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by Fizzlewhip
July 14, 2004, 10:10 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Socialized medicine has its own problems.
Replies: 81
Views: 16817

You are right, and I am wrong. it is 20% of my pay.

Even that is not complete. that figured in other "taxes" including my NI. I think it is more like 10% of my pay went to my NHS contribution.
by Fizzlewhip
July 14, 2004, 10:00 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Socialized medicine has its own problems.
Replies: 81
Views: 16817

and at the same time also enjoyed watching over 40 percent of my pay being taken out for NHS.. hmm national health service. I call bullshit, where do you get this 40% figure from? If you mean 4% you might well be on track for an average amount taken for the "National Insurance" contributi...
by Fizzlewhip
July 14, 2004, 3:41 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Socialized medicine has its own problems.
Replies: 81
Views: 16817

Having spent time in England, I have enjoyed the benefit of going to the doctors without having to bring cash with you... and at the same time also enjoyed watching over 40 percent of my pay being taken out for NHS.. hmm national health service. I wonder. Do they take out that type of tax in Canada,...
by Fizzlewhip
March 22, 2004, 5:46 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Sunserae your avatar is being challenged!
Replies: 13
Views: 1582

Isn't go-go the one that boinked herself with her own chain? I mean, come'on, Uma whooped her.

I would have to go with the greater finesse of Crouching lady (damn, i can't remember her name! frell). Go-go just like to power her way through things and didn't pay too much attention.
by Fizzlewhip
February 13, 2004, 1:50 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Was this really Necessary?
Replies: 28
Views: 2075

Probably pissed the players off too, as they got stomped quite handily by Mexico.
Is the American team any good? I wonder. In the past, they would have lost even if the fans weren't misbehaving. I like the American team, but I have no delusions that they would bring home the world cup.
by Fizzlewhip
February 2, 2004, 1:27 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Halliburton over charges again
Replies: 3
Views: 589

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LOL i swear They (Haliburton) make it way too easy.
by Fizzlewhip
January 30, 2004, 1:28 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Frat boys suck!
Replies: 9
Views: 968

More recently, Phi Kappa Psi members killed, skinned, burned and ate a raccoon at the University of Georgia. ...... "It was ... three members out in the back parking lot acting foolish," he said. "These were a few country boys that did this." Isn't that just a redneck BBQ? I am ...
by Fizzlewhip
January 29, 2004, 1:01 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Halliburton's "price gouging"
Replies: 61
Views: 5718

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I saw this and just started chuckling.
by Fizzlewhip
January 21, 2004, 7:50 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: New show on ABC
Replies: 7
Views: 1029

jackass!

and it was pretty twisted.

(finally i get to jackass somone first!)
by Fizzlewhip
January 16, 2004, 8:32 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Corn Dog or Dog Stick?!?
Replies: 101
Views: 10191

corn dogs Besides, can you imagine ordering "dog sticks" when drunk? Of if you said dog sticks like really fast a lot? (don't know why you would)...but it migh come out dog dicks... Plus I can just hear my neighbor's kid asking for them (and he would call them dog dicks.. i swear the kid n...
by Fizzlewhip
January 15, 2004, 6:11 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Theatre or Theater?
Replies: 35
Views: 5397

Aluminium is my favourite word, just because it's one time the US had a word butchered by the brits instead of the other way around =) My pet hate is goobers that think every verb can be made past-tense by the addition of "ed". It wasn't burned, it's burnt. But then at least most won't sa...
by Fizzlewhip
January 13, 2004, 4:51 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Pot bust
Replies: 24
Views: 3181

by Fizzlewhip
January 12, 2004, 8:52 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Um...wow.
Replies: 17
Views: 1918

I have no one to blame but myself for the state of my visitation. But for S&G will let you in on it. She is british. Daughter is us and british, born on a US air base in Germany (so technically she could have 3 citizenships) Left the military, and lived in England for 3 years. Got divorced. I ju...
by Fizzlewhip
January 12, 2004, 3:05 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Um...wow.
Replies: 17
Views: 1918

My ex-wife reported to me that in order for her, her boyfriend, and my daughter to fly over here from England now, she has to go to London, to the embassy and fill in a ton of paperwork, get fingerprinted, photographed, an HOPE they approve it before she can come over on a tourist visa. All of this ...
by Fizzlewhip
January 10, 2004, 9:27 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Wounded in Iraq
Replies: 14
Views: 1054

Hell, I have one friend who has a Fractured Skull. She keeps telling the VA that's she's fine and ready to go back....there is no way in hell she's healed, and they told her that it would be at least 6 months. As for other reasons for people to be sent back could be promotions. Another person I kno...
by Fizzlewhip
January 7, 2004, 3:05 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Smoke at work?
Replies: 33
Views: 2751

Can't even smoke in a bar here in CA


It was a shock when I went to the east coast for business, and went into a bar for a drink....the air was so thick with smoke, it made me nostalgic for the old second hand cancer factories that bars used to be.
by Fizzlewhip
January 5, 2004, 2:42 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: do you have a secret food?
Replies: 138
Views: 29236

Hamburger dill chips, and ruffles potato chips

must be ruffles
must be the wavy cut hamburger dill chips

must line up the ridges on both :?
by Fizzlewhip
January 2, 2004, 8:01 pm
Forum: Ryyysfemorrrr!
Topic: A Picture of 10 Dolphins
Replies: 14
Views: 3301

could only find 8 :(
by Fizzlewhip
December 24, 2003, 3:55 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: WalMart
Replies: 75
Views: 6852

Every time Walmart sells a rifle

a redneck looses a tooth
by Fizzlewhip
December 22, 2003, 8:33 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: California Quake 12/22
Replies: 34
Views: 3641

Actually felt some of the "rolling" up here in San Francisco Just for shits and giggles here is an earthquake site earthquake.usgs.gov There have actually been 9 earthquakes today in that area (aftershocks, etc). and if you look there have been tons in the pacific area. Question. who knows...
by Fizzlewhip
December 19, 2003, 3:56 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Slower Traffic
Replies: 25
Views: 3692

I just want one of those scrolling message lights in my back window......


and the words "fuck off" pretyped and ready to go on at the touch of a button.
by Fizzlewhip
December 19, 2003, 3:00 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Diners attack Lady with Forks
Replies: 23
Views: 1789

upon further contemplation, we (the cubicle hive mind) decided that a 647 lb. woman would not be able to walk due to the amount of pressure that her weight would place upon her ankles. Henceforth we decided it was a hoax. I dunno. My ex father in-law weighed 33 stones before I left England, and I h...
by Fizzlewhip
December 18, 2003, 1:24 pm
Forum: Everquest General Discussion
Topic: The fallen
Replies: 37
Views: 6566

I hear there is a mage currently dominating the server, lumona or something similar. I read an account of her attack against a party (who absolutely sucked), and she wasted them quickly. They had a shaman, wizard, pally, and a few more. They didn't even try to stun or blind. The wizzy did train some...
by Fizzlewhip
December 5, 2003, 1:13 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: No customized fish for us californians!
Replies: 8
Views: 1442

I think it has to do with the paranoia CA has with escaped animals ruining the local ecosystem. They felt the same way with Ferrets. Now I think the law is you cannot import a Ferret to California, but if you have one already, you can legally own it now. I think they confiscate ferrets if they catch...
by Fizzlewhip
November 10, 2003, 2:29 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: WMD timer!
Replies: 6
Views: 761

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by Fizzlewhip
October 21, 2003, 1:27 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Bush's reasoning: You need to kill em to save em
Replies: 43
Views: 7391

As an example of non-hunting (?) animal protection that has worked (and almost backfired). Sea-lion population along the California Coast. Apparently, preservation has worked a bit too well. The population of Sea-lions in the Monterey area has gone from 150, to well over 5000. They now endanger fish...
by Fizzlewhip
October 8, 2003, 5:35 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Canadian engineer unfairly deported to Syria comes home
Replies: 81
Views: 13737

{deleted again, skogen just isn't worth my time}
by Fizzlewhip
October 8, 2003, 5:16 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Canadian engineer unfairly deported to Syria comes home
Replies: 81
Views: 13737

{deleted further explanation is useless}
by Fizzlewhip
October 8, 2003, 5:04 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Canadian engineer unfairly deported to Syria comes home
Replies: 81
Views: 13737

whatever bigot
by Fizzlewhip
October 8, 2003, 12:29 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Canadian engineer unfairly deported to Syria comes home
Replies: 81
Views: 13737

By the way. I happen to date a "sand nigger" and I find that term offensive. Please refrain from using it. what are you, some kind of terrorist? I find that statement offensive and repugnent, and rather hypocritical of you, (after all you got offended at what's his name for similar type o...
by Fizzlewhip
October 8, 2003, 4:44 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Canadian engineer unfairly deported to Syria comes home
Replies: 81
Views: 13737

Mr. Graham said Mr. Arar's case is one of many in which Canadians who hold a second passport don't have their Canadian passports recognized. He added that U.S. officials told him they felt they had every right to send Mr. Arar to Syria because he has citizenship there. http://www.globeandmail.com/s...
by Fizzlewhip
October 7, 2003, 8:06 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Canadian engineer unfairly deported to Syria comes home
Replies: 81
Views: 13737

Just a question: http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1064541225177_21/?hub=TopStories How accurate is CTV by the way? .......... Again, what is the credibility of the above website/company? And if it is credible, and more to the point accurate in both reporting and the truth of what...
by Fizzlewhip
October 7, 2003, 7:54 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Canadian engineer unfairly deported to Syria comes home
Replies: 81
Views: 13737

Just a question: http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1064541225177_21/?hub=TopStories How accurate is CTV by the way? I found the following kinda weird if he was so innocent. In November, 2002, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell told Foreign Affairs Minister Bill Graham that, not o...
by Fizzlewhip
October 6, 2003, 8:07 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Anyone else think...
Replies: 80
Views: 11978

netanyahu isn't dead Birth: 21 October 1949 Birthplace: Tel Aviv, Israel Death: -- Best Known As: Prime Minister of Israel 1996-99 Benjamin Netanyahu studied for a few years in the United States before returning to his native Israel in 1967 for military service. His career in the United States and I...
by Fizzlewhip
August 28, 2003, 7:32 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: DNA frees another innocent
Replies: 67
Views: 6030

"found" Jesus (who probably wouldn't want anything to do with someone as intolerant as you). I found him. He was behind the couch the whole time. sorry, couldn't resist, even though it has absolutely no bearing on either the original subject, or the current twist the topic has taken. As t...
by Fizzlewhip
August 28, 2003, 6:43 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Guild Website Links
Replies: 13
Views: 12945

/looks in sheepishly

Are these for Uber guilds? or can anyone play?

http://www.evildynasty.com
by Fizzlewhip
August 28, 2003, 5:58 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: DNA frees another innocent
Replies: 67
Views: 6030

I love people like you who twist and pervert the bible to whatever fits their world view and then pretend piety. Why is it ok, for example, for anti-religious people to claim that a religious text is misinterpreted when it suits them, but it is not ok for religious people to claim a misinterpretati...
by Fizzlewhip
August 19, 2003, 12:44 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: For the chickenhawks to munch on
Replies: 70
Views: 5718

Just a few uestions really 1. How much of the defense budget is spent on the pay of troops? 2. How much of the defense budget is spent on the Housing, or the improvement of housing of troops 3. How much of the defense budget is spent on things like BAQ (Basic Allowance for Quarters) for married troo...
by Fizzlewhip
August 7, 2003, 12:08 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Schwarzenegger to run for Governer
Replies: 37
Views: 3152

heh

if Reagan can do it.......


Does this mean in a few years we will see Arnold for Prez?

(though, isn't he a naturalized citizen? or was he dual? I can't remember, and for some reason, the citizenship requirements for president escape me. :( )
by Fizzlewhip
July 23, 2003, 6:57 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Jessica Lynch.. again
Replies: 42
Views: 3528

I would love to see the write up on the recommendation form. and the various recommendations, remember, she has to be recommended by a supervisor, and that also has to pass through an superior officers review, as well as an additional write up. Then, I think (I can't remember) it has at least one if...
by Fizzlewhip
July 18, 2003, 12:56 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Hour by Hour
Replies: 96
Views: 24418

Keep in there For me, it was watching my father die in the hospital from lack of oxygen. After smoking for 50 years, he quit, and lived another 9, but the damage was already done. His lungs lost all elasticity, and hardened. Even with oxygen, it wasn't enough. I was living in England at the time, an...
by Fizzlewhip
July 5, 2003, 11:23 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Tour de France thread.
Replies: 136
Views: 9314

no insult taken, i took them as emphasis, as you intended However, the words, in thier own, are redundant Either you win the race, or you don't. A person cannot win the race in someone elses lifetime, because it is implied that the winner of the race is heretofore dead. (bored, so making up words). ...
by Fizzlewhip
July 3, 2003, 7:08 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Tour de France thread.
Replies: 136
Views: 9314

so what you meant was He is one of the only 4 people alive who have one the Tour de France 5 times. (the other way implies that others (not the 4) have won it posthumously. win the tour de france 5 times in their own lifetimes Look carefully at the above sentence. The words in their own are redundan...
by Fizzlewhip
July 3, 2003, 6:49 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Tour de France thread.
Replies: 136
Views: 9314

Re: 2 Days until we begin kicking French ass!

and one of only 6 men to win the Tour 5 times in their lifetime. am confused Aranuil. If a rider died, (one of the previous 5) wouldn't that preclude them from wining the tour de France? I must be doped up today on too much cold medicine to make sense of that part of the paragraph. Sorry :) On a li...
by Fizzlewhip
July 2, 2003, 4:52 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Price of Gas in your area?
Replies: 28
Views: 1823

East bay averages around $1.81 / gal for 87
$2.05 / gal for 91
by Fizzlewhip
June 26, 2003, 1:14 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Now dont jump to conclusions!
Replies: 8
Views: 850

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bored :)
by Fizzlewhip
June 26, 2003, 11:43 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Now dont jump to conclusions!
Replies: 8
Views: 850

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by Fizzlewhip
June 23, 2003, 7:42 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Walking dogs?
Replies: 35
Views: 3044

German Shepherds aren't really known for their aggresive behaviour though, especially towards other dogs. Are you sure he attacked your dog and wasn't just playing or establishing dominance? I mean if a German Shepherd really wanted to kill a labrador I don't think it would really take him more tha...
by Fizzlewhip
June 12, 2003, 2:26 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Damn peace process is to deadly
Replies: 47
Views: 3352

Personally, I think you and others are reading far too much into Kyoukan's posts if you think she's racist toward the middle-class white male, but to each his own. It's far more likely that she was exagerrating to make a point. Perhaps my sensitivity level is too low, but given that I'm a middle-cl...