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Thursday Open Thread | 76 comments (76 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

AAaarrgghh!

What will be next from a man in uniform with a riffle who says "this is about as normal as I'm ever going to get"?

The struggle of man against tyranny is the struggle of memory against forgetting.(Kundera)

by Elco B (elcob at scarlet dot be) on Thu Feb 28th, 2008 at 02:05:36 PM EST
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Re: Breaking (4.00 / 2)

Uh...~~man~~ kid

The struggle of man against tyranny is the struggle of memory against forgetting.(Kundera)

by Elco B (elcob at scarlet dot be) on Thu Feb 28th, 2008 at 02:07:46 PM EST
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Re: Breaking (4.00 / 2)

What with his family, it's probably true.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Thu Feb 28th, 2008 at 03:03:21 PM EST
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Re: Breaking (4.00 / 4)

It would all the same be nice if he and his family could get round to understanding there may be other values for "normal".

Why do I keep thinking of the nineteenth century?

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Thu Feb 28th, 2008 at 03:28:39 PM EST
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Re: Breaking (4.00 / 2)

That's a bit modern for most of them isn't it?

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Thu Feb 28th, 2008 at 03:35:13 PM EST
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Re: Breaking (4.00 / 2)

For members of the English nobility (no, not the royal family, all the same) to be somewhere in Asia fighting colonial wars, the nineteenth feels about right to me...

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Thu Feb 28th, 2008 at 03:46:14 PM EST
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