I was 8: it was the flight on which we returned to Greece from Australia for four years: 1979. Singapore Airlines, I believe. I don’t remember much about the last time I flew to Sydney, let alone anything from the ’70s. But I do remember: Cool exotic beverages, the like of which I had never […]
I assume there’s a prize at the end of this? No? Well, I wouldn’t win it anyway. Australia Greece Cyprus USA Austria Canada Netherlands Belgium France New Zealand Turkey Armenia Italy UK Germany Grade: B-. Could do better. Answered 2016-08-24 [Originally posted on http://quora.com/How-many-countries-have-you-been-to/answer/Nick-Nicholas-5]
http://mashable.com/2016/08/05/same-sex-parents-slam-census/?utm_cid=mash-com-Tw-main-link#FPWYDDaXDiq5 Inertia. Census questions are a slow moving beast, and getting them updated is extremely difficult. The question on volunteerism in this year’s census was a request from Peter Costello, three censuses ago. The Australian Bureau of Statistics could not afford to spend the money to get rid of it. There is plenty of cowboy […]
Frederick Douglass. I mean, I’m white Australian, and I’m flabbergasted that Hollywood has still not gotten there. Maybe it’s because I’m white Australian. Epic Rap Battles of History is… a start, but he deserves a lot more: Answered 2016-08-19 [Originally posted on http://quora.com/Who-do-you-think-of-all-famous-people-dead-or-alive-deserves-a-biopic-film/answer/Nick-Nicholas-5]
The reason why we in Australia built Canberra in a middle of nowhere sheep paddock was precisely that the two main cities, Melbourne and Sydney, hated each other. NSW and Victoria were quite independent colonies before Federation; and Australia is a federation, as in decentralised state, precisely because of that independence. (As with other federations, […]
How do I dare disagree with the Magister Optimus Michael Masiello, on this his home turf? By telling a personal anecdote around Classics, in the hope of sucking up to him. When I was doing my PhD, I had occasion to cite a few Ancient Greek texts. It was a linguistics thesis done after 1900, […]
Eh… I looked through Compositions for the pieces I composed and put into music software in 2000. (I composed as a teenager, but didn’t quite know what I was doing; 2000 was when I had enough free time to try and polish things.) (Not that I quite knew what I was doing in 2000 either.) […]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaoi The answer for Greece in the 1960s, when Britain was portrayed as a gay and trans wonderland, is almost certainly not the answer for China in the 2010s. But I’m reminded of it nonetheless. And the answer for Greece was, early and high publicity moves towards decriminalisation, that left people in conservative Greece puzzled. […]
Once upon a time, there was a president called Dick. No, that really was his name. Why are you laughing? Dick was very clever, and worked very hard. But he was also very angry. He was very angry, because he was sad that people didn’t think he was cool. Like the other president, Jack. People […]
Sierra Spaulding’s answer to Are the media guilty of inaccurately portraying Trump supporters as uneducated and poor? captures the close encounter between the Sandersnista Sierra Spaulding and her aunt’s Trump-supporting friends, in deepest darkest San Diego. https://www.quora.com/Are-the-me… Hm… yes, I think I have access to some footage of this happenstance: Posted 2016-08-16 [Originally posted on […]