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This guy gets FULL HONORS:

Lone Nepali Soldier Defends Potential Rape Victim Against 40 Men

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A 35 year-old Gurkha soldier named Bishnu Shrestha was riding a train when he suddenly found himself in the middle of a massive robbery. 40 men armed with knives, swords and guns stormed the train and began robbing the passengers.

Bishnu kept his peace while the gang snatched cell phones, jewelry and cash from other riders. But then, the thugs grabbed the 18 year-old girl sitting next to him and forcefully stripped her naked. Before the bandits could rape the poor girl in front of her helpless parents, Bishnu decided he had enough.

Bigger boys stole my sig

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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

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ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

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This guy showed up in the backyard, not as big as the other one (i think his father) that we saw some years ago (and got captured). This one is about 4' long (Dad was about 5' long, and the dad rivaled the size of a small cougar):

Nice pix, Bob. Where is this?

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As my boss says, "reading is fundamental".

Sorry you didn't like my abbreviations, Comrade Red Mouse. I will avoid other abbreviations (such as KMA or STFU) that may cause you comprehension difficulties as well.

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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

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This guy showed up in the backyard, not as big as the other one (i think his father) that we saw some years ago (and got captured). This one is about 4' long (Dad was about 5' long, and the dad rivaled the size of a small cougar):

Nice pix, Bob. Where is this?

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As my boss says, "reading is fundamental".

Sorry you didn't like my abbreviations, Comrade Red Mouse. I will avoid other abbreviations (such as KMA or STFU) that may cause you comprehension difficulties as well.

Its not your abbreviations I took to task, its the fact that Bob wrote twice that the picture was taken in his back yard. Thu "reading is fundamental".

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ORIGINAL: USS America

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Well, they started rolling blackouts across the state, supposedly 15 minutes at a time. Except they forgot to turn ours on, and i couldn't get through to the power company for ~4 hours... it got pretty chilly in here. The power is finally on (very shortly after reaching the power company).

Read about that in a work email. We use several server systems based in Austin for daily build activities. They are all currently shut down to prevent damage when a blackout hits.

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well.....life is full of little lessons like this i suppose......

Yesterday was a lucky day....mostly. Normally on Tues i go straight from hell (otherwise known as "work") to my local pub for Hawaiian Tshirt day. Embarrasing oneself in such a manner scores you a free beer....so with book and magic spear, this is where i head to decompress. Yesterday however i decided to stop home first to let the Dobbie out given he'd recently demolished an entire rawhide bone and such an event often leads to dire gastric consequences.

On entry into home's back entrance (wash room) i immediately was assailed by a pungent, heavy smell.......not suprising, given we currently house 3 dogs and one stupid cat. On entry into house proper i was nearly bowled over by an even more concentrated blast of this odor......and quickly realized it wasn't a pet accident.....it was gas. With a headache already forming between my pointy temples, i evac'd the dogs immediately including kenneled Dobbie and ran outside. A minute of thought on possible courses of action yeilded only one smart move....had to call 911 and report a possible gas leak. Fortunately the fire dept is just down the street. I was told under no circumstances to re-enter the home.

Being stupid......i of course did.....to rescue the equally stupid cat whom i'd left in there in the rush to get the barking dogs out of the back door. I'm not afraid to admit to harboring melodramatic thoughts during this escapade as i had visions of sudden firely death from having watched too much NCIS. Grabbing scruffy stupid cat by the neck i ran outside and threw them all into the garage as the fire truck rolled up.

Long story short....good news was it wasn't a combustible gas leak but there were heavy concentrations of CO (Carbon Monoxide) in the air....enough to set off our Cabon Monoxide alarm. Fire dept concluded based on their tests that it was the stove. Had i not come home when i did, GFU might have come home to 4 dead animals as she was spending several hours after her workday at the barn. Amazingly, none of the animals seemed worse for wear despite the windows all having been closed.

Hero of the day right? wrong. I called the landlord, who is her dad and he later came over to check things out. His conclusion was that the fireplace was the culprit not the stove and proceeded to turn it back on and gave GFU a long lecture on keeping appliances clean. This put her in a foul mood and me in the doghouse when i came home from having calmed my nerves with a beer or two.....or three.

The addage is indeed true. No good deed goes unpunished.

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Well, they started rolling blackouts across the state, supposedly 15 minutes at a time. Except they forgot to turn ours on, and i couldn't get through to the power company for ~4 hours... it got pretty chilly in here. The power is finally on (very shortly after reaching the power company).

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ORIGINAL: witpqs

This guy gets FULL HONORS:

Lone Nepali Soldier Defends Potential Rape Victim Against 40 Men

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A 35 year-old Gurkha soldier named Bishnu Shrestha was riding a train when he suddenly found himself in the middle of a massive robbery. 40 men armed with knives, swords and guns stormed the train and began robbing the passengers.

Bishnu kept his peace while the gang snatched cell phones, jewelry and cash from other riders. But then, the thugs grabbed the 18 year-old girl sitting next to him and forcefully stripped her naked. Before the bandits could rape the poor girl in front of her helpless parents, Bishnu decided he had enough.

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Heh, "Windows Rot" aka "Planned Obsolesence"...

Honestly i don't see any real difference between Win7 and OS-X. Both have their quirks. For OS-X, my favorite is the Pinwheel of death....or as i've begun calling it...."The girl with Kalidoscope eyes"

And to hear Apple Fanbois talk, it has no problems whatSOever... I'm so confused now...

He claims a lot more problems than I've ever had. Seems like the difference there might be the user......

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This guy showed up in the backyard, not as big as the other one (i think his father) that we saw some years ago (and got captured). This one is about 4' long (Dad was about 5' long, and the dad rivaled the size of a small cougar):

Nice pix, Bob. Where is this?

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As my boss says, "reading is fundamental".

Sorry you didn't like my abbreviations, Comrade Red Mouse. I will avoid other abbreviations (such as KMA or STFU) that may cause you comprehension difficulties as well.

Its not your abbreviations I took to task, its the fact that Bob wrote twice that the picture was taken in his back yard. Thu "reading is fundamental".

Perhaps he didn't know where i lived, though?

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Well, they started rolling blackouts across the state, supposedly 15 minutes at a time. Except they forgot to turn ours on, and i couldn't get through to the power company for ~4 hours... it got pretty chilly in here. The power is finally on (very shortly after reaching the power company).

Rolling blackouts ???

I guess I'm about to give offense, but are you sure you aren't in a third world country?

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ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

Well, they started rolling blackouts across the state, supposedly 15 minutes at a time. Except they forgot to turn ours on, and i couldn't get through to the power company for ~4 hours... it got pretty chilly in here. The power is finally on (very shortly after reaching the power company).

Rolling blackouts ???

I guess I'm about to give offense, but are you sure you aren't in a third world country?

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ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

Well, they started rolling blackouts across the state, supposedly 15 minutes at a time. Except they forgot to turn ours on, and i couldn't get through to the power company for ~4 hours... it got pretty chilly in here. The power is finally on (very shortly after reaching the power company).

Rolling blackouts ???

I guess I'm about to give offense, but are you sure you aren't in a third world country?

We had them in LA too. I think both CA and TX have bigger economies than Sweden.

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ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

Well, they started rolling blackouts across the state, supposedly 15 minutes at a time. Except they forgot to turn ours on, and i couldn't get through to the power company for ~4 hours... it got pretty chilly in here. The power is finally on (very shortly after reaching the power company).

Rolling blackouts ???

I guess I'm about to give offense, but are you sure you aren't in a third world country?

We had them in LA too. I think both CA and TX have bigger economies than Sweden.

Mike

"Good times will set you free" - Jimmy Buffett

"They need more rum punch" - Me


Artwork by The Amazing Dixie

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ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

Well, they started rolling blackouts across the state, supposedly 15 minutes at a time. Except they forgot to turn ours on, and i couldn't get through to the power company for ~4 hours... it got pretty chilly in here. The power is finally on (very shortly after reaching the power company).

Rolling blackouts ???

I guess I'm about to give offense, but are you sure you aren't in a third world country?

We had them in LA too. I think both CA and TX have bigger economies than Sweden.

Yep, Sweden and North Carolina are equivalent size economies.

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ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

This guy showed up in the backyard, not as big as the other one (i think his father) that we saw some years ago (and got captured). This one is about 4' long (Dad was about 5' long, and the dad rivaled the size of a small cougar):

Nice pix, Bob. Where is this?

<Sigh>


As my boss says, "reading is fundamental".

Sorry you didn't like my abbreviations, Comrade Red Mouse. I will avoid other abbreviations (such as KMA or STFU) that may cause you comprehension difficulties as well.

Its not your abbreviations I took to task, its the fact that Bob wrote twice that the picture was taken in his back yard. Thu "reading is fundamental".

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ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

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ORIGINAL: Grollub

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ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

Well, they started rolling blackouts across the state, supposedly 15 minutes at a time. Except they forgot to turn ours on, and i couldn't get through to the power company for ~4 hours... it got pretty chilly in here. The power is finally on (very shortly after reaching the power company).

Rolling blackouts ???

I guess I'm about to give offense, but are you sure you aren't in a third world country?

We had them in LA too. I think both CA and TX have bigger economies than Sweden.

Sure they do. I still have never experienced that. I actually had to google it to see if it meant the same thing I thought it did.

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Well, they started rolling blackouts across the state, supposedly 15 minutes at a time. Except they forgot to turn ours on, and i couldn't get through to the power company for ~4 hours... it got pretty chilly in here. The power is finally on (very shortly after reaching the power company).

Rolling blackouts ???

I guess I'm about to give offense, but are you sure you aren't in a third world country?

We had them in LA too. I think both CA and TX have bigger economies than Sweden.

Sure they do. I still have never experienced that. I actually had to google it to see if it meant the same thing I thought it did.

Well, its a big deal in the news recently so it wont really be a political thing, but there was a recent engineering survey released which came down really hard on pretty much every aspect of American infrastructure (from roads and bridges through utility lines and sewers).

My first reaction to NY was, why bother repairing it? The way it looks, I'd level the place and start from scratch.

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Well, they started rolling blackouts across the state, supposedly 15 minutes at a time. Except they forgot to turn ours on, and i couldn't get through to the power company for ~4 hours... it got pretty chilly in here. The power is finally on (very shortly after reaching the power company).

Rolling blackouts ???

I guess I'm about to give offense, but are you sure you aren't in a third world country?

We had them in LA too. I think both CA and TX have bigger economies than Sweden.

Sure they do. I still have never experienced that. I actually had to google it to see if it meant the same thing I thought it did.

Well, its a big deal in the news recently so it wont really be a political thing, but there was a recent engineering survey released which came down really hard on pretty much every aspect of American infrastructure (from roads and bridges through utility lines and sewers).

My first reaction to NY was, why bother repairing it? The way it looks, I'd level the place and start from scratch.

Give me a break.

Someone who thinks our roads poor on balance has never been across the border into Mexico, anywhere in central Asia, South or Central America or Africa. For the staggering miles of paved roadway in this country, we do pretty darn well. If by infrastructure, you also include electrical generation, oil refineries, seaports, rail, mail and parcel delivery again we're fine.

Yeah, we've some bridges that need attention (COUGH) Minneapolis bridge Collapse (COUGH) and some sewers and water treatment facilities that are in dire need of upgrading. We ain't third world and we don't need to adopt a scorched earth policy in our (misplaced) envy of others overstated societal improvements, Comrade Red Mouse.

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Well, they started rolling blackouts across the state, supposedly 15 minutes at a time. Except they forgot to turn ours on, and i couldn't get through to the power company for ~4 hours... it got pretty chilly in here. The power is finally on (very shortly after reaching the power company).

Rolling blackouts ???

I guess I'm about to give offense, but are you sure you aren't in a third world country?

We had them in LA too. I think both CA and TX have bigger economies than Sweden.

Sure they do. I still have never experienced that. I actually had to google it to see if it meant the same thing I thought it did.

Well, its a big deal in the news recently so it wont really be a political thing, but there was a recent engineering survey released which came down really hard on pretty much every aspect of American infrastructure (from roads and bridges through utility lines and sewers).

My first reaction to NY was, why bother repairing it? The way it looks, I'd level the place and start from scratch.

Give me a break.

Someone who thinks our roads poor on balance has never been across the border into Mexico, anywhere in central Asia, South or Central America or Africa. For the staggering miles of paved roadway in this country, we do pretty darn well. If by infrastructure, you also include electrical generation, oil refineries, seaports, rail, mail and parcel delivery again we're fine.

Yeah, we've some bridges that need attention (COUGH) Minneapolis bridge Collapse (COUGH) and some sewers and water treatment facilities that are in dire need of upgrading. We ain't third world and we don't need to adopt a scorched earth policy in our (misplaced) envy of others overstated societal improvements, Comrade Red Mouse.

I'm not structural engineer. In fact, I wasnt even trying to have an argument. I just thought that it was a valid thing to point out to Per.

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Now this is taking brand loyalty to a whole new level.....

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BTW - no plows in our area, either... some friends across the road went out and couldn't make it 1 mile... i think i am going to use my wife 4WD and see if i can get to the grocery store soon.

How much snow do you have, Bob? Or is it ice?

A few inches of snow - over ice, i think. i am about to brave it and find out. Our friends from 2 blocks over got to our house before they ran into trouble, but they have 2 WD.

Three local power plants went down and can't be restarted for reasons which are "unknown". It is about 15 degrees F (~ -10degrees C) where i am.

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Well, they started rolling blackouts across the state, supposedly 15 minutes at a time. Except they forgot to turn ours on, and i couldn't get through to the power company for ~4 hours... it got pretty chilly in here. The power is finally on (very shortly after reaching the power company).

Rolling blackouts ???

I guess I'm about to give offense, but are you sure you aren't in a third world country?

We had them in LA too. I think both CA and TX have bigger economies than Sweden.

Sure they do. I still have never experienced that. I actually had to google it to see if it meant the same thing I thought it did.

Well, its a big deal in the news recently so it wont really be a political thing, but there was a recent engineering survey released which came down really hard on pretty much every aspect of American infrastructure (from roads and bridges through utility lines and sewers).

My first reaction to NY was, why bother repairing it? The way it looks, I'd level the place and start from scratch.

Give me a break.

Someone who thinks our roads poor on balance has never been across the border into Mexico, anywhere in central Asia, South or Central America or Africa. For the staggering miles of paved roadway in this country, we do pretty darn well. If by infrastructure, you also include electrical generation, oil refineries, seaports, rail, mail and parcel delivery again we're fine.

Yeah, we've some bridges that need attention (COUGH) Minneapolis bridge Collapse (COUGH) and some sewers and water treatment facilities that are in dire need of upgrading. We ain't third world and we don't need to adopt a scorched earth policy in our (misplaced) envy of others overstated societal improvements, Comrade Red Mouse.

I'm not structural engineer. In fact, I wasnt even trying to have an argument. I just thought that it was a valid thing to point out to Per.