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It is my considered opinion that your workplace is rife for a mutiny. Begin psychologically laying the foundations by wearing a powdered wig, and prefacing messages with "Mr Hornblower sends his compliments and asks..." ~ You know that incredibly sensitive part of the inner wrist, which can make a paramour tremble if kissed? Well, I've just spilled boiling water on mine and it f***ing well hurts.

Consider this: I know 20 year olds men from Oxford, UK who would be out-thought and out-fought by 12 year old zulus from Natal, South Africa. No doubt your elf is more skilled in eleven court etiquette and whatever elves do for facebook.

The Devil's Brigade Real rip-roaring war movie fodder. Big galoots! Kilts! Punching! A mountain full of gnazis! Not two, but ONE ginger moustache! The only thing wrong with this movie is it came out in 1968. Probably the worst year possible to try and sell a movie about discipline and determination winning wars and being great. Watch it.

Tinned sardines, shallow fried in sunflower oil, plentiful garlic, cardamom, fresh chillis, black pepper, oregano, topped off with virgin olive oil, added fine chopped carrot to give sweetness and bulk. Served stirred through white rice. Drinking licorice and mint tea.

What if they're not even Russian?

Exactly.

Bored of this now. Why can't we have a thread accusing the French of being lazy? Or the Irish of being drunk?

I think your insistence that an invasion is actually intended and on the way is immensely illustrative.

Well, my personal list of unacceptable sources are: Daily Mail Independent Daily Express The Oxford Mail In order of seriousness.

What are super-heavy elements?

Good points. I'm working under the assumption that the technical issues of neutralising these weapons have been dealt with by US planners/tech.

Hold on, Zor. _I'm_ not arguing that Assad did it either. If you recall I put the case for it being jifs. I don't believe there is sufficient evidence to act decisively one way or another. But that doesn't mean the killings themselves didn't happen, or that we should just let it slide. Reflecting on your point I believe that a more coherent argument would be to assert that known stocks of chemical weapons should be removed from the equation by force. To prevent them being used by EITHER side. I would also suggest that a less ludicrous 'red line' be constructed, that includes an objective detection system to trigger the response.

Not necessarily. Just because she's cautious about meeting doesn't mean she automatically ain't real. If I had a female friend who was thinking about 'converting' an online relationship I'd advise her not to, if you see what I mean? So, I'd suggest you accept this has run it's course, and move on in a friendly way.

Or he could become this guy, who stole thousands from childrens' cancer charities. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-23968707

Well, a biblical pox on racialists everywhere, then.

Is that a prosthetic? I've been predicting a shift away from purely functional for some time. Good for her.

If it helps, Hurlshot, you standing your ground means he won't grow up expecting everything to revolve around him, have a string of increasingly chaotic adventures through puberty, then adulthood. Get into various get rich quick schemes, get married, divorced, married again, and then finally slink into alcoholism and lastly a charge of gross indecency in a public place.

It's a conspiracy theory if the only thing you can provide by way of evidence is "X wants Y. Y happens, therefore X made it happen." That's simply not a rational way to perceive any sort of reality. Let alone geopolitics. If I want to go through a stop light, and it changes to green, does that make me a fething magician? ~ Hilde: Let's be quite clear. I don't say that US foreign policy is sensible or omniscient. I'm not saying that they wouldn't quite like to have a go at Iran, because they're holding a knife to an oil artery. All I'm currently saying is three things, and I think I share them with Obama: 1. Globally the international community can't just wish things to happen and cross its fingers 2. One of the things it is currently wishing for and not doing anything about is a total moratorium on the use of chemical weapons on civilians 3. Striking Assad, when Assad is on the ascendant does not automatically result in an extremist win. Indeed the hope is that if weakened he will try to sit down with t moderates in earnest and instigate some reforms in order to unite against the fundis. The only point where we differ is wanting both proof and a god damned plan of action. Post-Iraq I feel the public or at least Parliament/Congress are justifiably skeptical on both points.

Awesome. It really was just appallingly weak and sleazy. Expertly mocked.

Getting covered in that much mud is a damn good way to get dysentery.

I was just about to say that my 'back to the shop floor' s going really well, that I've gelled and am getting nearly up to the same speed and reliability as my colleagues. One fellah even had a rant against 'college types' then graciously excused me from the criticism as being "alright" But have just realised I have two long burns on my arm I didn't even notice. So obviously not as swish as I thought.

Odd coincidence that you mix lurid pictures of women with your equally lurid image of a corrupt and failing United States.

It's hardly normal Israeli behaviour to want to trade Assad, in spite of his interference in Lebanon, for some unknowable regime. Is it, HIlde? The only narrative I can come up with for the Israelis trying to bring the US in is to try and force Obama to rely on them for support. This would dial back him sidling away from them whistling Dixie. But that's me practically fictioneering. As for a youtube video showing extremists among the rebels what does that prove we didn't know already? Just saying.

Braai, surely?

Bloody odd coincidence. We were discussing this last night.