(12 Mar 2015, 1:01 pm)MarcTheA4 wrote I'll run you through it.

So, basically, we all sit in a circle around the room, and either go clockwise or anti-clockwise. We go from person to person, and each can say a maximum of 3 numbers - in order. They can say as many of their 3 numbers as they wish. So, if this makes sense.

Person A: 1, 2
Person B: 3, 4, 5
Person C: 6,7
Person D: 8,9, 10
Person E: 11, 12, 13
Person F: 13, 14
Person G: 15, 16, 17
Person H: 18, 19, 20

Then Person I would be out as a result of Person H choosing to go all the way up to 20, thus catching them out. Basically, if you are given the numbers from 18 from the person before you, who ended on 17, you have the upper hand and ultimately decide the fates of the people after you. You can go all the way to 20 and get the person next to you out, or choose to go up to 19, and let them get the next person out by saying 20. Hopefully this makes sense. [emoji14]

(12 Mar 2015, 5:44 pm)citaro5284 wrote #lazy...bet you just slept in and thought, nah, not going in

(12 Mar 2015, 8:04 pm)MarcTheA4 wrote So, after asserting myself the other day...I'm a little worried it's going to come back and bite me tomorrow.

Any suggestions on what to do?

(12 Mar 2015, 8:18 pm)MurdnunoC wrote Assert yourself again.

Maybe invest in a pair of shades and a leather jacket so you look cool whilst doing it!

(12 Mar 2015, 8:19 pm)Dan wrote And if he does it in a good pair of shoes, the ladies may start falling at his feet!

(12 Mar 2015, 8:18 pm)MurdnunoC wrote Assert yourself again.

Maybe invest in a pair of shades and a leather jacket so you look cool whilst doing it!

(12 Mar 2015, 8:19 pm)Dan wrote And if he does it in a good pair of shoes, the ladies may start falling at his feet!

(12 Mar 2015, 8:20 pm)MurdnunoC wrote Shades, leather jacket and a pair of AirMax '95.

Can't go wrong really.

(12 Mar 2015, 8:20 pm)MurdnunoC wrote Shades, leather jacket and a pair of AirMax '95.

Can't go wrong really.

(14 Mar 2015, 4:56 pm)Tommy_1581 wrote I seen someone the other day wearing AirMax '95s.

Honestly, the amount of times he moved his foot in a deliberate way, I felt like stamping on his foot.

(14 Mar 2015, 7:22 pm)MrFozz wrote Is there any part of a society that you actually have no problem with [emoji14]

(15 Mar 2015, 9:17 pm)MarcTheA4 wrote Just been reading Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell for English. Great book, taught me quite a bit about life too.

Let's hope we never end up like that...

(15 Mar 2015, 9:21 pm)Dan wrote You'll have to explain. Don't think we ever did that one, but I remember doing Orwell.

Let's not take that out of context, either! [emoji14]

(15 Mar 2015, 9:51 pm)MurdnunoC wrote Much like Animal Farm, Nineteen-eighty-four is very much a critique of Stalinist Russia.

(15 Mar 2015, 9:56 pm)Dan wrote I liked Animal Farm, from what I can remember.

I soon realised that we weren't just reading a story about talking pigs...

(15 Mar 2015, 10:00 pm)MarcTheA4 wrote I hear it was banned in the UK at the time because Stalin was an ally when it was released, and they didn't want to destroy the relationship. I believe the ''head pig'' was based on Stalin's appearance and personality (much like ''Big Brother'' has a face like Adolf Hitler and a moustache as bushy as Stalins).

Despite buses and trains being my main hobbies, I do enjoy reading books when boredom hits.

(15 Mar 2015, 9:17 pm)MarcTheA4 wrote Just been reading Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell for English. Great book, taught me quite a bit about life too.

Let's hope we never end up like that...

(15 Mar 2015, 9:34 pm)MarcTheA4 wrote Hahaha, love it! 

Well, it's a dystopian novel that Orwell wrote in 1948 (and switched the last two digits around - so it's set in 1984). It was basically his vision of the future, and it's through the eyes of Winston Smith. 

It's basically an absolute nightmare of a future, every moment you're moves are tracked and you can't escape to the outside world. It's main face is ''Big Brother'', who watches over everyone in some way, (coincidentally, it's where we get the TV show from - everyone's moves tracked in a specific place ) and everyone fears.

Winston, who works for INGSOC (basically, the English Socialists [my take on it anyway]) and lives a miserable life. He hates this woman called Julia at his workplace, who he later falls in love with. They spend every spare minute they can together in a small room above a shop, little do they know the sympathetic-seeming shopkeeper, O'Brien, is a secret officer for the ''thought-police'' who can tap into anyone's mind at any time, and if you're committing a ''thoughtcrime'' (any pleasuring thoughts - let's not take that out of context! [emoji14]) they execute you. 

He writes in a diary over time, a serious thoughtcrime. Eventually, O'Brien turns Winston and Julia in for interrogation, and after being tortured by the ''rats in the cage'' thing, they both betray each other by telling him to do it to each other instead of them. Winston is basically put through a horrible procedure where they eventually let you back into society. 

After he is released and they allow him to live freely (in some way, whichever way you think when you read it!) and he meets Julia one day in the future, where they both admit to betraying each other. They have a brief conversation, and Julia leaves. On the telescreen (remember, 1948, TVs weren't big back then! ) they announce that they have won a war on the ''Eurasian front'' (Winston lives on Airstrip One, our day London) and Winston finally realises, that after 40 years of hating him, that Big Brother is actually there to love him and protect him. The final line is ''He loved Big Brother''. That shocked me tbh, I thought they would kill him in the end! But, that said, my take on the final line is that he was about to be executed, and was moments later.

It's basically a society where nobody can escape. Orwell was very political, as you likely know, and that's what the novel centers around. 

You can look up the plot somewhere else on the internet Dan, I'm not the best at explaining and probably got a few things mixed up! lol  [emoji14]

(15 Mar 2015, 10:12 pm)MurdnunoC wrote Yup, both Napoleon (the head pig) and Big Brother are loosely based on Stalin. 

Trotsky is also sympathetically portrayed in both novels with both Snowball and Emmanuel Goldstein being partially based on him.

(16 Mar 2015, 7:35 pm)Andreos1 wrote Never has Trotsky had as many mentions on a bus forum as there has been on here.
Aureolin mentioned him last week.

#socialistsonNEB
#hashtagsonNEB

(16 Mar 2015, 7:35 pm)Andreos1 wrote Never has Trotsky had as many mentions on a bus forum as there has been on here.
Aureolin mentioned him last week.

#socialistsonNEB
#hashtagsonNEB