|
Best Porn Sites | Live Sex | Register | FAQ | Members List | Calendar | Mark Forums Read |
General Discussion & News Want to speak your mind about something ... do it here. |
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
March 3rd, 2015, 07:46 AM | #1901 |
Moderator
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Halfwitistan
Posts: 5,715
Thanks: 113,487
Thanked 59,962 Times in 5,707 Posts
|
If I lived in Aus I would demand the return of Natalie Bennet. With her in Europe many Europeans are reaching the view that all Aussies are loud mouthed arseholes good for nothing but serving beer in low quality alehouses.
|
The Following 12 Users Say Thank You to haroldeye For This Useful Post: |
March 3rd, 2015, 09:03 AM | #1902 | ||
Vintage Idiot
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: History
Posts: 22,131
Thanks: 226,708
Thanked 356,702 Times in 21,626 Posts
|
Quote:
Quote:
|
||
The Following 11 Users Say Thank You to effCup For This Useful Post: |
March 3rd, 2015, 01:43 PM | #1903 |
Super Moderator
Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: Santee, Ca
Posts: 60,813
Thanks: 281,805
Thanked 813,782 Times in 60,861 Posts
|
|
The Following 10 Users Say Thank You to SanteeFats For This Useful Post: |
March 3rd, 2015, 05:07 PM | #1904 |
Veteran Member
Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: NZ
Posts: 4,035
Thanks: 70,712
Thanked 40,937 Times in 4,026 Posts
|
I'm not sure we are talking about the same thing-at the nuts and bolts level. My definition of 'annexing' would be something along the lines of: 'the coerced or forcible incorporation into a state, of territory internationally recognised as part of another state, against the wishes of the majority of the population of the incorporated territory and such government as may exist-and generally not accepted by the international community. 'Coercion/Force' in this context might not mean military force but could include political and economic pressure.
I don't think the concept of 'annexing' (as it is currently used) had meaning until late in the 19th century-as the concept of internationally recognised borders and international community didn't really exist until then. I'm thinking along the lines of the Sudetenland, the West bank and Golan Heights, Goa, and some of the contentious areas on the India-China border region. I also note my definition is a bit more focused than most of the dictionary ones... |
The Following 11 Users Say Thank You to Dr Pepper For This Useful Post: |
March 4th, 2015, 02:10 PM | #1905 | |
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2010
Posts: 465
Thanks: 469
Thanked 2,753 Times in 451 Posts
|
[QUOTE=effCup;3213860]Sorry, couldn't see your embedded, base64-encoded(?) jpg image so may have missed a hidden meaning,
It was my bad. I forgot about the 180x180 limitations and image was a bit too big... let us say it involved an Ovis aries in a compromising position. Quote:
I still like to bug Americans by asking them what is the closest country to Australia and without a blink they say New Zealand. Then I ask about Papua New Guinea and they say "huh" okay second closest. What about Indonesia? "huh" Singapore? I just thank the stars that the Tasman Sea keeps the Tasmanian Devil away from the Kiwis. Even Bug Bunny had a hard time keeping that brute in check! |
|
The Following 10 Users Say Thank You to Tarkus666 For This Useful Post: |
March 4th, 2015, 03:55 PM | #1906 |
Administrator
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: The 19th hole
Posts: 58,117
Thanks: 449,715
Thanked 896,773 Times in 60,317 Posts
|
If that's that real smart Green chick No thanks, I don't need, want, desire her within Cooeeeeeeee distance from me
__________________
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. |
The Following 13 Users Say Thank You to Estreeter For This Useful Post: |
March 5th, 2015, 09:43 AM | #1907 |
Vintage Member
Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Posts: 4,325
Thanks: 41,491
Thanked 38,247 Times in 4,299 Posts
|
Just going back to that doco series I was referring to. What if you lived in Australia, in Melbourne in the late-1800s, and were the husband of a woman called Nellie Wright?
There you are, smacking, abusing her, physically and verbally. Discouraging her from singing. Trying to force her to get welfare payment out of her father. Then after a divorce, She goes off to France to apply for singing training at an exclusive school. Then goes on to be the most famous Australian of the time. Due to her career coinciding with the invention of the gramophone. She then earns an unimaginable amount of money. I reckon you'd feel a little sheepish, don't you agree? edit: I'm referring to the woman who is now known as Dame Neliie Melba! But never mind Melbourne in the 1800s. Where the 8 hour working day was agreed upon. Look at the English workers at the time. 16 hour working days! No wonder Poms hate unions. They destroyed their utopia of stealthily bludgeon everyone to death work hard labour ! Last edited by Motorboater; March 5th, 2015 at 10:18 AM.. |
March 7th, 2015, 02:18 PM | #1908 |
Administrator
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: The 19th hole
Posts: 58,117
Thanks: 449,715
Thanked 896,773 Times in 60,317 Posts
|
I love my home region
__________________
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. |
The Following 12 Users Say Thank You to Estreeter For This Useful Post: |
March 7th, 2015, 09:53 PM | #1909 | |
Moderator
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Upper left corner
Posts: 7,205
Thanks: 47,954
Thanked 83,440 Times in 7,199 Posts
|
Quote:
Wow, they're tearing up the track . . . they look to be somewhere West of Lorne, if I remember it When I drove it, it was in a very topheavy Troopy, not one to take the corners in any fashion other than very, very carefully. |
|
The Following 9 Users Say Thank You to deepsepia For This Useful Post: |
March 7th, 2015, 10:19 PM | #1910 | |
Veteran Member
Join Date: Nov 2007
Posts: 4,044
Thanks: 24,638
Thanked 34,288 Times in 4,008 Posts
|
Estreeter,
Quote:
Did I learn from that? Nope. Slowed down for the rest of that trip but within a few days was back to being Speedy Gonzalez. Sniff! Now I drive a pickup truck which barely reaches 70 mph. |
|
The Following 10 Users Say Thank You to 9876543210 For This Useful Post: |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|