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Re: EFIKA, interviews, a future, etc.
Posted on 1-Sep-2006 19:31:35
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| most of us here live in the USA and Europe, where suicide bombers have killed hundreds of innocent people |
This is totally off-topic and not appropriate for a thread about Amiga computers, and I wouldn't normally reply, but I am gob-smacked by the parochialism and one-sidedness of that comment - it can not be allowed to stand without some form of balance. The implication is that suicide bombing is somehow worse than high altitude bombing killing thousands with no risk to the perpetrator, or sanctions which kill hundreds of thousands of innocent children through starvation and disease.
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Re: EFIKA, interviews, a future, etc.
Posted on 2-Sep-2006 5:16:19
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@takemehomegrandma
Maybe you live in some backwater where these sort of things don't happen, but most of us here live in the USA and Europe, where suicide bombers have killed hundreds of innocent people quite recently (and they keep on trying to kill more). Bbrv's comment was in bad taste plain and simple, and if you think it's funny you need to get out of your mom's basement.
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I don't know what comment BBRV made about suicide bombers, but I'll add that some people posting here certainly behave like suicide bombers. And trolling the trolls doesn't help either, whether its me, bbrv or Rogue.. I'm sure the community would be better off if everyone involved were to chill out and provide better answers.
ps: If only mum had a basement for me to live in..  _________________
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