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27 Sep 2011, 11:15 am

JakobVirgil wrote:

Why yes, yes they where.
They also where very creepy towards their own people during the cold war.


Creepy? How so?

Speaking the Swiss, I love this line from -The Third Man-.

Harry Lime: Don't be so gloomy. After all it's not that awful. Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. So long Holly.

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29 Sep 2011, 1:06 am

this seems planned to strengthen the power, legitimacy, and relevancy of the royal family but I welcome it anyway.

he's also supposedly decided to overturn the ruling of the courts to give a saudi-women 10 whiplashes for driving (which... is illegal in this country for a women to do).


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29 Sep 2011, 11:48 am

MarketAndChurch wrote:
this seems planned to strengthen the power, legitimacy, and relevancy of the royal family but I welcome it anyway.

he's also supposedly decided to overturn the ruling of the courts to give a saudi-women 10 whiplashes for driving (which... is illegal in this country for a women to do).


Kinda like the army officer who announces one day that "from now on you no longer have to stand at attention for me if you're wounded."

What a swell guy!



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29 Sep 2011, 3:15 pm

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You get a BIG settlement when you sue for 10 whiplashes! :lol: