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What footie fans want is a load of balls
Sunday 17 May 1998
Yes indeed. Felix abjures moisturiser, Euphragia lets her armpits flourish, and they both try vachement hard to remember to be demonstrative and wave their arms around as they speak, although it's difficult, English being ... well, not really demonstrative, as languages go. They could speak French, they suppose, but they've been going there for 23 years now and you can't teach an old chien new tricks.
It came as a shock, really, to read about the football. All summer long. Who'd have thought it? France overrun with ... well, Felix likes football - he loves it, actually; no, rally, ever since he read Fever Pitch and found it, you know, sort of articulated the dilemma of being a male in the post-feminist era, but ... well, one doesn't want to actually mix with the fans, not on one's holidays, which are a time for tranquillity, re- bonding, and those marvellous local specialities made from pounded larks' offal.
Felix is right, of course, despise him though we do. Football is a hateful business, and any nation which competes for the right to fill itself with football fans is clearly on the skids and just one stage removed from buying a battery- operated Sacred Heart, a jumbo tube of K-Y jelly and sticking an ad in the local paper.
Football is a mug's game, a consumer's game. It has all the glamour of an ingrowing hair, the elegance of a nosebleed and the excitement of William Hague's sex life. It is played in surroundings of bleak concrete brutality by men in desolate, chafing, nylon clothes, reeking of Germolene. Its cultural underpinnings are those of frustrated, incoherent adolescence: spots, urine, bad haircuts, ululating pack-rampages, cheap lager, punch inna froat! punch inna gob! boot inna nuts! OOOO-waa!, OOOO-waa!, OOOO- waa!
Even the ball is ugly, and by some strange process of somatic mimesis, football fans come to resemble it themselves, leathery, seamed, dented and expressionless. Worst of all are the middle-aged, middle-class "fans"; the ones who hang around Soho bars analysing matches and pretending to know about it and love it and putting it on a level with proper grown-up pursuits like baroque opera and physics and poetry and weird sex. These poor saps, too old and gauche for the pleasure of the chase, too mean to pay for their Viagra like men, resort instead to a bogus, pseudo- demotic male bonding, swapping names of players (swotted up earnestly the night before) like dodgy solicitors having a night at the opera. It's a clipped and desiccated pleasure, cold as a nun's knickers, and the truth is that they don't like it at all.
You don't believe me? Try it. Worm your way into some yattering group of toxic media swine or yelping estate agents and wait until the football bullshit starts. Let it develop for a while, until they are all pretending to be immersed in and excited by their dull, dull, dull conversation, then strike.
"As a matter of fact," you will say quietly, "I loathe football. I think football is boring, pointless, ugly and stupid. I hate the way the football commentators shout and squeal with all the phoney emotion of a cut-rate hooker faking an orgasm. I hate the way that, what-ever the weather, it is always raining. I hate the clothes they wear. I hate the stupid par- tisanism. I hate the inarticulacy and the froz- en idiocy of their numb-lipped slack-jawed post-match `comments'. I hate the managers in the sharp suits, their pockets bulging with bung. I hate the lipo-sucked, bee-stung, collagen-inflated, bleached, tanned `girlfriends'. I hate the inappropriately heroic language. I hate the way the middle class has hijacked the game with its suburban parody of working-class enthusiasms. I hate the sponsors, I hate the executive boxes, I hate the communal singing, I hate the thudding, honking signature tunes; I hate the corporate hospitality, I hate the turf, the toilets, the grass, the mud and the goal. I even hate the ball. In fact, the only thing I like is the footballers' thighs and I like them a lot. Tremendous! Lean! Like horses' thighs, but unequivocally masculine! You can imagine them - and I know you agree with me - gripping you in an inextricable grasp as, mercilessly and inexorably, some iron-bodied, muscular ..."
At this point, of course, you will be smashed in the face by an outraged corporate-logo designer or public-relations consultant and fall to the ground. And you know why? Because you have articulated what they really feel and they simply cannot bear it. You have identified that football - that all sport - is really just an outlet for timid conformists to come to terms with their own homophilia in a formal environment designed to promote herd immunity. Sport, in short, is a gigantic, money-spinning commercial version of the Christ-Was-I-Drunk-Last-Night Syndrome, invented by Mart Crowley in his play The Boys in the Band. The syndrome occurs when a Confident Heterosexual makes it one night with some guy, and the next day they meet in the office or the locker-room or the pub, and what do they say? "Christ was I drunk last night," they say, "I don't remember a thing."
And this is what France is being given over to this summer. This is why Felix and Euphragia will have to content themselves with Harlech or Lowestoft, and open-air swimming in the rain. Serves them right. But does it serve the rest of us right? Or would it not be better if all the football fans simply acknowledged the truth and fell upon each other, mouths open, vague fingers scrabbling and fumbling, in a frenzy of un-pent lust, while, up and down the field, highly paid mercenaries chase their silly ball unregarded. !
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My husband didn't particularly like these - he said they tasted too much like cornbread. But I've been dieting and needed something bread-like and good. They hit the spot for me.
Followed previous suggestions, reduced butter to one stick, used craisins instead of currants. Cut into twelve wedges, molded into cupcake pan. This one is a keeper!!
These were incredible. Made with dried cranberries because I didn't have currents and subbed half OJ half 2% milk for the buttermilk because I didn't have an orange. The dough was sticky, but I took the advice of one of the earlier cooks and patted it out in a 9" pan. Baked it for around 18 minutes, and don't foresee this batch lasting more than a day.
Yum! My dough was very sticky as noted by others, so just added a bit more flour and patted into a circle and cut into 12 wedges-saves all the trouble of re-rolling and toughing the 2nd dough. I didn't have an orange on hand, so substituted some lemon zest instead and ate them with some orange marmalade. Definitely a keeper recipe and will try the suggestions for using only one stick of butter and at least half of the flour as whole wheat.
Made this recipe adding double the zest and Just Blueberries instead of currants. The dough was wet and I ended up having to add a bit more flour. I rolled them into balls and patted them into little rounds. The end result was beautiful with wonderful flavor but it was way too flaky.Anyone have any suggestions on how to fix this problem?
Snowy Sunday morning in New England begged for warm scones. I too, used slightly less butter. Chopped dates intead of currants... Brushed the tops with buttermilk and "natural"large- granular sugar. Patted into a circle and cut wedges. Tender, will make again.
Ok, the recipe i tried is from April 2003 Bon Apetit!, but this one is almost exactly the same, so i'll do my rating here! I thought these scones were delicious! The oats give them a nice earthy taste and texture. I used craisin's instead of currants and baked at 400 degrees..since that's what my recipe said to bake them at! I'll try this recipe and compare them. Very tender scone as well!

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"Drop Squad" is a depressing example of this small-mindedness.
It's a movie about a team of black deprogrammers who kidnap and torture brothers and sisters who have strayed too far into whitey's enemy camp. When a black executive named Bruford (Eriq LaSalle) works on a demeaning ad campaign to sell malt liquor in the inner city, he's thrown into a van, abducted, tied to a chair, and punished for three weeks with psychological and physical brutality. Did the Drop Squad train under the Red Guard? The most you can say about the movie is that it is sometimes ambivalent about this behavior, although it finally comes down on the side of the Drop Squad. Questions such as (a) who gets to decide what is correct behavior? and (b) who appointed them God? are not the issue here. The film believes in an unquestioning subservience to what it defines as the black community, and it has an utter disregard for the civil rights of its targets.
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You really should read the new GOP report on why they suck so much ass (via). It's pretty good. It contains lovely gems like this:
Jack Kemp used to say, "No one cares what you know until they know you care." … The perception, revealed in polling, that the GOP does not care about people is doing great harm to the Party and its candidates. …
Our policies and actions must take into account that the middle class has struggled mightily and that far too many of our citizens live in poverty.
Our job as Republicans is to champion private growth so people will not turn to the government in the first place. But we must make sure that the government works for those truly in need, helping them so they can quickly get back on their feet. We should be driven by reform, eliminating, and fixing what is broken, while making sure the government's safety net is a trampoline, not a trap.
If it wasn't so sad, you could almost be amused by the one-dimensional infantile thinking in there.
"Gee whiz, if we just go in there and (a) help plutocrats become more rich, and (b) reform [i.e., gut] some of that hateful socialism safety net, all those capable, upwardly mobile wage-earners will bounce right off the public dole in a few weeks and go on to make enough middle class money to support a family."
Oh right, I guess they forgot that the hyper-financialization of our economy over the past few decades has driven a huge share of corporate earnings into executive pay and gargantuan piles of hoarded cash that no one knows what to do with. In a period of never-ending record corporate profits, employment rolls remain frozen (or contracting) – driven largely by employers taking advantage of the financial crisis to squeeze existing workers even harder to make them do more work for the same (often inadequate) pay. Why hire more moochers when you can just add 5 more tasks to everyone else's job description? After all, they should be thanking Jesus that they even HAVE a job, amirite??
Perhaps Republicans might want to ruminate on the millions of hard-working families who work three or more jobs and still have to collect food stamps because their wages, in real terms, have continued to decline year after year. Maybe they want to ponder the Sophie's Choice millions of people have to make between relying on public assistance or going to work at a shitty job that pays hardly anything and (naturally) offers no health insurance – in many cases because someone in the family is sick, and the loss of health care coverage would be too financially devastating.
But no, Republicans. Keep on keeping on with your heartless "All people need is a kick in the ass to get them out of poverty and make them stop sucking off the government teat." Never stop believing that larding up corporate balance sheets will trickle down largesse upon the little people. Continue to have faith that tearing down government will result in the private sector choosing to do the right thing all by themselves.
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VP Biden: Planned Parenthood "under law cannot perform any abortions".
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In fact, the only thing that lets B-Boy down is that it feels a little bit... sloppy. From basic game design (the beats are orange and so are half the surfaces you dance on) to silly oversights (you can 'diss' when you're on the sidelines, but you don't get bonus points for doing it when your opponent crashes, which seems like a shame), B-Boy's full of little missed opportunities.


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Don't have time to read all 49 pages but at tournaments I have seen 1600 players beat 2200 players, 1800 players beat 2300 players and I know an A-class player who drew with a GM once.
Consistently play at that level, well DUH not likely - otherwise they wouldn't have such low ratings!
But you have to remember that there are several types of lower rated players. Those that are moving up, those who are stable, and those who are over rated.
My nephew once lost a game to Nakamura...N's rating at the time was about 1300.
Their nephew's was 557... :-p
Which type of chess are you talking about? I only play online chess and would suggest to you that playing that format, the answer would be -
No chance.
But the question isn't could a 1600 ever beat a 2200, it is could a 1300 ever beat a 2700? A million examples of lesser upsets wouldn't change the question.
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Holy mackerel. I didn't know this thread was still around.
There's a chance if the 1300 is actually a master-level player who is simply underrated.
But otherwise, the chance is very slim to none.
a lower rated player can beat a higher rated player i am a 1260 rated ..and ive beaten a 1800 rated player at the time iwas rated lower than i am now ..ok you can argue fluke..its possible but chess is about a degree of skill..., luck,...and how you play on the day..yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh chess rules
There is hope.
You play a man called B. Ivanov who is 2700. He loses the connection to his chess computer.
"The question has been answered, Logan 5".
It takes a lot of work to go from master to grandmaster, and those over 2700 snack on ordinary grandmasters. There is no way that an underrated but highly skilled player at 1300 is in the class of those who can upset the world's elite (top 50).
I'll take a 2700 any day, but I would have no chance.
I do not believe it is possible. Thats like getting Vishy Anand to play me.... He could easily beat me while multiple pieces down. He could make several blunders and still win easily.
no they have no chance, unless the 1300 is a trolling GM
Is there any chance an a Giraffe can beat Chuck Norris?
Actually yes. I would take the giraffe. Have you ever seen them kick fending a lion away from their young? A single blow would most likely be fatal - but I know what you meant.
hahah all the comments saying no make me laugh because yes, it is very unlikely but is not impossible
Those who harbor hope for the 1300 have no understanding of the skill level of a 1300. I win 95% of my games against 1300s, and would lose a higher percentage to 2700s if I played them.
Talk about swiss gambit!
It's possible of course, but so probabilistically unlikely it would almost never happen ever in real life unless the GM falls asleep and loses on time or something. The 1300's best chance would be to memorize some completely obscure not known at all trap opening, and even if the GM has never seen it before 99.999999% of the time they will not fall from it just because of their instincts and ability to see far ahead.
One of my sons once won a prize for biggest upset in a tournament. I think it was a500 or 600 point differential. Of course, my son was probably slightly under-rated since he had only just started playing. Also at lower ratings, players can make big blunders that even players several hundred points lower can take advantage of. GMs rated 2700 make few mistakes, and their mistakes are rather subtle.
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I think if there is 300 ELO point difference between two players it's no point playing the game. Practically the player with lower ELO has 0 winning chance.
I won against a guy rated 509 points ahead of me. With black. After 23 moves.
I gave up a 500+ point upset in a game 10. 1400 points is a whole other kettle of fish, especially whan you consider that 2700 is not just some GM, but a member of the world's elite and a household name among chess playing families.
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Mike Magee converted a penalty 5 minutes into the second half, and the Los Angeles Galaxy moved atop the Western Conference with a 1-0 victory over the Colorado Rapids on Saturday night.
Magee scored after Rapids center back Drew Moor was sent off for elbowing Marcelo Sarvas in the face in an off-the-ball incident, a major setback for Colorado after losing starting midfielder Pablo Mastroeni and center back Diego Calderon to injuries in the first half.
The Galaxy (2-0-1) dictated play throughout and outshot Colorado 21-5, but Rapids goalkeeper Clint Irwin, starting in place of injured Matt Pickens, made seven saves, including outstanding stops on teenage forwards Jose Villarreal and Jack McBean.
''If we're at fault tonight, certainly keeping (Colorado) around for 90 minutes was a flaw in our performance,'' said Galaxy coach Bruce Arena, whose team gave up a late lead last week against Chivas USA.
''I think we had chances to get the second and third goal. Give them credit: They never quit. Their goalkeeper played extremely well. At the end of the game, at least we were solid enough this week to make sure we got the three points.''
Los Angeles, playing without star striker Robbie Keane and defender Omar Gonzalez - both away on international duty - went young up front with Villarreal and McBean, who came close to scoring several times before Magee netted his MLS-best fourth goal of the season.
Villarreal came nearest, forcing a diving save from Clint Irwin after a 3rd-minute corner kick and chipping over the goalkeeper from just outside the box in the 32nd, a shot that was cleared off the goal line by Calderon. The Ecuadorian defender bruised his right quadriceps when he subsequently crashed into the right post.
Mastroeni, the Rapids' captain making his return from a hamstring injury, limped off in the 27th minute after straining his left quad tackling Los Angeles winger Colin Clark.
The game changed when Moor hit Sarvas just below the left eye. Referee Armando Villarreal checked with his linesman before awarding the penalty kick and pulling out the red card, and Moor was already walking off the field when he was ejected.
''I have no idea ... I don't know where it came from,'' Sarvas said. ''I didn't say anything to him. He was just walking. I stopped in front of him. I don't know, he probably lost his mind. For sure.''
Moor called it a ''sudden reaction'' and said he ''kind of moved my arm back in his direction and made contact.''
''It's not like me,'' he said. ''I'm disappointed in myself. I'm most disappointed I let my team down because of it, gave away a PK, and they had to play a man down.''
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Published: April 11, 2014 (Issue # 1805)
Russian leaders often look uninformed — or desperate — when they try to justify abuses of power by claiming that the U.S. is guilty of similar infractions.
Take, for example, President Vladimir Putin's comparison of Russia's selective legal assault against Yukos — and the subsequent expropriation of most of Yukos' assets into state-controlled Rosneft — with the U.S. prosecution of Enron in 2003.
The U.S. annexed Hawaii and Texas, so why can't Russia annex Crimea? Russia is living in the 19th century, pursuing its own manifest destiny.
In September 2012, Putin, responding to international criticism of the prison death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, said that the U.S. had no right to judge Russia because it executes convicted criminals at home. The Foreign Ministry took this argument further, saying in its 2012 report on U.S. human rights violations that the U.S. executes minors, which is a blatant falsehood.
Russian authorities also fired back at U.S. criticism of Russia's record on free speech by asserting that the U.S. violated the rights of former Private Chelsea (Bradley) Manning, jailed for leaking 700,000 classified documents to WikiLeaks.
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1. All great powers annex territory. Look at the U.S., which unabashedly annexed Texas and Hawaii.
It is true that the U.S. annexation of Texas in 1845 was a vivid example of manifest destiny, imperialism and promoting the interests of the powerful, slaveholding class in the South. The Texas annexation, which extended the state's border to the Rio Grande river, was a clear act of provocation against Mexico, which had historical claims to parts of Texas. The annexation sparked the Mexican-American war of 1846-48, which the U.S. won, giving it ownership of a huge swath of western territories from Colorado to California.
Similarly, Hawaii was annexed in 1898 after the U.S. orchestrated a coup overthrowing the Hawaiian monarchy in 1893. The main economic motive of the coup was to exploit Hawaii's sugar wealth and promote the interests of the five largest U.S. sugarcane-processing corporations working on the islands.
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Smoking on screen is sexy again, but even fake cigarettes have side effects for the actors, finds Gerard Gilbert
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Gerard Gilbert is a television writer and feature writer for The Independent.
Tuesday 14 January 2014
I've just smoked my first cigarette this century. It wasn't a real ciggie, a proper tobacco-nicotine death stick, but a relatively harmless herbal one donated by the props man while visiting the Budapest set of a new biopic of Ian Fleming due out later this year. Dominic Cooper (The History Boys) plays the Bond creator, and over the course of a day's filming I watched Cooper and his co-star Anna Chancellor inhale countless of these herbal gaspers, allowing the plume to snake up from their lips to their nostrils before swallowing it again with seasoned aplomb. And then they'd have to do it again. And again and again and again and again – not so much "lights, camera, action!" as "light up, camera, action!"
"Like any cigarette you get used to it, and then strangely you begin to slightly yearn for it," says Chancellor, an ex-smoker who also had to puff away while filming The Hour. Does she actually inhale, or is there a clever way of faking it? "I don't think you can fake inhaling," she says. "I don't know how you actually act smoking because if you've never smoked, it's quite a hard thing to fake."
Actors not used to the filthy habit – and hearteningly that includes a growing number of younger thespians – are apparently noticeable by their inexperience. There's too much attention to the sorts of actions that smokers have performed thousands of times, while non-smoking actors also tend to drag too frequently, taking a puff between each line of dialogue. "I used to be a heavy smoker," says Chancellor, "so it all comes very naturally."
Auditions will state whether smoking is required, and health-conscious actors should avoid period dramas set between the 1930s and, say, the 1970s. Indeed, as smoking in public places has become unacceptable in most developed countries, so the sight of men and women happily sucking away at work and in pubs and restaurants has come to denote "period drama". ITV's Inspector Morse prequel, Endeavour, which is set in 1965, has become just the latest primetime TV drama to require its actors blow smoke, although, of course, this shorthand for more tobacco-tolerant eras was begun in earnest by Mad Men. Californian state law (the show is filmed in LA and, not as it may appear, in New York) doesn't allow for smoking tobacco inside buildings, so Hamm has to go herbal.
"They taste like a mix of pot and soap," he says. "Somebody actually watched the pilot and counted the amount of cigarettes I smoked in the pilot – it was 74 or some ridiculous number like that. But you have to remember that shooting a scene is not shooting one take of a scene – it's four or five set-ups, and three or four takes on each set-up. So every time you see me light a cigarette, I do it five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10 times. You can hear from my voice that it's a debilitating endeavour."
The visible on-screen effect of consuming so many cigarettes, herbal or otherwise (Hamm/Draper does often look like he's wincing with the effort), should in theory please the Entertainment Industries Council, the American non-profit organisation set up in 1983 to promote the accurate depiction of health and social issues in film and television. The EIC urges film-makers to consider whether smoking is really important to the story or just part of the scenery, pushing for more realistic portrayals of smoking. Movies that feature cigarettes should also feature stained teeth and nagging coughs, they argue.
With Mad Men, smoking is both part of the story and part of the scenery, which didn't prevent Turkey's Supreme Board of Radio and Television from fining two that country's networks $33,000 each for failing to blur out the smoking when it aired the show. Stations in Turkey must pixelate out cigarettes, though one board member argued that that simply attracts more attention.
Such heavy-handed censorship doesn't wash in the UK or the US, despite decades' worth of evidence that on-screen depictions of smoking encourage children and young people to take up the habit. I recall during freshers' week at my university, a new friend taking up smoking because he said he enjoyed watching me do it. I felt vaguely guilty about this until I visited his room and saw a giant black and white poster of Humphrey Bogart with a cigarette clamped between his lips.
In the 1980s, Hollywood responded to no-smoking campaigns by cutting the rate at which its stars lit up on-screen to 4.9 times per hour, less than half the 1950s rate of 10.7. But in a recent study published in the American Journal of Public Health, the on-screen smoking rate has shot back up to 10.9. Lighting-up rates on television are lower than on the big screen – and heavily skewed by the likes of Mad Men – not a drama with a large vulnerable youth demographic, one might assume. Perhaps the danger here is to older, ex-smokers.
Herbal cigarettes are apparently made with variously innocuous substances, including clover, marshmallow leaves and rose petals, suffused with ginseng, vanilla or menthol. But although they lack nicotine's powerfully addictive qualities, " herbal" cigarettes also produce tar, carbon monoxide and other carcinogenic toxins.
So what do they taste like? The one I brought home from Budapest turned out – disappointingly in terms of this experiment, but also somewhat to my relief – to be menthol flavoured (the props department, I noticed, had even gone to the trouble of inscribing each filter with a monogram – "IF" for Ian Fleming). It was rather like smoking a Polo mint, not unpleasant but giving me a slightly nauseous head-rush. "The menthol ones are milder but it can completely knock you out," agrees Chancellor, before heading back out set for another marathon session with her mint- flavoured fags. But, as Jon Hamm says, if the actors smoked real cigarettes to the extent they smoked the herbal varieties: "Well, we'd all be dead".
With the 1950s and 1960s currently so fashionable in television drama, some of the best acting gigs – from American series like Masters of Sex and Boardwalk Empire to British dramas such as the aptly titled Breathless might well require cigarette consumption. Even BBC1's Call the Midwife has the young nurses smoking, while Dr Turner (Stephen McGann) puffs away cheerily during consultations. "The BBC was keen for the period authenticity to have the characters smoke," says the drama's producer Hugh Warren. Those actors determined to avoid gaspers should also avoid period drama – or go work in Wales or for Disney.
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If your little one doesn't think he's creative, let him know it's never too late to start painting. Grandma Moses was a famous American folk art painter who didn't begin until she was 78 years old! This folk art painting lets kids develop watercolor and painting techniques with an easy theme. Many folk artists use scenes from their everyday lives for inspiration, because even everyday tasks can be extraordinary. Have your child base his painting on a scene around your house or a daily task.
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Today 19:33 #7945
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TheProfessor15 Sinn the truth
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Today 14:25 #7944
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Trugrit Just check the chat rooms.
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Today 09:18 #7943
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Anansi Originally Posted by Other [View Original Post]
Today 05:48 #7942
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Other Asians
Originally Posted by Power69 [View Original Post]
Anyone visit any of the new Asians that have been posting recently? All the pics look fake but I'm curious if the real girls are worth it.
Today 01:44 #7941
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Chuka Bonita
She uses Google Voice or something that repeated my voice with distortion. That was confusing, but otherwise meeting her was simple enough. She seemed much thinner than her pics, or maybe just thinner than my expectation of providers looking thicker than their pics. The bigger providers I usually prefer don't have her energy and flexibility. Her ass cheeks are small enough to cup in my hands. She had a radio on, which was sometimes distracting and intrusive. Her menu is shorter than I expect in the Escorts section, but as a body rubber she's a lot of fun for $. 40.
Yesterday 23:21 #7940
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Trugrit I've got to stop posting drunk.
Originally Posted by TheDoughBoy [View Original Post]
I saw a recommendation of my fav jessika just now. Allot of baby damage but I can see why. Best performance I've had in awhile!
Dude if I want covered I'd have been baby daddy # whatever the hell she loved what she does, or at least convinced me! My face was with her and I hate I didn't spring the extra cash 4 both. But oh well. I'll just keep sticking 2 what I know. Hope I cleared up the confusion.
Yesterday 19:10 #7939
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PopCorn77 Holly
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Yesterday 17:37 #7938
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The Dough Boy Clarification?
Originally Posted by Trugrit [View Original Post]
Not sure how much $ was in question but drawin' down on someone for a few bucks is pretty cowboy, glad it worked in your favor this time. Risky Business.
Like I said I am not trying to cause trouble just didn't understand the way it was written.
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Van Lopez Originally Posted by Trugrit [View Original Post]
How do you meet providers on MOCO?
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Big Daddi Originally Posted by Trugrit [View Original Post]
I don't know what some of these fools are thinking, I keep my .40 on deck but I try to stay with girls I know that provide a zero drama experience, I have not seen our favorite PAWG in awhile, might be time for a visit.
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Yesterday 03:03 #7934
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CoochieLvr Mariah
Tried to contact for sometime but no luck. Also tried to search for info and still no luck. Does anybody have any intel?
Yesterday 01:32 #7933
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Trugrit Seen a few & had some ups and downs since my last report.
I don't report often these days but I've seen a lot go on. I like 2 sick with what works till it doesn't anymore so forgive me if you've heard about any of these before. But sometimes they're situations change & that's worth talking about. First is sinn the truth. I wanted 2 post her link but there aren't any up right now. My true mongers know about the chick with the seed on her face in Detroit. Same as always great personality, pretty. Flexible. Seems her concern is getting you 2 come back. Which is always good. Shortly after I saw lady desire http://detroit.backpage.com/FemaleEs...12882/17550664.
The drama was immeasurable. Her pimp walked in the room asking about her money. We were done & I kept my hand on the. 25 I keep in my pants ad I put them on. I demanded half my money back, they both said no till I exposed my hand. I got it.
Why don't girls just be straight up? No drama necessary. And the pimps are just as bad!
Took about a week off and got the itch again. Saw my old favorite Selena.
Same great service & her ass seems 2 be getting a better shape.
Even though the one she always had had been fine with me. No drama, good experience I went back 2 work.
I had a run on the eastside to make so I called Victoria secret. Her ad is down 2 but she's a mature provider with a zero drama guarantee. I like her the convo as much as the dream but she doesn't stay in cozy hotels. I like cozy hotels. Not many of you commented on my moco space discovery. Most of the money I've wasted this month had been with those skanks but I don't know how 2 review them here.
Absolutely stay away from lady desire it was terrible. Looking forward 2 reading thoughts and answering questions.
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I had read this article and thought it was worth posting. I'm not sure why I love the look of this bike, but I do. I would love to have this bike to run around up here in the mountains http://www.bikeexif.com/1971-triumph
Suzuki on the bottom of the bike ...... Crazy. Great video Thank you WJM !
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Interesting things going on in rally news - http://www.ktm.com/news-events/news/racing/details/sam-sunderland-s...
Roof of Africa. My Gawd, that is a bleedin,' unbelievably, unreal race.
Specialized is the largest, quality bike manufacture in the world. They also have a very bad reputation when it comes to business deals, and what they make their local bike shops do to carry the brand. They've hassled smaller co's tha RGM. I'm no fan of them (I ride a Santa Cruz Nomad) but who didn't see the logo deal coming? My only point to the first post was what other motorsport does the driver/rider warm up by exercising before racing?
my memory says,Robby sued the bicycle co. Kind of a preemptive deal over the logo.
I bought a Specialized mountain bike when I lived in Phoenix back in 2001. Great bike.. had lots of fun riding the trails in/around the valley. Still have it. Guessing the logo dispute was simply business and didn't help their business.
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I have been working at Dendrite International full-time (more than 5 years)
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ConsSenior Leadership, lack of integrity , no vision, who you know not what you know,
Advice to ManagementAdviceResign, go back to France, and take the us folks you elevated with you.
Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookNo opinion of CEO -


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Jeffrey Campbell Tick Natural Wedges: Love It or Hate It?
Part boots, part wedges, and part sandals, these Jeffrey Campbell Tick Natural Wedges ($158) make for an interesting shoe. The brass tacks add downtown flair, while the canvas lends an au natural touch. Do you dig?
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I hate open toed booties. I hate wedge booties. I hate that these are made of canvas and what appears to be thumbtacks.
So basically? I'm calling these a disaster.
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Eva Double Gourd Lamps (Set of 2)
- Color:
- dark purple
Please select an available size.
Please select a size.
Description: Eva Double Gourd Lamps:
- Table lamps with linen shades
- Polished metal and glass construction
- Features matching base and neck finials
- Requires one 100-watt bulb (not included)
- 3-way switch
- Assembly required
Measurements: Overall, each measures 14" DIA x 24" H
Care: Wipe with a dry cloth
This product is manufactured in compliance with U.S. standards. If product is to be used outside of the U.S., use only with the appropriate outlet adapter and voltage converter for your country. Do not plug into an electrical outlet higher than 110-120V as this could result in fire and/or injury.
Material: Glass, metal, linen
Care: Wipe with a dry cloth
Brand: Safavieh
Origin: Imported