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bayonetbrant

Quote from: LongBlade on September 18, 2014, 09:02:51 AM
Quote from: JudgeDredd on September 18, 2014, 08:44:37 AM
Results should be in by 7am GMT

That's 1 am Central US time.

you'll still be up working on your daughter's phone anyway :)
The key to surviving this site is to not say something which ends up as someone's tag line - Steelgrave

"their citizens (all of them counted as such) glorified their mythology of 'rights'...and lost track of their duties. No nation, so constituted, can endure." Robert Heinlein, Starship Troopers

LongBlade

All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

Centurion40

Quote from: Martok on September 15, 2014, 11:38:37 AM
Well we know where at least one other Scotsman stands on the issue: 




IT'S A BIRTHMARK!!!

Awesome!  In countries that have oil, men don't wear pants!!!  :2funny:
Any time is a good time for pie.

BanzaiCat

Polls thus far

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/scottish-independence/11045624/Scottish-independence-referendum-poll-the-latest-tracker.html

QuoteLatest polling
Polls for the Scottish referendum continue to indicate a narrow lead for the No campaign.
The final poll ahead of voting ending is by Ipsos Mori for tonight's Evening Standard:
• Ipsos Mori: Yes 47%, No 53%
The three polls released on the eve of the referendum suggested the following:
• Ipsos Mori: Yes 49%, No 51%
• YouGov: Yes 48%, No 52%
• Survation: Yes 47%, No 53%


bayonetbrant

^^^
OK, that was pretty damned funny.
The key to surviving this site is to not say something which ends up as someone's tag line - Steelgrave

"their citizens (all of them counted as such) glorified their mythology of 'rights'...and lost track of their duties. No nation, so constituted, can endure." Robert Heinlein, Starship Troopers

bob48

Quote from: GDS_Starfury on September 18, 2014, 12:58:58 AM
Quote from: bob48 on September 17, 2014, 03:42:35 PM
Boggit, you have put exactly how I feel much more eloquently than I ever could have done.

thats because your an old fart!  :smitten:

Correct!
'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers'

'Clip those corners'

Recombobulate the discombobulators!

Centurion40

Any time is a good time for pie.

BanzaiCat

Me too. It's been a long while since I've read his stuff - I think the last thing was his book called "Give War a Chance" back in 1990/91 or so. That article was hilarious. Wish I could email it to my company.

LongBlade

Thanks. I got a good chuckle out of that.
All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

Centurion40

Quote from: Banzai_Cat on September 18, 2014, 01:36:36 PM
Me too. It's been a long while since I've read his stuff - I think the last thing was his book called "Give War a Chance" back in 1990/91 or so. That article was hilarious. Wish I could email it to my company.

I first read his work in National Lampoon magazine.  Laughed so hard that I couldn't breathe and tears ran down my face!
Any time is a good time for pie.

bayonetbrant

Quote from: Banzai_Cat on September 18, 2014, 01:36:36 PMWish I could email it to my company without immediately following up by emailing out my resume to the rest of the world.

fixed it for you ;)
The key to surviving this site is to not say something which ends up as someone's tag line - Steelgrave

"their citizens (all of them counted as such) glorified their mythology of 'rights'...and lost track of their duties. No nation, so constituted, can endure." Robert Heinlein, Starship Troopers

BanzaiCat

^ Yeah, that.  :(

I did forward it to a trainer friend of mine who's a Scot and an expat friend in Dubai, so I was able to share it to an extent.

Boggit

Quote from: GDS_Starfury on September 18, 2014, 12:58:58 AM
Quote from: bob48 on September 17, 2014, 03:42:35 PM
Boggit, you have put exactly how I feel much more eloquently than I ever could have done.

thats because your an old fart!  :smitten:
You know me too well! ;D
The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own. Aldous Huxley

Foul Temptress! (Mirth replying to Gus) ;)

On a good day, our legislature has the prestige of a drunk urinating on a wall at 4am and getting most of it on his shoe. On a good day  ::) Steelgrave

It's kind of silly to investigate whether or not a Clinton is lying. That's sort of like investigating why the sky is blue. Banzai_Cat

LongBlade

All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.