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Post by Warhammer Gorvar on Apr 18, 2012 20:44:32 GMT 1
It didnt happen today....but as you could have guessed from the previous days with a lack of Gorvar humour....i didnt have internet for seven or so days. Seven. Days. It;s like Seven with Brad Pit and Morgan Freeman, except without the seven guys being killed for their sins. Or brad Pitt. Or Morgan Freeman.
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Post by Mister Buch on Apr 18, 2012 20:56:36 GMT 1
It's like The Magnificent Seven, but not magnificent!
That happenned to me quite recently - a week as well. It really was a wierd experience.
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Post by Lily Ariel Linders on Apr 18, 2012 21:03:50 GMT 1
Poor Gorvar... being without Internet for any length of time is a nasty torment... Linders and I suffered a similar fate in November when we moved to our new apartment - and the phone company we were going to have our phone / internet service through really dropped the ball. We spent just over a week without phone and internet - and ended up going with a different company after the customer service with the first one (who Linders had already had service through and was simply trying to transfer) decided to be complete arses to him. When we finally got our internet back, I felt like worshipping the tech from the new company. Glad you're back, Gorvar, you have been sorely missed!
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Post by Warhammer Gorvar on Apr 18, 2012 21:04:45 GMT 1
I know! I was actually.....talking to people.
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Post by Clint Johnston on Apr 19, 2012 5:39:47 GMT 1
That must have been interesting. Glad you're back.
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Post by Warhammer Gorvar on Apr 19, 2012 10:21:28 GMT 1
Well, you know me guys...
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Post by Warhammer Gorvar on Apr 22, 2012 9:41:01 GMT 1
Well it seems ill have to miss Internet again for a few days.....
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Post by Knightfall on Apr 22, 2012 11:52:02 GMT 1
Well it seems ill have to miss Internet again for a few days.....
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Post by jklinders on Apr 22, 2012 13:05:37 GMT 1
Today is my last day of vacation...back to serving food and playing with sharp knives tomorrow or was it the other way around?
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Post by Warhammer Gorvar on Apr 22, 2012 13:27:36 GMT 1
Mix up, that's always fun!
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Post by lieden on May 6, 2012 18:10:34 GMT 1
I just came back from NW Greece where I had gone to vote (National election day today in), and looking now at the exit polls: the outspokenly neo-nazi party Golden Dawn has got some 6-8%. That means they get seats in Parliament.
I foresee horrible things happening in this country in the near future. :/
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Post by Warhammer Gorvar on May 6, 2012 19:55:36 GMT 1
Dude....Fascism sucks man.
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Post by jklinders on May 6, 2012 20:05:44 GMT 1
I've been seeing horrible things happen there all year long.
SO they do representation by population instead of first past the post there? Aside from this malarkey is that working for you? There have been folks clambering for it for years over here. Not a fan of minority gov't in these day cares we call houses of representation so I could use an outside opinion.
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Post by lieden on May 6, 2012 20:58:53 GMT 1
I thought we had established that fascism sucks more than half a century ago, but it seems people forget. Or... I don't know.
Linders, the problem is that what we have now in Greece is almost like a rehash of post WWI Germany's case: humiliate the country, push it into national debt, extreme poverty, and you're pushing its people straight into the arms of extremism and have them looking for scapegoats. In Germany, it was the Jews. Here, it's African and South Asian immigrants. Things are going to get a lot uglier.
Parties need 3% to get in the parliament. From then on, the seats are distributed very unevenly and largely in favour of the first party. This is supposed to be so that there is a one-party government, good for stability, yadda yadda. This time a there will need to be a coalition, though. I'm curious to see who will side with whom.
On a more positive note, I'm pleased to see that the Left has gone very well this time over. Of course, the Greek left is ridiculously fragmented, so I don't see them forming a government, either.
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Post by Knightfall on May 6, 2012 21:53:50 GMT 1
The fascist party in France, the National Front, did remarkably well this election cycle, too, receiving 17% of the vote. It's probably just the atmosphere, the political landscape and the economy being what they are, people are picking whatever's on the sidelines. www.wsws.org/articles/2012/apr2012/fran-a24.shtml
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