Someone explain Brenier's crime to me like I was ten years old. He said he thought Lüc was cute? Is there more that I happened to miss?

XPB, we Belacostan Cjovani adopted bocce as our "official" subcultural sport...because a lot of prominent Belacostans are Italian, and also because bocce ball sets are easier to come by, and there are several local bocce courts we can play in. (Vitxalmour Conductour and I once visited a local park, with the intention of hiking thru the woods, enjoying nature...we found there was a bocce court on the premises! Luckily, I had my bocce ball set in the trunk of my car, so we played our first ever game on a proper bocce court.) (I won, lol.)
I've looked into pétanque because the balls are smaller and more portable. My bocce set is heavy and a pain in the butt to haul around.
Anyhow, we came up with some Talossan terminology for our bocce games. Here they are:
Baiça Françal - "French Kiss". Buci term. "Kissing the fanny", a bocce tradition believed to have originated in France's Savoy region, requires losing teams (who have failed to score a single point) to kiss an image of a woman's bare buttocks
Balineu  -  the pallino, the small ball in bocce
Bola da Buci  -  bocce ball 
Buci  -  bocce. Bocce was introduced to Cjováni culture by Taiwos, who once bought a set of bocce balls to try to find an outdoor activity to keep his grandkids occupied. The kids didn't care for it, so Taiwos lugged the set up to Conductour's house one day. After a few games, Taiwos and Conductour were hooked. Initially, they called the way they played bocce "bolextrema", or extreme bocce, for, unlike the well manicured outdoor bocce courts they had seen, they played in Conductour's hilly and overgrown backyard. They quickly formed A.B.B.A., which, as far as we know, is Talossas only regularly active sports league. Eventually, Taiwos acquired a book about bocce, which  lead him to scrap the term 'bolextrema'. "According to the book", Taiwos said, "what we'd been playing was not particularly extreme in the bocce world." 
Iral da buci  - bocce court.
L' cäps d'Umberto Granaglia  -  Awarded by ABBA to the winner of their annual Tournament of Waterloo, L'Cäps d'Umberto Granaglia is a collectible sports card bearing the likeness of Umberto Granaglia, who is widely considered to be the greatest buci player in that sport's history.
Rafà - buci term. A fast rolling shot intending to knock an opponent's bola away or to direct the balineu to a new position.
Reverse Hooligan  -  buci term. Falling on ones back when tossing a buci ball.
Triple Miestra  -  buci term. When one has three of their balls closest to the balineu.
These are all the terms related to bocce from our Cjovani lexicon. I doubt they will be helpful to you, but may encourage you.
Ignore the crickets. Go ahead and make pétanque the official leisure sport of Cezembre. In doing so, you will forge an alliance with the Belacostan Cjovani, who enjoy a similar sport.
In Talossa, it seems easier to just make something official by actually doing it regularly, than to make laws around it.

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Quote from: Carteir Montagnhă on April 13, 2026, 09:46:43 PMhello everyone, lately, i haven't been really active or engaged with any of my fellow Talossans due to personal reasons.

today, i would like to know what has occurred, basically anything, any kind of event, so i can catch up with everybody else.

thank you!

I bet very few people will get the reference, but in the 70's there was a sitcom called "Welcome Back Kotter." The theme song from that show came to my mind on your return, so, "welcome back Carteir!"

- Txec R

I would hope there are more people who get the reference than you think...otherwise, we are OLD!
(One of my best finds as the founder of the Talossan Pannapictagraphist Society in recent times was a copy of DC Comics "Welcome Back Kotter" #2, found in a dollar bin.)
So, should we tease Carteir a lot because we got him on the spot?

I'm currently working 72 hours a week, with Sunday being my only day off, and I'm usually doing stuff that day (laundry, groceries...today I went and had my taxes done), so you shouldn't plan anything around my schedule, lol

Is this going to be made available to watch? I would like to have participated, but I was at work.

I'd love to do this! (I was addicted to the PlayStation hockey game for awhile.)

We had a Cajun food truck in town for a while. I talked to the owner, he was from New Orleans. I was pleased to find this place, they sold home made boudin, and had gumbo and Po' Boys. Unfortunately, they were expensive, and some of the dishes weren't very good. I would have figured a dude from New Orleans would make some good gumbo, but it was pretty bad. People in my town aren't familiar with Cajun foods (I've gotten weird looks and comments from the clerks at Walmart whenever I buy bags of crawfish), so this food truck didn't get much business and eventually shut down. The boudin was very good, tho.

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Quote from: Iason Taiwos on March 21, 2026, 02:38:42 PMI gave this topic some more consideration, and decided fried chicken is actually my most beloved food.

An excellent choice, Iason. Do you have a favorite restaurant? I am partial to a place in the Louisville area called Indi's.

The best local fried chicken is from a place called Italo's. It's a locally owned business with a few locations in the area. Their chicken dinner is just a cardboard box of fried chicken with jo-Jo's and a side of cole slaw. When I lived in East Liverpool (Feiabalsa Oriental in Talossan), the local Italo's was within walking distance of my house. I was friends with the delivery girl, and sometimes she'd give me extra chicken for free.
Aside from Italo's, Popeyes is the best place. The chicken and biscuits are still good, but the sides are pretty bad. I dunno about nationally, but our local Popeyes doesn't sell dirty rice anymore, they have red beans and rice, and it's awful.
Best fried fish is from a place called Mark's Landing. It's near Vitxalmour Conductour's house. Every Friday they have an all-you-can-eat fish dinner, and it's superb. (My area in Ohio is pretty good for fried fish.) (For traveling Talossans, I live in Columbiana County, Ohio. It's mostly farmland with towns scattered here and there. The local cuisine is improving since we got an influx of immigrants from Guatemala and Mexico. Highly recommend a place called Rancho Viejo, none of the staff speak English, but the food is cheap and fantastic. Best tacos I've ever had.)

Quote from: Barclamïu da Miéletz on March 21, 2026, 12:40:31 PMAlso took a look at the website and I can say that in my opinion their products look appalling.

😂 Agreed. But this is the brand that's available everywhere around here.
Until today, I also added an "s" to pluralize "Pączki". But am I pronouncing it properly? Around here we say it like "punch-key". (I love pączki, but you can only get them certain times of the year. I think it revolves around some religious holiday.)
AD, if you can find them, the frozen bags of crawfish are acceptable. The ones from Louisiana tend to be better. Walmart used to sell ones that were products of China, Spain, and Egypt. Like I said, these things are precooked and seasoned, and sometimes the non-Louisiana brands had a funky seasoning on them.
I gave this topic some more consideration, and decided fried chicken is actually my most beloved food. I am ashamed to admit that I've still never had Barberton chicken, which is a popular style of fried chicken in these parts (it's of Serbian origin.)

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Quote from: Moinul Moin on March 21, 2026, 07:27:07 AMPierogies

I just said that pierogi is already the plural... sad.

https://www.mrstspierogies.com/
Thank you for informing us about this, but I would imagine the majority of people in my region don't know that. Even a company that makes them calls them pierogies.

Www.anley.com
My Talossan flag was one I ordered off eBay for maybe $15. It was from some Chinese company. (Just type in "Micronation flag" on eBay, you'll find it.) It's hanging on my wall now, and is okay, I guess. A little flimsy. 
Vitxalmour Conductour designed a flag for our Cjovani subculture. If I could figure out how to share pictures on here, I'd show you. Anyhow, I found this Anley flag making company. I uploaded a picture of our Cjovani flag to them...in a couple of weeks, they sent me the flag. (It was like $26.)
This is a nice flag. Sturdy and way better quality than the Chinese Talossan flag. Unlike the Chinese flag, I'd feel confident that I could stick this flag outside, and it could withstand the weather for a few years.
Just throwing this out there as a suggestion for Talossans wanting a decent quality flag.

The region of Ohio I live in has a large population of Polish descendants, and a lot of Polish foods are commonplace around here. I was a dumb hick from southeast Texas when I first moved up here; I had never heard of pierogis. I remember the first time I heard the word kielbasa, I had no idea what it was. "It's a sausage", a pal told me. I thought he was saying "Kill Bossy" (Bossy being a cow's name in my mind), and I thought that was a horrible name for a sausage. (Yeah, I was pretty dumb back then.)
As for pierogis, I still don't particularly like them, but my wife sometimes makes them, and they're okay. She mainly makes the potato ones. I do like Kill Bossy, tho.
I have never lost my love for the food I grew up on in Texas, most of which is impossible to find in Ohio. My local Walmart actually sells crawfish, (frozen, pre-seasoned and cooked), and while not as good as what you'd get at a live crawfish boil, it's okay. A few local Chinese restaurants serve crawfish, but advertise them as "baby lobsters". I could have live crawfish shipped to me from Louisiana, but it's too expensive.
Anyhow, my beloved food? Boudin. In Texas, we spell it boudain for some reason. It's a type of sausage made with rice. I did order some of that from a place in Louisiana. I contemplated getting a meat grinder/sausage stuffer, and trying to make my own. A boudin link for breakfast is a thing of joy, washed down with some Cafe du Monde coffee.

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WHEREAS the Talossan Naval Relief Corps has been established to provide humanitarian, maritime, and disaster-relief assistance in the name and spirit of the Kingdom of Talossa, and

WHEREAS the Corps seeks to embody the Kingdom's values of service, solidarity, and civic duty, and

WHEREAS the designation of a Royal Patron would lend honour and inspiration to the Corps and its volunteers, and

WHEREAS His Majesty King Txec has long demonstrated a personal commitment to the welfare, dignity, and flourishing of the Kingdom and its people, and

WHEREAS it is fitting and proper that organizations dedicated to public service seek the symbolic guidance and patronage of the Crown.

THEREFORE I, Sir Iason Taiwos , an Admiral in His Majesty's Royal Navy and a citizen of good standing of the Kingdom of Talossa, do hereby respectfully petition His Majesty King Txec to grant Royal Patronage to the Talossan Naval Relief Corps, in accordance with custom and any applicable law and practice of the Kingdom.

https://youtu.be/vjXZ8gaCOHA?si=XDop_wNGOrmGj2Nk
I've also been listening to this group a lot. I've seen them twice in concert and finally bought an album (which I hope to have the band members autograph next time I see them.)
All the members are from Toronto, Canada, except the new drummer, who is from Akron. She was previously in a couple of punk bands from Akron, and she's fantastic.
They are going to be doing another show in Akron in April. I plan on being there.
Most of their stuff is original material, but they also play a few covers of other surf instrumental band's tunes.

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Quote from: Ethan Smith on January 22, 2026, 02:27:07 PMHello, what are some interests of yours?

I enjoy writing, cult films, and I'm interested in different languages and cultures.

What particular cult films do you enjoy?

https://www.amazon.com/Live-Bayou-Washington-D-C-March/dp/B0FYQR4S37
I've been listening to this. (Well, I just started listening to it this morning on the way to work, only got it in the mail yesterday.)
As far as I know, this is the earliest known live recordings of the Bad Brains, recently unearthed somewhere, remastered, and finally released 45 years after they were recorded.
I haven't gotten to disc two yet, but disc one is great. I settled for CD, because the vinyl (released on Record Store Day) is already going for ridiculous prices.

So, the King, in what I still regard as an error of judgement, bestowed upon me the title of Knight Commander in the Order of the Nation. Well, I was totally dumbstruck by this proclamation, as I felt I was totally unworthy of such an honor (an opinion I'm sure most other Talossans share.) I messaged the King, even questioned his sanity, but he assured me I was worthy. If he says so, then so be it.
I therefore am asking this noble college if they will "knightify" my current coat of arms. I assume I may choose my own Latin motto.