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Michael Marshall Smith's avatar

Yep, it's still going around...

Debs Lyon's avatar

Heathrow to Singapore with no cigarette...I was ready to kill someone

Michael Marshall Smith's avatar

I'll bet! That's a SCHLEP without nicotine...

Bradley J. Birzer's avatar

I love the comment on ideology.

Michael Marshall Smith's avatar

Thank you :-) And it's true on both right and left...

Bradley J. Birzer's avatar

No doubt. As Russell Kirk always said, ideology is the science of idiocy. Left and Right!

Richard Scott's avatar

I was going to compare your image with the interior of Dubrovnik's small but fascinating Red History Museum, but it doesn't look like I can post a photo on here, so you'll have to imagine.

Michael Marshall Smith's avatar

Just looked, and it really does! I was in Dubrovnik last summer but didn't know about this, which is a shame!

Richard Scott's avatar

Yes, a really interesting couple of hours. City walls for Game of Thrones splendour, Red museum for soviet era hardship and repression!

Allan Lear's avatar

I didn't see it either - was in Dubrovnik last spring, sadly it was marathon day so much was inaccessible but the wall walk is glorious

Michael Marshall Smith's avatar

When we were there it was so hot that we saw people actually collapsing from the heat... sadly the wall walk will have to wait for next time.

Allan Lear's avatar

We went in the spring, it was perfect - like a nice summer's day in England

Allan Lear's avatar

Whenever an antimasker makes a comment like "I can't breathe in a mask", what they've done is confused themselves with a normal person when they are, in fact, either a) a pathological liar or b) catastrophically ill in a major way, respiration-wise, get to a GP as fast as you can without blacking out

Tess Parker's avatar

The sounds of silence…. Love this. So true. The quiet machineries of the universe, working away. Heat engines ticking as they cool in an off cycle. Little lives passing beneath our notice, usually, but quietly asserting their places in the world. The sounds of the stars. I crave quiet, and dark skies. And I love the summer sounds of bees and crickets and birds, and cicadas, who are not so shy.

Michael Marshall Smith's avatar

Me too, all of that. Instead of eternally plastering it with the predictable sound of music you've heard before, all the time.

Tess Parker's avatar

When the revolution comes, constant music in every indoor space, and increasingly many outdoor ones, will be first against the wall.