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Snippage, as usual. (...) that I would relish being called a braggart... L0L ) I like the last definition (of a related word) in your cite (thanks for that, by the way, always nice to have a different source than good old dictionary.com) "Her (...) (23 years ago, 30-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) You are mixing tone and content. In any event, I was happy to have my tone called "polemic": (URL) (...) That is because I am talking about now. You are talking about the past. The UK's colonial past does not make it ok for Israelto torture (...) (23 years ago, 30-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) He can speak for himself of course, but calling your tone polemic strikes me as a rebuke... and a well deserved one. You've been called on this point before, you are quick to criticise some sides (who deserve criticism, in this case Israel) (...) (23 years ago, 30-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Sorry about that! But isn't the Metric system an abomination in the eyes of God? After all, the linear measure is based on human scientists gaining a true understanding of the world and its workings. Whereas the linear measure in the Imperial (...) (23 years ago, 30-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Nice blanket statement ;) I live in Tennessee (which is pretty near the top of the Redneck-O-Meter), and I prefer metric over standard. It's really an irrelevant issue, as most common conversions can be done in one's head on the fly. That's (...) (23 years ago, 30-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I believe I understand the differnce between defending human rights & and masterbation. (...) You are quite wrong. Scott A (...) (23 years ago, 30-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) It's US, Brunei and Burma if I remember correctly..:-) Selçuk (23 years ago, 29-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) You are completely clueless again. I neither said nor mean anything like that. All I tried to explain is was you are not defending human rights, you are just musterbating. Continue, though. It is quite relieving I believe. And for the EU issue (...) (23 years ago, 29-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Don't diss my kind. BTW, YAY. Metric rules, so do rednecks. Rick (23 years ago, 29-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I think it's the US, Liberia, and Burma are the last holdouts for any sort of mandated metric conversion. -chris (23 years ago, 29-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Your forgetting about the Uk we still have plenty of imperial knocking around. It's about time we got rid of the lot except of course miles per hour, Anyone who trys to change that does so at their own peril. Steve (23 years ago, 29-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Richard did not rebuff me. He only gave the fact I quoted some context. Or are you saying that this is not true: "Turkey and Israel are "free to take care of it". However, both have a history of ignoring human rights and murdering civilians in (...) (23 years ago, 29-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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You appear to view human rights a luxury which is great if it can be afforded economically. I view them as being rather more fundamental than that. As I said before, Turkey will not get in the EU until it gets itself in order. Scott A (...) (23 years ago, 29-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I thought for a while that they (the UK) DID declare two independent states... Israel and Jordan. When the UK partitioned Palestine, that was the idea. Jordan was to be one part, and Israel the other. Why didn't that work out? Or, why do the (...) (23 years ago, 29-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Abosolutely yay. The US should get out of their redneck rut and realize that they are decades behind the rest of the world when it comes to this issue. The US is simply stinking up everybody else with their stupid old system (especially here (...) (23 years ago, 29-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Yay!!! I can't belive that US is still using the imperial system. Last country in the world? /Tobbe (URL) (23 years ago, 29-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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yay or nay? -chris (23 years ago, 29-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Well, see? Here is my point: acting defensively is totally ethical from my viewpoint. And that takes me fighting right up to the border -- my line in the sand. Once my would-be conquerors are on the other side of that line I just don't care (...) (23 years ago, 28-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) <snip> Man I hate it when you're right about something! A less polemical tone on the part of US and UK (and Israeli and USSR and etc etc. heck, on the part of all of us) speakers would indeed be a good idea. ++Lar (23 years ago, 28-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Richard Marchetti writes: <snip rebuffing-of-Scott-part> (...) I agree. That is definitely the key here. (...) I *completely* agree. I think I came off really different in my last post; don't get me wrong here. I am all (...) (23 years ago, 28-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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