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That was ace Tex! Nice to hear our Xan is doing what he wants to do and getting his spiritual nourishment. I tried the same about a decade ago at a Buddhist monastery, appreciated the entire experience, and realized it wasn't the life for me; but i'm not going to knock anyone for realizing the deal for themselves. Yay for Xan!

'The world is more peaceful when you stop talking..'

You know Rob, the more I am exposed to your wisdom, the more I just want a long holiday in the south-Pacific

Iraq. I opposed it before we invaded because I couldn't see the connection between terrorism and Saddam's regime, especially with neoconservative hawks like Bush and Channey and those precious contracts for the victors with like oil. Then I supported the occupation following the complete mess we made of the invasion, such as the complete dissolution of civil, legal, and military administration, along the lines of some sort of 'we now owe it to the Iraqi people to help them build their democracy and nation,' type of argument; given how much we trashed their country as a consequence of the invasion. Comments made by various Muslim clerics, such as the one who said it was religiously acceptable to enslave female US/British combatants who are captured, further made me think we owed it to the Iraqi people some chance to have a modern, non-spackoid, nation free from such religious twats. But now i'm having my doubts. The daily death toll in Iraq is simply a slaughter, with sectarian violence completely out of control. We 'liberated' the majority Shiite's from persecution under Saddam's Sunni ruling minority, and as a consequence have created a swathe of religious-lunacy from Syria through to Iran now aligned in it's warped concepts; which is vile to women, or any concept of freedom of expression of thinking. The Sunni minority seem intent on resisting any concept of democracy for their nation, and continue to provoke the Shiite's in an ever worsening cycle of inter-faith violence. It's chaos. And in the scrum of bullets American and British servicemen are dying. I'm just wondering now what's the bloody point? The region is to entrenched in religious ignorance and stupidity for any concept of democracy, equality, or liberty, to actually flourish; why are we still bothering? If it's about the stability and control of oil then we need to sort out our own societies and not be so reliant on the stuff. This isn't a rant guys! Four more British lads got killed today in Iraq, and it's remembrance Sunday over here, so it just got me thinking. From what I see is an entire region of mentality who's broad religious faith seems to be incompatible with the qualities of life we in the west cherish; freedom, liberty, sexual-equality and democracy; so what's the point in shedding any of our further blood helping the few enlightened souls their to introduce it to their society? My mind isn't completely made up, so i'm curious as to what you guys might think.

The Power of ten

Some of my friends at work: Five baby otters lurk in there.. These clowns are next door.. CLICKY FOR MASSIFICATION!!! I like my job

Well we over here have a third political party, called the Liberal Party, that the current government Labour replaced in the early years of the last century who control a few councils around the country, but don't have much political clout on account of Labour's ruling majority in the House of Commons. But if there was a hung Parliament they would be the kingmakers, despite the fact the Labour party has replaced them in the centre...

That's pretty good M fella!

No tears here either for the bloke..

Found this: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v387/mediocre1/pimpedspeeder.gif

You lucky so and so.. I get Christians banging on my door all the time, so have calculated a cunning routine.. Whilst doing the washing up, or similar household chores, I skillfully wrap a tea-towel around my head in anticipation of a knock on the door by said cretins hoping to save my soul. Thus when I answer the door, i've completely forgotten i'm wearing the tea-towel, and respond to their initial remarks with fluid sincerity that i'm a Sikh and perfectly happy with my entrance to 'heaven..'

Even when he was shaking Rumsfeld's hand...? Wasn't that taken when the cold war was still on?

Cricky! I had no idea there was so much depth to the subject!

Hahahahahahahahahaah

http://www.jimcromwell.com/landfill/solonghussein.jpg Not mine, but 'current,' I guess...

Very nice K dude http://groups.msn.com/_Secure/0QQDZArsT3otjACgRTPzSfPLBQrcH*3HoKVBwGJeO67C4wfAzQMH!4n0*V46d0uKIM8!0yCZ4WQpN6jJnR5vQErz3zXIqyzmFi7yfJ1LxvBk/jawas.jpg Youth..

Is anyone else being reminded of a Command & Conqueror 2 allied sentry gun here?

http://groups.msn.com/_Secure/0QgAHA80TVJWYrjHTaoKmsI4ntKfYhBcvEusR721kcgqFhIRFH43O5FZOVrDZztPl!kOtP78LzZhGKbjZcRiM7ZUJKKWGyVWS6aHRFG5ib0I/chang.gif

Haha Yes, being shot in the head as I reach my front door is a frequent hazard where I am. I caught the little bugger practising his Sith powers the other day: http://groups.msn.com/_Secure/0QgDZAgEU06G7j2AaYhkgqCRqX0luco95c*053mH6tQBAkgzSU40goF27zMVetEhbVYcEGhwhXdEc5iWF2dEVLmWaXn7K9ZEPHgSy842B7GQ/kitty.gif Sinister stuff..

Speaking of which

Something else I came across today: http://groups.msn.com/_Secure/0PwDIKMMSyFBAX4sO104Fk17QgN8o8o4SWcvy2dpz8WKjzUsngScrzltsr!mCg8cQVMRZN1hZK3YvM3IZmAp!aoIa2i*i0bQv/han.gif Even at home, Han shot first!

Lookie what I came across today: "> Click for MOVIE BOOGIE! Yeh!

Clear screen shots from the tactical battle do you mean? Shouldn't be a problem. I use Irfanview for screen captures. Are you trying to upload.bmp's here, (which won't work) and resorted to screen capturing to get round this? If I were you I would simply save some of your ingame images to jpg's, one benefit of which is you'll be able to upload much less large file sizes if you opptimize.

Is that Mr and Mrs Darth_Rob, Rob?