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Y'know, Troll-dude, if you actually knew half the people you claim to, your social-life would be so all-encompassing you'd never have time to post on some poxy internet bulletin board!
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Unlike the average Trekie I have actually been places and met people. The Elderly Italian was the Grandfather of a business associate. He could not speak english. His grandson translated. He had been at Bari when the bombing raid took place and was badly burned by the gas. Having actually met a victim of poison gas,I became interested in the subject. His injuries were mostly to the lungs.
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"Unlike the average Trekie I have actually been places and met people."
Once, a long, long time ago, I wanted to be The Cote d'Azur, but, I don't know. It didn't work out. What's your secret?
Other than lying.
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Yeah I know. Just a little venom. Truely though,My experiances have brought me into contact with a wider assortment of personalities than most. Its a business thing. You have to talk to people. Getting inside their heads, learning where they are coming from. Meeting the elderly Italian was just one of those things,an accidental meeting more than twenty years ago, It lead to my interest in the effects of chemical weapons.P.S. I don't believe anything most people say either. Good practice not to. Phoney internet personalitys abound.
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quote:Originally posted by Mountain Man: Unlike the average Trekie I have actually been places and met people. The Elderly Italian was the Grandfather of a business associate. He could not speak english. His grandson translated. He had been at Bari when the bombing raid took place and was badly burned by the gas. Having actually met a victim of poison gas,I became interested in the subject. His injuries were mostly to the lungs.
1) How do you know where the avarage trekkie has been? 2) Is there anything you believe you do not know? 3) The fact that, having inhaled poison gas, his injuries were mostly to his lungs is not actually all that shocking. My great grandfather was gassed at the Somme and died many years later of a lung disease. The link between poison gas and the respiratory system has been made before.
Having said that, the link was interesting.
It's interesting also to note the transition from Bush from WMD to WMD programs and now changing from the not denying Saddam playing a role in the 11 September attacks to the present position with the (rather tenuous) link between Hussain and Al Qaeda.
quote: And I can actually connect myself to Kevin Bacon by six degrees of separation.
Go on then...
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I was being a bit Venomus there. The public perception of Trekies is probably undeserved. Being older than most,I've met and talked with people, that younger people will never get the chance to meet, because they passed away long ago. I've worked alongside victims of communist and fascist oppression and heard their stories. I've had many contacts whose experiances and world view are a data base for building my own view of the world. Different data base different viewpoint. PS the recent changes in the governments stance on Saddams involvement in 911 came as a suprize to me.
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Fair enough, although I'm only 17 and have met 'victims of communist oppression' (not really all that hard- about half the population of Europe).
quote: PS the recent changes in the governments stance on Saddams involvement in 911 came as a suprize to me.
Really? Most of the papers and other stuff I've read have been saying all along that there was no evidence, as has the UK govt. Although admittedly the last sourcecmay not be entirely reliable...
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Apparently Bush himself has said Saddam was not involved. This was in a recent news release. The stance of the government changing so swiftly was what caught me off guard. Still its not over yet. I've been too emotionaly caught up in this(because of 911) to really be objective. Plus I recently took a bad spill and apparently fractured my skull. Thats one of the reasons my posts are so strange at times. I even said hour when I meant week in one post. Now that was really embarassing. Then my net connections kept going out every time I tried to edit a post. Its all been very odd.P.S. I think my spelling is begining to improve. I found an online grammar tutorial also. Soon my post will be easier to understand.
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quote:Originally posted by Lee: Y'know, Troll-dude, if you actually knew half the people you claim to, your social-life would be so all-encompassing you'd never have time to post on some poxy internet bulletin board!
Hey look, It's an anti-troll troll from the Knower of All Things Poxy, and his Spotted Dick!
Now, when UM says something like that, it's funny. When I say it, it's isn't. Why IS that?
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quote:Originally posted by First of Two: Now, when UM says something like that, it's funny. When I say it, it's isn't. Why IS that?
If you don't know, then it can't be explained.
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quote:Originally posted by Malnurtured Snay: Because there's nothing threatening about Pennsylvania or anyone who lives there.
Threatening enough to have stomped on the Ravens the last time they came to town.
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