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Your mixing of various example that are related by simile rather than logic . . . it helps explain so much about why the world's heading towards hell.
Also - since I'm a self-declared optimistic cynic, nothing I say can be taken at face value.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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W∴ Balboos wrote: since I'm a self-declared optimistic cynic
Join the club...
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: Join the club...
I suppose I might as well - as I don't see what further harm could be done.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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I note that AA is run by ex-alcoholics, etc. Bristol Palin (the subject of the original post) is still pursuing her self-destructive behaviour.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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As you really ought to know one of the principle tenets of AA is that there is no such thing as an ex-alcoholic, a view fully shared by medical professionals.
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I accept the correction. Substitute "alcoholics in remission" for "ex-alcoholics".
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Little late on this one, Nagy... We've been laughing at her for years.
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Hate to burst your bubble but she publicly distanced herself from abstinence advocacy years ago and whilst she still does occasional engagements regarding teen pregnancy and birth control this is by no means the bulk of her work these days. As far as I know she has never suggested that either sexual activity or pregnancy requires marriage. At 24, her current pregnancy should not disqualify her from talking about birth control for teenagers, surely? If we were all required to irrevocably stick to what we believed or said in our teens throughout the rest of our life then the world would be a whole lot more screwed up then it is!
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What did you expect?? She's a republican... Do as I say, not what I do
"Republican" is slang for "Hypocrit"
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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I must correct you . . . the proper term is not 'slang' . . . . it's 'synonym'.
(We're not both in trouble for not taking this to the SoapBox, but I'll blame you)
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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teaching by bad example.... brilliant 
#region(start signature)
Life's like a nose, you've got to get out of it whats in it!
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Seen the top of her wikipedia page? Wow.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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So - Sarah's little honey-pie turned out to have been a tart ?
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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We use to have Summer now we have Heatwaves. We use to have Storms and now we have Weather Bombs*.
*That one really gets on my tits. It's only something I've heard in the past year or two also. Anyone know where it originates? I'm guessing the Yanks have something to do with it.
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"The term is often misused in North America,[19]"
Needs modifying to include Britain now.
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At last the bloody sun is out, so I don't really care.
veni bibi saltavi
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: I don't really care
Well, you wouldn't - you're Hungarian!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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P0mpey3 wrote: I'm guessing the Yanks have something to do with it.
Could be but I've never heard the term Weather Bombs before. Sounds juvenile.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Weather Bombs
Never heard the term before.
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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'Heatwave' is as old as the hills. Were you not around in 1976?
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Member 9082365 wrote: Were you not around in 1976?
No I wasn't Grandad.
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Great Grand Uncle only, I'm afraid. (Mind you I haven't heard from Great Grand Niece in a while so I could be even Greater!)
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It cranked up about 10 years ago by my reckoning. Subtly at first: instead of saying a day would be rainy when there was 60% chance of rain, it went to 50%, now 40%. Then they started reporting the most extreme figures from their models, knowing that models aren't accurate past a few short days. So they'd be able to say it would be 48C with 100cm of snow in 14 days time, and run that sound bite over and over, until closer to the day it's be 20C with a gentle breeze, possibly with butterflies.
Storms have been more frequent, but the sensationalist reporting is well and truly overtaken it.
At least in Australia they now admit we get tornadoes. For years they would call them "mini tornadoes" or mini-hurricanes or microbursts (which some storm damage is actually caused by). Thanks to American style sensationalism and the power of the advertising dollar demanding eyeballs on that TV screen, we have actual tornadoes. Tiny ones, possibly poisonous, but tornadoes nonetheless.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I remember someone complaining about weather bombs and there recent arrival last year.
Turns out they've been around for ages but weather reporters have only recently learnt of it.
Like when footballers started fracturing metatarsals instead of breaking toes, or having hip flexor injuries instead of groin strains.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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