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I think... the simplest move at this stage...

is to resurrect spot.

TÃ½r was only ever a temporary stopgap import onto the site, he belongs elsewhere.

Besides, it's about time I rejoined the moderator group. Enough of this tomfoolery.

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It sounds a bit like EA. People used to advertise that here too. I wonder how they're doing.

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<t>I offer a bewildering quote from Tony Stewart, whose car hit a driver during a race on Saturday."Everybody has hobbies," he said last month, adding that "there are a lot of other things I could be doing that are a lot more dangerous and a lot bigger waste of time with my time off do than doing th...

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<t>efidancim;1461654 wrote: Ä°n Ä°slam Jesus is a prophet not son of God and he didnt killed.Jesus will come an kill the deccal or help to Mehdi to kill deccal Has Jesus much experience of killing, or is he just going to pick it up as he goes along? I can't think of any occasions wh...

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<t>LarsMac;1461079 wrote: Some choices. And this has been going on for centuries. 1. Pay us lots of money and we may not bother you for a while (at least until your money runs out) 2. Pack up and leave the home of your ancestors and try to find a home somewhere else <br...

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<t>AnneBoleyn;1461073 wrote: I warned you I'm kind of out of it, BUT...........when your life is at stake, Forced is the only word. Not that I've read the last few posts or anything. The thread makes it clear ISIS offers various alternatives, of which conversion to Islam is only one...

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I think "forced" is being used in this context as a synonym for "put under pressure". I don't think the word ever warrants such usage.

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<t>Bruv;1461060 wrote: Was it about that time the phrase "Hobson's choice" came about............flippant answer with hidden depth? I'm really trying to make sense of this matter but I simply don't understand what you mean. Hobson famously only offered one horse from his stable and ...

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<t>LarsMac;1461044 wrote: I am not trying to blame anyone. Many Jews were, indeed forced (or at least, strongly encouraged) to convert, and the principle drive of the early inquisition was to test the faith of those converted, to assure that their conversion was 'genuine.' I agree t...

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<t>LarsMac;1461022 wrote: Not entirely trueI think you need to be careful who you blame for what. I can well imagine the Inquisition burned books, yes. But the burning of Jews at the stake in France in 1288 was, as far as I can tell, a reaction to the old false blood libel which doomed Jews all over...

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<t>LarsMac;1461020 wrote: Well, there was our favorite Inquisitor, ... The Inquisition was a Christian body which had power solely over other Christians, it had no effect whatever on members of any other faith unless it was investigating cases of apostasy. I don't see how it bears on this odd term "...

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AnneBoleyn;1461015 wrote: While offensive to those living, the actions of the Mormons are absurd & for naught.
But what other conversions could you describe as forced? We were trying to define the term.

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<t>To clarify what's happening to Christians in ISIS-controlled areas, there's no such thing[1] as a "forced conversion" - as far as I can see the term is meaningless. Each adult Christian is given the same options: to convert to Islam; or to pay a tax additional to the tax already paid by everyone;...

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AnneBoleyn;1461004 wrote: P.S. Koran. Guess what I'm thinking, because if I said it, things might get nasty.

I would hope it's that traditional monotheism is a lethal blight and a permanent shame to the world and has been from its invention.

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<t>AnneBoleyn;1461003 wrote: You're wasting your time accusing me of supporting U.S. Foreign Policies, or even many internal ones.You're reeding too much personal comment which isn't in my writing. I quoted your original post, which I took to be an accurate description of your reaction to the lie. I...

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<t>AnneBoleyn;1460998 wrote: It can be said with certainty that Isis (there are enough links supporting this) is causing havoc in Iraq's Christian communities, who are suffering forced conversions, seizure of property, & Death threats. With such behavior, propaganda about FGM is not far-fetched....

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High Threshold;1460981 wrote: I was afraid to stick my neck out and say so. :yh_cowIf I was called Finnbogi I'd live under a bridge and eat goats.

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High Threshold;1460957 wrote: there is no common practice of it (yet) to be found in Sweden anyway.
Nor, as you say, in Iceland. I checked and her father is shown as Finnbogi.

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<t>High Threshold;1460953 wrote: The female version can only be found today in Iceland, as in â€œ-dattirâ€.They had a Prime Minister who made that name format famous on news broadcasts around the world, Vigdis Finnbogadottir. I presume either Finnboga was her mother or Finbog was her father. I'm tr...

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<t>Lon;1460896 wrote: My first great grand child was named TANNER and one of my golfing cronies newest great grand child is named GIBSON. Is this a new trend in naming children? It's a long-standing tradition in England, Lon, and has been for centuries. Usually it starts when the mo...

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<t>AnneBoleyn;1460862 wrote: You SUSPECT GULLIBLE WEAKNESS. Until you can learn to speak to me with a modicum of respect, civility, I have no interest in answering you John. BRAND THAT NOTION INTO YOUR FOREHEAD. And meanwhile your disgust with these damned Muslims knows no bounds, d...

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<t>tude dog;1460801 wrote: Barbaric or not, have yet to see a health problem. Here you go, this is peer-reviewed, from a US government department, and recent. Circumcisions for medical reaso... [Einstein (Sao Paulo). 2012 Jul-Sep] - PubMed - NCBI based on data from the Bra...

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<t>Chloe_88;1460794 wrote: Like I said that is what I felt was being discussed. If it was not, then it was not. What you actually wrote was I feel female and male circumcision are being compared here. But i'm very sorry, you cannot compare male circumcision to cutting off a womans ...

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<t>FourPart;1460793 wrote: If you think about it, Christians are technically Jewish. Christ was Jewish & was accordingly circumcised. By rights Christians are just Jews who follow the teachings of one particular Jew. Balderdash. What possible accepted definition of Jew do you th...

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<t>Chloe_88;1460785 wrote: * After looking it up; type 1 & 2 are most common. Perhaps you'd like to describe what those designations actually mean. My implication was that nobody in this thread has compared male circumcision to cutting off a woman's clitoris. We've compared it w...

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Chloe_88;1460778 wrote: But i'm very sorry, you cannot compare male circumcision to cutting off a womans clitorisOn the other hand, you cannot say cutting off a woman's clitoris is the only, or even the most common, form of FGM.

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LarsMac;1460772 wrote: I am aware, though, of some regional behavior of that sort taking place in the past.
I'm intrigued. Could you tell me where and when, so I can find out more detail?

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LarsMac;1460768 wrote: for a group of men to tell women that they must submit to such a barbaric tradition, or it will be done by force

And you think that's what ISIS has done this month, do you?

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I'm pleased you found a way of dealing with the condition.

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High Threshold;1460753 wrote: why don't you refer to male circumcision as "GENITAL MUTILATION OF ALL MEN"?
Various of us have on this site, quite frequently. We're against it.

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<t>With reference to the opening post, does anyone remember the Iraq Incubators story? Here it is at the Christian Science Monitor: When contemplating war, beware of babies in incubators - CSMonitor.com I suggest that in any conflict zone where the US considers it has an interest, the fil...

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<t>AnneBoleyn;1460692 wrote: You stand by 'bewildered loons.' Oh I say - it was a very limited observation. What I wrote was "meaningless yes or no guesses from unqualified bewildered loons" - only the people making meaningless yes or no guesses fall into the category you've raised ...

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I appear, after many years of exemplary civil intercourse on ForumGarden, to have blotted my copybook. I retract "unqualified" and substitute "differently qualified".

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opps.

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<t>doodlemom;1460676 wrote: I don't appreciate you assuming you know me and why I joined. Pretty cocky of you, I joined for many reasons and I some how came across this thread and it fit my situation. There are plenty of threads I will join and follow. GEEZ DUDE GIVE ME A BREAK..I am new here and tr...

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<t>FourPart;1460605 wrote: One I do remember having was "They're Coming To Take Me Away, Ha-Ha", where the 'B' side was the same song being played backwards / mirror imaged.I remember it being banned by the BBC around the same time they banned Max Romeo's Lay Down Girl. They're Coming To Take Me Awa...

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<t>FourPart;1460603 wrote: I far prefer Lonnie's version. The very notion of a B side dates you terribly. The other side of My Old Man's a Dustman was the Cumberland Gap, he stamped his style on both of them. The track of his that I most admire is Nobody's Child, he reall...

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Some people register just to join into a specific thread because the topic's become pressing. This sounds like one of those.

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Why anyone would accept employment with a firm operating such a personally intrusive policy baffles me. Has nobody any pride left these days?

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Bruv;1460572 wrote: Is that the correct song ?
So long as we point out the existence of one error in each of the first four lines, that's the one. I remember buying it when it came out.

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AnneBoleyn;1460568 wrote: The window is exceptional. Beautiful.

That font at the bottom is pure William Morris, I reckon. He and his mates invented a clean Gothic look all of their own.

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<t>Downsizing was definitely the intention but this was an irresistible decision once I'd seen it. There's a line from Lonny Donegan that has to be appropriate, let me stretch my memory... We said here, hang on Dad, you're getting past your prime - he said well when you get my age it helps to pass t...

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Snowfire;1460555 wrote: I should get up there and check the flashing but I only ever remember when its leaks in the loft room occasionally.
I bought a scaffold tower today.

I hate heights. I might take a one-day course on how to use it.

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<t>Bruv;1460560 wrote: I am intriqued, how do you keep a place like that warm ?I have my doubts that it's possible. I'll try an Air Source Heat Pump in part of the building and see how it copes with the first winter. I've no intention of heating the main hall - there are radiant wall-heaters for the...

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AnneBoleyn;1460557 wrote: Urinals? Toilets too, I hope!Several, but they're being retired for more modern versions.

I know this is a big photo but it's a detail from one of the windows in the other building, and resizing it down loses the effect.

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<t>AnneBoleyn;1460553 wrote: Wow, it's Huge! How many bathrooms does it have?It has several urinals, being of its time. It has no showers, no baths, a proliferation of sinks. One of the jobs will be removing what's there and tiling the spaces, which ought to give a shower room attached to each bedro...

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<t>Snowfire;1460546 wrote: Looks like a former school building. Impressive size by the looks of it It was opened as a school in 1926 but this sort of place has gone out of fashion among the teaching fraternity. I'll set up a couple of bedrooms and refurbish the kitchen after I've li...

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<t>Well, I got the keys to the new places finally. I've taken a few snaps. There's a main building, and an annexe, and spare accommodation in a three-bedroom two-floor house on a holiday site out of town. I haven't taken a camera out to the holiday let yet but the main building is like th...

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Bruv;1460320 wrote: Animal rights people or nutcases?

I'm an animal rights person. I argue that every animal has an absolute right to be wild, with the sole exception of humans in that they are inherently incapable.

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I've no idea whether horse-drawn carriages still carry passengers through Central Park but that was an option once.

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