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sweet! we can keep in touch with everyone here. if we can get on the internet on a deserted island, of course. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ouch.gif" alt="" />

That problem solves itself.
With you two there it isn't a deserted island anymore...
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If there's anyone left to keep in touch with. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />

Well...becouse of all the toxic, biochemical and nuclear weapons the human race might be extinct...
But maybe mutated insects would answer your call...
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Or 2-headed fish.... Should be interesting. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/delight.gif" alt="" />

Guys [and gels] I am relaying the new news around, and it's not pretty... I don't know exact times, but today the "allies" bombed the market in Bagdad during the holy prayer hours... 51 people dead. Sadam is sending out the Fendakin. The first hijacking happened tonight, on an airplane of the turkish airlines going from Constantinopole to Ankara, with 195 people in it, and they say although unofficially yet that it's heading here <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/disagree.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/disagree.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/disagree.gif" alt="" /> to Athens for fuel and then it will go to Germany. I don't know the complications of this. That's all for today, I will let you know about anything new.

Highjacker has apparently personal motives (19-20 yrs old), his mother and sisters/brothers are held somewhere hostage = translation from Greek TV/Turk. TV. Not verified or confirmed. He gave up afterwards.
Kiya

sigh.... i don't think a smilie (or un-smilie) exists for the way i fell about this.... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/disagree.gif" alt="" />

Victory of the Loud Little Handful
by Mark Twain

The loud little handful - as usual - will shout for the war. The pulpit will - warily and cautiously - object... at first. The great, big, dull bulk of the nation will rub its sleepy eyes and try to make out why there should be a war, and will say, earnestly and indignantly, "It is unjust and dishonorable, and there is no necessity for it."

Then the handful will shout louder. A few fair men on the other side will argue and reason against the war with speech and pen, and at first will have a hearing and be applauded, but it will not last long; those others will outshout them, and presently the antiwar audiences will thin out and lose popularity.

Before long, you will see this curious thing: the speakers stoned from the platform, and free speech strangled by hordes of furious men...

Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.

Mark Twain, "The Mysterious Stranger" (1910)

Wilfred Owen, 1893-1918.

Dulce et Decorum est


Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs,
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots,
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame, all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of gas-shells dropping softly behind.

Gas! GAS! Quick, boys! -- An ecstasy of fumbling
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time,
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling
And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime. --
Dim through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.

In all my dreams before my helpless sight
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.

If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin,
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs
Bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues, --
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.

"It is good to die for your country".......

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WTF are u doing posting here, being new, and saying, 'yes, I am here!"???? welcome to the forum, but why?

Sorry it's a mistake !!!

okay, I was just wondering, and welcome to the forum. its okay. I just thought it was strange.

Thanks i don't do it again

welcome to the forum barta, i hope you like it here <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/up.gif" alt="" />

Hello JVB,
Yes i like this forum, it's very huge and i don't understand everything.
I hope Riftrunner is going out soon.

<img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/riftrunner.gif" alt="" /> comes out in Q4 of this year. we all wish it were sooner. and yes, this forum is huge, like 2 1/2 different languages and a whole bunch of other things.

Hello
I used to send posts on the french forum of Divine Divinity, since 5 months.
I came here to have some informations about Riftrunner.
I think that this forum is very interesting, but it's not easy to talk in english !

nice pic Barta! yes, I have trouble speaking in French, I can speak it, but just very crudely, same with German and Italian.