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(...) Note: this is totally non-Lego. That's right Pete, Aus native bees are stingless. There are two types: solitary bees (that look sort of like bumble bees), and social bees. The social stingless bees are related to the northern hemisphere (...) (25 years ago, 2-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: Where did you lot spring from?
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In lugnet.loc.au, Peter Callaway writes: <snip> (...) I'm in agreement with Peter here. Initially I didn't have many expectations about Lego Direct, but after the latest announcement there is almost no hopes of anything beneficial for anyone not in (...) (25 years ago, 2-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | RE: Where did you lot spring from?
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(...) I'll second that [and third it on behalf of my brother]. (...) I like this feature too, although I wish that others would post country specific messages in their .loc, instead of dumping them in .general [Really irritates me, as I get posts (...) (25 years ago, 2-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: Where did you lot spring from?
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(...) OK, good point. Thanks. Hadn't noticed that, and wouldn't've seen any problem if Aus sales had been posted in .general either. But now that you mention it, announcements of sales and such ARE rather off-topic to .general. (...) OK, gotcha. (...) (25 years ago, 2-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Not so much alienated as peeved to the hilt with all the service options given to the US that are not offered worldwide. I'm a moderate person, but there have been times when I've made my computer blush due to the colourful language I've (...) (25 years ago, 2-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: Some model team ideas
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(...) 5591 was an aircraft on a trailer with a truck as well. I want just an aircraft, and a big aircraft, either a light plane or a private jet (...) I was accually thinking of those trucks they use in those shows where they have the monster truck (...) (25 years ago, 2-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.modelteam, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | RE: Where did you lot spring from?
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I wasn't nessesarily referring to lugnet on this, just making a general statement about the way things seem to be [unfortunately]. 1 thing that springs to mind though, is the number of posts regarding things like WalMart, and other sales. These (...) (25 years ago, 2-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: Where did you lot spring from?
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(...) Is that a Canadian-centric reference, eh? ;-) (...) True - LUGNET has been designed to be international, but regardless of statistics, it is easy to *percieve* LUGNET as US-centric. This is probably just because more Americans are online more (...) (25 years ago, 2-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: Where did you lot spring from?
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(...) Hmm, I don't quite grok what you mean. Ben, could you give an example or two of the phenomena you've observed, vis-a-vis LUGNET? --Todd (...) (25 years ago, 2-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | RE: Where did you lot spring from?
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(...) Which, generally means that whatever US-ers say is what the rest of the world has to settle for. Unfortunately, most things from the US that are supposed to be 'international and world-wide' tend to be based on what would best suit the US. (...) (25 years ago, 2-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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