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Posted on 12/14/2005 3:30:58 PM PST by offtherose
That's a nice one. Where are the homeless? And those children look way to healthy for Illegal aliens. Are you sure there's a bridge at all? LOL
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FR does have it's share of racists and sexists. I don't think there are any homophobes, though. Maybe a bunch of people homonauseated, though - sick of the gay agenda.
Hey! I joined in 2002! It was the night GA elected a republican governor, the first since reconstruction (or better described as the Northern Occupation), and nationally the republicans kicked a$$ in the midterms!
Word to the wise: tread lightly for the first couple of months...and avoid posting vanities during that time.
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Relax some.
You made some unintentional 'just learning' errors.
I made them myself way back when.
(I got depth charged and torpedoed in forum!)
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Some useful info in there for when you can get to it.
Even though there's only about three months between our sign-up dates, you are one of the last who got a sign-up number under 100,000. I hadn't been on the boards very long when someone posted a vanity asking those of us with numbers over 100,000 if we felt like we were fitting in.
I had thought I was fitting in fine until I read that thread. ...
Could've been one of Darks' ex's.
LOL! You mean "...his schtick" right?
Yikes!
I hope he didn't meet.. Miss Staplegun 1993.
"No we don't."
"Yes we do ;)"
Do not!
LOL! You mean "...his schtick" right?
I can't find it. (old age getting me. LOL)
I thought you were new here. How much can you really know about the quality of FR?
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Same here HC, I've posted one thread in almost 5 years and it was a Memorial.......
You've posted a total of 43 threads and 12,650 replies.
It's just that it was worded so "exact". It's almost always "racism, sexism, and homophobia", in that order, when the robots say it, and if you lurk the various DUngheaps you'll see how they throw it around because they have a computer at hand yet nothing of substance to say. Those words are like "groovy" or "kewl" - so overused they have no meaning, no power.
It's very strange, to say the least, seeing it here.
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