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I was about to mention OZ. Don't you have enough trouble with your Extra-Long, Extra-Wide, Extra-STICKY DUREX!!? At least in Canada, Durex is a Steel-Erector Mike. PS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durex Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

And here comes the thin end of the wedge. Surely after Tom & Jerry (regardless of the historical aspect), we may see ALL such scenes being banned from old films! How is James Bond going to escape from Blofeld without his exploding-dart ciggies!!? Will they have to re-film those scenes with Bond escaping by instantly disguising himself as a much older man in a Russian Naval Uniform... And destroying Spectre's volcano lair by unleashing Harrison Ford and Catherine Zeta Jones into the ensuing confusion? Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

Another spin: http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1986881,00.html What's most interesting in this is the rift between The Ayatolla Khameni and The Presidential zoomer Ahmadinejad

But... PRIOR to 9/11, the "suspicious behaviour" and the items they carried would not have stopped them from flying. Hindsight is 100%. It's all too easy to be wise, even prescient, after an event. I see this incident as being about mass hysteria and collective (xeno)phobia. Should your fellow passengers "decide" if you fly based on their untrained opinion of whether they happen to "like the look of you"? I must admit that were I the Captain of that plane, I would have allowed anyone who DIDN'T want to fly on it to get off if they wanted. How they then got to where they wanted to go would then be their concern. Not mine. Not my company's I would NOT have ejected 2 passengers based on a vote by the cargo! Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

"All the stories"... Everyone, crew & passengers *knew* what happens during a hijack, and acted according to that. They followed the (then) script of complying with the hijackers knowing that the plane would land and then be contained for negotiated release or attack by SF. That was the way it had always been done. That was the way that gave the best chance of survival in the past... So "the Hijack Plan" was followed properly. The surprise was that the hijackers had made a fundamental (sic) change to the "rules". Prior to 9/11 no-one had hijacked a plane to use as a suicide weapon. Since then, "The Hijack Rule" has changed from 'No-Resistance-Comply' to 'Maximum-Resistance'. But up to 9/11 the old rule was safer. Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

9/11 DID NOT happen because of political correctness. It happened because everyone behaved according to ALL the aircraft hijackings that went before. This was a complete change from every hijacking in the past. This is like saying Pearl Harbour happened because America didn't invade Japan in 1940! You prefer mindless xenophobia? In that case the "Terrorists" have already beaten you. They want "their" people to be disenfranchised & dissatisfied. They recruit from people who think they have little or nothing to lose. You seem to see this as a war between Islam & Christianity. I believe it is a war between individual freedoms and dictatorships. Moderates & extremists. Unfortunately, in my case, the lines aren't so clearly drawn by country and race, they are drawn by mindset, and the "extremists / dictators" are winning. Think of all the freedoms that have been given up for "safety". Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

So... "I'm not flying with him in the plane -- He looks a bit, you know... Araby-Muslimy looking." Can't wait to hear that one on Air India, Singapore Airlines, El-Al, or YOUR flight to / from Arizona or Florida: "I'm NOT flying with him in the plane -- He's got darkl skin AND A PARACHUTE! I heard him talking about a parachute!! He's going to blow us all up and parachute away to do it again!!!" Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

And More... Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

And more... Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

Cool. I'll see your "Terror-Response" and raise you Microsoft's new HONEST Error-Messages.

Yeah... Monarch Airlines. A package tour charter flight from Malaga to Manchester. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/5267884.stm Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

According to More 4's "Death of a Nation" program (Marcel Theroux on the current state of Russia), it IS America which is taking ALL of the Meskhetian Turks from Krasnovar. No other nation needs to act (or has). The US State Department has granted ALL the Meskhetian Turks living in Krasnodar refugee status and offers to help them resettle in the United States. They were granted this status in 2004. Many have already arrived in America. 30,000 is the number expected this year. Maybe more, maybe less... Doesn't matter. They all have this status & there are several million of them in total. In effect, a "blanket-grant" similar to the one Carter gave to Cuban refugees in the 1970's. Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

Beslan,.... anyone? Yeah... So, Is the US right to "Throw-Open-Their-Doors" to these folk because of their suffering? There can be no denying that they are suffering. Nor that the "Cossacks" who've now formed a parallel police force in Krasnovar are a bunch of stupid, vicious, drunken Neo-Nazis (is there any other sort?). But do Y'All think that America should help in this way? Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

Strange but true. America will admit some 30,000 Russian Muslims this year as residents on humanitarian grounds. After a year, they can become full US citizens. I'm unsure whether this would be viewed as good or bad news. Personally, I think it shows that whatever we may criticise America for, there are some areas where the absolute best of the "American Ethic" is still practised. More at: http://www.nationalvanguard.org/story.php?id=6938 Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

Personally, I fail to see how a natural disaster should suddenly be the cause for any rule change on gun ownership & possession. Firstly: IF someone is allowed to have guns, then how does the destruction of the infrastructure of their abode change whether they should have guns. I fail to see the connection between one & the other. Any such (convoluted) reasoning to connect the two MUST surely come out with no change on balance. Secondly: Don't the civil & military authorities have a lot of more IMMEDIATE things to do than drive around gun owners homes to confiscate hithertofore lawfully held weapons! In such situations, whether someone is law-abiding has little to do with whether they own guns, and it is the unlawful which must be the priority target. Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

Yeah... In a secular state, religious evangelising should take place within an individual's private life, and not as part of their public position or policy. Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

Yeah. The technique has been refined over time: 1. Post something about weapons control & breakdown of British Society. Post outrageous sources (such as BNP) 2. Stay away from responses on topic. 3. Post responses off-topic against those he feels insult him... In effect, try to start an argument about arguing. Yet... Wendy has met him and he's a nice guy. If Wendy says so then it's certainly true. So... Has his dislike or fear of the prospect of some of our attitude to firearms control getting "across the pond" now changed into a more generalised Anglophobia? Perhaps an overwhelming desire to believe that Britain under relatively strict Gun-Control has, as a result become some form of utterly lawless post-apocalyptic state under the de-facto rule of petty criminals? A desire to "KNOW" that America is better & safer because everyone can have a gun?... Rather than seeing that the solution is also the problem. Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

I can also see his motivation, but the results come across like Grey Squirrels, and about as welcome. Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

OK, I'm not a premium member, but... Personally I never really had a problem with Rhino. As far as I can recall, he largely tended to play the argument, rather than the man, at least in the public posts. SC by it's very nature tends to produce "frank" debate, so perhaps it's time to allow a return on probation? Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

At this early stage I'd just like to point out that this is Birmingham, ALABAMA! NOT... Birmingham, England. So... Before JR chimes in... It's the Birmingham WITH THE GUN OWNERSHIP that has the soaring murder rate. Y'All can go back to discussing Satan now...

Yeah. There's a thread here that I contributed to. Reuters found him out, sacked him, and broke the story! So they hardly metit the criticism and the accusations of deliberate falsehood made in the video. The video claims bias throughout the international media wherever the coverage isn't pro-Israeli. Coming from the website in question, I'd say that was a case of; "The Pot calling the Kettle black". Wouldn't you? Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

That's prett eye-opening right there. It should make even those that constantly rail against Israel open their eyes a little bit. Just post a source to head off the first distractionary argument. Yeah. 21 out of 188 countries (11.2%). 52 out of 188 (27%). What about the remaining 88.8% or 73%? Of course, it's the 0.6% of countries which has a veto in The Security Council for any resolutions which actually criticise their client-state Israel that really counts! Perhaps without that particular 0.6%, the UN may have been able to go in with a mandate to enforce peace in the region. Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

And, check out: http://www.aish.com/ "Your Life. Your Judaism". A biased source perhaps? Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

Quoting the BNP as a rational source just proves your hilarious ignorance of the UK. Yeah... Like I said, If the British Nazi National Party approve of something, then that's just about all I need to know about it! Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

Thanks for the steer! That bundle is now on my "get-list" also.