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(...) I'd never heard the term except to describe the jacket thingy until today! Man, I need a life! (...) Seppo's usually good for a few posts... (...) No comment! Merry Christmas all! ROSCO (23 years ago, 24-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Which is why I said it applies to us. NOT meant as an insult, I don't find it as insulting a term as some of those in the UK do. (see thoughts on what it means to be a hacker and the hacker trance, and some other topics, in the jargon file... (...) (23 years ago, 24-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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A few more things I forgot. You can also use many of these programs to block ads elsewhere. I use the adsubtract server for Weatherbug and Kazaa as well. I think you can have AIM run through a proxy as well but I just use DeadAim instead. The (...) (23 years ago, 24-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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"Kirby Warden" <inourimage@msn.com> wrote in message news:GotrCE.K5K@lugnet.com... (...) new (...) under (...) Thats disgusting. (...) I block ads 24/7 but a few times my ad killer has been off (or I've been on someone elses computer) I have seen (...) (23 years ago, 24-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Nope...but I would like to see it. Can you supply a link? (I went to MSNBC and searched "osprey", let a couple of stories sit in my browser for a while, but nothing ever happened). I'm assuming this is just a Java applet, but I would like to (...) (23 years ago, 24-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Yesterday I checked out an Osprey report on MSNBC and was pommeled by a new pop-up ad. I had already read about half the article when the screen slowly "morphed" into an ad... completely obscuring the browser so that I could not click "stop" or (...) (23 years ago, 24-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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"Maggie Cambron" <mcambron@pacbell.net> wrote in message news:Got0JI.It6@lugnet.com... (...) Anoraks are indeed a warm jacket. As such, they are commonly worn by Train Spotters - who spend all day on cold station platforms waiting to note down (...) (23 years ago, 23-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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="Christopher Weeks" <clweeks@eclipse.net> wrote in message news:Goszrp.H3J@lugnet.com... (...) important... Ok. (...) though. (...) I don't believe there's a fault in my thinking. I will definitely examine my thinking, but at this point I still (...) (23 years ago, 23-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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"Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message news:Goszyq.HK0@lugnet.com... (...) Every AFOL is NOT an anorak. Being an anorak is considered a mildly derogatory term - in the UK at least. Though usually used in an amusing, harmless (...) (23 years ago, 23-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) old, (...) I know four people (two unrelated Africans and two sibling Americans) who breastfed to either 4 or 5. They recall suckling at their mother's teat. My first reaction was to think that would be very odd. But I'm sure they all have (...) (23 years ago, 23-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) You will also find that many people who act so liberal about it get very uncomfortable to see a woman breastfeeding a baby over six or eight months old, say. Yet in many cultures (and presumably in ours at one time) children breastfeed for a (...) (23 years ago, 23-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Okay, this here Bozo is ignorant. I thought an anorak was some kind of warm jacket from L.L. Bean. (...) You mean like the editors of Time magazine selling out and calling Giuliani Person of the Year because they didn't have the *ahem* guts to (...) (23 years ago, 23-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) BTW, Every AFOL I know (and some that reject the label but are AFOLs anyway) is an Anorak. So what? (...) If you want to start an argument you have to say something CONTROVERSIAL. That one is so obviously true it doesn't merit comment. :-) (23 years ago, 23-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Tim, I'm choping your note and reassembling because I think it's important... (...) I believe I detect a double standard in your rhetoric. Is it "pinning" something on you to identify the fault in your thinking? (...) For me, this isn't really about (...) (23 years ago, 23-Dec-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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"Jason J. Railton" <j.j.railton@cwcom.net> wrote in message news:Gorw1C.Mu8@lugnet.com... (...) Hi Jason Trying to buck the trend eh? Your reply should have questioned my religion or sexuality :-) My wife says we are a bunch of anoraks (but still (...) (23 years ago, 23-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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First, let me say that I have not so far in my own life ever had a child. I may never have a child. So perhaps you may think I don't have an educated opinion. In fact, most of my views come from how I was raised. So really, if you have a beef with (...) (23 years ago, 23-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Not biting today, huh Loz? Almost as big a flop as my one about trainheads doing better buildings than the townies. Do these things just not carry across the language barrier? Jason J Railton (23 years ago, 23-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) snip (...) mucho snipping (...) Lego is way better than candy!! I'm new posting on lugnet, but I've been reading posts since I learned about the site, about 1 1/2 yrs. ago. I first saw Lego when I was about 4 or 5 yrs. old (before I was in (...) (23 years ago, 23-Dec-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Yeah, I second this. It's a little off topic -- but I recently heard/learned that kissing was made popular by the Romans. Now, I don't know if that is true, but it's interesting to think that something commonplace today -- even in public -- (...) (23 years ago, 23-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher L. Weeks writes: <snip> (...) Yah, no kidding. I want to chime in here for a bit. What *is* the big deal about this? I thought the government was supposed to be seperate from the church, yet it seems that most (...) (23 years ago, 23-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Richard, do you think there are any ideas or images to which access should be prevented or restricted? I was once offended by an afternoon TV show about coprophilia at the perfect time for kids to come home from school and flip on the TV. I am (...) (23 years ago, 22-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Excuse me? S&M is not "evil"- as long as the people taking part are consenting (over age of consent, whatever that is where the act takes place), it is no more "evil" than sex in the missonary position between a man and his lawfully married (...) (23 years ago, 22-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) lol Well I came in a little strong, and so now I'm trying to tone down:-) (...) But you agree that at some point it *could* be. (...) hehe I know nothing about the porn industry, except that I hear it's huge, and that it's largely due to the (...) (23 years ago, 22-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Why not? It is only by exposure to all kinds of stimuli that children are able to understand and begin to make sense of the world around them. (...) This is false. Eroticism is part of what it is to be human. If you want to shut off that part (...) (23 years ago, 22-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I did not know that. (...) But since we are talking about children who *don't* have sexual urges, then it *isnt't* appropriate. The very nature of having such feelings is indicative of the (...) I disagee. (...) Learning comes in stages. We (...) (23 years ago, 22-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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John, first of all, I owe you a thanks. I was kind of excited by your tone in some notes and I wrote more hotly than was wise. You either didn't take it that way or only calmly replied. Thanks. (...) But I'm saying that it might not _be_ filth in my (...) (23 years ago, 22-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) My opinion. (...) And I don't want filth in the eye of my or anyone else's child. (...) Please cite examples, or are you speaking hypothetically? (...) Come again? Porn has *everything* to do with money and nothing to do with creativity. There (...) (23 years ago, 22-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) It's a conspiracy-- we're all doing it just to bug you. -John (23 years ago, 22-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) It can be. S & M, which combines sex and violence is evil; rape is evil. (...) What I am talking about is presenting adult material *before* a child is mature enough to handle it. In this example, a child wouldn't be seeking out this (...) (23 years ago, 22-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) You're refering to the world according to Christianity, are you not? If so, I don't think your opinion above is quite true. According to Christianity, every child is born into sin. So, to live as a Jew without being baptized as a Christian (...) (23 years ago, 22-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) What. Chris (23 years ago, 22-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Haven't hung around lugnet much of late. Thought I would have a browse through off-topic to see what was happening since the Scott and Larry show. Why must every thread here end up ending up as a debate on religion or sexuality? You lot don't get (...) (23 years ago, 22-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) it!? (...) LOL Ah what the heck I reply anyway. My point, which I guess I failed to get across, is that Homosexuality does not affect innocent lives. (Unlike rape,adultry, and murder.) It is therefore an act of evil that is between the (...) (23 years ago, 22-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) What are you *saying*? You glibly quote the word of God and then immediately admit you go against it!? God has clearly commanded us all to kill homosexuals. To go against that command is far worse in my mind than the men who lie around with (...) (23 years ago, 22-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Except that being black or Jewish is not a sin. Homosexuality is. Any one that is Christian, Jewish, or Muslium must realize that. Leviticus Chapter 20 Verse 13: If a man lies with a man as he lies with a women, they have committed an (...) (23 years ago, 22-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I missed that. I'm still missing it, in fact, as I read back through your note. The sum of what you wrote on this specific subthread is: (...) And I agree with every last detail of your note except when you suggest that three year olds (...) (23 years ago, 22-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Hmmm...mmm, Well I can't say I agree totally with everything being said here; I know I haven't been here as long as most of you, but I'll reply nonetheless. I still view LUGNET as the center of the lego universe, I come here everyday, read lot's, (...) (23 years ago, 22-Dec-01, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) -its just that "family values" are too often used as a codeword to bash gays and lesbians. Having lived in a womans housing coop for 8 years, I was fairly well exposed to most possible combinations of alternate relationships- and I won't (...) (23 years ago, 22-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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That is my right, my privalidge. (...) I'm sorry if I insulted you, really I was trying to make a point with a message that embodied what I feared. I actually looked at a number of messages, saw a pattern and had to speak my truth. First, I don't (...) (23 years ago, 22-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) real (...) Why? Take a look at the 2600 page- or even better : (URL) you put too much faith in a computer to censor? If you do any research, you will find that the blocking engines don't work-and _do_ block some sites they shouldn't on (...) (23 years ago, 22-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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