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Sep 9th, 2014, 10:09 AM
#57481
Re: Post Race!
It makes absolutely no sense to me at all.
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Sep 9th, 2014, 10:11 AM
#57482
Re: Post Race!
It really makes me angry that our president was the one who let the ISIS leader, Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, go back in 2009.
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Sep 9th, 2014, 10:12 AM
#57483
Re: Post Race!
I really had trouble sleeping last night.
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Sep 9th, 2014, 10:12 AM
#57484
Re: Post Race!
I kept thinking, what if that comes to the US.
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Sep 9th, 2014, 10:13 AM
#57485
Re: Post Race!
Well, it kind of is with the different gangs we have, but it's not religiously "justified" like ISIS claims their killings are.
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Sep 9th, 2014, 10:14 AM
#57486
Re: Post Race!
I feel like I have the same fear my dad have about the reds bombing us, only with these different terrorist organizations.
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Sep 10th, 2014, 03:58 AM
#57487
Re: Post Race!
I don't think you have to worry about the sort of execution killings you describe coming to the US in the foreseeable future but it's horrible that it happens anywhere in the world.
I grew up in Nigeria (as an ex-pat) and this stuff used to happen all the time. It wasn't just the terrorists either. I once saw police gun down a guy in the street for nothing more than crossing the road abpout 100 yards up from their checkpoint. They shot him several times at a distance then advanced on him and shot him in the head. The police used to carry bull whips. Stop and ask yourself, for a second, exactly how a bull whip would be used to subdue an assailant - the image is not a pleasant one.
The worst time was in the lead up to elections. Nigeria is essentially a collection of tribes who've spent most of their history killing each other and selling each other into slavery - they hate each other. In an election each tribe would put up a candidate and the most effective way of ensuring your candidate won was to make sure nobody voted for the other guys - can you guess how they did that? Add the fact that the North is Muslim and the South Christian and you've got a complete powderkeg.
I am hugely grateful I live in the UK. For us the fear of terrorism is remote and only gets close very, very rarely. In some parts of the world it's a daily concern.
The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter - Winston Churchill
Hadoop actually sounds more like the way they greet each other in Yorkshire - Inferrd
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Sep 10th, 2014, 08:52 AM
#57488
Re: Post Race!
I've really been struggling the past couple of days because it's hard for me to comprehend that some people have that constant fear 24/7. I just can't understand how somebody could justify any of those killings that I saw, it's like street justice almost, and I know that it won't stop.
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Sep 17th, 2014, 01:43 PM
#57489
Re: Post Race!
We just found out that my brother has a brain tumor, or at least one doctor may think that he has one.
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Sep 17th, 2014, 01:43 PM
#57490
Re: Post Race!
He's being brought to an oncologist as I type.
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Sep 17th, 2014, 10:02 PM
#57491
Re: Post Race!
Sorry to hear that. Hope everything works out.
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Sep 18th, 2014, 12:30 AM
#57492
Re: Post Race!
Me too, I'll know something tomorrow.
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Sep 18th, 2014, 03:54 AM
#57493
Re: Post Race!
Hope he's OK DD. They're pretty good at dealing with this sort of thing these.
The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter - Winston Churchill
Hadoop actually sounds more like the way they greet each other in Yorkshire - Inferrd
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Sep 18th, 2014, 10:28 AM
#57494
Re: Post Race!
Hope it is nothing serious or that it is benign.
Good luck to you and yours.
Burn the land and boil the sea
You can't take the sky from me
~T
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Sep 18th, 2014, 06:45 PM
#57495
Re: Post Race!
Well it's been confirmed that it is NOT a tumor. I don't know quite what it is, but I know he'll be fine.
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Sep 19th, 2014, 04:52 AM
#57496
The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter - Winston Churchill
Hadoop actually sounds more like the way they greet each other in Yorkshire - Inferrd
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Sep 19th, 2014, 09:25 AM
#57497
Re: Post Race!
New pool in the back yard for the doc and his team?
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Sep 19th, 2014, 02:56 PM
#57498
Re: Post Race!
Bad hangover: Man does that image look blurry!
My usual boring signature: Nothing
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Sep 19th, 2014, 03:05 PM
#57499
Re: Post Race!
Great! Glad to hear it is a non-tumor.
Sounds like time to crack open a beer!
Burn the land and boil the sea
You can't take the sky from me
~T
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Sep 29th, 2014, 09:14 AM
#57500
Re: Post Race!
It has been 10 days since anyone has posted to this thread.
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Sep 29th, 2014, 09:14 AM
#57501
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Sep 29th, 2014, 09:15 AM
#57502
Re: Post Race!
I'm glad to see that the [CODE][/CODE] tags have been brought back.
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Sep 29th, 2014, 09:15 AM
#57503
Re: Post Race!
Hmm, I wonder how to display the code tags without using noparse...
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Sep 29th, 2014, 09:15 AM
#57504
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Sep 29th, 2014, 09:15 AM
#57505
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Sep 29th, 2014, 09:15 AM
#57506
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Sep 29th, 2014, 09:16 AM
#57507
Re: Post Race!
Odd, the bold, italic, and underline simply make the [CODE][/CODE] disappear.
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Sep 29th, 2014, 09:16 AM
#57508
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Sep 29th, 2014, 09:20 AM
#57509
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Sep 29th, 2014, 09:23 AM
#57510
Re: Post Race!
Originally Posted by szlamany
[code][/code]
Like that!
Ohhh... ok. Let me try it...
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Sep 29th, 2014, 09:24 AM
#57511
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Sep 29th, 2014, 09:24 AM
#57512
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Sep 29th, 2014, 09:24 AM
#57513
Re: Post Race!
[CODE][/CODE]
Odd how it still comes up as -short message-
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Sep 29th, 2014, 09:25 AM
#57514
Re: Post Race!
Originally Posted by dday9
[CODE][/CODE]
Like this?
It's sick that I knew that - really, really sick.
I've now proven to myself that I have way too much time on my hands...
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Sep 29th, 2014, 09:26 AM
#57515
Re: Post Race!
Originally Posted by dday9
[CODE][/CODE]
Odd how it still comes up as -short message-
What is -short message-?
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Sep 29th, 2014, 09:29 AM
#57516
Re: Post Race!
Try posting the code tags without any text.
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Sep 29th, 2014, 09:31 AM
#57517
Re: Post Race!
[code][/code]
Wow - that's interesting.
We had a thread a few years back where we were beating up the "too short" formula - can't think of how to search for it though...
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Sep 29th, 2014, 10:01 AM
#57518
Re: Post Race!
I burned this post. It is now a post toasty.
Burn the land and boil the sea
You can't take the sky from me
~T
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Sep 29th, 2014, 10:03 AM
#57519
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Sep 29th, 2014, 10:04 AM
#57520
Re: Post Race!
After taste? No - Post taste!
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