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Sorry, but I just read that and thought. . .
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The most annoying thing about the security I've encountered is the fact that if I want to get a meal, between clearing passport check and the metal detectors, and getting on the plane, if I go to a restaurant in the Duty-Free area I now have to eat with plastic cutlery. When it's six in the morning and I have to hack away at a suasage with a plastic serrated knife slightly less sharp than your average comb, I feel vexed.
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I don't own one. Or a brush. Just smooth my hair down after I dry it. But Kate's hair brushes (she has about a half-dozen, we keep forgetting one when we go on trips so have to buy another) - the bristles on those are fucking lethal. I could hijack an airliner with one of those.
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Actually, I find nothing wrong with the airline food I tasted over the years. Especially the Dom Perignon champagne...
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quote: The prison officer was told to be quiet after three Asian visitors to the prison were spotted standing nearby, the Norwich hearing was told.
Why would anyone in their right fucking mind want to visit a prison?!? I was on the "scared straight" tour twice and it sure was'nt by choice. Mabye they just enjoy the overpowering smell of human excrement?
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As i read that article, i am sitting here wondering 1) why is he throwing keys down a chute! 2) How does throwing keys at an 'imaginary' picture of Bin-Laden insulting to an Asian person - Let alone a British Assistant Governor. 3) Are these people on crack!? 4) whoever wrote the article isn't that great a writer... cuz i didn't understand the damned thing... he didn't explain why a prison guard would toss his keys down a chute!
Ok .. the last point doesn't REALLY count...
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for those of you that use Office 2003 - it's Shift ` or the ~ symbol in that font.
Some forget that the swastika wasn't always a Nazi symbol.
Personally - wouldn't get all offended if i found that.. who knows.. Some kids could be doing a paper on the Second World War - and could use that symbol as part of his paper...
I dunno.. Does anyone here actually feel OFFENDED by this ??
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Just so that we are comparing apples to apples:
quote:A form of the swastika has been used in the Buddhist religion to symbolize the feet or footprints of the Buddha.
We have a lil chinese guy here that works with us in my company - and he is buddhist! He suggests that the Nazi Swastika and the buddhist symbol are different, in the sense that the orientation of the Nazi Swastika is inverted!
It's like Hitler saw the buddhist symbol and used a mirror image for his own symbol. It has sparked quite a debate here at work. Our company deals alot with fonts and unicode and how they transcode into SVG and SVG-t -- so!! We all find it very interesting.
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It's a pretty common symbol actually: the Navajo used one (but theirs was mirrored so the "arms" leaned left). The swastika itself was a old good fortune symbol.
Could've been worse: Hitler couls have used a clover. Stick that in your Lucky Charms and eat it!
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"Some forget that the swastika wasn't always a Nazi symbol.
Personally - wouldn't get all offended if i found that.."
If you had witnessed the horrors of WW2 firsthand, I think you would. Try to understand how laden that symbol is and what it still represents to a lot of people before you shove this on the PC pile too.
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It's more the intent that's NOT there that makes it silly. Just change the command in future versions and avoid any issues.
Just as a Pentagram or an inverted cross have diffrent meanings to diffrent people, some symbols, once associated with evil become irrevocably tainted in our collective view.
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"...and what it still represents to a lot of people..."
So, what it represents to one large group (people who think of it as a Nazi symbol) is more important than what it represents to another large group (people who think of it as a religious/spiritual symbol)?
I would like to know whether the swastikas in the font were clockwise or counter-/anti-clockwise, and whether the arms are horizontal/vertical or diagonal.
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