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Gorgon

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  1. Might as well try and deal with reality. The reality is that it's here.
  2. Well it's interesting for the fact that it's the biggest show on the planet as well. When it comes to bragging rights there is nothing that really comes close.
  3. http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/matches/ Some pretty interesting matchups in the first round. Prediction : England will manage to screw it up somehow and concede the advancement to either Uruguai or Costa Rica.
  4. Well the US was already supplying Britain but the anti war sentiment was still strong. The US could very well have been too late into it. Once Stalin turned the tide he posponed finishing off Germany for as long as he could while securing eastern europe under his control. If Normandy had happened even later he could have taken Germany alone, and who knows what else. Normandy saved face by providing Stalin with the second front he had been promised for so long and gave the allies credibility, it was not the knockout punch, but the straw that broke the camel's back.
  5. I don't think it's MMA per se, but that it allows better for complete focus on initiative, like krav ma-something etc. and that is really something that makes a difference.
  6. If only it had happened earlier it would actually have mattered long term, not least for dozens of countries about to enter a virtual dark age of communist mismanagement. Did it shorten the war, certainly, but the eastern front had more or less broken the Wermacht by the time everything was ready. The Nazis weren't going to win either way. Imagine if Parl Harbor had never happened though, odds are good we would all be speaking russian. Well most of Europe anyway.
  7. You actually keep saves 3-4 years between games. Impressive.
  8. I always suspected they were really the same person
  9. Something about the way she's into it 110 % just cracks me up.
  10. There are lots of things that are only funny because they are wrong, particularly if you are 13. Can't believe I'm standing up for the beeb. We used to tell all kinds of horrible holocaust jokes in school, I guess this would be the American version of that with all the white guilt from slavery.
  11. Am i right in reading the subtext, Shumacher is still in a coma ?
  12. http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-27541005
  13. Got home from a long day at work to find two girls at the door to the courtyard, one peeing and one puking. Must be distortion this weekend. We discussed putting armed guards out front to deter the curious among them, only half kidding.
  14. mad chick magnet tho, just dropping it into a casual conversation.
  15. I'm curious Oby, does it pay anything or is it like a labour of love kinda thing. (sorry for being off topic)
  16. Does the test actually tell you at any point that it's incorrect? I saw no grading of any of the actual individual answers. I do agree that it's a valid sentence though, particularly if it's in response to the question "Did you end up going to the beach today, or did you go somewhere else?" "We *did* go to the beach, and it was lovely". Note the sentence does not have a "to" in it. We did go the beach We did go to the beach Makes sense, we don't actually read by looking at the order the letters appear in but recognise groups of meaning and quickly move on to the next thing. Possible flaw with the methodology as the same mistake would almost certainly have been caught if we were hearing it rather than reading.
  17. I have issues with some of the questions We did go the beach That's not actually incorrect, if you weren't able to say 'We went to the beach' it is, but in a different context it would be fine.
  18. Dialect 1. US Black Vernacular / Ebonics 2. Singaporean 3. American (Standard) First Language 1. Dutch 2. English 3. Vietnamese Figures, I learnt English from watching TV. I think I already told the algorithm where I live and what my first language was, so why is it telling me different.
  19. And before that the KV1 and then T34 which most people still call the best tank of WW2 from a cost-benefit perspective. It's not only what you have, but how you use it. Fortunately the russians were able to turn things around but for the first season on the eastern front they were outclassed in every engangement. As much we hate to admit it, the Nazis were the better soldiers. It only took an SS panzer corps to delay the entire Normandy invasion despite being massively outnumbered and without aircover. Case in point, one tank fends off an allied flanking move, alone for the most part. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Wittmann
  20. I suspect they bought this to maintain their street cred. Not that they have any. No way do I believe that this passed through offical development channels.
  21. Yes the coffee price was set to go up because of the bad rain in Brazil effecting the coffee crops . That guy is right by the way, honey is better for you..but I suppose you are already so sweet you don't need to become sweeter Trouble is that most honey you buy in supermarkets is so diluted it's basically just syrup with beehive for thickener. Real honey, like what they sell at the side of the road, or increasingly in cities with rooftop hives, has all that goodness from the flowers.
  22. It's just an agreement not to bother waging war on oneanother because we have had enough. It's the smart thing. The rest of the world can benifit as well, just have entire generations die in pointless pursuits of Empire twice in a row.
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