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Pies4shaw 
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| stui magpie wrote: | | npalm wrote: | | stui magpie wrote: |
That bunch are skidmarks on the already tawdry underwear of the legal profession. |
And where would you place our legal friend P4S on the spectrum of underwear stains? |
Not so much a stain, more like the underwear.
Pair of old jocks, tad frayed and the elastic is starting to go, but still has a few good wears left.  |
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| Amazing, bag the lawyers yet the Government didn't want to challenge them in court. The Government agreed to the payout, you only do that shit when you know you are wrong. Hilarious. |
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stui magpie 
Prepare for the worst, hope for the best.
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| Pies4shaw wrote: | | stui magpie wrote: | | npalm wrote: | | stui magpie wrote: |
That bunch are skidmarks on the already tawdry underwear of the legal profession. |
And where would you place our legal friend P4S on the spectrum of underwear stains? |
Not so much a stain, more like the underwear.
Pair of old jocks, tad frayed and the elastic is starting to go, but still has a few good wears left. |
Duck. Back. Water. |
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think positive 
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Seen this guy on the beach at port Arlington, I'll spray him with me JetSki next time
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stui magpie
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stui magpie
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HAL
Please don't shout at me - I can't help it.
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| More and more all the time. |
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David
I dare you to try
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I think you're missing some pretty crucial context there. 'Even the Buddhists' in Myanmar have been persecuting (and massacring) the country's Rohingya minority for years.
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stui magpie
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Wonder why? All over the place when Islam has got a hold it's resulted in desecration and destruction of Buddhist sites and marginalisation of Buddhists.
Actually, replace "Buddhists" with any one name of a group and it still applies.
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David
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Very few observers see the conflict in such black-and-white terms. You're totally overlooking Burmese nationalism, garden-variety religious intolerance and a particularly aggressive/militant version of Buddhism that we in the West are mostly unfamiliar with. To see this as simply peaceful Buddhists pushed to the limits of tolerance by aggressive Muslims is woefully simplistic (not to mention a pretty shocking apologia for human rights abuses).
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/letters/rohingya-muslims-myanmar-boris-johnson-police-pay-cap-a7945201.html
| Quote: | Nobody could fail to be moved by the plight of the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar (Burma).
Some 370,000 have fled Rakhine state for Bangladesh since the outbreak of violence last month, with whole villages being burned down and the government accused by the UN of ethnic cleansing. Given reports of beheadings, rape and children being deliberately shot, it rather begs the question of why the UK Government, our government, continues to train the Burmese military, a task that cost the UK around £305,000 last year.
Based on reports from the UN, human rights organisations and Rohingya organisations, we are witnessing human rights violations on a scale extreme even by the standards of Myanmar’s history. Estimates of people killed range from official figures of hundreds dead to estimates by reliable Rohingya organisations of between 2,000 and 3,000 killed. |
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stui magpie
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Nothing is black and white, but you have to look across all the shades of grey.
There's ample evidence that Muslims don't play well with others (even their own of different varieties) if you let them get a stronghold in your country. Do you disagree with that?
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David
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Yes, very much so. Plenty of examples of countries in which Muslims mostly co-exist peacefully with other religious groups. And plenty of other examples where they are far from the sole instigators of internecine conflicts (India, Bosnia, China, the Philippines).
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stui magpie
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I thought you would.
I think you see what you want to believe and I disagree with you.
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Skids
Quitting drinking will be one of the best choices you make in your life.
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| David wrote: | | Yes, very much so. Plenty of examples of countries in which Muslims mostly co-exist peacefully with other religious groups. And plenty of other examples where they are far from the sole instigators of internecine conflicts (India, Bosnia, China, the Philippines). |
and they would be?......
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David
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Albania, Bosnia, Burkina Faso, Eritrea, Kazakhstan, for starters. And of course all the countries in the West where Muslims co-exist peacefully with Christians, Jews and atheists. I dunno, crack a geography book and get back to me.
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