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“I knew they stole that aircraft.....I’d say that is an act of war....time to flatten every airstrip in the country.”

Now I’m no aviator but I was sort of under the impression that most airstrips are pretty flat to begin with!

“To be precise

47C is (47 * 9) / 5 + 32 = 116.6 degrees F.

Or between 115.7 and 117.5 degrees.

My brother and his wife are living there now. They say it is pretty darn hot.”

What’s even more astonishing is the temperature the next day is only about 19 deg C

Nearly 30 degrees difference, over 100 farenheit!

“the BBC (funded by all British taxpayers),”

The BBC is funded by television licence fees not from taxes, ergo if you do not have a television in the UK you do not fund the BBC (except the world service). Further more the TV Licence covers households not individuals.

The corrollary is too that the BBC is also funded by plenty of non-tax payers such as the unemployed and pensioners.

Expanding your logic further, I presume you don’t buy Chinese either since the money ultimately gets filtered to the Communists.

Actually the MSM have been vociferous regarding Israeli casualties in support of their ‘proportionality’ bleating. I thimk they currently have it at 11.

“Proportionality is a word that was never be heard when millions of arabs attacked thousands of Jews in 1948.”

Sure you have the right conflict?

“Too bad the Brits didn’t send ALL their sorry butts back to France in 1763.”

Wouldn’t that have had implications for the chain of events that led to the War of Independence?

“Israel? Doubt it.”

Well Hezbollah pretty much achieved that in 2006. They are as I understand it an Iranian affiliate. Furthermore Iran itself achieved under The peanut farmer’s watch.

It depends on the scale of the attack doesn’t it.

look I hear what you say, but a million monkies! Man that’d be a tough ask for any deity to battle, but given they’re magic monkies too. Besides hanuman is pretty close to Vishnu and Rama I’m not saying god couldn’t lick-em but it’d be some tough fight.

Hanuman commands a million monkey army which if true is pretty cool. How many saints control an army that big - simian or otherwise?

I’m not quite sure your point. Are you pro or against Sharia law? On one hand you seem to suggest the Brits are pussies for not handing the pirates over to Sharia jurisdiction where presumably they will be dealt with fairly harshly (to say the least), but at the same time you say Sharia is bad. So where piracy is concerned is Sharia good or bad?

If your general position is that Sharia is bad, then aren’t the Brits doing the right thing in not handing them in. What if the pirates aren’t Muslims?

“They are the pre-eminant low tech tank and armored vehicle killers out there.”

I disagree, the Ewoks from the forest moon of Endor were better.

“Let ‘em try to strike, which they may do — but there won’t be a second time, I can tell you.

Seriously, does Hezbollah even know who they’re gonna mess with? (he asked, expecting the answer No) “

It pain me to say it, but Hezbollah are a seriously effective [terrorist] paramilitary group. So yes, I dare say they are well aware of Israel’s power.

Dang, there was me thinking Total was a French company. Guess you’d know better...thanks for setting me right!

Strange development this one. As an essentially Deobandian/Wahabbist outfit, the Taliban are ideological enemies of Shi’ite Iran. Iran have much to gain in influence with the demise of the Taliban. So perhaps they are eager to keep the allies engaged in Iran, for fear of being attacked on both flanks?

“They should park that aircraft carrier right where Brit sailors were captured. Let’s see what they are made of.”

That would be an extraordinarily dumb place to park a carrier.

“Quite true. The hangmen at the Nuremburg Trials failed to account for the weight the Nazis lost in calculating the necessary counterweight, the result of which had them die slower and more agonizingly. Poor fellows.”

That is the official version of events true. However it is highly unlikely it really was an oversight.

“How about we force-feed him an entire rotten pig so that he doesn’t starve to death?”

I don’t think he was particularly devout

Perhaps we should ask Brian May from the band Queen?

“Good stewardship is a good idea. Yes, don’t waste.

Thing is, most of these self-described “environmentalists” are among the most earth-harming, as their genuflections are only possible because they live at the top of the most luxurious and wasteful culture (don’t get me wrong, I’m enjoying my part therein) ergo something as petty as turning off the lights for an hour on one day strikes them as sacrifice.

Want to make a difference? turn the lights _on_ for only an hour a day - every day.”

Brilliant post.

“How many new pregnancies showed up in Sydney after this stupid liberal stunt?”

None. They’re all gay in Sydney.

“Imagine !

A curry powered Land Rover!”

How patronising...not even remotely funny.

“Landrover bodies have always been made of aluminium”

Actually they’re made of an alloy called Birmabright.

“Doesn’t matter which particular brand of English car is critiqued, two sore points are always mentioned: rust holes in the body work and cranky electronics. This article continues the tradition. Rustproofing is apparently unknown in England”

Given that no Land Rover defender ever made has ever suffered or is capable of suffering from a rusty body, I’d say the jokes on you buddy. You see Defenders (and Range Rovers) have always had aluminum (actually an alloy called Birmabright) bodies.

“Did the Indians also buy up Lucas? LOL”

No that was the Americans.

“Moqtada al-Sadr’s uncle, e.g., his deceased father’s brother”

I think most people know what an uncle is....

“They weren’t close to each other when they sunk.”

They were 4 Nautical miles apart

“Yes, they were ... criminals were sent there.”

Indeed convicts were transported. However Australia came into existence only in 1901 (actually technically in 1931 or 1986 depending on your interpretaion)as a federation of states long after transportation had ended. Some of these states were set up in their early days as penal colonies, some as free states. So you see to say Australia was a penal colony is a gross oversimplification.

“Fabricated by Australians embarassed that the Captain of the Sydney basically royally screwed up by getting too close to Kormoran.”

That in itself is pure supposition

“I would suspect that very few men actually went down with the ship. Most probably survived and never got picked up.”

Unlikely since 350 men from the Kormoran were rescued.

“They were a former penal colony under the crown”

No they weren’t...

“Her Majesty Assisted Service...
Her Majesty’s Australian Ship.”

Actually in the case of this Ship it was ‘His Majesty’s’

Communist AND Imperialist?

A40?

Just think, if the AFA had held out a little longer and Ford had declared bankruptcy, they could have claimed total victory.

“Dumb is dumb . How many kids one has doesn’t enter into the equation , idjit !”

It does if you allude, like you did, to the ‘Darwin Awards’ whose basic premise is that you have no offspring.

Dipsh!t.

Poor taste and not actually correct. He had two kids you idiot.

“Nor are they new to copying somebody else’s engine. The MiG 15 in Korea flew on a copy of the Rolls Royce jet engine.”

No they didn’t - They flew on actual Rolls Royce jet engine. The Brits actually gave them the engines and plans to produce more!

C’mon, It’s not as if the Ruskies are exactly new to the engine design game.

“I must be missing something. We’ve gotten our last four cell phones free with the service contracts.”

You certainly are. Look up ‘amortise’ in the dictionary.

“Typical liberal. Apologize for something that someone else did.”

Liberal is not a good term to use to describe a socialist when refering to Australian politics. Rudd is a ‘liberal’ but most emphatically not a ‘Liberal’. John Howard was a ‘Liberal’ but not a ‘liberal’. Kapish?

“2) Pull out of Iraq to embolden terrorist living just to your North”

To be fair, He’s just announced massive troop increases in East Timor which is perhaps more relevant to Australian security.

“The policies included the forcible removal of indigenous children from their families on the premise that Aborigines were a doomed race and saving the children was a humane alternative. The practice did not end until the 1970s.”

Actually the source of contention is that the motives behind the removals were ambiguous. The premise described above is a presumed one, not stated. That said one cannot by the same token presume the motives were benevolent either.

“On June 21 of last year India’s Ground Forces received their first BrahMos-1 missile, mounted on a Tatra truck chassis.”

Why would India and Russia chose to mount their weapon on a Czech designed and built truck? Both nations have a healthy truck manufacturing industry. Perhaps the copy meant to say Tata who are a very big truck maker in India?

“I wouldn’t be surprised if they just copied the V2.”

What, like we did?

Great Britain is the name of the Island. It has nothing to do with the deeds of those living therein, mythical or otherwise! It is merely a size comparative between it and Brittany.

English Public Schools are the best schools in the world. Bar none...

“I’m sorry but if you stick your willywong in someone elses unloading dock, you’re gay.”

That would make a fantastic tag-line!

“My father in law just called to say I shouldn’t take my 11 year old stepson to this because of homosexual scenes”...

I’d have thought the graphic violence was reason enough not to...I guess some folk might want to see ‘Can’t stop the music’ rated X.

euurgh, please I’m eating...