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They have ASIC on tablets now? :P Can't help with the translation... other than if you are looking to see if the words translate pretty much literally, then Google Translate would probably do a pretty literal translation, good enough to tell for your purposes... If you plug it into English->German in Google translate and German->English in Bing translate and the resulting English is still readable, it's probably pretty literal. If it comes back as gibberish, it's probably slanged up a bit and the contextual equivalencies aren't meshing. It's a bit like a wild goose chase, the same contextual meaning in Chinese is climbing a tree to catch fish.

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I never really got into his music much, Creative, sure, interesting, sure, weird, SURE! I must say I enjoyed Labyrinth tho. great movie and he was a perfect prince of darkness...

Oh? Made in Thailand I presume? :P

And it is culture, not religion. All the Koran requires is Modesty, not Covered with a Bedsheet.

Doesn't the Physics teacher know enough physics to use one safely without a licence?

If they can build a dinosaur from one bone, someone ought to be able to manage a jet from a nut.

By the end of my time in CQ I could read printed characters better than I could speak chinese! Very limited vocabulary, but still much bigger than my spoken one. And that was after only a year.

Put them in one of those courses where cardboard cutouts run out into the road between cars. Knock one down, no licence.

Indian Minors? Don;t let the vice squad know or you'll be up for statuatory rape! Mynahs now, good to plink at with the .177 air rifle.

In the carribean they used to bore old .455 wembley revolvers to smoothbore and pull the bullets to replace with wrapped onionskin paper rolls of shot. Snake Specials or Bush Specials they used to be called. Also old US .44-40's

Round here we'd grab that thing by the tail and give it a high speed swing around into something, pulp it's head in on a post or trough edge. Some nights you could pop ten or so and have a hundred bucks worth of fur. Over there that would get you in MAJOR trouble with the wildlife rangers. You do have to be pretty damn careful in handling them, drag them along by the tail, sure, but always make sure they have their front feet on the ground so they can scratch in and try and get away. If you lift them a little too far so their front paws come off the ground, they transition from escape mode to Homicide mode in a flash, and can climb their tails and have a pretty good go at shredding your arm. Fight or Flight... best to leave them an iota of flight.

Only snakes around here are the one-eyed trouser snake.

Maybe the end of the welfare state for any not born within the borders of said state and with proof of the fact.

Yeah, but it's in the wrong direction.... The main Alpine fault is mostly sliding Along, not under. Once day we'll be able to skip the ferry ride, just drive from Blenheim to Greymouth and up the coast to Karamea and across the pass to Wellington. Tasmania will still be hanging around Australias arse end over in the Aussie plate.

There's a museum in Beijing that only Chinese can enter...

Except that the majority of Christian sects including the Catholics and Methodists/Presbyterians/lutherans/etc say the Old testament is superseded by the New, and is not needed to be followed literally as the Jews do. And the new is far more turn the other cheek than it is burn the fornicators. Meanwhile the Koran is ALL to be followed by a good muslim, including the bits about the only non-muslim being a slave to a muslim or dead. The closest thing to a New Testament for Muslims is the Bahai religion, which grew out of a splinter from the main Islamic religion by a muslim prophet who said the Koran was obsolete and a new way was needed, much the way Islam grew out of a Christian prophet who thought Christianity needed a change. Needless to say, strict Islamics in the Wahabi mould like killing Bahai even better than they like killing Christians. The first Moslems were mainly Monophysite Christians in the near east and north africa, the dominant christian dogma of the timewas Dyophysite. The view that Christ was merely a prophet tied in nicely with their view of Christ having a single nature, in contrast to the dominant view of Christ having both a divine nature and a human nature in one soul. Given the theological debate of the time involved stoning those of opposing views, or bashing their heads in with staves in street fights, it must have been rather a relief to follow a schismatic preacher into the wilderness. Followed by several generations of converting the tribes and their descendants coming back leading armies which got as far as most of spain and deep into the transylvanian mountains.

Reminds me of the time I was in the Cadet unit at high school. NavEx had us tramping all over the place from hell and back, and last stretch back to the base camp lead across a paddock... I was tired and footsore, and when the bulls came trotting over to investigate these strangers intruding on their ground, while the city slickers ran for the nearest fence, I just turned round and let rip at the bulls. They weren't much, only rising 2 year old friesian bulls waiting to become McD's patties, but to city kids they must have seemed like the worst nightmares of rampaging stampeding mobs of mad bulls... After I finished swearing at them I just turned around and carried on trudging towards the marked waypoint while everyone else made their way the long way round along the outside of the fences... I copped a bit of hero worship for a day or so and the madman the faced the wild bulls... before other stull put it out of peoples minds. The advantages of a rural upbringing... ;)

Nah, it was just made and installed by a Pole, cheap foreign labour. The EU's Mexico. Why would an Irishman leave the pub and his beer when he can send a pole to install stuff for less than the cost of a pint worth of beer?

You did notice the Defromed guy was in a wheelchair? ;) :P A pretty normal happenstance for a guy tossed out the office window ;)

I thought that was traditionally Defenestrated.

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