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<t>High Threshold;1471703 wrote: I have travelled a lot. That is to say that I have been "everywhere" but for south America. I've done it all overland, whenever possible. The traveller's grapevine is what it is. I am being "fair and objective". I've heard what other travellers have had to say and I'...

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<t>High Threshold;1471688 wrote: Over-rated. By whom? There's a ratings body I've missed finding? If it's a matter of expressed opinions by visitors as opposed to tourism or quality-of-life evaluators, some over-rate (Wildly magnificent in all respects!) and some under-ra...

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<t>It's possible that I don't mention the Saudis because I'm not clear on whether I might face prosecution in an English court were I to do so. Go on, I hear you cry. Test the waters, find out. There are two aspects of the Saudi Constitution which should change as a matter of u...

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<t>tude dog;1471684 wrote: I didn't see the quote, but as you represent it, I don't know how in a free society we could prevent people from desecrating the faith of a believer, whatever that means.I paraphrased for brevity. I think I conveyed the chap's gist:He said that freedom of speech and expres...

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<t>For the avoidance of doubt, should anyone wonder, I am not Charlie. The editorial policy of the magazine was and remains a deliberate waving of a very cheap and distasteful flag by people who should be ashamed of themselves. On the other hand Pope Francis is entirely wrong when he says...

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<t>LarsMac;1471656 wrote: "that Cheery Chap" ? Are you referring to your Dr Dawkins?We have an authentic scientist whose brief is to raise the profile of the sciences in the public mind. He started life as a physicist, he's Brian Cox and he's not the same Brian Cox who was in Deadwood playing the Ir...

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<t>TÃ½r;1453508 wrote: Professor Colin Pillinger was the driving force behind the Martian Beagle soft-lander which didn't I beg leave to apologize to the Beagle team. Beagle has been found, soft-landed and part-deployed, so much closer to total success than anyone at the time assume...

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<t>Saint_;1471556 wrote: I read the Adolf Hitler had a quack doctor that injected him with methamphetamine twice a day, as well as prescribing all kinds of hallucinogens and weird remedies. He was scarcely alone... The Encyclopedia of Addictive Drugs, by Richard Lawrence...

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<r>Lady J;1471034 wrote: A person would prefer to own something rather than hold in in common cuz it gives them control.... In the probable event that Billy Bragg hasn't become familiar to many Americans I thought you and your compatriots on ForumGarden might enjoy this. I even have...

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YZGI;1471445 wrote: Smh

We evidently have at least one member who's hep to the jive. Bravo, that man. Way cool, daddio.

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<t>G#Gill;1471412 wrote: Another thing that is not widely known is that Winston Churchill always carried a hand gun, whilst he was the wartime Prime Minister - he was a marksman. Could I add a smidge to the thread, as a note for browsy people who happen upon it over the next few months and year...

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LarsMac;1471437 wrote: THAT sounds just like Rand Paul, here in the States.

I can see this triggering electioneering headlines - "Rand Paul likened to Winston Churchill".

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<t>G#Gill;1471412 wrote: Another thing that is not widely known is that Winston Churchill always carried a hand gun, whilst he was the wartime Prime Minister - he was a marksman.And as Home Secretary took pot-shots with a rifle at the anarchists holed up during the Siege of Sidney Street in 1911, de...

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<t>Bruv;1471301 wrote: apocopated form I can't think of any difference between that and "truncated" except one's showing-off and the other's communicating. Academics in particular are prone to the showing-off style, it's very annoying. The reader slows down or gives up. I try hard t...

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<t>Far too many willful lies are told about people in the public eye. A reliable refutation of Churchill's alleged but unfounded alcoholism can be found at Drunk and Ugly: The Rumor Mill I can happily believe the well-attested tale relating to Bessie Braddock - "Winston, you ar...

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<t>LarsMac;1471348 wrote: Nobody has a right to kill human beings, innocent, or otherwise. And yet Nation States abrogate to themselves exactly that right, and delegate it to their agents. My own belief is that the moral code applied to people should equally apply to Nation States, ...

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<r>G#Gill;1471346 wrote: those who killed the 'infidels' would go to heaven.I wonder what you think persuaded Christians to go on Crusade. They did write down their reasons at the time, some of them. You'd like a clue??The first known use of plenary indulgences was in 1095 when Pope Urban...

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<t>AnneBoleyn;1471343 wrote: Oh, you won't like this. I apologize in advance. The "terrorists", to keep a common word, deliberately have their weapons facilities located in hospitals, schools, within communities. They have their wives & children living amongst them, instead of separate from thei...

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<t>Saint_ wrote: [quote=FG][quote=Saint_]NO ONE, for any reason, has the right to kill innocent human beings. I suggest you pass that on to your bloody-handed President, the drone-pilots under his command are doing just that on a regular basis. That is a bald-faced lie. No innocents...

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<t>Saint_;1471328 wrote: Do you stand up for that as well FG? It would be ironic in the extreme if you condoned violent death for anyone who didn't believe as you do all while running an internet forum. You're very consistent at flinging mud whenever you come into a thread like this...

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<t>tude dog;1471320 wrote: So the answer is murdering Jews in France. Good lord no. You suggested " It is staple for radical Islamist when opportunity strikes to murder Jews" and I offered what might be his rationale in that I expect the chap who went there was peeved ove the contin...

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Saint_;1471319 wrote: NO ONE, for any reason, has the right to kill innocent human beings.
I suggest you pass that on to your bloody-handed President, the drone-pilots under his command are doing just that on a regular basis.

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Bryn Mawr;1471298 wrote: Î±ÏÏ‡Î±Î¯Î¿Ï‚
Is that real, or did you just transliterate?

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AnneBoleyn;1471291 wrote: It's Shoiley to you bub.

I am but an humble Englishman, ma'am, my familiarity with the Bronx is limited.

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<t>Bryn Mawr;1471292 wrote: You need to use :- ÎºÎ±Î»Î¿Ï‚ ÎºÎ±Î¹ Î±Î³Î±Î¸Î¿Ï‚ Good and benign Personally, I'll reserve comment :-p There's a considered article at Kalos Kai Agathos I was getting along quite happily with it until this impressive paragr...

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Bruv;1471266 wrote: You are a smoothie

I'm often described by those who meet me as "kalos kai agathos" though I do point out to them I'm neither Greek nor youthful.

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<t>tude dog;1471268 wrote: You just don't get it. It was the Jewish market I spoke of. Of all places those murdering scumbags choose a Jewish market. The batrastards were the ones to include Jews in their murdering rampage. It is staple for radical Islamist when opportunity strikes to mur...

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<t>tude dog;1471260 wrote: Do what? The trashing of the ancestral homelands of the Arabs, tude. Do keep up, it's all in the thread. You brought up the matter of Jews, Anne then claimed people only get offended when Jews trash the ancestral homelands of the Arabs - the "do it" was he...

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AnneBoleyn;1471253 wrote: What's that got to do with it?

It's a valid response to "people only get offended when Jews do it", Shirley.

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Bruv;1471251 wrote: We could check you.

That game almost always ends with somebody mating. Kipling had the right answer, as usual.

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Bruv;1471246 wrote: Did TÃ½r, spot and FG all have different persona's , I can't say as I noticed.

Good lord yes, spot goes out of his way to be friendly, neither of the others do.

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<t>AnneBoleyn;1471243 wrote: Israel is ancestral to the Jewish people: "Next Year in Jerusalem". What the U.S. did to the native Americans is much worse, not that I'm comparing. It's the way of this world & people only get offended when Jews do it. IMO I'd have though...

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tude dog;1471240 wrote: With that said, I do take it personal, as I suppose you do.Is that in any way a similar reaction to Arabs taking personally the trashing of their ancestral homelands, or could you indicate where the difference lies.

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<t>What I may do, then, is put this FG account back on the shelf and use just one account which can have background Admin access. I'm reluctant to take TÃ½r out of the cabinet and let him post again. For one thing, nobody can ever spell his name properly. For another, I'm not sure I cope ...

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The links on the side distress me. "Duke of York strenuously denies he had ten thousand men", for instance.

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Select is invariably suspect, along with Insert, Probe and Lick.

eta: Link. Sorry. Finger trouble.

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The gendarmerie seems to have forgotten Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, or they'd have kept a large net nearby just in case. The BBC says they had 80,000 officers deployed at the two sites of interest today.

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<t>Bruv;1471187 wrote: If you were a shareholder of the club, would you take the chance of playing him ? It is purely a financial decision on their part.Were I a shareholder of the club I'd not want to be reliant on sponsorship in the first place. I have a product worth selling in various...

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Bryn Mawr;1471184 wrote: I must admit that it was headlines such as that of the second article that had formed my opinion.

Then I suggest there's no evidence that even a small but significant proportion of those 60,000 were active match attendees.

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Bryn Mawr;1471173 wrote: True, any secure back channel can be used
Hmm. That cuts out the ForumGarden Groups then.

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<t>Bruv;1471176 wrote: Jessica Ennis current Olympic heptathlon champion had told the club she wanted her name removed from a stand in her honour if they re-signed the player. More than 60,000 people have signed a petition calling on Sheffield United not to re-employ disgraced...

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<t>Bryn Mawr;1471167 wrote: I don't know about that - the supporters of each of the clubs that have looked to engage his services have, in the main, threatened to cancel their season tickets if he is taken on. I can see lots of reference to "a female season-ticket holder drove from ...

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<t>Bryn Mawr;1471167 wrote: I don't know about that - the supporters of each of the clubs that have looked to engage his services have, in the main, threatened to cancel their season tickets if he is taken on. If that's the case then obviously I'm mistaken. I do wonder whether it's ...

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<t>Bruv;1471155 wrote: I wouldn't want any of them to be in my employ, and would seek ways to dispense their services.On the other hand, I have a nagging suspicion that if Mr Evans did actually get as far as a professional match on a pitch in this country the spectators would make it very obvious th...

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<t>gmc;1471154 wrote: That is your opinionIt is, actually, the stated position of the Roman Catholic Church itself. I'd be quite happy to dig out an appropriately authoritative statement by them if that would placate you. Intransigent Protestants (as opposed to reasonable Protestants) say ah yes but...

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This is the triggered error log entry, repeated a dozen times, and the resulting apache error 500 error, both of which predictably enough trigger type-500 errors themselves if I try posting them to this thread so I have to post a picture instead:

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<t>High Threshold;1471150 wrote: I must first remind you that I am a COMPLETE IDIOT (no joke) when it comes to computers. Now that that's done â€¦.. here's the situation. I have contributed several posts to the thread â€œFeminism.......and Kaley Cuocoâ€ with no problem. At â€œ08:16 PM Yesterdayâ€ ...

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<t>Here's where I get stuck with inadequate permissions... ### Modsec2 rules v0.6-10 ### #AKwiecinski / Secteam 25 Sep 2014 ## DO NOT MAKE DIRECT MODIFICATIONS TO THIS FILE. # Changes to this file may be over-written by future upgrades to mod_security rule...

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<t>I'll copy some words into this thread if that's alright. I've been trying to find a way round this 500 Server Error for years now, but the host system has never accepted any of the .htaccess commands I've tried on it. ModSecurity is an open source web application firewall. This helps t...

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<t>gmc;1471132 wrote: Bigot: wonderful word what has reason to do with religious hatred?I offered it as a reason why this lie that Roman Catholics worship idols is so entrenched in the Protestant community, whether among believers or atheists. It's been told for centuries, it's used both as a blinke...

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