Posts by Max Divergent

It was easier to dismiss and scorn if there was an innacuracy or two attributed to the show, but at the end of the day it was "my ~~country~~ truth, right or wrong".

No amount of critisism, valid or otherwise, would dent that... well.. until their silly rules started to affect me personally and then it gradually cleared up in my mind that wrong truth was a bit of an oddity, otherwise known as BS.

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HAHA TAKE THAT U OZZIES

by tijkmo in

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england 179-8. australia 79 all out in 14 overs.

bring it on

Max Divergent

We gotta help out Merry Mag!!!

Nothing on ESPN?

There's a few story clips here http://aus.cricinfo.com/db/NATIONAL/AUS/SIGHTSSOUNDS/CRICKETSHOW/ maybe they'll be a start?

Don't fret though.... I'm sure we can get a tape or somthing of the great game to you if it comes to that.... but you'll have to wait for an Aussie win for it to be worth watching :-)

Max - who plans to send a monthly service report to the International Cricket Council for online cricket witnessing... :-)

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HAHA TAKE THAT U OZZIES

by tijkmo in

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england 179-8. australia 79 all out in 14 overs.

bring it on

Max Divergent

Ahh... so maybe, just maybe there'll be a contest! LOL! I gave up and went to bed when England were 5/80-ish and saw the rest of the highlights this morning. I think the Aussies still have the edge overall, despite letting England back in, but that could change over the series. So, maybe a real contest.

It looks like England have improved hugly in skill and attitude and the Aussies just haven't quite got it together - maybe old age is catching up with some of them!! LOL!! Gilespie is still off, as are some of the batsmen. Fielding was poor by the Aussies too.

But if they sync over the next few weeks and play to potential Australia will still win well - but it'll be a fight. Good.

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Need clarification on communication with a disfellowshipped person

by jostes in

was wondering the clarification of a relationship someone can have with their mother if they have been disfellowshipped and the daughter is in good standing with the congregation?

the daughter was baptised after the disfellowship.

does this mean the daughter is not to have a relationship with the mother.

Max Divergent

obviously this CULT lacks that and teaches how to hate and hold grudges. ALSO how to judge those but wishes not to be judged at the same time. That is CRAP!

To hold 'righteous hatred' is a belief of the JW's. A 'true christian' would hate anything/anyone that God would hate. One who has been expelled from 'God's flock' would be hated by God until they repent and return to 'the fold'. Thus, to uphold their christain standing they will act as though they hate the course of conduct of the expelled person to the extent that they won't be around the person.

Usually they don't actually hate the person (or probably their aleged conduct either), but they act as though they do becuase they're taught that to hate in this way is godly and good.

They align this thinking to lots of bible verses, probably all out of context and misapplied I suppose... but they use the book to preach this sort of godly hatred of people in the way you describe.

And there seems to be a greater tendency for disassociation to be infered from conduct too... don't go to meetings, be seen at a lottery counter and 'BOOM!' you're trated as dissasociated all of a sudden by anyone who's heard the rumour and chooses to draw the inference and then applies their dilligent hatred routine.

Or somthing like that anyhow...

It's a bit borish really. Thuggary. Bullying. Abusive. Rude. Annoying. Petty. Childish. Insulting. Silly. Self righteous. Self indulgent. Wank.

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Do You Like To Fly?

by Englishman in

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i love it!.

love the take off, love the in-flight meal -yum!

- love the landing.

Max Divergent

Love flying!! I'm so silly about it that I live under the local flightpath near the runway and my main criteria for what flight to get is to go on an airline or aircraft I havn't been on before... although OneWorld FF membership has curtailed my ways a bit...

Off the top of my head I've flown with: American, British, Aer Lingus, Ansett, Air North, Malaysian, Piedmont, Qantas, Garuda, Skywest, Thai Orient, Merpati (Indo), Cathay Pacific, Air NZ and flown on various models of 707, 717, 727, 737, 747, 767, 777; A300, A330, A320, Embraer RJ and Brasilia, F27, F28, F50, Bae 146, DC-9, DC-10, L1011 plus various light aircraft and a 'Mash chopper'. I flew 100,000 miles Sept 2001 -Sep 2003 but haven't flown since! Planning an RTW flight next year on FF points!!

Scariest was on a Garuda A330 which changed sound mid-flight and was withdrawn from service on landing... My worst airport - Delhi for general awfulness. Favorite coach class - American for the space. Favorite to fly on - 767 or DC-10, again for space. Best lounge I've been in - Delta in Frankfurt for the range of liquor and the quiet area with big leather recliners with personal headphone sets. BA do good lounges too. Worst toilet experience - BA London-Delhi - they were doing it on the floor!!!

What would I do if I won Lotto? Buy a small airline! My 10 year prediction? Airbus and Embraer will dominate leaving Boeing either kaput or as a much smaller player with just the 777 and 787.

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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.

Max Divergent

I see the absent of letters from ENGLISH words as laziness (ooooh - now THERE'S a ZED in its proper place)

LOL! Good to see a Z!! But dunno where the ' ' came from, but HTML's British/Swiss isn't it?... ;-) (mmm... edited agin... wondering where the funny looking HTML code has gone to... mmmmm.... and where's the sapce coming from... grrrr...) Anyway... now your neck is out... :-) that's the thing with British language... it's a moral thing, a statement of 'standards', and a status thing... not just a means to communicate clearly and effectively... but a way of demonstrating one's virtue and industriousness... So, the effect of proving how unlazy the British are is a whole lot of keyboard operators putting billions of 'u' characters where they ain't needed each year! Life's too short! Gobsmacked at praise to Webster for making sense of the ad hoc English spelling and grammar rules that what's-his-name arbitrarily determined for the OED? Just check out how many ways Sheiksbeir spelled his own name! Neither rhyme nor reason there! (It's just a bloody language, and half the the Poms speak it as good as the other half play cricket!! :-)) ...and at least Webster had a system and a plan! Cheers, Max (Edited to note that Max is about to go and watch The Bill...always an interesting sociological insight... :)

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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.

Max Divergent

I prefer US spelling - like, why the hell do the British put a 'u' in color? (colour) Waste of a key stroke, waste of toner, waste of paper...

Theater is '..errrr' at the end, not '...rrre' as in 'theatre'... so why spell it differently?

And what do the British have against 'z' as in to 'Americanise' or 'Americanize'? Give us the 'zzz' for a 'zzz' sound, not a bloody 's'!!!

And on Z, give us Zee, not Zed for gwards sake!! Went to an evil empire presentation the other day... the Microsoft guy said 'DMZee', but the others said 'DMZed'... not the same thing at all...

Pavement? That's a material not a thing... a sidewalk is a thing on the side of a road that you walk on ...

And who drives a carriage? So why have 'dual carrigeways'? Can't remember the US word... is it 'divided road'?

Anyhow... Webster did a great job fixing up the English language after the mess the British made of it!!!

Cheers, Max!!

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

by sonnyboy in

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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.

Max Divergent

Good lord... what a silly thread!! LOL!!

For the record, a US biscut is a UK muffin. A UK biscut is a US cookie.

For example... at Macca's you order a Bacon & Egg McBiscut in the US and a Bacon & Egg McMuffin in the UK. You get the same thing (unfortunatly!).

McEnglish - the universal translator :-)

Cheers, Max

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HAHA TAKE THAT U OZZIES

by tijkmo in

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england 179-8. australia 79 all out in 14 overs.

bring it on

Max Divergent

but 'not' televising the tests because you are considered unbeatable is just too arrogant

I think it was more a commercial issue... the price the rightsholders wanted was higher than the gain the TV stations thought they'd get from a one sided contest played in the middle of the night (our time)...

But I see a commercial station has found the moolah to broardcast the big one.... and it starts in one hour!!!!

AUSTRALIA v BANGLADESH!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now... will the Bangladeshies show us all how the game's played (again!)??? Could Bangladesh become a cricket based economy with another win??

Or will Aust be the first side to score 400???

The answers will come soon!!!

LOL, Max