THE THREAD!!!

[Terminus]

Either way, TTFIFF![&o]

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

ORIGINAL: stuman

ORIGINAL: Grollub

[chuckle] Swedish commercial; "Looking for a new job?" [:D]

[:D]

Thats actually an American commercial, so there. [:'(]

I found the English used in the commercial very offputting. I'm unfamiliar with that dialect or jargon. Were they speaking "New York"? [&:]

[offenseman]

"Only the dead have seen the end of war."
-Attributed to Plato but that is not for certain.

"Beer is proof that God love us and wants us to be happy."
- Ben Franklin

Terminus, what is a git?  

[Mynok]

Arabs: they will hate us if we don't help and they will hate us if we do and cause collateral damage. Absolutely no-win situation.

[warspite1]

ORIGINAL: offenseman

Terminus, what is a git?  

Warspite1

It's a pregnant camel.

[jeffk3510]

ORIGINAL: Mynok


Arabs: they will hate us if we don't help and they will hate us if we do and cause collateral damage. Absolutely no-win situation.

no kidding...

[bradfordkay]

ORIGINAL: stuman

Because I want my Thread Brothers to live happier lives ( from an article I read concerning health tips ):

" 4. Have hotter sex

The researcher: Alan Hirsch, MD, director, Smell & Taste Treatment and Research Foundation

The lesson: Smelling popcorn can boost your sex life. "Our studies found that men respond to just about any scent with increased penile blood flow. Skip the pricey perfume—it upped blood flow by only 3%. The smell of cheese pizza increased it by 5%; buttered popcorn, by 9%; and the combined scent of lavender and pumpkin pie, a whopping 40%." "

I told my wife to go look for some lavendar flavored popcorn. I don't think she believed me.

I recall reading a study that suggested that the strongest aphrodisiac to men is the smell of bacon and eggs, while for women it's the smell of talcum powder (think baby powder).

[bradfordkay]

ORIGINAL: stuman

ORIGINAL: bradfordkay

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

Cultural curiosity: what do you guys put on your pancakes?

ETA: butter and maple syrup would be the most common here. Fruit, jam or fruit compote would also be rather common.

I prefer butter and cane syrup, but the latter is hard to find around here.

+1

http://www.steensyrup.com/Merchant2/products.html

A local store was carrying Steen's for awhile, but I think that I was the only one buying it because they never restocked it. I might just have to mail order it (as well as my Mrs Fearnow's Hope Farm Brunswick Stew).

[warspite1]

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: warspite1
Maybe I should visit the clinic for penile dysfunction?

warspite1-I'll have you know that I positively shook whilest restraining myself from responding to this post. You're begging for a one-liner ala Onime with posts like this, dude. Of course, I'm above the fray and far too mature to do so...[:D]

Warspite1

The chances of me feeling anything other than nausea when I come into contact with a pumpkin is slim - and this seems to go against the findings of Alan Hirsch and his Smell & Taste Treatment and Research Foundation.

I was therefore simply wondering whether I may have some kind of dysfuntion in the love rod dept that I should get checked out and was asking the Thread brothers for their advice; advice which I am completely confident will be provided with the appropriate level of seriousness that this question deserves [;)].

[Dixie]

ORIGINAL: Panzerjaeger Hortlund

Well, imagine that huh. But I suppose you guys think it would have happened without the UN-resolution anyway, right? Or perhaps you just dont care.

Option B. I just don't care.

[Dixie]

ORIGINAL: Panzerjaeger Hortlund

ORIGINAL: Dixie
Yes. That's the alternative and it's one I'd take. The West isn't welcome in the Arab world, all we're doing is sticking our noses into the internal affairs of another nation. In the worst case scenario, I don't believe that any number of rebel lives are worth the loss of a single NATO pilot.

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

John Stuart Mill
English economist & philosopher (1806 - 1873)

I have plenty of things I am willing to fight for, it's a potential part of the job I get paid to do. There's even a list of things I'd die to protect. Libya isn't on either list anywhere. If I'm told to go and support the UN over Libya I will, doesn't mean I have to like it though.

If the rebels were winning would 'we' be getting involved? If the rebels were in an armed uprising in a friendly nation (Bahrain for example...) would we be stopping the government dropping bombs?

[Chickenboy]

Hear, hear belemmoned one...

I too have a list of causes that I'm willing to fight and-if necessary-die for.  Its a smaller list than it once was. 

Being a father has tempered my enthusiasm for many of these actions.  Before supporting armed warfare (against another nation state-terrorists, international criminals and pirates all need to be exterminated at all hazards), I ask myself if I would still support that action if it meant my son and daughter would give their lives to do so.  Now that list shrinks-and includes actions in the immediate defense of three countries, one of which is the United States of America.  I won't mention the other two.  Libya didn't make that list.

Until all countries of the world contribute blood and treasure to the extent that we have to quell the world's brush fires, I'm all for hands-off on these places.  Hey China-wanna be a global superpower?  Start by keeping the peace in Iraq, Sudan, Libya and your neighbors Afghanistan and Pakistan.  We won't get in your way at the UN security council.  We'll abstain in any voting.

[USSAmerica]

ORIGINAL: stuman

Because I want my Thread Brothers to live happier lives ( from an article I read concerning health tips ):

" 4. Have hotter sex

The researcher: Alan Hirsch, MD, director, Smell & Taste Treatment and Research Foundation

The lesson: Smelling popcorn can boost your sex life. "Our studies found that men respond to just about any scent with increased penile blood flow. Skip the pricey perfume—it upped blood flow by only 3%. The smell of cheese pizza increased it by 5%; buttered popcorn, by 9%; and the combined scent of lavender and pumpkin pie, a whopping 40%." "

I told my wife to go look for some lavendar flavored popcorn. I don't think she believed me.

That's awesome! I happen to love the smell of both lavender and pumpkin pie! [8D]

Maybe I can talk my wife into sharing a lavender bath while we feed each other pumpkin pie (with lots of whipped cream of course).

[USSAmerica]

ORIGINAL: Panzerjaeger Hortlund

Well, imagine that huh. But I suppose you guys think it would have happened without the UN-resolution anyway, right? Or perhaps you just dont care.

Let's see how long the strong man's forces actually keep the cease fire before making any judgements, huh? [;)]

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: USS America

ORIGINAL: stuman

Because I want my Thread Brothers to live happier lives ( from an article I read concerning health tips ):

" 4. Have hotter sex

The researcher: Alan Hirsch, MD, director, Smell & Taste Treatment and Research Foundation

The lesson: Smelling popcorn can boost your sex life. "Our studies found that men respond to just about any scent with increased penile blood flow. Skip the pricey perfume—it upped blood flow by only 3%. The smell of cheese pizza increased it by 5%; buttered popcorn, by 9%; and the combined scent of lavender and pumpkin pie, a whopping 40%." "

I told my wife to go look for some lavendar flavored popcorn. I don't think she believed me.

That's awesome! I happen to love the smell of both lavender and pumpkin pie! [8D]

Maybe I can talk my wife into sharing a lavender bath while we feed each other pumpkin pie (with lots of whipped cream of course).

Will there be any pictures? [:D]

ETA: Of the pumpkin pie!

[USSAmerica]

CB, I'm already forming mental pictures.  [:D]

[USSAmerica]

Good Friday morning - Tithe. [&o][&o][&o]

[Grollub]

Evening tithe.

[Grollub]

As the Libya question is approaching political inflammatory status here, I will not comment further other than saying that Dixie summed up my feelings on it quite well.

Peace.

[Grollub]

ORIGINAL: USS America

ORIGINAL: stuman

Because I want my Thread Brothers to live happier lives ( from an article I read concerning health tips ):

" 4. Have hotter sex

The researcher: Alan Hirsch, MD, director, Smell & Taste Treatment and Research Foundation

The lesson: Smelling popcorn can boost your sex life. "Our studies found that men respond to just about any scent with increased penile blood flow. Skip the pricey perfume—it upped blood flow by only 3%. The smell of cheese pizza increased it by 5%; buttered popcorn, by 9%; and the combined scent of lavender and pumpkin pie, a whopping 40%." "

I told my wife to go look for some lavendar flavored popcorn. I don't think she believed me.

That's awesome! I happen to love the smell of both lavender and pumpkin pie! [8D]

Maybe I can talk my wife into sharing a lavender bath while we feed each other pumpkin pie (with lots of whipped cream of course).

Mmm ... pumpkin pie ... [;)][:'(]