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Mudskipper
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PostPosted: 12:54 - 04 Nov 2008    Post subject: Puts your commute into perspective. Reply with quote
https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7706872.stm

Interesting and terribly sad account of a Baghdad resident's daily commute.

I can't imagine that constant paranoia and stress.

Makes the annoying cyclists and impatient BMW drivers of the UK jams pale into insignificance. Karma
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PostPosted: 13:56 - 04 Nov 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote
Yup, puts it into perspective a bit.

It's funny how people grumble about shitty things that don't mean a jot when the majority of the world live in absolute poverty and/or imminent danger.
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PostPosted: 14:17 - 04 Nov 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote
interesting link on the same page

https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7624472.stm

stunt bikers in iraq
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PostPosted: 19:44 - 04 Nov 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote
Thats progress for you I suppose. Rolling Eyes


Good old western civilisation triumphs again.
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PostPosted: 08:37 - 05 Nov 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote
Natural selection, a cruel world full of cruel people and that place is a breeding ground for hate and fear.

I love my country.
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PostPosted: 09:52 - 05 Nov 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote
killa wrote:
Natural selection, a cruel world full of cruel people and that place is a breeding ground for hate and fear.

I love my country.


Will people stop tossing this about like some sort of idle, boundless idiom. It has a precise meaning, and being scared of nutters with bombs does not quite fall in to that.
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PostPosted: 16:41 - 05 Nov 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote
killa wrote:
Natural selection, a cruel world full of cruel people and that place is a breeding ground for hate and fear.

I love my country.


To be fair, they weren't doing too bad before we decided to invade them.
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PostPosted: 07:53 - 06 Nov 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote
bonny_ricardo wrote:
killa wrote:
Natural selection, a cruel world full of cruel people and that place is a breeding ground for hate and fear.

I love my country.


Will people stop tossing this about like some sort of idle, boundless idiom. It has a precise meaning, and being scared of nutters with bombs does not quite fall in to that.


I know the meaning. And in this case its not the fact they 'can' carry bombs sometimes.
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PostPosted: 07:53 - 06 Nov 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote
colin1 wrote:
killa wrote:
Natural selection, a cruel world full of cruel people and that place is a breeding ground for hate and fear.

I love my country.


To be fair, they weren't doing too bad before we decided to invade them.


I know, you'd think with all of our weapons they'd be gone by now. Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: 11:48 - 06 Nov 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote
[quote="killa"]
killa wrote:
Natural selection, a cruel world full of cruel people and that place is a breeding ground for hate and fear.


I know the meaning.


You quite patently don't.
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PostPosted: 12:35 - 06 Nov 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote
Bonny, my apologise, i never use the phrase.

Further thinking and reading it appears the correct term is 'useless'

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