

If only he'd made the same mistake this chap made...


though the main font troubles me more than it should. I should get round posting the Mr Men pic I've been meaning to finish for some time.
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First photo I have ever listed here.

Click for bigger (118 kb)
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Click for bigger (118 kb)


Edit: sorry I assumed this was a found image not something that you made yourself...... Carry on!

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ok,just got off a 47 hour shift loading oil cars so I might have listed this twice.
The guys gamer tag is dmnsword.
He is a regular comedian at work, has loads of followers locally, I figured it was time to embarrass him world wide lol.
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Mon 13 Aug 2012, 19:25,
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The guys gamer tag is dmnsword.
He is a regular comedian at work, has loads of followers locally, I figured it was time to embarrass him world wide lol.

links board is better suited for things you've found/are made by other people.
Don't delete this one though, people get upset when you remove their comments
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Mon 13 Aug 2012, 19:27,
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Don't delete this one though, people get upset when you remove their comments

2: What are oil cars?
3: Gamer tag? What use is this to me?
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Mon 13 Aug 2012, 20:08,
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3: Gamer tag? What use is this to me?

but sometimes you have to man up and get to it
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i grabbed it from this www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcJhijTI1Ps
looks fooking class.
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Mon 13 Aug 2012, 20:02,
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looks fooking class.

Also, if he thinks girls are so rubbish why has he grown his hair like one?
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Mon 13 Aug 2012, 17:24,
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...Ha ha...get it?...Paul (Pees) here!
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Mon 13 Aug 2012, 17:28,
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did you hire that outfit ? every fancy dress costume I've hired always smells of shit. Now I know why
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Mon 13 Aug 2012, 17:29,
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you just don't know what the last person that used it got up to
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Just Photoshop-bereft & Twitternapped.
So yes, quite dead, thank you.
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Mon 13 Aug 2012, 19:27,
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So yes, quite dead, thank you.

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Mon 13 Aug 2012, 18:19,
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The lead singer's name is "dog" because he has a big nose.
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Mon 13 Aug 2012, 17:13,
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Are the yiffers still around? I flinched and ignored them and it's making me uncomfortable to think of them writhing around unseen in the woodwork.
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Mon 13 Aug 2012, 17:32,
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I'm right aren't I? Aren't I? Tell me I'm right - because I'm right.
Love the gleam on the guitar and the mic stand.
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Mon 13 Aug 2012, 17:03,
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Love the gleam on the guitar and the mic stand.

MAURIIIIIIIIIIIIIICCCCCCCCCCCEEEEEEEEEEEEE
I'M COMING SHAKA!!!
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Mon 13 Aug 2012, 16:44,
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I'M COMING SHAKA!!!

He looks like he's advertising British Gas or something with that hair...
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It's quick and very, very shoddy. Meh. I'll tidy it up later if I get a chance, and repost.
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Mon 13 Aug 2012, 15:44,
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Also all that running must make him hungry...

(Edit: Thanks for the cutout Enzyme!)
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Mon 13 Aug 2012, 16:28,
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(Edit: Thanks for the cutout Enzyme!)

I too liked the Olympics and it's all about the 'Legacy' now. I think the cyclists have it covered.

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At some point, I shall head off to the Olympic park to have a proper look around at the permanent buildings. I was there yesterday, but they chucked everyone out at 2:30, so I didn't get a lot of time to have a proper explore.
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and it feels like, well that's that. But do support the Paralolpics (masterfully coined by taters down there!) - I have a disabled lad and I'd like to think London can be nice and supportive for a couple more weeks.
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Mon 13 Aug 2012, 15:41,
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It seems to me to suffer from being caught in a dilemma about what it's for.
One possibility is that it's there to give an opportunity to compete to people who wouldn't normally have a chance. But, if that's the motivation, then it looks horribly patronising - as though a whole event has been invented purely for the sake of giving prizes to people who wouldn't normally get them. And, of course, reasoning like that also faces the objection that most able-bodied people wouldn't have a chance against those who, by a quirk of genetics, happen to have a physical capacity for running, jumping, or whatever, that the majority lacks; so why not have a third competition for average sorts? If this is absurd, and I contend that it is, there's a problem.
So that can't be it. The other alternative is that the sports in the paralympics are disciplines in their own right, in which people can excel just as they could in any other discipline. Thus, just as some people are great runners, others are great wheelchair-racers; as some are great basketballers, others have an amazing talent for partially-sighted basketball, and so on. Each requires a particular skill or set of skills; and a person who excels in those skills is worthy of admiration. But while that seems satisfying in one way, it raises the question of why an able-bodied person can't compete in wheelchair racing, or why they can't use a blindfold to emulate impaired vision. The rules don't allow that. And for as long as they don't allow it, I can't help but to wonder if the paralympics is vulnerable to the objection that it's patronising.
Maybe I've missed something important - but I've been thinking about this for about 8 years, and I can't see what it might be.
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One possibility is that it's there to give an opportunity to compete to people who wouldn't normally have a chance. But, if that's the motivation, then it looks horribly patronising - as though a whole event has been invented purely for the sake of giving prizes to people who wouldn't normally get them. And, of course, reasoning like that also faces the objection that most able-bodied people wouldn't have a chance against those who, by a quirk of genetics, happen to have a physical capacity for running, jumping, or whatever, that the majority lacks; so why not have a third competition for average sorts? If this is absurd, and I contend that it is, there's a problem.
So that can't be it. The other alternative is that the sports in the paralympics are disciplines in their own right, in which people can excel just as they could in any other discipline. Thus, just as some people are great runners, others are great wheelchair-racers; as some are great basketballers, others have an amazing talent for partially-sighted basketball, and so on. Each requires a particular skill or set of skills; and a person who excels in those skills is worthy of admiration. But while that seems satisfying in one way, it raises the question of why an able-bodied person can't compete in wheelchair racing, or why they can't use a blindfold to emulate impaired vision. The rules don't allow that. And for as long as they don't allow it, I can't help but to wonder if the paralympics is vulnerable to the objection that it's patronising.
Maybe I've missed something important - but I've been thinking about this for about 8 years, and I can't see what it might be.

worth doing just because participants and spectators enjoy it?
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Mon 13 Aug 2012, 15:58,
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And that's kind of my point.
Why have a separate competition? Why not integrate at least some of the sports into the mainstream? And why are able-bodied people not allowed to compete? If someone is fast at pushing a wheelchair, why should the fact that he or she can walk make the slightest difference to whether or not that's an admirable thing that we'd want to reward with medals? If it is, it is; if it ain't, it ain't... just as with any other sport.
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Mon 13 Aug 2012, 16:03,
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Why have a separate competition? Why not integrate at least some of the sports into the mainstream? And why are able-bodied people not allowed to compete? If someone is fast at pushing a wheelchair, why should the fact that he or she can walk make the slightest difference to whether or not that's an admirable thing that we'd want to reward with medals? If it is, it is; if it ain't, it ain't... just as with any other sport.

I'd like to see the events combined, but I imagine the organizers have to take into account the needs of the athletes, which in many cases are different to those of able-bodied athletes. It's a tricky one though - if Pistorius can run in the 400m, then why not able-bodied people in wheelchair events?
It's worth enjoying though because GB usually win a shed-load of medals!
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Mon 13 Aug 2012, 16:10,
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It's worth enjoying though because GB usually win a shed-load of medals!

If so that's slightly unfair.
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Mon 13 Aug 2012, 16:16,
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As to the fairness: I'm not sure it's unfair. But it does raise interesting questions about the nature of the sport in which he was competing. I'm writing a chapter that touches on this right now.
Writing it ironically slowly, given the topic.
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Writing it ironically slowly, given the topic.

Oh and he knows the good places to eat in London.
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Mon 13 Aug 2012, 16:49,
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I don't actually know *goes to check*. Yes he is. He's expected to win a ton of golds.
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Mon 13 Aug 2012, 16:33,
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I don't see why this is allowed
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Mon 13 Aug 2012, 16:44,
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I don't see why it shouldn't be allowed.
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Mon 13 Aug 2012, 17:02,
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The race is to see who is the fastest human being over that distance on that day.
Those legs aren't human.
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Mon 13 Aug 2012, 17:19,
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Those legs aren't human.

If he's been allowed to compete in the able bodied events, then the decision has been made that they don't.
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he would be told to fuck right off.
I still don't see why this is allowed.
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Mon 13 Aug 2012, 17:29,
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I still don't see why this is allowed.

To be in the olympics you just need to be good. There's no prerequisite to be able-bodied.
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Is it condescending to have separate women's events? You're right, it's a difficult one.
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Mon 13 Aug 2012, 16:12,
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Because exactly the same could be said about sex-segregated events.
If what we want is a demonstration of being fast, strong, high, or whatever, then it's not obvious why the sex of the fast, strong, or high person should matter. Though, of course, this would mean that in many, if not most, events, men would dominate. Women might still be able to compete and have a reasonable chance of winning in some sports, but not as many. Maybe most sport just is essentially sexist in a way that, say, mathematics isn't*.
If that's unacceptable, then there must be something else we want from sport. But then the question is raised about what it is that people value about sport if its not a display of strength, speed, or whatever. Answering that would perhaps help us answer the questions about paralympics, too. There's a range of candidate answers, but each brings its own questions.
Note, too, that Pistorius and Semenya have, in their own ways, already contributed to blurring the line between mainstream and para-sport, and male and female sport. We know that a lot of people have a different sexual phenotype to what their genomes would suggest - the human body is a strange thing. It could be that our traditional easy distinction of sexes is in trouble anyway for wholly biological reasons.
tl;dr version: the philosophy of sport is trickier than I thought.
*By which I mean the subject in itself, not the way the academy or wider culture handles it, which may well be highly sexist.
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Mon 13 Aug 2012, 16:25,
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If what we want is a demonstration of being fast, strong, high, or whatever, then it's not obvious why the sex of the fast, strong, or high person should matter. Though, of course, this would mean that in many, if not most, events, men would dominate. Women might still be able to compete and have a reasonable chance of winning in some sports, but not as many. Maybe most sport just is essentially sexist in a way that, say, mathematics isn't*.
If that's unacceptable, then there must be something else we want from sport. But then the question is raised about what it is that people value about sport if its not a display of strength, speed, or whatever. Answering that would perhaps help us answer the questions about paralympics, too. There's a range of candidate answers, but each brings its own questions.
Note, too, that Pistorius and Semenya have, in their own ways, already contributed to blurring the line between mainstream and para-sport, and male and female sport. We know that a lot of people have a different sexual phenotype to what their genomes would suggest - the human body is a strange thing. It could be that our traditional easy distinction of sexes is in trouble anyway for wholly biological reasons.
tl;dr version: the philosophy of sport is trickier than I thought.
*By which I mean the subject in itself, not the way the academy or wider culture handles it, which may well be highly sexist.

same as the one for able-bodied people. It's not patronising to the competitors if they're doing it for themselves, is it? Nobody is saying to them, here, have this event because we feel sorry for you.
Able bodied wheelchair racers probably wouldn't stand a fucking chance against the paralympic wheelchair racers. For a start, they're lighter and second their main method of perambulation is their arms. It might be a laugh to let a few of them try...
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Able bodied wheelchair racers probably wouldn't stand a fucking chance against the paralympic wheelchair racers. For a start, they're lighter and second their main method of perambulation is their arms. It might be a laugh to let a few of them try...

Reminds me of Douglas Bader - one of the reasons he was so good as a pilot was that he could take much higher G loadings on account of not having legs for the blood to drain into, so he could turn tighter without blacking out.
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but the wheelchair pushing stroke is quite different to the rowing stroke. I don't think the muscle groups they use in rowing would be right.
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Mon 13 Aug 2012, 16:36,
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They use completely different techniques and muscle groups
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Mon 13 Aug 2012, 16:41,
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They probably would be annihilated in competition.
Wouldn't it be possible for just one competition to provide a focal point, though? It might even be more of a focal point, inasmuch as that - like it or not - a lot of people do see the Paras as second-best. Full integration would quite possibly raise the profile.
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Mon 13 Aug 2012, 16:15,
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Wouldn't it be possible for just one competition to provide a focal point, though? It might even be more of a focal point, inasmuch as that - like it or not - a lot of people do see the Paras as second-best. Full integration would quite possibly raise the profile.

TV. Didn't C4 do a show with able bodied versus paralympics athletes in Beijing?
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Mon 13 Aug 2012, 16:18,
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I'll have a rummage. I've been meaning to write a paper on this for years anyway...
:)
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:)

and at how those physically disabled from injury were treated at the time, there's a BBC dramatisation about it coming on the tellybox soon.
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'female' shot-putter disqualified for doping:
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/19242736
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Mon 13 Aug 2012, 15:46,
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www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/19242736

You're really not fussy are you? :P
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Mon 13 Aug 2012, 15:51,
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"Ah Ms Ostapchuk, if you could just go behind the screen and fill this sample bottle..."
"...And I can't help noticing you didn't need the funnel there."
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"...And I can't help noticing you didn't need the funnel there."

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![Challenge Entry: Zebras! [challenge entry]](/images/board_posticon_c.gif)


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and in their confusion, the zebra's gone!
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Mon 13 Aug 2012, 15:28,
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could you put it in a hermetically sealed bag and send it to my Tokyo address?
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Mon 13 Aug 2012, 16:21,
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Mo-teaser..... now where did I put my coat....
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Mon 13 Aug 2012, 15:00,
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Mo, there's a film called racing stripes about a zebra that runs in horse races i assume, i haven't seen it. Mo, Could you imagine that zebra running along with renton and spud from trainspotting as if they had just shoplifted it the zebra which, being a massive barcode, had set off the alarm? Could you imagine how beautiful it would be, Mo?
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Mon 13 Aug 2012, 13:58,
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and Sunday I was elbow-deep in barbecue.
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Mon 13 Aug 2012, 14:23,
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Top stuff, Brains. I miss the 'lympix as well. BBC1 is all normal again
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This caused some noise to come out of my mouth spontaneously. I think it's called laughter, Yay Mo!
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* Acacia estrophiolata, Southern ironwood
* Androstachys johnsonii, Lebombo ironwood
* Carpinus caroliniana, American hornbeam
* Casuarina equisetifolia, Common ironwood from Australia
* Casuarinaceae (she-oaks) in general
* Chionanthus foveolatus , Pock ironwood from South Africa
* Choricarpia subargentea, Giant ironwood
* Copaifera spp., Diesel Tree, Kerosene Tree, Kupa'y, Cabismo, or Copaúva
* Diospyros blancoi, Mabolo, Velvet Apple, or Kamagong native to the Philippines
* Erythrophleum chlorostachys, Cooktown ironwood from Australia.
* Eusideroxylon zwageri, Borneo ironwood
* Guaiacum officinale, Lignum vitae
* Guaiacum sanctum, Holywood
* Holodiscus discolor, Creambrush
* Hopea odorata, White thingan, Ceylon or Malabar ironwood
* Krugiodendron ferreum, Black Ironwood
* Lophira alata, Red ironwood
* Lyonothamnus floribundus, Lyon tree
* Mesua ferrea, Rose chestnut or Ceylon ironwood or Nahar
* Nestegis apetala, Coastal maire, Broad-leaved maire or Ironwood
* Olea spp., Various olive trees
* Olneya tesota, Desert ironwood
* Ostrya virginiana, Hop hornbeam
* Parrotia persica, Persian ironwood
* Tabebuia serratifolia, Yellow poui
* Vepris lanceolata, The White ironwood tree of South Africa
* Xanthostemon verdugonianus, Philippine Ironwood or Mangkono, endemic to the Philippines
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* Androstachys johnsonii, Lebombo ironwood
* Carpinus caroliniana, American hornbeam
* Casuarina equisetifolia, Common ironwood from Australia
* Casuarinaceae (she-oaks) in general
* Chionanthus foveolatus , Pock ironwood from South Africa
* Choricarpia subargentea, Giant ironwood
* Copaifera spp., Diesel Tree, Kerosene Tree, Kupa'y, Cabismo, or Copaúva
* Diospyros blancoi, Mabolo, Velvet Apple, or Kamagong native to the Philippines
* Erythrophleum chlorostachys, Cooktown ironwood from Australia.
* Eusideroxylon zwageri, Borneo ironwood
* Guaiacum officinale, Lignum vitae
* Guaiacum sanctum, Holywood
* Holodiscus discolor, Creambrush
* Hopea odorata, White thingan, Ceylon or Malabar ironwood
* Krugiodendron ferreum, Black Ironwood
* Lophira alata, Red ironwood
* Lyonothamnus floribundus, Lyon tree
* Mesua ferrea, Rose chestnut or Ceylon ironwood or Nahar
* Nestegis apetala, Coastal maire, Broad-leaved maire or Ironwood
* Olea spp., Various olive trees
* Olneya tesota, Desert ironwood
* Ostrya virginiana, Hop hornbeam
* Parrotia persica, Persian ironwood
* Tabebuia serratifolia, Yellow poui
* Vepris lanceolata, The White ironwood tree of South Africa
* Xanthostemon verdugonianus, Philippine Ironwood or Mangkono, endemic to the Philippines


her nipples would be either side of that
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Mon 13 Aug 2012, 13:59,
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but the idea of nipples smelling like hobnobs has really disgusted me
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Mon 13 Aug 2012, 14:21,
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Rather that than the smell of Farleys Rusks.
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Mon 13 Aug 2012, 14:23,
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love the googly eyes
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Mon 13 Aug 2012, 14:13,
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Moggy's version
I should have used some marmalade
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Mon 13 Aug 2012, 14:20,
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I should have used some marmalade

the semi nakedness inspired the bad bear pun
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Mon 13 Aug 2012, 14:47,
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![Challenge Entry: The Olympics [challenge entry]](/images/board_posticon_c.gif)

..but I'm not sure what it had to do with the Olympics... :(

Also the scene in the library when all the books go flying around
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Mon 13 Aug 2012, 13:29,
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"Now let's go 'Britain - Fuck yeah!'"
It was an entertainment for an after party. Personally I hate it when my workplace has a party and tries to involve work-based "entertainment".
Last Christmas we had a "fun quiz" about core company values and estimating various statistics about output. It wasn't a patch on the last year, when they'd had a band on that featured the brother of the keyboard player who played one of the parts on an EMF song.
All that said, there is never, ever any excuse at all for Russel Brand singing.
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Mon 13 Aug 2012, 13:28,
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It was an entertainment for an after party. Personally I hate it when my workplace has a party and tries to involve work-based "entertainment".
Last Christmas we had a "fun quiz" about core company values and estimating various statistics about output. It wasn't a patch on the last year, when they'd had a band on that featured the brother of the keyboard player who played one of the parts on an EMF song.
All that said, there is never, ever any excuse at all for Russel Brand singing.

i kept thinking 'cor! i bet she tastes salty'.
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Mon 13 Aug 2012, 13:30,
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he cunted one of my commercials in the fuck once :(
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Mon 13 Aug 2012, 13:35,
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they all got fleeced paying for the tickets
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Mon 13 Aug 2012, 13:51,
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They might as well have gone the whole hog and recreated the entire lyrics of LitSwD
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Mon 13 Aug 2012, 13:04,
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Either zebras or lolympics would do
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Mon 13 Aug 2012, 13:10,
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Every country has to piss in their own copper pot to put the flame out before taking it home
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I was actually quite worried during that flamey last dance that they were going to start playing dubstep
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I take its the same corporate bastards?
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Mon 13 Aug 2012, 10:14,
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and the ATOS people who are behind the disability allowance tests (seriously)
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Mon 13 Aug 2012, 10:20,
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If you can wheel yourself round a track, you're fit for work.
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Mon 13 Aug 2012, 10:22,
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Wheelchair ramps can be found at the drivers compartment.
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Mon 13 Aug 2012, 10:25,
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Pure Carnage.
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Mon 13 Aug 2012, 10:34,
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They should combine the javelin, shot putt, and tennis.
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Mon 13 Aug 2012, 10:40,
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am hoping for the blind javelin event
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Mon 13 Aug 2012, 13:09,
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It's actually more difficult as you can't back off when the other person attacks.
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Mon 13 Aug 2012, 12:53,
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no wonder there's confusion
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Mon 13 Aug 2012, 10:35,
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but they can't say it properly.
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Mon 13 Aug 2012, 10:44,
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is it one for your own collection?
at first i was looking at it and thinking 'how's is that going to fit on a zebra'?
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Mon 13 Aug 2012, 9:42,
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at first i was looking at it and thinking 'how's is that going to fit on a zebra'?

I thought it looked like a Zebra braying, maybe it's just me? BRA-ying
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Mon 13 Aug 2012, 10:25,
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now I see it, it's perfect
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Mon 13 Aug 2012, 10:38,
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Probably neither
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Mon 13 Aug 2012, 10:56,
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and some kid burnt my thumb with a lightsabre
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