N.b.: This title should not be confused with linguistic Puzzlemint. No kidding.

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I've never called anyone a bigot. Neither do I intend to. I'm reminded always of Ambrose Bierce's definition of the word: "One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion which you ydo not entertain." Furthermore, I've never heard anyone use the phrase except when completely unable to counter an argument. It's name-calling. It's not rhetoric, or logic, or anything else ending with -ic; just pointless, and arguably meaningless, abuse. If I hear a chap get told he's a bigot, I side

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Twitter
I don't use Twitter because I'm not interested in the minutiae of other people's lives, and fail to see why they should be interested in those of mine. I also don't particularly like the idea of my opinions being filtered in case I convince someone that 'hate-crime' is a silly thing to prosecute for, or somesuch. Furthermore, I'm not a twit.

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I don't really go in for commenting on people's userpages to thank them for showing an interest in my work, and neither do I expect it of them. It doesn't really get anyone anywhere. It's a little thing, and I'm grateful for it, but all these comments you see... they're really just clutter, aren't they? But, and it's a big but, I'm trial-running, as it were, a new system, which I may adopt full-time. At the moment, whenever someone comments on, favourites, or adds to a bookshelf

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A bonus one-shot! Just what everyone needed. Here's a brief extract:

Lost? Confused? Bewildered?

You needn't be!

We have all the answers - and more!

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I've just published the first chapter of the unexpected sequel to Somepony Tries to Sell Twilight Insurance. Was this necessary? No. Was it fun? Yes. I only really wrote it to use Jackpot again. You've no idea how much fun he his to write. So, in the spirit of the teaser, here's the first paragraph:

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Next time you are hired to write a story, please do so, rather than taking the opening credits of My Little Pony: The Movie and making them last three quarters of an hour, and then bolting the Power Ponies onto the end. Additionally, it is worth noting that 'a young lady turns into a demon' is no longer an effective plot twist for an Equestria Girls film.

I was in my local B&M's looking for a drink when I came across a very strange thing: a bottle of flavoured water with a free toy. An MLP toy. Blimey. I don't know about other countries, but you don't normally see anything that gimicky in Britain. Burger meals, yes, but bottled water? I was so surprised that I stuck it in front of a camera and make a video about it. In hindsight, it's very Ashens-y, but meh.

I needed a laugh, so I ran an internet image search for 'funny'. Nothing more than vaguely amusing presented itself. Does anyone know the approximate date on which humans gave up on wit and situational humour and replaced them with captioned images of animals pulling unlikely faces?

Now that I've been spat out, a chewed-up relic of my former self, by the 12-year brainwashing process that is the British educational system, it's time for me to move my counter to the next square on the board of the Game of Life? And where does the dice-throw take me? Not Cambridge, but never mind. I'm at a different, but still quite good, university.

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