Comments on: Exotic Preambles to Banging Our Heads Against the Walls

By: HalfEmpty

HalfEmpty — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:32:44 +0000

Perview was overated.

By: Brett_McS

Brett_McS — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 05:29:52 +0000

I blame the loss of preview.

By: HalfEmpty

HalfEmpty — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:01:18 +0000

LOL! Ima lern new thing

By: ninme

ninme — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 15:20:13 +0000

Problem In Chair Not In Computer

By: Farmin B Hard

Farmin B Hard — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 06:34:54 +0000

A PICNIC issue

What's that one?

I'm all too familiar with the (say it out loud, then spell)

eyedee ten t error

Usage: You GrassHopper 2, User Smith has an eyedee ten t error, power to monitor issue. Check for looseey, loosey make happy, return chop chop or I smite you wit muh Cat-O-5 cables, you savy?

By: Brett_McS

Brett_McS — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 05:39:47 +0000

It used to be the reverse, in the US at least, up to something like the 60s. Republicans were the isolationists and Democrats were the interventionists.

By: ninme

ninme — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:28:47 +0000

YOU didn't close your brackets. A PICNIC issue as Peter would call it.

What I don't get is why you have to be either illiberal and interventionist, or liberal and noninterventionist, but never any other combination. I mean, the Empire would have been a very different place with modern attitudes, and modern attitudes are doing nothing for people because modern detachment.

By: Brett_McS

Brett_McS — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 23:15:05 +0000

Links don’t work?

By: Brett_McS

Brett_McS — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 23:14:10 +0000

I've been saying for years that the best chance for Zimbabwean reform is an SAS sniper team.

So I probably wouldn't get to second interview at the Foreign Office. In fact they'd probably burn my job application and exorcise the ashes.