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@tinks wrote:

ihatepvafekkinglue !!
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Stick with it. The more you use it the stronger the bond will be.

(Sorry, I’m really sorry about the quality of this post. :( )

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Good luck with the £1000 target! Almost there.

Hope the walk’s good fun too.

:)

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@toybulldog wrote:

well this has certainly brought out the usual freaks.

I blame the OP of course. Apparently it’s ok to comment on the Christchurch earthquake, but not one that was at least a hundred times stronger.

Well okay . . . the Pakistani floods last year severely affected 20 million people, but we can safely ignore that (and the postings on JC) as we all had bloody ‘compassion fatigue’ by then, and the political scene there was a bit dodgy by our reckoning anyway. So there’s no way that I’m gonna comment on the North Korean floods of 1995-98, or the Chinese famine of 1960. Oh no, I’ll be so busy scrambling for the moral high ground that typing would become impossible.

Well I thought it was great about the lack of Japanese looting, unlike New Yorkers at – whisper it – 9/11. Maybe since the Japs have had thousands of years experience with tsunamis they know how to behave, which is incredibly politely.

I was happy-slapped by one once and he had the good grace to bow incessantly and present me with the latest Sony digi camcorder while he was doing it, which I thoroughly appreciated. We still exchange greetings through our lawyers.

But no, I don’t believe for a moment that this was karmic retribution of any kind, whether for wartime atrocities, or Pearl Harbor, or dwindling tuna stocks. It’s simply that the big mythological lizard decided to flap his tail, in protest at their nuclear health and safety record.

Or in absolute laughter at the cartoonish qualities of the Emperor’s head.

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So pleased I am still a freak – thought I was losing my touch.

As usual, Grasshopper, you combine wisdom, humour, and an occasional dash of vaguely offensive but amusing hogwash, into an intriguing and entertaining mixture.

I bow in the presence of a master wordsmith. (Even though you made me cry by calling me a freak. I know you didn’t mention me by name but that just makes it worse. Sniff.)

:wink: :lol:

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@jen_jen wrote:

Wonders where everyone is…did y’all go get lives and not tell me? :-k

Not me. I’ve been away from the Boards for weeks and just come back.

I know I’m a poor substitute for high quality people, but I do my best.

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Wooh, back up.

Are we really discussing everything we can slag the Japanese off for at a time like this, almost like they deserved it?

Yeah they (or their government, or some of their industries) done wrong, but I know everyone feels for the kids without parents, the parents without kids, and thousands of ordinary lives needlessly smudged out by something greater than all of us. Surely no-one deserves that.

Makes you thankful to be alive (and sad for those who have lost).

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@peggy wrote:

erm nothing agasint gadafi??? amazing how quickly people forget ……im sure if you pop up to lockerbie they will tell you the horrors they faced when the plane blew up abouve there heads……..as for this being our war it isnt we are there under the un, as part of the united nations we are there, as we were in bosnia to protect the people and keep supplies of medicine , food , and to shelter those who need help ,the torandoes returned today without fireing a single missile due to the fact gadaffi is using human shileds to protect certain people and places ,most say this is being done by the people and is not forced upon them however bear in mind gadaffi is a dictator and thus these people only see and hear what he decides ,they do not have access to certain tv , satalite , internet sites ect ….so who is to say why these people are taking there children to places they know they will be killed !……the un isnt in place to fight wars they are there to secure and help the civilians maybe you should back those who are trying to help those who are at risk instead of thinking of the price tag ……whats a few pounds compared to a life………and before everyone jumps up and down banging on about the defence cuts ect let me remind you we are part of the un as such we are duty bound to up hold the decisions it makes , and may i remind you gadaffi has called and broken two ceasefires and has claimed he will bomb planes in the med ……still thinking were making the wrong choice?

You make good points.

I mean the guy is a dangerous and sociopathic, and he is killing his own citizens.

I have everything against Colonel G and I don’t think it’s always wrong to intervene, I just wish that we were better prepared and a bit more consistent when we went in like this. Defending a moral position would be easier if we and the UN also intervened in other massacres like Rwanda.

My post only questioned the mixed up reasons for doing it. As long as we keep it limited, stay out of the country and withdraw to let Libya decide, we might this time do more good than harm.

But it’s a risky, risky game, and we are in no position to be anyone’s conscience.

:?

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@kent f OBE wrote:

@momentaryloss wrote:

@jen_jen wrote:

@momentaryloss wrote:

OK – I’m really skydiving naked into a cactus field in Mexico.

Ouch!

(refrains from making the obvious joke about lots of little pricks….) :-

How d’you get away with the “p” word?

Like this ……… prick? :lol:

Very clever – I can see how that works. You constantly amaze me.

8)

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@kent f OBE wrote:

@momentaryloss wrote:

@kent f OBE wrote:

Why do some people tell you somthing, swear you to secrecy, for you to only find out they have told numerous others the same, and the numerous others have blabbed and you still won’t admit to knowing anything because you feel loyalty?!

:roll:

I didn’t tell anyone else – honest.

Well just a few people. It’s been a slow day.

The operation wasn’t a complete success anyway.

Shushshs I wasn’t referring to THAT secret! :lol:

Oops

#-o

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@jen_jen wrote:

@momentaryloss wrote:

OK – I’m really skydiving naked into a cactus field in Mexico.

Ouch!

(refrains from making the obvious joke about lots of little pricks….) :-

How d’you get away with the “p” word?

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Carefully removing a little pric k….

Just the one.

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