Oh, snap! I am sorry - I thought you had a point to make, and had not realised you were a troll with an inferiority complex. Repeating something ad infinitum (that means "infinitely") isn't going to make it so. It appears that somehow you managed to slip through your home country's (probably quite - or very -…

Wowza. The thing is, as a European citizen, you should know this - and, hey! maybe you do, subconsciously. But, just in case:

You have it exactly backwards. It wasn't the magical presence of EU that stopped wars in the EU. It was the collective European post-WWII "nunca mas" that resulted in ever-greater integration. The inception of EU is not at the origin of peace in Western Europe; it's the post-war peace and rapprochement in Western…

No, I want you to name a post-1948 (i.e., post-Hague Congress) conflict between EU member states that was headed towards a military outcome but de-escalated purely through the parties' membership in the EU. And, no, the Turbot War doesn't count.

Ha! No, but thanks for playing. Do feel free to name some wars that the EU stopped (and/or prevented, since that's what I had originally referred to).

A significant chunk of the Soyuzmultfilm and Mosfilm archives is up on YouTube; feel free to PM me if you want recommendations.

Can't think of a better way to spend an hour. It's really beautifully done.

They really don't. Soviet animation FTW.

No idea, to be honest. But it's gorgeous and fantastic, and there may be a version online with English subtitles (this link actually promised subtitles, but I didn't see any).

Wait, he was nominated? Seriously? I totally missed that.

This. Cannot wait for Jagland to give up chairmanship (though the Nobel Committee had made questionable choices before him, too).

Except (arguably), it's not the EU that's preventing its members from going to war against each other. I thought the EU prize was just beyond absurd, and invoked some very unpleasant memories for quite a few people (in particular, about EU's utter failure to act during the Yugoslavia crisis).

Skip this derivative nonsense (I mean Frozen, not the article, obvs); watch the awesome 1957 Russian animation instead (very faithful to HC Andersen's text):

It's such a beautiful film, too.

They just started their work, so awarding them is a wee bit premature. The Nobel Peace Prize committee has a history of using the prize as a message platform, which sometimes results in slightly odd awardees.

As well as without (or with a lesser) history of questionable recipients.

Immigrant / child of immigrants here. My parents pushed hard for law school (so hard that they were entirely, consistently unsupportive of my non-law endeavours). I did go to law school eventually, for a variety of reasons not related to parental pressure - a top law school, even, followed by BigLaw. My parents…

I'm in NY; I found three studios that are all pretty convenient, but I don't know anyone who's gone to any of them, and so have to rely on Yelp and the like. You're the first person I know (internet-know) who has been doing this for a while, hence all my questions. :) The acrobatics bit sounds very cool and properly…

Thank you, that's really encouraging. On average, how often do you take classes? Also, if I could do five pull-ups, I'd pretty much start all my conversations with that. "Hi, I'm moomintroll, and I can do five pull-ups." (I am also comically inflexible, and always have been, so if silks / aerial changes things for…

Slightly off-topic, but can you tell me more about your aerial training? I've been wanting to try a silks class for ages (it just looks so damn cool), but am concerned I might not be at the right fitness level, even for a beginner class - it always looks like you should be able to at least do pull-ups with ease,…