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<r>Accountable wrote: I'm pretty sure there's an apology at the top of the next page of one of those links. I also apologised in a PM, which she quite graciously turned down. Oh dear, this is quite embarrassing. I did not post a goodbye in order to have people beg me to stay, as has...

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Do I have to spell it out for you? She started the threat without stating the premise, so there was no premise, get it?

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<r>Thanks for letting me look around for a few days. I've enjoyed meeting you all and reading some very interesting threads with excellent contributors. I think it's time to move on and look for a place I feel more comfortable in. It just doesn't sit well with me to be told I should let certain memb...

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What an extremely vulgar outburst. Don't you find it just a teeny little bit embarrassing that you have failed to detect the ironic humour in my message?

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<t>valerie wrote: She TOLD you this? I know her pretty well and I think she wanted to generate replies and thoughts about the whole thing in general. I would never presume to know on what premise she started anything unless I asked! I think it...

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I saw that on the TV news. What they don't tell you in the article is that nearly all the visitors were women!:wah:

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<t>At a university I used to work at, loads of the older professors left their menopausal wives and married students. The girls first made academic careers with the help of their new husbands, then had babies. One of the profs died just after his second baby was born; another one was left with a sma...

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Not at all, OM! I think we can conclude from the above that they are capable of remarkable feats of emotional discipline.

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<t>valerie wrote: Uh, I thought LadyCop started the thread? What am I missing? She did start it, but did not do so on the premise that it was to be discussed in the context of it being the law of Austria. If that had been the case, there would have been nothing to discuss: he broke the law, was...

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OM, I do hope you are going to be generous and take this poor old new friend with you!:-6

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No more irresponsible than fathers of that age. An American writer and scholar I know of had twins when he was 72 and suffering from emphysema. How responsible was that? Didn't raise many eyebrows though.

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<t>The religion of peace: Muslims fly commercial airliners into buildings in New York City. No Muslim outrage. Muslim officials block the exit where school girls are trying to escape a burning building because their faces were exposed. No Muslim outrage. <br/...

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<t>OpenMind wrote: Ruth seems to hold the same opinion, Bez. OM, unfortunately I'm too old. They only allow younger immigrants who have a skill they need or who own a business with a certain turnover. A friend of mine from the UK has a son who has given up his farm in the UK and mov...

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<t>lady cop wrote: there is an indisputable point here, that he broke the law. a lot of people disapprove of laws i have had to arrest them for breaking , but if it is the current state of the law there is no alternative. of course i have no idea how much discretion the judge had in sentencing. <br/...

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<t>Bez wrote: Adolf Hitler, Pol Pot, Idi amin, Mussolini, Ho Chi Minh , Pinochet...figures of fun that were NOT taken seriously....go research them. Why should I do research on such historical figures, Bez? Some of these men were democratically elected and some were military dictato...

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<t>Has he done that, Bez? Did he publish the poem he wrote for his child? I haven't read any of his stuff, but I do not consider holocaust denying to necessarily be an expression of racial hatred and bigotry, just pig-headed and stupid, like the flat earthers. Man is a natural racist to s...

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<t>Bez wrote: This man should have been behind bars years ago....freedom of speech or no freedom of speech... A poem composed by Irving for his daughter. It was supposed to be recited whenever "half-breed children are wheeled past". I am a Baby Aryan<br/...

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<t>Blackjack wrote: I disagree with his being arrested. I think free speech should mean free speech no matter what. But the reason they have laws like that in Austria is to suppress Neo-Nazis. This law was understandable in 1945, but not today. Are we going to imprison members of th...

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Why not, since plenty of men father babies at 60 or 70 and it doesn't raise an eyebrow.

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<t>Fools should be laughed at, not imprisoned. Free speech has to be defended, even that of fools. The limit should only be incitement to attack or kill, like the Muslim demonstrators who called for the massacre of those who insult Islam in london last week and got away with it. Like the...

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Why did you delete the rest? I'm sure it is a lovely place, as you said, but my British humour obviously isn't appreciated there. I'll pop over there and delete my disrespectful banter. Flippin' heck. . . .

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<r>Accountable wrote: That's why the door swings both ways. Yours was the first negative post I read there in all my time in the pub, which is why I didn't respond there. It's a happy place. Are you seriously telling me that you missed the humour in my postings?<EMOJI seq="1f615" tseq="1f615">:...

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<t>I've just been over to Boswell's pub and I won't be drinking anything else for the rest of the day, thank you. What a seedy place, not the kind of thing I'm used to at all. Still, that's what comes of slumming, eh? Would you believe it, somebody had been sick all over the floor!:yh_gi...

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Thanks, Erasmus!

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<t>I saw a "funny video" programme the other night. There was one of a wedding, where the guests were all seated at the table and a microphone was passed around for everyone to give their personal good wishes to the happy couple. It was passed to a very old lady, who announced to the whole party, "I...

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<r>Clipper wrote: Ruth...over heah we have different ways of frying food. Pan-fried is self-explanatory....then we have deep-fried; as in using a big old pot of hot oil to do the frying; and then there is the oven-fried method which is used by many to cook bacon. If I have confused you wi...

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<t>Dead birds are being collected and tested daily here in Holland. So far no bird flu, but it's a tough job, since many birds die naturally at this time of the year. Sadly, the government has today introduced an order for all domestic birds to be kept indoors. This is a disaster for many...

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Good morning to you too.

Forgive me if this seems nit-picking, but what exactly does "pan-fried" mean? How else can one fry anything?

My aunt used to refer to "green peas," to which my uncle always retorted, "what other colours do they come in?":)

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No, they would have a communist revolution, only to discover that all animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.

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<t>OM, you should have a look at the BBC radio 4 "Today" message board. People are really freaking out on this topic. One poster has started a thread with this: Is this scenario about the next 50 years totally far fetched? 20 years: Sharia introduced into the bradford metropoli...

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<t>This will give readers an idea of the state the UK is in today. I had a message on a BBC forum censored this morning because it broke the rules and was in some way "considered likely to provoke, attack or offend others, was racist, sexist, homophobic, sexually explicit, abusive or otherwise objec...

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<r>Nomad wrote: WHY WERE MEN GIVEN LARGER BRAINS THAN DOGS? (so they won't hump women's legs at cocktails parties) I wish people would tell me this stuff ! <E>:o</E> Hahahahahahaha! My brilliant daughter inherited her brains fr...

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<t>I read yesterday that the EU commission is preparing a media code for all member states, to instruct the media how to deal with matters Islamic: more of our freedoms being whittled away by that cursed organisation! I would go to New Zealand if I could. I know several people who have be...

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<t>OM, I'm too pissed off about this business to discuss it tonight. Probably get back to the thread tomorrow, when I've calmed down (been debating this today on another forum). I'm very grateful to be in Holland instead of PC-fascist Britain these days. Though we have a huge Muslim popul...

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<t>Hello Snooze and Jives, nice to meet you both and thanks for the welcome. Jives, I appreciate the links. I'll print your stuff out and read it in bed; just can't shake down to the idea of reading anything creative from a monitor, though I'm told that soon real paper books will be a thi...

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Thanks, baby.

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Got a link for this ICP thread, Baby?

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<r>Nomad, don't be so hard on me: I got a miserly 3-month grant to do what should have been a year's work, had no car, of course, and had to look after my daughter and keep her in school; it wasn't a holiday. I'll send you to bed early, after a dinner of bread and water (and without hash ...

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<t>No Smokey mountains, Nomad, too busy for sightseeing, a very tight budget and a child in tow. I was working on the Southern group who started up as the "Southern Agrarian" movement and became known later as the New Critics: Allen Tate, Andrew Lytle, Robert Penn Warren, Cleanth Brooks, ...

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<t>I find this pretty shocking, OM. First they claim the play will be banned because the recipients of the fund raising are considered objectionable, then go on to discuss moral objections to the play's content. How can such an institution be taken academically seriously? If they object t...

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<r>OpenMind wrote: Hope I haven't offended you, Ruth. Sorry, if I have. Absolutely no offense intended. I for one would not like to see you go, barred or otherwise. Please feel free to rip the vital essentials out of me, just don't leave on my account.<E>:o</E> Oh heck, OM, I was te...

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I detect an attempt to get rid of me. Do they suspend members here, put them on pre-mod or just ban them for life?

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Use your imagination, Openmind! It is something that not all ladies of the night are willing to provide.

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<r>I would like to see this horror getting the same degree of international publicity and sense of outrage: <URL url="http://www.camdennewjournal.co.uk/archive/n301003_6.htm">http://www.camdennewjournal.co.uk/archive/n301003_6.htm</URL> Similar horror stories have taken place...

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I saw Joran van der Sloot and his father tonight in an interview on the Dutch news. He was asked what kind of person she was, and I found his reply callous and unnecessary, even if it were true. He said she impressed him as not a nice type at all, loud, pushy, wild.

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I can't explain what going Greek means in Holland without incurring the wrath of the mods. Suffice to say that the term is well known in the red light district of Amsterdam. The working girls usually have a sign up in the window to tell customers whether this form of sex is an option.

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OMG, "going Greek" clearly doesn't mean in the US what it means in Europe! LOLOLOLOL!

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<r>Here are some news clips my friend in Yorkshire has gathered: <URL url="http://www.channel4.com/news/2003/08/week_4/22_keigh.html"><LINK_TEXT text="http://www.channel4.com/news/2003/08/we ... keigh.html">http://www.channel4.com/news/2003/08/week_4/22_keigh.html</LINK_TEXT></URL> <...

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<t>Scrat wrote: So does this Spot. Is it true that the men are Asian? Here in Seattle there is a booming slave trade along with Vancouver Canada. The men they inevitably apprehend are not purple with green polka dotted skin and square eyes. They have olive skin an...

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<r>spot wrote: Chapter and verse I already have, thank you. The article in the Guardian covers the aftermath and gives a far better summary than I could manage - people following the thread would do well to read it, at <URL url="http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1284466,00.html"><LINK_T...

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