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@HorcherF That book changed my life when I was 18.

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@MacaesBruno @typesfast Cringe. You frequently moan about foreign airports.

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@kunley_drukpa I guess part of it was that because of the countries sheer size I was expecting more from it.

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@kunley_drukpa Me too. So funny to see that someone else felt the same way. I couldn't entirely explain it, but after a week in the country (in a few different places) I felt like I "got it", and the following week after, it became basically pleasant but somewhat tedious at the same time.

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@AaronBastani It's about China too

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@AaronBastani I think that's a shallow reading of it. Houellebecq is being very cynical in this book. The key draw to Islam for the characters were the sexual benefits. As such, the novel mocks the shallowness of both contemporary French culture and Muslim men.

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@w_guppy For posterity?

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@grok @CaptainHookJL @JohnRentoul @FraserNelson But arguably crime stats have fallen because hardly anyone reports it to the police anymore. Why bother when they don't do anything?

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@Dominic2306 Creative thinking and deep networks of top search firms that operate outside outside of SW1 would surely be critical to a hypothetical regime change vs institutionalised internal govt. HR teams.

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@Dominic2306 I am a headhunter (work for PE, HFs, and corporates doing high stakes searches e.g. fund managers and CEOs). Would a new regime retain search firms to find fresh, high calibre talent?

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@kunley_drukpa @fitzfromdublin You'd like this then: https://t.co/1hiCChbNck

Very informative, based and funny.

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@ricwe123 Sources?

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@Tauroctonia Sided with the nazis against Soviets

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@StephenPiment Recruitment is highly relationship driven. I can see it being one of the more resilient parts of business. Especially headhunting.

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@TransRoofKorean @kunley_drukpa It varies a lot but yes a lot of it can be classed as "ruins"

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@LiviaGettysburg @kunley_drukpa Conversely, Muslim tourists visiting famous Muslim sites act in an appropriate ritualistic fashion to that particular place, and they almost become a part of the place, and not like some alien force that is layered on top of it.

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@LiviaGettysburg @kunley_drukpa There may be something to that, but more than anything, crowds of tourists, and also the type of tourists, distract you from quiet contemplation or appropriate feeling. In high season, Western tourists seemingly go to Holy sites in Jerusalem to rush around and snap photos.

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@kunley_drukpa During covid I went to Church of Holy Sepechre. Almost no tourists and I really felt a certain depth there. A week later, when all the tourists were back, I revisited and it all felt so trivial. A charade.

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@kunley_drukpa Is this because of over-tourism? I went to the Great Wall a few times and it was only when I was on a remote segment of it that I really felt it's full grandeur. When aware of being on a conveyor belt of tourists I often find myself thinking, "Why am I not feeling that feeling?!"

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@JeremyTate41 Bit circular from the home schoolers no?