Wax Posted September 2, 2008 Report Share Posted September 2, 2008 There hasn't been any blatant misreporting but I think that not enough facts have been put in the public domain which has led to too many people jumping to the wrong conclusions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scootray Posted September 5, 2008 Report Share Posted September 5, 2008 Race is as much nationality as colour - could you seriously imagine suggesting to the Croats and Serbs that they were the same race, for instance? They have similar language, but they're clearly a different race.We are all the same race, but different ethinicities. Unless your mum did it with a fish or something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Cynic Posted September 5, 2008 Report Share Posted September 5, 2008 She probably smells like she did.(no offence, Cloud....they all do, at times). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KimyReizeger Posted September 7, 2008 Report Share Posted September 7, 2008 Race is as much nationality as colour .I thought race was about physical characteristics. Serbs and Croats are both Slavic I believe. I can't see many black Americans considering themselves as racially equivalent to white national counterparts... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted October 21, 2008 Report Share Posted October 21, 2008 i carry a knice with me wherever i go, though thats only because its on my leatherman - handiest tool on the planetThey were used to hijack the 9/11 planes - though the Leatherman company probably don't like it mentioned. It's unlikely to make it into any of their promotional material or adverts let's say.During the hijacking of the airplanes, the hijackers used box-cutter knives to kill flight attendants, passengers, and crew members, including the captain of Flight 11, John Ogonowski.[11] Some passengers were able to make phone calls using the cabin airphone service and mobile phones.[12][13] They reported that several hijackers were aboard each plane. The 9/11 Commission established that two of the hijackers had recently purchased Leatherman multi-function hand tools*Wait's for an Alan Cynic pun* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Cynic Posted October 21, 2008 Report Share Posted October 21, 2008 I 've been working on a few bad leatherman puns...but none of them made the final cut 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted October 22, 2008 Report Share Posted October 22, 2008 i suppose that using the 9/11 hi-jackings as an advert for leatherman would just show how multi-purpose they may actually be? just a bad idea to put in this coutires head if everyone is carrying around knifes!but i think being aloud to carry a knife without an obvious valid reason should be enough to give someone an on the spot fine or something! i take a Hiker Swiss Army Knife Camping with me soemtimes, and i could easily harm someone with that knife pretty bad if i had the will to do so, if not kill them. I get scared soemtimes walking down george street after a session at captain toms in the dark, i've been shouted at by all kinds of people under the influence on something. scariest moment i ever had was go skateboard day when i ha dbeen talking to some guy i had met that day, can't remember what the group was talking about, but he at some point metioned how he had a knife with him that was "only just because enough to fit in his pocket" seriously hope he had a really small pocket!I learned an important lesson after a particularly painful unprovoked kicking a few years ago:Don't walk around George Street at night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alkaline Posted October 22, 2008 Report Share Posted October 22, 2008 I 've been working on a few bad leatherman puns...but none of them made the final cut Oh Alan, you used to have such a cutting wit. It seems you're no longer the sharpest knife in the drawer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Cynic Posted October 22, 2008 Report Share Posted October 22, 2008 You get tae fork!I can still hack it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Hobo Posted October 23, 2008 Report Share Posted October 23, 2008 I learned an important lesson after a particularly painful unprovoked kicking a few years ago:Don't walk around George Street at night.Aberdeen is generally a safe city at any time of the day, ave never felt scared or intimidated walking down the street and never had a kicking this is with walking from town down george street and king street about 6 nights a week for several years Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RossP Posted October 23, 2008 Report Share Posted October 23, 2008 A strange thing just happened to me in Elgin...Went down to a local pub in town for a couple of games of darts with my dad and at the end of one of the games I went outside to phone a curry which i'd collect 10 mins later. As I walk back in, these 2 manky pissed neds stumble out of the pub. I get back to my seat and my wallet and darts are missing from the table I left them at, my dad obviously too dozey to notice the neds lift them on their way out. I quickly nip outside and see them enter the bookies 2 doors up... (some getaway!)At this point the scene from High Fidelity, where John Cusack meets Ian with 3 or 4 different results occur, goes through my head. I would love to say that I picked up the cash register at the bookies and crushed it over the ned's head, but unfortunately (due to possible threat of being stabbed) I settled on the calm "Give me back the wallet and darts, ya prick". A bit of shuffling about and he hands over wallet and darts. I check the wallet, which had a 10 note and some change in it and now is empty. He then shuffles in his pockets again and gives me the money that was in my wallet... but then I notice he's given me a 20 note as well as the 10 I had.So after being 'mugged' I'm 20 richer No smack for him tonight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scootray Posted October 23, 2008 Report Share Posted October 23, 2008 I liked how you stereotyped the neds with no proof that they nicked anything though... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RossP Posted October 23, 2008 Report Share Posted October 23, 2008 I liked how you stereotyped the neds with no proof that they nicked anything though...It was a safe bet considering there was only my dad and myself in the pub previous to my phone call and after the phone call. They came in as I was on the phone and the barmaid denied them service as they'd given last night's barman hassle.Don't think my dad would take to kindly to me accusing him of taking my wallet and darts, even if I just beat him 2-1 in games! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scootray Posted October 23, 2008 Report Share Posted October 23, 2008 Ah well then, that's ok.Saying that I would have been after them and asked the pricks for them back too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted February 5, 2009 Report Share Posted February 5, 2009 There's an explanation of this on the BBC today.BBC NEWS | Scotland | North East/N Isles | Attacker left knife stuck in eye Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
french_disko Posted February 5, 2009 Report Share Posted February 5, 2009 There's an explanation of this on the BBC today.BBC NEWS | Scotland | North East/N Isles | Attacker left knife stuck in eye"The victim had been trying to help a man get cash back from Mearns' girlfriend, a prostitute, who had refused him sex. "She sounds like a classy kind o' gal! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scootray Posted February 5, 2009 Report Share Posted February 5, 2009 She's a pretty shit prostitute if she refused someone sex...Do drugs not matter to these people anymore?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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