was just going to say the same thing gnatty! Am also fascinated by it after experiencing it a couple of times.gnat wrote:
flippo the colour thingo sounds very much like a type of synesthesia
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Re: OCDs
- Thu Aug 14, 2008 10:29 am
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- Topic: Whats the worst that could happen?
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Re: Whats the worst that could happen?
history repeating
- Wed Aug 13, 2008 9:07 pm
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- Topic: The Big Up Thread
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Re: The Big Up Thread
Nice work C.I.A.!!
Re: OCDs
My shoe and handbag fixation is probably borderline OCD. Luckily I seem to be in remission.
- Wed Aug 13, 2008 11:44 am
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- Topic: TEN YEARS OF NOTHING - not one fucking thing!
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Re: TIS NOTHING, TIS GOOD!
Hello all
- Wed Aug 13, 2008 11:42 am
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- Topic: The Big Up Thread
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Re: The Big Up Thread
BU's crazy ass adventures
- Fri Aug 08, 2008 8:49 am
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- Topic: The Travel Thread
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Re: The Travel Thread
BU's to finding the one LONG skirt in the whole of London today. I'm not sure how women dress in Kurdistan, but I figured that I couldn't go wrong with a modest ankle length skirt. The hemlines this season were not definitely not co-operating. After looking for 2 hours I finally managed to find one ...
- Thu Aug 07, 2008 9:38 pm
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- Topic: Gripe thread
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Re: Gripe thread
resigned myself to mad cat lady status (with dulux dog instead of cats). me too!! also with canine instead of feline! In hindsight, not having an 'other half' for so long let me roam the world with my snowboard and my PhD... something that not everyone gets a chance to do because there is an elemen...
- Wed Aug 06, 2008 8:08 pm
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- Topic: The Travel Thread
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Re: The Travel Thread
Weather for Kurdistan on Saturday: 47 degrees. Cripes! Am going to have to go find some sort of smart cotton kaftan or something to wear as a suit ain't going to work... :? :smt006 Elly a shirt with USB powered fans perhaps? http://www.technicallyforeign.com/tblog/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/ecowear...
- Wed Aug 06, 2008 7:57 pm
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- Topic: Gripe thread
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Re: Gripe thread
Fents wrote:Build it and they will come elly.
and dont worry about that soldier apparetlly he was just flat out gay and had just had a threesome with his two mates so it wasnt you.
- Wed Aug 06, 2008 2:49 am
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Re: Gripe thread
ahhh Liz, did you cook your brain in that spa in your deluxe cabin by any chance? You are a very lovely friend to say that, but it's so not the case. I am just a reject and meant to be single or sommat
Anyway I'll stop my moaning now before ya'll tell me to call the waaambulance
Anyway I'll stop my moaning now before ya'll tell me to call the waaambulance
- Tue Aug 05, 2008 8:24 pm
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- Topic: Gripe thread
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Re: Gripe thread
:lol: :lol: awesome story Fents! i swear you have the worst luck elly uh huh! I really am something worse than an untouchable in the caste system of love, a ferral old goat on the pasture of life :scratch: I even got KB'd by an Aussie soldier in a recci patrol we ran into up in the highlands when we...
- Tue Aug 05, 2008 6:53 am
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- Topic: Gripe thread
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Re: Gripe thread
finding out your crush has a girlfriend
Story of my god damn life...
Story of my god damn life...
- Tue Aug 05, 2008 4:17 am
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- Topic: The Travel Thread
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Re: The Travel Thread
Weather for Kurdistan on Saturday: 47 degrees. Cripes! Am going to have to go find some sort of smart cotton kaftan or something to wear as a suit ain't going to work...
Re: JOBS
mrj wrote:
Even better is the new console game based on the experience..........
Qatar Hero!!!!!!!!
- Mon Aug 04, 2008 1:10 am
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- Topic: The Big Up Thread
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Re: The Big Up Thread
Yay - you got to do scones AND beer in the spa!!! See now that is compromise Glad to hear you had such a good weekend luvvie
- Sun Aug 03, 2008 8:48 pm
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- Topic: The Travel Thread
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Re: The Travel Thread
I checked with a friend for you luv, and she said that they were a bit $$$: We own two rentals in the East Bay south of Oakland and each of them rent for $1000+ a month, just to give you an idea. Check out the following. It will give you some idea of what they are better than I. http://sanfrancisco....
- Sun Aug 03, 2008 2:16 am
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- Topic: the news thread
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Re: the news thread
http://www.reuters.com/article/gc05/idU ... 3320080801
shit... a little too close to Kurdistan for comfort
shit... a little too close to Kurdistan for comfort
- Sun Aug 03, 2008 1:54 am
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- Topic: The Travel Thread
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Re: The Travel Thread
So considering moving to Oakland/San Fran for 2-3 years. Anyone know what I can expect to pay in rent? San Fran - nice!! My parents did their undergrad at Berkeley back in the 60's, so their rental info might be a bit dated ;) but I think mum's got a few past students there on post docs so shall se...
- Sat Aug 02, 2008 10:29 pm
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- Topic: So I'm opening up for Chris Rock...
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Re: So I'm opening up for Chris Rock...
wicked! Nice one obliveus
- Sat Aug 02, 2008 10:34 am
- Forum: Mixes
- Topic: Valuetime Mixes
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Re: Valuetime Mixes
Looking forward to these going up
- Sat Aug 02, 2008 7:37 am
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- Topic: The Travel Thread
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Re: The Travel Thread
I'll take heaps of photos to show ya Sammy!Lil MiSbreaks wrote:ive been interested in that part of the world for years.
- Sat Aug 02, 2008 4:19 am
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- Topic: Chicks thread - no boys allowed
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Re: Chicks thread - no boys allowed
Glenny, this is exactly the look I was talking about!breaksRbest wrote:elysium wrote:- misapply and, for the next 12 hours, walk around looking like you have been punched in the mouth.
- Fri Aug 01, 2008 3:14 am
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- Topic: The Travel Thread
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Re: The Travel Thread
of the stark raving variety last time I was testedmenace wrote:your a maddie
I'm considering moving there for work so want to check out the state of play in country for myself.
- Thu Jul 31, 2008 10:12 pm
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- Topic: The Travel Thread
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Re: The Travel Thread
Going to Iraq next week -- interestingly, there are actually international civi airlines that fly in there...off I go to flight centre to book ticket...
Glenny what was the name of that tour company again? I want to sign up for that fun activity you mentioned, IED dodging was it
Glenny what was the name of that tour company again? I want to sign up for that fun activity you mentioned, IED dodging was it
Re: JOBS
woo! I got through to second round! Off to Iraq week after next to check it out. Rather excited.
- Thu Jul 31, 2008 8:42 am
- Forum: The Music
- Topic: Now Playing...
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Re: Now Playing...
Synchrotone - Hans Zimmer
man, I forgot how good the whole Black Hawk Down soundtrack is... Bakara and Vale of Plenty are my other picks from the original stuff, he's done such a good job combining the Western and techy sounds with the north african instruments.
man, I forgot how good the whole Black Hawk Down soundtrack is... Bakara and Vale of Plenty are my other picks from the original stuff, he's done such a good job combining the Western and techy sounds with the north african instruments.
- Wed Jul 30, 2008 10:19 pm
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- Topic: Chicks thread - no boys allowed
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The body shop does a good one too. Lip stain is good hey - it just sits there and does not wipe off (I guess why it is called a stain, duh elly!). But I didn't even know about it until a year or so ago, so it was a bit of a revelation for me that you could eat a meal and it's still there! Drink a co...
- Wed Jul 30, 2008 10:08 pm
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- Topic: The Big Up Thread
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Re: The Big Up Thread
go retzie!!! What an amazing feeling that must be!
Re: JOBS
job interview tomorrow :excited:
- Wed Jul 30, 2008 9:12 am
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- Topic: TEN YEARS OF NOTHING - not one fucking thing!
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Re: THE THREAD ABOUT NOTHING!
mornin ya'll
- Tue Jul 29, 2008 7:37 pm
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- Topic: Chicks thread - no boys allowed
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Re: Chicks thread - no boys allowed
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- Tue Jul 29, 2008 10:52 am
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- Topic: quality food...
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Re: quality food...
I have just found a wicked take away service that does the yummiest stuff. Dinner tonight: roasted sesame guinea fowl in a garlic, ginger and tamari sauce with lightly spiced roasted carrots and topped with butter bean and rosemary mash. They deliver fresh and precooked and I just have to bung it in...
- Tue Jul 29, 2008 10:34 am
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- Topic: Chicks thread - no boys allowed
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- Tue Jul 29, 2008 10:08 am
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All the PTs I've ever had have been a cross between Mike Meyers in the Love Guru and the retarded brother from Something About Mary. :lol: true but it does allude to your erm.. physical endurance ahh! Now I am picking up what you are putting down, lady :wink: My friend made this exact point in favo...
- Tue Jul 29, 2008 9:03 am
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- Topic: Gripe thread
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The Daily Mail was probably being a bit sensationlistic. I highly doubt that it was a proper machine gun, which would surely be a bit unwieldy to fire unless you were prone? It's not like he rocked up to the nightclub with a .50 cal mounted to the back of a ute and vaporised the place. Even if the n...
- Tue Jul 29, 2008 6:10 am
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- Topic: Gripe thread
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Dude getting offed with a machine gun 5 minutes from my house on Sunday morning :angry7: You know your neighbourhood is dodgy when you are slightly relieved to hear it was a targeted "gangland style execution" (ie rather than random civilian carnage). From the Daily Mail: http://www.dailym...
- Tue Jul 29, 2008 5:26 am
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^ what's so wrong with wearing your pants high? it looks dumb... but i am talking really high , mind. Like pseudo wedgie / deleteriously-affecting-sperm-count high. gnatty - I am inclined to agree with your second point, although I promise you my sweaty proximity is far from appealing... I think re...
- Mon Jul 28, 2008 12:16 am
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- Topic: The Movie/Film/DVD thread...
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How I do enjoy getting a nice romantic comedy like Black Hawk Down and ensconcing myself on the couch on a Saturday night. An oldy but a goodie
- Sat Jul 26, 2008 11:09 pm
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- Topic: The Big Up Thread
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Re: The Big Up Thread
omg that is awesome!! I'm trying to orient myself from the Eye, is that is Southwark somewhere?
- Sat Jul 26, 2008 10:54 pm
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- Sat Jul 26, 2008 10:22 pm
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hehe.. thanks lads, but your suggestions, whilst amusing, are a trifle lewd and are also likely to get me fired.
- Sat Jul 26, 2008 10:56 am
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- Topic: The Big Up Thread
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Big ups The Weather (where are you btw, I haven't seen you post lately -- perhaps because you have been too busy cooking up 30 degrees here in London town?)
- Sat Jul 26, 2008 10:53 am
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Edit: boring and irrelevant
- Sat Jul 26, 2008 10:42 am
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- Topic: Gripe thread
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Re: Gripe thread
shit Fents - really sorry to hear that mate. Hope you are doing ok. Was coming in here to gripe about something that now seems way inconsequential.
- Fri Jul 25, 2008 8:41 am
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- Topic: TEN YEARS OF NOTHING - not one fucking thing!
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Re: THE THREAD ABOUT NOTHING!
Good morning Melbourne!
- Fri Jul 25, 2008 8:18 am
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- Topic: Whats your favourite alcoholic drink?
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Re: Whats your favourite alcoholic drink?
Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker...
Clear liquor = less headaches
Clear liquor = less headaches
- Thu Jul 24, 2008 10:03 pm
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- Topic: The Travel Thread
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Re: The Travel Thread
travel snobs annoy me. met one in Prague i think, who was all like - unless you backpack, you aren't travelling. if you stay in hotels, that is not travelling that is bullshit. blah blah blah. i told him to stick it, cos if i was cashed up there was no chance i would be sitting here listening to hi...
Re: JOBS
YAYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Go Stevie!! That is awesome news
:pops the champers:
:pops the champers: