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</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (jaxx @ Feb. 07 2002,20:08)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Q: doesn't it hurt when you wipe the orage with cloves on your ass?<span id='postcolor'> <span style='font-size:8pt;line-height:100%'>Hey, pssst.... you shouldn't wipe your ass with them. they're intended to drive off the odors in the little room itself....</span>

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Ruskie @ Feb. 07 2002,19:05)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I think as long as i don't tell them about this forum i can pass that psycological test i've lived in germany for 16 years (or 17 years when i turn 17 ) so does that mean i can get a german drivers license when i turn 17? despite the fact i'm a english citizen who can't even speak german very well<span id='postcolor'> Yes I do think this is possible in the EU. In the Netherlands they change any driver's licence from a another country into a dutch one as long as you can prove that you've lived at least 6 months on a row in the country from which the foreign licence originates. BTW. Many germans come to holland to get their driver's licence, because here you don't have to undergo a psychological test. When they pass they trade their dutch licence in for a german one. I think in germany they don't have the rule that you must have lived for 6 months in the country where you got your foreign licence.

I didn't know that. Thanks for the info. But I think when they prove that bin laden has been killed by a hellfire shot from a predator the hearing will be history I never heard of the concept that they could shoot missiles from a recce drone. Maybe I should visit janes.com a more often in the future.

You can get your licence in germany, If you lived there longer than half a year I think. BTW by german law you have to undergo a psychological test before you apply for a driver's licence. So maybe it will be a little easier for you to get your licence in the UK

Senior intelligence analysts believe there's a 10-15% chance they've actually killed bin laden. Will be very difficult to prove because bodies are probably already being moved by other al-qeada members who were also riding in the convoy. Hope it's true though. BTW I didn't knew the predator could fire hellfires. Nifty piece of equipment that is.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Wobble @ Feb. 05 2002,08:09)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">One time I was cleaning my stepdads (now mine) browning highpoer 9mm.. when I tried to remove the slide the spring shot it into my forehead with great force.. it ruptured some vein up there and my forehead swelled up huge.. I looked like a klingon.<span id='postcolor'> Oh, now I know when your avatar photo was taken.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Sid @ Feb. 04 2002,06:19)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Sure, you may be overactive at deleteing threads, but hey, thats your job! No, this isn't a flame thread, and although you may repost this somewheres else or delete it, but I just want to say, thanks. Thanks for listening to us, with the old fourms, we were luck if the Moderators actually DELETED our threads, and it was a treat for them to reply to us! Thanks for being a great Moddy, and making these foumrs active! Â -Sid<span id='postcolor'> Oh guys, please..... Did you already build a shrine to honour him. No, serious since the moderators are actually moderating the forum it has become a hell lot better than it ever was. The reign of the Mighty 5 is blasted to pieces and flaming, insulting and discrimination is down to an all time low. Although placebo and I have sometimes different opinions on certain issues, (I think I have actually different opinions on certain issues with the bulk of the forum members ) I'm happy that the moderators are taking their job serious. We seem to have come a long way from the 2001 forum.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Armourdave @ Feb. 04 2002,01:54)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Better late than never I guess I've never fired either so can you outline what makes the FN MAG better? IIRC to replace the M60's barrel you actually have to grab it and yank it off which is obviously a problem due to it being red hot, but what else (other than accuracy)?<span id='postcolor'> The barrel on a M240 is changed by turning the handgrip anti-clockwise while depressing the barrel locking catch. There's no touching the barrel. The handgrip is actually attached to the barrel clicking a new one on is just as simple. The MRBF of the M240 is a staggering 26.000 while the last M60 variant the E3 only reaches 1700. In the time the M240 fails the M60 already failed 15 times! Field stripping of an M240 can be done under 30 seconds! (I know I could). Only drawback is the gassystem of the M240 is a little more complex than that of a M60. But the belgians invented some very nifty tools to clean the gassystem in the field without too much hassle. The accuracy of the M240 (as with all FN weapons) is legendary for GPMGs. If the M240 is properly zeroed at 200m it is a mutha in laying down accurate supressive fire up to 800m. The same effect with a M60 can only be reached by all time heroes Schwarzenegger and Stallone When shooting the M240 from the hip it seems to be much more balanced than the M60. It doesn't require as much effort to keep the barrel pointing at the target. While the M60 has the tendency to start spraying when shot from the hip. What should never be forgotten is when you take the butt of an M240 the bolt is always forward (no tension on the spring) otherwise the springloaded rod will shoot nicely through your stomach (In the dutch army this ia known as MAG-Harakiri). The FN-MAG is also developed in the early 1950s and it is still the best GPMG around (those belgians obviously know their trade).

What really makes me sick is the way Australians think they have to handle the refugee problem in their country. I don't know if you saw the pictures on the news about the prisons where the australian put war refugees but it is in one word AWFUL! If you ask me, Howard is one big Nazi! Don't these people realise that the refugees are also human beings. It all started with a ship full of refugees a couple of months back which were dumped on some small island because australia refused the refugees entry in their "very small" country with almost no place for people to live. Refugees who made it to Australia are put in prison camps in the middle of the desert surrounded by 15 feet barbed wire fencing in the scorcing australian heat. "Concentration camps, the Aussie way" Sickening to watch. Today I saw pictures of children vowing to commit suicide if the situation won't become any better. Refugees are jumping inside the barbed wire concertinas as a last resort to get to the hospital were the situation is considered more bearable for the refugees. We are all talking about the americans treating the al-qeada members in a bad way. But let me tell you, those criminals have a pretty luxury confinement compared to war refugees in australia. Remember these people fled their countries because there is a war going on, these aren't economical refugees. Most of the economical refugees end up in europe. One Last word. Seemingly the australian people are content with the situation because Howard is doing pretty fine in the polls. They seemingly don't care that the refugees are also human beings and should be entitled to the same human rights as they are. Did the australians forget what their forefathers were? right, <span style='font-size:17pt;line-height:100%'>PRISONERS!!</span> the camp outer perimeter The reaction from the warmhearted aussie community

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (MrLaggy @ Feb. 01 2002,18:59)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"><span id='postcolor'> </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">When I come to page 4 of this thread everyone is acknowledging the fact that the refugees are afghans. (you know from afghanistan, that little peaceful country besides pakistan where no war has raged for thousands of years)<span id='postcolor'> So? I can see some justification for America taking in refugees as compensation for trashing their country multiple times in the last twenty years (supporting the war against Russia, then the Taliban, now the, well, whatever they're called today), but why is it any concern for the rest of us? </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Taking in of refugees didn't wreck my country's welfare system, economy and didn't leave me and the 99% of the dutch labour force jobless.<span id='postcolor'> So, uh, if Holland is such a great place for refugees, why do so many prefer to illegally enter the UK rather than legally go to Holland for all those great "free" welfare benefits you're handing out?<span id='postcolor'> Because you probably live in england you think that the refugees trying to cross the channel from france to the uk probably make up the bulk of all refugees in europe. Maybe that's what the british media is telling. Believe me every west-europe country gets it fair share. Stating that almost every refugee want's to go to the UK is shortsighted. And based on the fact that you probably see some 100s of refugees trying to cross the channel every night on the british news. Why shouldn't your or my country take in any war refugees. Because it is their problem not ours.....?

After sifting through most of the replies on this topic I don't understand why everyone is accusing me of narrow-mindedness. Almost every reply I've read is probably just as narrow-minded as my opinion. I've read replies which are on the brink of just pure racist thoughts. Tell me, why does everybody think that the refugees in their own country are always economical refugees? Are there no more wars in the world? Â Since when do afghans, iraqis classify as economical refugees, because your government tells you so or is what you like to think? How many people in your country are really jobless because of the refugee problem....do you actually got a clue. It's also nice to see that on the first pages of this thread everyone is arguing that the refugees in australia are economical refugees. When I come to page 4 of this thread everyone is acknowledging the fact that the refugees are afghans. (you know from afghanistan, that little peaceful country besides pakistan where no war has raged for thousands of years) Here are some of your broad-minded opinions on refugees: "personally i dont really like refugees alot of the time they just live of benefits and this comes from a person that live in the same area as they did." "if they have nothing to offer your country why should you let them live there and pay for them" "WTC-attack wouldn't have happened if we wouldn't have let arabs come to western countries." For all you guys that are arguing that I would sing another tune when those refugees were standing on my doorstep: I live in the Netherlands. Fact1: Â The dutch percentually take in the most refugees per inhabitant of all countries in the world. While we enjoy almost the largest population density of all countries in the world. Fact2: The Netherlands is widely acknowledged in the whole world as being the country with the best functioning welfare system. Fact3: The unemployment figure in the Netherlands is the lowest in the whole of europe. Fact4: The dutch economy is one of the most stable ones in the world. (as acknowledged by lot of foreign politicians) What does this mean: Â Taking in of refugees didn't wreck my country's welfare system, economy and didn't leave me and the 99% of the dutch labour force jobless. This means that a lot of the replies made on my initial thread are just as narrow-minded and biased as mine. And it actually says that most of you also don't have a clue on this situation and are just uttering some stupid political prejudices.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">L24A you write these "articles" yourself or just copy and paste them from somewhere? It seems you have this habit of popping up from nowhere posting these long rants that are blinkered, biased, one sided and not presenting full facts, is there any particular reason for this? You like to start a heated debate? Or you just work your way around the nations finding the worst aspect of it you can and posting it on the Opf forums?<span id='postcolor'> No, instead of some of the moderators 'round here I've just some brain cells left which are working fine. I'd like to see how other people think about certain objects. I don't copy and paste without saying I did so. My nationality is dutch which reflects in the way I write english. You out of all ones should notice as you are from great britain that my english grammar isn't perfect. Give me one reason why I shouldn't post my personal views in this forum? Maybe you didn't notice but every post is biased, you should have a better look! I'm just a bit more critical and sceptical than most people around here, is that a crime? If you'd like me to stop posting just say so and I stop. There's only one thing you can't blame me on, I don't write spam, I don't flame and I let the forum members in their dignity. I already understood that you yourself are more interested in the 100th "how old are you thread" or the 1000th "where are you from thread". Well that's you personal choice. Personally I think you're the most biased moderator around here, closing one spam thread, while happily replying in an other one. So I don't see why you should doubt my way of posting. Next time I will adhere to your views and post a "what assault rifle do you like the best thread" while 90% of the forum members never held a assault rifle in their own hands, loose from the fact that 99% on this forum never had fired one! But like I already said. If I don't match your profile as a example forum member, just say so and I''m gone. Meanwhile get off my back and get your moderating act together! Â PS. Yes I do pop out of nowhere. How come? Unlike the 3000+ posts members I do have a social life and I do hold a nice job. So I can't be bothered by spending all my evenings behind a computer monitor replying to all the interesting threads on this forum. But hey I didn't know that this forum is only accessible for people without social lives which can spend a minimum of 3 hours per evening replying to some of the lamest threads ever on this forum.

BEIJING, China (AP) -- China says it has discovered 27 bugging devices in a U.S.-made Boeing 767 it bought for the personal use of President Jiang Zemin, according to reports. The tiny, highly sophisticated devices were hidden in the jetliner's upholstery, including in the president's bathroom and the headboard of his bed, the London-based Financial Times said, citing unnamed Chinese sources. It said Jiang was outraged at the discovery. The bugs were discovered when they emitted static during a test flight after the plane's delivery in August, the newspaper said. In a separate report, The Washington Post said Chinese army communications experts found the bugs in October, days before the plane's first official voyage. Copied and pasted from CNN.COM

Can someone tell me which ultimately lame moderator made this thread into a "sticky". Cause it keeps on sticking to the top of this forum as some piece of nasty chewing gum to the soles of my shoes.

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Something different now: I've read in a dutch opinion magazine that the suicides in NI are rocketing up like mad. Youth say they have no future anymore now the troubles have ceased. In the past, the way that the youth chose was pretty clear. You left school at an early age and joined one of the military faction inside NI, be it the IRA or UVF, UDF etc. Nowadays most of the youths have brothers or fathers who've fought for what they believed was right and maybe died for it. In their eyes they're the heroes and will never be forgotten while the younger generations will mean nothing according to themselves. Many of them choose to commit suicide because of this. In 2001 there were some 1400 suicide attempts compared to an average of 200 when the troubles still existed. Sad but true. Every progress also has a backside. Also because almost every NI criminal (they call themselves political prisoners) was released from prison. Thereby overflooding the labour market and dramatically increasing the unemployed figures. Yes the real troubles have gone for now, but the future certainly doesn't look bright in NI

I'm waiting for a new DVD version of leisure suit larry XII or something, With great photorealistic, uncensored graphics. The summer is coming and I have to work on my bird pick-up skills, no better way than to use some advice from the ultimate computer game playboy, Larry. So come on Sierra On-line put some effort in it.

-Moderator Alert- When does it end these types of stupid polls. Like the "how old are you" thread, this thread has been posted at least posted 3 times before. Please don't post just for the kick of posting, try to be original for once. BTW God doesn't excist: Because when he did we had no more spamming, stupid polls and other utter crap on this forum because the originators would've been struck by a serious bolt of lightning released by the almighty himself.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Diablo_NL @ Jan. 19 2002,23:21)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">This is funny but what would happen to the relationship of usa and china after this. it will probably get (even) worse (cuz usa went on with star wars program)<span id='postcolor'> Don't forget the little misunderstanding an american spyplane had some couple of months ago with a couple of chinese jetfighters in supposedly chinese territory.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">The amount of abuse the paras got, i can see why they shot.<span id='postcolor'> Soldiers of that caliber should be professionals all the way. Throwing stones doesn't justify soldiers emptying there guns on the crowd. I really cannot see how you can justify what happened over there. Yes the IRA did some really disgusting things, hence the name terrorists. But soldiers need to be professionals. Suppose you were in a bank. A gunmen steps in and shoots into the ceiling. Police on the outside hear the shot and start shooting 108 bullets at random through the windows of the bank. Only in 3rd world countries you run the risk to get shot by security forces when you are protesting. Is the UK a 3rd world country? don't think so. The Para's blundered big time, btw this is also the general idea at the para regiment self. I have a friend who's in the british para's and the incident is used in their "lessons learned" program. So if even the Para's acknowledge that their action was wrong, how the hell can you justify it. By saying that you acknowledge a total lacking of moral values and human rights. After the incident british army learned lots on controlling riots and now they are very proficient in it. But Bloody Sunday was clearly the example of how not to do it

It still doesn't justify shooting 13 civilians without any fire arms. It mainly proves that it is impossible to use combat units like the paras for controlling riots. They resort too quickly to indiscriminate violence by emptying their guns at the crowd while the gunmen were not clearly identified. Here in Holland that is called Murder. 108 shots were fired, and no one was actually hit that was carrying a gun. This is the blackest and most scandalous day of the para regiment. Don't call me pro IRA or something, but I can't see how the killing of 13 unarmed protestors can be justified.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Hilandor @ Jan. 18 2002,11:25)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">graphic images of porn or people dying will not be tolerated and will result in a ban. Â Some countries class this as "snuff" which is moraly wrong and also illegal in some countries. lets keep the forum clean<span id='postcolor'> agree for full 100% could we also include pictures of gored animals?

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (KingBeast @ Jan. 15 2002,19:12)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">BBC News Article interesting read. "There have been allegations that detainees were shackled, drugged and hooded as they were flown to Cuba, although the US says they are being treated "very humanely." "<span id='postcolor'> They do almost the same thing they do to my niece who is in a mental institution. But I already wrote about her in a different thread. I think they are being treated humane enough the al-queda criminals. More humane than the US treats some of its own inmates. Like executing mentally handicapped people, who can't possibly be held responsible for the deeds they've done.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (madmike @ Jan. 15 2002,19:49)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">yeah, the SAS used them in the Gulf and probably Afganistan. Hey L24A, how many tours have you done in Bosnia and how long was each one. My dad tried to get me out to Bosnia a few years ago via Croatia, but sadly   it never happened <span id='postcolor'> 2 tours in bosnia both 6 months. One tour as Unprofor, other tour as Rapid Reaction Force during operation Deliberate Force. I was an Forward Observing Officer guiding artillery and aircraft fire on serbian targets. 1 tour as part of UN taskforce in Cambodia (6 months) 1 tour as part of UN taskforce in Angola (6 months) 1 tour as part of UN taskforce in Turkey to aid kurdisch fleeing from iraq (2 months)