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I'd actually suggest against trying to contribute right now, the poop flinging has already started.
Go away, come back in a week and apologize, then try again while being less of an asshat.

I'll take the week off and go back to lurking. Give the red mist a chance to settle and let the smell of blood fade from your nostrils. I actually enjoy this board and would hate to have my IP banned by a kill crazy mod with a poptard complex.

Lets see how this plays out.

[TOTALLY.]

I thought being a twat was a prerequisite to survive on this forum. Lesson learned.

Listen, Jack. I dunno who you are, or what's considered polite where you come from, but 'round these parts, there's a difference between not pulling any punches on your friends, and being a fucking shitneck. 

I had an explanation and a bit of advice all typed up, but then I realized you aren't worth the time it took to do it. Nor are you worth my horded hate and rage. So, the short dirty version: Don't be a fucking shitneck.

Sorry that you took that as a targetted insult. But from one infamous thread I had the pleasure of watching turn into a witch burning, you guys can go primal pretty damn quick on your friends.

c) You don't know how I am, and you're peeved that I have the gall to question one of your opinions

This is totally the right answer. TOTALLY.

How dare you question someones opinion on a political forum! 

Should have said "gall to question YOU". It may have gotten my point of view across better

What are you more annoyed about?

a) I corrected your grammar

b) I contradicted your point of view or,

c) You don't know how I am, and you're peeved that I have the gall to question one of your opinions

I don't care about your point of view over mine, I just don't like pedants. Period. Hey, shit happens, I'm a human being and I made typos. The correct motorcycle would have been, "Hey Suu, you made a booboo", instead of, "Fixed for grammar" and then making a typo yourself.

You made an ass of yourself, and starting being a twat to Roger, which is automatically a big no-no especially when you're a newb.


Here's the rule on PD, either you tread carefully until we know you, or you get whatever you did to us right back 10 fold until you cry to your mother who's upstairs cooking in the goddamn kitchen. Capisce?

LURK MOAR.

Well sorry for being pedantic, everybody has pet peeves don't they? You just have to prod them out into the open.

So basically c) is correct in this situation. You don't know me, and until the hazing procedure is complete I have best strap in and bear the pain of repeated paddle strikes.

I accept your challenge with the warcry "THANK YOU SIR/MA'AM MAY I HAVE ANOTHER"

Interesting.  He acts like a complete twat, then expects to have a conversation.

I thought being a twat was a prerequisite to survive on this forum. Lesson learned.

I don't like you. Watch your neck.

What are you more annoyed about?

a) I corrected your grammar

b) I contradicted your point of view or,

c) You don't know how I am, and you're peeved that I have the gall to question one of your opinions

They haven't exactly finished cleaning up since November...

That's one of the reasons why there is so much damage. Alot of buildings that were shaken in November were seriously weakened, especially the historical buildings i.e Christchurch Cathedral. But this one was alot worse even though it was a lesser magnitude quake (6.3 magnitude) due to the location of the epicentre (10km from city centre, 5km below the surface).


Go to http://www.tv3.co.nz/ if you're interested in the live news feed

Multiple fatalities confirmed, city centre looks like London during the blitz with people trapped in toppled buildings. Have a mate who's living there who I'm worried about but the cell lines are clogged with calls and no info from his brother.

1.  They weren't being violent.

2.  You're a cunt.

I know that it was a peaceful protest, but then the government forces started firing on unarmed people while they slept in an attempt to drive them out. http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/8218862-in-pictures-riot-police-attack-on-bahrain-protester-killed-5-injured-hundreds

So now you have protesters returning to Pearl Square who know how far the government will go and bitter about watching their friends getting shot. Don't know about you but I'd go with a pistol stowed in my crack just in case.

And I am a cunt.

@Suu -

**And now it looks like Libya is hitting the shit http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/02/21/uk-libya-protests-jets-idUKTRE71K3X220110221

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The formula is thus:

People want Democracy + Protests + Government intervention + People getting more and more violent to the point they get what they want and over throw government butchered in the streets + People so busy acting like looting monkeys to effectively set up new democratic government + outside forces come in and control anarchy + world donates tears and nothing else = New dictatorship.

Fixed for truth.

And grammar.




*Edited for me not knowing how to use posting featues*

Well, there's one of four possible outcomes.

1.  The protesters are cowed, and go home, and

2.  The protesters continue.

3.  The protests turn violent, or - most likely,

4.  Soldiers start getting knifed in bars, etc.

I think with the way the government security forces handled this situation, 3 and 4 are the most likely front runners. With 70% of Bahrain's population being Shi'ite, being ruled by a Sunni minority monarchy, I call shit hitting the fan on a monumental scale before the end of the month.

Sit back and enjoy the feature presentation.

And this thread has now come full circle. Thanks for the ride guys.

I've got a Kukris. But it's a big one.

Looks like a fucking boomerang with a hilt!

Always wanted one but we can't import weapons unless they are "decorative only". Stupid government I want my axe knife.

You just reminded me of how much I love rocking chairs. Seriously someone needs to bring those back into the mainstream.

I'd only get one to shriek GET OFF MAH LAWN!!!

Only during sex.

Think old rocking chair on a patio then you will have the soundtrack to my coitus

I herp'd and I derp'd and I Bm'd

Like Roger said, it took him 3 years to find 4 young guys who could do mechanical work. I had a kid working for me who once read a tape measure as 9 and 3/4 and 2 of those little lines after that. He never did learn to read a tape measure. And don't get me started on fractions, which every trade need to know. Hell, even my partner couldn't even do fractions when I had my construction company.

Change to the metric system, it makes more precise measurements and an old monkey can read it.

In regards to the OP, I think the trouble is nobody is willing to do the hard work because it isn't "glamorous" to be covered in shit and stinking like a rotten diaper. Most kids I've met have either stars in their eyes or suits and ties, looking for the prestige and the nice juicy paycheck that attracts the wemonz. The only people nowadays who actually do the hard work are dropouts who never gained a Year 10 certificate and/or are forced to be a shitkicker due to lack of options.

One big problem we have where I am is that there is a total lack of pride taken in peoples work. I've lived in the same house for over 20 years and we have only had to do only minor repair work (water damage to a small section of the ceiling, re-pointing roof tiles, me busting holes in walls etc) to it in that time.

On the other hand new housing developments are thrown up in as little as 8 months and they barely last 3 years before they have to be gutted and the majority of the internal structure has to be replaced. Developers buy cheap, throw houses up for cheap, sell for big money and wash their hands with it. The sad thing is that people still pay the ridiculous sale price because of the current housing crisis and they don't know what good workmanship looks like. The majority of the workers on these development jobs are unskilled, underpaid foreign labor who follow the work city to city and couldn't give two shits about the wonky walls and the holes in the sheet metal ceiling because, at $12 an hour, they're not paid to care. Driving down wages for the local workforce and taking positions from young kids trying to find an opening in a highly competitive industry.

People go where the money is, and the money isn't on the shop floor. It's in management telling the shitkickers to work harder, faster and cheaper. And if any of them start to cause a fuss over conditions or wages then there are about 50 workers in the third world who are willing to do it at half the price and who will lick your boot for the privilege, if you aren't there already.