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Actually American English is closer to that of 200 years ago than British English.

Best. Thread. Ever.

Are you being cryptic so it take rharpe 3 pages to work out what you're saying?

Anyway, if it is what I think it is (i.e. Pele commercials) why not see your doctor?

I hope her middle and last names are "of Destruction", that wold be realy cool 

Wahey, babies!

we're all over in the cartoon thread instead, Squinky. It's where the cool people go to be bigoted.

Indeed. First, we'd only be there for 2 or 3 days, and although I'd introduce you to the wife and kids they wouldn't want to spend their time with you boring lot anyway 

With a pool and beach available, I think I can guess where they will spend 97% of their time.

We've got friends in Malaga and also want to look around various places in the south as my wife has hardly bee there, so we're going to hire a car and tootle around. Actually, we were thinking fo going to the Bristol Balloon Fiesta before we leave the UK too, in case anyone else is thnking of going to that...

Help file still has 2.71 as its title, btw

Do they have static caravans available, as that might be a cheaper option for Nikolas's family, and my own?

Funnily enough, I just tried "The Joker" bassline and it thought it was smooth criminal, too. I can see why though...

This is an awesome site: tap your spacebar in the rhythm of a song and it tires to guess. It guessed the Final Countdown intro and There's No Limit! correctly with me...

http://www.songtapper.com/s/tappingmain.bin

As it turns out, rharpe is right... immorality leads to nasty diseases!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4696974.stm

If it makes you feel any better LJUBI: Helm, esper, Kinoko, buloght and Gord10 were also all nominated for worst n00b. Now, we'll see if they go off in a huff too 

At least people wait for mine!

I've renamed "worst n00b" category as "most unintentionally funny forum member".... 

I would get Vin Diesel to kill the Republicans and Chuck Norris to take out the Riad Chronicle. Or vice versa.

Your hypothetical situation is at the same level as the ones in the podcast and your a/b choice is a false dichotomy. I'm not going to argue this further as I think you just want to win your point which I disagree with.

It's "for achievements in 2005" vic, and Uku only made 5 posts in 2005 none of which were particularly bad...

Just wait till next year!

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So, a riots who caused 20 "fatalities" can be labelled as "non-violents"? Mobilisations in Spain when the "not to War" stuff were stimated in 15 million people in the streets (not me). And 0 people were wounded. That was a non-violent crowd. What you can see now in Damascus, Islamabad or Baghdad is not.

People were injured in the Poll Tax demonstrations in the UK, and in the Miner's Strike and on many other occasions. Does that mean that every miner and anti-poll-tax person in the UK is a violent extermist? Of course not. People get attacked over football matches for goodness sake, all over Europe every week!

Be HONEST and post here what would you post if the riots were caused in Germany, by nazis, burning mosques and causing "fatalities" because a satyrical magazine in Turkey had published 12 cartoons of Hitler. Please, POST WHAT WOULD YOU TYPE IN A POST ABOUT THAT. And then compare with the "polite" posts you're writing about the Islamists stuff. Can't you see that you aren't being honest?

The difference is that I believe people should be legally allowed to be Muslim. I don't believe that they shoudl be allowed to be Nazis. Thus, why would I ever support Nazis in anything they did? This type of argument is a fallacy called a "Straw man": set up an faulty analogy and attack THAT instead of attacking what I am arguing about.

The anti Bush stuff is ok, but you gotta be consistent. Remember the threads about the war in Iraq? How many people was there deffending the peace? Mr. Colossal, DG MacPhee, Andail, CJ, Anarcho... As far as I can see no one is here deffending your position, because they are CONSISTENT. I am sure that they will agree with the fist part of your stalement ("We have annoyed the muslims..."), but not with the second ("therefore, we can understand what they are doing").

I understand their anger but do not condone their violence. Once again, understanding and condoning are being confused, as are anger and violence. And I am consistent: I am saying that we don't necessarily need to respond to violence with more violence. It is for sure NOT going to make the situation better if we do. Sometimes the best thing to do is to "turn the other cheek" and let the anger burn itself out.

It's ok to have stickers with "Nuclear? No thanks" But if Iran wants to have nuclear tecnology and there are high probabilities that this techs will work for making nukes, the correct position is to say "no" again, and not being comprehensive with them just because "they are people who has been annoyed by the americans".

I would feel a lot safer if Iran didn't have any nuclear programme. However, I don't think there is any moral high ground against it that Europe and the US can argue from. Its basically a matter of "We don't want anyone new to have it and we'll punish you if you try, unless of course that would be too complicated as with Pakistan and India and Israel and North Korea"...

It's ok to be christian. But it's not logical to be tollerant with some other religion when your own religion is being attacked in foreign countries.

Let me see, you're encouraging a religious person to be intolerant? Ã, :o

Now, what did the man say?

Love your enemies and pray for those that persecute you.
If a man hits you on one cheek, let him hit you on the other cheek.

And it's ok to be feminist... So, be consistent and denounce the position of MILLIONS of women where the Wahabism or Sharia is strong and their freedom is severilly cut.

I do denounce opression of women in any country. I don't see what that has to do with attitudes towards these cartoons. They were annoyed at the blashpemy against muhammed in drawing him at all more than any one cartoon that may have been critical of regimes oppresive to women. There wouldnt be all this fuss if it was a cartoon of just any old Arab guy oppressing a woman in a burqua...

Interestingly, many feminists are very against pornography, just to link with the other hot debate thread

You are supposed to be a peacifist, but if you go on with this "understanding" about the riots you'll finally be a) Unmasked as just an antihegemonist who just wants "peace" when one of the side attacks, or b) A naive with a an absolute innocence with the muslim reality.

I want peace all round. I don't think opposing your earlier statements like "Well... If they go on behaving this way next invassion will be done without any futher pretext." is non-pacifist.

And I can say almost with 100% of security that it's option b, and that makes me love you more. But I really really hope that you don't ever reach a position in the scottish government.Ã, 

Well, the Scottish parliament was against the Iraq war... they don't have any input on UK foreign policy.

And now I think I am going to abandon this debate because I honestly think that everybody, except those with absolute innocence, agrees with me. I honestly think that I have won and, whereas you'll go on gaining love because of your ultra-tolerant attitude, everybody dissagrees with you, and I like you, and I don't want anybody to deeply dissagree with you.

It's not about winning, its about understanding each other. If we all thought more and truly put ourselves in the other guy's shoes then there would be more peace in the world.

Some things were perfectly clear, seen with the vision of youth
No doubts and nothing to fear, I claimed the corner on truth
These days it's harder to say I know what I'm fighting for
My faith is falling away
I'm not that sure anymore

Shades of grey wherever I go
The more I find out the less that I know
Black and white is how it should be
But shades of grey are the colors I see

Once there were trenches and walls and one point of every view
Fight 'til the other man falls
Kill him before he kills you
These days the edges are blurred, I'm old and tired of war
I hear the other man's words
I'm not that sure anymore

Shades of grey are all that I find
When I look to the enemy line
Black and white was so easy for me
But shades of grey are the colors I see

Now with the wisdom of years I try to reason things out
And the only people I fear are those who never have doubts
Save us all from arrogant men, and all the causes they're for
I won't be righteous again
I'm not that sure anymore

Shades of grey are all that I find
when I look to they enemy line
There ain't no rainbows shining on me
Shades of grey are the colours I see

So, with just over a week left, here is an update on the voting in the ags awards...

Over 50 people have voted so far in both the AGS Awards and FOREGOs

7 of the AGS Award categories are very close and the leader has swapped back and forth many times in each.  And in the other categories the leaders are still within reaching distance, so every vote counts!

The FOREGOs are closer still with 11 categories very close and leaders chopping and changing from day to day.

so don't forget to get your votes in by Friday 17th 3pm GMT. And come to the irc ceremony at 8pm on Saturday 18th on irc.adventuregamestudio.co.uk if it is working again, otherwise on Quakenet.

I'm also pleased to say the the awards voting has generally been very considered with almost no-one voting for one game in every category (by almost I mean I haven't checked the last couple of days votes yet!)

It only took a small crew to drop Little Boy... so what does a burning building and some fatalities prove about how many peopel in the crowd were violent? Your reply is a complete non-sequitir

Kinoko, it roughtly translates as:

You only mock me becuase someone else mocked me first.

The previous thing where I said I know more than you was actually a question.

victor: you must have a bad supersoaker becuase mine doesn't leak, I advise not usinging leaking supersoakers as a flamethrower. Also, I am not a genius.

Pesty: I use my flamethrower outside and it's OK for me to write unintelligible gibberish becuase you haven't learned any Estonian.

RickJ and m0ds: You are pedantic

kinoko (or whatever your name is despite this being actually spelled correctly): I am a schoolkid and my sister studies more than me, so I am not professional, but I have a large enough brain to be able to make flamethrowers. I also have a Ferrari car at home.

Domino: Where can I get alchohol when I am underage? I am not going to learn to fly.

Traveler: I am unable to appreciate irony.