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Try looking up what's happened to the Kurds over the past century.
Try looking up what's happened to the Kurds over the past century.
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The genesis of the "evil Finn" concept- Evil, evil Finland -
1/10"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
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Generous, Ramo."Love the earth and sun and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown . . . reexamine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency" - Walt WhitmanComment
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Oh come on Stewart, answer...
...as Iain has stated, the circumstances are completely different as he is a Kurd being conscripted by the Turkish armed forces. Slightly different to the Germans being conscripted by the German armed forces.
Deary, deary me. Next time I am in Aberystwyth I shall mention this thread to the kebab shop owner. Let's see if you'll ever have a kebab in Aber again
Speaking of Erith:
"It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda SmithComment
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He will, just with "added ingredients"Originally posted by Provost Harrison Deary, deary me. Next time I am in Aberystwyth I shall mention this thread to the kebab shop owner. Let's see if you'll ever have a kebab in Aber again
...people like to cry a lot... - Pekka
...we just argue without evidence, secure in our own superiority. - SnottyComment
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He'd enjoy that.“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
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Boddingtons is a bigot. I thought we'd established that?Comment
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Man oh man...
Is Stinky like this in the real world as well?"On this ship you'll refer to me as idiot, not you captain!"
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Apparently he isn't.Comment
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I know that more than one country has mandatory military service-- Korea and Lebanon both do. Does anyone know any more?
I think the sentence, "I want to live here," is a legitimate reason for immigration, so maybe I'm biased, but I definitely think forced military service is a damn good reason to emigrate.If playground rules don't apply, this is anarchy! -KelsoComment
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I do as well. I sure as hell wouldn't accept conscription, unless there was a serious war from a serious threat.Comment
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Where do you live man? In orbit or sth?I know that more than one country has mandatory military service-- Korea and Lebanon both do. Does anyone know any more?
Most countries in the world have mandatory military service. Most EU countries do f.e. Israel (and I don't know who else) even has mandatory military service for women.
And of course my country does. It once was 18-21 months, but now it's down to 14 months, soon to be 12."In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
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$Drunken Post$
The brave resist military service.
The weak comply.
Fortunately there is no shortage of weaklings.Comment
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"Where do you live man? In orbit or sth?"
I'd cut her some slack and just answer the question that was based on curiosity. Over the course of its history, the U.S. has rarely had conscription and none during my lifetime, so no "orbit" need be involved.
Edit: btw, I agree that in many cases this is properly considered under the rubrick of political asylum. I have a christian friend from a muslim country who knew that because of his religion, conscription meant a high likelihood of death fighting in the front lines against christians on the other side. He was granted asylum.Last edited by DanS; June 11, 2002, 23:39.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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