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12-09-2013, 11:35 PM
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trying hard to be a better person
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Brisbane, Australia
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My minion eyes look great!
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12-10-2013, 05:22 AM
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still says videotape
Join Date: Feb 2001
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12-12-2013, 08:28 PM
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Not Suspicious, Merely Canadian
Join Date: Oct 2006
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Much happiness tonight!
a) No call-back from last Friday's ultrasound = no news is good news.  b) Enjoying some aged Manchego on Almond Nut-Thins with an Oregon Pinot gris c) Have an intense academic day tomorrow, after which relaxation will be in order d) Going to jump up and down in the 'Oakland Zoo' (i.e. student) section for a Pitt Panthers bball game Saturday afternoon - might even paint my face Pitt colors! d) Then going to see The Hobbit (part 2)!
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12-12-2013, 08:59 PM
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Junior Master Dwellar
Join Date: May 2011
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Simple things can make me happy and tonight, it's this. I saw it at Kroger and had to get it. :-D
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12-12-2013, 09:01 PM
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Junior Master Dwellar
Join Date: May 2011
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Here's my one pound Snickers!
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12-12-2013, 09:32 PM
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Not Suspicious, Merely Canadian
Join Date: Oct 2006
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This seemed more appropriate here than in the video clip thread ...
Arrgh! No! Why can't I embed this video? Melissa Etheridge and Joss Stone ... 
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12-12-2013, 09:34 PM
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Back in 10
Join Date: Aug 2008
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>laffs< @ Lola's snickers
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12-12-2013, 09:42 PM
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The future is unwritten
Join Date: Oct 2002
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12-12-2013, 09:46 PM
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Not Suspicious, Merely Canadian
Join Date: Oct 2006
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Thank you, thank you, thank you Bruce! I learn how to do this and then chemo-brain cleans out my short-term memory. But I love, love, love Melissa Etheridge in this.
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12-13-2013, 09:43 AM
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Radical Centrist
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Cottage of Prussia
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J got us DAVE CHAPPELLE tickets for next Saturday!
Merry Xmas to us! |
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12-13-2013, 11:39 AM
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We have to go back, Kate!
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Yorkshire
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Oooooh. Nicely done, J!
Making me happy is: Working on my thesis I've leaned very heavily towards the property crime side of things, and done very little towards the section on violent crime. So, since I am now all about the getting serious and shit, and trying to do a chapter a month to get this bastard in, and having more or less finished the introduction and the first chapter (defining terms and assessing sources and methodology and stuff) I decided to start work on the violence section and get that sorted before going on and doing the property crime section, which should pretty much write itself with the copious notes I already have. I have been dreading this bit. It just feels thinner on the research and less accessible - stepping out of my comfort zone. It's coming along nicely! And, having had very little success finding anything in the soldier journals and memoirs to use as evidence for soldiers' attitudes to and experiences of crime (except for crimes of survival whilst on campaigns, such as during the terrible march from Corunna) I've suddenly found a little flurry of examples showing attitudes towards violence as am incidental day to day thing - and an example of a cuckolded soldier killing his wife and then not being put on trial for murder because he was blinded by passion and because her behaviour was considered to have precipitated his action.
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12-13-2013, 11:58 AM
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Location: Arlington, VA
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Speaking of British crime, I just read today that you lot have made it legal to be an "incorrigible rogue."
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12-13-2013, 12:10 PM
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We have to go back, Kate!
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Yorkshire
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Ha! Thanks for that. Most amusing.
One of the things that makes analysing crime during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries a bit of an interpretive challenge is decoding the charges. Doubly so for military justice. I think my favourite one is: along with being drunk and a few other regulatory charges, 'behaving in a most scandalous manner' Closely followed by 'Taking very indecent liberties with two privates', though my amusement at that usually falters quite quickly given the appalling punishments meted out to gay men.
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12-13-2013, 12:39 PM
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To shreds, you say?
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet!
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The artless Aide-de-camp was mute, the gilded Staff were still, As, dumb with pent-up mirth, they booked that message from the hill; For clear as summer lightning-flare, the husband's warning ran: - "Don't dance or ride with General Bangs -- a most immoral man." ...
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12-13-2013, 03:21 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Seattle
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Happy today: the memory of attending a concert with Twil, her two daughters, SonofV and my BelovedDaughter *and* her beau (who I met for the first time). The headliner:
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis He's big, and he started in Seattle, and this was the homecoming concert of his world tour. He sold out the Key Arena, three days, three shows. This was the first one of the three and his exuberance, his happiness, and his energy was abundant and obvious. The show was EPIC!!!!! pics and details to follow!
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