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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: Anything I say can be considered safe for my sisters considering we all act like we have Tourettes Syndrome...
... and the fist that just slammed into your face was a tick from my kid sister who *does* have Tourettes...
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: and ol' Mr. One Eye is getting tired, and starting to show significant wear.
That good, huh?
edit - keep your "chin" up, it will get better....I think.
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Slacker007 wrote: keep your "chin" up,
Bloody hell. How big do you think his Mr one eye is that he's in danger of hitting his chin with it?
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Apparently some Brits are unhappy that LeBron broke protocol and put his arms around Kate when they met with him yesterday. Well, he is LeBron James - he makes his own protocols!
I thought it funny that people worry over things like that.
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Nish Sivakumar wrote: LeBron broke protocol and put his arms around Kate when they met with him yesterday.
As an American like LeBron, I wouldn't have known that was protocol. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Well, now you know what to do if you happen to pose for a photo with British royalty.
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You don't need to know, so you weren't informed.
The wanker in question did need to know, so his "peeps" informed him ... that he could get a lot of publicity by acting like a wanker.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I'd willingly take 60 millions Brits in exchange for a (former) Prime Minister that pulls pranks on the Prime Minister of another country (a too big and too near one and with a known record of belligerancy plus a lot of (t)reasons to hate mine).
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When visiting other countries, expect the local protocol to be followed.
modified 9-Dec-14 9:49am.
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The CP spam detection does not like your message.
It was shown as 'Need moderation' on the home page.
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Interesting. I did not know forum posts had this feature.
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It was the first time I saw the link on the home page and did not know about it before. Looking up the privileges shows "Approve/Disapprove a pending Forum Message".
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Must be a new feature. Thanks.
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She wasn't visiting another country - just touring the colonies ... 
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When dealing with anachronistic toffs expect unusual protocols
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Some "white" brits didn't like a black guy putting his arm around "their" white woman.
I had to go there.
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Slacker007 wrote: Some "white" brits didn't like a black guy putting his arm around "their" white woman.
I had to go there.
Well, as a brown guy I didn't want to intrude into your white-black joke territory.
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Nish Sivakumar wrote: Well, as a brown guy I didn't want to intrude into your white-black joke territory.
Well, as a white Yankee, I don't really care who put their arm around Kate. She is hot, and seems like a nice person. Best of luck to the royal family.
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Slacker007 wrote: She is hot, and seems like a nice person
Well, I am not sure you'd be popular in England with that kinda talk 
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I'm not sure I am popular here in America, whether I talk or not.
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Not sure where the 'some Brits are unhappy' part comes from. I'm sure there are some Royalist nuts that are, but there are a lot of Americans Royalist too that I assume will be equally unhappy. It's an antiquated protocol anyway so I don't think most people care.
I searched this story, as I hadn't heard it or even know who LeBron was till I see your post and the British Press seem to be reporting Kates awkwardness[^], but I see no outrage from the press and if there was any it would definitely be them orchestrating it.
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Oh I am sure some of it is media hype
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Well that was sort of my point, if there was outrage then I would have expected to see the article I linked to 'hyping' that, but there was nothing. Just saying that Kate looked awkward. And if the Press aren't even mildly outraged then the Public aren't going to be.
Perhaps all the outrage is on Facebook, I hear the phrase "Everbody's outraged on Facebook" quite a lot.
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Yeah, I see your point. I am not going to edit my post, too late to do that now, but perhaps I could have worded it better.
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