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Post by Mr Nobody on Jul 6, 2006 22:08:30 GMT 7
This is not necessarily a bad thing, when dealing with people here.
Except me, of course.
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Post by Raoul Duke on Jul 6, 2006 23:37:18 GMT 7
Waaaaaiiiit a damn minnit here. Lotus, you talk about drinking, pink-light parlors, and vilifying school weasels as if these are bad things. Have the Communists gotten to your brain or something?
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Post by DollyODear on Jul 7, 2006 3:50:59 GMT 7
What is wrong with using the quick reply option? I haven't heard George's rant on this, sorry.
A link will do ... if it is really of any importance.
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Post by Escaped Lunatic on Jul 7, 2006 4:00:11 GMT 7
>What is wrong with using the quick reply option? I haven't heard George's rant on this, sorry. >A link will do ... if it is really of any importance. Look on page 1 of this thread. George wanted to introduce me to the Quote button instead of using ">" to delineate quotes. Not really a rant, more of a educational lecture. "I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." - Mark Twain
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Post by George61 on Jul 7, 2006 4:01:51 GMT 7
George rarely rants!
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Post by Mr Nobody on Jul 7, 2006 8:30:07 GMT 7
Or educates successfully, by the look of it!
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Post by George61 on Jul 7, 2006 8:53:15 GMT 7
Or educates successfully, by the look of it! I try...I just try!
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Post by Kurochan on Jul 15, 2006 20:42:51 GMT 7
To be overserious as usual, let me mention that there is one thing in Shenzhen that will kill you: the green bamboo viper. I actually saw one on the first day I was at my job at Nanshan Foreign Language School. It's a little, inoffensive-looking green snake with red eyes. If one bites you, you'll be dead in like two minutes. They can climb branches and can end up on the second story of buildings. I saw mine in a second-floor hallway!
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Post by Kurochan on Jul 15, 2006 20:45:05 GMT 7
Oh -- and there are a few other kinds of poisonous snakes to be found anywhere else grassy. One of my students spent a while in the hospital with a hugely swollen ankle after being bitten by something when going into a grassy area after a basketball. People have told me to beware of any snake with a pointy snout, because they are generally poisonous. It also seems to be the little ones that'll get you, too.
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Post by ObertonGluek on Jul 15, 2006 23:50:41 GMT 7
Very interesting. I shall keep an eye out for anything with red eyes. Thanks for that.
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Post by Raoul Duke on Jul 16, 2006 0:54:52 GMT 7
Moderation in everything, please. Many of your esteemed colleagues will have red eyes, too.
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Post by DollyODear on Jul 16, 2006 21:54:02 GMT 7
But George, the quote button makes such small quotes that it is a pain in the patoot to read afterwards. I was tending toward merely writing quote: (blah blah) so it could be read more easily -- hmmm. Anyone have a pro or con on that?
By the way, loonie, I find it very interesting that any animal or insect that might be able to do you in will straight away try to. Sounds like the whole animal kingdom if not Ma Earth herself has a bone to pick with you. Maybe go see a shaman? I could maybe cook up an anti-kill Loonie charm for you -- serious mojo, naughty loonie.
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Post by Escaped Lunatic on Jul 16, 2006 22:51:01 GMT 7
>Sounds like the whole animal kingdom if not Ma Earth herself has a bone to pick with you.
Only the venomous animals. I shoved my arm into a cat's claw bush in Arizona and didn't get a scratch. I regularly pet large dogs and only got bitten once that way (bad doggie!). I gave a Floirda panther every opportunity to do something nasty to me and it just walked away. I've had skunks decide to use the same staircase I was on with no issues (I never realized Arizona had so many skunks - they're virtually extinct in central Florida). I've tamed feral cats and dogs (my primary dog is a stray - thankfully she was friendly, and my emergency back up dog is still a little on the feral side). I've canoed right past large alligators with no problems. I've got a 2 meter blacksnake living in my yard - no problems.
On the other hand, the poisonous beasties somehow always manage to be in my path. Something small tagged me yesterday while I was crash... er, flying some rockets. I think it was some sort of bee.
"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names." - John F. Kennedy
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