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Forogar wrote: was shot during a battle with bandits in Hong Kong
 
This sounds like right out of a movie.
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I had never been in a real battle before (or since). It was in the 1980's. We were providing military support and assistance to the British Hong Kong police who were having to deal with gangs of kidnappers and robbers that came over the border from China and then would run back over the border to get away. We were in pursuit of one group, they were armed with machine guns and opened fire on us, we returned fire - the battle lasted all of 10 seconds. They got away from us but the Chinese army got them (surrounded them and shot them all dead, just over the border).
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Forogar wrote: They got away from us but the Chinese army got them (surrounded them and shot them all dead, just over the border).
Hence the saying: "Shoot first, regret not asking questions later"
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I hit one of them when we returned fire and he went down. His friends dragged his body off with them and then a few minutes later they were all shot by the Chinese army. Because of this I will never know if I actually killed him or just wounded him. I lie awake at night worrying about this, even though it didn't make any difference to him overall, it is important to me to know - and I'll never know.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Oh, that's good to know. I thought his account was closed for him, which would've been rather harsh.
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That's just a guess, though. I have no way to know for sure who closed the account. Just the timing of the whole story. Community was on the path to calm things down at that time.
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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I enjoyed this so much... I have retold it.
Nevermind the haters
Director of Transmogrification Services
Shinobi of Query Language
Master of Yoda Conditional
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... and it seems to be my ISP ... but it's affecting CP: I report a spammer, and it goes to the home page, link pasting isn't working, I can't get to Google at all, though Bing is available ... and DownDetector is saying there is a country wide problem with my ISP. I have full internet via my phone, but sites are patchy.
Very strange.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Oh man, Paul...
You were complaining that the antivirus didn't work for you and your wife... I think you have now infected the router. 
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Apparently BT are experiencing issues at the moment.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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As I'm using BT at the moment, when don't they? HomeHubs are an exercise in poor thermal managment.
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"We are currently experiencing issues" should be their on-hold music.
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And people think Comcast is bad.
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Seems fine here in England.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Weird things are happening to the internet ...
...and you are only just noticing this now? 
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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Quote: a man living in western NSW, near Griffith, "wanted a broom handle to be rubbed around his underwear".
"He was willing to pay $5,000 if it was 'really good'," court documents said.
As of today I'm offering 'broom services'
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And to think, I always thought they were saying "room service" when they knocked the hotel room door.
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It's brooming business! 
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Some people are cleaning up!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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It seems they were quite swept up in the topic.
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hams reprogrammed stuck software automaton (8)
- Find a short word that substitutes for "software automaton".
- Twitter is full of #1. And if "software automaton" must be substituted, what does that tell you about hams? (Sorry, I just realized that this wouldn't necessarily be true, but it's a hint.)
modified 29-May-20 8:28am.
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