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Fish Tacos, thanks for the update.
Well, honestly speaking, I am not surprised. It was obvious that a guy like him (may his name be forgotten) would sooner or later start oppressing everybody who is not a white heterosexual man… It’s really puzzling why leaders like him (we have the same type of guy) want to interfere in all spheres of our existence and tell us how to live our lives.
On the other hand, it’s amusing how the oppressed (in this case the person you are talking about) are able to find a way to trick the system. At the same time deeply saddening that they have to do it to function somehow.
A former friend of mine used to be a lesbian which in itself is a very difficult thing here. She migrated to Sweden and lived a happy life there but we lost contact around that time. Her birthday is in April so I texted her asking how she is, etc. and it turned out that she had realized she is transsexual. She is happy with it, being a very active participant of the LGBTQ movement (even delivered a speech in front of the UN Human Rights Council). I am fully with her and I tried to text her back expressing my support and you can’t imagine what torture it was not to use any personal pronouns, verb endings, etc. that would suggest gender in my language (a verb itself tells you the person & tense). Finally I was happy with what I created so I pressed “send” only to discover two or three wrong suffixes, damn it… Now she advocates the right of transsexual people to declare their gender without any need to undergo treatment, surgery, etc. If I’m correct, she succeeded in Canada – they changed the legislation so you only need to visit a physician or a psychologist to get a conformation from them and it is a sufficient basis to be officially recognized as F/M. I wonder whether it will ever be applied anywhere else apart from the Scandinavia.
We must admit, however, that army is a very stiff structure, very traditional, where everything is fixed, described in procedures, etc. It might be actually difficult to handle such cases - which of course is not an excuse. If you want it, you’ll find a way. If you don’t – you’ll find a reason.
Well, honestly speaking, I am not surprised. It was obvious that a guy like him (may his name be forgotten) would sooner or later start oppressing everybody who is not a white heterosexual man… It’s really puzzling why leaders like him (we have the same type of guy) want to interfere in all spheres of our existence and tell us how to live our lives.
On the other hand, it’s amusing how the oppressed (in this case the person you are talking about) are able to find a way to trick the system. At the same time deeply saddening that they have to do it to function somehow.
A former friend of mine used to be a lesbian which in itself is a very difficult thing here. She migrated to Sweden and lived a happy life there but we lost contact around that time. Her birthday is in April so I texted her asking how she is, etc. and it turned out that she had realized she is transsexual. She is happy with it, being a very active participant of the LGBTQ movement (even delivered a speech in front of the UN Human Rights Council). I am fully with her and I tried to text her back expressing my support and you can’t imagine what torture it was not to use any personal pronouns, verb endings, etc. that would suggest gender in my language (a verb itself tells you the person & tense). Finally I was happy with what I created so I pressed “send” only to discover two or three wrong suffixes, damn it… Now she advocates the right of transsexual people to declare their gender without any need to undergo treatment, surgery, etc. If I’m correct, she succeeded in Canada – they changed the legislation so you only need to visit a physician or a psychologist to get a conformation from them and it is a sufficient basis to be officially recognized as F/M. I wonder whether it will ever be applied anywhere else apart from the Scandinavia.
We must admit, however, that army is a very stiff structure, very traditional, where everything is fixed, described in procedures, etc. It might be actually difficult to handle such cases - which of course is not an excuse. If you want it, you’ll find a way. If you don’t – you’ll find a reason.
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Oh I love it. I didn't expect anyone to catch that reference. 500 points to you, Tig Tig.
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Has anyone have that dream where you are taking a college course and your grade is based on one big project that takes up the whole course and you realize that you have one week left in the course and you have nothing done? I feel like I have that dream fairly often, even though I was pretty good on track on my projects.
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I've done that before in real life. Scary shitanguyen92 wrote:Has anyone have that dream where you are taking a college course and your grade is based on one big project that takes up the whole course and you realize that you have one week left in the course and you have nothing done? I feel like I have that dream fairly often, even though I was pretty good on track on my projects.
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gbruin wrote:That would be now.zazthespaz wrote: we are in so much trouble next time he logs in
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Lol. I'm right there with you on old man status, Greg. You're not alone.
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Happily acceptedOne Drew Remains wrote:Oh I love it. I didn't expect anyone to catch that reference. 500 points to you, Tig Tig.
I will lose them anyway sooner or later for my inappropriate comments…
I must admit, however, that the quote you picked fits so well
I’m hot on your heels!One Drew Remains wrote:Lol. I'm right there with you on old man status, Greg. You're not alone.
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It seems to be a quite typical type dream when you think about sth intensively and are not sure what the results will be – like dreaming about your soon-to-happen wedding and realizing that you walk down the aisle in ordinary clothes Pretty scary… Such dreams make me freak out even more.anguyen92 wrote:Has anyone have that dream where you are taking a college course and your grade is based on one big project that takes up the whole course and you realize that you have one week left in the course and you have nothing done? I feel like I have that dream fairly often, even though I was pretty good on track on my projects.
AHart – but doing it in the real life… Wow, respect, man
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Tried to capture the Lagoon Nebula this weekend but it took me longer to acquire it than I thought it would. Long story short it went behind a treeline before I could get enough of it. Should be a big red badass but I only got 15 mins when I was hoping for 2 hours. I haven't done much processing on it at all, but I still thought it was cool enough to share.
When I hit the treeline I captured about 90 mins of the Dumbbell Nebula instead. Green stars = awful processing so I really need to look up a better workflow and learn how to suck less but again the initial result of the nebula itself still looks pretty neat.
When I hit the treeline I captured about 90 mins of the Dumbbell Nebula instead. Green stars = awful processing so I really need to look up a better workflow and learn how to suck less but again the initial result of the nebula itself still looks pretty neat.
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Crap, quoted myself instead of clicking edit
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Awesome! Looking forward to more!
anguyen92 wrote:Oh well. Deal with it.
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Ah. The Holy Grail. All is forgiven, zaz.zazthespaz wrote:gbruin wrote:That would be now.zazthespaz wrote: we are in so much trouble next time he logs in
Little known trivia: my former band's first name was Fetchez la Vache, from the line in the scene with the Frenchies and the castle and the cow. We ended up changing it because we had to explain it all the time.
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You've told me that before! You didn't need to change the band name, just needed to play to a more cultured audience!gbruin wrote:Ah. The Holy Grail. All is forgiven, zaz.zazthespaz wrote:gbruin wrote:That would be now.zazthespaz wrote: we are in so much trouble next time he logs in
Little known trivia: my former band's first name was Fetchez la Vache, from the line in the scene with the Frenchies and the castle and the cow. We ended up changing it because we had to explain it all the time.
Question for your smart people that we've been debating outside of the boards: If you take a box fan (square shaped fan) and put it a quarter of an inch away from the wall, will the air that comes out be cooler than if it were placed further from the wall? Logic:
- By putting the fan close to the wall, you are compressing the incoming air by limiting the space it can enter
- Air cools down when it expands
- By forcing the air to compress and then expand, by my logic, it should be cooler than a fan placed in the center of the room for example
Counter logic:
- Whatever Andy says.
I would try this myself, but I don't have a square fan or thermometer to measure the temperature.
anguyen92 wrote:Oh well. Deal with it.
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Trying to figure out why there are so many photobucket casualty sigs on here. Did you guys actually lose the files or is only hotlinking broken? If it's the latter just use imgur and you're back in action!
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I actually play prefer the final round of French taunting. I quoted it at a Holy Grail midnight madness showing, and won free coconuts. My daughter banged them together anytime they were "riding."
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They want you to pay to show on other websites now...Fish Tacos wrote:Trying to figure out why there are so many photobucket casualty sigs on here. Did you guys actually lose the files or is only hotlinking broken? If it's the latter just use imgur and you're back in action!
"KIN-NIGGIT" My friend and I went as King Arthur and Patsy one year for Halloween. I followed him around town clapping coconuts as he rode an invisible horse door to door. I think that was our last year trick-or-treating. Good one to go out onOne Drew Remains wrote:I actually play prefer the final round of French taunting. I quoted it at a Holy Grail midnight madness showing, and won free coconuts. My daughter banged them together anytime they were "riding."
anguyen92 wrote:Oh well. Deal with it.
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Photobucket cash grab.
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zaz, it’s the same kind of theory as the one with making a perpetual motion machine using a cat. In theory it works so go ahead.