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Government Size: First: Midshire top 0.5%. Second: Lesbian piraters top 2%. Third: Avalonde top 2% ... Middle: Avemton top 9% ... Last: Denen deh bottom 8%

In Pretty Boy, the medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Healthcare.

Pretty Boy wrote:

New poll. Regional Poll • Are you optimistic about the future?

I tend to have optimistic sentiments, but overall I'd say my view is pessimistic, simply because I haven't been surprised by a single bad thing for the past 5 years.

There are some pretty pressing issues that needed to be resolved, but not enough is being done, and based on current actions, not enough will be done in time to avoid what were easily preventable issues.

Still, I hold on to hope that I'm wrong, and meaningful change will come.

The Story of Tom & Pete (continued)

Back to the story of Tom and Pete. Scene: 20 minutes later, cigarette time, though neither of them smokes.

PETE (to himself) He’ll expect me to go now.
TOM (to himself) How can I keep him here? (to Pete) Want to do that again?.

Pete does.

Scene: 20 minutes later.

PETE Do you have a boyfriend?
TOM No, but I’m open to offers.
PETE You’re not rich, are you?
TOM No, but the bedspread’s new.
PETE I have a cat.
TOM I love cats.
PETE I have a boyfriend.
TOM Oh
PETE But it’s my cat.
TOM That’s a relief. Do you believe in love at first sight?
PETE I do now.

To be continued..

The Story of Tom & Pete, episode 3

Did they live happily ever after? Oh, they just met. Who would care? We don’t know them well enough to care. The scene is the same bar where they met five years later.

TOM Gosh! Five years. No regrets.
PETE We were probably too young. I’m only 26 and already an old married lady.
TOM But no regrets, I hope?
PETE You are wonderful. All our friends say so. Even I have to agree, you are wonderful.
TOM So, no problem then.
PETE Just sometimes I think life is already over. We’ve never had a holiday.
TOM We have no money, but we’re doing jobs we love, things we believe in.
PETE. Let’s go to the Canaries and have sex on the beach. We can max out another credit card.
TOM Okay. If that will make us happy.
PETE It will.
TOM I love you.
PETE.I love you more.

To be continued..

I wouldn't say I'm optimistic about future. I say I believe in the generation, people that are now in their early/mid-twenties. I have seen the good things they are capable of.

Poll result. Regional Poll • Are you optimistic about the future?

Yes 12, No 12

Office Girls wrote:

I like the story.
I really don't know why I'm saying this, my female intuition lies in our sister region, as you know, but I got a feeling there's something...autobiographical about this.
Please forgive me. But my gut tells me it's true, of sorts.

Ha ha could be..

The Story of Tom & Pete, concluding episode

Tom & Pete have had a whirlwind five years together, but Pete has suddenly up and left. ‘We’re too young to settle down,” says Pete. Tom is crying his eyes out. So am I and I wrote this stuff. The story continues..

It is a few months later:

PETE Get off me.
LEON (annoyed) Something wrong with me? Bloody tease.
PETE I’m not in the mood.
LEON No wonder that boyfriend of yours threw you out
PETE I left.
LEON Yeah it was all too ‘stultifying’ for our little princess.
PETE I didn’t leave him for you. You said no strings attached.
LEON He works in the bookshop. I saw him yesterday.
PETE He’s the manager.
LEON Sexy. Boy next door. I’d do him.
PETE You’re not his type.
LEON Yeah, his type is Princess Tease. Poor sap.
PETE (taps number on his phone) It’s me .... I’m sorry. Can I come home?

The scene is now 10 years later. The cat has died. There is a new cat.

TOM How did we do that, you know in the tapas bar, without touching?
PETE We were in a palm tree paradise for the very first time. We couldn’t touch. There were other people.
TOM We should try it again.
PETE Get a grip. We’re 37 years old.
TOM Is this true love?
PETE Yes, true love.
CAT Meow.
PETE You’d better feed the cat.
TOM OK.

[Tom, Pete & the Cat are living happily ever after]

So in crack of doom, people order pizza and drink soda every night, get grease or soda on their furniture, call someone in furniture restoration to fix it, then you have aggressive insurance salesmen trying to sell you furniture insurance because of this trend of furniture ruined by pizza and soda. It all makes sense.

Death Rate: First: Armusea top 2%. Second: Hunter leptk top 20%. Third: Crack of Doom top 21% ... Middle: The red nation military bottom 6% ... Last: Great Lindonia bottom 0%

Alpenburg is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by the Federal Council with a fair hand, and renowned for its rum-swilling pirates, museums and concert halls, and multi-spousal wedding ceremonies.

Primitiveness: First: Denen deh top 10%. Second: DiscArnate top 20%. Third: Smoking Tomb top 34% ... Middle: Armusea bottom 12% ... Last: Midshire bottom 0% (78th from bottom in NationStates)

In Ergyng, consumption of cat memes has skyrocketed.

Pretty Boy wrote:

I guess you really wanted to get out of there. Hiking sounds healthy but if your legs are like cooked spaghetti, is that healthy? Anyway, an accomplishment for sure!

Well I coulda handled better it if we took it slower, but a winter storm had started moving in and the initial snow hit, so we had to beat it out. Ended up being blizzard conditions in the area from what I heard, and the initial precipitation pattern matched some serious storms I've seen in the past, so the signs were there. Woulda been better if I had the opportunity to pace myself more, but couldn't risk getting stuck.