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You may want to reconsider your choice of word: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wog
It's a common word in (UK, apparently) English, cf. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/doggy_woggy I've literally never once heard someone use the ethnic slur "wog", and I grew up in 90s South Africa :)
It's funny to me that in portraying Indiana as a "blank state" he's highlighting one of the most beautiful parts of the state (the route through the Dunes along the Michigan lakefront; if you've seen "Road To Perdition", you know what that area looks like). It's not important to the article, a complete tangent, but I can't not call that out.
I've never been to Indiana but I don't like when people say things like this about other places. Yeah, these people are "too tired" to go anywhere else - right. I hope the author enjoyed channeling Hemingway for a bit but seriously what does he know about why people live there?
"Too tired" is an apt descriptor, though. "Too Poor" or not having opportunities is generally good too, but you likely wouldn't see all of that while driving through. Most people just live there because they were born there and their lives are there. "why would you move here??" isn't an unusual question.
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If you want to enjoy a day in an airport hotel and be late for what you are travelling for then sure. Sas plane is full of tourists who don't know. Locals all use atlantic airways cause they know they actually land.
Again I say, I'd choose SAS. There is a reason they choose to do what they do.
It’s not unreasonable to think that Atlantic Airways, being a Faroese airline, are better equipped than others to get people to the Faroe Islands.
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If you want to enjoy a day in an airport hotel and be late for what you are travelling for then sure. Sas plane is full of tourists who don't know. Locals all use atlantic airways cause they know they actually land.
Again I say, I'd choose SAS. There is a reason they choose to do what they do.
After all the other airline has a good safety record, which indicates that raw risk isn't the reason.
I never understood why Denmark still bothers with Greenland. It seems to cost them a lot of money while at the same time they demand more and more autonomy. Danish isn't even an official language anymore. What does Denmark gain out of the block grant they give to Greenland?
If everything was about net money transfers, then the US could get rid of at least 15 constituent states, but half of those would be immediately courted by China, eh?
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mollusc [sic]: 'An invertebrate of a large phylum which includes snails, slugs, mussels, and octopuses.'
Mollusc is a perfectly legal way of writing mollusk if that's what you mean. And everyone knows that whales evolved from hungry beach snails around 50mya.
Favorite thing I've read this week.
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Exactly my thoughts. I think US ownership (not necessarily of land) is inevitable, but it is going to take a couple of decades of these kind of polarising pieces.
Why is that inevitable?
You might expect them to have christian values, but it would be a mistake…
Charming, and well written! I'd love to go backpacking there some day - perhaps the Arctic Circle Trail.