Affentitten
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Also I wonder if the 82nd and 101st get raided all the time given that "airborne" is a naughty word?
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Is that because of an 'oops' one year?
There has been a couple of such incidents. Having the anti-terrorism squad come through your office door is a treat.
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Twice a year we run an online role playing game for our students of Middle East Politics. It's a closed browser system, but we still notify the Australian intelligence services of when it's running because it causes an enormous spike of such keywords on particular servers/domains.
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I'm puzzled Michael - how would you know anything about the human race???
He's watched it evolve.
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Just for clarification my "off the rails mark" while sounding flippant describes parents who want their child labeled as something when they aren't actually autistic.
Yep. Because they want a faux medical excuse for their child being a little turd.
The other day I was at a meeting at church (God help me) for parents and families of all the kids who were doing first communion. As we walked towards the door a child was standing right in it. When we got to the threshold he slammed the door in our faces. I opened it and as we walked in the child gave mny wife a shove in the back. I said "Excuse me, I think that's a bit rude," and we continued on inside.
After the meeting the kid's mother came flying over to me, screaming about how he had autism and he was special needs and how my "having a go at him" was entirely inappropriate. :confused:
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I'd go for something denser. Maybe depleted uranium?
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My favourite encounter with an octopus was at the night markets in Zanzibar. Fresh chunks of thick octopus tentacle char-grilled on a barbecue and lavishly oiled and spiced. Wrapped up in newspaper and washed down with a Safari lager. And all for the princely sum of aboout 20 cents.
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Who got it right?
Kettler.
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Bigger.
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I as trying to throw that particular baby into the bathwater to get it cleaned up!!
Kettler vs. SO
More insanity. Less typos.
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Aff, who you playing with? I need something to do with my mid-life crisis that doesn't involve getting a lot poorer. Waking up on Monday morning feeling like I'd been fighting Maoris all weekend is something I gave away in my early thirties, maybe I'm wise enough not to seek the big pain any more and can just enjoy the game.
I play with the Melbourne RUFC (The Unicorns). I am playing in the 'Masters' division, which is 35 years and over. The main differences are that the scrums aren't contested / pushed and no lifting in the line-outs. And there are unlimited rolling subs. So you can pull out for a breather and go back on again depending on your wind level.
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I think for one thing, a lot of the people who had animated the GF discussions got older and either drifted away or the fire of their youthful enthusiasms dimmed down.
Michael
Once you're getting up towards 20 years of arguing with people on the Internet, things tend to slow down.
Actually I've had a mid-life crisis in the past month and started playing rugby again. So I get to taunt New Zealanders in real life instead of just on this board.
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But hardly a new opinion. Indeed it just plays into the whole "art should be controversial" argument.
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At some places, like Monkey Mia in Western Australia, the dolphins are well known for coming right into the knee deep water and interacting with humans. I'd say this was one of those places where yes, everyone was just waiting for the dolphins to arrive. It's just that the dolphins farked up.
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Relax guy. Emrys is still bitching about the world giving up on cuneiform.
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Drivers attack their art with an equal mix of aggressiveness and incompetence."
Funnily enough I was on Skype to a buddy in Uzbekistan the other day. He said that he'd had to fire his (ethnically Russian) driver.
Why?
"Cowardice."
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When my son was being diagnosed somwhere I picked up a pop-definition of hte difference between Aspergers & Autism - it goes like this:
both are socially inept/unaware.
Aspergers people are aware that that's a problem & want to change it but don't know how.
Autistic people don't care.
A few years later I mentioned it to a psychologist & he reckoned that it's probably accurate as far as it goes, but it's only a small part of both situations.
But what about an Assburger? They're aware of their buns but feel trapped by them?
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Large, white-bread, high income.
Perfect. Though her own school is more baguette / challah than white bread.
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Fun fact: I was born and grew up in Porirua. I went to the opening day of the MacDonalds there, carefully chosen to be the first in NZ because of Porirua's demographics. Which pretty much tells you all you need to know about Porirua. And me, I guess.
Funnily enough the second one in Australia opened opposite my school.
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My daughter (10) has the opportunity to go on a school exchange to NZ at the end of this year. The school involved is at Paraparamu Beach, which I believe is somewhere near Wellington.
Any intel on this area would be appreciated. And I mean the sort of intel a parent would want to know rather than mean average rainfall.
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Not to distract from the serious nature of this thread, but my impression of women in the engineering field is that they are either dunderheads who enjoy the title more than the work, while those of actual intelligence are too smart to want anything to do with their male counterparts. I'll take the guy from environmental detailing how his plume modeling algorithm compensates for ground reflection given a specified adiabatic lapse rate over the woman from primary systems talking about how intuitive her ****ing cat is.*
*stories are adapted from The Real Life and Times of Stoat: How Mythos and Masculinity Shape our Small Worlds in a Time of Energy Uncertainty available in your local bookstore in the "outgoing trash" section.
You're assuming that everyone in a massive engineering consultancy is an engineer. I'm not one.
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Chatting's free. I talk but don't touch.
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Well I tended to look at it as an opportunity. It made my own company and conversation so much more desireable for female members of staff....
Enjoying food fully
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The problem is though that when you go to European cities, people don't speak English properly. Which makes it annoying and embarassing to order stuff.