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Started by Korea, March 10, 2009, 06:24:26 AM

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DGuller

Quote from: CountDeMoney on August 14, 2013, 05:57:01 AM
Your poorly constructed headline of the day:

QuotePolice shoot dead La. bank hostage taker
The dead hostage taker was reaching for a gun.  :mad:

Syt

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Malthus

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius


merithyn

Yesterday, upon the stair,
I met a man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today
I wish, I wish he'd go away...

Josquius

Quote from: CountDeMoney on August 14, 2013, 07:19:50 AM
And naturally, it was an Airbus.  I keep telling you mutts those things go down.

:unsure:
There's probably stats out there  to say one way or the other but it seems that Boeings get in trouble more often
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Syt

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Syt

1970s St. Stephen's Square in the center of Vienna. This is now all pedestrian area:



And a view of the street that leads from the opera to that square, late 60s:


It's now also pedestrians only. The Air France building on the right is a Starbucks today.

Same view today:
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Admiral Yi

In the 70's all American cars were land yachts, in the 70's all Yuro cars were Fiats.

Grey Fox

Colonel Caliga is Awesome.

HVC

Being lazy is bad; unless you still get what you want, then it's called "patience".
Hubris must be punished. Severely.

DGuller

Quote from: Admiral Yi on August 15, 2013, 07:34:55 AM
In the 70's all American cars were land yachts, in the 70's all Yuro cars were Fiats.
That's the first thought that popped into my mind too.  One American car in that picture probably occupied the same amount of space that a 2x2 rectangle of European cars would.

Valmy

A Casino?  Is gambling legal just anywhere in Austria?

I see Air France got bought out by Starbucks.
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

Josquius

The blister is growing. Soon it shall take over my entire foot....
Oh well. Only 4 more days
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Admiral Yi

Quote from: Tyr on August 15, 2013, 09:26:55 AM
The blister is growing. Soon it shall take over my entire foot....
Oh well. Only 4 more days

It's a dumah.