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Dulce et Decorum Est

By Wilfred Owen

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46560/dulce-et-decorum-est

Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs,
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots,
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of gas-shells dropping softly behind.

Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!—An ecstasy of fumbling
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time,
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling
And flound’ring like a man in fire or lime.—
Dim through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.

In all my dreams before my helpless sight,
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.

If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,—
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.```

We did the work so you don’t have to. 😝

Ah that makes sense then.

It’s customary in English to call people by their first name rather than their middle name, unless of course they choose to go by something different.

A May election is looking more likely no matter what Sunak tries to pretend.

He’s such a good character in the show. Such a rubbish character in the books.

Na. If it’s British police it’s just an excuse. All they’re there for after all these years of Tory cuts is to give you a reference number so you can make an insurance claim.

Because the USA a large industrial economy.

Though I agree it would be also nice to see a comparison with the EU.

Beverly Crusher visibly sweating.

A lot of Indian cooking is vegetarian, not vegan. Ghee is very often used.

Well no, normal people write 11th October 2023.

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It’s because people want to imagine themselves as a hero, engaging in one on one combat. A knight or samurai.

They don’t want to imagine themselves as a barely trained serf in a block with 30 other people holding 3m long pikes trying not to shit yourself as arrows start to rain down.

Looks like your book is in freedom units rather than gold old chap units.

1 Imperial gallon = 4546.092 Milliliter

1 US gallon = 3785.4118 Milliliter

Thanks. I kinda knew it wasn’t great, but didn’t know the correct term.

I guess you could say ask the Catholic church about Irish mother and baby homes. But the meme was doing nations.

The Australian’s about their treatment of aborigines first nation Australians

The Irish about mother and baby homes.

China about Uyghurs

It also moves most of the population that is produced away from where people live and so out of their lungs.

And it cost an estimated $200bn to $600bn in 1999. Adjusted for inflation that’s between about $370 billion and $1.1 trillion in 2023 money.

Wonder how advanced it is. Maybe you could get away with avocado as loose potatoes as the shape is closer.