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maybe we should argue about waiting for womble. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/think.gif" alt="" /> or about NOT to wait for him? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ouch.gif" alt="" />

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He's probably just busy... I found some info about him online:[color:"orange"] Wombles are the ultimate recyclers. They go through Wimbledon Common picking up the things those untidy humans have left behind like newspapers, gum wrappers, bus tickets, forgotten umbrellas, etc. They are very clever with their paws and make use of all the things they find. [/color]

i have topic that we could discuss while we're waiting. it's a Biblical one, so it follows on quite nicely to balance the last one. i would pick a winner on the basis of funniest and cleverest answer (extra points for not being rude, although that would be OK too).

here's the topic:

we've all heard about Jehovah (?) destroying Sodom and Gomorrah. judging by the last discussion, we've all got a fair idea of what they allegedly got up to at Sodom. but what the heck did they do in Gomorrah??

what is gomorring, and would i enjoy it? were they all lawyers or traffic police? people who designed early VCRs? just what did they do to earn the fire and brimstone, or plague of toads or whatever it was... ??

Why, that Gomorrah, it's a symbol vice and depravity. Surely it's obvious: they watered-down their single malts... can't get any more depraved than that! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

G'night, all. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wave.gif" alt="" />

It can be a big mistake to try and disagree with the beautifully crafted posts of Rincewind but, alas, this time he has it completely the wrong way round ... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/disagree.gif" alt="" /> In fact, the people of Gomorrah were the ancestors of modern Australians and their chief occupation was drinking as much as possible. They would NEVER have watered their malts! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />

During a fit of prohibition enthusiasm Jehovah decided to wipe the drunken city from the face of the earth.

As the thunderbolts and brimstone rained down on the city, and the voice thundered from the heavens "Thou shalt not get on the p*ss!" the Gomorrans realised that their city was doomed, and had only hours left before complete oblivion.... so they began to drink even faster, and more enthusiastically...

Hence the Australian expression "to party like there's no Gomorrah".... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

Well, I was going to sit this thread out for a while, but I can’t let an outrageous slur like that go unchallenged – even coming from a friend and neighbour who treats my drink supplies as his own!

No, the Gomorrahns might have liked a bottle or two of the old horizontalising fluid, but that was not what made Jehovah start bowling off his full run up.

What really got up the omniscient nostrils was the habit of the folks of Gomorrah of refusing to type capitals at the start of their sentences. Whoops, is that lightning I see not far from here…. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ouch.gif" alt="" />

rUBBISH! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

i'd like to know the answer to this though. i asked Mum and she gave me a Mummish sort of look and said "i think it was something to doing with goats, dear" and then changed the subject... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/think.gif" alt="" />

where IS that Womble?? i think we've been stood up. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/disagree.gif" alt="" /> i'm getting that sinking feeling of 'the movie has started, it's raining, the last bus came and went and our date still hasn't shown up yet'...

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maybe we should take a break with this thread... if i don't mistake too much we are all beginning to be tired of arguing...
err anyway we can argue about stopping or not?

<MG not really in the mood for that>

There really was no difference in what they did in Sodom and Gomorrah - it was one big entertainment business! Also - it makes no difference, as the sum of all vices in humans is a constant (just, who defines the "vices"?).

But it so happened, that the marketing department was located in Sodom, so they were the ones that became eternally (in-)famous!

What is going on here? Did I win? Sorry if I missed that. You have to put it up in big shiny letters for me! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/stupid.gif" alt="" />

To my shame I admit I have been skimming some of the posts here. Work is busy.

Let me think of a topic....

Erm... What's the current topic? What's going on? I'm planning on starting again (just like before, but now some long posts (some? There were about twenty of them!) won't stop me). But it sounds like you're quiting, quitters!

Übereil

No way!!!

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Ah, now I see it. Missed the end of Rincewind's post. UB: be quiet! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

No way! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/memad.gif" alt="" />

Übereil

UB: Is 'No way' your answer to everything now? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ROFL.gif" alt="" />

Anyway, I'll drop the bomb (literally) on a new subject.

Nuclear arms. Do we really need them? Will we even ever use them? Looking at the wars raging around the globe have they even helped?

Enjoy... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

We shouldn't need them. That way the world would be a better place. And that's all I'll sat for now (I'll come back to why we don't need them. I will this time, not like the last time...).

Übereil

[color:"orange"]Nuclear arms. Do we really need them? Will we even ever use them? Looking at the wars raging around the globe have they even helped?[/color]

Thesis:

Indeed, we need them. Their first time use ended a worldwide war with a mere two bombs, thus saving thousands of lifes of allied soldiers at the cost of limited collateral damage on the side of the dictatorial regime, that brought so much evil in four years of aggressive war.

Their mere existence in the hands of the global powers, and the threat involved in their potential use, brought an almost 50 year period of peace to the western civilization - unprecedented in history.

Even nowadays their existence is a threat that will keep any potential user from actually using them, as the global network of alliances will ensure that any user has to fear annihilation as a consequence of retaliation.

Yes, there are wars in many parts of the world, but without nuclear weapons it would be worse, spread farther around the globe. The islands of peaceful living on earth are preserved only by the shield, that the threat of retaliation with nuclear weapons provides.

(Anti-thesis tomorrow)

You going to be arguing with yourself Glance? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

In a way, womble - but most I try to keep posts short and give the readers time to think about each side of the coin.

So far we have mostly voiced our opinions to topics - but we haven't really argued pro's and con's leading to an opinion.

We could even go further and everybody now argues this side - switching tomorrow to arguing the other side and the day after tomorrow to the synthesis forming our opinion?

EDIT: For the sake of argumentative excercise, of course - because so far we often did not really differ in our views, even though expressing them differently.