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Chat Thread (Keeping Pointless Pap out of Legitimate Threads!!)
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onya
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15. November 2008 @ 20:23 |
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Originally posted by Evastar:
I mean New Zealand, and they are called 'all blacks' because their strip is all black!
We lost, what can i say! :(
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16. November 2008 @ 01:40 |
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Saying a team named the "all blacks" would be politically incorrect in the States. That's what it's come to. LOL
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16. November 2008 @ 04:59 |
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@garmoon - Well that's what they are called, that's what they call their website, nobody comments on it here:
http://www.allblacks.com/fixtures/
Quite a few of them would be maori, and quite a few would be white as well. All big guys though, average 6" 5' or taller! LOL!
@anto - yeah pity, it was the penalty try that did it!
@onya - is that instead of our plane? LOL!
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16. November 2008 @ 07:09 |
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Originally posted by garmoon:
Saying a team named the "all blacks" would be politically incorrect in the States. That's what it's come to. LOL
Oh GAWD!!!! I'm tearing up here. :) GARmoonY got what I was eluding to. :D It's become such a PC world here it almost makes you sick!! You get "evil" stares if you use the words Negro and Colored. LOL. There is an orginzation called The United Negro College Fund and also an organization the promotes the advancement of Negroes (NAACP). A sad day indeed when those words (ones they've chosen) are offensive to some.
Ok.... pointless pap as creaky would say, but there it is in black and white. :D
....gm
edit: bloody grammar!!!
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onya
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16. November 2008 @ 10:35 |
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Originally posted by greensman:
[....It's become such a PC world here it almost makes you sick!! You get "evil" stares if you use the words......
WE here in Australia have been debased to names like "care giver" or "partner" or even worse...."significant other". Words like Husband, Wife, Spouse, Mother, Father, Parent etc... are all on the politically correct "hit list". The minority groups have the ear, and no one it seems is willing to challenge. Perhaps very soon I'll say "thank you ...person of interest" rather than "thank you friend"....after all, I wouldn't want to offend or be disingenuous now would I?. There isn't a bucket large enough to accommodate my disappointment.
On a much brighter note....
*cough* penalty? Yep that's the one that did it for sure. [ooops, i'm being disingenuous again] :P
@Eva. The "monorail cat"? If it gets your bum a little closer to the airport......then hop on! Stop your yakin' an' get a packin'. "Time waits for no man" or so they used to say. Hehehehehe.
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16. November 2008 @ 10:58 |
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@onya, you watched it then? I'll admit the all blacks are a better team, but they were 3 - 3 right up to half time, it was the irish lads own fault, they should have held on to the ball instead of kicking it and that would have changed the dynamics of the whole second half!
Still, if's buts, no point in any of them! LOL!
I wasn't trying to offend anyone or make any kind of a point by calling the NZ team the all blacks, that is simply what we call them! ;)
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onya
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16. November 2008 @ 11:15 |
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Originally posted by Evastar:
@onya, you watched it then?...
Don't be silly...until we've rebuilt our team to it's former glory...I'll wait for the days to come.Originally posted by Evastar:
...wasn't trying to offend anyone or make any kind of a point by calling the NZ team the all blacks, that is simply what we call them! ;)
You shoulda heard what we called 'em back in the boycott days.....make your hair turn white it would. ;]
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16. November 2008 @ 19:51 |
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@Evastar
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I wasn't trying to offend anyone or make any kind of a point by calling the NZ team the all blacks, that is simply what we call them! ;)
I was no way inferring that you had offended me or anyone else. It's just that way here-refreshing to see it's better in other environs. You see in the States, there is a lawyer on every street corner and everyone's out to win in the court, a slander or bad drugs lottery case. You have to really watch what you say, print or email or medicine taken, prescribed by decent doctors. So much for free speech!
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16. November 2008 @ 22:46 |
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Quote:
"Time waits for no man"
.. That should be "time waits for no carbon based life form, or anything else anywhere both real or imagined which either exists or doesn't whichever the case may be" *giggles*
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17. November 2008 @ 03:58 |
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Originally posted by garmoon:
@Evastar
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I wasn't trying to offend anyone or make any kind of a point by calling the NZ team the all blacks, that is simply what we call them! ;)
I was no way inferring that you had offended me or anyone else. It's just that way here-refreshing to see it's better in other environs. You see in the States, there is a lawyer on every street corner and everyone's out to win in the court, a slander or bad drugs lottery case. You have to really watch what you say, print or email or medicine taken, prescribed by decent doctors. So much for free speech!
It has been getting much more multi-cultural over here in the last ten years or so, and we have had our problems integrating - it will be interesting to see what happens now that jobs aren't so freely available, will the people that have always lived here resent the economic migrants; after all Ireland has a history of sending her people off around the globe in search of better lives!
I have to agree the pc brigade tend to take things a bit too far, but personally i like to deal with people as individuals, nothing to do with age, sex, orientation, race, creed etc! We still use terms like husband, wife, partner, etc, i will call my gay friend's boyfriend, his boyfriend, not his significant other, and my lesbian friends' girlfriends their girlfriends. So what? I'm not insulting anybody, they don't have a problem with it so why should anyone else?
We don't sue as much over here as they do in the states, but it is getting worse; people see it as a way of making a quick buck without having to work for it, they just look for any reason or excuse, and that's the main problem as far as i can see.
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onya
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17. November 2008 @ 04:20 |
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Sex, politics and organised religion...ahhhh guaranteed to disrupt any dinner table conversation or cause black eyes and fat lips down at the pub..lol. The word "partner" applies to two things, one being a business arrangement and the other to crime....and if we're talking lawyers and such, who could spot the diff? :)
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17. November 2008 @ 04:45 |
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Yeah, maybe we should get back to the weather, or the rugby, before we get ourselves into trouble!
Not too bad here today, a bit damp, maybe 8 degrees celcius?
It's supposed to get very cold by Thursday or Friday though, so we might get some snow! ;)
Hey endo, and bryston, anyone else that lives in california, what's the situation over there with these fires?
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17. November 2008 @ 07:53 |
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35 degrees in sunny Louisiana now and a high of 70 this afternoon.
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17. November 2008 @ 08:09 |
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It's -2c up here today and everything has a nice layer of frost on it.
Have to go and scrape off the car now. :-(
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17. November 2008 @ 08:56 |
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Yeh it's 31F here now... supposed to be a high of 71F and nice weather for West Texas... that means light winds.. lol. :P
Oh you PC worriers.... :P NO need to hide from it and if talking about it at the local Pub results in black eyes and fat lips then by all means talk about the "all blacks" and "whoever" else that'll keep the situation at a less than fracas level.... hehehee. :P
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17. November 2008 @ 09:43 |
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29f here right now.
Actually had a wee bit of snow on my car this morning.
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17. November 2008 @ 09:51 |
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7th it doesn't seem that cold to be able to wee snow. hehehe. :P
Howdy to all, and a good morning to the folks in the states. :)
Good afternoon to ye lot over seas. :D
....gm
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17. November 2008 @ 10:05 |
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@gm - i'm not hiding from anything, i made a perfectly innocent comment about a rugby team, i just don't want to go against AD's policies here, which is no politics, religion etc!
So it's nice and warm there compared to here anyway! ;)
@7thsinger - snow?
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17. November 2008 @ 10:17 |
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Eva I was jus messin wit ya deary. ;)
Well off to do something that resembles work. lol.
Have a nice day all!!! :D
....gm
Even you endo!!!! :P
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17. November 2008 @ 10:26 |
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ok, have a nice day in work! :)
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ddp
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17. November 2008 @ 12:11 |
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it is about -3 with at least 4 inches of snow here in central ontario. the trees are covered in snow & ice & had a power failure for 1.5 hrs yesterday from this as trees & braches are breaking & falling all over the place.
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17. November 2008 @ 12:23 |
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Originally posted by ddp:
it is about -3 with at least 4 inches of snow here in central ontario. the trees are covered in snow & ice & had a power failure for 1.5 hrs yesterday from this as trees & braches are breaking & falling all over the place.
ddp stay warm and don't get near those trees with the snow.. ;)
....gm
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ddp
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17. November 2008 @ 12:46 |
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when i was riding my bike to a customer on a back road, i heard the crack & crashing of a tree or large branch in the bush i was going by. trees & branches are drooped over from the heavy wet snow that has harden from the cold.
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varnull
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17. November 2008 @ 13:00 |
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Sure it was the snow hardening not a sudden flush into the roadside big pineys at the prospect of seeing all the others losing their clothing of leaves?
O.o
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ddp
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17. November 2008 @ 13:17 |
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it was snow as i was shovelling it the night before. it was wet enough to stick to the snow shovel & i saw 1 branch break off from a tree across the road. when i was going to the customer yesterday, i had to go around a tree the was bent over to the middle of the road from the weight of the snow.
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