I don't think you were hungover
you just woke up English
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I don't think you were hungover
you just woke up English
grazes contentedly on meadows of cheetos
Smells statues
does this mean you dont like obama anymore?
I say we fall back to the Moon and slag the Earth.
it's the only wat to be sure
watches radio
Should know Freddie Mercury WAS gay
the swiss arrested Polanski ![]()
/me shoves a wastebasket over Nemmy's head
was arrested for dressing up as the Tooth Fairy and slapping teeth out of guys' mouths, then yelling "here's your quarter" kicking them in the balls and saying "keep the change"
sure, they admit to building secret uranium facilities in caves...it's just that they want nuclear power....nothing wrong wth that....move along!
I wonder if Ghadaffi is a big Roman Polanski fan
go ahead and do it anyway, I don't listen to it either since my ears rang for 3 days after visiting a club in 2000
Maybe later nolio I am sick today
how'd you know it was Mirre's pee?
he paid $350 to make the judge laugh!
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/28/usc_sec_28_00001914----000-.html
The surviving Taliban volunteer to go live at Gitmo
RANDOM THOUGHTS FROM PEOPLE 25-35 YEARS OLD
1. More often than not, when someone is telling me a story all I can
think about is that I can't wait for them to finish so that I can tell
my own story that's not only better, but also more directly involves me.
2. Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you
realize you're wrong.
3. I don't understand the purpose of the line, "I don't need to drink to
have fun." Great, no one does. But why start a fire with flint and
sticks when they've invented the lighter?
4. Have you ever been walking down the street and realized that you're
going in the complete opposite direction of where you are supposed to be
going? But instead of just turning a 180 and walking back in the
direction from which you came, you have to first do something like check
your watch or phone or make a grand arm gesture and mutter to yourself
to ensure that no one in the surrounding area thinks you're crazy by
randomly switching directions on the sidewalk.
5. I totally take back all those times I didn't want to nap when I was
younger.
6. Is it just me, or are 80% of the people in the "people you may know"
feature on Facebook people that I do know, but I deliberately choose not
to be friends with?
7. Do you remember when you were a kid, playing Nintendo and it wouldn't
work? You take the cartridge out, blow in it and that would magically
fix the problem. Every kid in America did that, but how did we all know
how to fix the problem? There was no internet or message boards or
FAQ's. We just figured it out. Today's kids are soft.
8. There is a great need for sarcasm font.
9. Sometimes, I'll watch a movie that I watched when I was younger and
suddenly realize I had no idea what the f was going on when I first saw
it.
10. I think everyone has a movie that they love so much, it actually
becomes stressful to watch it with other people. I'll end up wasting 90
minutes shiftily glancing around to confirm that everyone's laughing at
the right parts, then making sure I laugh just a little bit harder (and
a millisecond earlier) to prove that I'm still the only one who really,
really gets it.
11. How the hell are you supposed to fold a fitted sheet?
12. I would rather try to carry 10 plastic grocery bags in each hand
than take 2 trips to bring my groceries in.
13. I think part of a best friend's job should be to immediately clear
your computer history if you die.
14. The only time I look forward to a red light is when I'm trying to
finish a text.
15. A recent study has shown that playing beer pong contributes to the
spread of mono and the flu. Yeah, if you suck at it.
16. Was learning cursive really necessary?
17. Lol has gone from meaning, "laugh out loud" to "I have nothing else
to say".
18. I have a hard time deciphering the fine line between boredom and
hunger.
19. Answering the same letter three times or more in a row on a Scantron
test is absolutely petrifying.
20. Whenever someone says "I'm not book smart, but I'm street smart",
all I hear is "I'm not real smart, but I'm imaginary smart".
21. How many times is it appropriate to say "What?" before you just nod
and smile because you still didn't hear what they said?
22. I love the sense of camaraderie when an entire line of cars teams up
to prevent a dick from cutting in at the front. Stay strong, brothers!
23. Every time I have to spell a word over the phone using 'as in'
examples, I will undoubtedly draw a blank and sound like a complete
idiot. Today I had to spell my boss's last name to an attorney and said
"Yes that's G as in...(10 second lapse)..ummm...Goonies"
24. What would happen if I hired two private investigators to follow
each other?
25. While driving yesterday I saw a banana peel in the road and
instinctively swerved to avoid it...thanks Mario Kart.
26. MapQuest really needs to start their directions on #5. Pretty sure I
know how to get out of my neighborhood.
27. Obituaries would be a lot more interesting if they told you how the
person died.
28. I find it hard to believe there are actually people who get in the
shower first and THEN turn on the water.
29. Shirts get dirty. Underwear gets dirty. Pants? Pants never get
dirty, and you can wear them forever.
30. I would like to officially coin the phrase 'catching the swine flu'
to be used as a way to make fun of a friend for hooking up with an
overweight woman. Example: "Dave caught the swine flu last night."
31. I can't remember the last time I wasn't at least kind of tired.
32. Bad decisions make good stories
33. Whenever I'm Facebook stalking someone and I find out that their
profile is public I feel like a kid on Christmas morning who just got
the Red Ryder BB gun that I always wanted. 546 pictures? Don't mind if I
do!
34. Is it just me or do high school girls get sluttier & sluttier every
year?
35. If Carmen San Diego and Waldo ever got together, their offspring
would probably just be completely invisible.
36. Why is it that during an ice-breaker, when the whole room has to go
around and say their name and where they are from, I get so incredibly
nervous? Like I know my name, I know where I'm from, this shouldn't be a
problem....
37. You never know when it will strike, but there comes a moment at work
when you've made up your mind that you just aren't doing anything
productive for the rest of the day.
38. Can we all just agree to ignore whatever comes after DVDs? I don't
want to have to restart my collection.
39. There's no worse feeling than that millisecond you're sure you are
going to die after leaning your chair back a little too far.
40. I'm always slightly terrified when I exit out of Word and it asks me
if I want to save any changes to my ten page research paper that I swear
I did not make any changes to.
41. "Do not machine wash or tumble dry" means I will never wash this
ever.
42. I hate being the one with the remote in a room full of people
watching TV. There's so much pressure. 'I love this show, but will they
judge me if I keep it on? I bet everyone is wishing we weren't watching
this. It's only a matter of time before they all get up and leave the
room. Will we still be friends after this?'
44. I hate when I just miss a call by the last ring (Hello? Hello?
Dammit!), but when I immediately call back, it rings nine times and goes
to voicemail. What'd you do after I didn't answer? Drop the phone and
run away?
45. I hate leaving my house confident and looking good and then not
seeing anyone of importance the entire day. What a waste.
46. When I meet a new girl, I'm terrified of mentioning something she
hasn't already told me but that I have learned from some light internet
stalking.
47. I like all of the music in my iTunes, except when it's on shuffle,
then I like about one in every fifteen songs in my iTunes.
48. Why is a school zone 20 mph? That seems like the optimal cruising
speed for pedophiles...
49. As a driver I hate pedestrians, and as a pedestrian I hate drivers,
but no matter what the mode of transportation, I always hate cyclists.
50. Sometimes I'll look down at my watch 3 consecutive times and still
not know what time it is.
51. It should probably be called Unplanned Parenthood.
51. I keep some people's phone numbers in my phone just so I know not to
answer when they call.
52. Even if I knew your social security number, I wouldn't know what do
to with it.
53. Even under ideal conditions people have trouble locating their car
keys in a pocket, hitting the G-spot, and Pinning the Tail on the Donkey
- but I'd bet my ass everyone can find and push the Snooze button from 3
feet away, in about 1.7 seconds, eyes closed, first time every time...
54. My 4-year old son asked me in the car the other day "Dad what would
happen if you ran over a ninja?" How the hell do I respond to that?
55. It really pisses me off when I want to read a story on CNN.com
<http://cnn.com/> and the link takes me to a video instead of text.
56. I wonder if cops ever get pissed off at the fact that everyone they
drive behind obeys the speed limit.
57. I think the freezer deserves a light as well.
58. I disagree with Kay Jewelers. I would bet on any given Friday or
Saturday night more kisses begin with Miller Lites than Kay.
59. The other night I ordered takeout, and when I looked in the bag, saw
they had included four sets of plastic silverware. In other words,
someone at the restaurant packed my order, took a second to think about
it, and then estimated that there must be at least four people eating to
require such a large amount of food. Too bad I was eating by myself.
There's nothing like being made to feel like a fat bastard before
dinner.
wonders if somebody said "mcdonalds'
um yeah, the unbearable outrageous total over the past 12 months is apparently 235 civilians killed... dude where has McChrystal been for 8 years? if only 235 Iraqis got toasted in a MONTH Republicans would be celebrating the successful pacification of Iraq
Anybody that soft needs to go. NOW. if "civilians" don't want to eat a Yank 155mm shell when we bomb the Taliban mortar in the barnyard, they can walk into Kyzrgystan. Anybody still in the Taliban in 2009 is not there for the girls. We might as well negotiate with the Hells Angels to become crossing guards.
We should send this guy to europe with a black cell phone and when heanswers the ring a sinister voice will tell him his money is in the pants of a European leader.
and a credit card number
just for security
Rolled past the donut shop in a drop-top Escalade
Grand Marshal of the Pimp Parade
Ey
There was an international uproar when, on Sept. 4, in Afghanistan's Kunduz province, an American fighter jet under NATO command bombed a group of Taliban fighters who had hijacked two fuel tanker trucks. The trucks exploded, the fighters were killed, and so were a still-undetermined number of Afghan civilians.
The civilian deaths sent shudders through the American military command, already fearful that civilian casualties would further alienate the Afghan public. Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top American commander in Afghanistan, was said to be angry and determined to tighten the U.S. force's already-strict rules of engagement even more to avoid future civilian deaths.
Then something odd happened. When McChrystal met with local leaders in Kunduz, a few days after the bombing, he got an earful -- but not what he expected.
According to a detailed account in The Washington Post -- a story that has received too little attention in the ongoing debate over U.S. policy in Afghanistan -- the local Afghan leaders told McChrystal to stop being so fussy and to go ahead and kill the enemy, which they said would help bring stability to the region.
Post reporter Rajiv Chandrasekaran was given extraordinary access to the bombing investigation. According to his account, McChrystal began the meeting with a show of sympathy for those who had been killed or wounded. The general didn't get very far before he was interrupted by the provincial council chairman, Ahmadullah Wardak.
The security situation has been getting worse in Kunduz, Wardak told McChrystal. American and NATO troops haven't been aggressive enough in pursuing and killing the Taliban. In Wardak's view, the bombing of the fuel tankers, rather than a mistake, was the right thing to do.
"If we do three more operations like was done the other night, stability will come to Kunduz," Wardak said, according to the Post account. "If people do not want to live in peace and harmony, that's not our fault."
Chandrasekaran reported that McChrystal "seemed caught off guard." Wardak clarified a bit more: "We've been too nice to the thugs," he said.
So instead of receiving an angry lecture on America's disregard for Afghan life, the general received an angry lecture on America's hesitance to go after the enemy.
Cut from that scene to a letter written to Sen. Susan Collins last July. It was from a New Portland, Maine, man named John Bernard, father of Lance Cpl. Joshua Bernard, then serving with the Marines in Afghanistan.
John Bernard, himself a 26-year veteran of the Marines, was enraged by the military's new, restrictive rules of engagement in Afghanistan. The rules are "nothing less than disgraceful, immoral and fatal for our Marines, sailors and soldiers on the ground," Bernard wrote. Under those rules, U.S. forces "without reinforcement, denial of fire support and refusal to allow them to hunt and kill the very enemy we are there to confront are nothing more than sitting ducks."
The letter, disturbing at the time, became heartbreaking three weeks later, when Joshua Bernard was killed fighting the Taliban in Helmand province.
His death became national news when the Associated Press published a clearly inappropriate photo of Bernard as he lay wounded. But the bigger news should have been his father's concerns about the rules of engagement.
Now cut again, this time to Sept. 8, when four U.S. Marines were killed when the Taliban ambushed their patrol in Kunar province. The Marines were taken completely by surprise and pinned down under heavy Taliban fire. McClatchy reporter Jonathan Landay was with them and wrote a harrowing account of their desperate battle to survive.
The rules of engagement again played a role. "U.S. commanders, citing new rules to avoid civilian casualties, rejected repeated calls to unleash artillery rounds at attackers dug into the slopes and treelines," Landay wrote, "despite being told repeatedly that they weren't near the village."
President Obama is in the middle of a new reassessment of his original reassessment of the U.S. mission in Afghanistan. The big question consuming the press is whether Obama will send more troops, and if so, how many. But what American troops are actually doing in Afghanistan is even more important.
Will the president listen to John Bernard, to the troops who are fighting under tight restrictions, and even to Ahmadullah Wardak? Will he let them fight the fight? It's simply wrong to place Americans at risk otherwise.
Byron York, The Examiner's chief political correspondent, can be contacted at [email protected]. His column appears on Tuesday and Friday, and his stories and blog posts appears on www.ExaminerPolitics.com ExaminerPolitics.com.
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This really pisses me off. For once I am ashamed to be an American, because we keep calling on NATO to join us like you promised, and then we won't fight to win it.
I thought we learnt from Mogadishu that our riflemen can be the bravest in teh world but if they've got more enemies than bullets, they need support fire. Guess not.
Our rifles are pretty wimpy too, because we figured "You can always use the .30 cal on your transport and the company mortar, and if that doesn't work, division will send air and artillery support. " well they cant get the armor up there, the mortar is forbidden and the general doesn't want the enemy pissed at our asskicking brutality. SCREW THAT
guess some people aren't getting their money's worth
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