whose-flag is-taller, whose-statue-is-
larger, whose-penis-is-longer contest with country B. When
the game
has reached truly bizarre proportions country A
takes down their monuments leaving country B waving in the
breeze.
Kijong-dong
https://en.wikipedi...llage_(North_Korea)
Where the flagpole is. [st3f, Nov 27 2016]
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WIFRT, I thought it would be about the *game* Diplomacy. |
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You do know, don't you, [Voice], that just about everything Freud taught has been disproved, deconstructed or just generally discredited at one time or another during the past hundred years? So... that flagpole probably really is a flagpole, and not a penis. There's a difference. |
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I was using it as an analogy there, you, and not as a
literal advocacy of the good doctor's singular points
of view. |
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I, also, had hoped that this would be a new stratagem for
Diplomacy - where a stop-the-leader ethos can emerge
amongst players. |
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Still, anything that makes country B looking like the round-
end eating fools that they are gets a croissant from me. |
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{psst, [pertinax], are you a Dip player?} |
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[pertinax] So, a cigar really isn't just a cigar after all? |
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I played Diplomacy once. Found it rather horrid to be honest... |
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I said "just about everything", [mouseposture], not every last word. Anyway, my quarrel with the particular dictum you're referring to is that it isn't only "sometimes" that a cigar is "just a cigar". Rather, it should be assumed to be a cigar by default. Anyway, I'm sure you know what I meant, really. |
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I have played Diplomacy, since you ask, [Jinbish], but it can get nasty, as [RayfordSteele] says. I think that the enjoyment of Diplomacy requires a group of players with a better sense of good humour and ironic detachment than I had back when I used to play it. |
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I can see where [Rayfo] is coming from - and you're right about the sense of humour. The trick to diplomacy is to realise that it's not about lying or backstabbing - it's about forging relationships and persuading and influencing others. If you lie, then there's a good chance that no-one else will trust you. |
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I think it's fabulous - and it's a great game to play by email and electronic adjudication. |
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In Italian a 'figa' is slang for vagina or a really hot chick. Had to figure that out with my mother when she was looking for fig flavored gelato and .... shit maybe that was just a dream. |
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Anyways, read something recently about how Freud's compartmentalization of the subconscious is still a valid model and is being used in neuroscience somehow. Will look and find.. |
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//to think of what a Freudian model might look like// |
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(And I'm rubbish at Dip. I've got more knives sticking out of my back than a porcuppine has quills) |
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"Let me tell you about my Mother ... " <BANG> |
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