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  A Challenge For FunkyDerek... My Experiences With The Afterlife

  by FMZ in

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  hey mate, don't mean to pick on you, but i know you are a good sport.

  ;) to all other non-believers, this thread is also for you..

  it seems you always want proof and evidence of some kind of afterlife, but always have a "reasonable explanation" for any evidence put forth.

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  What words and phrases do Brits and others see as 'American'?

  by sonnyboy in

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  as an american, i see words such as cheerio, blimey, bloody (when referring to something negative), loo, bugger, fag (cigarette), etc.

  as chiefly british (i suppose they are).. what words and/or phrases do you consider to be chiefly american?

  i'm honestly unaware of which words i use that may not be used in other english-speaking countries.

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  Do any other Britishers get a childish giggle when they hear an american using the phrase "blow off"?

  I've never heard anyone use the phrase 'blow off'. If I heard someone say that, I would think they're talking about oral sex. I've heard people say, "He or she blowed me off," which means they were ignored or not taken seriously. It could also be used for oral sex in the right situation.
  

  I think it's kind of funny to hear Brits say "piss off", because in the US piss only means urine or to urinate. I'd also like to add that some of the phrases that people think are "American" are not spoken by the average citizen; they're Hollywood creations or song lyrics. No one really says, "Baby got back", and I've never heard anyone over the age of 18 say, "Get 'er Done." And NO ONE speakes in Snoop Dogg izzleish. Maybe these things are said by 15 year olds, but not by the average person.
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  e-foot in mouth, does anyone else have this problem??

  by Frog in

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  hey guys don't know about you but i got through these periods where i seriously put my foot in it via email, forums, txt messages etc.

  in real life i'm quite diplomatic and have a knack for saying the right thing.

  the sort of thing i'm talking about is replying to all in an email, rather than just replying to sender, and disseminating a whole bunch of information to people you never intended it for.

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  I think these forums are an outlet for most people. We're all basically anonymous and free to talk about things that we've probably never discussed with anyone before.

  That freedom can be overwhelming at times, making us say some crazy sh;t. I have rules about posting that I rarely follow; I guess I should call them goals:

  1) Never post while drunk. The freedom of anonymity mixed with alcohol removes all inhibitions.

  2) Never post when in a foul mood. Misery loves company, and our bad feelings can be easily spread to others.

  3) Never post while tired. I've read posts that I'd made in the middle of the night and saw that I left entire words out of sentences.
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  What words and phrases do Brits and others see as 'American'?

  by sonnyboy in

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  as an american, i see words such as cheerio, blimey, bloody (when referring to something negative), loo, bugger, fag (cigarette), etc.

  as chiefly british (i suppose they are).. what words and/or phrases do you consider to be chiefly american?

  i'm honestly unaware of which words i use that may not be used in other english-speaking countries.

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  South african - not sure :-)

  Can anyone other than South Africans understand South Africans? They often sound like they're speaking another language all together; I'm not sure if it's a mixture of English and Swahili or what.

  I was watching a program the other day about shark attacks off the coast of Cape Town, and it included subtitles....thankfully.
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  "Flash" puzzles: BLOODY DIFFICULT!!

  by dorayakii in

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  i came across these two flash "puzzles" the other day.

  they're really interesting but bloody hard to do... they work on the principle of cause and effect and one wrong move can block your progress without you even noticing it... .

  i've been at the first one for days and i still haven't solved it although i think i'm quite close... i thought of myself as a logical thinker coz i'm good at the mensa questions, but this one has got me tearing out my hair.

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  SPOILER WARNING
  

  
  
  Here are the steps to Hapland 2 if it's driving you insane (I think I wrote them correctly):
  

  
  
  

  PHASE 1: General crap

  1. Turn on the lamp in the upper left corner and shine it on the cannonballs.

  2. Click the bird, and as it carries a ball past the first cloud, click the cloud to make the bird drop the ball, destroying the electrical pylons below.

  3. Repeat above, only at the second cloud, in order to drop the ball on the catapult.

  4. Click the red sign on the platform to change it to a green arrow.

  5. Open the trapdoor to the right of the sign.

  6. Click the arrow below the sign to light it up, making the man there walk in that direction and fall through the trap door.

  PHASE 2: Setup

  1. Change the sign back to the red circle.

  2. Click the box with the pink lid to make a bomb pop out.

  3. The man will toss the bomb in the air. As he does, click the yellow arrow under the red sign. A charge will shoot out and knock the bomb toward the building.

  4. Quickly click the rod that the arrow sign attached to the building is hanging on. The arrow will spin around, saving it from being blown up when the bomb hits.

  5. Click the pink lid a few times to make a ramp.

  6. Turn the arrow so it faces the building.

  7. Click the man so he walks up the ramp and into the building.

  PHASE 3: Clearing the way

  1. Click the two upper electrical switches underground so they're both yellow and activate the staircase.

  2. Click the left arrow on the small wheel underground, and then the staircase to roll it to the right.

  3. Click the arrow to it once again faces left.

  4. Ring the doorbell. The man walks out and follows the arrow up the stairs to the catapault.

  5. Click the left-hand cloud. The next time you click it, it will blow up, leaving a flaming mess behind for a second or so.

  6. Quickly click the man at the catapult to fire the cannonball. It will fly through the flames and burn through the curtain at the castle, taking the land mine with it.

  7. Turn the arrow to the right again and click the man to have him re-enter the house.

  PHASE 4: The first torch

  1. Click the man farthest up in the castle. He will jump off the top ledge and land below.

  2. Click the coffin in the upper left of the castle. A man jumps out, chased by a fly.

  3. When the man jumps down, spin the air vent to suck the fly through.

  4. While the man at the lever is being harassed by the fly, click the other man to have him run below the box.

  5. When the fly leaves, have the man there pull the lever to drop the box. A fish comes out.

  6. Click the leftmost guy to get him to the bottom castle lever. Make sure the arrow below is pointing right, then pull that lever to start the current.

  7. Have the man standing on the middle ledge pull the lever to open the trap door and the fish falls through.

  8. Click the gate to open it and the fish will hook itself on the fisherman's line.

  9. Stop the current.

  10. Click the fisherman. He'll walk out on the pole to get the fish and be flung to the top of the castle. Click him once more to get him in the door and light the first torch.

  PHASE 5: The second torch

  1. Start the current flowing right again.

  2. Make sure the arrow attached to the house is facing left.

  3. Click the window. The man inside slams it shut, making the blob fall off the building.

  4. Click the blob. It goes left, eats the bomb box, slides into the water and is swept right by the current straight into the land mind, blowing both of them up.

  5. Stop the current.

  6. Click the underground wheel's left arrow and roll the staircase left.

  7. Ring the doorbell, the man walks out.

  8. As he passes over the second box, click it to make him get pulled inside.

  9. A vehicle will roll out, into the water.

  10. Click the gate to allow the vehicle through. The man gets flung out, going in the other door, lighting the second torch and completing the puzzle.
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  I can't shake em!

  by Oxnard Hamster in

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  hey, what's up everyone?

  i have a little problem.

  you see, one jw keeps trying to recruit me.

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  Sadly, I doubt that anything you say will work. They live to recruit people.

  Our old JW buddies are the same way. The act like they're coming over for a simple visit, but it always ends with, "We're having an excellent speaker this Sunday. You need to come see him."

  Or, "Here's a new book just released by the WT."

  Then they ALWAYS leave the latest Awake and Watchtower.
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  Poison Ivy and Jewelweed

  by sonnyboy in

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  for anyone who spends a lot of time outdoors, this may be helpful.

  here in the u.s. it's prime poison ivy season.

  for some reason, my yard is a haven for every type of 'poison' plant.

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  Good luck with it. I'm buying some brush killer today and I'm going to spray everything around my house (except for the shrubs). They say that poison ivy can infect you even after it's dead. You also shouldn't burn it since the smoke can be infectious.

  The strange thing is, I was never allergic to it as a kid. I was constantly outdoors, playing in all sorts of foliage, and I never got it once.
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  Poison Ivy and Jewelweed

  by sonnyboy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  for anyone who spends a lot of time outdoors, this may be helpful.

  here in the u.s. it's prime poison ivy season.

  for some reason, my yard is a haven for every type of 'poison' plant.

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  For anyone who spends a lot of time outdoors, this may be helpful.

  Here in the U.S. it's prime poison ivy season. For some reason, my yard is a haven for every type of 'poison' plant. If I skip yardwork for a couple weeks, I'll have poison ivy, poison, oak, and poison sumac sprouting up in every spot that can't be reached by the lawnmower. Last year I didn't know what they were; I thought that these plants only grew in the forest. So, like a dummy, I begin pulling them from the flowerbeds by hand. I had no idea that poison ivy could climb trees! I yanked those bastards down by hand too. The leaves were huge.

  Needless to say, within a few days I began seeing little bumps form on my hands (only the back for some reason). I wasn't sure what it was, so I didn't pay it much mind. Over the course of a few days, the bumps were everywhere and began to blister. That's when the lightbulb finally turned on and I put two and two together. I checked the internet for pictures of poison ivy, oak, and sumac, and sure enough, every single 'weed' I'd been pulling up consisted of these three plants.

  After about a week the rash was still spreading and calamine was doing nothing, so I began to look for cures on the Internet. I came upon a product called "Amazing Jewelweed Soap" and thought I'd give it a try. After using the soap for one day (and I mean scrubbing the hell out of myself), the rash was stopped in its tracks. No new bumps. And the bumps that existed began to dry up within two days.

  So, if you or your loved ones have a run in with a poisonous plant, look for this soap. It's cheaper than most over-the-counter "cures" and it actually works.

  I forgot to add that I ran into more poison ivy a few days ago and got a few small bumps, but after I used the soap I didn't see any more.
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  How do you trust your partner?

  by sonnyboy in

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  does anyone really trust their girlfriend/boyfriend around members of the appropriate sex?.

  i thought we had some form of trust, but i dropped my biotch off at the car dealership today and noticed a rather long conversation going on with a "questionable" neighbor (one that we've talked about before in a sexual way).

  so, how do you go about building trust in a relationship?

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  IMHO men are undatable until 30...women 25.

  
  
  

  I'd have to agree with that to an extent, but maybe lower the ages by a couple years.
  

  To all the people who seem to know that their partners won't cheat on them, where do you get your confidence from? People who know their spouses will always be faithful get cheated on all the time. Honestly, you never really know anyone. Woman especially think they know people for some reason, even when they're proven wrong. If you actually "knew" your men you'd probably run for the hills. For the most part we're sexually-driven, testosterone-filled beasts, but we try to keep it under control. I don't mean to generalize, but it seems true for the most part.

  AND I RETRACT the objectionable word I used in my first post. I didn't mean to offend anyone (I was also half-lit when I started this thread), and it's generally not seen as an insult among younger people in my area (30 and under crowd).

  *This formatting sure is whacky*
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  What words and phrases do Brits and others see as 'American'?

  by sonnyboy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  as an american, i see words such as cheerio, blimey, bloody (when referring to something negative), loo, bugger, fag (cigarette), etc.

  as chiefly british (i suppose they are).. what words and/or phrases do you consider to be chiefly american?

  i'm honestly unaware of which words i use that may not be used in other english-speaking countries.

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  Dorayakii: I'm not familiar with that, is it a series or a film?

  The Nanny was a sitcom back in the 90's about a woman (Fran Drescher) who attempted to sell cosmetics, or something similar, at a famous British playwright's home and was offered a Nanny position. Then, like all typical American sitcoms, she winds up falling for her boss and they eventually get married. It's sort of a Who's the Boss rip-off (where Tony Danza took the job of housekeeper and ended up marrying his boss).

  If an American doctor asks you to take off your "pants" don't get offended (or excited) he only means your "trousers"...

  What does pants mean in the UK?