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Sitting here speachless! The travesty that is Israel.
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Re: How many Iraqis was it ok to kill in the name of 'Freedom'?
minx2012
15 yrs ago
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> Simply because there is no logical
> argument (to me at least) that says how
> many killed is the "right" number.
Were I being facaetious (sp?), I'd suggest an eye for an eye.
But how about turning the other …
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Sitting here speachless! The travesty that is Israel.
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Re: While I don't agree with what's going on in the Middle East
minx2012
15 yrs ago
> I went to
> that link, BTW and it's all propaganda
> from the Palestine side apparently.
Apparently?
Besides, might I just point out that they're perfectly entitled to do that? (see caveat below)
After all, th…
minx2012
15 yrs ago
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minx2012
15 yrs ago
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> I wasn't in the UK when Blair won, but I
> remember reading about the general festive
> mood and long sigh of relief after years
> of Thatcher and then John Major. And yeah,
> it does seem to have gone horribly…
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Is Barak Obama the new Princess Diana?
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Re: Colorblindness is really a luxury of the white.
minx2012
15 yrs ago
> White priveledge (including the
> priveldge to be "color blind") has been
> firmly entrenched in the past of this
> nation (the US). As long as colorblindness
> continues on the part of whites, as a
> suppo…
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Is Barak Obama the new Princess Diana?
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Re: Once she was picked, all of a sudden feminism is good! The
minx2012
15 yrs ago
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Lipstick feminism, mind you.
I couldn't see a big rush to adopt the more kd lang / Germaine Greer attitude to feminism, could you? ;)
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Is Barak Obama the new Princess Diana?
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Re: One major difference, though: expectations.
minx2012
15 yrs ago
> Gordon Brown is going to save the world.
> He said so ;)
He said he already had.
Thing is, first thing you learn at Superhero school is that saving it one week doesn't keep it saved for good; you have to keep d…
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9 Forbiden Foods? The List May Surprise You.
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Re: 9 Forbiden Foods? The List May Surprise You.
minx2012
15 yrs ago
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> Trans fats can give a "crispness" to the
> products they are used in. Now I agree
> 100% they should be banned, but the
> statement above is just plain wrong. Why
> did so many fast food places take so long
>…
minx2012
15 yrs ago
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I've got Vista on my new laptop; I've also embraced a non-IE browser at last, having fallen in love with Flock.
But the one thing that was annoying me with it was that it keeps asking me if I want it to remember passwor…
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Seriously testing quiz - do you want your synapses to snap?
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Re: Seriously testing quiz - do you want your synapses to snap?
minx2012
15 yrs ago
yowser... Am hoping it's just the nightshift brain, but I'm staring at four and thinking "wha-at?"
minx2012
15 yrs ago
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> My son has given up pretending he is being
> forced to watch it.
I didn't watch it at all the first few series.
But last year I got dragged into it because Saturday and Sunday evenings at home with the parents m…
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Strictly Come Dancing Travesty!
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Re: You need to wear a shamrock or something at the Top Gear taping so ..
minx2012
15 yrs ago
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> Yes the hamster is
> quite miniscule, but as you say, cute.
He's not!!!
He's 5'7", which is the ideal height for people like me (also 5'7").
He just hangs around with Very Tall Men.
Why do you think he's taken …
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Strictly Come Dancing Travesty!
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Re: W-e-e-e-l-l ......it doesn't start off too good inside the front cover ....
minx2012
15 yrs ago
> OK,Minxy, you are going to HAVE to explain
> this one!!!
I work in the wrong bit of the building to have seen any of them, but James May is one of those people who is apparently very good-looking and terribly c…
minx2012
15 yrs ago
> I'd still like to hear from
> some guys: If you were interested,
> wouldn't you have made SURE you were at
> that party?
I think you're right on this. Very few men (and I apologise to you all if I'm generalisi…
minx2012
15 yrs ago
I've gone from being very much a point-and-shoot person to someone who loves trying cool things with her camrea because of the wonders of digitalness, and Flickr's a great way for me to organise it all - from the experi…
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Strictly Come Dancing Travesty!
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Re: W-e-e-e-l-l ......it doesn't start off too good inside the front cover ....
minx2012
15 yrs ago
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> .. flicking through- Bill
> Turnbull and Philip Schofield- eek,
Phillip Schofield counts as middle-aged totty?
But he's still a nipper in the scheme of things!
I remember thinking he was awfully mature when …
minx2012
15 yrs ago
86% on the second.
Perhaps unsurprisingly I thought one of the faces in that second test was rather attractive, and spotted his frequently - the ones I was less attracted to gave me more of a problem.
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Palin on her critics: `It's not fair, and it's not right'
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Re: Here's a slide show on some of the clothes:
minx2012
15 yrs ago
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> What the hell is that pink thing she's
> wearing at the supermarket, pre-clothing
> allowance?
That's *busy mum of five having time out with burpy baby* outfit, designed after focus groups said they wanted to …
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Here's what I'm getting my kids for Christmas
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Re: I would nominate the empty refrigerator box or stove box
minx2012
15 yrs ago
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A play house, like the one Wendy has in Peter Pan (which is where the name comes from - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy_house)
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Here's what I'm getting my kids for Christmas
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Re: I would nominate the empty refrigerator box or stove box
minx2012
15 yrs ago
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Ah, the fun I had with the box the washing machine came in...
I was the first of my friends to have a wendy house, after Dad took his stanley knife to the box and put in a door and window, and we drew on some (slightly …
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Please give me some low- and non-fat food ideas.
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Do you have Rosemary Conley over there?
minx2012
15 yrs ago
She's a ridiculously popular low-fat/no-fat diet expert in the UK, who started out because she too had a gallstone. She was told operation or new diet and she decided to go with a new diet - and now she's raking it in (a…
minx2012
15 yrs ago
> Move his office to the steam tunnel (a la
> Ainsley in the West Wing?)
Better yet: send him to Mandyville (http://tinyurl.com/5l7a5j).
I don't think there's much wrong with changing political parties - after …
minx2012
15 yrs ago
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Am I right in thinking it's the poppy for conscientious objector types, or something similar?
Ah, no, near enough though - it's the symbol of the peace movement: http://www.ppu.org.uk/poppy/index.html
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A serious political question: What should the Obamas name the new Whitehouse puppy?
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Re: A serious political question: What should the Obamas name the new Whitehouse puppy?
minx2012
15 yrs ago
Patience.
Because that's what they'll all need for some time to come.
