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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: English is HARD |
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Posted: 20 Nov 2015, 7:15 pm
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Replies: 52
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I work in shipping and export a lot of Spirits (whisky etc). Our agent in Macedonia asked,in all seriousness,if we
were shipping ghosts as he'd never heard of another meaning for spirits. |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Scotland Newspaper Welcomes Syrian Refugees Over US |
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Posted: 19 Nov 2015, 2:42 am
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Replies: 6
Views: 464
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| Scotland can welcome all the refugees they want, if they are so compassionate they should take all they can logistically handle or else who are they to try to get up on a pedestal? What are you trying to prove? Lets see how much compassion the Scots have if they suffered a terrorist attack. Er... L... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Scotland Newspaper Welcomes Syrian Refugees Over US |
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Posted: 18 Nov 2015, 6:42 pm
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Replies: 6
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| Although Scotland has a good record of accepting refugees and making them welcome,it's by no means a case of 'open doors'. All the refugees have come directly from camps and been thoroughly vetted by both the UN and UK security to confirm they are genuinely vulnerable victims of the conflicts -they ... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Possibility Of Scotland Becoming Independent From England |
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Posted: 18 Oct 2015, 1:05 pm
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Replies: 5
Views: 600
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| In this day and age, it is utterly ridiculous for a small, impoverished place like Scotland to strike for independence. They would end up going down the toilet like Greece. I'm not in favour of independence,but Scotland isn't actually impoverished.Whisky for example accounts for a quarter of the UK... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Mass shooting at Oregon college: 15+ dead... |
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Posted: 15 Oct 2015, 2:47 pm
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Replies: 218
Views: 8,368
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| I realise there are valid points on both sides of the debate,but it's interesting to see the actual wording of the Bill Of Rights : "A well regulated Militia,being necessary to the security of a free State,the right of the people to keep and bear Arms,shall not be infringed" This could be ... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Mass shooting at Oregon college: 15+ dead... |
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Posted: 14 Oct 2015, 3:55 pm
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Replies: 218
Views: 8,368
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| Glebel our country grew out of 13 colonies. So we evolved from the previous British establishment. The thing that was supposed to make our country exceptional is that we were the first modern democracy. The only thing that is making us exceptional among first world nation is the massive amount of g... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Should they end sexually segregated restrooms? |
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Posted: 08 Aug 2015, 5:50 pm
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Replies: 73
Views: 2,670
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| I don't really see how having segregated toilets relates to not being treated equally.If both men and women are provided with their own facilities at appointed places then isn't that an example of being treated equally ? p.s. I have used the term toilets rather than restrooms,because British English... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Should they end sexually segregated restrooms? |
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Posted: 28 Jul 2015, 1:57 pm
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Replies: 73
Views: 2,670
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| As long as there are still some segregated toilets that people can choose if they're not comfortable for whatever reason, or for efficiency (men can get in and out of toilets much more quickly, thanks to urinals). That's the only way it would work - having an integrated toilet as a 3rd choice.It's ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Should they end sexually segregated restrooms? |
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Posted: 27 Jul 2015, 4:55 pm
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Replies: 73
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| As long as there are still some segregated toilets that people can choose if they're not comfortable for whatever reason, or for efficiency (men can get in and out of toilets much more quickly, thanks to urinals). That's the only way it would work - having an integrated toilet as a 3rd choice.It's ... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: What was the last movie you'd watched in the cinema? |
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Posted: 14 Jul 2015, 3:08 pm
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Replies: 32
Views: 1,336
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| San Andreas. Spectacular special effects and decent storyline/acting I thought. |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Do you think it's possible that Pluto is NOT a dwarf planet? |
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Posted: 14 Jul 2015, 3:01 pm
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Replies: 41
Views: 2,436
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| I took my username as I became aware of Asperger's around the time that Pluto was reclassified.I felt empathy with it. My avatar is a bit of fun,it used to be a picture of the planet. |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Bill Cosby sex scandal |
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Posted: 07 Jul 2015, 3:59 pm
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Replies: 7
Views: 740
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I'm afraid the signs were there,it's been a familiar scenario in the UK recently,where the cases in particular of
'family entertainers' Jimmy Saville and Rolf Harris have seen our illusions of them shattered by revelations of their dark sides. |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Terrorist attacks in France, Kuwait and Tunisia |
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Posted: 01 Jul 2015, 4:30 pm
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Replies: 2
Views: 591
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| All we can say really is that we have sympathy with everyone affected and have praise for the bravery of those who faced up to the terrorists - such as the tourists and locals in Tunisia who did their best to protect them by forming a human shield. |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: RIP: Patrick Mcnamee |
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Posted: 29 Jun 2015, 5:28 pm
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Replies: 8
Views: 936
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| By all accounts he was as much a gentleman in real life as the characters he played on screen.Avengers was his defining role but I also remember him in episodes of Columbo and Frasier. |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: What's Your Favorite Word? |
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Posted: 26 Jun 2015, 5:54 pm
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Replies: 13
Views: 718
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Waterloo- 200 years later |
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Posted: 18 Jun 2015, 3:45 pm
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Replies: 2
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| I saw one of Napoleon's descendants on tv being interviewed at a farm on the battlefield,which will now be made into a tourist attraction. If Napoleon had won it's possible he could have rebuilt his empire and we would all be speaking French as our first language today (and I include Americans in th... |
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