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    Quote Originally Posted by manker
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    þæt Engliscgereorde (-geþiode ?) [would] beon befeallen

    ge-sæliglic beon
    Feck. Now RealitY isn't the only mod speaking in tongues.
    Tsk, yourself or JPaul should be able to work it out..

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rat Faced
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    Arguably the space programme has made as many advances as the needs in war.
    Yep... if it wasnt for NASA, those fried eggs would still be sticking
    At least they(USA\USSR) proved what goes up does not necessary come back down.
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    Although quite a bit has, which shouldn't have too

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rat Faced
    Quote Originally Posted by manker
    Feck. Now RealitY isn't the only mod speaking in tongues.
    Tsk, yourself or JPaul should be able to work it out..
    Anyone can google. What's the point, tho'.
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    Quote Originally Posted by bigboab
    Arguably the space programme has made as many advances as the needs in war.
    Arguably the space programme would not exist if it were not for war technology

    it’s an election with no Democrats, in one of the whitest states in the union, where rich candidates pay $35 for your votes. Or, as Republicans call it, their vision for the future.

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    War = Jingoism

    Jingoism = Self Sacrifice

    Self Sacrifice = Diminish Welfare State

    Diminish Welfare State = Disposable Resources

    Disposable Resources = Technological Advancement

    Technological Advancement = National Pride

    In my opinion, only the poor really suffer during wartime. However they are encouraged to "make do" because of national pride and the desire to beat the enemy. Ironically the "enemy" probably have as much, if not more, in common with the hoi polloi, than the ruling class have. However accident of birth seems to be more important than economic or idealogical similarities.

    Dulce et decorum est
    Pro patria mori.

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    War as well as disease are necessary to sustain the rest of the population unless you pull "a China".

    Medical advances have made for a longer life.

    Longer life = Sustained high population which really cannot be sustained.

    Violent crime and death from old age are not enough.

    This relates to one problem I have with my country. The importation of cheap labor and an obvious political party that embraces them which ends resulting in an importation of voters. Run-On
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    Send us your poor....

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    Quote Originally Posted by JPaul

    Dulce et decorum est
    Pro patria mori.
    Is it?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sara
    Quote Originally Posted by JPaul

    Dulce et decorum est
    Pro patria mori.
    Is it?
    Sorry, I forgot j2 switched irony off in this thread.

    Perhaps we should post the whole thing, it's not that long.

    Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
    Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
    Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs
    And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
    Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots
    But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
    Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
    Of disappointed shells that dropped behind.

    GAS! Gas! Quick, boys!-- An ecstasy of fumbling,
    Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time;
    But someone still was yelling out and stumbling
    And floundering like a man in fire or lime.--
    Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light
    As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.

    In all my dreams, before my helpless sight,
    He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.

    If in some smothering dreams you too could pace
    Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
    And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
    His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin;
    If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
    Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
    Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
    Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,--
    My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
    To children ardent for some desperate glory,
    The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
    Pro patria mori.

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