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The Bar / Re: New Weird
« on: May 15, 2025, 11:21:52 PM »
I won't tell you about Blacklist  :)
Andor are not so many episodes, but they uploaded three episodes a week and I simply could not catch. I don't think I am going to watch all the remaining ones this weekend either, but I hope to make some progress.

I am liking Doctor Who so far.

I liked that you are reading the book for that reason  :)

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The Bar / Re: New Weird
« on: May 14, 2025, 10:13:16 PM »
Oh, Blacklist. I had not watched even one episode since last time I posted about it, so I still have half a season to watch but I keep been distracted with other shows. Once you finished it, we will talk about it, here (with spoiler tags) or by PM.
I am currently watching
Andor
Doctor Who

So I did not watched any of the other shows I told you about.

I am excited because today I've read that in Daredevil Season 2 we will see Jessica Jones again. I really loved the first season of her show. The other two, not so much.

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The Bar / Re: New Weird
« on: May 13, 2025, 10:59:11 PM »
I agree. He speaks several languages too but that is not so weird. Many Popes have been cultivated people. But I think the fact that he has spent a big chunk of his life in two countries so different like USA and Perú gives him a boost. As you said, his worldview is bigger.

Let's hope he is a friend of Michael Carpenter and Father Forthill  :)

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The Bar / Re: New Weird
« on: May 13, 2025, 11:10:55 AM »
I have not seen the video, but I can imagine how that it is weird. Francis was a football (soccer) fan, so I see how they continue the line  :)
Leo spent a lot of time in Perú too and he has the double citizenship, so Peruvians are celebrating they have a Peruvian Pope.
Side comment, my native language is Spanish, so the Pope is called León XIV (León = lion). I always felt weird when I wrote Leo because it sounds so much like the nickname for someone called Leonardo, it is like the way you talk to a friend or family member, not the Head of the Church.
Back on track, yes, I think it was very strategic from Francis to name so many cardinals with a more progressive worldview (to a degree, of course).

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The Bar / Re: New Weird
« on: May 11, 2025, 07:58:54 PM »
I made a post in the media section about the Eternaut, an Argentinian series who is based on a very classical and famous comic, with a tragic story. It is in Netflix if you want to check it. It is an apocalyptic thing.

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The Bar / Re: New Weird
« on: May 09, 2025, 11:23:38 AM »
Hi Regen!
Yes, the new Pope is from Chicago and I am having fun imagining him as a friend of Father Forthill. I was actually was making a fast read of his wikipedia page and when I've read that he had been an altar boy in a Church called Saint Mary...I gasped. But it was Saint Mary of the Assumption or something like that.

What you told us about the house building sounds truly fascinating. I would have been watching the whole process too. And I am glad you and your neighbors can use the streets normally now. I hope your new neighbors are nice.

And speaking of neighbors, my neighbors from below are doing some works below (home improvement) and it  is noisy . It is quite annoying (it has been much worse some weeks ago, now I think they are doing more precision jobs).

Thank you for your good wishes. Just to clarify, I applied for the job but I do not know if I will get it. Let's see what the universe is holding for me. And it is in the same university, just an extra part-time position.


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The Bar / Re: New Weird
« on: May 04, 2025, 08:54:07 PM »
MAY THE 4ce BE WITH YOU!!  :)

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The Bar / Re: New Weird
« on: May 01, 2025, 05:08:01 PM »
Enjoy Labour's Day if you are in a country that remembers it, like me!
Ironically, even when I am at home (today and tomorrow, bridge day for enhance tourism, so no schools, universities or banks), I am working. Come Monday, I am going to apply for a new job (in addition to the one I already have). It is, obviously, a part-time job and my current job and salary are not affected, so I am not too nervous. I am also not that thrilled about more work but I need the money, so I will apply. It is another teaching position (my current job is a research and teaching position, this new one, being only part-time is just teaching). Therefore, I need to go through the same process I explained you before, where my résumé is evaluated and also I have to do a mock teaching class. That is what I am preparing right now, so I am a busy bee!

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DF Spoilers / Re: Twelve Months (blurb'ed & priced on Amazon)
« on: May 01, 2025, 08:27:11 AM »
It is a little weird that the "official release date" is not in Jim website or in his X. When he sent 12 months to the editor he said (in X) that he was going to give more information about release dates when he had it. And then silence.

Also, I am wondering what Jim is going to write this year, now that he finished with 12 months.

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The Bar / Re: New Weird
« on: April 27, 2025, 06:26:09 AM »
Thanks PD! I hope you too!

I finished watching this season of Black Mirror. It was interesting, perhaps not great but better than the previous one in my opinion. Now I am going through Andor. I have so many shows I want to watch:
Wheel of time (current season)
Carnival Row (I watched 2 or 3 episodes of the second season, who is the last one I think).
Blacklist (I slowly, slowly, watched all the seasons, but I still have about half a season to watch)
And I am sure there are many more I do not even remember now.

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The Bar / Re: New Weird
« on: April 24, 2025, 11:11:43 AM »
 :) :)  ((((((((((((Spot))))))))))))))))))) I am so glad to see you here!

Yes, I think the Pope did the best he could in many things. He always liked to work for the poor. When he was just the bishop Jorge Bergoglio I had some criticism but they were mostly about local things. In general, his politics were good. I also just heard that on the last Thursday (which was the one of the Holy Week) he was in a jail, as he usually did to wash the prisoner's feet. And when the Warden told him that they were struggling too much with the budget, the Pope said don't worry I will help. And (probably knowing he was leaving this world very soon) he transferred pretty much all that he had in his personal account as a donation.

@Regenbogen I think in my country we tend to the silent side in the church but we have some moments of shouting our Faith. In general, the silent side. But we did do much praying and I don't know about the choir because I never been in one, but I won't be surprised if they prayed at the beginning of each meeting. I was also wondering about the saying grace at each meal, as seen on USA TV. It is not common here but some very religious people do. It is more common in other Christian (not catholic) religions.


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The Bar / Re: New Weird
« on: April 23, 2025, 11:07:37 AM »
I can't answer in full now but I wanted to say, yes, we have a school in Antarctica. It works only on the Summer/part of spring, so the kids have a different schedule that the rest of the Argentinian kids, who have no school on Summer. I believe some areas of the South have a different schedule too, they cannot open schools on the colder months, so they have long winter vacation and shorter summer ones.
I will comment about religion later. See you!

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The Bar / Re: New Weird
« on: April 22, 2025, 11:26:41 AM »
Hi Weird, sorry for the double post.
The death of the Pope brings me so many memories about the time he was elected and our discussions here is Weird. It was a moment of glory for me, as the most active Argentinian member of the forum  :). It was so shocking...
I think he did a good job. RIP.

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The Bar / Re: New Weird
« on: April 18, 2025, 06:33:26 PM »
Thank you!
I have not idea about an east coast of Antarctica, at least you are talking about the areas that each country claims. For example, if you are talking about Argentina, yes, we consider that our larger province is the one encompassing Tierra del Fuego (the little "foot" in the most southern south of Argentina, the Malvinas (that the UK claims under the name Falklands), the Southern Georgia and Sandwich Islands, and a bunch of Antarctica. Well, that bunch has a big peninsula with a clear east and west side. So, if you ask any Argentinian, they would think you mean that. But the entire continent? Not idea.
We even have a school in Antarctica  :)

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The Bar / Re: New Weird
« on: April 17, 2025, 05:37:31 PM »
Hi Weird!
I will comment something local today because I think it may interest you. Today is the anniversary of the creation of the Instituto Antártico Argentino (Argentinian Antartic Institute). It is an organism (the first organism by a national state to be dedicated exclusively to the Antartic) created in 1951, that promotes the research and preservation of the Antarctica. It is also an instrument to help our claim in the area, but it is much more than that. Geography, climatology, geology, biology and related branches of knowledge were helped a lot by this. Nowadays, for the first time ever I think, it appearst that the government wants to close or at least defund it. I am beyond angry for that but I remain hopeful that it would be just an empty threat and in the end the IAA will survive. I just wanted to celebrate its existence and work by telling him about it. It had done a great work all this years.

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